The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT

GRAVESEND.

GRAVESEND, OCT. 23.—William Wilson was again
brought up before the Magistrates at eleven o'clock
this morning, when further evidence in respect to
the charge of his having caused the death of his re-
puted wife was gone into. The miserable man was
apparently in a deeper state of dejection of mind, and
evidently labouring under greater physical debility
than during the previous examinations before the
bench into this certainly doubtful case, in so far as
the immediate cause of the death of the unfortunate
woman is involved.

Police-constable Lewis, who had not been pre-
viously examined, either before the coroner or magis-
trates, now deposed that between two and three
o'clock on Wednesday., when on duty in the station-
house the witness, Elizabeth Rose, carne to him and
told him that there was a woman killed by her hus-
band in a house in New-court, to which he imme-
diately proceeded, and on going in he saw the prisoner
in a room on the ground floor, sitting on a chair and
alone, hut he did not know then that he was the al-
leged murderer of his wife. Witness stood at the door,
and John Bridal, the prisoner's landlord, came in,
and pointing to the prisoner, said, " That is the man
who killed the woman." At that moment Mr. Saun-
ders, the doctor, came in and went up stairs, when he
(witness) took the prisoner into custody and followed
the doctor up stairs. The prisoner sat down on a
chair, and the doctor, after feeling the pulse of de-
ceased, told the witness that she was dead. Witness
upon this said to the prisoner, " You must come with
me, you are my prisoner." the prisoner fell from the
chair on the floor, and continued in a fit and insen-
sible for about three minutes. When he recovered
Bridal said to him, " Oh, Wilson, what have you
done ?" Prisoner replied, "Oh, Bridal, lam a heart-
broken, ruined man." Prisoner appeared to witness
to be in great mental agony. On the way to the
station-house prisoner told Bridal, who was support-
ing him by the arm, tolet him "walk by himself with
the policeman" (witness), and then said that the de-
ceased, whose name was Mary Ann Pewter, was not
(hinhl
eeiaans
manslaughter
.swife.oauh lie made no statement whatever respecting
her death, or the cause of it, to witness.
The prisoner, who during the delivery of the fore •
going evidence seemed to be greatly agitated, was
asked by the Mayor if he wished to ask the witness
any question ? but he declined either doing so, or, as
the evidence was now closed, saying anything.
Mr. Oakes (after some consultation with the Mayor
and the other four magistrates present) said, that he
was of opinion that the death of the deceased resulted
from the violence used towards her by the prisoner ;
that, although a charge of murder could not be sus-
tained, as it did not appear that the prisoner had in-
tended to take away the woman's life, yet it was evi-
hrnter(l‘toira. jOurakefso) that he would not, after
as
aring the. evidence be did, be discharging his duty
magistrate if he did not send the case as one of
ixent on the charge of
The prisoner was Jaen trial.t.
next assizes for the countycommitted for trial at the
manslaughter.
All the witnesses were
bound in heavy Personal