The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-11 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH- STREET.

A discussion relative to the arrangements instituted in
cases of lost and found infants yesterday occurred before
Mr. DYER.

It appeared that a female infant, apparently about three
years old, had been found by the constable on duty in Ber-
wick-street, and he immediately took it to the St. Ann's
station-house. Not being inquired for in the course of an
hour, it was sent to St, James's workhouse, where they re-
fused to receive it.

Mr. Bryant yesterday attended, and assigned his reason
for refusal. A short time ago, a child had been brought
there, and had remained there eighteen days. It was at
length owned, and the father of it then said that he had ap-
plied at the office of the Commissioners of Police, and his
treatment there by the constables had been rude, and they
told him they knew nothing about the lost child,
Mr. Dewing, the inspector said that every facility was
given to the discovery of lost children. The circumstance
was entered invariably in their minute books, and communi-
cated on every afternoon to the clerks of the seventeen di-
visions. Thus in a short space of time it reached through-
out the police-force.
The parties then withdrew, the overseers admitting the
child.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday George Belt, a journeyman shoe-maker, who
has been in custody for the last fortnight, on a charge of
having, in a fit of love and jealousy, made a most deter-
mined and desperate attempt to murder a female, named
Martha Clements, was brought before Messrs. NV A LKER
and TUBBS for final examination.

The prosecutrix, whose mannerand appearance seem
much superior to the generality of persons in her situation,
is still suffering most severely from the effects of the serious
injuries inflicted on her person by the prisoner, anti was
obliged to be removed from her residence to the office and
back again in a hackney-coach. On being accommodated
with a chair and sworn, she stated that on Tuesday fort-
night between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, while
engaged in washing out her room, she heard some one
enter the apartment in a hurried manner, and on turn-
ing round she observed it was the prisoner, with a
knife in his hand. He instantly rushed towards her
and said, " Martha, I am come to murder you, and
murder you I will before I leave you." He then dashed
the knife towards her abdomen on her left side with great
force, and owing to an alteration in her stays. the busk was
on the left side, and the knife passed through it and wounded
her severely, as the blood at once spouted out,
and her
shoes and dress were in a moment covered with it. The
prisoner then endeavoured to drag the knife across her per-
eon, exclaiming at the same time, " rip you open ;" but

it was so fast in the whalebone that he could not do so, and

it was with some difficulty he could draw it out. On get-
ting it• out, however, he made many thrusts at her heart,
but the whalebone of her stays warded all except one off,
and he then made a cut at the lower part of her person
and inflicted a deep wound on the fleshy part of the
thigh. By this time she had fallen to the ground from
exhaustion, when the prisoner made a cut at her throat,
but she put up her hand to protect herself, and re-
ceived a severe cut on one of her fingers. At this time
the prisoner, hearing some person coming down stairs,
rushed out of her room, and through the front door into
the street, and she was certain, that had not her cries
brought this person (her landlord) to her assistance the
prisoner would have killed her on the spot. In reply to
the qUestions of the Magistrates the witness stated that
about ten or twelve years ago the prisoner occupied apart-
ments in her mother's house, and he then paid her every
marked attention ; but in consequence of his going into the
army, she had lost sight of him from that time until some
months ago, when he renewed his attentions. Being in ra-
ther reduced circumstances at the time, and the prisoner
making very specious promises to her, she agreed to his
putting up their banns at Shoreditch Church, and, thinking
that they might save the amount of his lodging, she con-
sented to his coming to live with her, and for four or five
weeks they resided together as man and wife. During this
time, however, lie conducted himself so improperly, by
selling the articles with which she was entrusted to wash,
getting drunk, &c., that she determined on having nothing
further to do with him, and she accordingly removed into
another neighbourhood.
He was fully committed for trial.

