The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-06 00:00:00

outside. She was in the same position, and also on the day
following, when they again visited her. Witness went to
Revel, then to St. Petersburg, and back to Cronstadt, and
made a protest at Revel.

By Mr Sleigh—There had been some rough weather on
the voyage. They were in the Baltic when the tackle was
ordered to be got ready for the boats. He had heard the
Baltic was a difficult place to navigate. He swore to a
protest which was read to him. (Mr Sleigh read a portion
of the protest, in which it was stated that all that could be
done was done to save the vessel and prevent her from
striking on the reef, but it was of no avail) The witness
said that was what was stated in the protest, and he swore
to it; but it did notsay how she made water. The carpen-
ter, mate, and the captain and another seaman were present.
By Mr Lewis—When witness went to sign the protest it
was already prepared, and he was asked by the mate to sign
it. It was read over to him. It was not made out by wit-
ness's instructions. It was onlp read over to him, and they
were asked no questions, but whether they were ready to
sign it.

Wm. Middleton, a seaman on board the Snowdrop, said
he was on deck when the ship struck on the morning of Oct.
4. Before she struck he sung out " Breakers ahead," and
as he was saying so she struck. She struck twice. He
heard the carpenter report twice that the vessel was not
making any water. He remembered the anchor boing hung
over the stern of the longboat. At that time the vessel had
not made any water. He should say it was about four• and
a half hours after she struck. After the anchor was got in
again he heard some one say the vessel was making water.
No attempt was made to pump. He signed the protest at
Revel, and was asked by the mato to do so. The captain,
mate, boatswain, and carpenter were present at the time ho
signed it. He saw the vessel standing in the same position
seven days after she struck.

Captain Drummond said he was special agent for Lloyd's
underwriters. On Nov. 14 Craig, the carpenter, wont to
his office in Fenchurch-street and made a statement. Ho
afterwards saw the steward, who also wade a statement, and
he reduced the statement of each to writing, They related
to the Snowdrop. He produced the certified copy of the
register of the ship.

Herbert Brayne, an underwriter in the Australasian In-
surance Company, said tho Snowdrop was insured at his
office for the sum of £.500. The insurance was effected on
Sept. 6 against all risks.

Cyril Wright, a clerk in the Alliance, of Capcl•court,
produced a policy of £5OO on the Snowdrop, froe of particu•
lar average, that was to say, only against the total loss of
the ship.

Mr Lewis asked for another remand,
Mr Sleigh addressed his lordship with a view to induce
him to admit his client to bail, and Mr Beard made a
similar application, but the Lord Mayor said the penalties
were so severe in case a conyiction should take place, that
he did not feel justified in taking the responsibility, and de-
clined to accede to the application.

The Murder and Attempted Suicide a

Shirley.

SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.
This dreadful tragedy, of which a very brief account has
already appeared, has created intense excitement through-
out this district. 01 the unhappy murderer, whose name
is George Broomfied, and ago about 47 years, little or
nothing is of courseknown here, but all the other parties
to the tragedy of Saturday are well known and highly
respected in the locality. The Hampshire Independent
this morning, in a second edition, gives the following par-
ticulars as to the unbrtunate young woman whose life was
so ruthlessly sacrified on Saturday evening
" Mr Powell, of tle Shirley Hotel, and also in an exten-
sive way of business Is a plumber and painter, has employed
from his youth the husband of the unfortunate deceased,
Frederick Colborne, thout 24 or 25 years of age, the son of
a tailor at Ringwood; and he has always conducted himself
in a way which gained for him not only the confidence of
his employer, but thi respect and esteem of all his acquaint-
ances, He was reedited almost as a member of Mr. Powell's
family, by whom aloe his poor deceased wife was always
gladly welcomed. ;he had attained, at her death, the age
of 23 years. She ferreerly lived in service with Mr Bur-
rows, of Shirley, he maiden name being Wing, and her
aged father, who ha already sustained a severe family
afliction within a very recent period, is a hard-working man,
gaining his living al a plasterer. She is described as a
young woman of agrteable manners and affectionate dispo-
sition, and of an amiability of temper which rendered her
beloved by all who 'new her. Almost from childhood she
and Colborne had ban attached to each other; their love
and affection seemed to increase with their growth, and,
though the deceasedchanged her place of service, they kept
up a continued cornspondence, and looked forward to the
time when circumstaaces would enable them to bo married.
The poor girl removed from Shirley to the residence of Mr
Guildford Onslow, IP., at Upton House, Alresford,where
she failed the positioa of lady's-maid, and her services were
highly valued. Hereshe for the first time met Gee. Broom-
field, a man now 47 roars of age, who held a responsible
situation in the hone as butler, and who it has since been
proved was a marriel man, though the deceased does not
appear at the time tz have been aware of the fact. He was
well to do in the woad, having Bawd a considerable sum
of money from his earnings in the situations
which he had filed, and among his other sources
of income he is sad to have an annuity of £3O a year,
which had been lett him by a military officer in whose
service he had lived in the south of Ireland. Broomfield, to
the girl's great annoyance, began to pay her marked atten-
tions, but she freaky told him that her affections were en-
gaged, and that ever if they were not, there was such a dis-
parity between that. ages that she could in no way encou-
rage his advances He seems, however, to have still
persisted in paying his attentions to her, and rather than
continuo to be subpct to his Importunities she left her ser-
vice and returned to Shirley, where, in May last, Colborne
made her his wife, and they went to reside in the Union
road, at Shirley, there she could be near her mother, in
one of the portiere of a double cottage, of which there are
several in that locality, the remaining half of the building
being occupied b.l a working man named Harris and his
family. Here they lived happily and comfortably together,
looking forward with anxiety to their domestic happiness
being increased by her becoming a mother, an event shortly
expected."

