The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday a young man dressed in a smock frock, who
gave the name of John Wright, but whose real name was
understood to be Stephen Wood, was charged before Mr.
Alderman Brown with having stolen four cows from Ep-
ping Forest.

After hearing the case Mr. Alderman 13aowN was about to
commit the prisoner, when the prosecutor begged that he
might be remanded, as he seemed disposed to make some dis-
closure, and as sixteen COSSS had been stolen off the forest
recently.

Mr. Alderman BROWN consented to remand the prisoner
for a week.
John Boyd was charged with assaulting John Coleman,
the conductor of one of Warburton's omnibuses.
The prisoner was committed.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday Charles Todd and Sarah Todd, his wife, were
brought up for re-examination on a charge of stealing a
letter containing a Si. bank note, which had come into the
possession of the former in his capacity of a letter carrier in
the General Post-offiee. The male prisoner, it will be recol-
lected, was committed on another charge of stealing a
letter containing a money order for 1/. 19s. l 1 d., at the
former examination, and was then remanded, with his wife,
to answer this second charge.
The letter was sent from Miss Jane Archer, who resided
at Redbridge, near Southampton, having been written by
her sister, Mrs. Ursula Tristam Archer, and was addressed
to Mrs. Spence, Lower York-street, Rotherbithe. The male
prisoner was a letter carrier, and his district of delivery was
Bankside, and the box in which his letters would be depo-
sited was almost immediately above that in which the letters
for Rotherhithe would be deposited. The letter was never
delivered to Mrs. Spence, and evidence was now adduced
to show that on the 7th of March a woman, whose appear-
ance corresponded with that of the female prisoner, pur-
chaser! some stockings to the amount of 15s. at the shop
d Mr. Hancock, hosier, &c., in the Poultry, giving her
name, " Mrs. Moore, Greenwich," and gave in payment for
them the 51. note contained in the letter sent by Miss
Archer. Stockings, too, which exactly resembled those
which had been purchased by the person, were found in the
possession ni the prisoners at their lodgings at Camberwell
on being searched by Pearce, the inspector of pollee, by
whom they were apprehended, and it was also shown that
the female prisoner had an aunt living at Greenwich, whose
name was Moore.
The prisow_‘.rs were ordered by Sir F. ROE to be brought
up again o', Monday next.

QUEEN- SQUARE.
.7ohn Danis Jenkins, a labourer, employed by the Corn
mis3ioners of Woods and Forests, was yesterday charge(
with having stolen a quantity of tools and other articles.
A constable named Forster saw the prisoner going into
a /muse in Jews-row, Chelsea, with a sack. On his return
he saw that the sack had been disposed of, and suspecting.
the prisoner he stopped him. On examining the room oc-
cupied by the accused, he found the tools. and a dead goose
with a mark on the back, where it had evidently been
knocked down.
A person employed in the St. James's Park stated that
" a white-faced laughing goose," which had been presented
by the Ornithological Society, had been stolen from the or-
namental waters.
The MAGISTRATES remanded the prisoner until Wed-
ne.tNiay.

THAMES- UFFICE.
Yesterday Elizabeth Woodward, a respectable-looking
femile, was brought up in the custody of Gammegei a ser-
jcant of the metropolitan police, on a Chittg6 of stealing a
quantity of wearing apparel, the property of Mr. James
13ra,v,, a builder, residing at. 15:3 Wapping High-street.
The prosecutor was at present very unfortunately situa-
ted, having a wife in a state of insanity and a family of
eight children to provide for, and he had been lately a
bankrupt. The prisoner resided within two doors of his
house, and had always shown the most friendly feeling to-
wards him and his family. She was in the habit of visit-
ing him very often, and would then stop and direct his
faritily affairs. Matters went on in this way till last
Tuesday, when, in consequence of information he re-
ceived from a young girl who lived with him as servant,
be was induced to examine his drawers, when he missed
a quantity of his own and his wife's clothing. He
afterwards proceeded to a pawnbroker's in the neigh-
bourhood, where he found the articles he had missed
and other property belonging to him, which be had
no idea had left his house. The next day the prisoner
came again, and he then asked her what she had done with
his wife's crape shawl, when she said she supposed his wife
bad pawned it. On his doubting that to be the case, and
hinting that he had missed several other articles, she said
she was surprised at his audacity in daring to charge a
Woman of her respectability with such a crime as stealing.
On Thursday he gave her into custody, and she was taken
to the station-house, where she produced fourteen dupli-
cates, which she said referred to all the property of his that
'he had pawned, and begged of him to let the matter stand
over till Saturday, which he did, and she was set at liberty.
Finding, however, that the tickets produced only referred to

