The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—
Old meadow hay. £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; new
do , £1 16s to £4 Os; old clover, £3 10s to £6 Os Od ; new
d 0.., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
A slow trade.
Old meadow hay, 12 Os now
CUMBERLAND.--
do , £1 16s to £1 and old clover, £3 10s to £6 Os ; tow
do:, £3 lOs to £5; straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
Trade dull.
Wl{ ITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; neap
do., £1 16s to £4 Os; old ctovel, £3 lOs to £62 02sa per load.
; new do ~
£3 I.os to £5 Os; and straw. il 16s to
C NIAL.
Both straw and hay sold heavily at our quotations.
LO
been very limited, and prices
TEL—The dealings haveO
have remained without change of importance.
SUGAR.—OnIy a moderate business
and prices have shown a
slight has been recorded,
Refined descriptions have also been a shade cheaper.
downward movement.
COFFEE —The operations have
and prices have generally t been to a fair extent,
ended upwards.
RICE.—For the better
rate demand, and late r qualities there has been a mode
_Bus. rates are generally well maintained.
and the few ba.r mess has been exceedingly inactive,
rates. gans entered into were at about previous

TALLOW.—The
market has been moderately active, and
prices have slightly
improved. P.Y.C. on the spot is
quotes 48s 6d to 48s 9d, and last three months 50s to 50a
3d per cwt

" An important modification," says the Constitu-
tionne/, " will be made on the 15th, in the illumination of
the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elyeeee. In
stead of the coloured oil-lamps hitherto used, the munici-
pal administration has determined to make trial of a new
mode of gas illumination. In the Place de la Concorde the
usual gas lamps will be replaced by bouquets formed of un-
polished glass globes. The vases of the fountains will also
be surrounded with gas lights. The number of these
globes of fire on the Place will be about 2,000. Rows of
similar globes will run from one lamp-post lo the other, all
up the Champs Elysees. At short intervals there will be
trophies decked with flags and lighted with gas,
represent-
jug the Emperor's monogram and the Imperial Eagle. The
fountain at the Itond Point will be splendidly Plummeted
with gas, and the circuit round it will present eight arcades
tastefully ornamented and brilliantly lighted. The total
number of lights will not be lees than 122,000."
ENGLISH OFFICERS IN THE CRINEBE SERVICE.—
The official correspondence has been published concerning
permission to officers and men in her Majesty's service to
take employment under the Chinese Government, for the
upon the
purpose of re-establishing Imperial authority
Yang-tae and commercial security upon the inner waters,
and for the suppression of piracy. The organisation tit suck
a force having been intrusted to Mr. Lay, the Inspector-
General of Chinese Customs, he applied for the sanction of
her Majesty's Government. It appeared that there is no
longer any ordinance m operation enjoining neutrality upon
the Queen's subjects, and the Admiralty consented to grant,
leave of absence to any officers whose services may not be
required. Permisai •n was accordingly given to Captain
Sherard Osborn and Mr. Lay to accept service under the
Chinese Government ; and the
Queen's licence was obtained
and is to be granted to such other officers as Captain Osborn
emnaliysteßeldecttis.h Mr.jeLcatsy'tso
ti.ons, hut this would require an Order in
ser-
vice not be considered as semi:
aspervpleiciantinonavwalasaned Lonfiotarr
yleoapveerato.
council. The
in the Royal Navy at
regards pay,
time, promotion, or pension for wounds,

