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London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

defendant acceding to being held responsible. De
fendant afterwards called at the office and gave
instructions. Plaintiff suggested that defendant
should place the matter in the hands of his own so•
licitors, but defendant said he would prefer the
plaintiff doing it, as he understood the case b?tter
than they did. Defendant afterwards called and pro-
duced an account as executor, and said that if plaintiff
would ;pass it as attorney for Mrs. Keene, he would
pay the bill. Plaintiff declined doing so, and said
that if he did he would be struck off the rolls, and
on this defendant said he would not pay the bill at all.
Mr. GRAY, on behalf of the defendant, contended
that the plaintiff had throughout been acting for the
Misses Yeldham and Mrs. Keene ; therefore the
witness had not given a faithful version of what had
passed between the plaintil and defendant, but that
all the interviews had been with the plaintiff as Mrs.
Keene's attorney. The Learned Counsel then put in
a variety of letters to Mrs. Keene, in which plaintiff
treated her as his client.

Mrs. Keene was then called, and swore positively
that she retained the plaintiff.
Frederick Miller, son to the defendant, was called,
and proved that he had conducted his father's business
for 3 years, and always opened the correspondence, his
father residing at Peckham. In February, 1847, the
time when the alleged letter was stmt, he was in con-
stant attendance at the place of business in Fenchurch-
street.

Mr. Tuomas replied, and contended that the evi-
dence on the part of the plaintiff had not been in the
least shaken, for the evidence of Mrs. Keene was not

to be depended on in the slightest degree, as she had
admitted that she was living with a man not her hus-
band, and that she was also receiving money front
another in consequence of having had a child by him,
although the child had been dead for four years.
The jury, after being locked up for two hours, gave
a verdict for the defendant.

THE MURDER IN GOLDEN-LANE.

(THIS DAY.)
The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two
children who were recently found murdered in
Golden-lane was held this day at three o'clock,before
Mr. William Baker, coroner, at the William the
Fourth public-house,
Jeremiah Donnoghue, labourer, was the first
witness called, residing at No. 9, Cupid's-court, who
stated, that about one or two o'clock on Saturday
morning last, he distinctly heard the voice of Amina
Blake, one of the deceased, cry " Murder" several
times. About four o'clock on the same morning he
was apprised of the murder of the two children,
Amina Blake and her brother.

Mrs. BLAKE, the mother of the deceased, deposed
to their being two of her children by her lawful hus-
band, Robert Henry Blake, under whose protection
they were left in London. She was at present living
apart from her husband at Birmingham with another
of her children.
Mr. Wright, surgeon, stated that he was
called in to see the deceased shortly after four
o'clock on Saturday morning last. He found
the body of Thomas Henry Blake, the younger,
lying upon a bed on the ground floor of the house,
the bedcloathes were in the greatest disorder,lthe body
was warm, but life was extinct. There were several
scratches on the tip of the nose and the nostrils, on
the right side of the mouth, and upon the left cheak,
and upon the throat near the wind-pipe; there
were no othef appearances of external violence
on the body. He examined the chest and
found the lungs perfectly healthy, but gorged
with a dark coloured black fluid, the intestines and
abdomen appeared also in a perfectly healthy state.
On removing the scalp he found that the dura mater
was covered with numerous bloody points, from
which dark coloured blood issued. -The vessels pia
mater were gorged with a dark coloured fluid. The
substance of the brain, when cut in two, also pre-
sented various bloody parts. There was no bloodi n
the ventricles of the brain. Upon examining the
body of Amine Blake, he found, with a small
difference, precisely the same appearance, and
in both cases he was led to believe, as the result of
the 'examination, that death was caused by forcible
compression of the mouth and nostrils.
Mr. Courtenay, surgeon, of Whitecross• street, gave

evidence of a similar nature.
The CORONER proceeded to sum up, and in doing
so, completely exonerated the father of the children
from any actual participation in the dreadful crime.
There appeared to be no doubt that the murder was
committed by Harriet Parker, whh lead been living
with the father of the children for some three or
four years. The only course for the jury to adopt
would be to return a verdict of wilful

murder against her. It appeared from her own state-
ments that she had contemplated the atrocious act for
some months past; and that, since she had committed
it, she had stated that she gloried in what
she had done, and had made use of file,
extraordinary expression, "That she could die on the
gallows like a trump for it." With respect to any
plea that :night be set up on the grounq of insanity,
that would he a question to be tried in another place.
The Coroner then proceeded to read ovr the whole
of the evidence, but had not concluded up to the time
of our going to press.