The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

FNENING EDITMINT.

lects going to the Rein Deer with prisoner. He went
into the back garden, and witness followed him ; he
then returned to the Chapman Arms. Does not re-
collect who was there, he was so agitated. Does not
know whether prisoner struck him. Prisoner attae'aed
him, and the landlord parted them. Prisoner went out
of the house, and he saw him no more, until he Wilt in
custody. When he discovered the deceased's body saw
a rope hanging from a hook in the ceiling. Thinks
there was st noose in the lower end.
Robert Taylor, police S,,rgeant, H 19—Remembers
prisoner being brought to the station-house by Canes;
and the policeman Canes said prisoner had murdered
his wife ; prisoner said nothing. On seeing some blood
on his shirt collar witness asked if he bad cut his head ;
he said he had not. The blood appeared fresh ; he then
examined him, and saw blood on his fingers ; there was
a cut on the joint of the little finger, but the blood did
not appear to have proceeded from that ; the right hand
was clean, there was no other wound about his per-
son. Witness asked how his finger became hurt ; he
said he had fallen out of a cab on the previous Thurs-
day. Prisoner pulled off his coat and showed a braise
on the elbow, and said that was what he meant as
having been done on Thursday. Next morning saw
blood on the leg of his trowsers—he appeared to havo
been drinking and very much excited.
Inspector Norman went to prisoner's house from the
station-house, and on his road met the prisoner in cus-
tody ; on his arrival at the house saw deceased lying on
her left side with her throat dreadfully cut. There
was a razor lying on her right hand side open ; the razor
is now produced in the state in which he found it. He im-
mediately sent fora surgeon. He observed a piece of rope
tied to a staple in a beam. The rope is now produced.
The noose was about six feet from the ground: There
were chairs in the shop. Has another piece of rope, but
they do not appear ever to have been connected. The
new rope was produced before the Coroner's Jury. Wit-
ness took the rope down. The body remained undis-
turbed until the arrival of the surgeon. Taere was a
pool of blood at the head. It was congealed. It would
have marked those touching it.
John Lees re-called—When prisoner came to his
house he produced a new rope from his pocket.
Elizabeth Frazer lived next door to the prisoner in
Chapman-street. Saw deceased on the morning in
question with her husband, passing her window.
They appeared sober. DA not see her alive after.
About three o'clock I saw prisoner coming from his own
door. He appeared to fasten it. Witness spoke to
him, and asked what was the matter with Mrs. Lees.
He said she was very ill, as she had taken some strong
acid. He said he had left her something better, and
was going to request a neighbour to sit up with her.
Prisoner then went away from his house. He did not
appear exactly sober. He had a key, which he put in
his righthand pocket. Did not see him again till he was
in custody. There is a door in her parlour which when
opened enables witness to hear what passes in prisoner's
shop. Had heard a noise in his shop before she saw
him. It was a heavy kind of noise. Did not hear any
screams. The conversation with prisoner lasted a
minute and a half. He appeared in a great hurry.
His coat appeared dusty, as if he had been near a wall.
Saw Mr. Garrett go into the house before she heardjhe
noise. Did not see him go out.
Cross-examined—Prisoner appeared a quiet inoffen-
sive man, and partial to his wife. She was much given
to drink, and was very violent to him when in liquor.
He bore it patiently. Has seen him excited in conse-
quence of her absence at nights. Had heard him say
he should be a happy man if she studied domestic hap-
piness.

Re-examined—Prisoner was given to drinking but
was quiet. Does not know of any violence of hers, ex-
cept what prisoner told her ; nor of any grief of his ex-
cept what prisoner had said. Had heari bar say that
he should never conquer her. This was before she
came back to live with him after she had left him. They
bad no children.

Thomas Clarke—Lives in John's-row ; is a hair
dresser ; knows prisoner ; saw hint on Monday, the 18th
inst., between half-past three and four ; prisoner's
house is two miles from witness ; he came to witness's
shop and seemed in a terrible state of mind ; witness's
wife called out " Clarke, Clarke," three or four times,
and witness ran into the shop ; prisoner held out his
hand ; witness took it, and asked what was the matter.
Prisoner shook his head and shed tears; prisoner told
him to take the Dispatch from his pocket ; witness put
his hand in, the Dispatch was not there, but witness
found a rope coiled up.---a new rope ; witness threw it
on one side. Prisoner said " Give me the handkerchief
you took out of my pocket ;" witness denied having
taken one ; prisoner then asked for witness's apron,
with which he wiped his eyes ; witness thought he
wanted to hang himself. Prisoner then held out his
hand and slid " Good bye, Tom ; I am going
to my mother." Witness gave him the rope
back again, and he went away with it. Wit-
ness desired his wife to watch prisoner to his sister's.
Never saw him in such a state before.

