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five inches in depth also, which had been apparently
inflicted after death, and the suggestion was that
this had been done for the purpose of directing in-
quiry away from the proper quarter. The case was
open to four suggestions. It might be that some
person broke into the house, but he had already
cleared that up by showing that it was impossible
this could have taken place without the concurrence
and connivance of some one from within. It might
be said that some person was secreted in the house,
but that was highly improbable, inasmuch as there
was hardly any place which would afford a hiding-
place, and if it had been so the person must in
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probability have been secreted by some person
the house. The manner in which the window was
discovered in the morning also showed no person
could have got out with the burden of a heavy
child in his or her arms, as it was only left about
six inches open. If a person did get ou a
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heavy window which made a noi aft
lifted to a certain height, and he must then have
returned and lowered it,.a thing most improbable
that a person should do in a murdeerrsoofnthhirsokkeinida.
However, the suggestion that any p
and got out in this way was highly improbable. It
might also be suggested that the murder was done
by. one person only, and that it was done by the
prisoner at the bar. Whether it was done by one
or more persons, he thought it clear that the pri-
soner at the bar was one of the parties concerned.
It would be found the little boy slept in a cot and
was covered with a sheet, after that came a blanket,
and at the top of all was a counterpane. When the
body was discovered this very blanket, which
formed part of the outer covering of the child, was
' found underneath it, having been removed from
between the counterpane and the sheet.
suppowasse
one person could have committed this murder. The
boy was a heavy child of his age, and the persons,
whoever they were, who were concerned in the
murder must have taken the child from his bed,
then have wrapped him in the blanket—perhaps
have smothered him with it—and then have taken
him down stairs and disposed of the body in the
way descried. The learned counsel proceeded to
argue that b
there must have been a second person in
the bedroom to assist in taking the ehild from the
cot, and in arranging the bedclothes as they were
afterwards found. It was not at all likely that
two people would have ventured into the prisoner's
bedroom for such a purpose, and the conclusion
forced itself upon the mind that the prisoner
theat
least must have some guilty knowledge
matter. He also said that the prisoner's statement
that she went and knocked at Mrs. Kent's door
two or three times about an hour before she went
the second time and got an answer would be con-
tradicted by Mrs. Kent, who at that time was in a
condition when ladies were more than usually
wakeful, and who would state that she heard no
knocking until she answered the prisoner. It would
also be proved that the prisoner had mentioned
the loss of the blanket before the body was found,
whereas without she was aware that it had been
taken away with the child she could not have dis-
• covered that the blanket was gone from the state in
which the bedclothes in the child's cot were found.
' A piece of flannel which wes found underneath the
body of the child, and which proved to be a chest
flannel worn by females, had been found to fit the
prisoner and to correspond in texture with a flan•
nel petticoat of the prisoner. These facts would be
more fully and minutely detailed by the various
witnesses, and having proved them he should sub-
mit that the interests of public justice demanded
that the case should be sent for investigation before
another tribunal.
Mr. Ribton, before witnesses were called, wished
to make one or two remarks. liming listened with
the greatest possible care to the case as stated by
his learned friend, and to the proofs by which it
was proposed to be supported, he found that no new
facts were to be elicited, and that, in truth, this
young woman was again to be charged with this
crime upon evidence precisely similar to that upon
which she had been already apprehended and dis-
charged. There was no maxim of English law
more widely recognised than " Nemo bas debet
vexari," And he really thought that in the present
proceedings that great principle was being infringed.
The Chairman stated that he was informed by
his brother magistrates that there were some facts
which were not before them now to be adduced in
evidence, and it was his opinion and that of the rest
of the Bench that it was their duty to hear the
case and listen to the evidence which had been
opened to them.
Mr. Ribton then applied to be furnished with the
depositions taken when the prisoner was in cus-
tody on the former occasion.
The Chairman said it appeared that no deposi-
tions were taken on the former occasion, but if
there were any minutes of evidence there would be
no objection to letting Mr. Ribton see them to help
him in his cross-examination.
In reply to Mr. Ribton,
Mr. Saunders said that he appeared in this case
for Captain Meredith, chief of police for the county
of Wilts, who was acting under the advice and in-
structions of her Majesty's Attorney-General.
Samuel Kent, examined by Mr. Saunders—l
live at Road-house, in this county. I am one of her
Majesty's Inspectors of Factories. lam the father
of the unfortunate child. My household consisted
on the 29th of June, my wife ; Mary Ann Alice
Kent, my eldest daughter, Elizabeth Kent, Con-
stance Emily Kent, William Saville Kent, Mary
Amelia Kent, the little boy that was murdered,
Francis Saville Kent, and Eveline Kent. Those
were my family. Besides, there were Elizabeth
Gough, nursemaid ; Sarah Cox, housemaid ; and
Sarah Kerslake, cook. The age of my eldest
daughter is 29 or 30 ; Elizabeth Kent, 27 ; Con-
stance, 16; William, 15. Those four are children
by a former marriage. The eldest little girl by my
present wife is five years of age ; Francis
Saville would have been four on the 9th
of last August; the youngest not quite two.
I and my wife slept in a room on the first floor ;
our daughter, who is five years old, s'ept in the
same room. On the same floor the prisoner
slept in another room with the murdered child,
and with another little girl about two years of age.
