The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

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ATROCIOUS MURDER IN CAELSEA.

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER.—(YESTERDAY.)
Walter Miller, a plasterer, about 30 years of age,
was charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Anne
B. Goss, servant to the Rev. Mr. Heuline, a clerk in
holy orders, of 15, Paulton's square, Chelsea.
The cars excited gre it interest, in conseiuence of
the disappearance of the rev. gentleman, and the
fact that, when apprehended, the'prisoner had take n
laudanum, and had a number of valuable documents
belonging to the Rev. Mr. Heuline in his posession.
Prisoner, who had been at St. George's Hospital
for two days, was brought up in custody of Sergeant
Large, of the 'l' Division, who has had charge of the
case throughout, and was the first of the police to
appear on the scene of the horrid tragedy.
Our reporter was privately informed from•a source
which cannot be disputed that the dead body of the
rev. gentleman, Mr. Heuline, was found in the house
15, Paulton-square, buried, and the prisoner, the: e-
fore, will be further charged with the double
murder.

Hannah Middleton repeated her evidence already
given in our columns of to-day, respecting the find-
ing of the body of the murdered woman- strangled
in the house and doubled up in a box, on which she
informed the police.
Superintendent Fisher, of the F Division, said the
daughter of the witness could not carry the case
further.

Henry Piper sworn— lam a greengrocer. I live
at 11, Marlborough-road, Chelsea. 1 am &so a van
proprietor. Last Wednesday night, at 20 minutes

past 9, the prisoner came into my-shOp, and asked if
he could have a machine or cart to remove some
luggage that night. I told him he could, and Ire
told me to send it to 15, Paulton-square. He sail if
was to go to Fulham, to the West Ene I told him
it was very late and raining, and asked him what
he was going to give me at that time of night. He
said, " Make your charge, and I'll pay you." He
told me to be there in half an hour. I went there,
and the charwoman opened the door, the old lady, Mrs
Middleton. Prisoner said some of the luggage was
upstairs. I went to go upstairs, and he said " Come
_ _

downstairs ; follow me." -He told the charwoman to
show him a light in the kitchen to look for cord, and
he found some on the dresser in the front room. I
said I would cord the box. He said he would cord
it himself, and said, " Give me the cord." Prisoner
at this time was wearing spectacles ; but when 'he
came to my shop he wore none. I caw the man was
very much confused, and 1 said he had better let me
tie the box round the middle, put the box on
my hip, and tried to tie the other part up, and
raised it on one end. On doing so, my hand
was wet, and I looked at it, and found it
all over blood. When I saw it was blood, I
said to the prisoner " What does that mean ?" The e
was a large pool of blood horn where I shifted the
box, and I said " What does blood mean there ?"

He never answered me. 1 turned round to Mrs. Mid-
dleton and asked her if she knew anything about the
blood under the box and on the floor. She said "No,
Piper, I know nothing about it." He then took off
a light coat and threw it in the blood, and trod on it,
and shuffled about and wiped the blood on it. I then
put the boi-dowu in a slanting position, and said "I
shan't have anything to do with this. I must know
something more about it." There was a young woman
on the landing, and when I threw the box down she
ran upstairs. Prisoner passed between the box
and the wall, picked his coat off the blood, and fol-
lowed the woman up stairs. I followed them too,
and he stopped in the middle of the stairs and the
woman still kept going on. He turned round, and
said to me, "Go back and cord that box." I said,
"Not me." Ile said the second time, and
stamped his foot, "You, carman, go and finish cord-
ing that box." I said, "No, I Lift! I don't mean

