The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-25 00:00:00

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On Saturaav f•ta Incluest was 1)&14 at the
Oeorge .)pposi:-e St. GeOrge'sWork-
house, Switir.,..ark, betble Sa-tzuro.,r, Pisq. t!ie
Coroner Rio t:ip County Surrey; to inquire re-
speAtag tfie..dexh of Anne Wiater:\Vetibe, alias
Winteqlood,:Who was found dead, and s)pposed to
hue been tourdered, at three .o'cloek. on Friday
in,,rning, in ilislerf-lanc, near the King's Bench
, Prison. •
We stated in our last some particulars of this
.cruel and The fo'rlowing is the
substance el evidence-given betbre the Coroner and
Jut,y.
John Todman, awatchman, not belonging to the
-parish, but emple..-ed under a subscription of several
:persons in the neighbourhOod, stated, that going
his, round at three o'clock, on Friday :horning past
the.gate and premises of a Mr. Gibbs, • a charcoal-
merchant, he sow sorhething white lying at Mr.
Gibbs's gate. On examining farther, he found it
was a woman lying on the ground, with her head
against Mr. Gibbs's door, in such a manner ,as to
presS her chin against her bosom. He spoke' to her,
_and endeaVdured to raise her, upon which Mr.
Gibbs, from his bed:l:Mut wind(4,. which looked
into the lane, called to hint, said his d6gS bad -been
barking as if some. persons. had got into his pre=;
noises. Todmati told him there was .a 'woman ly-
ing at. his :door, he believed dead, and begged him
to come down with a candle, which lie did. They
found her person naked to her waist. Todinan
again endeavoured to raise. up .the deceased, but
on pulling her nip by, the arm, her head fell back-
ward, and they perceived no sign of life but, as
the body was still warm, Todman ran to 'Black-
friar's .Road for a Mr. Rees Price, a Surgeon, who
cane and found the body. lifeless, and almost cold.
;ler:face, about:the mouth and nose, appeared'
slightly smeared with blood,. but no other, marks
of violence immediately appeared which could be
the cause of her death. Todinan had gone the same'
round half an hour beforeiand saw_no.person there.
About the same time a.waggon had gonefromGibbs's
premises, drireti by two men; Wen with, iron and'
other artich!s for the country. At the:time Todmatt
Caine up,:3 o'clock, he perceived,: few-yards from
the,deceased, •two carts turned on their ends, shafts
upward, and he searched by.the:light of his candle
about theM to see. if any person might lurk there,,-or
if any. weapon could.
be found that Might have
one
the cause of the woman's. death. He-found in. of
the carts a tortoiseshell crooked combeauch as is USLI.•
ally worn in women's hair, and aniuslin handker-
chief, tied at the ends in a hard knot,. but..cut quite
across iwthe middle, and smeared with blood :. in the
other cart found a-straw bonnet, trimmed-with
pink ribbon ; on the ground between both carts, a
pair of:velvet shoes, which had been ,worn by the- •
deceased, and nor the tail-board of one of the carts,
a piece of human fie.sh, which be gave to Mr.,Price.
The body real:lined there until six in the: morning,
under the careot Todman. He felt her hands.through
her gloves, and perceived she had a ring on her finger,
but took nothing off. The body-was at six o'clock •
conveyed to tbeliunch of. Grapes public-house, where
the pockets were seerched, and about Ins. found in
one, of them, and from thence the body was moved
to St. Geore,-e'S workhouse.- . - •
John Gintss -corroborated that part of Todman's
testimony relating to him, and said;. the Waggon
which left his premises about two o'clock was driven
by: his brother,
.whwowned it, as a common-carrier, •
and his ser. ant-man,' who accompanied 'him. He
bad heard his dogs barking violently about ten mi-
nntes before Todman came his round, and, suspeCt-
iog somethieves had' *got into his yard, wanted to
c0m4,2, do wn,.but -his wife would not suffer him until
the watchman arrived.
Mr. 'Rees Price, -Surgeon, proved-also what Tod
man had said respeCting. him, and the other circum-
stances of the straw,bounet, the bomb, the piece of
flesh, which appeared to have been partly cut and
partly torn-from the body of the deceased, and the'
handkerchief, which last he said was tied ina very
hard knot, and on placing together the parts which'
had been cut asunder, it would scarcely reach round
his arm ; he saw no marks of violence upon•the body
at that time which could have occasioned 'death, but:
afterwards, in the workhouse, he observed some
livid spots' round, the neck. Upon the whole he
could form no,judgment . how the deceased actually:
came by her .death, but the _bias on his mind was
that SIR:a-night have died by strangulation. •
'Mr. Cha. Phillips, Surgeon, of Union-streets in
the Borough, proved that he -had opened the body;',
and examined .minutely the viscera, lungs, heart;!
traeltia, ,and great vessels, and found every thing
in a state perfectly healthy, and .withoutany signs of
violence or irregularity that could have caused death.
The. stomach was a good deal distended, and its
contents. appeared :to -he a quantity of. apples lately
eaten, and strongly saturated with spirituous liquor...
.I*.ekamiued the:brain, and found there no signs of
apoplexy ; but that might often.proceed from causes
so slight as not to be; very perceptible 'on dissec--
tion. saw , the. livid Spots on her near, which.
was short and fat, the- flesh thereon fell in folds,:
• which might have detained the blood so as- to cause:
the.livid appearances there widen dead. .He should
have thought, if she was-strangled, the marks would
have been much stronger ; but he admitted that re-
'spiration niight have be.enso long suspended by pres-
sure .on the windpipe. or chest as to cause death
without leaving any ivery strong marks of external
violence : the, cutting away the piece of flesh could
net cause her. death. -He could form no certain
judgment, from any thing -he saw, as:to what was
the a6Mal.cause.of .her death. Excessive.intoxicasit
tiou by. spirituous :liquor, and the body and head:
thrown into certain positions, might cause death. •,;
• ./Ehima Htintingdon, *of No. 2, Mansfield-stt'eet,
proved.. that she saw the deceased, on the evening
before her death, looking out of the window of her
lodgings next door, and afterwards treated- her with
a glass of rum. ...She also saw her at one in the
morning opposite to a public-house,. the Corner •of
the Londonand Borough ,roads,-leaning on a post,
with-her hand supporting her head, She spoke to
her,; the deceased complained of head-aehe. Wit-
ness asked what was in her band, and the deceased
answered, two half guineas and. some silver. She
panted from her then,and saw her no more.
Hannah Bryant said she lived .at No. 3,'in Marts-
field;-street, and that the deceased, who was about
nineteen years Of age, occupied a sin,* room in
her house since the -47th of last„Oelober,- for witicit