The two servants, Sarah Cox and Sarah Kerslake,
slept in a room next to Constance. My son William
slept in a room at the back, on the record floor.
Roadhill-house stands by itself with grounds round
it. The privy where the body of the child was found
is about 25 feet from the house, or about 200 yards
from the centre window of the drawing-room, going
round the house. All the persons I have enumerated
were at home on Friday, the 29th June. Constance
had recently returned from a boarding-school. I was
the last person downstairs that night. I was in the
habit
ageing round every night to see all was safe.
I went round the house that night, and found all
the doors and windows fastened. I went into the
drawing-room to see if the windows were fastened ;
there are thsraeehwindows in that room ; they are
which fold
large heavy
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a broad bar whichs gkoes across and secures the shut-
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half-
past 7 in the morning, having slept heavily since
12 o'clock the previous night. I was awoke by the
nurse knocking at the door and asking for the chil-
dren. Mrs. Kent got out of bed when we heard the
knock at the door. I then learned that the child
was missing from its bed. Ultimately I went to
Trowbridge for the police. Before I returned I
learned that the body of the child had been found
with the throat cut. When I got home, about 9
o'clock, I made a thorough examination of the pre-
mises. There was no appearance of any vio-
lence having been used. Ido not think the house
could have been entered without violence. We had
two policemen in the house on Saturday night.
They arrived about 11 at night. I did not let them I
into the house until the inmates had gone upstairs.
put them into the kitchen. One left at half-past 2 ;
the other I let out about 5 o'clock next morning. I
provided them with refreshments. I remained in the
library while they were in the house. I left the
house several times to see if all the lights were out.
All this time the policemen were in the kitchen.
They had the means of leaving it if they liked,.
that is, they could have got out of the house, but I
think not into any other part of it. The policemen
told me, when I went to them about half-past two
o'clock, that they had not left the kitchen. I had
a full-grown Newfoundland dog on the premises.
It was let loose at night. On the night of the
murder it was turned loose at 10 o'clock. I have
often heard it barking on the approach of strangers.
I_ did not hear it at all on the night of the murder.
The dog does not bark at the inmates of the house.
By the Chairman—Before I went to Trowbridge
I examined the drawing-room and the garden, and
desired the gardener to
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statement to the magistrates when they met at
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tered from the outside. My object in going into
the garden before I went to 'Trowbridge was not to
search for the child, but to tell the erardener to do
so. I did not search myself becauset'l was anxious
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stolen, why did you tell the gardener to search
about the premises ?—To discover, if possible, traces
of any person having left the house.
Witness continued—The premises are very much
exposed, and are very accessible. At the back of
the house there is a large garden, and the field
adjoining was at the time one of standing grass.
Any person leaving the house at the back must
have passed either through the garden or the grass
field. A track through the field must have been
seen at once, but not so in the garden. The search
could not have been made in less than half an hour
—certainly not in ten minutes. There is a police-
man occasionally about the house: I knew he was
on duty on the night of the murder. He lives
somewhere in the neighbourhood, but I made no
endeavour to find him out. The fit person I saw
when I came out of the gate on Saturday morning
was Morgan, the parish constable. I told him of
the loss of the child, and I think I asked him to go
for the policeman. I was then on my way t a
Trowbridge. There was another policeman at
Southwick, about half way to Trowbridge. I called
at his house. He was not at home, but I told his
wife about the loss o" the child, and asked her to
communicate with him on the subject. On the
morning preceding the murder there were sweeps
at my house. They left at an early hour, but I did
not see them. The two policemen who were in the
house on Saturday night came in consequence of an
engagement with Superinterdent Foley—not with
me. I have refused to allow the prosecution to
take a plan of my house. My refusal was communi-
cated through Mr. Dunn, my solicitor.
Mr. Dunn—No application was ever made to me
for a plan of the house.
Witness continued—The policemen came about
eleven o'clock at night. I took them
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the
kitchen, and bolted the door behind them. a
noisy bolt, and they must have heard it. I then
returned to the library. At half-past two I unbolted
the door for the first time. In the interval I
went out several times. I do not know what they
were doing in the kitchen. They had bread and
cheese and beer. They told me when I let them
out that they had knocked, but I had not heard
them. All the inmates of the house, except myself,
were in bed. I saw nobody outside. One of the
policemen went away at half-past 2, the other
stayed till 5 o'clock. I remained in the library. I
again bolted the door upon the ore who remained.
I had made no arrangement with the policeman that
I should bolt the kitchen door behind them. My
reason for bolting the door was that nobody in the
house should suspect there were policemen on the
premises; that if anybody should come downstairs
he or she should find everything as usual. I told
my wife of the presence of the police, but my wire
only. I should not have attained my object by
simply requesting the policemen to remain in the
kitchen. I did not expect anybody to come down
stairs. Mrs. Kent made inquiries during the Sa-
turday of the prisoner and the other servants, but
not in my presence. The prisoner told me during
the day how the bed had been left, but I did not
put any question to her on the subject, although
she slept in the room with the child. She remained
with me a month afterwards. I may have asked
her a few questions during that time ; I believe I
did. Mrs. Kent gave me the account she had re-
ceived from the prisoner. I communicated with an
attorney a few hours after the discovery was made.
Mr. Rodway, in fact, called upon me on Saturday
forenoon, and I requested him to attend the inquest
for me.
