The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

THE HUBDISR OF TWO CHILDREN IN
W.ILWORTH.

Yesterday, Mamas Fuller Bacon and Martha
Batson, hie wife, wan again brought up at Lambeth Police
Court, the latter oberged an a coroner's Inquiiition with the
wilful murder of Edwin Faller Bacon, aged two years and a
Ulf, and Borah Asa Banes, aged eleven months ; and the
brier on megekka el bstagthe actual murderer.
The may primmer see bees& in hat, and seemed anxious
le swell the pas et the people present. lie appeared palo
dejected.
Mis. Bacon continues to improve in health, and seemed
windy and rational. BM wee accommodated with a
sea mmaget leer Mende in each a *Om ea the herself
bed upwind, that bar hasbeirl essald net use kw. When
Boson sy had satire/ the mart he essumed a little
atm sad, stsaMing up in the dock, looked
the Ayes whim she est in the hope at
bVd°%o ass 1m Phoftd that he could not do ea, he
spin set dawn woes
_tst • eowny and indifferent mood.
Yr. Woodland for Bacon, and Kr. Bonner, at
Um Ina ef Wright and Bonner, of Fonchunl-stmet, ap-
peared dir Wm Beam.
rat sitnem‘i.lns:ecter Young, related the various
Maimmils awls the prisoner Bacon about the
mud the 'lino= which ho gave of hatiest
It apparel the prisoner stated that a U. auto
=Znie ene of four which he received in change for a
ammo be received tram Mr. Atter, his attorney ; and he
reps tad that them four notes were the only notes he
bad nerved on bad all tie time he had bees in
town, bat when Mimes anseetained that the prisoner
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changed‘ It In the street for a personwho was a pedal.
ermine! to him, and of whom he knew nothing. The
description which the prisoner gave of his clothes alleged to
have been stolen from hie home, wee next related by the
witness, as were eleo the different accounts which the prisoner
gave of the cut on the first finger of his left bend. Impactor
Young also said that on the evening of Tneeday, the 30th of
December, upon the discovery, of tho murder, he sent
• constable to Reigate to bring Bacon to town; and
when Bacon came to him at the station-horse, at six
(Meek en the following morning, the inspector told'
Ms that his wife had attempted to destroy herself
by setting bar throat, and wee then in wetodl
Air se deice . The prisoner e ppeared melt
and hge what hed becnmo id him chilie•Ligenedii
witness, sot wishing at that time to tel kite Ilie weelkse-
plied that the children were all right. Ms Isbeist Ms be
ism three women who came from the ems glee, vim hid
gone in the same way. Inspector YOullg
way he sewn ? ge teplied, " Out of thala mi.
next egad him whore-his wife come from, end the primmer
" Stamford. Lincolnehire." Bacon then expressed a
'Mist see hie children, and witncee mat a constable with
hire to the home No. 4, Four-acre-street, knowing that he
could net see them. Prieoner returned in about half-an-
hour, mayteg he had ..ot been enabled to see his &ti-
dies bet Edded, • I have men the blood of my dear
boy.' Hs thee said ho should go to the boom of
his aunt, Min Payne, and witness saw nothing more
of him until the inquest. On Wednesday, the 7th January,
witness, accompanist by Sergeant Brad, went to make a
further search of the ileum, and found the prisoner Bacon
there. On witness putting various questions to him about
the loot clothes, prisoner became dreadfully agitated, and
trembled when witnees told him that Mr. Dixon, of Stamford,
hie tailor, had denied ever having made for him any coat
reirembling the top cwt he said he herd loot. On the same wa-
gon while in the kitchen, or in pegging from it, wiener!s
observed a sort of coal-hole with some rubbish in it, and on
hie expressing • wish to overhaul it, the poisoner again be-
came much agitated, and wanted to go, saying he had an
apptnient with his brother. Witneee, however, told
him they would first look among the rubbish in
the coal-hole, and sent for a candle. He left the
in Ihe care of Sergeant Broad while he
=miner) went into one of the rooms. A short time after he
hosed a scuttling noire in the yard, and on going there he
found Bacon in the graspof the sergeant. Wimess asked
the came, and Sergeant Bread informed him that though
he had given Bacon orders to the contrary, Bacon had risked
into the coal-hole, and, after nunmaging amongst the rub-
hi* came out with • handful, from which he had taken
something,_ which he deposited in his left-hand trousers
clt.e Witness then put his hand into the prisoner's
e pocket, and found a watch, which the pri-
soner had previomly described ex amongst the pro-
per.=which ho geld had been stolen. There was
