The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1870.

self. Mrs. Balland says, " Nonsense, there's nothing
the matter. I have no doubt he got them all right." I
says, " Well, you'll hear something by and bye."
Witness continued : At night when they were going
to bed, Jenkins said he should go out into the road and
fetch in a horse and trap, he had bought of a man that
was driving it along the road. He went out and
witness again asked Mrs. Balland what she thought,
now ? and she made the same reply, but witness was
sure there was something wrong, and continued to
think so. Next morning he saw Jenkins coming
out of the Bell beershop with two "gals," and in the
evening he told him he wanted to pawn a watch and
witness made an excuse to get rid of him, but he followed
him and then they got drinking. While they were in
the Queen's Head, a man said " Have you heard of the
murder." I says " Murder," he said yes' of seven
people." Jenkins then suddenly said, " Which is the way
into the back yard." I shewed him and saw him go
into the closet. I told Mrs. Balland again, I said, " That
man's done the murder and no other."
By the Coroner : I fancy Marshall had a pony and
chaise, and that Jenkins went there on Sunday for them.
He told me that he had stolen as many horses as there
were in Uxbridge.
Coroner : When was that ?
Witness : Before he " did " the two months. He told
me he stole his father's horse, and sold it for £l4, and that
then he wrote to his father and told him where it was, and
he went and fetched it.
Sarah Alderman, landlady of the Dog and Duck, about
a mile from Marshall's house on the Uxbridge- road,
proved that at a quarter before eight on Sunday morning
a man came to her house and wanted to be served. He
said he was a traveller, and came from Wycombe. He
had a carpet bag like that (produced) and paid her is. out
id a purse.
Mary Ann Sparks, sister of Mrs. Marshall, recalled,
said she recollected Marshall wearing such a hat as that
which was worn by the prisoner before his arrest. " This
shirt is like those I helped to make, and I know my sister
altered the collars like this. That is my brother's tie,
and those his trousers. [She then identified every article
seriatim.]
Daniel Love, warder of Reading. said I knew the
accused as Reynolds, alias Jones, alias Owen. I recog-
nise this jacket as one whichbelonged to a man who served
seven years. I gave it him. He also had these boots,
which belonged to a warder, and are somewhat peculiar.
That was on the Bth of January, when he left, and he had
done eighteen months for stealing a ewe and a lamb ; when
he left he asked me how long it was to Uxbridge.
He said he knew a man who had got some money, and he
would have it, and rather than have eighteen months
again he'd murder him. He is described in our calendar
as a widower, and smith, and I fancy comes from Bath. I
believe his name is Owen.
The Court adjourned at 1.30 for half an honr.
James Western, assistant to Mr. Butcher, pawnbroker,
Reading, said on Monday evening a man came in with a
watch and chain, and asked 255. I asked him his name'
and he said, " George Wilson, of Reading." I said, "Is
it yours ?" He said " Yes " rather sharply. He added
he was going to Reading, and was on the spree.'
I said, "We don't lend to people on the
spree." He said, "Oh, lend me something, if its
only 155., as I must go to Reading to see my father."
Mr. Butcher advised him not to leave it, and he said,
" You're one of those quiet men ; you're like my
father." I then gave him a duplicate, and lent 15s.
The Coroner : Has the other half been traced?
Superintendent Dunham said he could prove he was
trying to sell it in Uxbridge.
Superintendent Duncomb said that Jenkins was offer-
ing this watch to a man in Denham on Sunday, but he
had not been able to get him yet. It was possible
that he had exchanged the watch with this man.
In answer to the coroner, the superintendent said
he thought the militiaman who had threatened
Marshall knew nothing whatever about the murder, as it
had been clearly discovered where he was during the time
and all the night.
P.C. Trevener, to whom the accused had related the
story of the man trying to throw his wife into the cut,
identified the tramp's clothes found in Marshall's house as
those worn by the man he had met.
This concluding the evidence,
The Coroner said the whole of the evidence was very
strong, though circumstantial, and it all pointed to one
man. That man as far back as January, had stated his
intention t o have Marshall's money or murder him. He
came to Uxbridge, but committed an offence for which he
suffered imprisonment, and only came out on Saturday,
and then he was clearly proved to be out all night the
night of the murder. He returned to the house
on Sunday with a carpet bag, wearing Marshall's
property part of which he had since destroyed, and
beyond this in the bedroom were articles which he With
seen to wear at the lodging-house on Saturday, and with
which he had not returned to the lodging-house.
At this point Superintendent Dunham produced the
key of the house of the murdered family, brought from
Reading, which was found on the accused.
The jury at once returned a verdict of "Wilful
murder" against John Jones, alias Jenkins.

THE FUNERAL.

The gentry of Bucks, being undesirous that the family
should be buried by ie parish, subscribed a handsome
sum to defray all expenses. The bodies left the house in
procession at 4.45., followed by Mrs. Spooncn,
Marshall's sister, Mrs. Marshall's sister and brother,
and an enormous cortege, comprising those from
the immediate neighbourhood as well as many
from the surrounding towns, Captain Drake, the
Chief Constable for the county,"guperintendents Dunham,
Jervis, and Denson, and fifty of the Bucks County Con-
stabulary keeping order., The bodies were laid in separate
graves, side by side, in Denham Churchyard, except the
elder Mrs. Marshall, who was interred along with her hus-
band, and the service was read in the most impressive
manner by the Rev. Mr. Joyce, of Denham.

