The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-15 00:00:00

OLD COURT.

THE ISLINGTON MURDER.—TRIAL OF
GOULD.
Continued from The Sun of yesterday.
The Jury having returned to the box, after an absence
of al out half an hour, the trial was resumed.
.John Richard Jobson—Lives at 7, Dorset street, Spi
tslfields. Is a print-colourer. Colours religious prints.
Has known prisoner between four and five years. Saw him
on Friday evening, 13th March last, at about half-past
seven, at his house in Dorset-street. Prisoner was in-
quiring for Jem. He knows prisoner by the name of Ar-
thur Nicholson. He was present as ben witness wrote the
paper produced, in December, 1838, in order if prisoner
were Tied for a deserter he might know he was the man.
When witness saw prisoner in the passage, he said, Dick, how
do you get on? Prisoner said, I want to see Jem. He
said he wanted to borrow a screw. Witness asked what
for? and prisoner said he wanted to serve out an old gen-
tleman in a lonely cottage. Witness told him he had
better not do any thing of the kind, or he would be trans-
ported ; and prisoner said he might as well be trans-
ported for that, for if he was taken as a deserter he would
be sure to be transported. Witness and prisoner then went
to the bottom of the street to see a fight that was taking
place. They saw seven or eight rounds. They
returned when the mob was dispersed to wit-
ness's door, and witness wished him good night. Pri-
soner said to witness you had better not go, for I want to
see Jem very particular. Witness asked what he wanted to
see Jem so particular for? Prisoner said he wanted a
darkey he had left there some time before, which might be
handy. Witness desired him to go to a public house and
wait; and he said he could not go then as he had no
money. He said ho should serve the old gentleman
on the Saturday, and would give witness a call on the
Bunday to let him know. Saw an account in the
newspapers of the murder at Islington, and gave informa-
tion to the police of the H division. Was subsequently
examined before the Magistrate.
Cross-examined by Mr. CITA MIIRR%.-Knew Gould five
years ago as a potboy at Mr. Webber's. He went by the
name of Dick or Richard. lie was lodging with witness
when he wrote the card. Jem is a man living below
witness, his name is James Rogers. He has lived in
the same house with witness two months. Has known him
fourteen or fifteen years. It was not by witness's intro.
duction he came into the room below. He would not
have let him in at all if be had known it. Rogers is a
labouring man who gets his living upon the wharfs,
by unloading barges. To witness's knowledge he
has no constant employment. He has got his living
ever since witness has known him, by mending old um.
brellas, portcring, and the like. He would not have let
him the looms, beeause he is so often out of work he can.
not afford to pay his rent. He has been a colourer for 26
years. Colours for Mr. Fairburn ; his are principally re-
ligious prints. It is the only trade he has ever been in.
He has never kept a shop. Has a wife and family. Has
been out of work since this fatal occurrence. His master
has stopped his work since. Does not buy or sell; never
did in his life. When he was in company with pri-
soner, he was charged with stealing a shilling, and
prisoner offered the person five shillings to let hint
out, but the man who charged him found the shilling
afterwards, and did not appear against him. That was
nearly two years ago : that was the only time he was in
any difficulty. Did not bolicve prisoner was going to
commit a robbery. Did not mention it to any body.
Derived his information about a screw from Torn and
Jerry and Bell's L. Did not think the prisoner was in
much fun about it, nor in earnest. He should firmly believe
that the prisoner did mean it. He did not think at the
moment that be meant it. Did not see Jem in the course
of that night, nor before he read any thing in the news-
paper, except once. Cannot tell if Jem came home as usual.
By the COURT—It was about twenty minutes to t 3 when
prisoner first came to him. They remained together about
a quarter of an hour; during all the time they did not see
Jem.