watch which had sines • been found. Witness
recollected the prisener'e saying in this court that ho did not
Gbh hie wile had done it (killed the children), but that it
held teen done by come one getting in at the door. (The
whom hme produced a pair id trounces which it wee allrved
Deem were en Monday, the 29th of December, and= which
were several spots of blood, and also a weirmeat with one
spot of bleed on it, a piece of rope, and • thick cord, which
were focal in the garden.)
In crerenentination, MeWoodward seked how It wasthat
tweets, Yemen hie former midence—pertieularl on the
bet cassiegirles—hod not made the etatement he gave in
seamen Stet deg f
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inunner4a was not examined on the Let day.
yea were examined, though.
The Xesistrate eemhided Mr. Woodward that the
wrestled at the het examination, and the evidence
I\7=feen on a torwerdig read over to him ; and as there
sestet time to take his Atßler statement, it was reserved
wellite-day.
Hr. Woodward said be wee satisfied with this explanation,
Ist proceeded to ask the witness—With respect to the, gar.
in. 'where you said you tumid the rope and cord, I suppose
Bls • garden with a low fence, and that any of the neigh-
bours would Lase en opportunity of throwing these articles
tkwf
lleepecter Young
ink they would.
Ns. Deseter-1 think I understood you to say, Mr. Yomig,
that yes saw the rope and rd you roduce in the bourse
whom dr murder had beenco commit p ted at one of your early
%Mite to ft?
Inspector Young—Yes, sir, I hod seen them there.
Mr. Woodward—Then why not have caned them away
oil produced them P
Inspector Young—Because at that time I was not aware
that either a cord or rope had been need, and bad only become
gegneinted with the fact by the confemion of Mee. Bacon
that her husband had not attempted to cut her throat but to
strangle her, by putting a rope or coral round her neck.
Sergeant Broad corroborated much of the testimony of his
inspector, and added that while the inspector was examining
the.ers that wore strewn about the coal-hole the prisoner
6,...n intense anxiety, and trembled very much at every
wrap the impeder picked up.
Prisoner—You had better tell what the papers were.
Witness—They were portions of receipts for furniture.
Mn. Ann Hyde, • wrtnem examined on a former day,
was recalled—Shemes,
had been sent fur to Pit up in the home
with the prisoner, Mrs. Payne, and her daughter, after
the murder was discovered, and she deposed to the pri-
soner saying on several OCCAMOD, that he did not be-
lieve that his wife hit " done it," but that if she mid any-
thing to ireplitoto him in the matter he would kill her.
She added that two or three nights after going to the home,
about three o'clock in the morning. the prisoner Beim was
standing before a looking-glese, with hie elbow on the mantel-
&elf and his forehead on the palm of hie Land, and he sud-
denly o:Alarmed, " Good God! how was it I done it." The
villein did not know whether he was asleep or awake: he
might be dreaming. She farther said she sew the rope and
cord at the hews immediately no her going there.
Mrs. Payne, the aunt of Bacon, was next called, and when
ewers she was addremed by the magistrate, who amid that he
feared she had not stated, in her former elamination, all she
knew of thi matter under invegligation. Renew hoped that
she would give her evidence as she was bound to do, and tell
the whole truth. The witness them went over a portico of
her former evidence, and concluded by eying that the
soner had always said be was certain his wife did not do
Mr. Bonner—Now, Mrs. Payne, have yen not, in the pre-
seam of Mrs. Munro, your daughter, charged Baas with
doing it, and trot his We ?
Mrs. Payne—l did not does, but my husband did.
Mr. Bonner—What did your hueband say P
Mrs. Pa In *raking of it he said to Bacon, " I don't
say you did it or did not, but suppoge your wife was to turn
round and to say you did it P' and be said something shoot
her not deceiving him.
Mr. Bonner—Were not his words these "I am sere she
won't split upon or deceive me ?"
Mrs. Payne—They were something like that ; but I did
not hear them distinctly, as I was in the next room.
Mr. Elliott—ls your husband here P
Witness—No, err.
Edward Bacon, a person of respectable appearance, do-
wsed to having received • if. note from the male rnenner,
his brother, on the 20th November last, and this having been
proved to be the note alleged to have been stolen,
This terminated the examination, and the prisoners were
spin remanded.

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