The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

ARREST OF MIMS CONSTANCE KENT,

Yesterday (Friday) afternoon Inspector Whicher
arrested Miss Constance Kent, and the following examina-
tions were subsequently taken:
Elisabeth Hough was sworn.. and deytend-4 am nurse-
maid to Mr. Kent ; I recollect the 29th of Jane last ;. I had
charge of the deceased, put bhu to bed, as usual, about 6,';
o'clock, and saw him sleeping in his cot, with his face
-Unloads thrwsll, - I•then retired to
rest as usual ; Mrs. Kent came up about haff.an.hour after,
and shut the door when she left ; I mimed the child at 5
o'clock on the following monolog ; I did not wake till that
time after I went to sleep ; the little girl was lying un.
covered, and I looked across and saw the little boy was
gone ' • I lay down again, and at 6 o'clock went to Mrs. tent's
door and knocked, Cut got no answer; I communicated the
lose to Mrs. Kent, acrd afterwards saw the child brought
into the house ; he was then deed; it was shout a quarter
part 7 when I went to Mrs. rent's room the second time ;
In the interval I had got the water to wash the other child.
William Nutt sworn—l am • shoemaker, minding at
; on the morning of the 30th June • man called
and told me that Mr. Kent had lost his child ; I went out
and maw Mr. Kent going to Trowbridge ; I went to the
house with a man named Banger; we came to the bottom
of the plantation, and said we would look for • dead child if
the living one was not fined. We went to the closet, and
to our horror saw a spot of blood on the floor. I said to
Banger, "Itis as I predicted." I then went to the house,
and asked for a candle ; when I had got one, and was
returning to Burger, he said, "There is the dear little
thing." He took out the child, and a blanket, and took
them into the house ; the child's throat was cut, to our
honor and amazement, then, as it is now ; when it was
lifted up, its little head fell off almost ; the body was
taken into the kitchen • Miss Kent and Miss Elizabeth
Kent came into the room ; I can't describe their horror.
I and the covetable went round the premises, but
could discern nothing more ; the sensate and neigh.
boars also came in and saw the child ; that is all I know.
Inspector Whicher—l am an inspector of detectives ;
have been engaged since Sunday last in investigating the
circumstances connected with the murder of Francis Saville
Kent, which took took places,'" the night of Friday, the 29th
of June last, at the house of his father, situate at Road, is
the county. of Waite. In company with Captain Meredith,
Mr. Superintendent Foley, and other members of the police
force, I have made an examination of the premises, and
believe that the murder was committed by some inmate of
the house ; from many inquires that 1 have made, and from
information received, I sent for Constance Kent, on Monday
last, to her bedroom, having previously examined her
drawers, and found a list of her linen, which I now produce,
on which were enumerated, among other things, three night.
dresses as belonging to her. I said to her, "Is this a list of
your linen?" She replied, " Yee." I said,. "In whose writing
n it r She said, "It is my own writing.' I said, " Here are
three night-dresses, whereat'. they?" She said" I have two;
the other wee lost at the wash the week after the murder.'
She then brought me the two which I now produce. I also
sew a night-drees and cap on her bed, and asked whose they
were ; she said, " They are my enter's." The two she
brought me had been worn. This afternoon I spin pro-
ceeded to the house, and sent for the prisoner into the draw-
ingwoona. I said, "lam a polioe , and I hold a war-
mot for your apprehension, charging you with the murder
of your brother, Francis Saville Kent, which I will read to
you. 1 then read the warrant to her, and she then coin.
menced crying, and said, " I am innocent," which she re.
pentad several times. I then aooompanied her to her bed.
room, where she put on her bonnet and mantle, and brought
her to this place ; she made no further remark to me. I
now ask for a remand for a few
also, and on the next moo
Mon I shall be able to show the mus existing between the
prisoner and the deceased, sod search for the missingeedgoown,
bedgown, which, if in existence, say possibly be found. A
remand to Wednesday or Thursday next, 1 think, will be
ample time.
The Rev. R. Crawley—Wall Wednesday be time enough
Inspector Whicher—Under ordinary circumstances, •
week is the time for • remand. ,
A Magistrate-This is Friday.' Well, to this day week
will be time enough, I suppose ?
Mr. Ludlow—Well, my till this day week. (To the pri-
mmer) You have heard, Constance Kent—of course I do
not ask you to say anything to criminate yourself—yon
have heard the evidence which has been adduced against
you, and the crime with which you are charged. Have you
anything to my why you should not be remanded till Friday
next, at 11 o'clock, at the same place, when further evi.
deuce may be brought against you? Yon will now be taken
to the county gaol at Denim, and will remain there during
that time.

The prisoner, who made no answer, was shortly after-
wards removed in custody of Inspector Whicher and Su.
perintendent Wolfe.