The Duke of Somerset and the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, accompanied by Lord Clarence Paget, are
expected to arrive at Plymouth this evening from
the Channel Islands.
The Psyche, paddle despatch gunvessel, fitted
with engines of 250-horse power by Messrs. John
Penn and Son, the first of her class afloat, made her
official trial of speed yesterday at the measured mile
in Stokes Bay, under the superintendence of Capt.
H. Broadhead, commanding her Majesty's ship
Asia and the steam reserve at Portsmouth, Messrs.
Murdoch and Lynn superintending the working of
the machinery on the part of the Admiralty, and
Mr. Holliday being in charge for Penn and Son.
The cylinders have a diameter of 62in., with 4ft.
Gin. length of piston stroke, the area of the cylinders
being 3,019 square inches. The diameter of the
wheels is 18ft. ; the quantity of coals on board, 230
tons; draught of water, 10ft. 7in. aft, and 9ft. 7in.
forward. The engines are fitted with disengaging
apparatus, and the boilers with superheaters. The
ship is of 835 tons, built from Admiralty drawings.
Portsmouth harbour was left at 11 30 a.m., and on
clearing its entrance the revolutions of the engines
were increased to 29 and the vessel's course was
laid out to the southward. The weather was as
favourable as could possibly be for the trial, the
water being perfectly smooth, with a light westerly
breeze. On nearing the Warner lightvessel the
Psyche's head was brought round and laid for the
trial ground in Stokes Bay, where eight runs were
made at " the mile," as follows :—ln the first run
the time was 3 min. 46 sec. ; the speed in knots
15.929; the pressure of steam, 271 b.; and the num-
ber of revolutions of engines, 321. In the second
run the time was 4 min. 47 sec.; the speed in knots,
12.543 ; the pressure, 271 b. ; and the number of
revolutions, 321. In the third run the time was
3 min. 39 sec. ; the speed in knots, 16.438;
the pressure, 291 b. ; and the number of revo-
lutions, 33. In the fourth run the time was 4 min.
40 sec. ; the speed in knots, 12.857 ; the pressure,
281 b. ; and the number of revolutions, 34. In the
fifth run the time was 3 min. 44 sec.; the speed
in knots, 16.071 ; the pressure, 271 b. ; and the
number of revolutions, 331. In the sixth run
the time was 4 min, 29 sec. ; the speed in knots,
13.383 ; the pressure, 211 b. ; and the number of re-
volutions, 332. The mean speed of the whole was
14,521 knots. The vacuum of the engines ranged
from 24 to 25 inches. At the conclusion of the
full-speed trials the ship was steamed out to the
southward to case the steam down and cut off the
two after-boilers to test the ship's speed at half
power, which was carried out in two runs with the
following results :—First run—time, 4 min. 18
sec. ; speed in knots, 13,953; revolutions of engins,
281. Second run—time 4 min. 44 sec.; speed in
knots, 12.676 ; revolutions of engines, 30. The
mean speed of the two runs was 13.314 knots. In
making the circle complete, with the helm to star-
board, the ship came round to port in 5 min. 24
sec., the rudder being over at an angle of 151 degs.
Round in port the circle was made in 5 min. 28
sec., the rudder being over to 29 degreas ; the re-
volutions of the engines being, in the first instance,
2927 and, in the second, 28. From the time of
living the word the engines were stopped dead
from full speed in 30 seconds, started ahead in 16
seconds, and started astern in 35 seconds. The
diagrams of the indicator and expansion cards *ere
unusually favourable character. At full speed the
ship carried a tremendous wave under her bows,
while at half speed she carried one of not a quarter
the size. From these circumstances it was evident
that as the driving power of the engines was in-
creased from half to full speed so the volume of
the water to be driven before her bows was also in-

If this fact be then taken as the cause of the slight

difference in the ships speed between half and full
boiler-power, then the only conclusion which can
be arrived at is,—that, had the hull of the Psyche
been so perfect in form and capable of doing its
work as is her machinery, the ship's speed at
sea would equal the speed attained at the
measured mile yesterday. As it is the Psyche
may be looked upon as a 131 to 12 knot vessel at
sea, taking the average of weather. The engsnes
and boilers gave the greatest possible satis-
faction by their working. The Psyche is a
sister vessel to the Enchantress, launched at Milford;
the Helicon, building at Portsmouth, and the Sala-
mis at Chatham. It had been arranged that the
Psyche was to become the yacht for the use of the
Lords of the Admiralty, but on their lordships visit-
ing the vessel at Portsmouth last week a doubt was
expressed whether she would afford the necessary
accommodation, and it is not improbable now that
her future services may be changed to the Mediter-
ranean, on the line between Malta and Marseilles.
His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert embarked
Southsea on board the screw corvette Gazelle on
Sunday evening, at 7 o'clock, accompanied by Capt.
Von Bothwell and Lieut. Baron St. Paul, his aides-
de-camp, and the Gazelle got under way and left
Spithead under steam, at 10 o'clock, for Cherbourg
Brest, and Marseilles, thence returning to Devon-
port.

