The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-12 00:00:00

(Stamped, Id. Additional.)

THE BILSTON MURDER.

(111.071 01111 001111E8PONDK1IT.)

BILSTON, FRIDAY.

The coroner'e iuquevt MO resumed this forenoon
in the Police-court, the prisoners being all present in cus-
tody. At the instance of the prisoners a large uuniher of
witnesses had been warned by the police to attend and give
evidence on their behalf ; but although some of them at-
tended, the prisoner all refused to have them examined,
preferring that they should be kept back MB the trial at
Stafford. Only one additional witness was called for the
prosecution. He was Beard* in whose passage some of
the property stoles was deposited ; but his statement war
only confirmatory of that of his daughter and sons.
The Coroner summed up the evidence tersely to the jury,
drawing attention to the evidence as bearing against Jones,
Breatinck, Maddock*, and Jukes in perticular. and remarking
upon the slight testimony against the other three prisoners.
The jury retired to consider their verdict ; and, after An
absence Of about half as 'hour, returned with the aaani-
mous verdict of " Wilful murder against Jones, Brandrick,
Jukes, and Haddocks.'

Immediately that the verdict was unmounted, Jukes
manifested signs eiconsidentble emotion. Tears rue in hie
cy es, and he had to make great effort to prevent himself
from openly breaking down. Idftddocksalso appeared much
moved, and kept repeatedly movies tobacco, or some similar
substance, in his mouth. Braudrick did the mine, but
the dogged obstitocy which be has hitherto displayed
seemed only the more perceptible. Jones seemed as cool
and indifferent impossible.
After the coroner announced that the prisoners were
committed for trial, Braodricks at down, and the police de-
tected him pulling off his shoes, which they had reason to
believe he wan about to throw at the coroner or the chief
(mutable& They therefore haudcuffed him.
At the close of the inquiry the Coroner said—Gentlemen
of the jury, I cannot dismiss you without expressing my
approbation of the way in which the evidence has been
brought before you, and of the very admirable tact and
conduct of the police in the matter. I should also wish to
remark upon the sagacity of the police officer who was the
means of bringing the stolen property and Jones to the
police station.
Mr. Grey, the foreman, then mad the following
from his note-book :—The jury wish me to ex-
their unqualified approbation of the conduct of
&M
Colonel Hogg, Major Id• Knight, and Supenntendent
11`Crea, and the rest of the police for the very admir-
able and systematic way in which they have collected the
evidence in this melancholy and distressing case. We also
recommend Police-countable Harrison for promotion.
The Chief-constable thanked the coroner and jury, and
promised to act upon the auggestioo.
Jones awl Brandrick have made an attempt to break out
of their cells.

This afternoon the prisoners were all brought up before
the magistrates and examined. During the proceedings
a confesaiou made by Maddocks was read.

THE CONFESSION.