Mr. Ribton—Why P—l did not know what
might transpire.
You did not require an attorney to ascertain
what might transpire ?—No, but there was a report
that my son William had murdered the child, and
I wished to be represented at the inquest by an
agent.
Witness continued,—When the prisoner knocked
at my bedroom door she asked whether the children
were there. Mrs. Kent answered her; she said,
" What do you mean by children ? There is
only one child." Mrs. Kent then went out to
speak to the nurse. I did not hear what took place
outside. When my wife returned, in a minute or
two, she told me of the loss of the child. She said,
" Saville is gone," or " missing," or something of
that kind. I think I remarked that he might have
gone to his sister's room. I immediately got out of
bed and went down to the drawing-room. I Iry
before I went to Trowbridge that there was a hien•
ket missing. Mrs. Kent told me so. I mentioned
the fact to the turnpike-keeper at Southwick. I
never on any subsequent occasion denied that I had
been told of the missing blanket.
Re-examined—There was nothing stolen from
the house.
By the Chairnsan—What led me to the conclu-
sion that the child had been stolen was a remark
that he was "missing."
Mrs. Kent was the next witness. She said—l
have been married to Mr. Kent seven years. The
prisoner came into my service in October last. On
Friday night, the 29th of June, I saw the child in
bed about 8 o'clock. The nurse assisted in putting
him to bed. He was covered with a sheet, a blan-
ket, and a quilt. There was no part of the blan-
ket exposed. I returned to the room a little
before 9 o'clock, when the nurse had gone down to
supper as usual. I paid another visit about 10 o'clock.
The nurse was then in a little room within the nur-
sery. I called her, end she followed me upstairs to
look at the comet from a window. When she re-
turned to the nursery I went down to the dining-
room, and staid there for some time. My husband
and I were the last persons up. All the other in-
mates had retired to bed. When I went up to my
bedroom I noticed that the nursery-door was ajar,
and I shut it as usual. I awoke frequently dur-
ing the night. My health was not good at the
time, and I slept very lightly. I did not hear
any noise during the night. I had frequently
heard the child crying in the nursery. I
did not that night. Early in the morning I heard
a noise which sounded like the drawing-zoom shut-
ter opening. I cannot say I was alarmed. I thought
the servants were astir. When I awoke again it
was a quarter past seven. I immediately got up,
and while in the act of dressing the nurse came and
knocked at the door. She said, " Are neither of the
children awake, Ma'am ?" I replied, " What !
neither of them awake, nurse ?" because I was
astonished at her asking for two. She then said,
as well as I can remember, " Then Master Saville
is not with you ?" I replied, " Certainly not." She
said, "He is not in the nursery." I immediately
went into the nursery to look for him. I seta her
to his sisters' rooms ; when she came back I asked
her when she had missed him. She said, "At five
o'clock." I then asked her why she had not come to
tell me before. She said she had not done so be-
cause she thought I had gone into the nursery and
taken him out. I said to her, " How dare you say
so ! You know I never do such a thing." The boy
was a very heavy child, and the nurse knew that I
was not able to carry him out of his cot—at any
rate, while the nurse was asleep. 1 had told her
before that if ever anything was to happen in the
r.ursery to make her uncomfortable in regard to the
children she was to come to me. The nurse told me
that the housemaid had found the drawing-room
window open. When I told Mr. Kent of this he
got up immediately, and went off in a carriage to
Trowbridge to inform the police. Before he left I
was aware that a blanket had been taken with the
child. The nurse assisted me in dressing when Mr.
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Kent was away, and, while doing so she said, " Oh,
I think it is revenge." She told she was a light
sleeper.
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ing; certainly not while the nurse was asleep. I
may have done so when she was awake. My hus-
band was in bed when the nurse knocked at -the
door. I was dressing, having got up a minute or
two before. When I rose from- bed think I made
a remark to my husband about the time. Ido not
recollect whether he made any reply ; he was be-
and waking. It was not the knock
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at the door which awoke him. The nurse knew
the day she told me she had knocked at a quarter
before seven, and she also said she did not like to
disturb me because she knew I passed such restless
nights. I may have slept more soundly towards
the morning. The prisoner, to the best of my be-
lief, was particularly kind to the child, and he
seemed to be very fond of her. The other servants
were in the habit of playing with him. When the
prisoner said to me, " Oh ! ma'am, it is revenge,"
she knew that the body had been found, but I did
not. 1 do not remember asking her what she
meant by that. I was greatly agitated at the mo-
ment. I now know that she had been instructed
not to inform me the child had been found. I my-
self saw the drawing-room window open. On the
white drugget covering the carpet I observed two
marks of a man's foot. They were made apparently
by nailed boots. I suppose they were seen by
everybody in the house, and when I directed atten-
tion to them I was told, I think by the housemaid,
that a great many people, policemen and others,
had been in the room. The nurse told me she
missed the child at five o'clock. She said the little
girl by her side was uncovered ; she rose to cover
her, and then observed that the boy was not in the
crib. She did not come to me immediately, she
added, because she thought I had taken him to my
bedroom. She fell asleep again, and did not wake

until some minutes before seven o'clock. When the
body was discovered and brought into the house
she asked to be allowed to see it. She told me
afterwards that she kissed it, but I did not see her
do so. She was present when it WPS placed in the
coffin. It was then very much changed, and I do
not think she could have kissed it at that time. I
do not remember whether she cried or not, but she
frequently spoke to me of the child with great
affection.