losing you." With that he went into Paulton-
square, and we walked side by side to the King's-
road, where I met a constable. I told the constable
what I had seen, what he had done about the
coat and the woman, and told the constable
to take charge of him, and not to lose him.
Constable and prisoner walked down side by side,
and the constable was going into No. 15, Paulton-
square, and she said, " He'd better not, he'd lose his
prisoner..' My man was outside, and sent him to
the station-house for more police. IVe then walked
up and down, me, the prisoner, and the constable,
the prisoner in the middle; walking about two
houses to and fro, waiting for more police. All at
once as we were walking towards the Thames the
prisoner took a spring and away he went.
As he was running he knocked his hat up like
that (exatnplifying it), and ran without hat on. He
turned on the left towards Chelsea College, and
then threw off his coat as well as hat into the
road as he ran. I closely pursued him, and called
oat " Murder," and " Stop thief," all the way, and
kept about ten yards off until the time I overtook
him. As he passed the old church under the arch
he fell off the kerb, and before he could get up I
collared him. until the policeman came up. I then
ass'sted the constable in bringing him back to the
square, and met some police. I gave him in their
charge, and came back with Sergeant Lange. I
showed Sergeant Lange the box, and he then got the
poker and broke it open. In the box was the dead
body of a woman. Sergeant Lange sent me for a
doctor. He told me the luggage was to go to Fulham.
I never knew him before, but have heard that he
has had two vans from the shop before.
Henry 'Thomas Ryder, M.R.C.S., 51, Paulton-
square—l was called on Wednesday night at ten
o'clock to 15, Paulton-square. On my going there
I found the body of a woman, 48 or 50 years old,
lying doubled up in a box, as described by the last
witness. On turning up the head to find how she
was lying I found a rope tied rount her neck. (Sen-
sation.) She had evidently been strangled by the
rope. With the sergeant I took off the rope. It
was so tight that I could not get my finger between
the neck and the rope. The sergeant undid the rope
and untied the knot. She died from strangulation
by this rope. There was blood oozing from the lips,
and it had evidently trickled on to the floor.
Mr. Selfe—Was there much?

Witness—A quart 1 should think in the box. The
cause of death was strangulation, and that blood had
evidently oozed out after death from the effect of
strangulation.

Mr-. Selfe—Can you form any approximate judg-
ment as to the time she had been dead ?

Witness —I should think about twenty-four hours
—not more.
Mr. Selfe—Have you further evidence to-day?
iV hat time was the woman last seen alive ?

Superintendent Fisher —I am not prepared to say.
Mr. Selfe—l believe there is another charge against
the prisoner ; how do you mean to go in reference to
that ?

Mr. Fisher—We have only found the body.

Mr. Selfe, after consultation with the police, as the
inquest is to-morrow, ordered a remand till five
to-morrow.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

In reference to the discovery of the body of the
Rev. wlr. Heulin, which has intensified the excite-
tnent already existing in the neighbourhood, we learn
that the police received intelligence which caused
them to renew their search for the body at Welling-
ton-square, and ultimately they succeeded in finding
the remains of Mr. Heulin secreted in a drain in
the yard which had some time ago been opened by
order of Miller, and left in an unfinished state.
The woman who was present in the kitchen when the
box was being corded, but who escaped directly the
facts of the case began to be suspected by the van-
man, has been apprehended, but it does not appear
that she is an accomplice in any way. The pri-
soner on being removed to Westminster Police Sta-
tion appeared to be in a very weak condition, and
the charge was read over to him twice before he
showed any signs of having comprehended what was
addressed to him, and on the second reading of the
sheet to him the only emotion expressed was by a
slight nervous twitching of the lips. He appears to
be in a state of extreme prostration, but there is still
considerable doubt expressed as to whether he really
took poison or not; the fragments of a bottle smell-
ing of carbolic acid were found in his pocket, which
would seem'to show that he had attempted to com-
mit suicide.

Mr. Robert Barner4, ex_Mayor• of Manchester, who
last year gave the munificent sum of £lO,OOO towards the
purchase of the building now used as the Manchester
Royal Infirmary Convalescent Hospital at Cheadle, has
now sent to Dr. Reed, the medical superintendent, a
further princely sum of £16,000 towards the erection of a
new hospital.

A. report from New Brighton states that the
French barque Idamarel, bound from Dantzic with a
cargo of timber, went on the West Middle Bank
during a south-west gale. The crew of fourteen men have
happily been saved by the Willie and Arthur tubular
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at
New Brighton.