The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

THE INQUEST.

On Saturday morning an investigation was held
by Mr. John Humphreys, one of the Middlesex
coroners, at the Queen's Head Tavern, Pitfield-
street, New North-road.
Inspector Webster, of the N division had the
management of the case on the part of the Commis-
sioners of Police ; and Mr. T. W. Rogers, solicitor,
of Fenchurch-street, attended on behalf of the
accused. _

The jury having been empanelled, proceeded to
view the body of the deceased, whtch lay on a bed
in the room where the murder had been committed,
and presented a fearful spectacle, being covered
with blood. The carpet on the floor was also satu-
rated with blood..

Mr. Mark Coole, 18, Brunswick-place, City-road,
the father of the deceased, said that he left home on
Thursday afternoon, when his son was quite well,
having dined with himself and Mrs. Coole. Witness
was the tenant of the house, but occupied only a
portion of it. His wife had been an invalid for some
years, principally with rheumatic fevers, which
broke up her constitution. Dr. Davis lately in-
formed him that one of her lungs was gone, and
that there was no hope of her recovery. Since her
illness she occupied the front room, and they dined
in it on Thursday. She was not confined to her
bed, but was only strong enough to walk up and
down stairs, and she had a nurse to attend to her.
That was because Dr. Rogers said she should be
kept quiet. Witness did not notice any indications
of insanity. On the Thursday, after dinner, she was
reading her Bible, and she was very low spirited, and
said that she was afraid her soul was lost. Witness
told her to cheer up, and not to give way to such
notions. Her father's sister went out of her mind
three or four years ago, and she had said that she
was afraid she should go out of her mind also.
She had been very nervous and debilitated for some
time, and if anything happened she would appa-
rently become like a maniac, but would recover and
apologise for her passion. She was not given to
drink. About two hours after witness left the
house he was sent for, and found what had hap-
pened.
Elizabeth Frere, servant to last witness, said that
on the day in question she was in the kitchen with
the nurse, when Mrs. Coole came down and kissed
II the child, which was playing at the bottom of the
stairs. She kissed him and took him upstairs, say-
ing nothing to witness. About four or five minutes
after she returned, and was very pale and agitated,
trembling violently. She said nothing and her
hands were all over blood. Witness ran up stairs,
and upon going into the back room on the first floor
saw little Charles on the floor bleeding, and in a
pool of blood. The carving knife produced (a very
large one, with a rough handle) was on the floor.
It was usually kept behind the door in the front
kitchen, and Mrs. Coole went into that kitchen
before going upstairs with the child. Witness had
asked Mrs. Coole whether she should take the child
upstairs for her, and she said " No, let him alone."
decea
Bysed Mr. Rogers—Mrs. Coole was very fond of
By the Jury—There was another little child;
older than deceased, in the house, and when wit-
ness
he fl upstairs he was looking at deceased lying
on t.
Maria Hayden said that she had been nursing
Mrs. Coole five weeks. At three o'clock she left
the deceased asleep in the front room. About halt=
past three Mrs. Coole brought the child downstairs,
and left him in the kitchen, going upstairs again
directly. She might then have possessed herself of
the carving-knife. She returned in about ten mi-
nutes, and took the child, who was running about,
upstairs again. Witness heard no cry, but in 15
or 20 minutes she entered the kitchen, pale and
speechless. Witness said, " Oh, you have broke a
blood-vessel," when she observed that there was
blood on her throat, dress, and hands. Mrs. Coole
said nothing, and was placed upon a chair, when
a wound was seen in her throat. Witness ran
upstairs to call the lodgers, and SON the deceased
with his throat cut and quite dead. Upon going
down to the kitchen they met Mrs. Coole coming

upstairs, and the wanted to go into the room where
deceased was, saying that he was crying. He was
net, of course, crying, being perfectly dead. There
were four children. One of them, Walter, was in
the room, witness thought. at the time; the others
were at school. Deceased had been reeding the
Bible during the afternoon in a low tone.
Dr. J. F.' Rogers said that at four o'clock on the
day in question he was sent for to see the deceased.
He was lying in a pool of blood on the floor, and
quite dead. There was a wound in the throat ex-
tending from the left to a little below the right ear.
All the principle arteries, the 'windpipe, and the
gullet were divided, and the knife had penetrated
to the bone. The carving knife lay on the chest
of drawers, and was covered with blood. Witness
had been attending Mrs. Coole since the beginning
of July, and she was at present quite unfit to attend
before the court.