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Jeminta Rie.llAi'el was in the Serviceof the 13rosecutor;
and dellosed that the prisoner wa's cOtistani,ly r3:5 proc-
cut.crs in the daytime, and took i icn authority on herself'
iu the direction ofhi affairs. On sevcral occasions she
ordered PF'itn(ss to pledge things, and on her return from the
pftwnhroker's always received the money and the duplicates.
Witness at first supposed she was authorised to tiff but
at last thought she was going too rar, and informed her
master.—The prisonce was committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET
Yoster,by folin facubs, a retailer of hsh, John
his son, and Anne Jacobs, his wiFe, were placed At the bar,
Wore MeeFrs. BROUGHTON and Copp, charged on suspi-
cion of stealing 100 sovereigns.
The prisoners denied all knowledge of the robbery, and
were remanded.

Mr. Be.occuToN praised the conduct of the inspector for
his exertions, and directed him to use his best endeavours
to trace the property.

THE MURDER IN THE EDGEWARE

ROAD.

Yesterday morning was appointed for the prisoners to un-
dergo an examination at Marylebone-office, and in conse-
quence long before the hour of commencing business the
whole line of read from Paddington station-house (where
the prisoners were in custody) to High-street, and every
avenue leading thereto, were crowded to excess, by people
anxious to gain a glimpse of the persons charged. The
name of the murdered woman was Hannah Brown.
About one o'clock the sitting Magistrates, Mr. RAWLIN-
SON, Lord MoszTroaD, and Mr. SHUTT being on the
bench, the prisoners were brought to the front door in
High-street, and it required a vast number of constables
to keep back the mob to admit of their ingress to the office ;
the man wore a great coat, tightly buttoned up, and the
woman a green cloak, with white straw bonnet trimmed
with blue ; the former appeared to be about fifty years of
age, and the latter thirty ; she was accompanied by her
chill, a little boy about four years old.
The prisoners, on being placed at the bar, gave their
names James Greenacre and Sarah Gale, and neither of
them appeared to be in the least degree agitated. The
man was charged with the murder of Hannah Brown, and
the woman with being an accessory after the fact.
Samuel Pegler, police constable of the S division, No.
104, was on duty in the Edgeware-road on the 28th of
December, when a man of the name of Robert Bond came
to him and said he wanted him, for he had found a body.
Witness went with Lim to the spot, and on a pathway about
twenty yards this side the Pine Apple-Gate, behind a flag-
stone, he found the sack now produced corded round the
mouth very loosely, and in it, on opening it, he found a
human trunk, devoid of legs, thighs, and had ; by the side
of it were some rags, and a child's frock saturated with
blood. He conveyed all to the workhouse, and on carefully
examining the bag found that the selvidge of it contained
some kind of mahogany scrapings. The parish surgeon
was called in, and an inquest had been subsequently held,
when a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against
some person or persons unknown. About six o'clock that
morning he heard that a man and woman had been appre-
hended on suspicion of the murder. He then shortly af-
terwards, with Inspector Feltham of the T division, went
to No. 1, St. Alban's Place, Lambeth, where the prisoners
resided, occupying the parlours. In the bed in the back
room he found a child's frock exactly similar to the one he
picked up by the sack. Both frocks were patched with
nankeen, and he thotight they had both been mended by
the same person.
Elizabeth Corney, a married woman, living at 46, Union-
street, Middlesex Hospital, said the house next door, No.
45, belonged to her, and she let it out in tenements. About
a year and a half ago a woman, named Hannah Brown,
came to live at No. 45, in the kitchen ; she staid there
very comfortable, apparently, till the beginning of Decem-
ber last, when she said she was going to be married on
Christmas-day. On the 24th of the said month she said
that, at the will of her intended husband, she had disposed
of all her goods, and was, at his request, to have the pro-
duce for pocket money, as the things were not wanted, for
there were plenty where she was going. On the afternoon
of the same day a man, whom she believed to be the
prisoner, came in a hackney-coach, and, with the assistance
of the coachman, put Mrs. Brown's trunks in the coach ;
after which the latter told her she would not give her the
key of her apartment then, as there was something there
that did not belong to her ; but she would come and bring
it with her on the Monday following. She never mentioned
the name of the man she was going to be married to, and
witness never asked her, as she was such a bad temper,