James Rogers—Lives at 7, Dorset-street, Spitalfields ;
is an umbrella maker by trade, but now works by the water-
side as a labourer, has known the prisoner five years as
Richard or Dick. Saw him on 13th March last at his
own door in Dorset-street, between S and 9.
By the COURT—Believes he once said a quarter before
8, but now says between 8 and 9.
By Mr. JONns—Saw prisoner standing by the
window. He said he wanted to see witness—he
wanted him to lend two screws and a darkey. Ile
should say he meant skeleton keys and a dark lan-
thorn. Witness said he might as well ask for a
5001. note as fur such things as them. Nothing more was
said on the subject. Witness said he had no money to
stand any beer, and prisoner said he had no money. Wit-
ness's brother-in-law was with them, but he does not think
he heard what passed. Has kept an old iron shop.
Cross-examined—He kept the shop in Little Pater-
notter-row about nine or ten months—buys old iron,
tin, bottles, rags, and such like—not anything that comes
to hand. Has never been in any scrape, or in any cus-
tody. Was in prison 17 or 18 years ago. Ile had a month
for sleeping out in the open air. Could not continue to
keep the old iron shop. Got acquainted with the mean-
ing of screw and darkey from reading " Bell's Life."
Has known Jobson about ten years; he was a print-co-
lourer then. Does not sec Jobson perhaps once a month.
Witness's brother-in-law might have heard what Gould
said. He did not know-what Gould wanted the screws and
darkey for. No darkey had been left with witness.
Never kept skeleton keys nor darkeys. Gould was a
potman when he first knew him. He thought Gould was
in joke when he asked for the things. Sometimes witness
came in late at night.
Re-examined—Went up to give his evidence on the
same day he saw his name in the paper about this matter.
Has always been on friendly terms with the prisoner.
By the Confer—Had heard that Jobson had been ex-
amined before he went up, and thinks he saw Jobson's exa-
mination in the newspapers before be was examined him-
self.
Richard Squires—ls a waiter at a public-house,
in Horsemonger-lane. Saw prisoner on the 17th of March.
He had come to sec Wright. It was about half-past eight
in the evening ; he was close by the Duchess of Kent
public-house. Wright, prisoner, and witness drank toge-
ther. Witness left first and went home. He believes he
saw Wright again that night: at the Duchess of Kent.
Had some conversation with him either then or next
morning, and he mentioned Dick's name.
By the COURT—The person who came for hint to-day
did not say what he wanted nitness about. Witness had
been at Hatton Garden before. Ile was not examined.
He stated what he knew, and it was of no use,
Cross-examined—Heard Wright examined at Hatton-
garden the last time. They have talked together about
it since. Cant say whether he went out again after he
parted from Wright and the prisoner or not. He slept at
home, but cannot recollect what time he came home, or
who he saw in his way In me.
Charles Allen lives at Wilson Cettage, Pocock's-fields,
and is a boot and shoemaker. Knows the house of Tem-
yleman ; has known it since his death; it is about 500
yards from witness's. Prisoner has lodged at witness's
house several times. Ile was lodging with witness the
last seven nights before the murder. Remembers Monday,
March lti. Before that believes prisoner was in want of
money ; he had no money on the Saturday night; lie said
he had none, but he should have some in the course of the
marrow. On the Monday morning the prisoner went out
between eight arid nine o'clock. He had no breakfast.
He was dressed much as he is now lie lied on a
pair of shoes which witness had sold him. They were
with nails. They were rather tine worse for wear. They
were lit for wear a fortnight before. Ssw Lim next on
Tuesday morning, about three o'clock. Witness was then
in bed. He came home then into the house. It was moon-
light. Witness's wife said " Richard Its early," or late,
he cannot say wrich ; and prisoner replied " It is early."
Nothing else passed. The next time witness saw hint was
when he got up, between sight and nine o'clock. Witness
was then in his sitting-room. Prisoner passed through and
went to the wash-house. He remained there from twenty
minutes to half an hour. When he passed through he
hail his coat and waistcoat on his arm, and his boots in
his hand. He returned into the sitting-room, and went out
of the house. Witness observed nothing unusual about him.
Ile had on the shoes witness made him. They were
blacked. Ile usually blacked them of a morning whsn ho
was in a place, but not always ellen he was out of work.
Never saw him use a candle unless he asked for one, and
that was but very seldom, and the witness lent him one.
Has not, since that night, found any candle or rushlight
on his premises. Prisoner returned to witness's between
seven and eight o'clock in the evening. Witness hid
heard of the murder in the meantime. The prisoner said,
in the course of conversation, it was a shocking thing—did
witness consider he could have done it himself ? Wit-
ness said, how could he possibly tie his own hands
and bind his own eyes? Shortly after, prisoner
went out to the back place ; he remained away six or seven
minutes. Witness observed that he had a pair of new

