The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-26 00:00:00

THE UXBRIDGE TRAGEDY•

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER.
Jenkins was yesterday morning brought up before Sir''
B. Harvey, Captain Farrar, and Mr. Coleman, at Slough
The court was closed to the public, but alarge and exelte'
crowd congregated outside, their shouts and loud On
versation being plainly heard through the opeil windo
and occasionally reaching a pitch that interrupted th

proceedings. all
The prisoner, who had remained in the police cells a
night, was brought in shortly after eleven o'clock an
placed in the dock handcuffed. He is apparently a;
of 42 or 43 years of age, and was dressed in clothes wille.o
had been supplied by the police. In appearance ile,_lo
short, thick-set, with black, bushy beard and moustaote
closely cut round. His face was ghastly pale, and
looked like a man who had not slept for several daYs•
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leaned over the bar of the dock and listened, aPPgre
without emotion, to the circumstantial relation by StiPe_i
intendent Dunham of the position in which the seve
victims of the murders were discovered, with the roar
each bore of the blows of the axe.
The witness having deposed to the finding of thebodice6r!
continued : In the front room I found a pair of old e_
duroy trousers and a pair of boots (produced). There are
marks of blood on the trousers, and the boots are saturate
with blood. Upon one boot there is a Pied
of human brain. There was nothing abstracted fir° r,
this room. In the room facing the smithy I folillnVey
old corduroy coat and waistcoat patched all over.
also
were pushed under a small table in the room. l ket,
found a number of pieces of old flannel, a fustian J.
an old blue shirt, a necktie, and an old " billycock Pgo-
In this room two boxes and two drawers were pulled oPtel;
and several articles were lying about the floor. °JI
chest of drawers there was a watchstand and key, Ouse
watch. Yesterday afternoon I went to a lodging-b° eci
called the Oxford Arms, Reading. A man ne,.
Coombs was with me and a policeman from 11eae, ;e
We went into the tramps' kitchen, where there
about twenty persons. The prisoner was sitting fats„clo
us as we entered, and Coombs directly said, 1-'"ea
the man." The prisoner said, " I have never murderde
man, woman, or child." The charge had not been illg.be
against him then. I went to him, and caught him b_iiifir g
throat. The Reading policeman said, " He's Pli"-by
something out of his pocket," and, catching Inr°„ded
the hand, pulled out this pistol. It was I°'
up to the muzzle with powder, and pieces of iron wire'
The Clerk : Which pocket was it in
The prisoner (in a sullen tone) : The left-hand pocket_A4'
Witness : The pistol was not capped, but I afterwal4,
found a cap in his pocket. I charged the murderedwl",
the murder, and he replied, "I have never al
one, but I know who did." I said, " Why, you've got,, I
the murdered man's shoes." He said, " That may bai.eo
took a black silk necktie (produced) from his neck.
went to a second-hand clothes shop in Reading, ant', 'Ol
ceived from Margaret Lyons, the shopkeeper, a black C'°,,f
coat and a light waistcoat. The prisoner at the tiniLd
his apprehension was wearing a calico shirt, dark striP,Z;
trousers, and spring side boots, which I now produce. v"
the left boot there is a spot of blood.
Prisoner : The blood came out of my nose last night' j
Witness : A silver watch and gold guard I produce t
obtained from the shop of Mr. Butcher, pawnbroker, g
Uxbridge.
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Charles Coombs said : I am a bricklayer, and firstgoe
the prisoner at Bullen's lodging house, Uxbridge. r.
came in about half-past three o'clock on Saturday al"
noon. I came back at nine o'clock, and found "el
prisoner had gone out. He did not come home ag„°i.
that night. I next saw him on the following morns
He came down about 10 o'clock in a new
of clothes. He had on the black coat, light v_en,s4
and striped trousers produced by the last witness. rye
" John, I don't hardly know you now." He said,
been to my brother's, and got a suit of clothes off hwiij
[The witness here identified the old corduroy coat a
hat which were found in the house of the murdered nag
as described in the evidence of Superintendent Duni:l.s,l°,l
I saw the prisoner wearing those things on Sabi e,
afternoon when he arrived at the lodging b°.lt-8
Yesterday morning about five o'clock the prisoner on
into my bedroom and asked me for some, tobacco.
said I had none, and he then asked me for some breat
fast. I gave him what I had but he did not to
it. He said he was going off toßeading by the 6.45 tralTo
At seven o'clock on Monday night 1 was in the Queen
Head, Reading, in company with the prisoner and sever
other men. A man came in and said, " Have 2-re
heard tell of the murder ?" The prisoner said. " Has
been a murder done?" and asked me to chew-him the "1
out into the back yard. He came back in ten minutes, inici
said, " Well, I'm going home." The prisoner said, " 111 g°
ed.,
too." We both went home and the prisoner went to u
About five minutes to two on Monday I met the prisone:4o,
and he told me he was going to pawn a watch. Ile w
then wearing the watch and chain now produced.
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The Clerk to prisoner : Have you any questions to -
the witness ?
Prisoner : Yes, sir, I have. Now, Charlie, did you se:
me at three o'clock, or four o'clock, or five o'clock °
Monday afternoon? Now tell the truth.
Witness : I am not sure, but I think ur
Prisoner : I was not there at three o'clock or f°
o'clock. •
Officer: Don't make a statement; ask any question
you want. Dot
Prisoner : What's the good of me being here if I ain
to speak the
The Clerk : You can ask questions, but this is not
time to make a statement.

