The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-15 00:00:00

yr. vasgban (to the prisoneri—Whonre Kos?
ituamerl ‘tun't chooee to telL
%,. vaegban—Where are you livinf
rrieeer—That I don't choose to tell.
:4,.. rughan—Where do you come from!
m. veughan—Do
you kn ow amer-4 don't chose to tell that either.
)1, any one in London?
trioner—lee
Mr. vaughan—That you can refer to!
l'usetier—No, I won't do that.
*. i-Jughan—lt is clearly a case for inquiry. You are
..tde• WANDSWORTH.
ni ,i'A CIIARGIS or POCIEZT-PlClLlNO.—cmconuric
ICE APPOINTMENT' OY A IWICIAL 00111ITABLIL
H IVirlght, a beer retailer, surrendered to his rows.
~ to further answer the charge of being °amerced,
.Ls W ..L. illiam Frederick Packer, a clerk, In stealing •
outaiuiDt '26s in silver, from the pocket owl Joseph
haze painter, of High-street, Betteress, he
, 3. the railway station.
.1.. foal)' now appeared for the accused. and stated
t l' Acker iris now in the custody of the sheriff.
L: e .titMn-amster at Ltattersea was examined, but his
1,,, 0 11-3.11 not taken down. He said that on the 6th
4. Le was on duty at the station when the prosecutor
M. He had been drinking, but was not drunk. He
• 1 • Scut having some ale. He sent for some, and it
.5 drunk.
'M. Ingham—Which of course was to make him more
_. ,

The witness also said that the prisoners afterwards
i.e' at the door, when Packer asked him to sign
~e the
h; fur for a public-houas license to a beer-house in
.hhourboal. Witness signed it. The prosecutor was
r. asked to the petition, when he said he could not
He tthe prosecutor) and Packer signed his name
-ween them. After the prisoners had left the prosecutor
.1 they had robbed him of his purse.
these also said he
,poziAl constable, and want after so He
...re.. dr returned :rnd stated that he bad looked them
.. The pur.e er,ae not found. He did not produce one in
He ¢ate the money to the porter for the
e. Thu porter told witness that he never saw a purse.
Mdr. Cooly piritioned the witness as to the pontion of
Coat
the time of the signing of the petition, when
e,ul that he wus not hear him to be able to take a
re out of his porker.
:11r. In4hain—Did the prosecutor object to sign the

Witness—Only beeatute he could not write his name.
Inghaw— on the last oocasion he stated that he
know the petitioner, and bad never been in his
put his signature to the petition. I think
v ,; the set a a drunken man, but perhaps petitions
got :1), iutiudt way.
T • tvoreutor then told the magistrate that he ob-
R!...i to sip the petition as they were strangers to him.
. Lev ever, did sip it.
Nr !uh:on thought a special °mutable would not do
• he ws... drunk. He then discharged the ac-

d.
T.. onotible wished to know what he should do in
. , .f Packer.
11.4hain said Packer wee paying a visit to the go-
• Horsemonger.isne Gaol, and at the present it
;.•t convenient for him to attend. When he came out
d•o what be liked. He believed that Iles was
mil be should cancel his appointment as special
I. th.n delivered up his paper and staff, which were
~err to the clerk.
• r-on for whom the petition was signed informed
ite that he had not employed any person to get
1.. At prewit his petition was not out.

THE FVTAORDINARY CASE OP ALLEGED
CHIRLD MURDER Ar HARROW.

INQIJMT.—(THIS DAY.)
T morning Mr. Richards, deputy coroner,
ii.;eiry A the Royal Cricketers Inn, Harrow,
• t.. t nt. death of Sarah Colley, aged three weeks,
!r;•tiuwte daughter of a sempetrem, named. Eliza

