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London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

House of Correction at Guildford. Ois Tuesday
moriliog when the murder was discovered he went
over to G exammeil the of the
late Air. Cherinell, moil found 3 lying iu it
tub of wa:er Ili the shop—a part of the hammier
Wh,cli was not iininer-rd 'no the water had a mai k a
hammer both in the round
and rivitting rods to tit the wntlibtlb inflicted ut
Citemiell'd head. Witness took Clialcraft into
cu'tody on the Wednesday evening—lie examined
I/Craoll ou the Thursday tituritill. allot no the
ri4:4it hand sleeve of hi* smock flock, he saw marks,
US tie thought, of blood.
Isaac Woods, the Constable of Godalming, pro-
(Nee,' a knife and hal iiiii er which he got from the
last witness—the knife was covered with marks of
blood, and the upper part of the boodle of the
hammer had one or two marks of blood.

Earl (the former witness) knew the hammer anal
knife now produced to have belonged to the lata
Mr. Cornwell.
Jame* Weak, the warden of Gndaltning, saia,
lila on the morning after the murder, lie went
into old Mr. Chi-midi's shop, where lie sew the till,
which had the bolt of the luck up as if it bud been
forced open, without the lock being turned by a
key. He gave this till to Earl. lie examlited the
clothes of Mr. Cheimell, which lay alongside Lu
bed ; the pockets contained six notes of one pound,
tend fifteen shillings and sixpence in silver. After
he went home lie bow Earl examine the till, but he
(be wit nest) could not particularly observe ally mat k,
on it, thou4ll Earrdid. The deceased Mr. Chen-
nell had emisiderable freehold property.
Mr. Wm. Parson, a surgeon at Godelmitig, was
called into Mr. Chemiell's house at ten minutes
before eight o'clock on the morning idler the mots
ders ; lie sow the housekeeper, Elizabeth Wilson.
lying dead on the floor, with her throat cut, awl
other marks of violence upon her head ; the hotly
was cold and stiff, and the wounds looked as if
done a considerable time ; they were flaccid and
cold. lie then examined the body of Mr. Chen-
nell, whose skull was fractured and his thrust cut,
The !winner trier in Court was such as would give
the fractures on the bodies. Ile thought the Unmet
had lwen cut after life was suspended by a fracture,
fur there was no blood spattered about the had, as
would base been had the cut been nestle while the
arteries had pulsation. lie saw the 'prisoner (mi-
ne!' very soon after, but be did nut examine his
hands or his person.
George Austen remembered the morning after
the murder. After seeing the priaiiner Clialcrult lu
the street, he called him into Cnensell'a shop, awl
asked hint if he would like to see the bodies ? He
replied, " No ;" on being asked why, lie said,
" Because I never saw but one murdered man, and
that was at Peterstielil." lie said, ern being again
urged to go up stairs, that lie would not go up for
all the town. He appeared to he in great agita-
tion. Witness observed a murk like blood on his
smock frock, on the under vine of the right aria.
—Chaleraft afterwards agreed to go with Keene
and witness, and see the dead bodies; he pass-
ed through the kitchen, stepped over the house-
keeper's body, went up stairs, looked at the
body, and exclaimed, "Titter he lays, poor old
man, one of the best masters I ever had in my
life!" Ile said, hr had set barn up stairs before
in the coarse of his life. On being asked to chew
the position he was in at the kitchen door when he
called Ins master ill the morning, he took that
position, awl said he put in his head far enougn
to see a light at the butt of the staircase.
He said the staircase-door was open when lie
called in the morning. Clialeraft put in his
left foot, about half his breast, the whole of
his head, and turned it round behind the door,
being in that position in the morning, he said lie
called his minter three times. IVitness took his
place in that position, and asked Into why he did
not go in at the other kitchen door, which was
more within call of his master—he replied, " If

you knew the pedigree of it as well as I do,
you'd have done the same." It was quite im-
possible fur any body to have been on the spot
where Cholera& said he stood, without seeing
the woman's hour. IVituess asked Cholera&
when lie was in custody, when he had seen
George ? (inearaing the Prisoner, Cherwell ;) lie
replied, " Not since the Friday of the previous
week, when he saw thin io the plough field." Chen-
nell said to witirers that tie was on the night of the
murder at the Richmond Arms, which place he left
to see is lady, and was not gone more than four or
five minutes, and that when he returned his pipe
he had before been using was not out ; while out he
raid he had oot gone further than Andrews's
slaughter-house, or the aisrket-place.
Benjamin Keene was a constable at Guildfo;rl.
0/1 Wednesday, the loth of November, he took
Chalcraft into custody by order of the Magistrates;
he searched a chest in the prisoner Chennell's ludgs
jugs, and found therein, in a tin box, two suites of
If. each, and I4s. in silver. There were spots of
blood on both the notes; lie handed over they.: notes
to Mr. Stillwell. Mr. %Verde gave witness the till
at Godalning ; he now produced it. 'lt bad the
.bolt of the lock shot up, and the toarks of being
wrenched open with a crow, which he also pro-
dured, and which was found ituder the till in the
0110 P. On Chalcraft beano' asked where was his
master's chamber, he he did not know no
more than the child it,,born, never having brew up
there iir his life. When Chenittll was asked where
lie got the two notes found in his lodgings, he said
be got them from his father rat dinner un the Sunday.
Jas. Stillwell produced the Bank noted found in
the Primmer, Chermell'a, tin-case. The Prisoner
• lodged with witireo, ; the notes were marked with a
spot or two at blood, but witness sad the marks were
Iris lat:it now than at the time the notes were first
taken. _ • _ _ _

John Gardner will one of the Coroner'. Jury
which pat on the dealt bodies ; hr SAW the 110teli
riu that necnAion; the maiks Wood WCT! tbeu
all niter thou they were now.
Situpsion Allathorne, a worelionsviumu
reputing iu Cite-street, slated.
tint he pnid the two noies of it now in Court, to
the late el r. Chemiell, oil the 4111 November. ISt
'crtt.tinly paid 1. 1.%0 nnteP; they held tht!
iipille of the torreon loom Whom lie innk them en-
dorsed (pt the back.. Ile coold wily speak of the
tuitts Irma) their having the name of Ifsker en the
Wm. Coumb. was last Nsiveinl.er a waiter ut the
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