Here the cross-examination of Mrs. Kent termi-
nated, but she expressed a desire to be allowed to
make a statement, in consequence, as was under-
stood, of something which had occurred during the
cross-examination of Mr. Kent.
Mr. Ribton submitted that a statement volun-
teered in a matter of this kind couldnotbe evidence
and ought not to be received by the Bench.
The Chairman suggested that Mrs, Kent should
consult with the legal adviser of her husband as to
the necessity of making any further statement, and
intimated that in the meantime the magistrates
would proceed with the inquiry.
Sarah Cox said she was a housemaid in the ser-
viee of Mr. Kent. She remembered the night of
the murder. It was her duty to shut up the w hole
front part of the home, and she did so on the night
in question. Sbe went to bed shortly before 11
o'clock, and slept soundly all night. Next morning
on coming downstairs, she found every thing as she
had left it the night before, except the drawing-
room. The shutte:s of one of the windows were
open, . and the window was a little way—a few
inches up. No one could have unfe_steaed the shut-
ters from the outside. She did not observe any
footmarks in the room. She did not mention the
fact of her having found the window open to any of
her fellow-servants. Her impression was that some
member of the family had opened the window
overnight in order to air the room. When the police
came she showed them exactly how she had found
the drawing-room.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l shut up the
drawing, the dining-room, the library, and the hall.
The windows of the drawing-room look roundtothe
side of the lawn. There is a room on each side as
you go into the hall. The drawing room is behind
the library. I had a light with me when I shut up
the rooms. I did not look into the rooms that night
to see if any one was there. I have heard that Mr.
Kent went round the house after me. I heard no
noise during the night. It was about a quarter
after 7 when I first heard the child was missed. I
was examined once before the magistrates, once at
the inquest, once when Miss Constance was tried,
and by Mr. Slack at Mr. Kent's house. I was exa-
mined in the drawing room. Mr. Slack was pre-
sent with his two clerks, Mr. Wolfe, Mr. Foley,
and Mr. Dunn. Mr. Slack was three hours or three
1 hours and a half examining me.
Mr. Ribton—You must have told him a great
deal more than you have us.
Witness—Yes ; I told him all he asked. I was
examined about the nightdress that was lost belong-
ing to Miss Constance. It has never been found.
He was about an hour examining me about it.
The Chairman said it was not necessary to take
all this down.
Mr. Ribton would not pursue it. The magistrates
were probably aware of the way in which the evi-
dence was got up, respecting which it would be his
disagreeable duty to make some observations by
and by.
Cross-examination resumed—There were two
lumber rooms and two bed rooms not occupied in
the house. I did not look to see if any one was
secreted there. I did not look to see if there were
any footmarks. I was not alarmed when I saw the
window open. I thought one of the young ladies
might have opened the window overnight to air the
room, and forgot to fasten. it. I did not look about
to see if anything was stolen. Nothing was moved
out of its place. I told the nurse of it first when
she came down, and she asked if I had seen Saville
anywhere. I said I had rot. She said he was lost
from his room, and I then told her I had found the
door open and the window a little way. I don't
remember that she made any remark. She was exa-
mined at the inquest.
Re-examined—l have not heard that anything
was stolen. As far as I know, none of the rooms
presented an appearance of anyone having been
secreted in them. I was examined voluntarily by Mr.
Slack. I was not aware that the inquiry was con-
ducted with the sanction of the highest authorities
in the land.
The inquiry was then adjourned until the follow-
' ing day, the Chairman, before the Court broke up,
announcing that Mr. Kent was now willing that
any plan of the premises required should be made.
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ALLEGED MURnER BY POISONING
AT TVA.KEFIELD.

WAXEFIELD, OCT,

This morning the adjourned inquest on the body
of Miss Adamson, an aged lady of Wakefield, who
died last August, and whose body has been exhumed
by the order of the Secretary of State on suspicion
of poisoning, was held at Aggbrig, near Wakefield,
before Mr. Thomas Taylor, the coroner of the dis-
trict. Emma Stringer, the servant of the deceased,
and her two sisters, who have been arrested on sus-
picion of having poisoned the old lady, are in cus-
tody awaiting the result of the inquiry.
Mr. Fernandez, solicitor, appeared to watch the
case for the prosecution ; and Mr. Stringer, solici-
tor, for the accused parties.
Mary Bateson, an old woman living near the de-
ceased lady, and who was cccasionally employed in
washing for her, was the first witness. She said—
I knew Miss Adamson for 10 years. She died on
the 15th of August last, and I know that for some
time before that she had been ill for two or three
days at a time, and that then she would get bettei.
On the evening of the 14th of August last I went
into the house ; Miss Adamson was then very ill.

