The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-17 00:00:00

AN EXAIIINATION BErOlif OCR LOCAL

The room was crowded to excess, and the followirig
proceedings took place :--
On Monday, Ann alia, Jane lire:nnard Wad hroulbt
before our local bench to undergo an examination'relatizii
g•
to the circumst ince!' of the above murder. Were any
witnesses were called, the prisoner stated that she was
married to a man who went by the name of Goldsmith—
the same who was on the preceding day committed on the
Coroner's warrant on A charge of murder. Prisoner fur-
ther stated that she had been matried to him a twelve-
month the 16th of March last, at Rye. The name of the
parson who officiated was John Miles.
Charlotte Thomas sworn—l keep a little shop, 24,
Iligh-street ; prisoner and her husband came to my ironic
three weeks last Friday, unch.r the name of Goldsmith.
They took lodgings by the week, at the rate of font. shil.
I ngs ; they pall pretty regularly ; the man's mother visited
them ; prisoner offered me for sale a pair of baby's socks
or -boots, and two little shirts, which seemed fitted foi
new-born child ; I gave sixpence or eightpcnce for them,
can't say which ; I think prisoner :aid r.be had a child;
within the last few days some things have occurred espe;
daily at night, which I could not comprehend. On Sa-
turday morning, between eleven and twelve, the man's
mother came in great trouble and ran up stairs. I heard
her sty " where is John : fetch him." After a little
time the man came in, and remonstrated With her, as she
walked about, stamping and wringing her hands, cry*
bitterly, exclaiming, " we are undone," or "we are found
nut," can't say which ; the man afterwards dressed him:-
self and went through the passage and across the street,
leaving the prisoner at home ; in the evening the prisoner
was taken into custody. At night the man returned in a
blue jacket; he bail left the house in a White one ; tlrie
was about ten or half-past ; be ,aid, " I'd he if I
don't soon know what they have t :ken her there for."
Elizabeth Matthew., Margaret-street, sworn.—Prisoner
anti her husband lodged at our hot';., under the name of
Goldsmith, for about three months. A month last Friday
the man came to me far the loan of a barrow;'. As rn;
Mother was not at home, I did not lead it. Before this
period prisoner had often named deceased to ore as not tit
to be the wife of any body. The next day when I was out,
the man borrowed the barrow of my mother. The wee{:
' that he and the prisoner kft u., he was out late at nights.
On Saturday night he was at home till towards the morn-
ing part. The barrow was a wheelbarrow. The prisoner
was not out with bim. They left us because they were
unfortunate and could not pay.
Anne Leaver, 7, Margaret-street, sworn.--Prisoner ap-
plied to me last Saturday four weeks. for the loan of a bar-
row. Goldsmith took the barrow out by the bark door,
it was not candlelight, but before dark. The barroW
came home that night. Ido nut know whether it was
daylight.. I saes it in she morning. Prisoner was pre-
sent. She said her husband had been taking a tub for a
woman, next door er just above, to his mother's. There
was mud on the barrow.

Here the prisoner was se7zed with a fit of hysterics.
She WWI removed to the outer room where she continued
some time crying and lamenting that she was a poor in-
tu:ent creature. On her return, however, she was quite
calm and comp ,sed, and cross-examined the witness thus :
Did I ask you for the barrow. Yes. I said your hu-
b Ind had itsked 11;:tsy for the barrow and he may Lave it
when he likes. Prisoner repeated her question, and wit-
ness again answered yes, and that prit.oner had said her
heart was in her mouth till her hthland returned.

The prisoner, being c.Alled on for her defence, declared
she was innocent of miry circumstance connixted with
the murder. She was remanded to Lewes gaol till Mon-
day next, when she will undergo a further nomination.
(/' UM= PA RTICULA RS. )
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It is rather a singular coincidence that Mr. Richardson,
who took rather an active part in the opening of the body,
had been engaged by tie unfortunate woman to attend her
at her spproachin4 confinement. The female, Ann Ken.
wird, comes from Riegate or its neiehbourbood. The
question, " What was to become of her," put in a tre-
mulous voice by this unhappy female,—unhappy, at all
events, in having formed this connection with Holloway,
the husband of another woman,—seemed to affect the
prisonetmuch. But for her, he said, and his old soother,
he had nothing in the world to care for. Our inquiries
have traced the marriage of this unfortunate couple, John
and Celia Holloway, to the operation of our bastardy laws.
—lt appears that Celia, who was at the time living in a
pUblic-house at Brighton, became pregnant by Hoiloway ;
and having applied for parish relief, the overseers of Ar-
dinghy took Holloway on a has ardy warrant, which re-
sulted in his marrying her. Holloway is now but 25 ;
so that at the time of this forced marriage, he was 19,
and the unfortunate woman, 26 years of age. Holloway's
father was a driver in the artillery, and his mother's
maiden name was Goldsmith. He is a very small per-
son, about five feet in height. We have since beard that
about a month or five weeks back, be tack an empty
house in North Steine-row, snore generally known as
" Donkey-row ;" and a woman in the same row is said to
have seen Holloway about the supposed time of the murder
bringing cut a heavy box, placing it in a barrow, and
wheeling it away. She als,i remembers a woman, whom
it is asserted she identifies Ann Kennard to be, cowing out
after Holloway, and locking the door.—Kennard is a slight
young woman, about Holloway's age, and of delicate apl
pearance. We learn that Holloway suddenly exclaimed,
breaking from a stopori while ein, conveyed to Horsham,
"you'll find the brad and legs near the body,"—and be
also requested to ste the Rev. Mr. Everarti. That Rev.
Gentleman went to Horsham yesterday, and search was
made in the afternoon in the plantation ; but up to the
time of our going to press nothin4 further had transpired.
Yesterday a private examination was held before the
bench, where, as we hear, fresh evidence wis adduced
tending to implicate the female, and which, we suppose,
will be brought forward against her on Monday next on
her re-examination.

By a recent decision of the Court of King's
Bench, clergymen of all denoniinations are tolerated in
preaching in the open air, where they please, provided they
do not interrupt a public thoroughfare.—Morning Riper.
SHOCKING CAI. AMITY.—On Friday the
29th ult. a poor man left Waverton, near Wigton, where
he had been attending a sale, for (;rainaer Houses, his
residence, but having gone into a field a short way, he fell,
by some mischance, into a hedge gutter, and, from his
position (being almost doubled—his knees and chin touch-
ing each other), being a litt!e inebriated. was unable to
extricate himself. The free circulation of his blood was,
in some degree, prevented, and in the course of the night
his lower extremities became morbid and powerless, and in
the morning he could not rest himself in the least, nor call out
for assistance. To the pangs of thirst and starvation were
shortly added another torment—the fins settling in great
numbers about his mouth and nostrils, whilst the ravens
circled around him in expectancy of their prey, and were,
with the greatest difficulty, kept away by the fief& waving
of one of his hands. Saturday pasic.l in tie same horrihle
way.
In the evening a shower of rain came, which some-
what relieved his thirst ; and in the course of the follnw
ing. day h. was found and isonveyed home. Ile'recoverrit.
a little, and was rnahled to give an account suffer-
;not, hot after lingering in the moo dreadful agonies for
s, expired on Thurstla wk,ek.-- Ca rlblr Jour