The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-04 00:00:00

THE MURDER ANT) SUICIDE IN

CLEIZKENWELL.

INQUEST ON THE BODIES.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Payne,
the City Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, as-
sembled in the Committee Room of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, to inquire touching the death of George
Gingell, aged forty-two, and Mary Ann Gingell, aged
twenty-one.
For some time prior to the arrival of the Coroner
and the Jury, the room was crowded to suffocation, and
the interest was so exceedingly intense, that every
place where a seat could be procured was occupied,
and it was with some difficulty that the Jury were ac-
commodated. Several females, respectably attired, were
in attendance to hear the proceedings.
The Jury having been sworn, they proceeded to view
the bodies of the deceased, which were deposited in
two separate shells in the dead-house at the back of
the hospital. The spectacle was most appalling, the
heads being nearly severed from the bodies.
On the return of the Coroner and the Jury to the
inquest room, their names having been called over, the
following evidence was adduced :
Martha Blackmon) sworn—l live at No. 12, Comp-
ton-street, Clerkenwell, opposite where the murder was
committed. I was not acquainted with the deceased
woman, but I knew her by sight. I saw her walking
with the deceased man on the opposite side of the street
about a quarter past twelve o'clock on Tuesday fore-
noon. I was looking out of the window when I saw
the man put his larm round her waist, and I heard her
say "Oh don't." I immediately afterwards saw her
turn round, and blood was streaming from her face,
which I thought oozed from her mouth. I did not see
the man do anything with his right hand. The woman
put her bands up to her neck as if she was begging for
mercy, and she staggered back a few paces and fell.
The man then drew a razor across his own throat,
and went on his knees by way of embracing her, and fell
upon her. I became so terrified at the sight of the blood
that I cannot state what afterwards occurred. My
screams brought the people to the assistance of the de-
ceased.

James Spriggs examined—l live at No. 12, Comp-
ton-street, and occupy the first floor. My windows
were open, and I was looking mkt about ten minutes
past twelve on Tuesday morning, when I observed the
male and female, now lying dead. He seemed to be
importuning her, and she turned her face away from
him towards the house. I heard no words pass, and
upon their coming opposite the wiremaker's, in that
street, he appeared to get closer to her, and she endea-
voured the snore to avoid him. When she reached to
No. 57, she attempted to ring the bell, but whether she
did so I don't know. The man pulled her by the
shoulder, and I saw him lift up his left hand and, as I
thought, strike her in the mouth. I then saw him ope-
rating upon his own throat, and the woman fell, and the
man knelt over her as it seemed for the purpose of show-
ing her the wound in his throat, which he pulled open.
The female was in a reclining position against the wall.
Having proceeded to her assistance, I endeavoured
to lift the man up, but the blood flowed so copiously from
both, and the sight was so appalling, that I was neariy
paralysed, and 1 nearly lost ail my strength. I picked
up the man's hat, which was nearly new ; a per-
son in a few minutes came up to my assistance, and
we pulled the man from off the woman. A policeman
subsequently came up, and the bodies were conveyed
away upon stretchers. They lay there nearly twenty
minutes, and I implored the persons who had collected
to assist me in conveying them to a doctor's, but none
of them would do so. The street was very clear of
persons at the time, a shower of rain having taken place
a few minutes before. There was a great deal of
screaming for assistance, but the people were so horri-
fied that they would not interfere.
By the CORONER--I had no idea that the man had
an instrument in his hand, when I saw him strike the
woman ; but I afterwards saw him throw the razor
away, which was covered with blood.

By the Jury—The man did not struggle at all when
laid hold of hitn ; but be appeared to be very anxious
to show the woman the wound in his throat.

Henry Redmond, a policeman, stated that he went
to the spot, and found the bodies on the pavement, in
the situation described by the preceding witnesses. lie
produced a letter written by the husband, dated May
26, entreating his wife to return to him, a postscript to
which was dated June 2, the day on which the murder
took place.

Wm. Pohl, the father of the deceased woman, was
examined, an 4 after stating some particulars which ap-
peared in the paper yesterday, said hi;; daughter had
been treated with much cruelty by her husband, and on
that account she had left him.

A number of other witnesses were examined, but their
evidence was not important, and the Jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
The police yesterday morning succeeded in tracing
the two children who had been placed under the care
of a person in Somers-town.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—Richard Anderson, from Li-
verpool to New York, 18th ult., lat. 41, lon. 51, by the
Willi= Goddard, arrived at Liverpool ; Susannah, from
Whitehaven, lat. 46, lon. 41 ; St. Patrick, bound to
Quebec, lat. 51, lon. 20, by the Fraliklyn, arrived at
Liverpool ; Sir John Falstaff, Cape of Good Hope to
London, April 8, lat. 31 S., lon. 10 E. ; Cambrian,
Newcastle to Bombay, 30 lat. 3 N., lon. 31 W. ; Fairlie,
bound to Port Adelaide, Ist ult., lat. 5, lon. 22; Brutus,
Bonny to Liverpool, 16th, lat. 32, lon. 41 ; Amity, lat.
34, lou. 32; Princess Sophia, China to London, 20th,
lat. 38, len. 33; Salsette, from Bombay, lat 31 S., by the
Duke of Lancaster, arrived at Liverpool ; Rover, bound to
Quebec, 12th ult., lat. 46, lon. 31, by the Lydia, Ronne,
arrived in the Downs; Navigator, Le Fevre, bound to
the River Plate, April 13, lat. 2 N., lon. 17 W., by the
Norden, Hilliham, arrived at Pernambuco; Margaret
Forbes, King, Liverpool to New Orleans, April 12, lat.
22, lon. 54 ; Fairfield, Whitchaven to the Cape of Good
Hope, March 11, 11 S., lon. 35 W., by the Golden
Fleece, arrived at Pernambuco ; Malay, Mauritius to
Liverpool, April 6, lat. 33 S., lon. 28 E. ; Jong Jan, Java
to Rotterdam, 2d ult., lat. 5 N., lon. 24 W., by the Admi-
ral van Kiusbergen, arrived off Folkstone.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.—Robert Small, Scott, from Bengal, off Wey-
mouth, sailed sth February • Cape of Good Hope, 12th
April ; Princess Louise, Rodbert, from China, off Fal-
mouth, sailed 10th February ; Richard Mount, Longridge,
from Mauritius, off Falmouth, sailed 14th February ; St.
Helena, 31st March.

Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.—The Ca-
ledonia, Liddell, April 9, from Batavia; Samuel Baker,
Wild, from Mauritius ; Ferguson, Robertson, from Cey-
lon ; Windsor, Nesbitt, 10th April, from Calcutta.
Departures from Table Bay.—The Waterville, Mills,
April 8, for Cork ; Thomas Coutu, to sail 14th April for
London.

Arrival in Simon's Bay.—The Tanjore, Hopper, April
7, from Table Bay.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay.—The Africans, Salmond,
March 30, and Courrier, Innes, April 3, from Table Bay.
Arrivals at Mauritius.—The Jesse Mitchell, Thompson,
from the Cape and to load for Glasgow ; Edward Robin.
son, Paison, March 14, from Calcutta.

Departure from Aiauritius.—The Malay, Galbraith,
March 14, for Liverpool; Planet and Mary Gray were
loading for London; Gazelle, Robertson, to sail 17th for
the Clyde.

Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales, previous to Jan.
18.—The Crusader, Inglis, from Dublin; Robt. Hender-
son, M'Farlane, from Liverpool; Jane Blain, Reid, from
London ; Charlotte, Forrester, from Hobart Town.
Departures from New South Wales.—The Orestes,
Smith,—and Barassa, Austin, previous to 18th Jan. for
Bombay; Psyche was to sail 18th for Lombock.
Departures from Manilla.—The Faerie Queene, Hick-
man, Jan. 26, for New South Wales; Sultan, Poole, for
London.

Arrivals at Singapore.—The Patriot, Mullane, from
Mauritius ; Penang, Poppy, Feb. 11, from Calcutta, with
the November overland mail.

Arrivals at Batavia—The Diana, Lane,—and Hebe,
Malcolm, for New South Wales.

BAD NEWS FOR AMERICAN EMIGRANTS.
The following is an extract from a letter recived a few days
ago by a person in Preston from Pittsburg, in North America.
It gives a very gloomy account of the state of affairs in that
district. The writer emigrated from Preston a short time ago,
and dues not appear to congratulate himself meets on his
change of country :—" Pittsburg,
April 16, 1840. Dear Sir
—I take the present opportunity of writing some particulars
respecting America. I have travelled in it something like two
thousand miles, so I know a little about it. I know this, that
any man that gets twenty shillings a week ought to stay in
England. There are thousands here now working for about
two shillings a day, and there are great complaints of
the times, which they say is owing to the banks.
In Pittsburg two-thirds of the works are stopped; and as
to the cotton manufacture, it is not worth any man's while
to work at it, as I have seen and talked with scores of
spinners, carders, and weaving masters. At the place I worked
at when I first came, there were seven spinners, two carders,
and one weaving master, dressing castings, and striking for the
blacksmiths, and there are several others that are come over,
who have gone back quite disappointed. You will say this is an
unfavourable account, but I speak as I find. Where they pay
four or five shillings a day in store pay, you have to sell a ten
dollar's order for six or seven dollars, as 1 have done when I
wanted any money. lam now out of work, aad have been for
the last two months past, and am low enough at present I can
you at the present is to prevent any
assure you. 1 have been to Cincinnati and Wheeling the last
places, and lam about to go to Buffalo. 1..11y reason for writing
getting fixed in the same way that I am—Y. our's, &C. Tuoaras
court was assembled, of ms acquaintances from
8u NI N Eft. —Te Mr. Geldart Dobson, spinner, Preston."
A COURTIER METAMORPIIOSED.—As I
was at least seventy years of age,
sauntered through the suite of apartments where the rest of the
I saw, that all the world appeared in masquerade. I could not
help smiling when I perceived the old Prince Trobetskoy, who
such was the change of dress in every one
suddenly metamorphosed into
a military character, and now, for the first time in his life,
arrayed in full uniform, braced tight as a drum, booted and
spurred, and prepared for desperate combat. This deplorable
old courtier, who had the trick of feigning illness and decre-
pttude like beggar
his own, been laid up in a fit of the gout, with his legs swollen
men, had lately, for some private purpose of
asbig as his body; but the moment the new Emperor was de-
clared, he jumped up from his bed armed cup -pied, and in-
stantly ran amongst the Ismaeleffsky Guards, of which he had
-a
been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, :nob:sting every one he met,
with his orders. This fearful vision was one of the dauntless
warriors of the Court of Peter !—ltlemoirs of the Princess
Dasehhaw.