The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

TH.II W,

URDR.R.

Yesterday, Mrs. Bevan, the landlay of the house
No. 16, Manor-place, Walworth, in the upper apart•
ments of which William Godfrey Youngman com-
mitted a series of the most determined, as well as
the most unnatural murders that have taken place
in modern times, applied to Mr. Elliott, at the
Lambeth Police Court, for his advice respecting
some goods still in her house belonging to John
Youngman, the father of the 'culprit, and which
gave the owner a pretext to come there to the great
annoyance of herself and family.
The applicant, who seems a very respectable wo-
man, said she had a son afflicted with consumption
and heart disease, who had been turned out in-
curable from the Brompton and other hospitals, and
her own health being also far from good, her hus-
band and herself were induced to take the house in
Manor-place from the openness of the place and the
benefit of the air, but she much feared the dreadful
murders unfortunately committed there would lead
to their total rain. They had lost all their lodgers,
and the shocking state the place was in was any-
thing but beneficial to her health, while it was most
injurious to that of her son, and the least allusion
to it, or the presenee of the father of Youngman,
made him much worse.

Mr. Elliott—Have you given notice to the owner
to take the things away ?
Mrs. Bevan—l have, sir; but he has.not done so.
Mr. Elliot—Having given him proper notice to
take away the things, you are not obliged to keep
them.

Mrs. Bevan—l did not expect to see Mr. Dann
here, but being present, and as he has had much to
do with the case, will your Worship kindly direct
him to remove the things ?
Inspector Dann said that his employment in the
case of the late murders gave him an opportunity
of seeing a good deal of Mrs. Bevan and her family;
he had no doubt whatever of the truth of her repre-
sentation, that the affair of the murder would lead
to very serious losses on their part. Indeed, he had
heard that already they had suffered a good deal,
and he conscientiously believed the family deserving
of sympathy, and of assistance from the poor-box.
On hearing this Mr. Elliott kindly ordered the
poor woman a sovereign out of the poor-box, and
told Mr. Dann to see to the removal of Youngman's
things from her house.
From authentic sources it has been ascertained
that the culprit has not undergone the slightest
change in his manner up to the present moment,
but that he eats, drinks, and sleeps as usual, and
appears still to labour under the delusive hope that
his life will not be taken, while at the same time
the order for his execution at Horsemonger-lane
Gaol on Tuesday next, at nine o'clock in the morn-
ing, is in the hands of the Governor. His only
visitors are his father and brother, and at an inter-
view with the latter in the beginning of the week
the culprit requested him either to write himself
or get his solicitor to write to Captain S—,
an officer with whom he once lived, to interest
himself with Colonel Phipps, so that the latter
might intercede with her Majesty for his par-
don or a commutation of his sentence. The
brother, however, intimated that it was no use,
and told him to recollect what the Judge had
said—that ma getting away the knife from his
mother, he had no need to have used it against her.
Upon which the culprit remasked that he, the bro-
ther, would have done the same to save his own
life; but the brother dissented, and said that on get.
ting away the knife he could easily have held his
mother by the hands until he could get assistance,
and should not have thought of using it against his
own mother.

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A communication has been made to Col. Phipps,
and the reply to it has been, that the matter is in
the hands of the Home Secretary, to whom all com-
munications are to be made.

Mr. Waghorn, the solicitor who conducted Young-
man's defence, has, with much humanity, endea-
veured to ascertain whether the mother of the cul-
prit had evinced any symptoms of insanity that
might be made available to his client, but he has
failed in doing so ; and his last advice to Youngman
is, that he devote all his attentions to the exhorta-
tions of the chaplain. His notions of religion, how-
ever, may be judged from the fact that some days
ago some benevolent lady forwarded to him a reli-
gious tract, in which some passages applicable to
his case were marked, but on taking it up he said,
" I wish she Ind sent me something to eat instead, as
I could do a fowl and a piece of pickled pork."

on Saturday night week given by Mrs. Davis was J
contradicted in some material points, though she
was corroborated by some of the witnesses as to
the general conduct of the deceased to his wife,
owing to his suspicion of her unchasteness. The
principal witness was a young man named William
Wilson, who is employed at the brace and belt
manufactory of Mr. Perkins, in George's-street, and
according to his evidence a very serious quarrel
took place between deceased and his wife on Satur-
day week. Mr. Perkins' workshop overlooks the
yard in which the unhappy couple lived, and as
Wilson was at work about six o'clock he heard the
wife cry out " Murder." He opened the door of
the workshop and looked out, and deceased was
then pushing his wife down the steps. Deceased
told her " he did not want her any more, and that
she might go away," and when he had put her
to the bottom of the steps he retired into the
house. The wife, in a passion, took up a stone,
and threw it at the window. She also cried
out, " Give me the child, and I will go." The
deceased came to the door and said, " I would
not let you have the child to make it as bad as
you are yourself." The prisoner then began to
upbraid him, upon which he ran down the steps
towards her. As he came up to her, the prisoner
seized a mallet (weighing about 51bs., and used by
Mr. Perkins' men to assist them in punching holes
in braces and belts) and struck him on the head
with it. She kept the murderous instrument in
her hand, and did not heave it at him. The effect
of the blow was to make the deceased's head bleed,
for young Wilson distinctly saw the blood trickling
down Willan's face. Willan then got hold of his
wife by the shoulders, knocked her down, and
bumped her head several times on the floor. As the
prisoner arose her husband went up again into the
house, and she again commenced abusing him, but
finally walked away through the passage as if to-
wards George's-street. This was all Wilson saw of
the quarrel, but deceased afterwards came out of
the house and told the neighbours that he was
jealous of another man, that she had persuaded him.
to leave his work, and go with her about the coun-
try attending feasts and fairs with the hurdy-
gurdy, and that he had seen her speak to another
man at a feast, and had been jealous of her ever
since. It was evident that some information was
not forthcoming which was required for the pur-
poses of justice, and the coroner consequently ad-
journed the inquest.

IRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, MOO.