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

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Maria Manning is on her way to town, having left , x., -,
Edinburgh in the custody of Buperintendent MoxeSis --"" 'i by the I I 3O aM. Caledunian mail train. She will
therefore arrive at Euston.square this morning at a
quarter to five o'clock, and will be conveyed at once
to the Police-station in Gardener's-lane king-street,
Westminster. Thence during the day she will be
brought up for examination at the Southwark Police-
court; but the evidence in support of the charge
against her will not be gone into further than to
justify a remand. The Commissioners of Police are
naturally anxious that, when the case is fairly gone
into, the woman and her husdand should confront
each other in the dock, and they have, we hear, every
reason to believe that their desire in this respect will
be gratified by the speedy capture of Manning.
Langley, one of the detective force, to whom the
person
of Manning i 4 very well known, left town
yesterday upon his track, and will, it is confidently
expected, soon give an account of him. In the
tnee.ntime the adjourned inquest will be resumed this
day at eleven o'clock, before Mr. Carter, at the Lea-
ther Market Tavern, Bsrmondsey. The public in-
terest has for the last few days been diverted from the
immediate neighbourhood of the murder to the parti-
culars connected with the flight of the accused parties
and the apprehension of one of them. The great
ingenuity displayed by the police in tracting one at
least of the fugitives ; the large and successful use
uncle by them of the electric telegraph, and the re-
markable and almost providential circumstances
which led to the discovery of- the dead body, have
naturally excited much admiration. With respect to
the two first-mentioned subjects, great praise is due
to Inspector Haynes, of the detective force, who has
very skilfully guided the pursuit. On the last point,
viz., the discovery of the body, the facts are so
striking as to deserve a more special and detailed
narrative than has hitherto appeared of them.
The back kitchen where the body was buried
was the apartment generally used by Mrs. Manning
for cooking operations. Here she received the
officers on the Monday afternoon, shortly before
she determined on absconding. The appearance of
the room at that time was remarkably clean and
neat, and it was observed by Barnes that the flag-
stones with which it was paved had been recently
and very carefully rubbed over with hearthstone,
giving the floor a very white appearance. When
Barnes again visited the house on the Friday after
it had been deserted, he remarked that the mortar
or cement between the interstices of two of
the stones had a brighter appearance than in the
others. This induced him to pull out of his pocket a
clasp-knife, on opening which and testing with it the
consistency of the cement, he found it very soft. He
was naturally surprised at this circumstance, but, as
he could observe no irregularity in the mode of laying
the stone in question, he was at a loss to account for
it. He next tried the cement between other stones,
and found it firm and hard. This strengthened his
suspicions, and he at once removed two stones mea-
suring together about five feet. Beneath these stones
he round a bed of mortar carefully spread over the
whole space. This satisfied Barnes that they could
not have been laid by a workman, as masons only
place mortar round the edges of the stones. Ho found
the earth beneath the layer of mortar very loose, and
on scraping it up to the depth of about two inches he
discovered a stocking. Ile then dug down a little
lower, still using his fingers only; and when he had
reached the depth of about six inches, after a layer of
lime, his hand came into contact with the toe of the
murdered man. The position of the body, with the
head down wards and the feet tied to the haunches,
will explain this.
Immense crowds surrounded the house in Minver-
place for the first day or two after the murder, but the
attraction there has now almost ceased, for yesterday
scarcely anybody was to be seen, with the exception
of a stray idler or two occasionally. The back kit-
chen where the victim was buried has now been tho-
roughly put to rights, and the house has been well
cleaned. The landlord (Mr. Coleman) determined
not to satisfy the morbid curiosity of the the usands
who wished to look over the house, and it has there-
fore very properly been kept closed. It is about to
be temporarily occupied by a workman of the land-
lord, and will not be let again for the present. The
writer had yesterday some converation with a baker
residing in the street, who had been in the habit of
supplying Mrs. Manning with bread. The woman,
it appears, was in the frequent habit of coming to his
shop, and was very fond of gossipping. It has been
stated that she speaks broken English, but this is not
the case, as she converses in that language with great
ease and fluency. She was often talking of her
connexions at the West-end, and frequently men-
tioned the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Blan-
tyre. It is somewhat strange that she was known
to the tradesmen in the neighbourhood, not as Mrs.
Manning but as Mrs. Howard, and until very lately
there was a small plate on the door with the name of
Jervis upon it. This plate, it seems, was removed
only just before Manning and his wife de-
camped. A young man is said to hare boarded and
lodged with them for some time. What has become
of him is not known. Mrs. Manning is said to have
elsimed some relationship with Courvoiiier, 'who, it
will be recollected, was said to be connected with a
family named Deroux. No great secret appears to
have been made of their intention to leave the neigh-
bourhood, as the man had offered his furniture to a
Mr. Nock, a grocer and cheesemonger in Weston-
street, saying he wished to get rid of it at once.
Manning seems to have made himself known to most
of the tradesmen about, as several of them in Wes-
ton-street state that his person is quite familiar to
them. His wife, however, was most frequently seen.
The deceased, Patrick O'Connor, was known to
boast among those connected w ith his department at
the Customs of his great command of money. A.
gentleman in the Customs, who frequently had busi-
ness iwith him, had heard him speak about it. It
was also pretty notorious that the deceased was con-
nected with a bad set. On one occasion O'Connor
declared to one of his companions that he made a
good deal of money, but that " a lady had the best part
of it." O'Connor 's landlady is said to have had her
misgivings about some of the companions who were in
the habit of coming to the house, or of corresponding
with him, and when he was first missed expressed
her fears that something fatal had happened to him.
Her conjectures have been verified in a very appalling
manner; but while the unparalleled atrocity of the
crime remains unquestioned, there is little doubt that
the world has little to regret in the loss of Patrick
O'Connor. His life appears to have been divided
between the indulgence of the most sordid avarice
and the most depraved licentiousness. For instance,
a case was heard before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames
Police-court, about three years ago, which shows the
singular worthlessness of his character. He on that
occasion charged a man named Michael Lee with
obtaining money from him by threats. Lee's state-
ment was, that he had given O'Connor 51. to procure
employment for him in the docks, but that the em-
ployment had not been got, and O'Connor would not
return the money. Finding how matters stood, he
threatened to expose him unless the .51. was forth•
coming. O'Connor cunningly pretended that he had
not the money with him then, but promised to pay
him the same evening if he called at his lodgings. At
the hour appointed he had a constable stationed in the
adjoining room, and wherTLee threatened to exposehint
if the 51. was not returned, he was immediately
marched off to the station-house. The evidence of
the threat was conclusive, and poor Lee received
twelve months' imprisonment, while O'Connor, who
had been suspended from his situation at the Custom-
house on a charge of similar malpractices in other
cases, was held to have re-established his character,
and was reinstated accordingly.
The box left at the Folkestone station, with the
name of Manning upon it, turns out, upon examina-
tion, not to belong to the suspected murderer. -
The register-book of the marriages of the parish of
St. James, Westminster, shows that the marriage of
the guilty parties was by licence, and that it took
place on the 27th of May last, at the parish church,
Manning being described as a railway clerk, and his
wife (then Maria Deroux) as daughter of David
Deroux, postmaster in Geneva; the officiating
mi-
nister being the Rev. T. Beames, the curate ; and the
attesting witnesses, Jean Etienne Beauvais . and
Louisa Salanson.