DISCOVERY OF TWELVE DEAD BODIES..
On Friday a most revolting discovery was made at
Kilburn by Mr. E. R. Judd, inspector of nuisances
for the parish of Willesden. He was inspecting
some stables in the occupation of Mr. John Austin,
undertaker, at Denmark-gardens, Kilburn, when
in a cupboard under the stairs he found two
coffins, and on examining the loft a third coffin.
in each of them was the body of a child in an ad-
vanced state of decomposition. Mr. Judd proceeded
from the stables to Chichester-terrace, where Mr. Austin
lives, and discovered eight other bodies in coffins or boxes,
and a ninth in a sort of earthen vessel. The undertaker
said that he knew he had done wrong, but that he was
compelled by poverty to do so. He had received money
for the purpose of burying the children. In the after-
noon Mr. Judd waited before Mr. D'Eyncourt, at the
Marylebone Police-court, to represent the facts of the
case, and to ask for an order to bury the bodies. Mr.
D'Eyncotirt said a medical certificate must be brought to
him stating that the bodies were in such a state as to en-
danger the health of the inmates of the house. He would
then give au order for their burial, and costs could be re-
covered against the undertaker. He did not see at pre-
sent how he could grant a warrant. Mr. Judd said that
Mr. Austin's house was not the proper place to keep
fro dead
bodies. Besides, the undertaker had received money m
the friends of the deceased. Mr. D'Eyncourt said that
was another matter. If Mr. Judd would get a medical
certificate, he would give an order for the burial.

THE ALLEGED WIFE MURDER IN
CROYDON.

John Carpenter Carver, 35, described as a mattress-
maker, of 35, South-end, Croydon, was brought up on
Friday at the police-court of that town, charged with felo-
niously murdering his wife, Mary Carver, on the preceding
night. - 'lnspector Convey, of the W Division of Metropolitan
Police, read the following statement in writing made by the
prisoner :—" 1, John Carpeut-r Carver, wish to make the
following statement: I came home to dinner at two o'clock
in the afternoon, and told my wife to go and ask Mrs. Mor-
gan, who lives next door, to give us some mustard and cress.
She said that Mrs. Morgan was upstairs, and 7 then
went and cut some myself, and gave it my wife to wash.
She brought it• in, and put it on a dirty plate. I told
her about it, when she called me a brute, and said I
bad been to the Drovers. I was then in the act of
cutting a piece of bacon. My wife rustled at me and
knocked me against the wall. I bad a knife and fork in
my hand at the time. I had previously broken three
plates, and I suppose that had made her savage. After
she rushed at me she went and sat in a chair, and
in two or three minutes dropped into the fender. I
picked her up, thinking she was in a fit, as she
bad many times been before, when I saw blood running
from her. I went to Mrs. Morgan, and then sent
my servant for a doctor." Inspector Convey said he read
this statement to the prisoner, who signed it. Witness
found an ordinary dinner-knife stained with blood, which
be produced. The clothes were saturated with blood
Mr. George Miller said that on the preceding site:,
noon be went, on business to the prisoner's shop. There
was no one in the shop; but he heard a voice in the back
room say, "I'll smash your —brains out." He then looked
through the glass panels of the door, and saw the
prisoner fall down. He afterwards saw him raise his
hand several times, as if striking some one.—Mary
Ann Morgan said she lived next door to the pri-
soner. On Thursday afternoon prisoner asked her to go
tn, as his wife was dying. She went in, and on pulling
deceased's clothes open she saw the wound. She said to
him, "Oh, you wretch!" when he said it was an acci-
dent, and asked her to send for a doctor. Witness had
previously heard prisoner and his wife having some
words.—Boverta ether witnesses gave similar testimony.—
The Bench then adjourned the inquiry until Tuesday.

MR. HENRY F. CHORLEY ON MUSIC.—At the
meeting of the Anthropological Society of London, held on
the 19th of May, at St. James's Hall, Dr.Berthold Seemann,
V.P., in the chair, Mr. Henry F. Chorley read a paper on
"Race in Music," Mr. Dannreuther illustrating the paper
by numerous examples on the pianoforte.
HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—The Queen's Birth-
day is being officially celebrated to-day, her Majesty having
attained her 51st year on Tuesday last. The household
troops were paraded in St. James's Park, and a body of
militia (including the Ist London, 400 strong, under the
command of Colonel Sir J. A. Rose) joined in the move-
ments. At one o'clock a Royal salute was fired in the Fork
and at the Tower, fifty-one rounds being fired, representing
her Majesty's age.
The letters of allotment of the Globe Marine In-
surance Company were posted to-night. The subscription
is the result of private applications through Messrs. Chad-
wicks, Adamson, Collier, and Co., and was largely in
excess of the required amount. The company seeks to
combine some new features for the mutual benefit of
shareholders and insurers, and is stated to have a large
business of the best description of risks already secured
to it.