shoes on. Prisoner said that he had been over the water
dueed-rwya's the stocking that was folded outside ogn PTO-
to see his cousin ; that he had a pair of shoes that did not
Monday when she saw them. There is no mark bv which
fit him, and that he had jumped into them. Prisoner
she knows it. She bad footed stockings for the prisoner.
asked witness to fetch him a slice of bacon and a pot of
One of these stockings is footed, but she cannot say if it
beer. Witness fetched it and half an ounce of tobacco.
some
jother person to wash for him. She judged it
is her work.
in .
Prisoner gave him a shilling to pay for it. He said he
had called on his cousin .and aunt at Clapham, Lime- Cross-exam -d—Prisoner had told witness that be had
house, Blackwell, and that way, who had given him some gut
riir
a Treeer-past ewe. Had met Mrs. Jarvis about nine,
we; s,, .reis. Did not know where she lived.
money. They had some conversation respecting the mu. der.
Prisoner said he bad been with Mr. Trimby at the Rain- John Ellis met piisoner on Tuesday, March 17, about
pest two, he was in company with Mrs. Jarvis. She had
bow until twelve o'clock, and afterwards met with some
friends who had detained him. He was in bed before nine effing towards town. When he saw prisoner at a quarter-
d hAimt eilne'veifr: a child with her. Had heard of the murder about one
coo'enlsoecqku'eneWelolefnsohmoewsuesnit)ictoionbehdewenittneerstsaibnoeldte.
the policeman came and took him. Has told all the con. i O'clock. Witness saw them about a quarter of a mile
versation as far as he can recollect, except the reli- from Pocock's.fi Ids, They were going towards the cot-
gious conversation. Prisoner said if the Mosaic law tagea. Witness said to Mts. Jarvis, " There is a stir in
was correct he had broken it many times. Saw some . your village." She said, "Is the ?" And witness said
money and a stocking found in his house; it was not his ! he heard the old gentleman had ran murdered. She
property; has never kept any money in the wash-house or said, Ternpleman ?" Witness said " Yes." She
the privy. seidi " I will go home and see," and turned to Gould and
'ed When he discovered the new shoes 1 a''d " Dick, - •h me new,
Cross-examined he .1, , you had better not go home wit
had some suspicion. He cannot say whether this was be- I thee." He said, " Yes, I shall, I shall go and see what's
fore he went out to fetch the bacon. He had a suspicion up." That was all that passed.
before that. He went to fetch the bacon about one hen.: 1 Richard Bradshaw recalled--His attention was dibefore
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dred yards off. Ile was absent about ten minutes. Gould to Jarvis's cottage on Tuesday. About a crafter
bad his supper, smelted his pipe, and went to bed. When three he saw I',lrs. Jarvis at her cottago cutting wood. No
he bolted prisoner in, witness said, " Ile is in, and he shall vile was with her but her child.
never come out by me." Had never bolted him in before. ! Thos. Batten ismathematical instrument maker, was
a ....
Little Gray'seinn-
Gould might have heard him say this. The .• e
eitinow of at the General Waite public-l/we,
Gould's room is about three feet from the ground. 11,s 'are on Tuesday, March 17, et a quarter past 12. Prisoner
been ill for the last twelve mosths and has done little work. w- . .•
1
Was in the Police about a year and four or five mouths. so:-aelrillthta2c-Zt9hme.perSon in. A female came in with a
Left it eight years ago of his own accord. Witnesses two sorer
elcif al.ms. Slie s'eortly after teent out, anti prisoner
children slept with Gould' Barred the dm' because he went out about two or three minutes after. Prisoner left

EVENING EDITION.

about two. Pi isoner and the woman did not ;speak whet)
they were in the room.

