The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Robert Skinner and Alexander
Jeffrey, of the respective ages of 14 and 17, were charged
with causing the death of Francis Horner, a cabman, in
the following manner :
Police-constable Price, 226, said he saw the deceased
shortly after he was thrown from his cab, and, per-
ceiving he was in great pain, he put him into a cab and
sent him off to the hospital, where he expired within an
hour, and from information witness afterwards received
he apprehended the lads at the bar on the present
charge.

Mr. Cuthbert, of St. Andrew's-rectory, said he was
crossing from Ely-place, Holborn, to St. Andrew's-
place, about 10 minutes past ten o'clock on Saturday
morning last, when he was stopped by the prisoners
pushing a truck rapidly down the hill. After the truck
had passed he saw it nearly strike an omnibus, and, in
pulling out to avoid it, the truck ran into deceased's
cab, which was also going down hill, and the horse took
fright, started off at full speed, and ultimately came in
contact with a van, when the horse fell and threw the
deceased from his box. The elder lad was in the truck,
and the younger was pushing it.
Charles Sturt, a hairdresser of Fetter-lane, corrobo-
rated the last witness's statement, and said the boys had
lost all control over the truck, and on its striking the
cab the deceased's horse became perfectly unmanageable.
Had the truck been drawn instead of pushed the lads
would have found no difficulty in directing it.
The officer said the coroner's inquest was to be held
that evening.
Sir R. W. Carden said it was a very melancholy af-
fair, and one which the boys must remember as long as
they lived. The prisoners, however, were very respect-
able lads, and, as the occurrence was evidently an acci-
dent, he would take the same bail for them to appear on
the next examination, which he intended to fix for Wed-
nesday, in order that he might have the decision of the
coroner's jury.

CLERKENWELL.—George Henry Freeman was
charged by Elizabeth Ann Furneaux with bigamy.
The particulars have already been published.
The prisoner reserved his defence, and was fully com-
mitted for trial.

James Flynn was charged with having brutally as-
saulted Jane Cannon, of 103, Whitecross-street, St.
Luke's. The prisoner formerly cohabited with,the pro-
secutrix, who left him in consequence of his ill-usage.
On Sunday night last he went to her lodgings, and for-
cing his way into her apartment while she was undressed,
and preparing to go to bed, he made a desperate attack
on her, dragged her down stairs, and beat her in a most
brutal manner. She exhibited severe marks of violence,
and was in a weakly state.
Mr. Tyrwhitt sent him to the House of Correction,
with hard labour, for three months.

WORSHIP-STREET.—AmeIia Richardson, a young
woman about 25, was charged with the following of-
fence :

The prisoner, who had the appearance of a housemaid
or other domestic servant, exhibited the greatest mental
distress, incessantly weeping throughout the examina-
tion, and displayed such manifest debility and exhaus-
tion that the magistrate ordered her to be provided with
a seat in the dock.

Mr. Vale, surgeon, of Mile-end New-town, stated—
Between 8 and 9 on the evening of the 29th ult. I was
called in to attend the prisoner at a lodging in Great
Chart-street, Hoxton, and upon entering I found her
lying upon a bed on the floor. Having been previously
4 informed that an accident had occurred to her which fre-
quently happens to women in the family way, I ques-
tioned her upon it, and she declared that such was the
, fact, and that the result of it would be found in the
watercloset. Upon searching the watereloset what was
discovered did not bear out her assertion, and I there-
fore subjected her to a personal examination, and found
that she had been recently confined. I at once accused
her of that, which she stoutly denied, but upon looking
round the room I found such indubitable evidence of
the correctness of my accusation that, on finding she
could no longer deceive me, she pointed to a basket
beneath a side-table, and on my looking into that I
found the body of a newly-born infant, wrapped up in
rags. The umbilical cord had been very unskilfully di-
vided, apparently with son les rough or blunt instrument;
there was an unusual blueness about the lips ; the nose
was slightly compressed, MN though a hand or other hard
substance had been pressed upon its mouth to suppress
its noise ; it had apparentl7 arrived at maturity, though
rather diminutive ; and, upon subjecting its chest to a
slight pressure, two circueistances resulted which left
an unhesitating conviction on my mind that it must
have been born alive. The prisoner's mother, who was
in the room at the time, positively denied all know-
ledge of her daughter's condition ; but, of three other
persons who Were also there, one of them distinctly
averred that she had heard the child cry. An inquest 0