Emma Stringer and her sister were there then,
and one of them asked me to stop. I went up
stairs and saw the old lady. She was very much
disturbed in her bowels that night; but did not
vomit. She spoke unintelligibly, and we could not
tell what she said. I gave her a little toast and
water that was in a pitcher, and also a spoonful of
brandy and water. I did not make it. I left the
bedroom for a few minutes during the night. I
am not aware who mixed un the toast and water or
the brandy and water. I don't remember the day
when M'ss A damson took ill, but I recollect seeing
the doctor there on one occasion when I was wash-
ing there. Occasionally when I was in the house
Emma Stringer told me that her mistress had been
very sick. Sometimes when I was in the house
washing I have heard Miss Adamson groan and
cry out, as if in great pain, and as if she wanted
something to relieve it. On the night of the eld
!tidy's death, while I was in the room, Emma
Stringer went to the trunk and took out a lot of
silver things, spoons and different articles of plate.
These she separated into two lots and said, giving
Miss Adamson one lot, " These are yours, Miss
Adamson." Miss Adamson put them towards
Emma, on the side of the bed on which she was.
She then gave the deceased the other lot, saying,
" These are Mr. Wood's." Miss Adamson put that
lot on the side of the bed next to me. I was on the
opposite side of the bed. I did not understand that
that lot was for me, but I understood that the other
potion was for Emma, because Emma had told me
in the room that night that Miss Adamson had left
her all, that she was to have everything. Emma
Stringer then put the two parcels of plate into the
trunk again. After this Miss Adamson appeared
to doze off, and an hour or two afterwards I said
" I think she is asleep?' Emma Stringer, who had
I; fted up her head and arranged the pillows for
Miss Adamson, went over to her and cried out
"0 ! my poor mistress ! she'll never wake any
more ; she's dead ! she's dead !" We then went
down stairs, and I went for Mrs. Link, and having
knocked her up she Went back with me, and
we laid out the body. After having a
cup of tea I went home, and an hour or two
afterwards I was fetched back to Miss Adam-
son's house, and I went with Emma Stringer, who
came for me. When I got there I found Emma's
mother, her brother, and the sister that was in the
house at the time. They were all in Emma's room,
and the brother was kneeling down and writing a
paper on the floor. When he had finished he asked
me if I would put my name to it. I said I was no
writer. Then he said, "Make a mark just down
there," and I made a cross. I did not know what
the paper was ; it was not read to me ; nobody else
but the brothq said a word. After I had made the
mark I went away again. My house is only on the
dpposite side of the road. Afterwards I saw a milk
cart standing at the door for some time. Emma
Stringer's brother and the sister that was stopping
there went away in the cart about 6 o'clock. I
saw a small trunk put into the cart and carried
away. I don't know whether anything else was
carried away or not. It was not the trunk into
which I had seen the silver put.
Mr. Fernandez, who appeared far the prosecution,
wished to cross-examine the witness with respect to
a different version of the story from that which she
had now given, but the coroner refused to allow
such a course of examination as being irregular,
and said that if Mr. Fernandez persisted in it he
should certainly clear the room.
In reply to a question from Air. Stringer, solici-
tor, who appeared for the accused parties, the wit-
ness said that Emma Stringer cried a good deal
when Miss Adamson died.
The Coroner said that it had been proposed to
bring the two young sisters, now in custody, before
the fury, and examine them, but on Mr. Stringer's
objecting to such a course it was not persisted in.
The Rev. John Brown examined—l am a Roman
Catholic priest, residing at Wakefield, and knew the

late Miss Adamson for six years. During that time
she was troubled with a bad leg; but within the
last two years she had been subject to frequent in-
termittent fits of inners, such as sick headaches, but
her illness did not seem to be of so dangerous a na-
ture as to require medical assistance, except on one
occasion. I visited deceased on the 12th August be-
tween 2 and 3 o'clock in the aft ernoon. I was shown
up to Miss Adamson's bedroom, and remarked that
she looked exceedingly plump and somewhat
bloated about the face. She complained of pain,
and several times uttered these words, "Oh ! this
fire, this fire which burns within me; I cannot
throw it out." She gave me her hand to feel if it
was dey and hot. She called for something to
drink, and Emma gave her something which looked
like toast wed water, and I was very much struck
at Emma's extremely affectionate tone of voice,
and the great attention she appeared to pay to the
deceased. She raised her head from the pillow and
put her lips close to the lips of the deceased. After
a few miautes I lerc, and at the bottom of the stairs
I met Emma, and asked her if she knew what the
complaint of Miss Adamson was, and she replied
she did not. I then said she was very imprudent
in putting her mouth so close to that of Miss
' Adamson, and inhaling her breath, as it might be
contagious. She replied that she had been with
her night and day since her illness, and I said she
could easily get assistance. Afterwards I asked
Dr.: Hirst what was the matter with Miss Adam-
son, and he told me that it was gastric fever and
diphtheria. I had called upen Mies Adamson in
order to give her a legal reply to a proposition she
bad made to leave a portion of her property to the
Mount St, Bernard charity, and I told her I had
consulted a solicitor on the subject, and that such a
bequest would be illegal under the statute of Mort-
main. I said the solicitor was in the neighbourhood,
and it would be a good opportunity to settle her
affairs. She replied, "I am very much obliged to
you, but not yet ; it is only a trifle of £BOO. She
had not consulted me about leaving the rest of the
property further than that she had made some in-
quiries about the relative merits of the Wakefield
and Pontefract missions, as if she was contemplating
leaving a portion of her property to them. The
deceased appeared to be the last person in the world
to lay violent hands upon herself. On Wednes-
day after her death Emma Stringer came to my
house in company with her two brothers, and
banded me a paper, saying, " Miss Adamson
desired that you, the Rev. Mr. Young, and Miss
Foljambe, should sign this paper." I took the
paper and read it. It was to this effect :—" Miss
Adamson hereby makes over to Emma Stringer all
her furniture, beds and bedding, plate, jewelry,
knives and forks, &c." Then the words "As
witness our hands." On one side was written, in
the same hand-writing, " Hannah Bateson," and
opposite, on the other side, was a cross. After
reading the paper, which appeared to be half a
sheet of foolscap, I said, " How can you ask me to
sign a paper as witnessing what I never witnessed.
