The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

stairs to see a sick person, Juliette, and then I
looked through the keyhole of the bedroom door of
the deceased, and I saw the bed was in confusion,
but I did not see the body. I called to the deceased,
but received no answer, and, having tried the door,
I found it locked. About 8 o'clock I saw the room
burst open. I saw her things lying on the
table, and I then looked at the bed. After
the bed-clothes were removed I saw the de-
ceased, her beck was towards me. She was
upon her face with her head between two
pillows (the pillows were not over her head).
Her arms were turned back. The doctor came
about 5 minutes after the door was broken open
by Fairfield. During the interval I went down
stairs, and Mouton stood outside the door, shut it,
and said no one should enter till the arrival of the
medical man. Deceased wore that night a watch
and chain, two ring=, and a pair of earrings. Oil
Wednesday evening when I went to deceased's
room, I did not sea any of those articles. I knew
them perfectly well—one of the rings she only pos-
sessed
the Sunday hefor,. Witness th .n detailed
the articles, belonging to the deceased, missed.
When the prisoner went into the house, ho had no
marks on his face. I noticed him particularly.
Cross-examined— I have resided in the hou e about
five mouths and a.hiflf with Mouton. I never lived in
any other house with Madame Levy. I knew her from
peeing her in the streets, just as Frenchwomen know
each other. I don't know where she lived before. '
Sometimes I took male friends home to Arundel-court

when Monsieur Mouton was out. He was always out
in the day, and weut to a certain place to s2end his
evenings. Mouton came home on Wednesday to break-
fast at one o'clock, then he took a walk with Diseer and
came home to dinner. I saw the Frenchman in the house
after the doctor came. Am certain Heloise wore two
rings on the night i❑ question. She took great pride in
showing them. I very ofte❑ go into Waterloo-place and
talk to other women. I did not consent to sleep three
in a bed with Heloise and the prisoner. He did not ask
me. No one ever proposed it.
Theophile Mouton—l lodged in February with the
witness Sylvestre, at Madame Levy's. lam a comnes-
sion agent. At half-past seven o'clock on Wedee,day
❑fight I broke open the bedroom-door of the deceased.
Several persons were with me at the time, I went to
the bed and removed the bedclothes from the deceased,
and gave her a little push I called out, " Heloise, will
you come to dinner !" She did not move, and I then
saw she was dead. The deceased was lying as described
by the witness Sylvestre, and the room was in great dis-
order. The sofa bad been pulled in front of the fire.
Deceased was lying on her belly, with her face between
the pillows ; her arms were turned back, and her fingers
were cramped or contracted, as if she had endeavoured
to defend herself; her arms were spotted blue ; whe❑ I
discovered the body, I covered it up again, and it re-
mained in that state till the doctor came. I did not
disturb the position of the body when I touched it
Cross-examined—l am a commission agent. I work

for several persons. I deal in every article given to me
for sale. I get work where I can. Iw rk for M.
Jochom, 5, Mead's-court, Warclour-street, Soho. I for-
tner:y dealt in jewellery.
Mr. T. Atkinson—Do you sell jewellery to gay
women ?

Witness—l sell them where I can. Ido not choose my
customer. I slept at Madame Levy's with Madame
Sylvestre every night. We lived there. I did not know
that Madame Levy was a gay woman. Ido not fuse
tme in enquiring into such matters. I had seen her
several times before. I went to live at her house.
Virginie paid the rent of the room. Such questions are
not rea,4onable. (Laughter.) I helped Virginie as much
ai pos,,ible, like friends. All the money I earned came
into the house for the benefit the household.

Eiiz► Disher sworn—l lodged at 8, Arundel-place.
About half-past 7 on Wednesday morning I saw prisoner
go down stairs. I was going down stairs, and the prisoner
was behind, and he passed me a'. the bottom ef the
stairs. Tbe night bef ire I bad quarrelled with my hu -
baud, and I sat on the stairs Lear my door from haP-
past 2 till 7 o'clock. About a few ❑:longs before 7
o'clock I heard three groans from the top room, and
about half-an-hour after wards the prisoner came down
stairs and followed me without ,peaking down Vie other
flight of stairs. He passed the at the landing: with:_ut
speaking, and quitted the house. He opened and
closed the dour hina,elf. He had nothin4 in his hand,
hut he appeared stout itbeu`, the shoulders ; he pre-
sented a ate uter appearance about the breast than
now ; he bad a large brown coat with hose sleeves ;
it had no hood like the one he has on now ; it was
quite light at Vie time ; when the prisoner gut outsize
he turned r' udi and looke.. at me.