Thomas Wood Stowe lives in Cannon-street-road, and
is a coal-dealer. Knows the Golden Lion public-house,
which is 200 yards from the prisoner's. Saw him time
between two and three of the day • in question.
Staples was then in prisoner's company. Prisoner
appeared a little intoxicated. He told Staples his
old woman was dead. Staples said, " Nonsense,
Bill," and prisoner replied, " So help me God, she is.'
The prisoner said he was sorry for her, for she was
a good one. Prisoner wished Staples to go and see
her, and said Rhoda Hall was with her. Staples and
witness then went away. Prisoner said she died of de-
lirium EICIIIC7I3 and they were going to have a post mor-
tem examination. He then lett to go home. Did not
observe anything different in his manner from what he
had exhibited on former occasions when he had been
drinking.

Rhoda Hall lives at No. 9, Lower Chapman-street.
Knew deceased. She was 28 or 29 years of age. She
was hasty and passionate. Saw her alive on the 18th of
thi• month in her house, at half-past two. She was sober,
and seemed ill. Witness was sent for to her. There
were no wounds about her. Did not observe any rope
in the shop. Prisoner appeared kind and attentive to
her. He asked if she would go to bed. She was calm and
in her senses, and said her husband had not ill used her.
Witness asked if they had been quarrelling, and she shook
her head, When witness first went in prisoner was standing
by the fire-place in the shop, his wife was lying down on the
floor upstairs ; prisoner followed witness up, and got a
pillow to put his wife's head upon—he then left the
house. His wife afterwards came down stairs into the
shop. Before witness went away the two medical men
who had been sent for had arrived. Witness never
saw her again alive. There was a high linen blind in
the shop window, so that persons in the street could
not see in.

(The trial was proceeding when we went to press.)
In the case of Box, charged with felony at Messrs.
Howell and James's, the Grand Jury threw out the bid.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
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DEAL, Nov. 28.—Wind S. S. E.,. strong breezes.
LIVERPOOL, Nov..2B.—Wind S. W. to S. E.—Arrived
the Pearl, Fletcher, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
Sailed the Clyde, Matches, for New South Wales ; Su-
perb, Ramsay, Pernambuco; Irish Lass, Grandy, Ja-
maica ; Irlam, Hutchinson, Barbadoes ; Adelaide, David.
son, Mobile ; Scipio, Watson, St. Domingo ; 141antina,
Weeks, Terceira; Peruvian, Whitebeg, Africa. Off port
the Cosmo, New York ; Fanny, Quebec.
PORT'S/MUTH, Nor. 28.—Wind E. to S.E., fresh.—
Arrived the Malabai, Southwold, from Sombroek. Sailed
Mangles, Carr, for Hobart Town. Off port Ulysses,
Baltimore.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind N. E.—Sailed Warrior,
Beckett, and Cluna, Robertson, for Australia.

VESSELS sroasti WITH. —Zenobia, from London to
Calcutta, 22d ult., lat. 6, lon. 22; Lord Stanley, Sierra
Leone to Plymouth, 19th inst., lat. 29, lon. 28; Lady
Ann (barque), 20th, lat. 47, lon. 18 ; Anna, HandlAvg to
Lisbon, 23d, lat. 48, lon. 9, by the Malabar, arrived at
Cowes. General Evans, Santa Martha to Vera Crvai
12th Sept., lat. 22, lon. 86, by the Joseph Hume, arrived
in the Downs. Dalmarnock, Liverpool to Demerara, 17th
inst., lat. 53, lon. Di, by the Hope, Ireland. arrived in the
Clyde. Facide, of Glasgow, 12th inst.. off St. Pate's, by
the Voyager, Skeoch, arrived at Shields.

EXTENSIVE INUNDATIONS.—The recent eon-
tinned heavy rains have occasioned most extensive goods
wt
throughout the various places abutting
metanthe
in
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Thames. The tide, which commenced flowing about
coursetwelve
upthe river, e by a
o'clock onWednesday
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beingy of
descending it, had by five o'clock yesterday morninta, water
banks.
swelled the
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occasion
damage t.h
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its
Middlesex shore about Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, and
Hammersmith. appears
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up the Knsh the
gingt o n canal,
which tideh s having
forced n
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large
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of water
Kensington-crescent, on the south side of the ou
Gar
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,ceA a l
terminates
IWestern-road, it soon after four o'clock overflowed eits
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thheefowree
rkits.
of TtilaieeThexamteens-
bsieavnkse'utetainT p ing erovge
Junction Railway, which commences close to the
basin, soon became full to the brink, the waters at the
same time enveloping an extensive steam-engine be-
longing to the Company. From that time, until five
o'clock,
the flood continued steadily to increase. In
Warwick-square and Kensington-crescent, many of the
servaits sleeping on the basement story had a narrow
escape with their lives, the water having risen up to
their beds before they were aware of it. At Wallis's
cottages, which are in the rear of the crescent, se-
veral pigs were drowned, while the owners of others
carried them up to the upper rooms to save them. The
destruction of poultry has also been considerable. Some
idea of the extensive nature of the inundation wiay be
formed from the fact that in the middle of the day, at a
funeral which took place at St. Barnabas Chapel, situ-
ated in the Addison road, leading to Notting,-hill, on
the bearers descending with the coffin into the: vaults,
they found them under four feet of water. In the course
of the afternoon an aperture was madp in the new
Counties Creek S:;wer, by which the water was reduced
about two feet ; but it was feared that the return of the
tide in the evening would occasion a far greater extent
of damage.