The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 4.

THERE seems length to be some prospect of
obtaining at least a clue to the hitherto impene-
treble mystery of the Road murder. The new in-
vestigation now going on at Trowbridge has brought
to light a number of small particulars connected
with the crime, and at least one fact that will pro-
bably prove of considerable importance. It would
be ndlossigtor at this stage of the inquiry to press
in all airforce the conclusions suggested by the
facts against any individual who may be suspected,
and least of all against the nurse who stands
charged with the murder ; but we may note the
course of the investigation, and let the facts it
reveals speak for themselves.
Mrs. KENT was publicly examined for the first
time on Monday, and her evidence, though bring-
ing out no new facts of a striking character, has
yet, as a whole, a significant bearing on the main
object of the inquiry. It tends to throw
a further light on the general features of the
case, as well as on the conduct of the ac-
cused before and after the discovery of the
murder. Mrs. Kerr deposes that she saw the
murdered child put to bed about 8 o'clock on Fri-
day evening, the nurse being present and assisting.
Sho went into the rani" again to look at the child
shoot an hour after, and paid a final visit at 10
o'clock. The ourse had then coin° upstairs for the
night, but when Mrs. KENT entered the bedroom
to look at the child fur the last time, she was not
there—at least not in the outer room where the
child slept, but "in • little room within the
nursery," so that Mrs. Karr had to call her ont.
We lay no particular stress on this circumstance,
but simply note it, as any particular is of import,
aucv in such an inquiry where the ascertained facts
are so few. Mrs. KENT furtherdepoiles that she is a
light sleeper, often asking during the night, and
having frequently on previous night' " heard the
" child crying in the nursery." She woke fre-
quently durnig this very night, but heard no more
till " early in the morning," when she "heard a
" noise which sounded like the drawing-room
" shutter opening." It is, of course, impossible
to say prceindy at what time this was, but the
" early murieug" generally means when it is get-
ting light ; and as it was near the longest day, it
would I e light on the morning in question soon
after th-cc. Mrs. KENT states that "she cannot
" say she was alarmed," as she thought the ser-
vants were astir. She did nut wake again till a
few minutes after seven, when she rose and began
to dress. While she was dressing the nurse
knocked at the door, and inquired, " Are neither
"of the chddren awake, Ma'am 1" The rest of
the dial gee, with the remaining evidence on this
po:nt, may be given in Mrs. KENT'S own words.
" 1 ri,11,41, What—neither of them awake,
"'nurse?' because I was astonished at her ask-
" ing for two. She then said, as well as I can
" remember, Then Master Saville is not in with
you f I replied, 'Certainly not.' She then
" said, 'He is not in the nursery.' I immediately
" went into the nursery to look for him. I sent
" her to his sisters' rooms ; when she came back
" I asked her when she had mailed him. She
" said, 'At 5 o'clock.' I then asked her why she
" had not come to tell me before. She said she
" had not done en because she thought I had gone
" into the nursery and taken him out. I said to
" her, ' MAC dare you say Si,? You 1140 Ir I nen,'
"' do seek a Hatay.' The buy was a very heavy
" child, and the nurse knew that I was not able
"to carry him ; in fact, I had never taken bun
" out of his cot—at any rate, while the nurse was
" asleep. I had told her before that if ever any-
" thing was to happen in the nursery to wake her
" unounifortable in regard to the children she was
"to cumin to me."

Mrs. Keefe swears she bad never taken the child
front the crib early in the morning when the nurse
was 'sleep, and had specially charged her, if any-
thing unusual happened with the children, to come
to her at once. Yet, on this particular morning,
when et,: nurse, according to her own statement,
awoke at 5 o'clock, and found the child gone from
his crib, she mole no effort whatever to Lind
but 7MM/111111g at 0114:e that his mother had taken
hint—a circumstance, she admits, which had
never before happened during her resi-
dence in the family—turned round and
quietly went to deep again. This conduct,
though no; doubt compatible with innocence, is on
all principles of judgment quite singular enough
to isat.itv surprise mid even suspicion. Fur
euppueing Mrs. Kerr had taken the child, this
was so unusual that, on tinoling him gone, the
first Minidisc of the nurse who had charge of him
would naturally be to see where he was, and what
bad led to his removal. As she felt no surprise at
the absence of the child, so she appeals to have
betrayed neither excitement nor alarm alien it
was aireuvered that he could nut be found. At
Meet, iteconlihg to the somewhat confused testi-
mony of the under•nurse, EMILY Doom, the
accused did not even ;acme 011 the child's absence
to her when ate came in the morning, though she
went in and out of the nursery several times after
Mrs. h e'er had been informed of the fact.

The neat point of importance brought out in
ass evi.lcnce is the discrepancy of staternent with
n•gaid o, Cio blanket found with the murdered
child, and in which the body had evidently been
Two of the constables employed in
ever the premises on thu morning of the
mutatc deposed that before the Lady was found