The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-20 00:00:00

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT HITCHIN,

Yesterday morning Samuel Wabey, aged about 33, and
Joseph Harmer, aged 11, were brought up before the magis-
trates at Hitchin, charged with stealing £S or £9 from the
pers',,n of E sward Foreman on the nibht of Monday, the
11th inst. Thos. Currell, a labourer, the first witness exa-
mined, said he left his house about 25 minutes past 7 to go
from Gusmore to Preston. At the b Atom of Preston-hill

he saw a a:an lying on the righthand side of the road on
his right side, with his feet towards the palings and his head
in the roadway. He said, " ake up I dont be lying here."
The man did not answer, but breathed hard as if snoring,
and the witness thought he was drunk. After he had left
him about 10 minutes, and had nearly got as far as the
Chequers publichouse, he met the two prisoners. Wabey
went on with the lad (the other prisoner) towards Gosmore,
and the witne es the other way towards Preston. Fredk
Sharp, of Preston, saw Mr. Foreman en the evening of
Monday, the 11th, just after 7. He was riding in his mule
cart by Preston, and the mule was trotting when he passed,
but about 50 yards further on he went faster, and witness
thought the animal had broke into a gallop, and it seemed
to keep on so far as ho could hear it go. Samuel Brown, a
grocer at Gosmore, said he left his house on Monday evening
about 7, and after going about 500 yards on the road to-
wards Hitchin a white mule or pony and cart pissed very
fast. He had to jump into the ditch to get out of the way,
There was no one in the cart. Maria Harvey, of the 'White
Horse Inn, Hitchin, said that on Monday evening the pri-
soner Wabey came to her house and had a pint of beer, of
which he drank part, and then ordered another. He offered
a sovereign in payment, but she had not change, and asked
him if he had any smaller money to give her. He gave her
a shilling, saying, "If it's known they'll say I've got too
much money." Mary Kingley said that the prisoner lived
in one of her husband's cottages. He owed back rent,
which he was paying up in weekly instalments, and on.
Monday evening he called and paid her 6s. about 9 o'clock.
Superintendent William Pangbourne stated that on the
morning of Tuesday, the 12th, he received information of
Mr. Foreman's death. He told Wabey wnen he was taken
into custody, that he was charged with the robbery, and he
admitted that Currell had met him and told him the man
was lying drunk in the road, but that he (Wabey) passed
down there and saw no one. Witness told the boy the charge
separately, and he made a similar statement to that made
by Wabey. On Sunday morning last witness went to
Wabey's house and saw his wife. He asked her as to a
sovereign which he had found out she had changed, and she
produced an umbrella she had bought and said she had only
Is. 6d. more. She refused to say where she got the sove-
reign. 'Witness was upstairs at that time, and there was a
woman's dress hanging up in the room which the prisoner's
wife owned to be hers. She said theto was nothing in it,
and witness felt in the ordinary pocket but found nothing.
On a more minute examination, however, he discovered a
small pocket under the band apparently made for the pur-
pose, in that pocket there were four sovereigns, two wrapped
up in one piece of rag and two wrapped in another. There
was also a receipt for 10e. she had given a Miss Marks, in
part payment of an old account, on Tuesday morning.
Police-constable Young deposed that by Superintendent
Pangbourne's orders he searched the house minutely, and
under the bed found a slop jacket, which the prisoner
Wabey's wife said belonged to her husband. There were
marks of blood on one sleeve and inside the band. The
witness took the jacket away. It was shown to Wabey,
who said he had wiped his nose, which had been bleeding,
on it on the Monday, while he was at work. On Sunday'
afternoon the boy said to witness " We did meet Currell, and
he told us there was a man lying at the bottom of the hill,
and when we got to the bottom we saw him and stopped.
Wabey touched him and said Halloo I' Ile did not move
or speak. Wabey gave me the tools he was carrying,
a hay knife and needle, and the man at that time was
lying on his face. Wabey turned him over and said, "II
don't know him.' Wabey put his hands in the man's
pockets, and told me to go on. I went on two or three yards.
I saw him pull something out of the man's pockets, and he
came then running after me and said, ' I have got the --
money.' The man's face was covered with blood, and the
ground was very bloody. Wabey did not knock him or kick
him." The prisoner Wabey said, "The last statement is
quite untrue." The boy immediately said, " It is quite true
what Mr. Young has said, and I told him so." Mr. Super-
! intendant Pangbourne asked for a remand, as that was all
the evidence he was prepared with, which was granted.

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