W OR SHIP- STREET.
Yesterday John Lucas, a very respectably-attired middle-
aged man, who was on Saturday week last remanded on a
charge of having robbed his employers, Messrs. Kent and
Co., general merchants, Falcon-square, City, of property to
a considerable amount, as stated in our Paper of the Mon-
day following, W2,S placed at the bar, before Messrs.
BROUGHTON and TWYFORD, for final examination, and fully
committed to Newgate for trial.
A young man of very respectable connections, named
Ebenezer Morris, the son of a Dissenting Minister, was
placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with
robbing his employer, Mr. Wm. Mayles Lander, a silk-
mercer and linen-draper in Upper Whitecross-street, St.
Luke's.—Committed.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday a man, who refused to give his name, dressed
in a most extraordinary manner, was brought before Mr.
White by a police constable, charged with being drunk and
disorderly in 0».el-square on the previous evening.
The prisoue,- had something on his back which appa-
rently had once been a coat, but it now might be mere
aptly termed a spencer, the tails having been lost : he wore
a white nightcap, which was a fine contrast to a face
smeared with soot.

The constable on the previous evening found the prisoner
in Queen-square very drunk, conducting himself in a most
disorderly manner, and interrupting every person that
passed. Prisoner—Me drunk, your Worship ! me, who
never drunk anything but water !
Mr. WHITE—What is your name? Prisoner—My
name is Joseph Clapson.
Mr. WHITE—And pray where do live Prisoner—At
the Bull in the Dover-road.

Mr. WHITE—What do you say to the charge of being
drunk ?—Prisoner—l never drunk any thing but water
yesterday.
The constable said that he had been drinking on the pre-
vious afternoon at the Hoop and Grapes, and afterwards
refused to pay for it. Prisoner—The fact is, Sir, I am
mad.

Mr. WHITE—Mad ! do you say ?—Prisoner—Yes, Sir,
mad. I've only just come out of the New Bedlam.
Mr. WHITE.—Just come out of the New Bedlam ? Pray
when did you come out ? Prisoner.—Why, let me see ;it
was last Friday ; but I am quite mad.
Mr. WHITE should order him to be detained until his
friends were sent for.
The prisoner was then locked up.

John Petney, a sort of costermonger, and Mary, his
wife, two of the most notorious gin drinkers in the metro-
polis, were charged by a police-constable with being rolling
drunk in Great Peter-street, at eleven o'clock on the pre-
vious evening.
During the time the constable was giving his evidence
the defendant and his wife were expatiating on their great
respectability, which they said would bear the strictest
investigation.
Mr. WHITE—WeII, John Petney, what have you got to
say to this charge ?—Got to say to this here charge ? Vy,
I have this here to say, that I considers it a werry hard
case. Here's my old vowan and me, ve can never come
down into this here part of Vestminster on bisiness like,
but so sure as ye comes, so sure ve are seized upon by hact
of Parlamint like, and lodged in the vatchus. Now I con-
siders this werry hard, particulally as you see as how I've
cut Vestminster—its sick a werry low wulgar place.
Mr. WHITE—Pray where do you live now ?—I hope
your Vorship don't think as how I lives in Vestminster ;
no, your Vorship, I've moved into a more genteeler place, in
St. Giles's ; I vould'nt live in the place not no longer ; vy
my old voman vas werry nearly ruinated in the place, and
vould have been, if I hadn't taken her out on it. Depend
upon it, your Vorship, they are a bad set, and not fit for any
respectable kracter to come among.
Mr. WHITE—How is it that you and your wife are
found in Westminster ?—Vy you see, a chap lives in Peter-
street vat I deals vith, and so I com'd to see him, and ve
just took a small drop together out of friendship like ;
but it puzzles me how it is that me and my old voman
never comes here but ye are sure to be put in the vachus ;
that shows vat a low place it is, don't it Poll ?
Poll—Ve are sure to be booked by some of the low
warment, and no mistake. Jack, you speak your mind
well—go it.
Mr. WHITE—But how comes it that you are both roll-
ing drunk about the streets ?—Don't say not nothing
about that 'ere, and you just let me go back once more to
St. Giles's, and blow my dicky if either me or my old vo-
man, and here she stands, ever sets our foots again in
Vestminster, and ve vill both take an affidavy of it directly,
von't us, Poll ? Poll—That ye vill, Jack, and no mis-
take ; you speak in such a manner as a man should speak :
go it.