perhaps, she Would not have given an answer. She never
came on the Monday according to promise, but on Tues-
day a boy brought the key, saying, he had been sent by
a man with it. On opening the kitchen door there was
only a bird-cage in the room. She paid the rent every
Tuesday, and paid her on the Tuesday before Christmas,
therefore, on the day the key was returned there was one
week due. Witness had heard it rumoured that she in-
tended going abroad about a fortnight after her marriage.
On Friday last witness saw the head of a murdered woman
at Paddington workhouse, and from the colour of the hair,
eyes, &c., believed it to be that of the woman Brown, but
it was in such a mangled state, that she could not posi-
tively swear to it. Witness had heard deceased, when she
lodged in her house, say, that she had been married before
to a shoemaker, who had died. She also slightly hinted
that she had another husband, who was at sea ; never
heard her say she had a child, and never asked her the
question. Witness's husband was a shoemaker.
Hannah Davis, of No. 46, Bartholomew-close, stated
that her husband was a cabinet-maker. They knew Han-
nah Brown. Witness knew she was going to be married,
and she said that the name of the person she was going, to
be married to was Greenacre. Witness first saw the pri-
soner about a fortnight before Christmas, when they came
together. The second time she saw him was on the day be-
fore-mentioned, when they again came together ; when
Mrs. Brown said, " this is Mr. Greenacre, the person I
am going to be married to ;" and added, " We are after-
wards going to America, where I shall be a lady." The
prisoner then addressed them, saying, " We are going to
Hudson's Bay, and if you like to come over, I will make
a home for you." They came about 5 o'clock, and went
away about ten o'clock very cordially together, it being first
arranged that witness's husband and daughter should meet
them about 10 o'clock on Christmas morning at Ramsay's
public-house, opposite St. Giles's church, in which the
marriage we.: to be solemnized. On Christmas eve,
about 10 o'clock, a knock came at the door, which,
On her opening, she saw the prisoner, who refused to walk
in, and asked her if she had seen Mrs. Brown ? She re-
plied " No ;" when he said the marriage was put off, as
he had made a close investigation with regard to property,
and found she had none, and that it would not do for both
to plunge themselves into poverty. He said he thought it
was his duty to let them know, as they were so kind as to
invite them to dinner. He seemed very much agitated
while speaking, and although she repeatedly asked him
would not walk in ; but immediately after uttering the
above words, wished her good night, and went away. Wit-
ness knew the woman Brown lived at No. 43, Union-
street. Witness had a dog which she was frightened of,
say ing she had once been hit by one in the leg.
(In one of the legs of the woman found murdered in
Paddington there is a mark, as though it was through the
bite of a clog.)
Evan Davis, husband of the last witness, knew Hannah
Brow n, and heard her say she was going to be married
about ten days before Christmas. He was called down
stairs to see Mrs. Brown's intended husband. On going
into the parlour he saw Mrs. Brown and the prisoner sit-
ting together on the sofa. After an uninteresting conver-
sation the prisoner proposed that they should go out and
leave the females together. Witness agreed, and they
went into the parlour of the Hand and Shears public-
house, where the prisoner told him he had come from
America about three months. He had a farm of 1,000
acres at Hudson's Bay ; that he bad come over to sell I
some property be had here, and meant to go back three
weeks after Christmas. Nothing passed about his mar-
riage, and they went home, when, after staying till half
past ten o'clock, the prisoner and Mrs. Brown left. On
the 22d of December they came again, when witness and
the prisoner again went out, but no conversation touching

the present matter occurred, and after the lapse of half
an hour they returned, when Mrs. Brown was sitting on
the sofa. The prisoner sat himself down by the side of
her, and after supper said " Mr. and Mrs. Davis, I sup-
' pose you understand what this is about. We are not like
young folks, and have no reason to fear speaking before
you both. Our intention is to be married at half-past ten
on Christmas morning, which is next Sunday, at St. Giles's-
church. Your eldest daughter is to be bride's-maid, and
you, Mr. Davis, are to give her away, and as you have
been so kind as to invite us to dinner, we shall accept the
invitation." He then put on his great coat, and having
wished us good night went away. That was the last time
witness saw the woman Brown or the prisoner till now.

