The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 27,

bill for the purpose of making a proper addition to the
salaries of the judges who would have to try the cases.

The amendment was withdrawn,

The House then proceeded to further consider the bill,
and were so engaged for upwards of six hours. A multi-
titude of amendments were discussed, but nothing of a

particularly noticeable character transpired during the
proceedings. On the division which took place the
Government were in the majority, and the amendments
for the most part were disposed of with great rapidity.
There appeared to be a disinclination on both sides of the
House to unnecessarily retard the further progress of the
measure, and, contrary to what it has usually been during
the passage of the bill, the attendance was very
large. When at ten minutes to twelve Mr. Charley
persisted in dividing the House on a question of
comparatively trivial import he succeeded in drawing
forth an almost general expression of impatience. At
twelve o'clock the House had gone through the report, a
stage of the measure which was arrived at amid cheers.

NAVAL OFFICERS AND PUBLIC JOURNALS.
On going into Committee of Supply,
Sir JOHN HAY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty
to lay upon the table of the House any regulation which
prohibits naval officers on half-pay or retired pay from
writing letters to the public journals, and moved that any
new regulation on the subject which might be decided
upon by the Board of Admiralty be laid upon the table
of the House.

Mr. CHILDERS contended that under certain circum-
stances it was competent for the Board of Admiralty to
interfere with officers on half-pay, and he instanced
the case where an officer might have, whilst employed,
received confidential information from the Government,
and which it would be undesirable to have published. It
would be impossible to lay down the rule that in such
matters an officer on half-pay was not subject in such a
matter to the same regulations as when on full pay. So
long as.the publication related to questions of the general
service it would be unwise to interfere. It was the inten-
tion of the Admiralty to lay down the rule that half-pay
officers had absolute liberty to write to newspapers on
public questions, but to call attention to the decision in
the case of Sir Charles Napier.
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE supported the proposition, and he
took the opportunity of criticising in unmeasured term
the late cruise of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
After some discussion the motion was withdrawn.
BILLS ADVANCED.

The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Bill, Sale of
Poisons (Ireland) Bill, and Wages Attachment Abolition
Bill were read a second time.

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL.

This bill, as amended, was considered.

The House adjourned at 25 minutes to two.

THE UXBRIDGE TRAGEDY.

MORE HORRIBLE DETAILS.

A fresh horror is added to this shocking massacre by the
clues which are coming in every day, and which at present
appear to point to the conclusion that the
supposed murderer is no one else than Marshall's
own brother, returned from Australia. Every clue
as yet seems to point to this dreadful fact. The
man now in custody has passed under many names. Mar-
shall had two brothers, both in Australia. One of these
died four or five years ago. The other, believed to be the
man in custody, was sent there about eighteen years ago,
and nothing had been heard of him for many years. He
bore a bad character when he went away ; indeed he was
sent away by the murdered man as a reprobate of whom
there was little chance in England. The man in custody
only came out of Reading gaol on the Saturday week
previous to the murders. He had been com-
mitted for two months for stealing stockings at
Uxbridge. Yet the first thing he does when he comes
out is to return to Uxbridge. While in the tramps'
lodging-house he spoke freely about his going to see a
brother whom he had not seen for many years, and who
was a smith living at Cheapside, Denham. This is sig-
nificant, as Cheapside happens to be the little local
name of the very spot where the murdered family lived
and have lived for the last twenty years. They lived
there before Marshall's brother was sent away to
Australia. No one not well acquainted with the neigh-
bourhood could have known this name, and the probability
is very strong that none but a close friend of the
Marshall family could have known it. The man
in custody always said he was going to see his
brother the smith, thJugh he never mentioned his
name, but there was but one smith at Denham, and he
lived at the little part of the road known to a few as
Cheapside. Whatever may be the ultimate result, the
police are confident that the man they have got is Mar-
shall's brother from Australia. The sister whom he has
living has been sent for to identify him, if she can.
This, however, is not easily done, as so many years have
elapsed. It now appears that the man in custody went
to the forge to steal tools, and was there attacked by
Marshall. The thief at once defended himself, and then
attacked the family who had been aroused.
The key of Marshall's house or shop, it is not known
which, has been picked up in the lodging-house at Read-
ing, where the murderer was captured. It appears
that on the day of his capture the prisoner
offered the key to anyone in the lodging-house
who would accept of it, but they all declined,
stating that they did not wish to be taken up
for housebreaking. He then pushed the key through a
hole in a cupboard in the kitchen. Yesterday a woman
named Willis unlocked the cupboard and found the key.
She took it to the Reading Poiice-station, where Inspec-
tor Townsend now has charge of it. It is an ordinary but
rather large door key. The bow is a little bent, and there
is also some white paint upon it. There is no doubt
whatever that it belonged to Marshall's house.