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form observed in all such cases.
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according to the usual
Sheduring the whole time she was at the bar,
he walked into the dock with a firm, unfaltering
step, and,
ntenance did not betoken the slightest symp-
thoerr cu
nof agitation or alarm. Ever since her apprehen-
sion, indeed, she has conducted herself in a manner
which shows that she is determined to brave all con-
sequences, and not to give the slightest hint or indi-
cation that may, at a future period, tell against herself
or alleged husband and confederate in the murder.
She was very neatly dressed. and, from her easy and
graceful manners, she is evidently a person who has
mixed a good deal in society. She is not, however,
by any means what may be styled beautiful, as some
of the papers have asserted.
Mr. Moxey read the charge against her, which::::
in the shape of a petition at his own instance, and .
as follows:

" The petition of Richard John Mosey, superin-
tendent of police, and procurator- fiscal of court for
the public interest, humbly showeth, that your peti-
tioner has been credibly informed that Maria Roux,
or Reu, or Rieux or Manning, at present in custody,
has been guilty, actor, or act in part, of the crime of
murder, as also of the crime of theft, in so far as upon
the 9th day of August, 1849, or about that time, th©
said accused did, within the house situated in
Allover place, New AVeston street, parish of Ber-
mondsey, in or near London, then occupied by
Frederick George Manning, Wickedly and feloniously
OttAck and assault Patrick O'Connor, residing i