The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

BERMONDSEY MURDER.

TRIAL OF THE MANNINGS.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
The trial was resumed this morning at ten o'clock.
Long before that hour, however, the passages lead-
ing to the place of trial, were crowded to excess, and
the public thoroughfare in front of the court again
presented a scene of much greater excitement than is
usual at the sittings of the Old Bailey.
By half-past nine the court was completely filled,
and among
the auditory there were as many ladies as
yesterday.
The jury were provided with beds and refresh-
merits for the night at the London Coffee-house,
Ludgate-hill. They were placed in the charge of
three officers, Messrs. Harker, Miller, and Mackay,
and we believe beds were made up for the whole of
them in one room.
The barristers and solicitors engaged in the trial
made their appearance shortly before ten o'clock.
The jury were brought into court by Mr. Harker
a few minutes before the hour of trial and placed in
the jury-box.
The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Cresswell
took their seats on the bench at five minutes after ten,
followed by the Lord Mayor, and Aldermen Megnay
and Carden.
We noticed also seated on the bench Lord Lang-
ford, Lord Howden, the Marquis of Hertford, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, and Lord Nugent.
The prisoners were immediately placed in the dock,
and after standing for a few minutes, both sat down.
Manning looked very pale and careworn. Little
change was observed in the appearance of the female
prisoner. She wore a black lace cap to-day instead of
a white one.
Henry Odling, son of the surgeon, said he bad
made some chemical experiments upon the dress
which had stains upon it. He had applied the usual
chemical tests, and he found that they were stains of
blood.
Cress-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—NO one was
present when I made the experiments. I have arrived
at the mature age of 21. I allowed the dress to
stand in cold distilled water. The stains were upon
the left side of the lining of the skirt. I have made
some experiments also upon the stains found on the
collar, but I cannot say that they are produced by
blood.
Re examined—l have been studying chemistry
for five years, both at Guy's Hospital and
the College of Chemistry, and I have a certificate
of proficiency. The stains on the collar were not the
cause of iron-mould, or any vegetable matter; they
are more like blood than anything else.
By the COUEIT—I cut out the stained piece of the
dress, and steeped it in distilled water, and then boiled
the water, and there was a sediment at the bottom,
composed partly of albumen, which is a constituent
of blood, and partly of colouring matter.
Mr. Francis W. Stevens, stockbroker, 3, Royal
Exchange, said,—l was acquainted with the late
Patrick O'Connor, and I was in the habit of doing busi-
ness for biirn. I purchased for him on the 3d Aug. last
ten shares in the Sambre and Meuse Railway. They
were numbered from 6,460 to 6,469 inclusive. They
were ordered on the 3d, or a day before that. I pur-
chased also ten shares in May in the Amiens and
Boulogne Railway, numbered 48,665 to 48,674, and
I delivered them on the 11th of May. I recollect the
female prisoner very well. She came to my office on
the Ist, 2d, or 3d of August. She introduced herself
by saying that she had been recommended to me by
Patrick O'Connor to invest 2001. She said she wanted
some shares that she could sell abroad. I asked her
to be kind enough to say where she was going, so
that I might the better advise her. After some
little hesitation, she said Paris. I told her then
that she had better purchase French rentes. I showed
her a list of foreign stocks, and she asked me what it
would cost to register shares, as she wished to sell the
property again. She asked me, if she took the
Boulogne and Amiens, or Sambre and Meuse, she
could sell them without her husband's control or not ?
I told her she could do so. She then went away, and
said she would call again.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—On the 3d
of August I purchased the Sambre and Meuse, and
they came to 271. 10s. I purchased the Amiens and
Boulogne shares in May, and they were 711. 17s. 6d.
They have since diminished in value, and in May
following they would have only been worth 471.
O'Connor never mentioned Mrs. Manning's name
to me.
Mr. Lamond, stockbroker, said—l was acquainted
with the late Patrick O'Connor, and I purchased
some shares for him in the Eastern Counties Rail-
way in the month of April. I witnessed the transfer
of them to O'Connor. They consisted of twenty
shares of Consolidated Stocks.
Mr. Green, transfer clerk at the Eastern Counties
Railway office, produced the transfer, signed by
O'Connor.