Yesterday evening the police succeeded in discovering
the missing carpet bag, which 'it has been said the
prisoner was seen carrying away from Marshall's house,
and which will form a strong connecting link with the
murder. The police give a positive denial to a statement
which appeared in one of the local papers that the pri-
soner had confessed to the murder. The only foundation
for it was an allusion made by him to the exasperation
manifested against him, when he said, "If I am
proved guilty I shall be scragged (hung), but don't
let them knock me about." It is, however, said that
yesterday afternoon he expressed his intention of making
an important statement before the magistrates, to the
effect that though some of the property is traced to him he
is not the actual perpetrator. The carpet bag alluded to
was found in a threepenny lodging-house in the Bell yard.
Thousands of persons visited the scene yesterday. Many
carriages came up, and some of the occupants were
anxious to see the scene of the tragedy, but all were re-
fused admittance. The seven coffins were brought
about five o'clock, and when they were placed
on the grass in front of the cottage a general murmur
of sympathy and sorrow arose. Those for the
four adults were made of elm, while those for
the three children were covered with blue sarsnet. Now
that the post-mortem examination has been made the
wounds show even more terribly than before. The bulk
of the money, namely, £2O in sovereigns, drawn from the
savings bank of Miss Marshall for her wedding, was found
yesterday at the bottom of her box, so that the property
taken by the murderer has been very little.

ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS,
(THIS DAY).

At ten o'clock on Friday morning Mr. Chandler, the
coroner, resumed, at the Swan Tavern, Denham, the in-
quest on the bodies of the seven members of the Marshall
family, who were alleged to have been murdered by the
man John Jenkins, who has been arrested on the charge
of wilful murder.

Singular to state but very few persons congregated
either inside or outside the Court. It was stated that a
considerable body of people would no doubt attend the
funeral of the murdered persons, which was fixed to
take place at five o'clock on Friday evening.
It is thought, however, that but few people
will come down from London in consequence of a false
statement having been published in a newspaper declaring
that the funeral had taken place, and that over 2,000 per-
sons attended it. It is needless to state that the report
was untrue, and we are informed that no telegram was
sent from Uxbridge announcing it. It was evidently
written by some unscrupulous person, who was utterly
regardless of the amount of injury that is done to the
general character of members of the press and others by
making such statements. On Friday several very strong
remarks were made in the inquest-room about it.
Superintendent Dunham, of Slough, was the first wit-
ness called, and he repeated at great length the evidence
which he gave on Wednesday at Slough when the prisoner
was brought before the magistrate about the discovery of
the bodies in the cottage at Denham. After he had
done so.

The Coroner said— Had the murdered man, Marshall,
his boots on?
Witness—No.
Coroner—That is very particular. Did you see marks
of blood-stains on the floor in the tool-shed?
Witness—Yes, as if some person in his stockings had
been walking about the floor. I produce a pair of grey
trousers, two coats, one a grey one and the other a short
brown one, two waistcoats, and a billycock hat, two old
pocket handkerchiefs, and a piece of flannel. There were
a pair of boots also in the house. I produce them. Look
at the left boot, sir, you will see the portion of the old
man Marshall's brain upon it. (Sensation.) I then went
through the house, and I found that all the drawers were
ransacked.

The prisoner then described how he arrested the pri-
soner Jenkins on Thursday at Reading, and he produced
the clothes of Marshall, which he found on the prisoner at
the time of the arrest. The witness produced the mur-
dered man's boots.