The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

MURDER.

Timothy Grundy was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of Emily Jones at Newtown, in the parish of St.
Martin, near Worcester, on the 29th of April last.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and appeared to
pay great attention to the evidence.

Mr. Powell conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Cooke defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was to have been tried on this charge
at the last summer assizes, but he was at that time
confined in a lunatic asylum, from which he has
E ince been discharged as cured. The circumstances
under which the alleged crime was committed left
little doubt that the prisoner was the murderer, the
only question being bs to his sanity at the time
when the deed was done. It appeared from the
evidence, which was very lengthy, that the prisoner
had for some time been keeping company witb
the deceased, who was the daughter of poor people
in Worcester, and that he had been in an asylum in
1861. He was ratheraddicted to drinking, and had
latterly been very unsteady and had threatened to
poison himself ; he had for several days carried a
bottle of laudanum in his pocket, and had on the
28th April been taken before the police magistrate
at Worcester (Mr. Sidebotham), who had ordered
the poison to be taken from him and the man to be
set at liberty. His friends then persuaded him to
go to Birmingham in search of work, and on the
evening of the 28th April he went up to the railway
station, and on his w, y met the deceased and her
sister, and walked about with them for some time.
The sister afterwards left them, and the deceased
and the prisoner walked into the country and sat at
a public-house until 10 o'clock, when they left. It
seems they then wandered about until after mid-
night, when they went to a hut where a railway
gauger was stationed, and remained with him until
daylight, when they left. Then were seen be-
tween six and eight o'clock in the morning walk-
ing about the fields, and the last that was s en of
the deceased was at about a quarter to nine, when
she was walking with the prisoner along a certain
field, in which was a7pool. They wire walking in
the direction of the pool, and the man lost sight of
them behind a hedge. Half-an-hour later the pri-
soner was seen burryiug across an adjoinirg field
(in which there was no footpath), and he arrived at
his mother's house in Worcester about ten o'clock
when he said to an acquaintance, "I've done it; I've
knocked her over." He was much excited, and his
friends got a policeman to take charge of him while
inquiries were made about the girl. At eleven
o'clock the dead body of the girl was found in the
pool near where she was last seen alive. There was
a hedge stake lying near her in the pool, and she
had received a heavy blow on her head.
The jury found a verdict of acquittal on the
ground of insanity.
The Prisoner—What are the grounds of insanity ?
lam an innocent man. Are you going to put me in
a lunatic asylum, where there is no prospect.
He was then removed.

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