By the politeness of the magistrates and Colonel Hogg,
we were permitted to see the statement of Haddocks, at an
early hour in the day. The substance of the document is
as follows. He said be was as innocent of the murder and
burglary as any one present at the time he made the state-
ment. He said no to the three men then present, via,
Lilley, Bills, and Webb. He was not un the premises, which
were entered only by " the two men." He stood by Mr.
Thompson's, the grocer's shop, and Mr. Samuels', in the
middle of the road ; and the two men left him, and
went up Stafford-street, telling him that they were going
" into a place up there," but did not say where. He did
not see where. They told him to stand there and see if
any one passed, and he did so for upwards of half an hour.
He saw two officers witting up the street, and he was to
throw something at Mr. Bagett's front window, but he did
not do so. He went up the street to his own house, and re-
mained there till 3 o'clock, his father and mother living
with him. He came down again the same way he had
gone, but met no one till be came down to Stafford-street,
at the point which be had just before left. There he met
• man coming out of the side door of Mr. Bmett's premises,
and knowing •' the men" he had seen enter the premises, he
walked up the street after them. " Overgetting the omen,
he knew it was • the wan' he saw enter the
premiere." " I goes," said the prisoner, "up to him and
says, Yon been in a desperate while, hien% you!" He
says to me, he says, Yoe, —, if I had my knife with
me I would put it into you, you —. you runaway. We've
been out several times and could not see you.' He says,
'lt's a good job for you I have left my knife on the pre-
seises.' He says, ' I've left it there, but I don't know
where, else Td put it into you and all such cowardly devils
am you are.' " I vralka up to him asking him wind he meant
by it, and met hurt by the Ball-court I went with him. He
enemas the road up an entry, but I can't say whether it is
the first or the second, the contrary side from the Ball-
court. I goes to the top of the month of the entry. I sees
another man stand in the entry as well." Knew it to be " the
man " who entered the pretense, and he (Maddock') saw
several articles on the ground that looked like weitriog ap-
parel. " They " were turning the things over. He
stood outside. "The moment as they turned them over,
there was • rattle Maud at the bottom of the
entry as though a door was opening. They picked up
something, be could not tell what it was, whether it was
trousers or jacket, or what it was. They took a pair •
piece, and he took the same direction after them, but
they kept before him ten or eleven yards all the way. He
overtook them by the mid of Mr. Spencer's foundry, but did
not have any conversation with them till they to the
bridge that crossed the brook at the end of Dudley-street.
"They" walked on very fast till they gut to the wooden
"cut bridge. About ten yards before that they met a man
who appealed to be like the watchman of • field. Instead
of all three of them passing the front of the machine,
two went by the back, and " chucked" the clothes what
they bad down a valley as leads down there, and they
cinched on a bit of a lodge. Went round in front of
the machine. Walked on and they watched this man
out of sight and turned again to fetch the things. One
of them says to him, '• Go back and fetch them,"
but he refused. One of the men replied with an oath, and
charged him with doing nothing, and they both turned
again and fetched the things. Yr hen they returned to him
one of them said that if he had " • thousand pounds he
should not have • farthing, such a frightened beggar as be
was." They went on together, and turned to go up towards
Daisy Bank. Instead of their going in • direct road fur
Daisy Bank, they went on up by Mr. Banks's forge. They
got round a little above Perry's foundry, and sat down by
some railings by the aide of the railway bridge. They gut
into a hole near the rails, and remained talking about ten
minutes. They were whispering in a way in which be thought
they did not want him to what they were saying. Said,
" You've no call to whisper, you may please yourselves
whether you give me anything or no ; I shan't cry about it."
Got off the mils and started, and one of the men rid, "Go
to our house, and we'll pull on a pair of these trowsers a-
piece sad go along the mod." They did not ask him to go along
the road. 'Thought they wanted to go by themselves. We
(continued Maddock.) was going up the hill to Daisy Bank-
bridge. We was creasing the way, the three of us. I beard
a foot come like out of the dark from off the bridge, hut I
could not tell what part of the bridge it come from. I recog-
nised the man es soon as I see bin come from under
the bridge to be • police officer. He was coming
across towards me and I knew him ; it was Harrison,
and wo all took to our heels. There was only two
of us The other man did not run with us at
all. I never saw uo more of the police-officer after. We
ran straight on, we and the other man. In about an hour
and a half we returned. We came to where the man lives
as was with Ma. He goes into the house, opens the door
with • stun, or something. I leans ou the wall while be
, was in the house, for aliout five minutes. I see a woman
' stand at the door two or three houses above. During the
time this man was hi the house this woman went is the
house. He came out of the bowie, sal him and me started.
They met a man by Stable-row " that was sworn yester.
day in the box" (Griffiths.) This man knew him as "Pot-
tery Will." Ile shod. his head as we passed
him, but I never took no notice of him.—They
got into the main turnpike-road at the first
railway bridge by the Fiery Holes gate, and went
through Great Bridge and the top end of West
Bromwich, and took shelter in the shed of • farm house,
and he (Haddocks) and another got into a waggon of straw,
and remained there until it might be haltpastone on Sun-
day. They then took the maiu road towards Birmingliani,
and went into • public -houso that had a horse trough in
front of it, two miles out of Birmingham. They partook of
three or four pints of ale and some bread 1114 cheese, and
left at about three o'clock. They went on towards Ilk- i
miugham, where one of his companions said that he had an
aunt, and they should be "all right when they got
there." When they were nearing the house of this
aunt at Hockley the man said, We must say we
have been fighting with the police, and bad to run
away." The other two went in, awl afterwards called him
and said they would have a wash by-mid-by. The man
spoken of sent his aunt for half • gallon of ale. The aunt
said, "No, we won't have half • gallon, a quart will be
enough ; it will be opening time soon." About sor 6 they
"both had a wash," and washed their boots. They after-
wards left the house with a young woman and "Joseph,"
cousin, of the man emkon of, "to go and see soother
cousin." They got to this second house about h o'clock. but
he did not go in. Later in the evening " David" and he
and one of the cousins went into a liquor shop, where they
remained drinking brandy and ale an hour and a half. Two
female cousins soul their husbands joined them, and "David
called for glasses all round." They remained there drink-
ing till 11 o'clock. I sat milking my pipe," (continued
Maddock') " and took no notice of anyone. David was get-
Cog very drunk, and began to talk very fast. He says to
me, be says, "Cheer up; if anything comes of this 'ere fault
it'll be my fault ; it was me as &awed yon into it."
We had got no bed that night. On being turned out of
the spirit shop they were deliberating where they would go
for n bed, when the aunt said they should go to her house
to sleep, and that the sooner they got to bed the better.
David, during the time from six o'clock, sent his aunt to

