The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-27 00:00:00

sung in immediate sequence by Madame F 3ainton-
Dolby and Madame Lemmens-Sherringtc in, "He
shall Feed His Flocks" and " Come ur tto Him,"
brought the First Part to a close with 1 he loving
choral chaunt, " His yoke is easy." A mere
momentary pause then preceded the eon unence-
ment of the Second Part, with the: noble
chorus " Behold the Lamb of God," ver y finely
given by the whole force of the Orchestra.. Madame
Sainton Dolby's subdued and pathetic rendering of
the mournful air, " He was despised,". 1- ras enforced
in meaning, as it was not unnaturally surpassed
in effect, by the three grand and 3 nest solemn
choruses [that folloWed thereupon, " Surely he
hath borne," " And with his 'S'zr:pes," and
more impressively yet, " All we like sh eep." Later
on, in the remainder of the Second Pal •t, and in the
whole of the Third, Mdlle. Adelina Patti, Mr. Sims
Reeves, Mr. Santley, and the rest of the eminent
artistes engaged in these colossal performances,
competed with the combined powers of the four
thousand—singers and instrumental—ranged in ser-
ried ranks behind them in the gigantic and symme-
trical concavity of the Great Handel Orchestra.

The Murder of a Child. and Alleged Poison-
ing of a Wife at Woolwich.

Last evening Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent,
resumed at the Royal Oak Tavern, Woolwich, the inquiry
respecting the death of Benjamin Jones, an infant, whose
body was found in the Thames under circumstances that
have given rise to a charge of wilful murder against his
father, Thomas Jones.

The court was densely crowded, and the proceedings
were regarded with great interest, as it was known that the
accused was also charged with the murder of the child's

mother.

The Coroner said that he had to request the jury to
attend carefully to the links of evidence in the case, and
not to suffer themselves to be led away by the excitement
which prevailed in the neighbourhood.
Louisa Beer, 32, Raglan-row, Plumstead, repeated the
evidence which she had already given before the magistrate,
and which was to the effect that the deceased was born on
Good Friday, and that its mother died on the 30th April,
leaving the child in her care. On the Bth June she took
the child to the father's by his orders, and she never saw it
alive after. She now added that the father had paid her
2s. 6d. a week for minding the child. When she objected
to the child being sent to London then, as its clothes were
dirty, he said, "Never mind the clothes; I will send it
where there is another baby," and he asked her for a pint
bottle of milk. Two days after she saw the milk, unused,
in the cupboard, and she asked him why he had not given
it to the child. He said, " Because the woman had the
breast." When she afterwards, on the 14th instant, told
him that she felt very uneasy, and if he did not tell her
where the child was she would go to the magistrate, he
said, " If you ask again, and don't mind your own business,
I will go to Mr. Hughes (the solicitor), and see what he
can do for you "

Mary Holman, 5, Raglan-row, Plumstead, said that the
deceased's father lodged with her. He was a labourer at
the dockyard. He had been in the workhouse previous to
the birth of the child. Shortly after the child had been
brought to the father, on the Bth of June, witness, at ten
in the evening, went into the room, and, not seeing it, said,
" Where is the baby gone ?" Jones said, "It is gone to
Camberwell. I have sent it to my sister's. Did you not see
the lady go out with it ?" Witness said that she had not.
She afterwards asked him to let his friends know where
his sister lived in Camberwell, so that they might write.
He merely replied, "I am the father of my own babe, and
shall do as I like by it."

A Juror asked whether there was a sister of the accused
residing at Camberwell.
The coroner said that the question was immaterial, for
the accused could produce the baby if his statement was
correct.

