The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-24 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending August 21,
1849, is 265. Olpid. per cwt.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.

EXAMINATION OF MARIA MANNING.
(THIS DAY.)
Henry Barnes (continued from our Afternoon Edition)
said—l found a cash-box' at the top of the box on Mon-
day, and it was unlocked. There were three compart-
ments in it, and I was told it was the
box in which Mr. O'Connor kept his money.
On lifting up a kind of tin-case I found a
lot of memorandums—l 0 U's. It was in consequence
of the state in which I found the box, and the
absence of Mr. O'Connor, that we made the
subsequent search for the body. We found in
the drawers a bushel of letters. Some of them were
from Mrs. Manning, but none of them of recent date.
We did not take possession of them.
James Burton, 272 M, next examined, said, on
Tuesday night, the 15th, about half-past eight o'clock,
in consequence of Mr. Mead and two other gentleman,
friends of the deceased, coming to the Stonesgate-station
in the Borough, I was ordered to go to 3, Minver-
place. Finding the door locked, I, went through the
adjoining house, and got over the back wall. Mr. Mead
in the meantime got the key of the front door, went
in, and let me in at the buck door. Mr. Mead and
the other two gentlemen looked over the house.
From the appearance I should suppose that the
house had been left in a very confused state. In the
front kitchen there was a lot of linen, and in the back
kitchen, over the stones underneath which the deceased
was found, a large portmanteau was lying open, and
in it, and round about it, was a quantity of female
wearing apparel and a railway guard's coat. They
about covered the two stones. In the other rooms
there were a few things lying about. Nothing
was found that the friends of the deceased
thought belonged to O'Connor. At that time
we did not know who had taken the furni•
ture away. No trace of the missing man was found, and
we had no suspicion that the body was there. We set
a watch on the house, and the next morning,
at eight o'clock, a man came and attempted
to unlock the door. We had put down the latch in order
to prevent the door being opened from the outside by
means of a key. This gentleman, who was Mr. Bain-
bridge, walked to the station-house to ascertain the
reason why he could not get in. I followed him. I did
not know him by name at that time. Mr. Coleman bad
told him, I believe, that an officer had been into the
house, and he wanted to know the reason why he was
prevented entering, stating that he bad purchased the
goods in the house for 131. He said he had bought, with
the rest, a railway coat, some crockery, a box, and some
other things, which he wished to fetch away. He
said he had nothing to do with the linen. Man-
ning, he said, had just left his own house.
and that he had lodged with him two nights. He ac-
companied me to Minver-place and showed roe the
'things which he claimed, and which I allowed him to
take away. Among them was a shovel, which I handed
to him myself, but I did not observe anything par-
ticular about it. I could not identify it.
On the Friday following, about twelve o'clock
in the day, Barnes and I went again to Minver-
place with the resolution of making a thorough
search. . We went to the back kitchen, and I
was standing on the stone nearest the window.
I said to Barnes " the stones look fresh," and he
took out his knife and tried the joints of the two stones
referred to, and also the joints of the other stones. The
mortar of the first stone smelt sour. I tried them
myself also, and we then proposed to take them up.
We had received no information from any one to
take them up. We removed the two stones.
They ran parallel with each other, and were, together,
five feet lung and two feet wide. On removing them
Barnes called my attention to the untradesmanlike way
in which they were laid, the mortar lying in a bed in the
middle of the stone, instead of being placed round the Bides.
On removing the mortar, we found the grcuud under-
neath trod down very hard indeed. Barnes then dug
down with the shovel, and called my attention
to a piece of rag. After digging about ten inches
down he discovered what he thought was a stone
but which turned out to be the toe of a man. He re-
moved some more of the earth, and showed the
foot of a man. I then went to the station-home
to procure further assistance ; I returned with
Nfr. Yates and Mr. Perkins, two inspectors.
I then saw a further portion of a human body. By the
direction of Mr. Yates I went for the friends of a gen-
th wan of the name of O'Connor, who was miss-
ing. I found Mr. Flynn and Mr. O'Connor,
the brother of the deceased, who returned with me
When we returned the body was lying in the front kit-
chen; it was the body of a wan. I did not take par-
ticularb een
soomfethetimb d.y, ,
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place.ll oti 1 d say
where t i
had
been
was found was about four feet in depth.
The body was at the time I speak of covered with lime,
and it had not been washed. I have been engaged in
doing something further to ascertain the nature of the