The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-25 00:00:00

by the parlour fire, about half past eight o'clock the pre-
' ccding evenin,q, who: he heard the street•door fo:ced
open, and i:rn.diately afterwards the prisoners cemo
into the parkur and wallicd round the table, Scudder
lighting his pipe at the candle. They then loft the hotve,
and immediately after they were gone, a boy came and
told him that a man had run off with his clock, which
was kept in the passage.
John Hopkins stated that he was standing near the
house when he he saw the pris-ner Furnam come out
with the clock under his arm, and make off as fast as he
was able, and because witness noticed him, he used very
abusive and threatening language. The other prisoner
was standing at the door, but left immediately after-
wards, going the contrary way.
C. I..ever, police-constable, 72 R, deposed that he ap-
prehended the prisoners, both of whom denied taking
the clock away. The clock was subsequently found
secreted in the out premises of the Woodman beer-shop,
which is kept by the father of the prisoner Scudder.
.1. Jeriltiuoli, 10 R, deposed that he found the clock.
The pendulum and w(ights were found in the road, but
the bell of the chy-k was lost.
Scudder denied being concerned in the clock robbery,
or that he knew it had been rt moved Off the premises.
He had certainly gone in and lit his pipe, and that was
his only offence.
Mr. Thomas said he (lid not believe Scudder would
rob him; he had an opinion that Scudder would do no-
thing wrong towards him.
The police-constable told Mr. Jeremy that the prisoner
Furnam was a painter and glazier, but seldom worked,
and slept about in sheds and barns at night.
Mr. JEREMY said, he did not think felony was in-
tended, but a most daring and impudent trespass had
been committed by both prisdners, and he should fine
them 10s. each, and order them to pay ss. each for the
damage done to the clock, and in default he should com-
mit
them for one month to the House of Correction.
The prisoners were locked up.

THE RECENT 111.UtiDER- AND
SUICIDE AT LAMBETH.
CORONER'S INQUEST ON THE TWO BODIES
On Wednes.lay afternoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner fir
Surrey, and a respectable jury, assembled at the Hero ot.
Waterloo, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, for the purpose of
inquiring into the circumstances connected with the
respective deaths of Hannah Reed, aged 30, and of
William Reed, aged eleven months, • who were found
drowned in such a mysterious manner on the forenoon
of Monday last. •
The jury having been sworn; they proceeded, with the
Coroner, to view the bodies, which were lying in the
vaults of St. John's Church.
Upon the return of the jury, the first witness called
was—
Richard Pierse, a lad of 17, who said that on Monday
forenoon he was in company with another lad, named
Thomas Martin, looking for pieces of coal at the river
side. When off West's wharf they discovered the
bodies under circumstances previously described in this
journal.

Frederick Anderson, a son of one of the beadles of the
parish,. said that, in consequence of information he
received, he went to the water side, and there saw the
bodies. The child was tied round the woman's waist
with a piece of laycord, which was passed round the two
bodies twice, and finally fastened to the woman's bonnet
and cap. strings. The cord was also passed over the
child's arms and shoulders. He had the deceased re-
moved to the vaults of St. John's Church.
Ann Jones, of 39, New-street, Webber-street, Lam-
beth, said that she had known the deceased about fit teen
months. She had been living in the same room with
witness during the last three months. She had no male
rrotector, bet had been maintained by witness as well as
:he could afford. She had no means of supporting her-
self and child, but she received Is. 6d. per week from
St. Dunstan's parish. Witness saw the deceased alive
for the last time on Thursday evening. She went out
at seven o'clock, saying at the same time that she was
going to meet the father of her child ; and she expected
her home the same night, but she did not return again.
On Tuesday she heard of her death.
The CORONER—Did you ever hear her threaten to
dk”tr.y herself ? Witness—Yes ; a month ago I heard
her say if her circumstances did not, alter she would
drown herself. She also said, if she did so she would
drown her child also. I told her at the time how wrong
it was to talk in that manner, when she replied, " All !
you don't know my feelings." I have often seen her
crying, and my belief is that she destroyed the life of her
child, and also her own life.
A letter, written by the unfortunate female, was here
identified by the ;fitness ; it was found in her box, and
was as follows
"I do not wish you to put on a black hat-band for me,
as you have been so unkind to Ilse in life. What few
rags I leave behind me and my tickets, let not your wife
touch, for if she does, may the retribution of Heaven be
upon le r If Ann thinks fit to accept of them, she is
quite welcome for her kindness to me and my dear babe.
'He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.' I die
in peace with those who are my enemies—may Heaven
forgive them ! James, I now take my pen in hand to
address a few lines to you for the last time. I certainly
And your unkindness to exceed more than what I once
could have thought. You have allowed me to have been
driven houseless, with a dear babe at my breast, by a
base wicked woman. You have not so much as even
inquired about me. I should have thought you would,
en account of the dear child, when you professed so
much love, which must have been deceit: Mark me, the
day is not far distant when she whoelaims you as her
husband may and with want a home and bread, as bad
as I should if it had not been for Ann and her husband.
You have said a great deal about them, but they have,
been much greater friends to me than ever you were.
lam now about to commit a deed which my very soul
shudders at ; but I cannet live any longer as I now am
living. Perhaps it till be p!easing to you to hear o!
my body and that of my dear babe being picked up.
Consider your unkindness and poverty have driven
me to the deed. As to your wife, I hope she will feel
her conscience prick her when lum in the grave. My
dear babe will go to heaven, and I hope the Lord will
forgive me and take my soul to himself. lam now your
unhappy, but when this you receive I shall be no more.
I forgive you all your wickedness."
The letter was addressed to her brother James, but a as
not signed nor dated,
Mary Smith, a sister-in-law of the deceased, said that
three months since she heard deceased threaten to destroy
herself: She believed hes circumstances had caused her
mind to become impaired.
s' 'The wife of the brother, to whom the above letter was
addressed, said that she was unable to keep the de-
ceased; she had only one room for her own family, and
she did not think it prudent for another female to sleep
in the same apartment. She offered to take the child if
it seas weaned, and the mother went to service, which she
refused.
The Learned CORONER having summed up, he ex-
plained the law bearing upon the case in a very clear
'manner, when the court was cleared of strangers, and
after :ome time consulting together, the jury returned a
verdict, " That Hannah Reed had wilfully murdered
William Reed, and destroyed her own life, she being a
the time of unsound mind."