morning of New Year's-day the deceased child
id on the grass in a green 'lane on Wreath-hall
.. I han,w. In the usual course an inquest was
011 view of the body as that of a child unknown,
.s then adjourned to see whether any evidence
Ile got as to the mother. The police succeeded
tt young sempetress living with her
in the. Caledonian-road, and who had been recently
iu the Isliugton workhouse, and whose baby was
Upon being asked by a police inspector where
was, she answered by saying, " You do not
of murder ?" and she was thereupon arrested.
.enuwhile Mr. Bird, the local coroner, died, and
• became necessary to commence the proceedings
which was done to-day.
pdsocer, Elizabeth Colley, was brought up in cue-
. from the House of Detention under a warrant from
-.,-rotary of State. She had not the appearance of
:::ore than eighteen or nineteen years of age, and
. Sl•ry pale and careworn.
e Coroner, on taking his seat, said that as the law
upon him the necessity of recommencing the
4- of the proceeding, in consequence of the death of
Voroner thril, he had been obliged to issue his warrant
-lie exhumation of the body of the deceased child,
1.-r that the jury, after being empanelled anew,
. few it. The body had accordingly been exhumed.
,try were then resworn ; after which they proceeded
the hotly of the deceased, which was in a very
•,.sed state.
..1 Harman, a farm labourer, said that on the
of the let January he was at work carting manure
~,th-hall Farm, Harrow, when be noticed a bundle
• e the gran beside the wheel-track, and near the
lle turned it over with the butt coil of his whip,
n be Ran that it was a child. It had been laid on
and covered over with a sort of shawL When ho
• i it up he found that it was quite dead and cold, and
~ tent fell on the grass. He took the body to the
• . station.
••• sergeant Jones, 7 X, said that he received the
'em Harman. It was dreamed in a night-gown and
nod a linsey skirt was wrapped around it.
I. W. Hewlett said that he examined the child,
f na on marks of violence except a mark
on the
• ..s.LI soother on the back of the head, which might
• • ....II l.lllSt4i by something being tied around the
There was on mark of a ligature or pressure on
5..00t. The child had the thrush. Death resulted
01.....ure to add acting on the system, which was
by the attack of thrush.
•oiley, sister of the deceased's master, said that
. .1 it 7. Ow-hard-terrace, Cidellonian-road, and was
•.• :raker. Her sister was also a dressmaker, and
• • 5 •th her. They- worked together, and earned between
',..m IL to NIA. a week. Her sister went into
s•-rkhou.e in Islington to be confined. the
-lit the Monday before the Wednesday when
.1.1 wad. found. On the Tuesday she said
w going to get the child into Hornsey
• in. Caine back the same evening, and
. that it Is id la-en admitted, and that she made a cloak
it with low pvttiveat when the superintendent said it
eo'd. hill' brought back the shawl in which it hail
r..pped. She was rather dull, and witness said, " I
:• ..e you are tonr at giving up your child ?" She
"Yes. but it is gone to a good
•2' She also said that she could see it at
She used to be subject to fainting.
. en, at times somewhat strange, but she was never
she did not tell witness that the father of the
htl acted badly by her ; she kept everything very
. Witness was quite positive that the clothes found
N dill,' were those in which her sister's child
• moied. Witness folly believed her when she said
• had token the child to the llornsey Asylum. Her
..eew, no one at Harrow, and she had never lived
she had never been there in her life before that
was aware. She fed the child well before taking
,y at half-pest 3 o'clock on the Tuesday after-

•
' prisoner cried bitterly while her sister was giving
, 'deuce.
, • ,• ctor Odell, of the Y Division, said that on the Sun-
•iter the child was found he went to the prieoner's
lice, and saw her in the presence of her sister. When
•i. "Where Is your child ?" She said " I will not
~ti." Witness told her " Yon must tell, or son will
''into serious trouble." she then said "You are
•:,,ing to accuse inc of murder!" He answered
I lure accused you of nothing. Be careful in what
..y. I want you to tell me about your child."
%is said, "I took the child to Harrow from Euston-
': n. Then I went straight from Harrow station down
..a; lane. and I left it on the grass by the side of the
. I did not hurt the baby." He then took her into
-.' dy. Last Wednesday she asked him, on the way to
lions. of Detention ' What would they do to her."
• tidied that be did ;sot know, but the charge was a
• 34 one. She then mid, "I mu very sorry. I did not
..._ .. ..

. the child would die."'
i• . Colley was then cautioned in the usual way. She
,t,i.tt she was a neetllewoman, and unmarried. She was
v .r 4 of age. She hail no statement to make.
. Coroner haring suuaroml up.
._. . jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
L l'olley," but strongly recommended her to mercy.
The pthoner was then committed to Newgate to await
, tial at the Central Criminal Court.
The cue excited a great interest in the town of Fiarrow.
I considerable crowds assembled in the neighbourhood
: tot inn where the inquest was held.
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THE CuM; ENWELL GrARDIANS.—Last evening
t .as officially communicated to the Poor-law Guardians
' clerienwell that the central authority had at length
-^ided to deal with them under the new Mr. Gathorne
I 'r'll'e Act. The guardians who have hitherto had con-
-1,1 to them the duty of watching over the poorwere life-
tt4l by tho vestry limier a local act, and as the vestry
• n.rally elected its own to the vacancies as they occurred,
- hmul was looted upon by the parishioners as heist
o.f-elected, and they were wholly beyond the power or
z, anthority. The new act abolishes all these life
l ;ointments, and in place of the self-elected guardians, a
'torsaing officer has been nominated, who has called upon
' Parishioners to elect, from among the five wards of the
6,h, 1$ guardians, and the minimum rateable qualifies-
.o for each is 401., whereas the qualification for the life.
'4'l iluardisns was 201. Besides the 18 guardians to be
'ted• the Poor-law Board has the power to nominate
era