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Iston to his mother, and gave her money to pay her fare
there and back. His aunt had been to his mother's,
told her as David was there and some other
young man with him. His aunt tells his mother,
and asks her how that job was settled, the affair of the
police on Saturday night. Her came back by the Lot train
at night. The aunt seems to have returned to Birmingham
whilst they were in the spirit shop. The statement con-
tinues Her came all of a -bustle and says you
must come to my house and come to Led.
Her says " Your mother will bo over here the tint
train in the morning, and then her will that you know
bow it is." We was going down with his aunt home
(me and David) to go to bed. I says to him, "What (lid you
mean," I says, " by talking so simple io that puhlimhouse
where we was drinking in, by saying to me you're
eyes cheer np. I says what do you {llOlll by saying cheer
up before • house full of company." "Why," he says, "be-
cause you sit there like one who has lost.' He says, " like
as if you had nothing to say, and was not known." He
did not say no more, and we come to his aunts and went to
bed. Between 8 and ii in the morning two of his oondas
come up stairs crying, the two we was with the night before.
She Bays, " Ab, David," she say., " this is a line setting
about the:olio.. It is stock upon the wall all over BM-
mineolun. She says, " the description of you, how yea
was dressed, and what you wore." She says, " they have
took yen with cad trousers on, and make that there black
velvet cap away. That is the chsciiptiom of you as
well." He pulls them trousers off and puts a isiir of kind,
of cloth trousers on belonging to his cumin, cad either the
aunt sr die cousin made it away the cap, and beret it in the
tire. The trousers were IA at his soot's about ten o'clock.
About 10 er 11, we was not up then, his mother came at that
time. Heroomes upstairs cryiag.. Her says, " Ah, David." her
says, " you've dens it this time." tier Bays " You've
finished it this looney." lie says to her, " Whet.
is the scatter ? What db• you comae crying rod
bothering here &beat Go down stain. We've dose
nothing, have I, Will?' T says. "No, net as r
am aware on; you've done nothing." Ills mother wenn
down stairs at that. So, whorish mother went down stairs,
I mays, " David, how is it yon didn't tell my about this affair
before," I says, "as you'd committed this deed !" He
says to me, he says, why he says, "illist's urthing,'r
he says, " I might as welt hive killed him whilst I was on.".
He says If I hadn't killed( him he would have
recognised me." I says, "It's a fine Haug," I says, to-
go and take the man's life," I says, " the way as von
and not to tell me nothing about it not till I found it out on
the Monday morning." Hem not only that; he says tome.
" If there had been any fire in the pate, or any means of
making fire," be says "I'd have Lund him after. He says,
" No one ever laid hands (Al the man," he says, " besideamy-
self." He says, "I suppose I shall have to sufferfor it if it Ns
proved spin me," he says. He says "The imam was with
me," he says. "he was as bad Bayou was ; be says he wouldn't
come anigh me," he says, "to assist ate in any shape what-
ever." Well, that's all as I've got to say on die affair. He
never owned to me any money or any thirs what was got away
from the place. He says he strangledihmi himcelf. and the
other man didn't assist him in no way whatever, I BMA
yesterday there was a deal of perjury before ths coroner, as
I think I have proved there. There was no man amide •
true statement again me beside Harrison, the officer, and
the nun as met mein Stable-row. As to what that Price
said from timbal', that was all false ; and as to what the
girl said too. I don't know whether Mr. Fletcher heard
Matthew's wife made the statement. David Ilmodrick is
the man that committed the murder, and no other man ;
and William Jones is the man that entered the premises
with him ; William Mnllighan, howsoever, that's the name
as I've always known him by. Everything that 1 have
stated here is all true. I never see Jukes, Webb, or Bills or
Lilley alter twelve o'clock. I told these three men that I
aid they were as innocent as possible. tio is Jukes, whose
in the hole (a cell in the station). I should have stated
this to Mr. Hogg last night if it had not been so late at
night."

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