The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

policeman; but he found that it was double locked, and the
key missing, so that he was obliged to get out by the window.
In his cross-examination this witness acknowledged that he
and the prisoner were on very bad terms, and the latter had
given him notice to quit his house, and that he (witness) had
applied to this court for a warrant against him. The witness
and his mother denied that there was the slightest cause to
suppose that Mrs. Munton was insane.
Mrs. Ann Cox, a married woman, who lived next door to
the prisoner, deposed that, about 8 o'clock the morning
before, she heard a violent noise in the lower part of the
prisoner's house, resembling that of two persons fighting or
struggling. The struggle appeared for some time to be going
on in the passage, but at length the parties reached the par-
lour, and she then heard.a female voice exclaim, " Oh, you
villain, you have done it at last !"
Mr:Charles William Otway, a surgeon,- in Canterbury-
row, Kennington, deposed that about eight- o'clock on the
morning before he was called on to attend the wife of the pri-
soner, and on going to the house he found Mrs. Munton on
the parlour floor, with the prisoner by her side. The latter
had one hand on the wound in his wife's throat, and the
other engaged in preventing Mrs. Manton from getting her
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hands to the wound. The wound at this tinie was not
bleeding violently, and witness, with assistance, removed her
into bed. She was then in a state of collapse from the shock
the system had experienced by the wound, and the loss cf
blood. The wound in the throat was about an inch-and-a-
half in length, was across the gullet, and divided the wind-
pipe and some of the muscles, and might have been inflicted
by either herself or the prisoner. He succeeded in dressing
it, and remained with the patient until past ten o'clock, be-
fore whim time she was so far recovered as to be able to dis-
cern what was going on about her, though unable to articu-
late. At present she was labouring under a good deal of
fever, but he thought she would get over it. After visiting
her several times, he asked Mrs. Munton who did it, and
she said herself, and at the same time embraced and kissed
the prisoner. She subsequently made a motion to signify
that she wanted a pen, ink, and paper, and they were
brought to her. A piece of paper was here shown to the
Magistrate, on which the following had been written by the
wounded woman
"I did it myself through distress of mind. Pray, my dear
Fred., take care of my poor dear Arthur for your poor dear
Ann's sake. Will you be a father and a mother for ever. Do
not charge my mother and brother with anything. They
are innocent. " JOANNA MUNTON."
Mr. (Away, in continuation, said that on reading over the
paper, and finding that she had not mentioned the name of
her husband as being innocent of the offence, as well as her
mother and brother, asked her in the presence of two police-
men whether it was her wish to add anything to that effect.
She then took the paper, and after the word "anything"
she interlined "nor my husband."
Inspector Collier, of the P division, said that on being ex-
amined at the station-house, the person of the prisoner was
found to be very much scratched all over. He also produced
the prisoner's shirt, which was completely saturated with
blood, particularly the sleeves—and also the nightcap which
had been worn at the time, and which was found in the
fire-place of the next room—and this, too, was saturated
with blood.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.