It has already been stated that, a few years ago, Miss
Constance and her brother, in consequence of somefi
unpleasantness, absoonded from home, the former dressed
as a boy, and were caught at Bath. This occurred in July,
1856, and the following is the newspaper account of the
occurrence published at the time :
"A Lintz itousecc.—One evening lest week two
children, apparently boys, 13 and 14 years old, tired and
weary with walking, entered the Greyhound Hotel, Bath,
stating that they wished to remain there for the night.
The landlord naturally enough was surprised at the
appiermice of his pests, and suspecting that they were
run Aways, questioned them clooely, not to sey sharply.
The elder boy said little, but the younger told
him to mind his own business, more than hinting that his'
conduct was impertinent imble to succeed himself with
his inquiries, he took the elder boy to the police-station,
thinking to terrify him into a contession. The inspector
on duty, however, with a more accurate knowle4e of
human nature, attempted to conquer by kindness, and
succeeded. He desired to p to sea, he said, and hie
companion, his younger sister, had dressed herself in his
clothes and cut her hair short in order to accompany him to
Bristol, where he hoped to be taken as a cabin boy by some
goutl-uatured captain. All the motley which they pos.
sassed was eighteenpence, but neither want of cash or
distance had been able to overcome the boy's determi-
nation or the sister's affection. The next morning their
story was confirmed by the arrival of a servant in
livery in search of them, and he was heartily glad to find
them, haviug, he mid, broken down three homes in par-
suiog them in other directions. They had walked from
Road, neer Frome, where their father, an inspector of fac-
tories, resides. The little girl, we are told, behaved like a little
hero, acting the part of a boy to the admiration of all who
saw her."

We (Beata Mercury) learn from Mr. Inspector Morrie,
who was ou duty at the time, that Miss Kent manifested
great shrewdness and resolution. The boy's clothes she
wore were small for her, and elm carried a small stick which
she used as if she bad been accustomed to it. It was same
time before be suspected that she was of the female sex,
which be only discovered by a peculiarity in her mode of
tutting.

Mr. Buxton, on Tuesday week, will call atten-
tion to the rapid increase of the slave trade' and momove
that, in the opinion of this house, it is the duty of her
Majesty's government to enforce upon the government of
Spain the immediate execution of the treaties roweling the
slave trade,—fustly, by demanding the repayment, with
interest, of the 400,000 f. paid by England to Spain upon
the condition that the slave trade should be aboliahed ;
secondly, by suspending diplomatic relations with Spain
until the treaties are fully earned out.

Mr. Hawkins has tendered his resignation ea
Keeper at the Department of Antiquities in the British
Museum. Great changes (says the Athetururn) are likely
to take place in the administration of the various branches
of our antiquarian collections.

The aquatic fixtures are as fullOws :—On Mon-
day, the Lambeth Waterman's, the Putney and Roehamp.
ton, and the " Christchurch, Lambeth, and Old Barge
House" regattas ; the Milford Haven Regatta stands for
Wednesday and Thursday ; and the Clyde Model Yacht
Club Regatta, at Dunoon, for Batt day.

At Lord's on Monday the Eleven of England
play the next fourteen, and on Thursday the M. C. C. and
Ground meet the suburban clubs. On Monday the Gen-
tlemen of the Surrey Club play Ere: a return match at
Chelmsford, and on Thursday Nottingham v. Surrey
(return) at Trentbridge, and Kent v. Sussex (return) at
Toubridge Wells, are issues to be " well and truly tried."

A letter from Gotha statea that it was decided,
two days back, at the Duke of Sate-CObures, to send an
expedition to Africa, to ascertain with certainty the fate of
Dr. Vogel, the traveller. Baron Steuglin, of Wurtemberg,
will undertake the voyage. A committee has been formed.
under the presidentship of the Duke, to make an appeal to
the public for the funds necessary to cover the expenses of
the mission, which are estimated at 10,000 theism

Foaziox-orricr., JULY 18.—Notice is hereby given
that Lord John Russell bas appointed George Richmond
Collis, Eq., to be agent at Birmingham for the issue of
Foreign-office passports, in the room of Mr. George A.
Everitt, resigned.—Gazette.
THE SEASON AT WIN DERMERE. —For the last
fortnight the weather has been delightful, fine summer sun-
shine, with now and then a gentle shower of rain, causing
perfume to arise from the fields, woods, and hedge-rows,
very grateful to those who walk or ride abroad. The Lake,
too, hu been calm and glassy, and Windermere has re-
ceived thousands of visitors within the above penal. We
understood that now all the private lodging•houses and
hotels are full or nearly so.—Werrawrriand Gazdte.

COLLISION AT SEA.—The schooner Hector, of
and for Poole, from Mitlellesboro., with a cargo of coals,
was run into by the Russian steamer Rousick, of St.
Petersburg, off Dungeness. on Wednesday morning, at 10
minutes after S. The Hector has received considerable
damage, the bowsprit and jib-boom being entirely broken ;
the stem is started and broken, and she has lost mime of
her sails, as well as head gear ; also having sprung a leak.
The steamer was bound east, and did not stop to ascertain
what damage the Hector had received, but proceeded on
her mauve. The Hector was compOled to take the assist-
sore of a Deal logger and crew to get the schooner into
Dover Harbour.—borer Chronicle.