I cannot do any such thing, and I am sure the
other parties referred to will not do it." I added,
" Even if I were to sign my name, it would be of
no use to you, because Miss Adamson's name is not
to it." I added, " Did Miss Adamson really leave
these things to you ?" She replied, " Yes, she did."
" Is there any document about it in her own hand-
writing ?" I asked, and she said there was. I then
said, " That will be all you require." She first told
me that morning that Miss Adamson was dead.
Emma Stringer was pale and excited. She put the
paper in her pocket, and went away with her
brothers. On Thursday they all three again came
to me, and said she had a check for £5O, which
Leatham's bank had refused to cash. She handed
it to me, when I said, " Why, this is a £5O note ;
there will be no difficulty in getting cash for this,
provided you are authorised.' She said that Mr.
Wood had left it in her hands, and they intended
to go to the other bank. I said, "'You had better
be-careful, Emma, for I have heard that you have
been moving away two cartloads of goods." She
denied that she had done so.
By the Jury--Miss Adamson told me that the
pain was like fire in her stomach, but she did not
say that it increased after taking food or medicine.
I have seen Emma Stringer once since the inquiry
has been going on. She came to tell me that it
was adjourned for a fortnight, and she added that
she did not care if it was adjourned for two years.
She knew what she would do when it was over,
and that somebody would hear of it. Miss Adam-
son was a Catholic lady, and Emma Stringer used
to profess herself a Catholic. Emma Stringer also
told me that the £5O note had come into her hands
enclosed in a letter which came through the post,
and that she had taken it to Mr. Wood, who would
have nothing to do with it. Emma told me that
they had nothing to pay the grave and funeral ex-
penses.
Mr. Nunneley, surgeon, of Wakefield, then read
the notes or the post mortem examination as given
on a previous occasion, that, from the appearance
of the stomach and its ulcerated state, if death was
caused by poison it must have been adminis-
tered over a considerable period of time, and in
minute doses.
The Rev. J. Young, also a Roman Catholic priest,
who was in the habit of visiting deceased, said—On
one occasion I found her in acute pain ; she shrieked
out that her inside was burnt up, and asked for
something to drink, which Emma Stringer gave her.
On the Tuesday before the death of Miss Adamson
she sent for me. When I arrived I found her suffer-
ing, but strong. At her request I wrote two private
letters for her, cne to Mr. Golding, of Liverpool,
and the other to Mrs. Thorpe, Cheltenham. After-
wards Miss Adamson wanted me to accept a dia-
mond ring, but I refused to do so, saying that I did
not wear such things. She then inquired whether
I would have her gold watch, and I refused ' • when
she said she would give it to my sister. She did not
appear to be contemplating death at the moment,
though she was very ill, and her face was swollen.
On 'Wednesday I heard she was dead. After I had
gone down stairs I was told by Emma Stringer
that Miss Adamson had offered the watch and ring
to her, but that she had refused them, as she had
plenty other own. Next day the watch came to my
house with a message that it was for father Young's
sister. On the Thursday following her death I was
called upon by Emma Stringer and her two brothers
who told me that they had received a letter from
Mr. Golding enclosing a cheque for £5O, which
the Wakefield bank would not cash, and they
wanted me to give them Mr. Golding's address,
that they mi(eht send to him for the money in
Post-office oraers, because they had none in the
house. I could not give them the address further
than Liverpool, upon which they seemed to be
greatly disappointed. I then said that they would
find the address in a book in Miss Adamson's
room from which Emma Stringer saw me copy it.
They then went away.
Mr. J. Cartwright said that on the day after the
death of Miss Adamson he went to her house, and
cautioned Emma Stringer against removing the
goods of deceased, when she replied that Miss
Adamson had given them to her. lam the land-
lord of the house, and Emma Stringer tendered me
the rent, but I said there was none due. I was there
at the funeral of the deceased, when' a document
(purporting to be a will) was found. I took away
the plate, railway scrip, and L 17.135. Gd., the balance
of a £5O note, and some other things, of which I
made an inventory. Emma Stringer furnished me
with a statement of the manner in which the re-
mainder of the £5O was expended. I handed the
document to Mr. Adamson (brother of the deceased).
I still retain the plate, and Mr. Adamson has the
railway stock. Miss Adamson was' not fond of
company, and was rather eccentric in her habits.
She was frequently ill, but did not call in any one
in general. She did not visit much, but ladies
sometimes called upon her.