- Defendant—And ye vill make affidavays of our krackters
now, honest, and hard working and respectable like, von't
us, Poll ? Poll—That ve vill ; supports ourselves vithout
the parish, and no mistake. Go it, Jack.
The inspector said that the two defendants were the
worst customers in Westminster, and gave the
trouble than any other ten couples.
Defandant—Here's a pretty kracter for a respectable
man ; but vat can any man and his wife expect wot comes
into such a low, blackguard place ? police more
Mr. WHITE should be very happy if they would keep ou•
of Westminster, which they might leave as soon as possible
on payment of ss. each.
The money not being forthcoming, they were both
locked up.

THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday William White, a waterman belonging to the
Custom House upper stairs, was brought before Mr. Bal-
lantine, on a charge of demanding and taking more than his
legal fare from Mr. John Dawkins, a gentleman residing in
Princes-street, Barbican, and illegally detaining him on the
River.
Mr. Ballantine convicted the Defendant in a fine of 40s.
and all the costs.

The Defendant was committed to prison in default o
payment.

T.)
'HE POOR LAW AMENDMENT BlLL.—Just as Mr.
BRODEEIP was about to leave the seat, three poor widows,
one of whom was accompanied by two children miserably
clad, were introduced into the Justice room by Blady, an
officer, who said they had been waiting two hours, and they
complained that the overseers of the hamlet of Ratcliff, to
which they belonged, had lately withdrawn their small al-
lowance.

Mr. BuoDEßip:said the power of ordering the overseers to
give relief to deserving objects was taken out of his hands,
and he could not interfere.

The widows said the overseers had told them that they
were prohibited by the Board of Guardians, and the new
Poor Law Bill from giving any more out-door relief, and
their small allowances, which, with the labour of their own
hands, enabled them to support their fatherless children,
had been taken from them, and they should be compelled
to do that they were anxious to avoid—go into the work-
house with their families.
Mr. BRODERIP could not help it. This was not the first
tale of the kind he had been told. He had nothing to do
with it, and he could not interfere.
The applicants departed, seemingly in great distress of
mind. Their cases are as follow :—Susannah James,
widow, of Beer-street, Ratcliffe, with three children, aged
three, five, and seven years. She was allowed 2s. a week
by the hamlet since the death of her husband, who was a
sawyer, and dropped down dead in a timber-yard. She
goes out charing, and her scanty pittance, which paid her
rent, was stopped three weeks ago. Matilda Higgins, the
widow of a sailor who was killed at sea, with two children,
one six and the other four years of age. She obtains a
little employment in making up slops for. the ready-made
clothes warehouses, but her earnings are (Jude inadequate to
support herself and children. She received 2s. a week,
which was discontinned last week, and resides in Philip-
street, St. George's. Ann Kennedy, the widow of a bal-
last-getter, living in Harris's-court, Ratcliffe ; her husband
was drowned in the river six weeks ago, leaving her with a
boy aged eight, and a girl aged eleven, unprovided for ; she
has received two payments of 1 s, 6d, each from the hamlet

and, to use her own words, has " been under the doctor's
hands for some time."

The outdoor poor of the large parish of St. George in
the East were informed last week that their weekly allow-
ances would, in futnre, be discontinued. An accession of
from three to four hundred inmates is expected in the work-
house, which is already crowded ; but many anticipate that
the Commissioners of Poor Laws will order the building to
be enlarged to meet the exigency.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday John Greenwood, a man apparently in the
last stage of destitution, was brought up on a charge of va-
grancy.
The Magistrate committed him for fourteen days to
hard labour, and directed that the expense of his keeping
in gaol should be deducted from his money.