Had heard his daughter say that Mrs. Brown's left ear
was slit, but did not know that of his own knowledge. He
had seen the head at Paddington, and found there was a
slit in the ear, as he bad been told Mrs. Brown had, and he
believed from the resemblance that it was that person's.
George Gay, shopman to a male carrying on the busi-
nessme-street, of a broker, at No. 16, Goch-,4
Tottenham-
court-road, was brother to Hannah Bro:vn, and last saw
his sister on the Thursday before Christmas b.:, when she
told him she was going to be married to a Man .2"ne-d
Greenacre. Witness did not know who she meant, but his
mistress did. On the Tuesday after Christmas the prisoner
entered the shop, and, addressing his mistress, said that
Mrs. Brown had run him very much in debt ; that they had

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but he had been and told them. Witness's mistress then
said, pointing to him, " That is iNlrs. Brown's brother I will
you walk into the parlotte IP" The prisonet• seemed very
agitated then, and; bhanaina eethateniintret said! '1 rio! I'm
in a )Marry;" and itentiediately afer tVent ettay. Her left
ear was split, Whin *as done by a felldw-:sereant pulling, out
ht.: ear-ring .; but she had bad another hole bored above the
Wound. He had seen the head at Paddington, and be-
lieVed frbit the .liFtilarity that it was his sister's.
Marian Gay, ;rife of the last witness, knew her husband's
sister, and never knew her to have had a child. Believes
it was impossible for her to have bad one, her reason for
which she explained by saying that " the trees which never
bud never bear fruit " She was not formed like other
women, and complained to witness about it. She had seen
the head at Paddington, and believed it to be that of her.
sister-in-law.
Inspector Feltham, from information received from the
man Gay on Thursday last, applied for a warrant to ap-
prebend the prisoner Greenacre, and on Sunday evening
went. to No. 1, St. Alban's-place, Lambeth, where he got
a person to knock at the door, and inquire for him. The
landlord answered it, and said he was at home, but gone to
bed, and that he slept in the front parlour.
Witness went in and knocked at the door, saying,
" Greenacre I" a voice answered " Yes:"
He said, " I want to speak to you," when the prisoner
said, " Wait a moment, I'll strike a light." Witness put'
his hand to the latch of the door, and, finding it not locked,
went in.
At that moment some person brought a light from up
stairs, when witness said to prisoner, who was only in his
shirt," I want to apprehend you, on suspicion of having
murdered one Hannah Brown."
He then read the warrant, and asked if he knew Hannah
Brown ? The prisoner said, " No, I know no Hannah
Brown."
Witness then said, " Were you never asked in church
to a person of that name ?"
At this question the prisoner, who was putting on his
stockings, looked up and said, " Yes, I have."
I then said, " Do you know where she is now ?"
He then said, " I don't know you have any right to ask
me those questions."
He said he did not intend ; and, turning his head, saw
the female prisoner in bed, in the act of concealing a watch
(produced). He took it from her, and told her she must
also go with him. He then searched the male prisoner's
wearing apparel, in which he found a small silver watch, a
purse containing a sovereign and 2s. 6d., a silver pencil
case, a pair of silver-spectacles, a „pocket-book containing
some memorandums, and some keys ; also a printed circu-
lar, setting forth that the writer, James Greenacre, bad
invented a patent washing-machine, which he should shortly
have a model of, to be inspected by the public. In the
female prisoner's pockets he found a ticket for two silk
gowns, pledged for 14s. by William Green, some keys, two
plated gold rings, a pair of red cornelian ear-drops, and
some money. They were about coming away, when the
female prisoner said she must take the child, and then went
into the back parlour and fetched the little boy now pre-
sent. Witness then asked the prisoner if he.oecupied two
rooms ? when he said, " No ;" the woman had the hack, but
came to sleep with him. He then conveyed them in a coach
to Paddington station-house.
On their way the male prisoner said, " It's lucky you
came as you did, for I was off to America to-morrow."
There were four boxes all tightly corded with new cord, in
the room, which witness had the key of.
There being no further evidence, Mr. RAWLINSONi ;Ad-
dressing the prisoners, said he was about to remand them ;
they might say what they pleased.
The male prisoner said he wished to address the 'Magis-
trates, and (the female being removed) he spoke as follows:
—There has been a falsehood stated. I never had any
words with Mrs. Brown, nor ever said I had. I under-
stood she was a woman of property, but found out that
she was a very loose character. There was duplicity on
both sides, for I represented myself as a man of property ;
and although there are many -coincident circumstances
which may cost me my life, I'll speak the truth. I had
this female (meaning his fellow-prisoner) lodging in a
room, and she used to wash and cook for me ; but on be-
earning acquainted with Mrs. Brown I told her to leave me,
which she did. Mrs. Brown came to my house on the
Christmas Eve about seven o'clock, rather fresh, for she had
been treating and drinking with some coachmen. She insisted
on having some rum for tea, and we had some. I then thought
it a good opportunity to press her for a statement of her
circumstances, as she had repeatedly said she could at any
time to get 300/. or 4001. She declined answering my
question, and I then told her that I had found out that she
had been trying to obtain silk gowns in my name, but had
been refused. She feigned a laugh,. and retaliated by say-
int= that I had misrepresented the state of my property.
During this conversation she was rocking herself back-
wards and forwards, when I put my foot against her chair,
and she fell backwards, her head coming with great violence
against a chump of wood ; that alarmed me, and I went
round the table, and took her by the hand, and kept.shak-
ing her, but she appeared to be dead. As regards my
own feelings, it is impossible for me to give a description,
from the agitation I was in. I thought if I called any one
in I shoul be put down as her murderer, so I unfortu-
nately came to the determination which I did in the man-
ner as is already known to the world.—(Here a thrill of
horror ran through the Court, which was literally crammed.)
I thought it might be the more sde way than if I gave an
alarm of what had occurred. No other person had the
least knowledge of what I have now stated. The female
here I exonerate, for she was away at her lodgings in Car-
penter's-buildings. Some days after I had put away the
body, I called on her (the prisoner), and asked her to return
to me, telling her that the woman I was to have been mar-
ried to had left her trunks and things, and we would pledge
them between us. The whole of them fetched 3/. ss. The
deceased had eleven sovereigns and three shillings, which I
took from her. After I had made up my mind to put
away the body, I called upon Mrs. Davis, who said I was
agitated, which no doubt I was ; and it was only to' stop
their going to church in the morning.
The prisoner appeared perfectly calm while relating the.
above.

