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
, when his son was quite well,
Thursday afternoon
having dined with himself and Mrs. Cool& 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 oue 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
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."
By Mr. Rogers—Mrs, Coole was very fond of
deceased.

By the Jury—There was another little child,
older than deceased, in the house, and when wit-
ness went upstairs he was looking at deceased lying
on the floor.

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 half-
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 suw the deceased
with hia throat cut and quite dead. Upon going
down to the kitchen they et Mrs. Coole coining