THE PENTONVILLE MURDERS.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

The horrid tragedy which has occurred at Pentonville has
excited the deepest sensation, i❑ consequence not only of
the number of victims, but of the absence of apparently
adequate motives for so fatal a resolution. The inquest,
therefore, which was fixed for yesterday, was looked forward
to with great interest, in the expectation that it would un-
ravel the mystery.
During the whole of yesterday the greatest excitement
prevailed in the neighbourhood, and crowds of people were
gathered round the house where the melancholy event oc-
curred.

At five o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Stirling, the coro-
ner, arrived at the Marquis of Cornwallis public-house,
which is in the immediate vicinity, and the jury, sixteen in
number, were impannelled and sworn, Mr. Gregory being
their foreman. The jury were charged to inquire how Ni-
colas Steinburg, a woman, name unknown, and four infant
children, came to their death, and they immediately retired
to view the bodies..

On their return permission was given to one of the Jury
to retire, on the ground of illness.
Harriet Pearson, the servant was then questioned as to
the names of the family, which were as follow :—The wo-
man Ellen ; the children—Henry, five and a half years ;
John, four and a half ; Ellen, two and one month ; and
Philip, eight months.
The son of the deceased, by his wife, a young man of
about 19, with his legal adviser, was then admitted.
Harriet Pearson examined.—My name is Harriet Pear-
son. I live at No. 19, Edmund-street, Battle-bridge. I
have been with the family twelve months as servant. I have
never slept in the house since I have been there. I saw the
family the night before last at half-past eight, and that is
the last time I saw them alive. The four children were in
bed at home, and the master and mistress in the kitchen.
I put the youngest child to bed in the mother's bed, in the
back-room, first-floor. The other children, all three, slept
in the second-floor back-room. The two boys slept in one
bed, and the girl in a cot by the side. I put all the child-
ren to bed myself, and they were in bed when I quitted the
house. I left the man and woman in the kitchen. No
angry words had passed between them whilst I was in the
house. I quitted the house and went out at the street door
by myself, and shut it after me. It is a common spring-lock.
I heard nothing more of them during that night. Before
I left the house I went and got a pint of beer and a guar-
tern of gin for them ; Mr. Steinburg asked the lady if
she would not like to go to bed, he was sleepy ; she re-
plied, it was too soon ; this was before I went away ; the
gentleman then asked the lady to give me a raspberry
cake, which she did ; I took the cake ; my master said, if I
didn't like it, I was to give it my sister ; I took it home ; my
master then paid me my wages, and told me to go home ;
my mistress told me to bring a clean apron and come at six
o'clock in the morning, and I thought then he seemed to
laugh a little to himself when she said that ; the last words
said to me were good night ; they each said it three times ;
the last words I heard between my master and mistress
were about going to bed, which I have stated ; at a quar-
ter before six next morning I went to the house, and
knocked and rang till nine ; I then went and fetched my
mother, who came to the house with me ; I could get. no
answer to my knocking ; my mother then went to the
next door, and asked the lady if she had seen anything of
the deceased during the night ; the lady said " No !" my
mother then asked the lady to let her get over her wall
to the back door, which she did ; my mother said if the
door was opened she could go in ; but the door was fast ;
it was fastened by the top bolt ; not being able to get in
either at the front or back, my mother and 1 went away
home ; my mother soon after sent my sister Sophy up to
see if she could see anything ; Sophy staid a little and
came home and said she could see no one ; after a short
while she went a second time, and returned and said she
thought the landlord and a policeman were going to.get in ;
my mother and I went then to the next house, No. 18, and
saw the back door was then open ; we got over the wall,
and saw my master lying in the front kitchen ; the
policeman in the house informed my mother that the lady
and children were all killed ; I afterwards went and saw
the children lying dead, and my mistress too ; I pointed out
the children to the policeman, and then went home ; the
baby and the lady were lying in the first-floor back-room ;
the little girl Ellen, in the middle of the floor of the second
floor back-room ; Henry, the eldest boy, was lying on the
bed in the same room ; the other little boy, John, was in
the shop—the second-floor front ; they were all dead ; all
had their throats cut ; the little boy in the front room
had his third finger cut off, and a piece of the top of his
shoulder ; no weapon or knife was by the side of any of
the children ; the little one in the shop had his throat very
wide open ; I saw a knife in the kitchen, which was shown
to me ; the knife was under the side of my master's body;
the knife was like a butcher's knife ; I never saw it before
that I recollect.

