The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAI, MAY 13, 1870.

SPECIAL EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY.
The Speaker took the chair at five minutes to tour
o'clock.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Mr. CANDLISH gave notice that on the House going
into committee on the Parliamentary elections Bill, he
should move an amendment for the purpose of providing
that votes at municipal elections might also be taken by
ballot.

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 naw 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 ?" There
was a large pool of blood from where I shifted the
box, and I said " What does blood mean there ?"
He never answered me. I 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 box down 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." He said the second time, and
stamped his foot, " You, carman, go and finish cord-
ing that box." I said, "No. I shan't! 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. We 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 (exataplifying 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
out " 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
assisted 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 round 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 I 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—l shguld think about twenty-four hours
—not more.

Mr. Selfe—Have you further evidence to-day
Nhat time was the woman last seen alive ?

Superintendent Fisher—l 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
nquest is to-morrow, ordered a remand till five
,o-morrow.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 10.

It is the Queen's pleasure that presentations to his Royal
Highness at this levee shall be considered as equivalent to
presentations to her Majesty.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 10.

In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's Order
in Council of 27th February, 1870, Captain Isaac Newton.
Thomas Saulez has been placed on the Retired List, from
tho 6th inst.