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holster had been taken away, and my aunt's head
was lying very low. I could not, hear to see my aunt
lying in such a position, and complained of it, when
the prisoner said it would oLly prolong her suffer-
ings, and that I should let her be as she was. I,
however, sat beside my aunt and held her in my
arms until she was quite dead. Mr. Atkinson was
in the room up to within half an hour of my aunt's
death. He was either carried out of the room or
walked out, I do not know which.
Mr. Norton—Were there any remarks made by
the prisoner about Rugby that you can remember P
Witness—The only remarks I remember was that
" My aunt had been taken ill and robbed at Rugby ;"
but these remarks were made on the Saturday, the
day following her death.
Mr. Norton—State, as nearly as you can remem-
ber, what was said.

Witness—The prisoner mentioned about Mrs.
Atkinson having been robbed at Rugby, and that
she was taken ill there ; that she was going to
the water closet, and that some female followed
her, and that on coming out, a gentleman, who
was standing by asked Mrs. Atkinson if she had
lost anything; that Mrs. Atkinson felt, and found
that she had lost her pocket. The gentleman
pointed out the person who followed her, and said
that she had it. That Mrs. Atkinson spoke to the
female, who gave her the pocket, and said she was
keeping or saving it for her. Ido not remember
that the prisoner said anything more.
Mr. Norton here remarked that this went on to
show that the deceased had not been robbed at
Rugby.

The witness further stated that the prisoner, and
the man Taylor, who was living with her at the
time, accompanied the remains of his aunt and Mr.
Atkinson from her house to the railway station,
where he (witness) met them, and accompanied the
corpse to the cemetery.
In cross-examination by Mr. Neale, the witness
stated that he saw Dr. Nairne in attendance on the
deceased on the Friday, the day of her death. He
did not see the doctor on the Thursday.
Mr. Chipperfield said that this was all the evi-
dence he proposed to adduce to-day, and should re-
quest a remand. He wished at the same time to
state, that there were two other cases in which the
prisoner was implicated at present undergoing in-
vestigation. The one was that of a Mr. Peter
Peter Mewer, a master mariner, who died in Oct.,
1854, and with whom the prisoner had lived as
housekeeper at Boston, in Lincolnshire. In his
case an inquest had already been opened, and the
Superintendent of the Boston Police, Mr. Waghorn,
was now in court, having been despatched to Lon-
don with portions of the body of the deceased, for
the purpose of being subjected by Professor Taylor
to'chemical tests.
Mr. Waghorn here handed up to his worship a
local journal, containing a report of the proceed •
ings at the inquest as far as they had proceeded,
and especially pointed out the evidence of Mrs.
Attershale, who had attended the late Mr. Mewer
as nurse for ten days before his death. That
witness, in her evidence, said the deceased was
always worse at night after ten. He was always
sick and purged at night, and complained of pains
in his stomach and head. The last night he lived
he was decidedly worse, and he was almost inces-
santly sick and purged. The witness proved that
she never gave the deceased food or medicine her-
self, but that Mrs. Wilson herself always admini-
stered them. No one was allowed to come to see
him. He always said he was worse after taking
tea, and that he should never like tea any more if
he got well. There was no one in the house to give
him tea but Mrs. Wilson.

The other case was that of Mrs. Soames, with
whom the prisoner had lived, and who died in
1856, under very similar circumstances to the case
under investigation before his worship.
The prisoner was then remanded to a future day,
and was removed from the bar.

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT SHAD WELL.