Henry Smith, a painter, said that on a Thursday night
a short time since, either the 15th or the Bth June, he was
larking with two girls in New-street, Woolwich. It was
about ten o'clock. A woman came and told him that
Jones wanted to see him outside the Ship and Half Moon
public-house. Witness continued, I went and saw Jones,
who said, "hallo, Harry, where can I get a boat?" I said.
"What do you want of a boat at this hour of the night ?"
He answered, " My landlady has given me half-a-crown to
go and drown some cats and dogs which I have now under
my arm." I said, "It is very strange for her to give you
half-a-crown to drown cats and dogs at this hour of the
night." Jones answered, " No, it is not. I may as well
do that as nothing," and " I have drowned them in the
water-butt." He said that he would not throw them into
the river from the bank asthere might be a bother ; and he
asked me for a piece of string to tie them up tight, and said
that they would sink because he had put a flat iron with
them. I asked him to give me the iron for my mother, but
he refused. We went down to the stairs and got a boat
from a man for a pot of half-and-half, and we gave two
boys a penny each to row it. We went towards the
arsenal. I again asked him for the iron, and tried to get at
the bundle, but he would not let me. We rowed out into
the river to the middle, and he threw the bundle in. We
rowed away. He turned round and looked, and suddenly
exclaimed, " Oh, good God! it has not sunk. Let us row
back." I could not see it in the darkness, and I said, "No,
no, lam not going back to your - cats and dogs. Row
ashore, boys." Nothing more was said.
The witness stated that he was not quite sober at the
time, and that he had no suspicion that anything was
wrong.
Two boys, Alfred Brewer and Thomas Nolan, proved
rowing a boat out in the river on the night of Thursday
three weeks, for two men, who said they were going to
drown puppies.
The Coroner said that he would not conclude the present
inquiry until he had taken the inquest upon the body of
the child's mother.
The court was then adjourned.

THE 'EXHUMATION OF THE BODY OF THE

CHILD'S MOTHER.

Mr. Carttar, the coroner, accompanied by Dr. Stuart,
Inspector Brown, and a body of police of the R divisioa
proceeded with a jury to the picturesque churchyard of
St. Nicholas, Plumstead, where the remains of Mrs. Mary
Ann Jones, the mother of the murdered child, had just
been exhumed. Large crowds were assembled, and looked
on at the proceedings with some degree of awe. The de-
ceased was much decomposed, and when Mrs. Holman, the
person in whose house she had lived, was asked if she
could recognise her late lodger, she burst into tears, and
said that she could not. She ultimately, however, stated
that she would be able to identify the shroud and the
stockings by certain marks and by the letters " M. A. C."
The coroner and jury then proceeded 'to the Plume of
Feathers Tavern, in the village of Plumstead, for the pur-
pose of hearing the evidence.
Louisa Beer, a married woman, said—l had a sister
named Mary Ann Savage, who married Thomas Jones.
She was twenty-one years of age, and had two children, a
little girl aged three years, and an infant born on Good
Friday. She died on the 30th April, and was buried ou
May 4.

Mrs. Mary Holman said—l made the deceased's shroud,
and put the flowers in her coffin. 1 can swear to the
shroud. Her husband cut her on the back with a razor
two years before her death.
The Coroner at this stage adjourned the inquiry for the
medical evidence, and to give time for a chemical analysis
to bo made of the stomach and viscera of the deceased.
During the afternoon the accused, Thomas Jones, aged
23, was brought up on remand, before the magistrate, at
Woolwich. lie is an intelligent-looking young man, and
made no statement whatever. The evidence taken was not
so full as that given before the coroner's court.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

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LONDON', June 27.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
QUEENSTOWN, June 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Celes-
tine, from Monte Video.
FALMOUTH, June 27.—Wind S.—Arrived—Alexander
11., from Cardenas.
OrF FALMOUTH, June 27.—Wind S.—Arrived—Cecile,
from Cuba.
PORTSMOUTH, June 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Roslin
Castle, from Calcutta; Lady Eglinton, steamer, from
Dublin.
CARDIFF, June 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Excelsior,
from Santander.
SWANSEA, June 26.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Twilight,
for Jamaica.
PLYMOUTH, Juno 26.—Wind Z.—Arrived—Yorkshire,
from London for Melbourne.
COWES, June 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Antoinette,
from Callao.
LIVERPOOL, June 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Governor-
General, from Bombay ; Zouvo, from Pernambuco ; Win-
consin, from New York.
BRISTOL, June 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrivad—America,
from Barbadoes.

EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH'.
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, June 26.—Cecilia, from Randers; Oak, from
Guernsey ; Nicolita, from Buenos Ayres; Prince Albert,
from Guernsey ; Thirtieth Septemeer, from Stockholm ;
Napoleon, from Gravelines ; Elizabeth Cecily, from Guern-
sey, Rock City, Ann Beer, and Aaron Heaton—all from
Cronstadt ; Nelly, from Colombo.
Arrived, June 27.—Lochnagar, from Macao ; Europa
from St. Lucia; Free Trade, from Kongelf ; Swift, from
Dantsic ; Belle of the Cliff, from Mutts, ; Ann, John Mow-
len, and Alberta—all from Guern
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y
.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Corcyra, screw steamer, from London, for Malta.