The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-15 00:00:00

God bless you; if you are in any part of England and per-
use the papers within a month, you will see that I have had
her blood." The witness added that he thought no more
of what had taken place until he read an account of the
murder in he newspapers, and he immediately went down
to Ilford and informed the police of what had taken place
between him and the prisoner, and recognised him as the
man with whom he had had the conversation.
Some other evidence that was adduced was also of a re-
markable character. This was a proof of statements repre-
sented to have been made by the prisoner to two men, named
Hart and 0 wtrim, who were at the time in confinement in
Ilford Gaol, one for an assault, and the other for stealing
some grass. The prisoner was placed in the cell with these
two men while he was under remand, and it seemed,
oddly enough, that he was under th•o impression
that murderers were always c mfitr.d together, and that
;hese two prisoners were charged with th it crime, and that
consequently they were at liberty to say what they pleased
to one another. Acting upon this impression, it appeared
that the prisoner in the course of conversation told those
men that he was charged with the murder of a woman he
had lived with two years, and that she had braen up his
home and refused to live with him again, and he had cut
her throat. He said he was sorry for what he had done, and
the thought had only come into his head about 10 minutes
before he did it. One of the witnesses asked him how he
thought he should get on, and he replied that he did not
think he had a chance, as so many people got round him
directly after it happened that he was not able to get away.
The prisoner also appeared to have said that he met the
woman on the morning of the murder, and that she refused
to speak to him, and that shortly afterwards he saw a man
named Turner, and told him what he was going to do, and
he was afraid that this would go very much against him.
After the prisoner was apprehended he was taken to the
place where the deceased was lying dead, and upon some
one observing that he should not 1 ke to touch the poor
thing, the prisoner exclaimed, " I should not mind touch-
ing her 40 times."
John James Warren, a labouring man, appareLtly about
40 years old, the person to whom the deceased was to have
been married, proved that the banns of the marriage had
been published twice at Dagenham Church, and that they
were to have been published for the last time en the Sun-
day, the day following that on which the murder was com•
mitted.

Mr Woollett put several questions to the different wit
nosses in cross-examination, but was unable to elicit any-
thing that at all tended to shake the evidence given by them,
or to alter in any way the complexion of the case as it af-
fected the prisoner.
The learned counsel for the prisoner made an able address
to the jury in his behalf, and endeavoured to show that he
was not in a state of mind to be responsible for his conduct
at the time the act was committed,

The learned judge having summed up,
The jury retired at half-past 4 to deliberate upon their
verdict, _

They returned into court in less than a quarter of an hour
and gave a verdict of guilty.
The learned judge having put on the black cap, proceeded
to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner. He said he en-
tirely concurred in the verdict, and it appeared to him to be
impossible, upon the evidence that had been adduced, for
them to have arrived at any other conclusion than that ho
was guilty of the crime of which he had been accused. He
then proceeded to pass sentence of death in the usual form.
The prisoner did not exhibit the slightest emotion during
anyperiod of the trial, and when the learned judge had con-
cluded, he turned round and walked deliberately away from
the bar.
The trial lasted nearly seven hours.