was held upon the body, and an open verdict returned.
but I had no opportunity to make a post mortem exa-
mination, as the coroner would not allow it.
Inspector Payne, N. Division.—l received information
of this occurrence late at night on the 29th ult. and,
having dispatched a serjeant, went there myself next
morning, and there saw the prisoner's mother. She
said that her husband was in the country, and that her
daughter, who had been pieviously in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital for a bad breast, -and from which she had been
turned out by the doctors as incurable, and only re-
turned home the night before her confinement, and that
she (the mother) knew nothing whatever about it until
it had taken place.

Sarah Aldridge, an elderly nurse, also deposed to hav-
ing been sent for to attend upon the prisoner, when she
not only denied the principal offence alleged against her,
but even that the 'accident before referred to had hap-
pened to her. This she did in a sharp, angry tone,
accompanied by other circumstantial details to confirm
her denial ; but the indications she observed were of so
conclusive a nature, that she felt it her duty to send for
the first witness (the surgeon), and upon the child's body
being discovered she could say, from her experience as a
practical nurse, that the infant had arrived at full ma-
turity.

Upon being asked if she wished to say anything in
defence, the prisoner convulsively replied in the nega-
tive, and

Mr. D'Eyncourt ordered her to be committed for the
completion of the depositions, previous to her trial at the
Central Criminal Court.

LAMBETH.—PhiIip Grinney, a coach wheelwright,
residing at No. 35, Park-street, Kennington, aged 40
years, was charged with cutting the throat of his wife,
Hannah Grinney, with intent to murder her.
The first witness called was Eliza Grinney, a re-
spectable-looking young woman about 18 years of age,
who, upon being sworn, said—l am the daughter of the
prisoner, and live with him at No. 35, Little Park-
street, Kennington-cross. This morning, at half-past 6
o'clock, I heard my father downstairs in the backroom,
and directly afterwards I heard my mother scream vio-
lently. I ran downstairs, and found that my father had
got my mother down upon the floor. He was kneeling
upon her, and was cutting her throat on the left side
with a knife. My mother plunged violently and got
away from him inside the back parlour, where there is a
little passage. My father followed her and got her on
the ground a second time, and I again saw him cutting
at her throat. My mother plunged and got away as far
as the street-door, but, the door being fastened, she
could not get further. Here again my father followed
her, and, with the knife in his right hand, cut at her
throat while she was standing up against the door. From
there my mother ran into the parlour, and tried to get
out at the window, but before she could get there my
father flung her on the bed. He got her partly off the
bed, with her head under a chair which stood near a
cupboard, and, with his knee upon her chest, lifted up
the knife, and jobbed it into my mother's throat.
Mr. Elliott—And what did you do all this time.
Witness—l kept screaming as loud as I could, and,
having no clothes on, I knew not what to do. I, how-
ever, threw up the parlour window and ran to the street
door, screaming " Murder !" all the time. Two men
then came in, and one of them was going into the par-
lour, but my father took two knives and said he would
run them into him if he attempted it. After that more
men came in, and when my father was in the act of
jobbing the knife into my mother's throat again they
seized hold of him.

John Low, of 24, New-street, Princess-street, said—
This morning, about half-past 6 o'clock, I was going
home, when I heard the cries of " Murder !" and, on
looking to the house whence the cries proceeded, I ob-
served the parlour window up. On approaching the
window I saw the prisoner astride over the body of
his wife. The wife was partly on the bed, which was
on the floor, and the prisoner was leaning over her,
and in the act of cutting her throat, and the blood
was flowing copiously from her. Directly afterwards
one or two other men rushed into the room, and seized
the prisoner and the knife, and his wife made her
escape from him. I tied my handkerchief round the
wife's throat, with the view of stopping the bleeding,
and 'she was removed in a light cart to Guy's Hospital.
James Smith, of 77, Park-street, a cab-driver, said
that about the time before mentioned he heard a vio-
lent screaming, and, having been told that a murder
was being committed at the house of the prisoner, he
went there without delay. He saw the prisoner in the
act of stabbing his wife in the throat.