By the Jury--I left sometimes eight minutes to nine ;
sometimes as late as ten. I went home at different times.
There was nothing unusual in going home at half-past
eight. The night before Sunday, I went home at eight.
MY master came home that day between six and seven,
(Monday night). I did not see that he had any parcel,
except three cakes in his pocket. He was sober when he
came home. INly master was at home on Sunday and Mon-
day. He paid me the wages that became due to me in
Germany.
Re-examined—I went to Germany with him on 21st of
May ; we returned last Saturday morning. When I left
there last, nobody else was in the house. I never knew
my mastsr tipsy in my life. They seemed to live very
happy, whilst they were in Germany. I never heard them
quarrel. My mistress and all the children went with my
master to Germany. My master quarrelled with his own
sister, whilst he was in Germany. The man that worked for
him was not there on Monday. His name was Brunies.
He was not discharged ; I believe he went away of his own
accord on Sunday. I heard my master say, on Monday,
that he had seen him tipsy in Whitechapel, and told him
to come for his clothes on Monday night. I did not hear
my master and his man quarrel. Brunies is the same man
who was examined at Hatton-garden to-day. A cab came
for Brunies on Sunday, but my master sent it away, and
paid the cabman's expenses. Brunies dined there on Sun-
day, and was very comfortable, and went away about six
or seven o'clock. They went to Germany, I believe, partly
on pleasure. I saw no difference in his conduct to his lady
during that journey, or in consequence of it. I saw no-
thing particular in my master on the morning when I
last saw him alive. When my mistress told me to come
the next morning, he leaned against the dresser and smiled
to himself. My master had some business at Hamburgh.
I believe it was about some whips he sold when he was
there last. He had a great deal of money owing to him at
Hamburg. I don't think he recovered it. During the time
I was living with him he did not appear to be poor at all.
My mistress told me about the business at Hamburg. I
was told whilst we were on the journey there was an exe-
cution in the house ; I did not see any man in possession ;
it was said that a lady, one of the lodgers, paid the execu-
tion ; lodgers were in the house when we left for Germany,
they
quitted the house on Monday ; the house was fur-
nished when we came back as when we left it ; the apart-
ments empty were the lodgers' ; my master was a very pas-
sionate gentleman ; I was present when he quarrelled with
his sister, and he was very passionate ; my mistress always
said he was a passionate man ; I have seen him in great
passions with the children ; I have seen him pull them up
by the hair of the head and by the ears, and throw them
down ; my mistress used to pull him away mildly, and re-
monstrate with him, and say if they deserved beating, it
should be elsewhere ; these are the only instances I know.
(The knife was here produced to the witness ; it was a
common butcher's knife, covered with blood, and blunted at
the edge ; the name of Verinder, St. Paul's Churchyard,
was on the blade.)—l never saw that knife before till I saw
it in the kitchen ; the children were all in the same dress
when dead as when I put them to bed ; John, who had his
finger cut, is a passionate child ; John was put to bed with
Henry in the second floor back. I don't know that my
master was not married ; I never heard of any other lady
who claimed to be his wife.—(This witness gave her evi-
dence in a most intelligent manner ; she is of a pleasing
countenance, and apparently about fifteen years of age.)
Lewis Cuthbert, of 7, Liverpool-street, New-road, coal-
merchant, examined. I am landlord of the house in which
the deceased lived. On Tuesday morning, about 9 o'clock,
I received intimation, from a person residing at No. 18,
next door to the deceased, that he had reason to suppose
the deceased had gone away from my house clandestinely,
that the goods still remained on the premises, and he thought
I had better look after my rent. I accordingly, at twelve
on Tuesday, called at deceased's house, knocked and rang,
but could get no answer. I then went to No. 18, and,
after conversing with them as to the manner in which they
supposed the man had left, it was proposed that I should
get over the wall. I accordingly got over, and on putting