The Coroner said that in a case so seriously af-
fecting Mrs. Coole he would adjourn the inquest, to
give her an opportunity of being present before a
verdict should be returned.

Inspector Webster said that it would be impossi-
ble to remove the prisoner at present.
The Court then adjourned.

MURDER OF A WOMAN AT ISLEWORTH.

An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr. Bird, at
the Chequers Inn, Isleworth, on the body of a wo-
man who was murdered on Thursday evening last,
about eight o'clock, in Lion-lane, Isleworth, the
bedy having been discovered by a postman, who im-
mediately before had heard the report of a pistol, and
had seen a man running away. The first witness
examined was Sarah Barnham, who said she was the
mother of the murdered woman. The deceased went
by the name of Barnham, but she was married to a
man who called himself Copeland about four years
ago. The man's real name was Cooper, and he was a
deserter. Her daughter was 25 years of age. She had
not lived with her husband for some months. Wit-
ness last saw her daughter on Thursday, the 7th
inst. She also saw Copeland first at the bottom of
the lane, watching the rifle shooting ; he afterwards
came to the house where she was living with her
father and mother—that is, the grandfather and
grandmother of the deceased. He was for about two
hours in the house waiting for her daughter to come
in. Her father then came home, and Copeland ran
into the wash-house to get out of his way. He had
repeatedly threatened to do some mischief to witness
and to her daughter. He had shown her three bul-
lets which he kept in his pocket, and said he would
not trouble Ann (her daughter) much longer. He
added that he had grossly wronged her, but it was
13 years ago that he had married his first wife.
Witness was awfully afraid of him, because she knew
how savagely he behaved sometimes. Before he left
the house her mother called to him and said she
would give him up, meaning that she would inform
against him as being a deserter. Her daughter said
he should not be given up. She then followed him
out of the house. She had been et Richmond all
the day with her sister,

After the examination of the witness was terminated
she started up in a frantic manner, and raid, "I am
certain he did it. He stabbed his first wife." The
witness was continuing in an incoherent manner,
when she was removed from the room.
Rosina Barnham, who said she was a sister of the
deceased, stated that she was a domestic servant,
and lived at Richmond Green. Her brother-in-law
came once to see her on Sunday last. She was
afraid of being alone with him,as tie had frequently
threatened her life. While she was out with him
and the deceased, Copeland showed them three
bullets, and said, " One is for Ann, another for the
old woman, and the third is for the first man that
stops me." He said he had kept them three months
for the purpose. He seemed in a very determined
and revengeful state. She had not seen any pistol
in his possession.

James Auden, a letter-carrier, said that on Thurs-
day evening, about 8 o'clock, he was in the Brazil,
Mill-lane, when he heard the report of firearms.
Upon going on farther he saw the deceased lying
upon the ground, and he observed a man running
away. The man had on a dark frock coat, and a
low-crowned hat. When he found the deceased
lying there, he called for assistance, and carried her
to the union workhouse. She groaned heavily, and
died while they were carry her off. He said to
her, "For God's sake tell me who has done this,"
but she was then insensible, and unable to answer.
Her bonnet, when he got up to her, was on fire,
and he took it off and crushed it under his foot.

Mr. John Machinley, a surgeon, proved finding
a bullet in the brain of the murdered woman,which
undoubtedly had caused her death.
The inquiry was adjourned.