The gunboat Hind, which has been undergoing
thorough repair in Plymouth, was taken yesterday
outside the breakwater to test her engines and ma-
chinery. She will resume her duty at Falmouth as
tender to the coastguard ship Russell, 60, Capt. G.
Wodehouse.
The war department steamer Lord Panmure,
Com. Moore, sailed from Woolwich yesterday morn-
ing for Devonport, laden with Armstrong 18-poun-
der batteries, shot, shell, &c. ; and the Eagle, be-
longing to Mr. Carr, contractor to the department,
sailed for Leith, laden with a similar cargo.
Her Majesty's steamerMegmra, Corn. Henderson,
on particular service, arrived at Deptford on Satur-
day from Devonport.
Notwithstanding the very successful trial of the
machinery erected by Messrs. Maudeley, Son, and
Field, in her Majesty's ship Rattler, 17, 200 -horse
power, Commander E. H. Howard (as reported in
The 'Sun of the 30th ult.), it was considered by the
contractors that the results would be still more satis-
factory if the funnels were lengthened and the cor-
ners of the screw cut off. Accordingly, the altera-
tions have been
'lade, and the vessel again taken to
the measured mile off Maplin sands, in charge of Capt
Thompson, of the steam reserve, to test theresults on
Friday last, the Bth fast. The ship had a draught of
water of 14ft. 4in. forward, and
14ft. 10in. aft, and
the force of wind (W.S.W.) was 6 and upwards
during the trial. The average 'Peed of 10 knots per
hour was attained, the wind and tide being against
trial.
the vessel throughout the The /or_
erage revo-
lutions were 89 ; pressure of steam 201 b.. and va-
cuum 23. The alterations to the funnels and
screw
have fully answered the end contemplated.
The
and the working of the
machinery kept steam well,
machinery was most satisfactory. Mr. Warrener
represented the contractors, and had charge of the
engine, and Messrs, Blaxland and Urquhart attended
to watch the results for the Admiralty.
The works which have been for some time in pro-
gress at Chatham dockyard for enlarging the en-
trance to No. 3 dock by the removal of the granite
sill and other projections, so as to allow of the
armour-plated frigate Royal Oak, 51, being placed in
that dock as soon as launched, were completed on
Saturday. The sides of the dock at the entrance
have been cut away to the extent of several feet,
which will enable the armour-plated vessel to be
floated in to her place on the blocks with 17 inches
to spare on each side. Every exertion is now being
used to have the Royal Oak ready for launching
early in the month of September, to accomplish
which there are as many as 600 mechanics—ship-
wrights and other hands—employed on her. As far
as the shipwright department is concerned the
frigate was ready for launching some time since,
but it was decided that she should not be sent afloat
until a portion of her armour plates had been
affixed to her sides, to accomplish which the efforts
ye ,
of the hands emplo d•a b out her have been directed.
Two tiers of plates on her port and starboard sides
have already been fixed, but the operation of plat-
ing her has, of necessity, Proceeded but slowly,
owing to the want of the requisite machinery for
preparing the plates. Nearly the whole of this has,
however, been now erected in the factory adjoining
building slip, and increased exertions will be used
to complete,"so far as can possibly be done, the fix
ing the broadside plates before the frigate is

An order has been received at the headquarters of
the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham, inti-
mating that the Lords of the Admiralty have de-
cided on making an alteration in the uniform of the
non-commissioned officers and men of the Marine
Artillery, which will in future be similar to that
of the Royal Artillery.
On Friday the commission appointed by the War
Department to inquire into the merits of Captain
Grant's cooking apparatus visited Aldershott and
commenced their investigations. Lieut.-Gen. Sir
J. Mitchell, K.C.8., is president of the commission,
and in the course of the day Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L.
Pennefather, Major-Gen. Lord G. Paget, Major.
Gen. Brook Taylor, and numerous other officers
joined the inspecting party, and assisted at the ex-
periments, which were carried on at Eeelmore.
There dinner was provided, under the management
of Mr. Warrener, for the 61st Regiment, under the
command of Lieut.-Col. Redmond.

MURDER OF AN OLD WOMAN IN

DURHAM.