Mr. Ralph Wileoxson is a boot and shoemaker, 93.
Tottenham-court-road The boots produced witness is of
opinion sere purchased at one of his shops. They were
marked 92, which is his private mirk. He has soma
shops, one in Old-street, one in Tolenham-court-roa4
two in Oxford street, co e in Regent-street, one in Ilov-
wick-street, and one in King Wiliam-street, Undo's-
bridge. Witness resides in Tottenham-court-road. His
&tighter brought him up half a sovereign on Tuesday, the
17th of March, between twelve and one, to t;.ke 7s. 6't.
out of it. The price of the boots would be about 7s. 60.
He was up stairs at the time, and his daughter brought hen
the half sovereign from the Tottenham-court-road shop.
Cross-examined—All the shopman know that mark, aod
when they leave his service some of them may use it. Mr.
Wright, of Lambeth-vralk, uses the same mark. Witness
did not know of this before to-dal, He thinks he had a
~tock of 40,000. They were all trade in the country, er.d
Wright deals with the same manufacturer. Wright is
here. Witness brought him with him.
Hannah Wileoxson-13 the daughter of the last wits
ness. On the 17th of March received half a sovereign
from Mr. Wills, her father's shopman, and took it up to
her lather to change.
Samuel Wills and John Walters, in the employ of
Wilcoxton, were examined; but their evidence was of safe
importance.

This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. CHAMBER'S then addressed the Jury for the defence.
and said this was one of the most extraordinary and
dreadful cases that had ever come into a Court of Justice ;
extraordinary from the number of minute circumstances
which had been gathered togethrr to endeavour to warp
stem into some proof of the prisoner's guilt; and drendful,
ou account of the exhibition, on the part of some of the
witnesses, of the dreadful state of depravity in which same
of the lower classes of the metropolis were plunged. lie
would allude to the conduct of the prisoner when appee_
hended. Ile was found calmly asleep between two
children. Was this the position of a murderer? Was not
his conduct, after his apprehension, that of an innrfcent
man? The Learned Counsel then animadverted sevorsh
on the evidence of % Wright, Jobson. and Roarer%
and contended that almost all the circumstfuees
brought forward against the prisoner told retnalty,
against Wright. He would defy him to show any one
circumstance bringing home to Gould the knowlNlase
any one fact connected with Mr. Templernan's affaisl,
which was not equally well known to all the inhabitants
of Pocock's-fields. The Learned 6ounsel then went rat
t contend that Squires was in such a state of intoxicalletn-
when he gave his evidence, that his evidcnoe could not be
relied on, sent for on a sudden, as he had been, to ell Cis
the gaps in Wright's testimony. With regard to the isttren
two witnesses, they must have believed Gould's commt
nications either to be in fun or to be serious; they all*
first said they thought he was serious, and then when they
saw that their not givipg information would throw a War
on their characters, they say they thought lie was in tau.
Could the Jury place any reliance on the. evidence
Jobson or Rogers? Those innocent gentlemen who
knew nothing of a screw or a darkey, except what they
had learned from reading Belts Life in ',outran.
lie had objected to place upon the face of the
affidavit made by the prisoner more facts than were abet-

lutely necessary, lest they should come to the know-kelp
of the really guilty parties, who might take advantage of
such knowledge. Were Wright, Jobson, and Rogers
honest or dishonest men ? If they believed them to be
dishonest men how could the Jury give credence to suck,.
an incredible talc. They none of them ventured to stale
that any one was present during these conversations, except
James Rogers, who said his brother-in-law might have
heard it. Now where was the brother-in-law to contradict
him?—he ought to have been here, and then, probably,
they could have had a contradiction of the two stories of
Jobson and Rogers about the dark lanthorn. He now
came to the other parts of the case, asld contended that tt
as impossible, from the circumstances, to say that Grath,'
must have been the murderer, and that no other persej

could be to. The insecure state of the cottage was known
in the neighbourhood—the knowledge that Mr.