Mr. Elliott.—Describe how you saw the prisoner act.
Witness—Why, sir, he was sticking his wife as a
butcher would a sheep.
Mr. Elliott—You distinctly saw the knife in his
hand when prisoner was stabbing at the throat of his
wife ?

Witness—Oh, yes, sir, quite plain, and, in fact, I
took' the knife out of his right hand and flung it on
the bed, and then seized the prisoner with both hands.
Police-constable Thomas Massar, 39 L, said that on
that morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, he was alarmed
by one of his lodgers, who informed him that a murder
had been committed at the house of the prisoner. He,
in consequence, hastened thither, and, on approaching
the house, be found the prisoner standing outside the
gate in his shirt sleeves. The prisoner, on seeing him,
said, "Oh ! it's you, is it ? I know you, and I'll go
anywhere with you." Witness took him to the station,
and then went to Guy's Hospital, where he found the
wife in a very shocking state, and got a certificate of
her condition.

Mr. Elliott—On your way to, or at the station-house,
did the prisoner say anything to you ?
WitnesS—Yes, your worship ; as we were going along
he said he hoped his wife would die, when he should be
hanged for her, and should then be happy. On search-
ing the house I found a bottle of laudanum, and the
three knives produced.

The knives were here exhibited, and were, as de-
scribed by the witness, deeply stained with blood, as
were also the wristbands and sleeves of the prisoner's
shirt. A certificate, of which the following is a copy,
was also put in and read :

" I hereby certify that Hannah Grinney was this
morning admitted into Guy's Hospital, suffering from a
severe incised wound of the throat ; the trachea, as
also the large and important vessels, being uninjured.
On each hand were several incised wounds, those on
the right being the most severe.
"J. P. MORRIS, House•surgeon.

"Oct. 24."

Serjeant John T. Hughes, 20 L, deposed that he was
on duty at the station-house on the morning when the
prisoner was brought there in custody. When the two
knives were produced the prisoner said, "I only used
one of them ; if she's dead I shall feel happy to be
hanged for her ; when I had killed her I intended to cut
my own throat." He said the cause was, that his wife
had had two men in the house with her on the night be-
fore, that she had got up to go away with them on that
morning and leave him and her children, and that she
had told him she should not see him any more.
Inspector Carter, who has the management of the
case, here informed the magistrate that this was all the
evidence he was prepared with at present,
Upon which Mr. Elliott, after cautioning the prisoner
in the usual manner, asked him if he wished to say any-
thing to the serions charge against him, for, if so, that
was his time.

The prisoner, who seemed to be labouring under great
mental affliction, replied,—Yes, Sir, I wish to say some-
thing. There's a man in the court now, Henry Lee, who
came home with our lodger at half-past three o'clock
and knocked us up. I and my wife took a bed down
for them, and they went to bed in the parlour. Some
time afterwards my wife said to me, "I sha'nt stop with
you any longer, I shall go down and sleep with those
two men. They had been together on the Sunday be-
fore, and I know they all dined together. My wife
denied my coming there, and said if I offered to follow
her she would run a knife, which she had taken up,
through me. She had one knife and I the other, and
this was the way the second knife got stained with blood.
My wife said she was going into the country ; that her
brother was going to take her; that Henry Lee was
going with her, and that she never again would come
back to me or her children ; and that I had my own
hands and strength to support them." I said, "You
must tell me whom you are going with, and where you
are going, too ;" and her answer was, " I sha'nt ; you
shall never find me any more ;" that she should go
with those she liked better than me, and that was Henry
Lee. She was then going away. The two knives were
on the table, and she took up one and threatened to
stick me, and I picked up the other and drew it across
her throat as she was about to put her brooch into her
shawl. She had the other knife in her hand, and that's
the way it became bloody in the struggle. She ran on
to the front street door, and I after her. The door was
bolted and she could not get out. She ran into the front
room, when I threw her on the bed, and partly on the
floor. They then opened the window and screamed, and
some persons came in and took the knife away from me.
She was upstairs in bed with me and. very comfortable
until the two men came in and knocked us up, and she
afterwards said she should go downstairs to where those
men were. That's all I have to say.
The prisoner was then remanded to a future day,
and by a certificate, dated 5 o'clock yesterday evening,
it appears the unfortunate woman is going on very
favourable.

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