my hands to the back-door, and pushing it briskly it opened.
The upper bolt was apparently half fastened, for the hasp
appeared forced. I believe I used more force than was
necessary for merely opening. I was accompanied by Mr.
Austin, who lives at No. 18. Upon opening the door, I
called out to know if there was any one inside, but no an-
swer was made. Seeing the front kitchen door immediately
before me, I pushed it open, and the first object I saw was
the deceased Nicholas Steinburg, lying at full length on
the kitchen floor, his head towards the front area
door ; a considerable quantity of blood was about his
clothes. He was undressed. His throat was cut. I imme-
diately retired back to the yard, and desired Mr. Austin
to send for the police and parish authorities, and also for
Mr. Dick, a next-door neighbour, and I remained till a po-
liceman and Mr. Dick came ; then the policeman went to
the kitchen, and saw the first corpse ; the policeman and
Mr. Dick then went up stairs with me ; I saw the children
and woman all dead, as described by the former witness ; a
surgeon also accompanied the policeman ; the evidence of
the servant girl is precisely true as to the situation of the
bodies ; I left the house in the possession of the police ; in
the front kitchen I saw the knife produced lying on the
ground by the deceased's thigh ; his hands were drawn up
to his bosom, and he seemed to have committed the act
standing, and to have moved a few paces before he fell ; I
had not seen him previously for about four months ; on the
12th or 15th May, he came and paid his Lady-day rent ;
he wanted it to stand over, but I objected to it ; my first
knowledge of him was fourteen months ago, when he took
the house of me, and gave a reference to a person in Blooms-
bury, who spoke of him, from twenty years' knowledge, as a
quiet respectable man.
By the Jury—ln the kitchen, by the deceased, was placed
a table, with pens, ink, and paper, as if the deceased had
intended to write something ; nothing was written ; there
were pattering marks of blood, as of feet, about the kitchen ;
the table, when I first went in, was not above a foot and a
half from the deceased ; from dissentions between the de-
ceased and a former lodger of his, I should consider him a
very violent irritable man, but he certainly was not addicted
to liquor.

Henry Verinder, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, cutler, exa-
mined (the knife was produced to the witness)—l sold a
knife answering this description on Monday to a man, a
stranger to me, between eleven and half-past one ; the knife
produced is my make, marked with my name ; I have seen
the body of the deceased ; I cannot recognise him by the
features to be the same man ; the man to whom I sold the
knife was a man about my height, not so stout as myself,
and younger ; in general appearance there was a likeness ;
the knife is a common shop-knife, such as is used for cutting
bacon, cheese, &c. ; I had very little conversation with him,
and did not. observe any foreign accent ; I put up the knife
in some whitey-brown paper, but he asked me to put it in
some stronger paper, as he had some distance to carry it ; I
put it in brown paper ; I did not sharpen the knife for him ;
I should think the knife, when sold, was rather sharper
than it is now ; I did not notice any confusion in his manner
(a piece of paper was produced) ; that is not the outer
wrapper ; I cannot speak- to that • this kind of knife I do
not unfrequently sell • I have a knife booked ; the knife is
new ; the purchaser of the knife came to my shop alone.
Robert Plumridge, porter to the last witness, examined.
—I saw the purchaser of the knife in the shop ; I have no
doubt it was the deceased ; the knife sold him was just
such a knife as that now produced, a sort of butcher's knife ;
I have seen the body of the deceased ; I noticed that the
man was rather Jew-looking, and a foreigner by his accent ;
I have no doubt he was the same man ; I can't swear posi-
tively to his dress ; think he had on a blue coat and gilt
buttons. The piece of paper produced is such as we use
for the first wrapper, but it is ordinary paper.
Alexander Ritchie, of Serle's Coffee-house, Carey-street,
examined.—l am a licensed victualler. On Sunday morn-
ing last, about 11 o'clock, two foreigners came to my bar ;
they appeared to be exceedingly excited, one in particular
was extremely agitated ; the shorter one spoke better Eng-
lish than the other, and he asked in what part of London
they were ; I told them ; they had two glasses of gin ; I
understood, from the broken English that passed from the
shorter one, that the other had just come from Germany ;
I then made some inquiry from the shorter one, anl I
was given to understand the tall -man had lost his trunk
and all his property, and had just come from abroad ;
the taller one then showed me a piece of paper, with the
name and address faintly written on it, " Steinburg, South-
ampton-street, Pentonville." I then spoke to the shorter
one, and I supposed, from his manner and address, that he
must have been many years in London. I then said, I
should suppose you know Southampton-street, but there
are so many. He gave me to understand, by a nod, that
he knew it, and spoke, I believe in the German language,
to the other. By their gestures, I should think he was en-
deavouring to pacify him. The taller one flew into a very
great passion, and called for paper. I brought a slip of
paper, and lent him a pencil, and he wrote, in a good" bold
English hand, the name of " Steinburg, 17, Southampton-
street, Pentonville," as if for me to show him the way. I
then said to the shorter one, " Can't that gentleman speak
English, I saw write so well ?" He told me not to trouble
myself about that, but to show them the way. I went out
with them (as my barman was shutting up) to the end of
Carey-street, and directed them up Chancery-lane. The
tallest was so excited that he took up unconsciously one of
the waste vessels which we keep, and was going to drink it
off. I left them in Carey-street, and was confined to my
bed from Sunday night, but when I saw the paper this
morning, I felt it my duty to come out. I have seen the
deceased, and in stature I think he was like that shorter
man. I could identify the clothes he wore were Ito see
them. I can also identify, the taller man.—Some persons
were introduced by a policeman, but the witness said the
tall man was not in the room ; a very tall foreigner, ac-
companied by another as an interpreter, was then intro-
duced, whom the witness at once recognised. The short
man had on a blue coat.