Templeman was possessed of money was also spread in the

neighbourhood. It was mysterious and unaccountable
that the woman who discovered the murder should have

abstained from giving an alarm immediately on the dis-
covery cf the murder. The keys were left untouched in
the old man's pocket. The drawer was opened, the be;
opened, and the money gone. The person who commit-
ted that robbery knew well that he wanted neither a screw

nor a earkey. It must have been committed by a person
who knew he had been receiving money, and where that
money was deposited, and who, therefore, did not gos,
through the useless ceremony of searching the old issart"s
pockets. Gould, •according to the witnesses, knew trot
where he deposited his money, nor did he know be had
been receiving rents, so that, as far as the state of the
premises was concerned, there was nothing against Gould.
With regard to the time of Gould's return that night, all that
could be come to was that Gould came home late at night.
Now how many persons might have been out in Pocock'z„.
fields between six o'clock that night and eight the follow-
ing morning ? It was remarkable that Pocock's-delds
being regularly policed, the policemen on the beat that
right had not been prcduced. The Aliens could not hi*e
believed Gould to be a murderer on the Tuesday night. yr
they would not have suffered him to go to bed with ilmie
infant children. It was not in human nature to do to,
and they had stated that which was false in so stating ; it
was impossible that any being bearing the human form
could have suffered a murderer to go to bed
with his children. Would Allen have prefewd
shutting up a murderer with his infant chil,litot
_

to giving information and having him arrested when '
he went out to fetch the beer? Could they credit such a
tale as that—and if they could not, what reliance cotaid
they plane on the testimony of the A:lens? Was it
likely, if Allen believed Gould to be 4 murderer,
that he - could have paid no attention to tale
conversation with his wife? The Learned Counsel ea.=
commented at considerable length on the evidence of rhel
Aliens, more particularly with regard to the stocklegso
and he prayed the Jury to look at those stockings, and to
say if it was possible, there being no mark on them, kw
any person to swear to those stockings. He also beggtid
them to remark the want of straightforwardness in her
the fact evi-
.'
dente, and the difficulty with hi h
from her, that she had not examined the bundle wkick She
stated to be a pair of stockings. Why should Gould brio/a
placed the money there ? Did no one else go to sire ,
place ?—was it morning or evening that it was insinuaoct
it was deposited there ? There was no evidence to-euniseet
Gould with this money at all. The place was open, and
any one might have gone in. There was no circumstance to
affect Gould which might not affect the most innocent mac.
Was it likely that Gould had not the means of acquiring tax 1!
Why should he have taken out 9 and put the rest. away
There was nothing to bring Gould in connection with the
murder. The evidence of the surgeon showed that the"c
must have been two persons engaged in this murder;
tau no suspicion of who were the murderers, and Asest
there were supine parsons in the neighbourhood who knew
well who were the murderers, and that Gould was put for-
ward as the victim ? Ile would rest his case on the faot of
Gould having never attempted to escape when locked 1p
'by Allen. Gould had been denounced as a man without a
character, but he. would produce a master with whom ho
h.ol lived, who would give him an excellent character, and
remove that mess of prejudice under which he had been
labouring. The Learned Counsel concluded a most elo-
quent appeal to the jury by calling_
Mr. Henry William Smith—ls clerk to Messrs. Horton,
boiler and gasometer makers. Knows the prisoner, he mai
employed by witness for Messrs. Horton, at Winlcsk-
place. Prisoner was sent down in witness's employ to
N,rwieli. He bad before Christmas 183. a week. Re
was in witness's service up to the beginning of March. In
witness's judgment he was a steady, industrious, honest
men. Mr. Horton has been in Court to-day, but is gone
Mr. Baron ALoansots then went through the whole of
the evidence, commenting at great length, not concluding
his summing up until a quarter after eleven at night.
The Jury, without leaving the box, retired a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The trial leis'ed thirteen hours and a lidf.