At this period of the inquiry an adjournment
took place.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Monday. Information 1
has reached this town of a very frightful murder,
which was perpetrated at Urpeth Corn-mill, in the
county of Durham, and about seven miles from
Gateshead, on Saturday night. The victim is a
bailiff in the employ of the Bankruptcy Court in
this town, named Thomas Harrison, formerly a

police inspector here ; the murderer, Milner Locliey,
a pitman, working at Leazingthorne Colliery, near
Bishop Auckland. It seems that about three weeks
ago Lockey was separated from his wife on account
of his brutal conduct. Harrison has recently been
put into possession of some crops belonging to one
Bell, a bankrupt, and he lodged with Airs. Lockey
in a cottage closely adjoining Urpeth-mill. On
Saturday night between eight and nine o clock,
Saturday being pay day, Lockey had come across
from Leazingthorne, a distance of 16 miles, and
entered the wife's cottage. At the time Harrison
was ill in bed. When Lockey came into the house
he said to his wife,—" How is thou ?" And from
his manner his wife became afraid. Lockey then
observed to her,—" Thou'll not be long here," and
immediately drew a knife out his pocket and struck
his wife a blow with it on the chest. The bone in
her stays caused the blow, however, to glance off.
He struck her again with the same effect ; then
lowering his hand, he made a blow at the bowels ;
but the knife entered the thigh, inflictini, a wound
an inch deep, which penetrated to the bone. The
wound, however, is not likely to prove fatal. Har-
rison observing Lockey stabbing his wife, rose up
in bed awl remonstrated with him, begging him
bot to kill her. Lockey immediately on inflicting
the last stab in his wire, turned round, and with an
oath, plunged the knife into Harrison's left breast.
He inflicted a wound six inches in depth, and while
the knife was in the wound he turned it in all di-
rections. Harrison fell back dead. When Lockey
entered the house and attacked his wife, his two
children ran out and alarmed the neighbours. Two
farm labourers came, and they reached just as
Mrs. Lockey was running from it; she having
wrested the knife from her husband. She passed
the labourers, followed by her husband, and though
he was unarmed they appear to have made no effort
to stop him. He chased her up a hill, but she got
among some uncut barley, and he lost her. Lockey
then made off. The country-side was alarmed, and
a messenger was sent off to the County Police Sta-
tion, at Chester-le-Street. Sergeant Robinson and
some other officers arrived during the night. They
immediately began to beat about the woods in search
of Lockey, and kept on all night. At half-past 9
on Sunday morning Lockey was captured in a pig
stye, closely bordering a large wood. He had been
out under a holly tree during the whole of the fear-
fully wet night. The murderer is 50 years of age.
The deceased man, who was in delicate health, was
46 years of age. The murderer and his wife have
each been twice married, and there is little doubt
have lived on most unhappy terms some time. The
murder is causing considerable excitement in this
town, where the deceased was well known.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Oct. 2.

MANSION-HOUSE.---A young Frenchman of
rather respectable appearance, who gate the name
of Louis Dobelle, was brought before the Lord

Mayor, charged with uttering counterfeit coin
wider rather singular circumstances.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar, pretended
not to be able to speak or to understand English,
although it was stated that he had previously been
heard to do so perfectly well. The evidence was
consequently explained to him by Minchull, one of
the Mansion House officers, who appeared to have
a perfect knowledge of French, and translated the
evidence to the prisoner with great fluency.
Henry Stowell, a cab-driver, stated that on
Saturday afternoon the prisoner hailed him in
Fleet-street, and told him to drive to Lombard-
street, and he pulled him up at the corner of a pas-
sage. He got out and asked witness if he had got
45., and he replied that he had, and handed them
to him, and the prisoner then gave him a five shil-
ling piece and also twopence for a glass of ale, and
then walked away very fast up the passage. He
suspected that something was wrong and went to a
public-house and offered the five shilling piece to
the landlord, who at once detected that it was a

counterfeit and bent it. Witness then drove round
by the Mansion House, where he accidentally saw
the prisoner, and called out to him that he wanted
him, upon which the prisoner ran off, but he got
down from his cab and pursued him until he was
stopped by an officer.
James Gash, another cab driver said, on Thurs-
day last, about five minutes past ten o'clock at
night, the prisoner engaged his cab at the Found-
ling rank, and told him to drive to Long acre.
He spoke bad English, but he understood what he
said very well. As they were going along Queen-
street some man, who was no doubt an accomplice
of the prisoner, hailed him, and the prisoner shortly
after stepped him, and got out, and asked
him if he had four shillings. (A laugh.) The pri-
soner then handed him a five shilling piece, and he
gave him two florins, and the prisoner gave him
twopence and told him to get a glass of ale. He
was anxious to get the second fare, and did not
therefore pay so much attention to the coin as he
should have done, and he turned round quickly but
could see no sign of the party who hailed him. He
went to a public-house and offered the five shilling
piece in payment for some drink, and he was at
once told that it was bad, upon which he called out,
" Then lam done." (Laughter.) He afterwards
went to the Bow street police-station and handed
the counterfeit piece to the inspector on duty.
Mr. Witham, an inspector of the F division of
police, produced the bad five shilling piece which
he had received from the last witness.
John Joseph, a third cab-driver, who had been
victimised, said that last Wednesday evening he
was hailed by the prisoner and another man in
Regent-circus, Oxford-street, and they both got in
and told him to drive to Cranbourn-street, Leicester-
square. The companion of the prisoner got out at
Bear-street, and told him that the prisoner could
not speak English, and he directed him to drive to
Porter-street, Newport-market. He did so, and the
prisoner got out, and then inquired if he had got
four shillings'. (Roars of laughter, in which the
witness joined.) He gave the four shillings to
him and the prisoner handed him a five shilling
piece.
