The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-07 00:00:00

GREENWICH.

THE MURDER AT GREENWICH.—The sensation pro-
duced by this unparalleled case of atrocity increases
daily. About twelve o'clock the police van arrived from
Maidstone goal, bringing the prisoners, William and
Ann Maria Richard.on, who had been remanded for a
week. There was a vast concourse of persons anxiously
awaiting their arrival in order to get a glimpse of them.
H. B. Lessom, Esq., physician and lecturer on che-
mistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, gave nearly similar
evidence as deposed to at the coroner's inquest, and said
that he had no doubt \yhatever as to the presenco of
arsenic.

The male prisoner said he would ask Dr. Leesom,
simply for information, what arsenic is, as he had never
seen any.
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Mrs. Reynolds, the nurse, in addition to her former
evidence, said that Mrs. Richardson fed the infant as
well as herself. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were at her
house the evening prior to the death of the child. Mr.
Richardson left at eight o'clock, or soon after. About
nine o'clock the child was taken ill—in less than half an
hour after he was gone. The child screamed all that
night, until eight o'clock the next morning. She
walked the room the whole night with the
child in her arms the first night, and could not
soothe it. Its eyes were infla,mcd, as well as
mouth, &c. At eleven o'clock on Friday night Mrs.
Richardson had charge of the baby, and at four o'clock
next morning she called her, and said the baby was dead.
Witness went in and saw the infant. Mrs. Richardson
was up and dressed. Miss Richardson was undressed
and in bed. Mr. Richardson came during the illness of
the infant, and witness told him that its birth ought to
be registered, in case of death. Richardson went out,
and on his return he said he had been and got it regis-
tered. Miss Richardson asked in what name, and he
said Theodore Horatio. After death, the body was
placed in the coffin, and screwed, and placed in a tra-
velling bag by Mr. Richardson. Richardson took it
away ; he expressed no wish for a medical certificate,
although pressed by witness as to the necessity of
doing so. Witness went on Monday and obtained one from
the surgeon, in the name of Theodore Horatio Richardson,
behoving that the female prisoner was not married.
Their conversation before the child's death was in
French chiefly, but afterwards they conversed in Eng-
lish. Witness remarked upon this fact. to Richardson.
He said they were only talking about the weather.
Miss Richardson said her father did not understand
French.

Mr. JEREMY said that the certificate was very imper-
fect, and not as required by the Act of theLegislature.The
Registrar-General should be furnished with the disease
accurately described by the surgeon's certificate. It
was not so.

Charles Robins, of 1, Abbey street, Bermondsey,
undertaker, said that, when before the coroner, he could
not tell when it was that Mr. Richardson bought the
coffin. He had since ascertained that it was on the
evening of the 27th September. It was ordered of his
man. The prisoner said it was for a still-born child, and
must be strong, to go by railway into Yorkshire.
Mr. Robins said his housekeeper and shopman could
say more on the subject than himself.
Mr. JEREMY said they must be summoned to attend.
Thomas Jones, labourer, who had been examined on
the coroner's inquest, and gave testimony as to digging
the hole, was examined to-day, and deposed positively
to doing so on the Thursday before the coffin was de-
posited, in which case the order to do it must have been
given by Mr. Richardson before the death of the
infant.

The prisoner Richardson here said that the witness
was wrong ih a week.
The witness Jones said he well remembered brick-
layers being at work that week when he dug the hole.
Turner, another witness examined on the inquest,
was called, and said that when he was at work on the