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h paid five was ufi7
fortunate girl Of the town ; received Inatill, differ-CIA
fit her lodgings ; but moi-eTarticnlaLly, since
;'.aster last, u Mail named-- -W.Thite, a journqm::a.
. carpenter', einpiovid at the Cirens, cohabited witti
her some time ; but the Witness understanding this
tnan had a wife,, and -that the deceased had sold
her clothes to support him, s;re thrbid him the..
house. The deceased told her, if-he was not allowed
to come, she would quit the lodgings, which the
Witness-desired she might de. Wit Staid that
night, but :le= morning leaped out at the %,:•indow,
and never car-nc there since. Tire Witness heard,
that; two, other girls had destroyed themselves on'
White's account, an(' that the decemied once
•threatened to do so.. He had brOught one 'of those
girls-from Whitefriars,_where s;ie lived, and Jotro-
.duced her to thc.l deceased. as bis : but the de-
ceased told him to be gone,- and that she desired
to hear no more of him or -his wife. The deCeased
, was much addicted to drinking spirituous liquors,
though she rarely appeared intoxicated : she had
told the Witness of her having drank nine glasses of
brandy in one. evening. The Witness-often advised
her to abandon those habits and her way of life,
offering to get her into service, but she refused.
She left the house of the Witness upon last Thursday
evening, at nine O'ciloCk„and the Witness never
heard -more' of her until next Morning at Peckham'
Fair, Where she and her husband kept a booth, and
where:she heard of the murder. The real name
of the deceased was Anne WTiuterflood ; she was
the daughter of a reputable family near 13,ary St.
Edmund's, Was brought9p by her grandmother, and,
Came to town two years since. She -had a brother
iti fown, a Quarter-minister of ; but she
would nevergo near him; alledging
.he would not
awn her. •
•

