The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-06 00:00:00

The earlier accounts of the remarkable double murder in
the northern suburbs of London contained several state.-
ments which more complete inquiry has materially cor-
rected. The following facts, given by the Times, supply a
more accurate narrative. Wood-green is a wide-spreading
suburban village, five or six miles from town, which has
sprung up, principally under the aid cf land and building
Bodges, during the- last ton or fifteen years, and the dwel-
lings about it are principally of the cottage class. Henson
lived with the murdered woman, who was not his wife,
in a curious place, a little corrugated-roof house, which was
nothing more than the "summer-house" of a cottage in the
Truro-road, and the inhabitants of this converted summer-
house, Henson, the woman, and their two children, had to
pass by the side of the cottage in front on egress or ingress.
The plot of ground heat the cottage is not built upon, and
then comes Boullds-green-read, three doors up which, at a
little pretentious stucco cottage, the murdered man Boyd
lived, and his " stable," a newly-built brick hut at the
bottom of the garden, over-topped the summer-house
home of Henson, so that, although outside there are
several houses and another read between Henson's home
and Boyd's, the premises of the two men, by means
of the garden are actually connected. Henson is described
as a married man who has lived apart from his wife
for several years ; and, indeed, he has cohabited with the
murdered woman for six years, in which time she has
borne him two. children. He was a working carpenter, and
a little more,• a sort of middleman, finding labour for a
" job," and acting as a sort of foreman contractor, by which
he earned,: so it is said, 43 or 44 a week, though the man-
ner in which the couple lived seems to give the denial to
this. He is about 30 years of age, and is a tall, wiry man
of nearly. 6ft. in height, and though not stout, is very
strong. The woman's name was Maria Death, and her age
was 26 years. She is described as a well-behaved woman, but
as not particularly attractive. She was a well-educated
woman, and far above the class of the man she cohabited
with. Boyd is said to be abcttingman, and the generalvoice
of the neighbourhood concurs in describing him as alibertine
in whose hands no woman's reputation was safe. He, too,
was separated from his wife. It is pretty certain, at all
events, that he had been leading at Elder Lottage, a some-
what dissolute life. It appears that Henson left his home
on Monday morning for the purpose of going to work at a
place near the Old Harrow-road, which he would reach by
going through Hendon and Kingsbury, and he said. that he
should not be back until Wednesday. Whether he sus-
pected
the woman, and on his detcrm:nation to find out
the relationship between her and Boyd, had told her this
to beguile her, or whether he had met companions with
whom he stayed drinking in the neighbourhood, is not
known, but he returned before mid-day, and found that
she was away from home, and subsequently he learnt she
had gone to London from Wood-green Station. He then took
up a position on the platform, and waited, seemingly with
great anxiety, for the trains from London, and all the
passengers from the many trains during the afternoon he
carefully noted, in order that he should see with whom
the woman travelled, for it is ascertained that he was aware
Boyd had gone to London, too. At a little after five o'clock
he saw Boyd and the woman alight from the train together
and as soon as he could reach them he knocked Boyd down,
and commenced upbraiding the woman in the Littered
terms, and with such threats that fur a time she not onl3
refused to go with him, but besought the pretee:ion ci
those at the station. Boyd had Lenefitted by the inter-
ference of two wandering musicians and others, en:l
having recovered himself he went home, accompanic.d.
it is said, by these men. Ilensen at length persuaded
the woman to go towards home v. ith him by speakin&
of the children, and when they reached the corner nea
Which the entrance to the cottage is he was heard to sa3
to her, "You will see, I'll be the death of you," and her
reply was given in tones which betrayed her fear and
solicitude, "Indeed, I never wronged you by anything ;
never to this hour." The Man replied, "I will, and him
too," pointing in the direction of Elder-cottage,and hissin3
the words between his teeth. This conversation was heard
by the wife of a policeman who, with his family, inhali.:,s
one of two houses to be let between Boyd's house and the
corner of the Truro-road. The woman Death followed
the man reluctantly through the narrow garden-
way to the cottage behind, and when she stood
for a moment within a foot or two from the
little window, as if still hesitating to go in, an explosion
of a gun was heard withinn the cottage, and tho woman
fell. Her death must have been instantaneous, for she wa.3
shot through the heart. Henson came out of the cottage
and beat the corpse about the head with the butt-end of the
gun, and in rage he used the gun so violently against the
corpse and the ground that he broke the stock. He kep4
the barrel in his hand and walked down the cottage path
into the read. The woman they had passed at the doom
of the houso to to let he passed again, and apparently

