The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-28 00:00:00

TEE AT TEMPTED MURDER AT NOTTING-
BILL

Elopes are still entertained of the recovery of
Mra. Russell, the lady who was so murderously assaulted
yesterday week. She at first refused to believe that her
servant had any knowledge of Ler brother's presence in
the house, but after asly reviewing the moteeiente of
the girl on Sunday night, she now expresses her conviction
that the girl must have known something about it. Mrs.
Rumen always believed the girl much attached to her and
remarkably truthful, and had made her in consequence
somewhat of a companion. The girl had gated that
she bad no followers, and that she always attended
church on Sunday evenings. But this turns out not to be
the owe, for not only have letters been found in the
girl's
I possession that prove her to have had followers, but
that she scarcely ever attended church,
although she was in the baud, on Sunday evenings,
after returning home, of commenting elinn the eloquence
of the preacher, and the singing of the choir. Tale, how-
ever, dose not in any way prove that the girl had any
knowledge of her brother's intention to rah her mistreat—
on the contrary, the movements of her brother on the Sun-
day afternoon tend to show that she had not seen him
since she had lived with Mrs. Russell before the evening
of Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, between four and five
11'.= this fellow, who a short time before had left his
, a house in Ileathfeld-street, Notting-hill, met a
young woman (to whom h.s brother is engaged), MN she
wee leaving her master's house in Porchester-square.
Be inked her where she was going; she said she wan
going down to his mother's Louse to inquire if she had
received a letter hem Fred (the young wonum'ssweet-
heart, who is attached to a regiment statame l in Canada).
He replied, "My mother is out." Later in the evening
this fellow was seen at a while-house about lily yards
from Mrs. Russell's, having, it is believed, obtained some
clue as to where his sister lived. Ile watched her home
tom church (or rather from her mother's ious., where
she bad nixie her evening, insteaii of at ehureh), and
silted her to let him in to have a chat with tier, as tie had
not seen her fur such a long time before. 'the cheery set
up is that the gill did let him into the kitchen ; that
while he was there she heard Ler int.tre-s comaig down-
stain; and in order to avoid a scukiug, slid secret t her
brother in a cupboard under the stairs. when. pots
and kettles were kept. After this the mil and her
mistress set down to supper, and wa. wade at sapper
that they hcata a sots munch 1111--el;
to her "something like a dust-shoved having fallen
down." Ibry Indii got up, and the servant went first
to this identical cupboard, end said, ••There is
nothing hire;" and after going over the house
together, Mrs. Russell came to the eone:u.iou that the
tease was it. the next house After tints the girl opened
the garden-doer, as she was in the habit of doing
every night, to let the dog out for a run ; and some little
time after the dog came in, s, len Mrs. Iles ell, fancying
the door was open, said, Su: sly, Mary, you Lave not lett
the garden door open ?" The girl at first hesitated, and
said " No," and then "Tes," and then went and fastened
it. This circumstance still suppo.ta the theory that
having having let her brother iu, she thought he could
get out unseen if she left the door open. Anyhow there
was no alternative but to retire to her bedroom and leave
the fellow in the house, thinking, perhaps she would let
him out early in the morning. When they had gone to
rent it IS 114.1pp0K41 that Seiler possessed himself of the
hatchet, the bread-knife, and a small chisel, all of which
were in the kitchen, previous to ascending to the dining-
room, where Mrs. Russell kept her cash-box. But the
most remarkable fact is that the desk from which the two
61. notes were abstracted was kept in Mrs. Russell's bed-
room, with a vase of wax flowers standing on it, but Mrs.
Russell cannot say positively whether the desk was in her
room when she went to bed, although she was lenitive
that the stand of flowers was there. And. again, Mrs.
Russell sayashedoes not remember the dog barking at all,
which she looks upon as very extraordinary, as it is a very
ferocious animal, and would not allow a stranger to enter
the house. Although the dog was lying at the foot of the
bed when her door was opened. it IV 116. by some mean, or
)thcr, quietly taken out of the room. fur it was found
locked up an a cupboard the next morning. It is also
thought that when the girl discovered what her brother
had done, she, finding his shoes in the ruplio.od, threw
them out of the window, with the view o: &vetting his
detection. The position of the shoes one briar some six
or seven yards from the other, and the ilistan o of the
merest one to the house, show, that they we.e
with acme force from the house.

MADAME appears that the prisoner
was Telly much affected IA the result of the trial. and that
she fully expected to receive an acquittal, and had not the
slightest expectation that so severe a sentence would be
passed upon her. It has transpired since her conviction
that in the year 18.54 she appeared as a wituess to prove
an alibi for a well-known character named Masco, a
lighting man, who was charged with munslsughter, and
she was committed to Xi...crate by Lord Chief Mayon
Pollock, betoru whom the case was }Awl, for perjury,
the evidence given by her in support of the defence
of the alibi being palpably false. There were,
however, difficulties in the way of establishing that
charge, and after the: prisoner had been in Newgate about
three weeks she was set at liberty. Thu effect of the sen-
tence pawed upon the prisoner will be that she will, in the
first instance, be removed to Millbank, where she will be
employed in picking oakum; and after she has been there
about nine mouths she will be remoted to the female con-
vict prison at Brixton, where ~he will remain until the
termination of her sentence ; but at the expiration of three
years she will be entitled, under the present arrange-
ments with reference to convicts, to a ticket-of-leuve. It
may, perhaps, be as well to state that prisoners who are
of the Jewish religion ale not compelled to work on their
Sabbath, but in some prisons they are required to perform
some sort of liihour upon the Christian babbu . It is
said that the total expense of the two trials will be more
than 2,000/.

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