These; were' all the material points Of evidence,
which 114 r. SiIELTON sirmtited rn with great pr,!:-•
vision and perspicuity; dedncing • from the whole;
that the obvious probability- was, that. the unf)rttt-i
nate 'deceased- must..haVe been strangled y.-itit the
handkeracief; that .116 V :ever inclined' she tulght be
supposed for self-destruaion, it was utterly impossi-
Ile she could have 'strangled herself, and afterwards
have 'cut'the handkerchief in the manner described :
much. less was it within-any range of probability
that she7had: perpetrated on. her own 7 pers...,it the
other'aft of shocking barbarity, baying no knife, or
other- edged instrument fonnd -about or near hei-, and
it being also obvious, from the situation in which
she Was found, that this apt Of atrocity must have
been committed, after she was dead. She was not
robbed of anypart of her apparel ; her rings were
found upon her fingers, and - some money in her
pockets, and' therefore the deed 'conic] not be done
for the sake of robbery ; nor 'was it possible to ac-
Count for'it on any othergrmand than as the result
of frantic .and ferocious jealousy on the part of the
murderer; whether male or fenrale, to whOse iden-
tity-at, present :no clue could be traced. If ap-
peared to-lhe Jury that any other evidence was
likely to be discovered that could throw any farther
light dpcin this mysterious and dreadful. event, he
should -have no objection to adjourn the Inquest to
any.tbt are day.
'The Jury, however, after four hours invest?gat ion
were satisfied on the evidence they had heard to find
their verdi&—Deat,k by/ strangulation, and Wilful
Murder against some person or perscins anknown.
, Hannah, Bryant appeared much affetted in giving
her testimony, and offered to bury the deeeased at
her own expence. .
There Was another Itquest held on Saturday even-,
ing, at St. Saviour's Workhouse, in the Borough,
Upon
.the . body/of a young man, clerk to a pawn-
broker in the Strand, drowned while bathing in -the
Thames on Saturday morning. This was. the third
Coroner's Inquest held at the same place upon
of drowning within the last week.

SPORTING InT4LIGE..VCE.•

YORK AUGUST -RACES —Contiril:&l.

THURSDAY, Aucusr .21,;;
Fifty Pounds given by the City of York, to be ittdeirrO a -
Subscription
Purse; sii-yearulds, Bst. iolb. .and a*:4l;-9sr.
Po,ir miles. ,
. • .
Garforrh's gr. m. Mprcia,' aged • - - t
Lordr.tholington's b. b.• Ferguson,- yrs old
• • • Six to /•ou Alarcia. • ••
Produc Stakes-of toogs.-each, h.
_ft. colts 85t..21b. and
lies 88... Those, marked * alloried 314. Two miles.—
(Thirteen Subscribers.) .
*- Lord' Strathtnores`bay silty, by Sir'Peter, out of Heroiire
* Mr. Pcirse's bay colt, by lieningbroUgh,:out of Constan_
tia - - - Lord Pitzwilliam's bay filly, Minstrel, by Sir Peter, out 2of -•- , _• _ Sir Vanc's hr. colt, by Hambletordan, out of Lady 3
Sarah - - ---- • - • 4 Lord Strathmore's bay colt, by Sir Peter, out of Queen
-MTh - - -•— - - , 5
* Mr. W. N. W. llawett's Miss-Teazle Hornpipe, by
Sir Peter - - -
Two tot on the field ; 4 tot apt either or • Lord Strath_
more's-; aricrs to I agst Mr. Peirse's'cult., • •

SNTITHFI ELL) MARKET, A.t/C. 25. •
This day's Market was amply supplied with prime
Feasts, and the show ;of; cattle in ;other .I,vsppns
was very good, particularly Sheep and I.ambs,
were very pientiful ; Beef and' Mutton supplvt' Last.
prices ; Veal, Lamb, and Pork are cheaperhan Fri-
day's market ; and thejradein general was-.tole7ably
brisk. The sales in the Hay Market were somewhat
considerable ; Hay has got up in price since oar last
report ;,; Straw has fallen in price ; Clover übtained
last pticv.—We subjoin an accurate statement of the
prices' and numbers :
To sink the OfFal per stone of Sib.
Beef .4s. od. to 55. 6 1 Mutton 4s. od.. to 59. od.—Neat
6s. od. to 7s. 6d.—1..,an0 ss. 6J. to 6s. od.—Pork is. 6d. to
s§. 6d: ,
Beasts, 217o.—§heep and Lambs, 22760-.--Calves, go.—
Pigs'3lo.

CORN-EXCHANGE, AUG. -25. —The arrivals 'of
Wheat tbr to-day's Market rniake.but short supplies,
and sales are readily made:at:the ad% an6e 3s.
per quarter from the' currency of Friday ; of Barley
very short supplios ; iikewise Malt is rather higher ;
Grey, Pease, with Beaus of each description, are
dearer; but few fresh Oats are come in to-day, but
many of the late arrivals on hand, and this trade is
dearer for samples of best quality; Flour readily
supports its price.
w ',eat 6os a 72s 3 84S od
Fine crab -- Ms a 88, o.:
Rye - cs E,,
Barley - 30, 2 395 oct
Malt ohs a 74, ed
White Pease t 6 a 72 0:11
Grey ditto 37$ a 41s Csti

Penis - 425! a 4Ss 0 I
Tick Ifeanc 35, d 4i
74• a 27s R
Poland (any 3.34- a 34r 6:1
Itsitv Feed - 3z- cd
Fine linkir fics
Secontis - 6o a 6ji