quite coolly, but, with a wild flash of his eye, he remarked,
"I have clone for ere, end now for the other." Ho went

into the forecourt of Boyd's cottage, and knocked at
the door. There was no immediate respcn3e, and, with
out more ado, he broke the obstruction down. lie cntre3
the house and looked into the little FOC 1113, and not secin3
Boyd, he his made way to the stable. Here he found Boyd
with, it is said, the two men who had protected him at the
station. These • men fled over the fence, and Henson,
turning to Boyd, struck him down with the gun barrel at
once, without a moment's parley, and then deliberately
beat out his brains. He afterwards returned to his
cottage by the roadway again, though ho could have
stepped across the hedge from Boyd's garden to the cot-
tage door. By this time the woman in the corner house
had aroused her husband, the policeman mentioned,
Searle, No. 112 Y, who at once entered the cottage garden,
where he found Henson, still with the gun in his hand
leaning over the woman, occupied in putting out the fire
in her dress, the shot having been fired so close, to hem
as to set her gown on fire. The policeman instantly
laid his hands on Henson, who shook him off, and was
about to apply the barrel to further use when a police-
man named Neil, who is known to Henson, also entered the
garden, and said, soothingly, " What's the matter, Fred?"

and Henson answered, "I shot her through tho window,
and I have finished him too," pointing over to the stable as
he said "him" By this time intelligencd of the crime had
reached tho station in the Southgate-road, and Policeman

Samuel Turner, 15 Y, in company with a mounted patrol;
Egan, 446, who was at the station, immediately proceeded
to the spot. In the meantime the two policemen, Neil and
Searle, had disarmed the murderer, and were issuing with
him from the garden when the patrol and Turner came up
Turner placed a handcuff on Henson's left wrist, and
attached the other " cuff " to the Stirrup of the mounted
constable. Escorted by the other constables, he was
brought to the station, and immediately ho reached it
he drew out from his breast an open knife and cut at his

throat. The constables threw themselves on him to prevent
his effecting his purpose of suicide, and he as strongly cndca-

voured to carry it out. The charge was taken dOwn by
Inspector Grey, and when read over to the prisoner, he
quietly nodded his head in assent to the charge of wilful mur-
der. After the prisoner had been before Mr. Shepherd and
remanded on the charge of wilful murder, he was taken tc
the station at Edmonton, there to await the means of con-
veyance to the House of Detention. While there the
sullen passion which up to that time had possessed him
and kept him in good spirits seemed to desert him, for ht
sighed, as he observed to the constable who kept watch
over him, that he little thought that time the day before
what was going to happen. Presently he expressed regret
that it had ha7ppened, and tried to find for himself an
excuse by saying that he had been out with companions
drinking in the morning.
At the inquest, which was held on Tuesday afternoon, n
little further information was elicited. The bodies of thr
two victims were greatly mutilated. It appears that tilt
murderer and the woman Death lived very happil3
together. More than one witness testified to the good con•
duct of the unfortunate victim Boyd, and she had neve]
been seen on terms of familiarity with him. It is quite true
that she had once been a governess, and was a woman of good
education. It further appeared that, owing to Henson's
violence after being arrested, it was found necessary to put
handcuffs upon him ; that, when he reached the police-
station, he asked for a glass of water ; that, to enable hint
to drink, one hand was released ; and that, while the office:
was putting back the glass, prisoner endeavoured to cut hi,
throat, but that no material injury was inflicted.

STRANGE SECLUSION.—LindIey Murray, whose
grammar is so curiously incorrect, is said to have resided
for the space of two-and-twenty years in one front parlom
without once going out, attended upon by a kindly old
maid, enamoured of his participles and his proterpluperiects.
living chiefly on boiled mutton and turnips, and solacing
himself in the intervals of conjugating verbs by grinding a
barrel-organ.

BOUCICAULT AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES
—Prior to the Prince and the Piincers of Wales visitin:,
the Adelphi Theatre en Saturday, when their dram:.
" Lost at Sea " was produced for the first time, the nine._
received a thoughtful intimation fr( m the anther on K
day that he felt he could best evince his gratitude for the
expression of her .Royal Highness's intentien to witnes.
the first representation of his new piece by respect
fully apprising the Prince that it contained a seen,
somewhat more startling than usual, and that he sheuk
be grieved if it were to cause any pain or uneasiness to the
Princess in her delicate state of- health, In reply, a kind
aelsuowledgment was conveyed to Mr. Boucicault for hi,;,
disinterested consideration, but he wa,s
the Princess had made up her - ..,ned that
...,nd to be amused, and
not be tlisconccrteil
any of the incilent3 of "Lost at
Sea."