The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-07 00:00:00

MURDER AT HIGHGATE.

FINAL EXAMINATION OF BARRETT AND HIS WIFE.
Friday being the day aucointed for the final exami-
nation of Barrett and his wile, on a charge of robbery at
and to be re-examined on suspicion of
the murder, they were bioie.rht tip (rout the House of
Correction at an early boor, and at 9 o'clock the Justice
Room W3S crowded to excess.
The (*.Mowing appeared in evidence on Friday before
Dr. Owen :
Elizabeth Hopkins remembers on the morning that
Sellers, Mr. Hale's watchman, was murdered, at about
half-past six o'clock she was going with her husband's
breakfast to a field where be was mowing for a Mr.
Thompson, in liorusey-lane: on proceeding along she
saw the prisoner Barrett turn down the lane, and he
stopped to consider which way he would turn; he
crossed a field called Ashbutt's field, exactly at the back
of Mr. Hale's house, and near some hay-stacks there was
a black man silting in a hollow; Barrett, who appeared
as if he had left the black matt, crossed the field and
climbed over a stile at the further end, and proceeded in
a confused direction to the point where she hail first seen
him ; the black man went away. She could not he mis-
taken as to his person ; she had known him previous to
that morning.
Dr. Owen remarked, it was under suspicious circum-
stances that a shirt with marks of blood upon the sleeve
had been found under the hav stacks mentioned. It
was found by a mail named Feld, who had it in his
possession. A 111311 named Murphy had been appre-
hended on suspicion of its being his, to consequence of
his having put a new shirt on, and in order that he
should give an account of the old shirt he had left ea—
It was, however, involved in mystery, and for want of
es idence he was discharged. A bloody stocking was
also produced here, and inspected, which had been
found at Bat retes lodgings.
The prisoner denied strongly that the witness, Mrs.
Hopkins, saw hint cross the field, and climb over the
stile. He went in the morning to tell the deceased's son
that his father was dead.

Dr. Owen asked the witness whether she considered
that way which the 1)n: oiler Barrett was going, the
nearest to Crotech.entl, where Barrett said he was
going to, or would she have gone that way to Crouch-
end T _ .

Witness said that it was not the way to Crouch-end.—
She would not have gone that way, liad bile been going
there : she siw him get over some fences.
Barret was again asked whether he wished to say any
thing ? Ile answered, all that he had to say was, that
he was going to the deceased's son at Crouch-end, but
he never went out of the road all the way, as God was
his judge.
Mrs. Hopkins said, he was drissed in a short shooting
jacket, and the same dress as he had on now.
Barrett said he had a nephew residing at Tottenham,
and they had a pint of porter together at the Swan public
house the same night.
Mrs. Hopkins said that she afterwards saw Barrett, and
she pointed hint ont to a mass as the person she saw
under suspicious circuinstances on the morning of the
murder • that man had remaved from Highgate, but he
could be found.
_

A boy again was examined, and swore that lie saw a
black man on the morning of the murder in a hollow
near the lane in which Barrett pasted.
A man named Lewis also saw a black man on the
same morning; he was dressed like a sailor; he had
been linking about in a vet), suspicious manner.
The prisoners were next examined on the charge of
robbery at Mr. Rothchild's, and fully committed for
tri .1 on that charge, but remanded on suspicion of the
murder until further enquiries are made into the affair.
The prisoners in the course of the day were conveyed to
Newg.ite.