(From the Leeds mercury,)
A muder of a moft atrocious and horrible cha-
racter was perpetrated at Nettleworth, about
four miles from the city of Durham, on Sunday
morning. About two hundred yards from Net-
tleworth colliery are two detached cottages, called
Nettleworth New Houses, in one of which lived
a woman of the name of Halliday, about
sixty years of age, and in the other an Irish
pitman, named Coxon, and his wife. The cot-
tages belonged to Mrs. Halliday's husband, from
whom she had been separated 22 years, and who
keeps a public-house in the adjoining village. Mrs.
Halliday was allowed to live in the cottage rent
free, and her husband besides allowed her 3s. per
week. Between three and four o'clock on Sunday
morning Mrs. Coxon went to Halliday's public-
house, and said she had heard Mr. Halliday crying
out during the night, and she was afraid she must
be very ill. Mr. Halliday's housekeeper and some
other persons then proceeded to the house, when
they found Mrs. Halliday lying on the floor, co-
vered with blood and bruises, and Coxon in the act
of raising her up in his arms. She was at that
time apparently dead, but on being lifted on to the
bed she afterwards recovered her consciousness,
and. in answer to questions which were asked of
her, she said she had been shamefully used by the
Irish. She made a number of gesticulations, but
her articulation failed her, and those who were at-
tending upon her were unable to obtain anything
more specific as to her knowledge of the persons
who had committed the terrible outrage upon her.
Between five and six o'clock the poor woman
breathed her last. A coal-rake and a pair of tongs
were found covered ;with blood, and the deceased
was cut in a most dreadful manner in the right
temple. Other wounds were found upon her head,
and her arms were fractured and covered with a
mass of bruises, as if she had done all she could to
ward off the murderous attack. Strong circum-
stances of suspicion rest upon Coxon aad his wife,
who have both been apprehended, and are now in
the county lock-ap at Durham.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CHESTER-LE-STREET, AUG. 10.
A most horrible murder has taken place in the
little village of Hobbletrot, about three miles from
this town during the night, the victim being an old
woman 83 years of age.

The murdered woman is named Ann Halliday.
She occupied a small cottage on the Witton Gilbert-
road, the cottage in which she resided possessed only
one room, with a loft above, the latter being very
little used for any purpose ; the room beneath being
used by the murdered woman both as a day room
and as her sleeping apartment. Next door there
was a similar cottage, occupied by an Irishman
named Cox, his wife, and their young child. The
nearest house to them is called Broadmires, which
is about 100 yards from them, and to that extent
nearer Chester .1e-street.

It now becomes necessary to state the circum-
stances under which the poor old woman came to
be living by herself in the cottage at Hobbletrot.
She was a married woman, but had for a number
of years been living apart from her husband. Her
husband, Mr. William Halliday, now living at
Broadmires, near the scene of the crime, formerly
carried on business as a publican and butcher, at
the sign of the Shoulder of Mutton, Chester-le-
Street. His wife was most respectably connected,
and is still remembered in that locality as having
been a remarkably fine-looking woman in her
younger days. Her separation from her husband,
we are informed, was caused principally by her in-
temperate habits; from all we can learn, however,
it appears that her conduct had much improved
with advancing years. After the separation her
husband placed her in the cottage at Hobbletrot, ,
providing liberally for her wants. Mr. Halliday
afterwarda left Chester le-street, and went to re-
side upon his own property at Broadmires, where
he opened a public-house. Although the intercourse
between them does not appear, so far as we can
ascet
wife,
to have been on the footing of man and
:, Jet he seems to have taken a warm interest
forll
otwlfare, and to have ministered to the corn-
of her
her declining years. The dreadful nature
.pression has naturally made a very serious im-
lived in the ~l,i, (
stated, leading—Vige
ing on good terms
The unfortunate woman had
mofor many years, as already
st inoffensive life, and keep-
aayvc
eveningt ittatehte h
would have been th:iih those around her. She
person supposed to be
a crime. i
been at a tea party which
likoelny
i:lfortunate woman had
mediate neighbourhood.
Saturday tfuarldl
Aftlte!,seri held in the im-
ing in quiet
enjoyment amongst the even-
who had assembled together on the neighbours
-e occasion, she
left for home, reaching it at an
early hazer. Fr
circumstances which afterwards transpired ona
pears that she had retired to rest at her, it -
a mud timpe.
About three o'clock on Sunday morning her .„_
a..
band was roused from his sleep by a knock at his
door. Mr. Halliday's first supposition was that
some one wished to obtain a drink. He looked out
and saw the Irishman Cox's wife standing at the
door. He asked her what she wanted. She merely
very bad."
replied, " That old woman up the road is
He asked, " What old woman ?" when she again
answered, " That old woman up the road." This
was all he could learn from her; but having an un-
defined impression that all was not right he aroused
his housekeeper, an old woman, and told her to go
and see what was the matter. She got a neigh-
bour to go with her, and they set off for the cottage
of the murdered woman, accompanied by the Irish- i
woman. When they reached the house they found
the door open, and the Irishman, Cox, standing
outside. They went in and found Mrs. Halliday
dressed - in . her night clothes lying on the floor.
They immediately attended to her, but were horri- 4