On Monday morning, Thomas Rouse, a car
punter, was employed upon the roof of Eaton Chapel, in eretst-
ing a new belfry, when, owing to the slates being slippery from
the slight frost of the preceding night, bit foot slipped, and,
there being no-scaffolding to protect him, be fell from the r. of
into the road, a depth of sixty feet. He was picked up in a
senseless state, and taken with all expedition to St. George's
Hospital, but the injuries he had rec,ived were so serious as to
occasion death in three hours after his admission into the
institution.

E LATE GEORGE BRUMNIEL,
will afford s.tisfaction to the friends of the &eft. sed gentleman
n
to know that his latter days were rendered es appy as it was
passible for one who laboured under so frightful a visitation
as that of mental imbecility produced by paralysis. Throngit
the hind assistance of relatives, especially of his sister, Mrs.
Biackshaw, and of his brother, William Brummell: Esq., ad-
ministered under the direction of Mr. Armstrong, the wort-iw
American Consul at. Caen, Mr. G. Brummell was stirrount!gl
by every convenience, care, and attention that could tend
alleviate his sufT,rings; so that he died so tranquilly, that eve,
kis medical attendants were not aware of his having breathed'
his last.

Accidental circumstances sometimes develop's
cases of more heart-rending misery, than can be brought so
light by the inquiries of a Relief Committee. On Saturde;
afternoon a woman, the wife of an unemployed comber, re- 't
siding in the Club Houses, Bradford, was suddenly taker; :14
and the neighbours being called in, they were wishful. as is
usual in such cases (premature confinement), to get sernethiej
comfortable ready for her ; but, after a lengthy search, ti e 4
only aliment they could discover was a little piece of herd
bread, which had evidently been left weeks before. No sugar,
tea, flour, or anything indicating the least approach to cum.
fort, could be found. This deplorable case aroused the. smra- 1
thies of her neighbours, who relieved. their. necessities,. they
lacing,
as one of them declared, a most d.stres.sing case , i
dently not having tasted food for a considerable period. It is
to be feared that numbers more are in a similar Eituatien.—
Holifax Express.
MY UNCLE! MY UNCLE !—Mr. James Saint,
of Haltwhistle, having committed an assault on Mr. Sant, his
as summoned to answer for the same. The
case nueaPisiehe'ard on the 3d inst. at Blenkinsopp, the assault
sworn to and proved, and Mr. James Saint was asked by their i
Worships what he had to say in his own defence. He neithr44
attempted to deny nor palliate the offence, but, putting
in a theatrical attitude, and raising his voice to a proiier pitch, '
be cried out, " Gentlemen, the plaintiff is a terrible ChartistChartist-?—he wants to have all.suchbuildings as this castle levo led with
the ground !—he associates with the Chartists at Nevi-castle,"
&c. This new mode of defending an assault by alleging that
the complainant was a Chartist, and, of course, was game that
might be knocked on the head with impunity as if he were a
mad dog, very much surprised their Worships.; and, after the
young man had very properly replied to the rigmarole of his
uncle, the Magistrates fined the orator 6d., with 12s. costs, frS
a caution to him in future not to confound the two opposite
ter.ns, "Mad dog and Caartist."—Northern Liberator.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF DROWNING.—On
Monday evening an Inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at I
the Cowl and Horses, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on the
body of a female about fifty years of age, unknown, who was I
found in the Serpentine River On Sunday morning lag. After
the deposition of the man who took the body out of the water,
and a long discussion the Jury agreed to adjourn the in- i
quiry till 'Thursday next.