Prisoner : All right ; it don't matter.
The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday. .j,
As he left the dock he nodded to the witness, and 531
Good bye, Charlie."

The prisoner's arrival at Slough, and his dePart,ti nref
after the examination was closed, attracted a crowd
people. It required all the exertions of the constabelarf,,:
as it had done on the previous night, to prevent 111'
being seized by the mob. This was especially the CI;
yesterday afternoon. When the examination was over
was taken to the cell at the back of the station to await
quiet opportunity for removal to the Slough Statil
whence he was to proceed to Aylesbury Gaol. At half-r_
one he was put into a cab and driven towards the statioe,
Capt. Drake, the Chief Constable, Superintendent Den' or
and other officers attending. The 8.35 train for Aylestalre
was due when the police reached the station, and thete
were then few persons about. The prisoner was take°, o
the booking-office, and his appearance soon attracteo,o
crowd. The officers of the railway company tried
vain to keep the platform clear. By the time the ~•
p.m. down Aylesbury train arrived at Slough it
quite apparent that the police would experience eo_,°o,l
derable difficulty in getting the prisoner into the tr7o,
A dense mass of people, principally working an
crowded the platform opposite the doors, °ea.
made a desperate rush whenever the door was ertort
When the train ran into the station an e /t-
-wos made to put the prisoner into a compare.
ment which the officials at Paddington had been
quested by telegraph to reserve. So great, however, I;;;,,,
the rushing, yelling, and hooting, that it was found heir
possible to get the man into the train, and in trg
efforts to effect this object Captain Drake and his °Tet of
had to stand some rather rough work. In the mid feel-
the confusion the persons in the train showed their ithe
ing as well as those upon the platform. Meanwhile, eat
desire of the crowd to get at the prisoner and to ill
tle
him showing no abatement, the officers were ref6l
tautly compelled to return him to the booking-0 _,AO
While this was going on the up Gloucester goods trP•t,
reached Slough, and the down Windsor train was rtiabii„
to the platform with a couple of empty carriages attaeu;ol
to it. The people were then cleared from the platfoe'es
by the police and railway officials. The two last carrio,,rt
of the Windsor train were detached—the Windsor 1)!:n.
went on, and the prisoner was run into the empty oisr,
partment of a second class carriage, Captain Drake, Tlcl
Superintendent Denson, and Superintendents Sargent,a_ii,
Jervis being with him. As quickly as possible the ari,b
tester goods engine was hooked to the carriage in 'aT
the prisoner was seated, and it was run out of the state in,
While the police were getting their prisoner into the triatihe
the crowd again broke into the station, surrounded
train, and yelled and hooted to their hearts' content. the
Last night most intense excitement was created by er,
announcement that John Jenkins, the alleged rinwicleeithe
had, while he was in the police-cell at Slough, liaau ea Di
following confession:—" I did it. I alone was engag
of
it ;no one else had anything to do with it. I ara °
brother of Marshall." •

THE CAPTURE OF ENGLISHMEN IN SPI%-ii.;\o'
Intelligence has been received from Madrid stating t' 0
the captured Englishmen area gentleman named
Srißee
rea
and his nephew and their servants. They were ct
off near Furm Sabar and no trace of them has been ,°"" „,a

DIOCESE OF LONDON.—The Bishop of Lontiou 10.9
tbe
announce that he will hold his primary visitation of
clergy of his diocese in the autumn. • t
The Central Council of the Church Institu
held a meeting yesterday evening at King's College.
Sandon, M.P., was in the chair. Mr. Raikes, 31-1""
a paper on ',Church Reforms," and a discussion on
subject followed.
THE PROSECUTION OF THE REV. MR. BE NNE- •of
This case will be shortly further heard in the C0n,,,rt,..
Arches on remission from a decision by the Judicial ti7i-e
mittee, on a preliminary objection taken to one of
articles.
ROYAL, SOUTH LONDON DISPENSARY..—The tho
versary festival of this charity was held last evening etforit,
Bridge-house Hotel, London Bridge ; Colonel Beres
M.P., in the chair.
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR CONS ETA,. 1043
ISLE OF WIGHT.—The anniversary festival in aid (Irer-
funds of this institution was held last night, at the Lord
minus Hotel, Cannon-street. In the absence of the _„.4
Mayor, who was detained by official duties, the chair v 10.5
taken by the Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel ; and 0,10°117t
those present were—Mr. Sheriff Patersen ; Iri Sir
Eversley, president of the hospital ; the Right Ilon• his
Laurence Peel, chairman of general committee ; Ali
Highness the Nawab Nizam of Bengal, Prince nd
Kudhr Bahadoor, Prince Soliman Kudhr Bahadoor, f'of
suite ; his Excellency General Peryet, late Presiders old
Peru ; Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. • Captain Sir P. Lec;,,,P,;xit
M'Clintock, R.N. Mr. J. Snowden Henry, M.P.
Andrea Metaxa; Mr. Wilke, General Consul of the
°lOO
German Confederation. The subscriptions includeu f
guineas from her Majesty, £3O from the Nawab Nie—rs-
Bengal, £lOO from Mr. Morley, £2O from Viscount e/00
'ley, and amounted in the aggregate to between 1,;3,
and £3,800,