fled to find that she was bleeding from several
ghastly wounds in her head. She was insensible,
and they could not therefore get any account from
her of what had caused her injuries. She did in-
deed make a few gestures in response to their efforts,
but that was all—no articulate sound escaped her
lips. Steps were immediately taken to apprise the
police of what had occurred, and simultaneously
medical assistance was sought. This occupied
some time, and the unfortunate woman expired at
half-past six, just after the arrival of Mr. M'Cabe,
of Witton Gilbert, who practises as a surgeon. Dr.
Hudson, of Chester-le-street, arrived on the scene
shortly afterwards, He found the murdered woman
had received a severe wound on the left side of the
temple which had penetrated to the brain, marks
of finger nails on her neck as if her assailant had
attempted to strangle her, and the mark of a heavy
blow, apparently by the fist, over the left jugular
vein, and there was some extravasation of blood
over that pert ; her left arm was broken above the
elbow, apparently by a blow ; and there were dread-
ful bruises all over her arms. Her person in other
parts bore marks of great violence. The Irishman,
Cox, said to those around, in explanation of his dis-
covery of the crime, that about three o'clock in the
morning he heard the old woman groaning, and on
coming down he found the door fast. He broke
open the door, which shows marks in support of
his assertion, with a poker, and found the poor old
woman in the position already related. He said
the person who did it must have obtained access by
the loft above, but whether such means of access
exist there we could not ascertain last night. As
soon as information reached the head-quarters of
the police at Durham, Superintendent Johnson,
with a body of men, set off immediately for the cot-
tage. On arriving there Superintendent Johnson
proceeded to examine the apartment of the mur-
ceosnennetecdtionby
dered woman. A most surprising, and really
With the affair, is
the room. It
might naturally have been expected that evi-
dences of a severe struggle would have pre-
sented themselves, but so far from that being
the case, scarcely a single article of furniture in the
room appeared to be disturbed, or at all out of its
usual place. It may be mentioned here that the
door-key could not be found. A brief search resulted
in finding the deadly weapon which had been used
by the:murderer in accomplishing his fell purpose.
It was the murdered woman's own coal-rake. On
applying the point of it to the large wound on the
temple, Dr. Hudson found it fitted it exactly, and
left no doubt on his mind that the unfortunate
woman had received her death-blow from it. The
murdered woman must have bled a great deal from
her numerous wounds, and yet the quantity of blood
was surprisingly small. The appearance presented
by the floor led to the conclusion that an attempt
had been made to clear away as much as possible
the traces of the bloody tragedy. The chemise of
the old woman was found beneath the bed quite
wet, as if it had been recently washed. It might
have been expected that the bed clothes would show
by their position that the unhappy woman had
risen in haste; but so far from doing so, they lay
almost undisturbed; and those who saw them were
led at once to the conjecture that they had been
placed that way after the,6ime had been committed.
A few- sprents:of blood were found on the bed hang-
ings and furniture, but they were much less than
might have been looked for. That plunder had
been the object of the murderer was shown by the
state of the drawers. They had been thoroughly
ransacked, and a chest in which it was known that
the murdered woman kept her linen, had been
cleared out. After making a searching investiga-
tion about the premises, Superintendent Johnson
found himself called upon to order the Irishman
Cox and his wife to be taken into custody. They
were accordingly conveyed to Durham yesterday
forenoon. They will be brought before the jury at
the inquest of the unfortunate woman. Their little
child has been sent to the workhouse, where she
will remain for the present.

The suspected man is about 25 years of age, and
is described as being of a rather unprepossessing
appearance. He had resided in the cottage about a
month, and had previously been at Felton. He
was employed as a pitman at Nettlesworth Colliery,
a short distance from his residence. He only bears
an indifferent character in the neighbourhood.

