The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

THE TRAGEDY IN HATTON GARDEN,

ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY.

The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Wilkinson was
resumed this day at the Three Tuns Tavern, Cross-street,
Hatton-garden.
The inquiry, it will be recollected, was adjourned in order
to enable the coroner to communicate with Sir Grey to ob-
tain the attendance of the prisoner. The application had
been successful, and the accused man this morning was in
attendance, in custody of an inspector of the S division.
The first,witness examined was Mrs Turnbull, the aunt
of the witness Collier, who gave her evidence before the
magistrate, She merely repeated the statement as to the
prisoner entering her bedroom and pulling his wife out
of her bed and kicking her violently.
Ann Chadwick said she had known Mrs Wilkinson for
two years. The deceased often told her of her husband's
illusage, but that he always was anxious to make it up
with her. She saw her last Sunday about 8 o'clock, when
she told her what had occurred at the railway station. She
said she and her husband had quarrelled, and that he had
struck her in the eye. She left witness's place at 10 o'clock
and went home, but she said she should not go into her own
room until her husband was asleep, as be was sure to be
quarrelling with her, and she was afraid of him when tipsy,
but that he was always kind to her when sober.
By a Juror—The bruise on the eye was not visible when
she saw her. She appeared quite well when she left her.
Police-constable 116 G said he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. He asked him how he accounted for the marks on
the deceased. He said, " Well, there was some blows on
Friday last, but none since.

Police•constable 1 G said, the prisoner was brought to
the police station et Clerkenwell about half-past one on
Sunday morning. He informed the prisoner he was charged
with a serious offence, and, having cautioned him, ho said,
"It's not what I've done to-night, it's what I did on
Friday."

Mrs Collier recalled—She had never heard the prisoner
threaten the life of his wife.

The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, said it was
' for them to consider the charge, which was a very serious
one against Henry Wilkinson, who was supposed to have
murdered his wife, It would be for them to consider
whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain an accusation
of wilful murder. The coroner vent through the evidence,
and stated that, according to the testimony of the medical
gentleman, the injury which caused the death of the unfor•
tunate woman did not arise from any violence she might
have sustained on the Friday, but from a rupture of the
spleen, which, however, was in a diseased state, The kick
which it had been proved the prisoner had inflicted on .
the deceased appeared to have caused that rupture,
and, under all the circumstances, they would have to
show whether the blow was inflicted with the malicious
intention of killing the woman. If they should be of that
opinion, then it would be their duty to return a verdict of
wilful murder against the prisoner, but if they thought that
he had been guilty of unintentionally causing her death,
they would return a verdict of manslaughter.
The jury then returned to consider their verdict, and
after about half.an-hour's absence, returned to the inquest
room.

In answer to the questions of the Coroner,
The foreman of the jury said they were opinion that the
prisoner did not contemplate killing his wife, and they
therefore returned a verdict of manslaughter against him.
The prisoner, a man about 30 years of age, of the middle
height, with sharp features, and deeply pitted by small-pox,
daring the time the jury were in deliberation seemed to
suffer the greatest anxiety. Immediately the verdict was
pronounced he seemed for the moment entirely prostrate,
but he quickly recovered himself and burst into tears. He
was then taken from the room, and on making his appear-
ance in the street on his way to the Clerkenwell Police-
Court, to which he was conveyed in a cab, the crowd made
some little attempt at hissing, but it quickly subsided as an
immense number of idlers followed to the cab with a view
of:getting another glimpse of the prisoner.

The final examination of the prisonar took place al
Clerkenw ell Police Court shortly after tho
.termination of
the inquest. The same witnesses were examined, and a simi•
lar conclusion was the result.