The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day),

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)

THE MURDERS AT WALWORTH.-CONVICTION OF THE
MURDERER.

William Godfrey Youngman, 25, tailor, was indicted for

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the wilful murder of Mary Wells Streeter. There were also
three other indictments against him for the wilful murder
of his mother and his two brothers.

Mr. Clerk prosecuted on the part of the Crown; and
Mr. Best, of the Oxford Circuit, defended the prisoner.
Yesterday the indictments were severally read over to
him, and he pleaded not guilty distinctly to each of the
charges.
From the circumstance that the evidence against the
accused having already appeared in The Sun, in the copious
reports of the examination of the accused, before Mr.
Elliot, the magistrate at the Lambeth Police-court, and
Mr. Carter, the coroner fer East Surrey, we deem it unne-
cessary to repeat it. The following brief narrative of the
facts will be quite sufficient to refresh the memory of our
readers.

It will be recollected that a constable on duty (David
Luck, 133 P), about six c'elock in the morning of the
31st of July, just prior to ks leaving his beat, was called
to No. 16, Manor place, 'Walworth-road, by the landlord
of the house, Mr. Bevan, vrho informed the officer that
a child had been murdered. The constable at once sent
to the chief station for a superior officer, and Inspector
Dann, accompanied by Police-constable Varney, proceeded
to the house. On the officers going upstairs to the land-
ing of the second floor, a sight at once awful, sickening,
and harrowing presented itself, The whole of the floor of
the landing was saturated with blood, which had scarcely
coagulated, and lying in the midst of it were three human
bodies, fearfully mutilated. The first was found to be that
of a boy, about six years of age, lying on his back with his
head towards the stairs. The next body was that of a
young female in her night-dress ; lying on her right side,
and partially resting upon her, was the body of an elderly
female. Mr. Inspector Dann was then informed that a
youngman, the son of the elderly female, was on that storey,
and on stepping over the bodies he saw a man, about 25
years of age, in his night-shirt, standing perfectly calm and
quite indifferent to the horrible scene around him. In-
spector Dann told him that he must take him into custody,
when the young man made the foll6wing remarks :—" I
was in bed with my brother, when mother came up to the
bedside with a knife, and killed my brother who was sleeping
with me; then she made a stab at me, and I wrested the
knife from her and killed her in self-defence." The young
man was then taken into custody, and Inspector Dann
proceeded into the back room on the same landing, and
discovered a fourth body, that of a boy about eleven years
of age, lying in bed in a pool of blood. The prisoner was
then removed to the chief police station. On a search of
the rooms being made a large dagger clasp knife was found
completely covered with blood. About an eighth of an
inch of the point of the dagger was broken off, as also a
portion of the guard. A lodger named Beard, a carpenter,
was preparing to go to work when he heard a kind of cry and
a heavy fall. He went to see what it was, when he observed
the body of oae of the deceased boys lying on the land-
ing covered with blood. Being greatly alarmed Beard did
not search further, but ran down stairs and informed his
landlord, and Mr. Bevan immediately called in the police as
stated above.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.