Information was at once sent off to J. M. Favell,
Esq., coroner, Eighton Banks. He has forwarded
instructions to Dr. Hudson to make a post mortem
examination of the body of the deceased. Dr.
Hudson will carry out his instructions, and the
coroner has appointed the inquest to take place on
Tuesday, at Broadmires, at half-past ten o'clock.
The police, under the immediate superintendence
of Mr. Johnson, are actively engaged in getting up
the case.

THE MURDER AT MINSTER, ISLE OF
SHEPPY.

MINSTER, MONDAY.
This morning the inquest on the body of William
Elliott, who was found dead under circumstances
which left little doubt that he had been brutally
murdered, was resumed before Thomas Hills, Esq.,
coroner of the county, at the Halfway public-house,
Minster, near Queenborough, Isle of Sheppy.
It will probably be remembered that at an early
hour on the morning of Wednesday, the 30th ult.,
the body of a man was found lying in a wheatfield,
at a place called Pheasant's Field, about a mile
from the Halfway-house, with marks of gunshot
wounds on his face and chest that had been recently
made, and the matter being put into the hands of
Mr. Superintendent T. M. Green, of the Kent
county constabulary, the corpse was at once iden-
tified as being that of a man named William Elliott,
ard. At the a single man,
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ing of the inquiry, some merely formal evidence was
taken, and no clue was at that time found to bring
to light the perpetrators of the frightful deed ; but
the activity of the police resulted in the arrest, on
suspicion, on Monday, the 4th inst., of two men,
Wm. Johnson, a corndealer and small farmer, re-
siding at Sheerness, and his son, Edward Johnson,
living at the same place with his father. The pri-
soners were taken before the sitting magistrates at
Sittingbourne last Tuesday, and several witnesses
were examined ; but it was considered advisable for
the furtherance of the ends of juetice that the de-
tails of the examination should not be made public,
and it is, therefore, now sufficient to say that the
evidence was purely circumstantial, but so far con-
clusive as to warrant the bench of magistrates in
remanding the prisoners to St. Augustine Gaol, and
to refuse the bail which was offered by Mr. John-
son, the solicitor, of Faversham, who attended on
behalf of the accused.

At the sitting of the Court this morning the
learned coroner read over the evidence taken on the
previous. occasion. John Cheeseman, a boot and
shoe maker, living at Sheerness, identified the
deceased.

Mr. Edward Stride, surgeon, stated that he saw
the body of the deceased man a little after one
o'clock on Wednesday, the day of the supposed
murder, and found on examination external marks
of gun-shot wounds on the right side of the chest,
as well as some on the forehead, and the whole of
the face. On the right side of the chest the shots
had nearly all entered the lungs, one of the shots
had passed through the eye, and those in the face
had penetrated it deeply. Death had been occa-
sioned by the shots penetrating the lungs, and the
shots had proceeded from a gun held on a level with
the chest of the deceased. There were no other
marks of violence on the body, nor any sign that
the deceased had been engaged in any struggle.
Sergeant T. M. Green stated that he found the
body of the deceased on the day referred to in Phea-
sant's Field—about eight or nine yards from the
fence separating the field from the road. The
deceased was lying on his back, with his hands by
his side. There was some blood on the side of
the fence next the road as if the deceased had
been dragged through the fence, and there was also
blood in the road. Within about three yards of the
fence there was more blood, as if the body had been
left there for a short time, and marks were then
visible of its having been dragged on the back in a
semi-circle to the spot where it was found, about five
yards from the blood he referred to as being in the
field.