The tall man gave his name as Franz Langer.
Harriet Pearson recalled—l came to my master's house
at seven o'clock ; Brunies opened the door to me ; my
master and mistress were in bed ; he breakfasted at home ;
he was a home ali day on Sunday ; I am sure he was at
home all day ; he could not have gone out without my
knowledge ; Franz Langer came to our house on Sunday ;
he came for a parcel wrapped up in a blue handkerchief ; I
don't know what it was ; he came over with us from Ger-
many ; my master took care of the parcel for him till he
came on Sunday to receive it ; my master and he were
quite friendly.
Franz Langer was then called forward. The inter-
preter was brought from Whitecapel by the policeman,
but refused to interpret without his expenses were paid.
Much to his annoyance, however, his demand was .re-
fused, and a gentleman in the room came forward, and vo-
lunteered to act as interpreter. The witness and his in-
terpreter were then sworn. 'Witness deposed, I arrived in
England early on Saturday morning with Mr. Steinburg
and his family ; on Sunday I went out with a little person
who lodged in the same house to show him the way to
Mr. Steinburg's ; we called at different houses to inquire
the road, amongst others, at two public-house* ; Mr. Stein-
burg gave him his direction on board the ship, but he could
not make it out without assistance ; the man who accom-
panied witness did not come from Germany with witness ;
he works in a sugar-house, and only came with witness to
point out the way ; this person who showed witness the
way, advised him to get his parcel as quick as possible from
Mr. Steinburg, as Mr. Steinburg was a swindler ; he did not
know Mr. Steinburg personally, but merely heard that re-
port ; he accompanied witness to Mr. Steinburg's house,
and waited in the passage whilst witness went down into
the kitchen to get the parcel ; witness got all his pro-
perty from Mr. Steinburg ; Steinburg came to the King
of Prussia, Lambeth-street, between four and five o'clock
on Monday ; witness saw him there ; Steinburg went
away, about five, and promised to call the following even-
ing ; he was perfectly sober ; Steinburg stated to witness
that he was in great distress of mind, as he had pro-
mised to get witness a situation, in consequence of which
witness lent deceased some money ; the deceased took
three sovereigns out of his pocket, and paid one to the
witness, and inquired if he could trust the landlord of the
house with the other two, for the purpose of handing them
to Brunies ; deceased threw himself into all sorts of atti-
tudes, and said he was ruined ; witness went upstairs to
bed, being ill ; deceased followed him up, and said he would
rather give the two sovereigns to Brunies himself ; witness
asked the deceased if he was mad, and deceased said he
was almost mad, and stamped about the room with his feet ;
during the voyage witness thought deceased almost insane,
but attributed it to the illness of his wife and child, who
were very ill in the cabin ; witness heard deceased com-
plain during the voyage of having lost a law-suit, which
had cost him 2001. ; on the suggestion of one of the Jury,
witness said that it was after the knife was bought that he
saw distinctly in the breast-pocket of the deceased, when
he took out his pocket-book, a long round paper parcel,
just such as that knife wrapped up would make ; in the
opinion of witness, the deceased was perfectly mad
Nicholas Samuel Edward Steinburg, of No. 7, Burton-
crescent examined ; The deceased was my father ; he was
between 45 and 50 years of age ; I have not seen him for
about two years ; I have seen his dead body, and that of
Ellen Lefevre, who lived with him ; I do not know the
children ; Ellen Lefevre had been servant to the family ;
my father and mother separated about seven or eight years
ago, which separation took place in consequence of that im-
proper intimacy ; my father was of a very irritable and pas-
sionate disposition, and every circumstance of distress agi-
ted and affected his mind ; I am the only child of the mar-
riage ; my father used me severely, and beat me often, but
did not pull me by the hair ; he used my mother very ill.
struck her, and beat her once almost to death.
Some discussion then took place as to the propriety of
examining Mr. Brunies ; but the Coroner and Jury agree-