The Lord Mayor—lt was only a sixpenny fare,
was it ?
The witness said it was only a sixpenny fare, and
he thought the prisoner was rather liberal, and
this threw him off his guard.
The Lord Mayor inquired if the prisoner said
anything else to him ?
The witness said that after he gave him the five
shilling piece he told him that he would see if he
had any halfpence to give him something to drink,
and he felt his pockets and gave him twopence.
The prisoner pretended to ring at the bell of the
house where he stopped, and he had a little dog
under his arm, and he said, "My leetel dog is very
cord and wet, and I shall be glad to get him in-doors
in de warm." (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor inquired how the witness knew
that the prisoner pretended to ring at the bell ?
He replied that he went afterwards to inquire,
and ascertained that the people of the house knew
nothing about him. He discovered that the five
shilling piece was bad when he paid it in to the
foreman in the cab-yard.
Inspector Witham said there was a great number
of similar charges against the prisoner. In all the
eases cabmen appear to have been the sufferers.
The Lord Mayor said the prisoner seemed to have
singled out the cabmen as his peculiar victims.
(A laugh.)
Thomas Clemenson, another cab-driver, said that
about three weeks ago he was hired by the pri-
soner and another man in the Haymarket, and was
told to drive to Long-acre.
The Lord Mayor—Another sixpenny fare ?
Witness—Exactly, your lordship. (Laughter.)
When I got to Long-acre the prisoner handed me
a florin, and asked if I had got a shilling.
(Laughter.) I gave him a good shilling, and he
went away, and I then found out that the two
shilling piece was a bad one. The prisoner did not
give him any ale. (Renewed laughter.)
The Lord Mayor said that this was the unkindest
cut of all. (Laughter.)
The witness added that the moment he discovered
the coin was a: bad one, he threw it into the fire,
as, being a cabman, he thought he might get
into trouble if he was found in possession of bad
money.
Henry Hayes, City policeman, deposed that he
saw the prisoner running towards him in George-
street, Mansion-house, on Saturday evening, and he
stopped him, and the prosecutor came up asd
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him 13s. in good money. He afterwards picked up
a had half-crown on the route the prisoner had
taken.
prisoner was remanded in order that the
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TIE RECENT FIGHT BETWEEN MACE
dND BRETTLE.

COMMITTAL OP CRUTCHLEY AND LONG-
MORE.
Yesterday at the sitting of the magistrates at
Rochester, Henry Crutchley, who acted as second
in the late fight between Mace and Brettle, Daniel
Crutchley, and Richard Longmore, surrendered in
discharge of their bail to the complaint preferred
against them for riotously assembling with other
disorderly persons, at a prize fight near Yantlet
Creek, and assaulting and resisting the police in
the execution of their duty.
Mr. Beard attended for the defendants.
At the previous examination Robert Brettle was
also charged with taking part in the unlawful pro-
ceeding, but was discharged.
Inspector Jeckland, of the Kent constabulary,
gave similar evidence to that at the former exami-
nation, already reported.
The police sergeant and constables who were
with the inspector spoke of seeing the fight, and
stones and brickbats being thrown at them. One
of them, Mercer, was hit at the back of the head,
and he bled. They added, that as soon as they
appeared the people about the ring began to dis-
perse.
Alfred Hall, chief coast-guardsman at Yantlet
Creek, said he saw the parties land from. the tugs.
The first fight between Mace and Brettle did not
last more than five or ten minutes, and the second
nearly an hour, when the police came. 'From the
time the mob came upon the ground until the
police appeared, there was no riotous conduct. He
felt no alarm or terror until the police charged
him to assist. The people were dispersing when
the police came in sight. The place was very quiet
and retired.
Mr. Dunn, son of the farmer who occupies the
marsh, said he was present part of the time • while
the fight was going on, and he saw no tumultuous •
conduct until the police appeared, when the people
made off to the boat. He was not terrified.
Superintendent Everist having deposed to cap-
turing the defendants at Leigh, and their readiness
to go where he wished,
Mr. Beard made a powerful address to the Bench
on behalf of the defendants. It was clear, by the
evidence of the two independent witnesses, Hall
and Dunn, that there was no riotous conduct, and
when the police appeared the people were dispers-
ing. There was not the least evidence to fix Henry
Crutchley with the commission of any offence, and
if the Bench should be satisfied that Daniel Crutch-
ley and Longmore were seen fighting, he was sure
that a warning, and being bound over in their own
sureties, would be sufficient to induce them not to
attempt anything of the kind again in Kent. The
police did not now charge the defendants with
assaulting them, and he submitted that the Bench
might well dispose of the case by dismissing Henry
Crutchley, and binding the other two over to keep
the peace.
The Chairman said they had made up their minds
to discharge Henry Crutchley, and to send Daniel
Crutchley and Longmore for trial at the Guarter
Sessions.
Captain Ruston, the chief constable of the county,
intimated that they were procuring evidence with
a view of arresting Mace and Brettle.
On the application of Mr. Beard, Crutchley and
Longmore put in the necessary bail to appear at
he sessions.

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