The woman, on being called in, said she knew nothing
of the matter. The rings and coral beads were hers, and
she had had them eight years.
There being some material witnesses to come forward
and complete the evidence, both prisoners were remanded
till Saturday, the woman being allowed to take her child
with her.
Both prisoners were conveyed away by the prison van
amidst the execrations of the assembled multitude, some of
whom followed them to their destination.
Greenacre was well known at Union Hall, having made
charges against a man and his wife for accusing him of a
murder suspected to have been committed about the period
that the parties appeared before the Magistrates. On the
31st of May last Greenacre attended at Union Hall, and
procured warrants against a man named Gill and his wife,
who were living in Bowyer-lane, Camberwell, near his re-
sidence. On that occasion Greenacre charged the defendants
with having publicly called him a murderer, and caused a
number of persons to assemble in front of his house, threat-
ening that they would get him hanged. When the case
came before the Magistrates no credit was given to the
rumours propagated by Gill and his wife, who were ulti-
mately held to bail on the charge of using language of a
threatening and unfounded description towards Greenacre.
It appears, however, now, that a child, supposed to
have been the illegitimate offspring of Greenacre, and who
was living with him at the time, was suddenly missed from
his house, and although inquiries had been made, not, how-
ever, at his desire, but at that of some of the neighbours,
yet it has never been seen or heard of since by any of the
persons who knew it ; and this circumstance gave rise to
a report in the neighbourhood that it had been murdered,
and so strong was the unfavourable opinion formed of
Greenacre, that he was not only shunned by his former ac-
quaintances, but, as in the instance of Gill and his wife, he
was often taunted with being a murderer. On another oc-
casion, at the time Greenacre lived in the Kent-road, and
carried on the business of a grocer and tea-dealer, an exten-
sive seizure of sloe-leaves was made on his premises by the
excise, for which offence he was fined a heavy penalty, but
he contrived ever since to evade the vigilance of those who
'had the process out against him, and neither paid the fine
nor suffered the imprisonment for non payment. Subsequent-
ly to this period a charge of administering a drug to a female
with whom he was connected, for the purpose of procuring
abortion, was brought against Greenacre, but the evi-
dence not being considered sufficiently strong the case was
dismissed. At the period when he was in business as a
grocer, he took an apprentice, with whom a premium of
considerable amount was given. Soon after the boy was
bound Greenacre had him taken into custody on a charge
of robbing the till of a shilling, and he was brought up to
Union Hall. The testimony of Greenacre against the ac-
cused seemed to be so strong that there appeared to be no
other alternative than to commit the lad. Greenacre,
however, on finding that the case was made out against his
apprentice, had to communicate with the friends of the boy,
and the result was that he (Greenacre) declined going for-
ward to prosecute ; the lad was consequently discharged,
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