ing perfectly that riot the slightest suspicion of the murder
could be cast upon him, he was called.
Borkhart Brunies, of 17, Storey-street, corner of Gray-
street, Commercial-road, whip-maker, examined-:—I have
known deceased two years. I saw him on last Mondel
night. He called on me between five and six o'clock. He'
said, " Will you come down and fetch your clothes, and I
will give you some money ?—come about eight o'clock to-
night." I said, " I can't be with you by eight ;" and
he
said, " Oh, you must not be much later," and he looked
very pleased, laughed, and was very friendly. He "I
quite sober. He had no other business with me.
I told
my landlord that I suspected from his looking so pleased,
that if I went down he would have an officer to take me for
neglecting my work.—(One of the jury—" You may cow
gratulate yourself that your throat is whole.") About nine
o'clock I went down there, and saw a light in the kitchen
and, I thought, in the drawing-room. I would not go le,
but left an old umbrella of my master's, which .I had,next
door, at No. 18, for him. His general conduct to his chil-
dren was kind, but he beat them when they deserved
When I heard the statement of the occurrence, I Aould
not believe it.' I did not think it possible.
By the Jury—l never received the two sovereiges• Onf
Saturday deceased complained to him of the treavneet
his sister, who wanted him over to Germany, and cherge'
him for board and lodging after he had lost his law Olt'
I never saw the knife produced till this evening.'
The Coroner then briefly summed up, and charged die,
Jury to consider whether there was sufficient proofs of
insanity to warrant them in returning such a verdict ; as
the Jury retired.
After an absence of about a quarter of an hour, the
returned, minus one of their members, who had been at-
tacked by a fit of epilepsy, with the following verdiPtl
which the chairman delivered, prefacing it with a statement
of the regret of the Jury, for the sake of surviving Perjet
that they could not come to a different conclusion—" That
Nicholas Steinburg did ARTFULLY MURDER Ellen Lefevrer
Henry Steinburg, John Steinburg, Ellen Steinburg, and
Philip Steinburg ; and a verdict of Feb de se agile"
Nicholas Steinburg."
The Jury-room was literally besieged by a mob duri4
the investigation, and much interruption and confusion vr as
thereby occasioned. The proceedings did not termiel' to
till half-past eleven o'clock.