The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-08 00:00:00

ALLEGED MURDER IN LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, opened
an inquest in the large club-room of the Henry the Eighth's
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nki the death of Anne Griffin,
Head, High-street, Lambeth, for the purpose of inquiring
attendinglled by a dredgerman named
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George Bagnet, at their lodgings, 6 No. 2, Windmill-court,
Black Boy-alley, Lambeth. Bagnet was taken before the
magistrate, but owing to the lateness of the hour the exa-
mination was only formally opened.

At the commencement of the inquest,
Mr. Rawley, surgeon, of Church-street, Lambeth, said,
in answer to questions put by the coroner, that he had been
and on arriving at her lodging
hseenftofuonrdtotesree dead.th e deceased,

The Coroner—Did you examine her body?
Witness•—I did.

mortal nature.
her death ?-1 did not. She had a black eye, but nothing
injury on her person likely to cause
'1 hen you cannot satisfy the court, from what you have
seen, as to the precise nature of death P —Not without a post
tyoopuro detect any
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likely to
Mrs. H. Carter, of 13, William-street, High-street, Lam •
beth, deposed that the deceased was her cousin. She lived
with one George Bagnet, who was sometimes called Ed-
ward.

George Thomas Harris, also a dredgerman, residing at
3, Lower Fore. street, Lambeth, said that he knew the de-
ceased, and went up stairs to her room with a loaf of bread.
That was about half-past nine in the morning. He saw the
woman lying on the floor, and he pulled her clothes down.
Bagnet at that time was not at home, and no one else was
in the room. Bagnet and witness had been together from
half-past eight in the morning, and he did not see deceased
that morning until he went up with the loaf.
By the Coroner—When I saw her extremities exposed
I attempted to set. her up, and cried out "Anne" three
times, but she never answered, but kept groaning.
Whilst she was doing so Bagent came up with some but-
ter, when he (witness) said to him, " Jem, something is the
matter with your missus.' He then said, " Let us put
her on a chair." He called her by name, but she made no
answer. She was removed to the chair, when he saw mat-
ter tinged with blood coming out of her mouth. She had
also a black eye. He saw no blood coming from her body.
The witness further added that he saw a little cup at her
left hand side, which he put upon the table. It had re-
cently been used, but (after stating that it contained a white
sediment) was quite clean, He saw that before Bagent
came up, and when ho did he placed his arms round her
neck, and said that she had had a fit. He then told him
to go and fetch a doctor and Mrs. Allbridge, which he did.
When he called Mrs. Allbridge the woman was alive.
Elizabeth Dunn, after stating that she knew the deceased
and the man in custody, who passed as her husband, said—
On Wednesday last she was at home in the front room up
stairs, adjoining that occupied by the deceased. On the
Monday, after she had been out, he called her vile names,
and, although not in the room, she heard loud blows in-
flicted, which were repeated several times, and on each oc-
casion she screamed violently. She then came down
stairs to the street door, find called him names. She
then ran upstairs, and he followed her, when she again
heard blows inflicted, and she also heard the female fall on