The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-13 00:00:00

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by the Ranh; tie the MISr was nalebarnini, by which it is
enjectered the murderer hod otopped her nee by his left hand,
and stuffed a cloth into her mouth. Neater marks were visi-
ble about the body.
The first *hues' examined was Miss Sophia Jones, who de-
posed as follows :—I net a spinier, and reside at Clapham.
I knew the deceased extremely vial, her !name is Elizabeth
Richards ; I believe she was 75 yams of age, and a widow;
she was very feeble, kept so wrest, but a lady named Bell
bilged is th • house ; a niece of the deceased was in t.,e habit
of corning to her to do the household work ogee or twice a
week ; the deceased lived next doer to the Baptist chapel, o
the-left side of the common load* to Balham•bill ; I have
known the deceased nearly twenty sears; I
the deceased aid Mrs. bell bad jeareelled ; she bad lived is
the deceased's house for three years'; Mrs. Bell was not in
distressed circumstances ; II did not see her at all on Tuesday
foresees, w'-ieh was the usual day I read t':e newspaper, but
in the evening, sheet a quarter peat eight o'clock, I went to the
house tor the above purpose, which was an hour beyond the
usual time ; oa my getting to the door I gas• a single knock,
sod was kept there longer than eaual ; I looked through the
key hole and saw the room Do the grouud-door in darkness ;
I reunited a minute or two, thinking the deceased had gone up
stairs for her night clothes, which she usually did at that hour ;
I was then going to knock at the tine 0 snood time, when the
dose opened a little, and I said It's ate Mrs. Richards, it's
we it's me." and thee the door spend wida, and I went in and
called lan Richards as lou.l at. I Tdd, but I received -ao
answer; I then weal towards the Gre.nlase, and saw 'the de
'oentsed lying on the door with the area aver her face ; I into.
gimd she was is a it, sad tinselly met nor deem neel. Wan '
Mrs. Stratton, a Neighbour, Real sheet three doors off, and
she instantly returned with me to the :mese ; and in going in at
th.e gate I saw a poker lying under the parlour window, in the
fare-coon ; I immediately eselainsed Oh, good God, she is
murdered!" I had a light in my hand at this time, which
enabled me to find the poker. The street door I Nand shut oa
my 7eturn with Mrs. Stratton. I instead, win tear. Miller
and Mr. Glazier, two ether Neighbours, sod they also came
back with me ; it was a very dark stilt. Qs my int 'attiring
the house I saw something lying on the grouted, hat i did not'
know then it was Mrs. Richards ; I saw her feet ; her head
was towards the firs, and her feet iu t e middle of the room ;
she was subjeet to fits. She was worth a good deal of money ;
she bad promised to len- me some of her property : I believe ,
her will is made, by Mr. Lott, a solicitor ; ike was is the
habit of visiting Mr. Baxter, z neighbour ; I live about three
doors from tic,.; she was very frieedl, with Mr. Miller,,
her next door neighbour ; she bail been n Ith bias about half an
hour before she was found mardered.
Mr. Charles Miller swop.—l live nest door to-the deceased,
and am a carpenter; I knew the deceased, nein' been her
next door neighbour for the last Pi years ; we were always on
.good terms with each other ; she frortostiy visited me, and I
her, sometime, ono* or twice a week. ;On Teensy last, ibout
eight o'clock in the orating, the dereaded came iato my house,
and asked whether I thought Mr. Lote, whp .had lately pur-
chased the lease of her hoes., would diaterb her/ She remained
about a quarter of as hoer with sue, .4 thee, I went with her
to the door of ay bone, sad she said/" Good night.; her . a
light in doors." NW then west out ipso ber own house, and
heard her bolt the gate after her. I WO ooneined the
deceased was murdered, and the asoedererr mast have got
is at the Not door ; 4 they bad entered backwards I should
bare heard them ; I think they awe out at the float door, uy
the poker having been left at the door.
(Here the apron was produced, and her pocket that bad bean
-torn Goon her side likewise; it eiontaimpl, as old knife, said II
thimble Isel'oeging to the decline")
. The witness said, the pocket wail. bra}
stripy woe elilf emit bpi body 9 -911411190-119111fis reeves'
hand, the area
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Chaplin • t a neenter before 9 o tia inaday night,
a boy, 'Awn I did not know, cane lie :boom ,• told me
to follow hies, as a ezionto bad hems ; I went to the
nese of the donned, and in the Ingot dyad her lying on
her heck with her bead near the lire 91411 i. I assisted in plati-
ng bet in a chair, nod found her quite dead ; dinette after,
the apron was predawn .1 • Mrs. Su '.ton, which alt • said she
had polled out of her mouth ; it was folded up, mid the spree
view produced is the same, I foetid a mark on the side of the
deceased's throat, said the skin bad bees grand, sod a similer
mark on. the left temple ; one of her teeth was forced net,
which occasioned the bleed as the spree; I did not see the
tooth ; it was carefally looked for ; son of the marks were
the production of ber death, but that she died from suffocation
—the ineek'on the nese and threat meat bate nee don by the
murderer's diver *la.
Mrs. ilassattah Stratton savors.—l am a widow, and live at
Clapham. On Tuesday evniag, slant 8 o'clock, Miss Jones.
name apparently is great grief, and said—" Ob, pray Miss S.
ease with ma, for Mrs. Richards is either deed or wounded."
I went with her hack to the house with a candle ; sod on going
into the fare court, Miss loses exolaimad—" Oh dear, she is
killed !Atere's a poker." I said--" I ain't go in--call Mr.
Millee."li9fr. Miller was called, sod he followed us into the
boast. Mr. Glazier soon after nine I found the deceased
lylag straight on the Boor as dessoibed by the Ind witness. I
found the apron put over ber face—her packets were tort off,
sad the tape Strings left mod her body.
Miss Jan Bell swore.—l lodge in &hennas ofthe donned ;
bare don so far five years. ,On Tosaday even* I left home
about twenty minutes before seven, nod went to Mr. Philip's
steeds', bat it sot being open, I snot into Mr. Haiss's opposite
—about nine o'clock rewind howie—os my road bon with
with Mrs- 'Unshod I met a friend of raise, sod when sear the
Cock public-hoese we were met by a yang man density
dressed is mourning ; he said sled hew you go, for there has
been a murder on a Mrs. Richards. I asinerea, es it possible,
sod said I lodged in the been. Bo then offered to see me
home, which be did, and when we get to the door be left me.—
never saw the body till this morning.
The apses was again produced, sad this witness identified it
to tree belonged to the deceased.]
Witness ooniineed.—On the (cursing morning I received
s brown paper parcel from the woman who was left is theoare
of die body ; it was sealed with bleak was, and uirected to me
at the boos' of the deceased, and whiso I opened it, It entente d
lathing.
'norms Reed sworn.--I em a oanstable of Clapham, and
was sent for by Mr. Miller on Taeaday evening. I accordingly
• 'rot to the house of the decessed, and saw a tea chest lying on
the deer epee ; eas of the tin cassisters was iasin with the lid
off ; a banch of keys were la the cheat ; saw oleo a pocket on
the groped, which was penned to day. It had the appear-
esee of being torn from the 'triage ; there was se money in it.
On farther search I roan as 'busy instead with a drawer tut-
demean. noteinieg papers which were much diatnrbed. A
paper For el was l; Lig on the top of the inkstand, directed to

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