Mr. Lamond's examination continued—Mr. O'Con-
nor paid for the shares the same day. I purchased
also for the deceased ten shares in the Sambre
and Meuse Railway. I don't know the num-
bers of them, but I can identify them by
a mark. I bought them from a Mr. Cooper Russell.
the shares in question were produced by the clerk
Those of Mr. Russell. are the shares which passed
through my hands with reference to the transaction
with O'Connor. Mr. Wenbam, Mr. Cooper's clerk,
brought them to our office. The Nos. of them I find
i are 26,523 to 26,532 inclusive.
Mr. Green, recalled, said there was no subsequent
transfer of the stock produced.
Mr. Lamond. cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—
The female prisoner brought a letter of introduction to
me from O'Connor. She was not introduced to me as a
person with whom O'Connor was very intimate I
had no dealings with her.
Mr. Hayward, from the office of the Treasury
Solicitor, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I
was present at the police-court when a witness named
John Basset, who is now dead, was examined. I re-
ceived from him that scrip and assignment, which
he produced to the magistrate on the 7th of September
last. They have been in my possession ever since.
Mr. Green recalled, said that one was the original
certificate of the stock, and the other the assignment
of it.
Mr. Shillibere said, he knew the prisoner Manning,
and he did not believe that the signature " Patrick
O'Connor," to the transfer was the handwriting of
Manning.
Mr. Richard Hammond, clerk in the office of Messrs.
Killick and Co., sharebrokers, examined, said—l
know the male prisoner. The signature to the
transfer is not in his handwriting. I saw him at our
office, and he said he had come about some shares. I
introduced him to Mr. Basset, and afterwards Basset
came to me and said he wanted 1101. I gave him
that sum in a 1001. note, and one Si. note, and five
sovereigns. I took the number of the notes. The
100 note was numbered 15,048, sth June,
1849; the 51. note was numbered 20,081,
and dated 13th of July. Before I parted
with the money I looked over the transfer. I went
into an inner office and gave Basset the money, and I
saw him give it to Manning. The signature upon
the transfer was wet at the time. I did not hear the
name of O'Connor mentioned in the presence of
Manning. On the 20th of August I went to the
Bank of England, at nine in the morning, to stop
the 100/. note. The 1001. note produced is the one I
gave, and I identified it by the name of Charles
James Butler, which was indorsed upon the note when
I paid it away.
Cross-examined by Sergeant WILICINS—I do not
know Charles James Butler. Charles James Butler has
not done any business at our office, and I do not
know who he is. Messrs. Killich are members of
the Stock Exchange. I cannot show throughout
the book I entered the number of the notes any
other instance in which I had taken down the numbers
of the notes paid away. It is not my business to do
,so. Mr. Flight, who attends to that department, was
eut of town.
Mr. Shillibere re-called—l find
.on the back of the
1001. note "F. G. Manning,". which is the undis-
guised writing of the male prisoner.
f Killich and Co.
11th of August, about half-past
on Saturday, the
I rllelmr.emGbeoerrgbeeiLngintihnortnbee, soliffiacree-dealer,
.examined—
I recollect a. person there
kwaoswththene
eleven in the morning.
who had come to sell twenty shares in the Eastern
Counties Railway. I did
.not take any particular
notice of the person. I decidedly remember a trans-
ferthe
whether s t stranger a nlg e.srh whod
present. bein
a 51. note, and five sovereigns. They were handed,
person again. I saw the money paid over inns 100/.,
g I executedca
nnet sayb y
decidedly, to the same person, who signed the
transfer.
Cross- examined by Sergeant Wiraiss—l have no
interest in the firm of Killich and Co: I am a dealer in
shares, and do not deal in, anything else. I have
never officiated as a lawyers clerk. Basset wrote
the body of the transfer, and, in fact, all but the
name. I was in the habit of going to Messrs. Kil-
lich's office every morning. I have no particular
place of busbusiness.l have had an office at No. 46,
Threadneedle-street, during the railway mania. For
the last 20 years I have been a dealer in shares. I
am not certain whether I had an office
.for twelve
months. I rented it of a hairdres,ser. in lodg-
ings, 47, Dean-street, Soho. 1 she consist of the
second floor and a portion of the third.
Mr. Griffin, clerk at the Bank of England, said
the 1001. note was exchanged by him on the 11th of
August, and he gave the person who presented it 50