It appears that on Saturday afternoon Broomfield came
down from London by the 3 o'clock train, which reaches
Southampton at 5.20, and immediately made his way to
Shirley, which it about two miles from this town, and he
soon found out tle deceased's residence, where he called
shortly after 7 o'clock. His appearance here was of course
very distasteful, and much alarmed poor Mrs Colborne, but
he insisted on entering the house, where he conversed for
some time with the deceased and her husband, and her
mother, Mrs Wing) was also present part of the time. nits
conversation is gated to have been rational and coherent,
and his manner quite cool and collected. He appeared
anxious to be on friendly terms with Mr and Mrs Col-
borne, and told them of his intended movements for the
future, as referred to in one of the letters given below.
Broomfield himself subsequently told one of the medical
twhaiatthf
hethe wanted his unfortu -
rivasObut she would not
me little time had
passed Mr Colborne said to his wife that they had bet-
ter go out to do their usual Saturday evening's market-
ing, when Broomfield said, "Don't go out and leave
me here alone, but if you go your wife had better stop here
with me." This was, of course, objected to, and deceased
and her husband went out together, leaving Bloomfield alone
in the house, While they were out they called at Mr
Powell's, where the deceased expressedherself as being uneasy
and uncomfortable about Broomfield's presence. They got
home a little after 9 o'clock, and during their absence it ap-
pears that Broomfield employed himself in writing, in which
he was also engaged part of the time that his unfortunete
victim was at home. Soon after their return Mrs Colborne
commenced frying some sausages for supper, and during the
temporary absence of the husband to fetch some ale two or
three shots were heard by some neighbours, one of whom, a
woman named Harris, living next door, immediately ran to
the house, and was soon followed by others. The first
thing that presented itself to view was the body of the poor
young woman Colborne, lying on some bricks ab
from the back door, weltering in blood, and just inside
Broomfield was lying on the floor, apparently mortally
wounded. A revolver with five chambers was lying on tho
floor, two barrels of which were still loaded, so that the
other three had in all probability been fired. It is the opi-
nion of Mrs Harris, who first raised the poor young woman
from the:ground, that she was then dead—but Mr Wheeler,
who carried the body into the room, thinks that she
breathed once or twice afterwards. She was placed in a
bitting posture on the floor, in the arms of her friends, and
never spoke a word. On examination it was found that the
bullet had entered her left breast and apparently passed
through the heart, and two medical gentlemen who were
soon on the spot, Drs Weston and Mott, pronounced her
death to have been instantaneous.
It was next found, on examining Broomfield, that ho had
also been shot in the left breast, and as the bullet had appa-
rently pasted into his lungs, tho medical gentlemen gave it
as their opinion that the wound was mortal, and that his
rect.very was next to an impossibility. The murderer's coat
was lying near, and his hat was on the sideboard. After
some consultation it was determined to send Broomfield into
the Royal South Hants Infirmary, in this town, whither he
was removed in charge of Police-sergeant Cheyney, of the
Hants Constabulary,

The unfortunate husband of the murdered woman was one
of the earliest among the crowds who rushed to the house
on the alarm being given, and was driven almost to madness
by the desolating scone before him, It was with difficulty
ho was restrained, in his first moments of excitement, from
inflicting personal vengeance on the wretched mar then
lying on the floor before hint, who had thus in a few short
minutes put an end to his happiness, and deprived him of
the society of his deeply Iwo(' wifo. He has since been in a
sad state of mind, overpowered with his irreparable loss.
Notwithstanding the man Broomfield was so desperately
wounded he had lost but little blool, and was able to con-
verse. He said he had been a fellow-servant with the de-
ceased, and that he was a married man, his wife living at
Bishop's-terrace, Newington-green, Islington; but the de-
ceased, he said, knew that ho was fond of her. He added
that he intended to go to America to join the Federal army,