Yesterday evening an inquisition was taken be-
fore Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, in the large
dining-room of the Albion Tavern, High-street,
Shadwell, on the bodies of Ramon Capele Vila Roca,
a Spaniard, aged 30, and Leonora or Honora Scan-
nell, aged 24 years, a woman of the town.
The tragedy which led to the investigation
occurred in a brothel, kept by a woman named Ker-
sig, at No. 12, Albert-square, Albert-street, High-
street, Shadwell, on Saturday afternoon last. The
Spaniard, a bricklayer, who came to this country
from the Havana six weeks ago, murdered the
woman Scannell, a native of Ireland, and directly
afterwards shot himself.
Mr. George Allison. inspector of the K division,
and a large body of police were in attendance to
preserve order.
Margaret Kersig, a native of Germany, said that
she kept the lodging-house, No. 12, Albert-square,
Shadwell. The deceased, Leonora or Honora
Scannell, had been lodging with her for seven
weeks. The Spaniard Roca had been staying with
the deceased Scannell for four weeks. On Saturday
afternoon last Scannell called to her and said, "Do
come upstairs and turn him out of the house, for I
cannot clear up nay room."
The Coroner—Did you talk to him about leaving
before Friday or Saturday ?
Witness—The deceased woman told me on Satur-
day she thought he had no more money, for she had
not received any of him for a week. When I was
called upstairs on Saturday afternoon I said to the
Spaniard, " Why don't you leave the place ?" He
said " All right ; wait 10 minutes, and I'll find her
plenty of money." The witness, after detailines
some irrelevant matters, said, "I told the Spaniard
not to bring any pistols to me, and left the room.
I had got half way downstairs when the girl called
out lam stabbed ! I am stabbed !' I made an
alarm, called for the police, and left the house. I
ran into the street. The girl fell down the stairs
before I left the house. The Spaniard heard
Leonora say she was stabbed before I left
the house. He had a pistol and a dagger in
his hand when I was called upstairs. He
presented a pistol at me. I believe the deceased
Spaniard had been drinking on Saturday; he was
not quite drunk, nor quite sober,
In answer to further questions by the Coroner,
the witness said the Spaniard kicked the girl down
the stairs. She believed that kick caused the girl
to fall on her head at the bottom of the stairs. She
returned in half an hour, and found Roca and Scan-
nell both dead. The Spaniard was very fond of
the girl. They often quarrelled about other men.
The Spaniard was very jealous of the girl. The
deceased woman was a prostitute.
In answer to questions by the jurors, the witness
said the Spaniard brought home about £24, of
which the deceased might have had about £5.
Mary Lacey, an old Irish woman, who lived as
servant at the house No. 12, Albert-square, gave
evidence in confirmation of the last witness, and of
jealousies, suspicions, and quarrels between the de-
ceased persons. The girl was anxious the Spaniard
should leave her several days before the murder
and suicide, but he would not do so, and said she
should not form an intimacy with any other man,
and that he had plenty of money to give her.
About three o'clock on Saturday the deceased
woman tell at the bottom of the stairs into wit-
The Coroner—Did you ness's arms, and said "I am a dead woman !"
see the Spaniard stab her?
Witness—He was behind the girl with a dagger
in one hand and a chair in the other, While the girl
was in my arms he struck her with the dagger seve-
ral times—two or three times at least. They were
all in front of her person. The Spaniard said he
would not kill me, but he would kill her and kill
himself afterwards.
In answer to a juror the witness said the deceased
man did not spend more than £6 upon the woman
Scannell during the four weeks he was with her.
The Spaniard was jealous of a Portuguese seaman
who used to visit Honors.
Robert Smith, a police-constable, No. 253 K, said
--I went to the house, No. 12, Albert-square, on
Saturday afternoon. The deceased Spaniard was
standing at the street door with a pistol in one hand
and a dagger in the other, and I told him to lay
them down. He would not, and said,
," I will shoot
you. I blow my head off—l shoot one." I asked
him again to lay them down. He refused to do so. I
struck at him with my staff; which hit the doorframe.
He shut the door, bolted it, and fastened himself in.
He ran upstairs and opened the window. He looked
out, and the mob threw oyster shells and stones at
him, He then drew back, and in a moment after-
wards I heard the report of a pistol. I forced a way
into the house, and entered it with other constables.
The deceased woman was lying at the foot of the
stairs quite dead. On entering the room upstails..il
discovered the body of the deceased Spaniard. His
feet were towards the door, and his head was in a
was a
pool of blood near the fire-grate. There
single ,barrelled pistol, which I now produce
dagger stained with blood by his side. The
wen© bespat-
tered picatnudr eas
in the room, the wiling, and the walls
tered with blood, the teeth, and portions of the jaw
of the deceased Spaniard
Mr. John Ross, physician and surgeon, High-
street, Shadwell,—l was called to the house
No. 12, Albert-square,Shatlsevyeel. rr
l, onhSeatlouwrdearyjaawfteorf-
noon, I saw two bodies h
was blown off, and a portion of the
the Spaniard
upper jaw was c. The woman was lying on
the floor i 4
the back room below. She was dead.
torn, as if in a scuffle. There was
were
the back which punctured the left
lung.
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There
was a large gash on the upper
shoulder, which also punctured the lung, and there
wero three other stabs ; one had penetrated the
chest, and another the heart. There was also a
wound on the hand. Death was instantaneous.
Wm. Hunt; the beadle of Shadwell, produced a