Julie Levy, recallsd— Cross-rxarnined by Mr. T.
Atkinson—The prisoner was dre,:ed in the cawe coat
as now; a coat like it, but I don't kno.v if it had a
hood to it. [Pbe prisoner was dies-4W in a 1 irge b:o
,at or cape, braided, with a hood.] His coat that night
was braided like the one he now has on ; he had on a
coat braidej like the one be now wears when in
my bou=e.

By. Mr. Bodkin— No male, person slept in the room
wilh the sick person. _ _

Virginia Sylve,tro recalled—Examine,' by Mr. T. At-
kios ,n—When I fir,t saw the prisonar he was dressed
just the sArrie as he is now—the colour was brown blue.

By the Judge—l don't know if it had a hood to it.
Eliza Dtsber rec4lled and cross-examined by Mr. T.
A.tkinsun.—l quart shed Tl.l my husband about eleven
o'clock, and went down into the kitchen. I took up my
posit'ou on the stairs about half-past 2, temait,ing 6,1
near 7. I. was a,vake Coe el:olc, cf time. lam mar-
ri• d to Disher. I was married to him at Great Beaiios,
about 2 years ago. I had resided in this house about
three weeks when the occurrence happened. I knew
nothing cf the habits of the inmates. I ;bought them
quiet people. Some of them went to bed early, otbtrs late.
I went out of the room by my own accord. My
husband several times called to me, saying I had no
+.u-iness to be on the stairs ; but I persisted in doing so.
I saw Heloise go up stairs about ball-past two, just as
I came up from the kitchen ani rat on the stairs. I
saw no other pass up or down the stairs between that

time and morning. I did not get drowsy at all. It was
quite light at half-pa,t 7 o'clock that morning. The
person who then went down stairs had on a brown coat
with loose sleeves. My husband is a tailor. The coat
worn by the man is known as a paletot ; it bad braid
round the buttons. I know nothing of the jewellery
worn by the ladies.
By Mr. Bodkin—l heard Virginia go up stairs about
five minutes after deceased went up. I heard her knock
at deceased's door and ask for licloise. I heard her re-
turn alimmt directly after she went up. From that time

till the prisoner came down no person went up or
down the stAim I did not notice if hi face way
scratched or ❑et, although he turned round and looked
at ins as he went out of the door.

By the Judge—Tue three groans I heard were not
loud. They were immediatelv one aster each other.
That was all the noise I heard. It there had been a
violent scuffle I think I should have heard it. If there
had beon fighting, or violent struggling, I am certain I
should have heard it. I heard the groans distinctly,
though they were not very loud. The coat svai
the one the prisoner has now on. I can't say if coats
with hoods can be worn inside or outside on the
shoulders. At the time I thought the screams came
from the sick room.
The Court adjourned at two o'clock for a short time.

Mr. FredericTothill, of 8, Charle,:-street, St. James's-
square, surgeon to the C division of police, said—l was
called into the house No. 8, Arundel-place, at half-past
9 on the night of the murder, and found the deceased in
a top room lying on her face on the hed, her head sup-
p med by pillows, anti the rest of her body covered with
the bed-clothes. I observed nothing particul 1r on re-
moving the clothes beyond the way in which the body
was lying. I turned the body over, and found tie
chest and abdomen rather warm. The general appear-
ance of the body was livid and ecchymose ; the face was
swollen, the features distorted, and the eyes prominent,
with the pupils dilated. Thera was mucus running
from the nose, the tongue was protruding and swol en ;
on the lower and front part of the windpipe a dark
livid :pot was visible, about the size of a fourpenny
niece, and the fingers were contracted and nails livid.
I ni.,de a post mortetn examina ion on Saturday
morning, assisted by Mr. Palmer, the house surgeon
of Charing-cross Ho-pital. On removing the skud I
examined the brain, and came to the conclusion that
death had been occasioned by strangulation. The
facts fully bore out the opinion I had previously formed.
In my judgment death was produced by strangulation
by some other person. Pressure on the windpipe was,
in my opinion, the immediate cause of death. I should
say, from the appearance of the deceased, she had been
dead eight or ten hours—it might be longer. The posi-
tion in which the bady was lying, the bedclothes over
it, and the gravitation of blood towards the parts,
would acc.iunt for the degree of warmth I have spoken
of in the chest and abdomen ; the extremities were per-
fectly cold.
(We shall give the conclusion in our last edition.)