Mr. Stride being recalled, said that he wished to
correct his former evidence as to the shot being in a
straight or horizontal line—they had entered the
body as from above downwards. He was still of
opinion there had only been one discharge.
Eliza Elliott, sister-in-law to the deceased, said he
lodged with her, and was in the habit of going out
every evening and returning about nine o'clock.
Witness's husband was on friendly terms with the
deceased, and they had never once quarrelled. He
(deceased) never took out a gun, nor was he in the
habit of poaching.
George Curtis, aged 14, said he lived in Cottage,Limekiln
Queenborough-road. On Tuesday evening
frock.
about seven o'clock he went to Queenborough, and
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Pursuant to the arrangements made at the last
examination on Thursday last, Constance Wilson,
alias Catherine Taylor, was again brought up from
Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and placed at the bar of
the Lambeth Police-court, before the Hon. G. C.
Norton, for further examination in relation to the
charge of her having caused the death by poison of
Mrs. Soames in October, 1856. This arrangement
had been come to with a view to the completion of
the depositions of Mrs. Nacke and Miss Soames,
the daughters of the deceased lady, so as to enable
them to return to their present domicile in Germany.
Mr. Chipperfield, as on the former occasions,
attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Neale for the
defence.
The deposition of Mrs. Nacke having been read
over to that lady she suggested several amendments,
which were accordingly made, and in reply to Mr.
Norton she said, that at the time of her mother's
death she did not suspect, the prisoner, but that
after the alleged robbery, which at the time she
(witness) believed to be fictitious, she then had her
suspicions like her uncle, Mr. Barnes, who had
always expressed his suspicions against the prisoner.
Mr. Chipperfield here intimated that there were
a few questions he wished to put to the witness,
and in reply to his interrogatories,
Mrs. Nacke said that on the Friday before her
mother's death the prisoner went out of the house,
and was absent at least two hours. She did not
say what she was going out for. In the course of
the Thursday or Friday, witness did not see her
mother empty the slops. Her mother could not
have done so, as she was too ill to get out of bed.
She saw the prisoner empty them on the Thursday,
for her mother was too ill to move.
Mr. Chipperfield—Now it has been said in this
court that either you or the prisoner told Dr.
Whidborne that your mother had lent a large sum
of money to a man she met in an omnibus, some-
where near the Angel at Islington, and to whom
she was to be married ; was it you that made that
statement to the doctor?
Witness—No, sir, nor anything to that effect ;
nor did I say to him that my mother had been
poisoned or anything about poisoning, and if Dr.
Whidborne has heard anything of that kind it was
not from me_ The prisoner took possession of my
mother's keys and also all other things belonging
to her. My mother was accustomed to keep
her receipts on a file and her money in a cash-
box. I cannot say how soon after her death it was
that I looked for the cash-box, but when it was
found there was no money in it, On the day after
the death—namely, the Saturday, the keys, to-
gether with my mother's purse, containing Is., were
brought down stairs by me into the front kitchen by
some person that Ido not remember. The cash-box
was generally kept in one of the drawers of a chest
of drawers which stood in the kitchen.
In cross-examination, 'witness said she remem-
bered the apartments the prisoner had occupied ©n
the first floor. They had been occupied by a lady
and gentleman named Haddon before they were let
to the prisoner, and she had no recollection of a
robbery having been committed there before the
prisoner came. It was not true that there were du-
plicate keys of the rooms of the house No. 27, but
there were two keys to each of the rooms of the house
No. 13, one for each lodger and one for themselves.
She did remember the prisoner complaining of her
having lost something from her room, and that the
police were called in on that occasion. She had
never heard her mother talk of getting married
again, but she had heard prisoner and her mother
jolting together about marriage, and when she spoke
to her mother about it she said, " If there would be
any good to you both (meaning her sister and her-
self) then it might be." There was no particular
person mentioned At the time of this conversation
her mother spoke in a joking tone. She never knew
on any occasion of the prisoner having borrowed
money from her mother. The prisoner paid her
rent regularly. The ten pounds demanded of me
on the promissory note were paid in two payments,
the last about a fortnight after my mother's death,
out of money I had borrowed from my uncle.
In reply to Mr. Norton, the witness said the
promissory note was entirely in her mother's hand-
writing. With respect to the prisoner going out
onrittng
the Friday, she had not mentioned it on her
former examination, because she had not been
asked about it ; but she was sure it was on the
Friday the prisoner went out, because on that
day she (witness) was sitting with her mother,
and she could not recollect who it was who brought
her down the keys to the front kitchen.
The depositions of Miss Sarah Soames were here
read over to that witness, who, in further examina-
tion by Mr. Chipperfield, said that she had written
uncle, Mr. Barnes, about this prosecution
immediately
after she had read a report in the
newspapers of the vitriol case.
Mr. Norton inquired the meaning of the vitriol
case ?

Mr. Chipperfield replied that it was a case in
which the prisoner had been tried at the Central
Court, for administrating vitriol, or sulphuric acid,
to a Mrs. Farrell, and on that charge she had been
acquitted. The fact had been elicited in the course
of the cross-examination of the witness, and it was
therefore admissable on the present deposition.
Mr. Norton—Certainly.
Examination resumed—Witness only saw the
bottle of medicine. On the Wednesday evening after
the deceased had gone up with the prisoner, the
latter came down stairs again alone in about a
quarter of an hour, and brought down some pork-
pie, which, she said, had been sent to her from the
country. On the Friday preceding her mother's
death the prisoner many times told her that her
mother was very much better; but her mother
said, in the prisoner's hearing, that she did not
feel at all better. She did not say anything to Dr.
Whidborne about her mother having lent £BO toi
some man she met, nor did she ever say anything
to him about her mother having taken poison. She
never saw anything in the manner of her mother to
suspect that she wished to destroy herself. On the
contrary, on the Thursday her mother told her to
mend her petticoat in order that it might be ready
for her use when she got better.
The depositions were here signed by the two
witnesses, who were respectively bound over on
pain of imprisonment to appear and give evidence
against the prisoner, on the charge of wilful murder,
at the sessions of the Central Criminal Court, to be
holden on Monday, the 22d of September next.
Mr. Neale complained of the absence of medical
evidence, without which there was no case for com-
mittal.

Mr.• Chipperfield said the medical evidence would
be supplied at the next examination, for which pur-
pose he asked for a further remand. _

Mr. Norton granted the application, and at the
same time intimated that at the close of the case he
should certainly commit the prisoner for trial.

The prisoner, a short, thick-set young man, with
a dogged cast of features, was employed as a wag-
goner at an isolated farm-house, a few miles from
Healey-in-Arden, and on the road to Redditch.
The deceased, who was employed at the same
farm-house in the capacity of maid-servant, eight
months prior to the murder, complained to the
housekeeper that Gardener had made several un-
successful attempts to kiss her ; he was, in fact,
desirous of paying his addresses to the girl, who
was extremely good-looking, and, moreover, pious;
but his attentions were a source of annoyance to
her. Gardener's master remonstrated with him on
the subject, and nothing further was heard of the
matter, though one of, the fellow-servants noticed
that he was in the habit of watching the deceased
through a little crevice which separated their bed-
chambers. The night previous he spent in drink-
ing, and on the morning of the murder he talked
wildly to his fellow employe's about killing some-•
body, and said deceased would not draw him any
beer; Ahe deserved to be shot, His master was
absent at a neighbouring cattle fair, and taking ad-
vantage of this circumstance, prisoner speedily
carried his design into execution. His unsuspect-
ing victim drew him the beer he said he required,
and then retired to the washhouse where she was
employed. The prisoner soon afterwards asked her
to fetch the master's double-barrelled gun out of
the house. She did so readily, knowing he was in
the habit of shooting rooks with it, and she returned
to her washing. He took the percussion cap of one
nipple and nicked it, in order that when it was dis-
charged it might not hang fire. He then put on the
cap again ; and the girl was stooping over the waah-
ing-tub, when he fired at her, the charge entering
the spine just below the neck. The poor girl fell
back and died instantly. The housekeeper imme-
diately came up to ascertain the cause of the dis-
charge of the gun, and on seeing the girl told
Gardener to leave the house • and, aftbr obtaining
powder and shot, as well as money from his
master's desk, he decamped across the
fields. He made his way to Stratford-on-Avon,
where he mixed with the crowd of visitors who
were commemorating the birthday of Shakespeare,
and succeeded in disposing of his gun and shot
pouch, and passing clean through the hands of the
police, to whom the murder had been telegraphed.
He proceeded by train to Honeybourne, on the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, and
having ascertained that he had plenty of time to
catch the mail train to Oxford, he went to a public-
house in the village, where he was indulging in deep
libations of gin, when the police walked in and ap-
prehended him drunk.

For the defence it was contended that the gun
went off accidentally, and so killed the deceased.
No witnesses were called.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to death without the slightest hope of
mercy.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WELLS, August 11.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Sir F. Slade, Q.C.)
FORGERY.

Edward Strange, son of a banker, of Swindon,
was indicted for forging the name of George Gib-
bon to a promissozy note for the payment of £25,
with intent to defraud Robert Yare, at Weston-
super-Mare.

For the defence it was urged that the prisoner
was in a very miserable state of health at the time
he committed the crime.

The jury found him guilty, and on account of his
ill health he was sentenced to only twelve months'
imprisonment.