The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

T IE FENIAN ASSASSINATION IN

BLOOMSBURY.

[The following appeared in our Latest Edition yester-
day evening.l

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances
connected with the assassination of Elwin ITDou-
nell, on the 29th of September, was resumed to-
day at the University I lospi
Notwithstanding the discharge of the accused
Wall, Groves, by the magistrate at Bow-street
police-court yesterlty, the coroner proceeded with
h's inquest, but the interest in the matter seemed
almost to have subsided.

The CahliillFrederick liel.3on, the luau spoken to
by B )wler as the person who was with hint when
Groves wished to light with him, was the list person
examinee . The witaiss,howver, in his evidence,
said the man who wished to light with BowLr
outsi le the Turk's Head was a person about sft. 10iu
in htight with a dark moustache.
The Coroner—Bowler sail it was Groves that
wanted to light with him ; he is certainly not a tall,
dark person.

Mr. Poland—Yes, that is so, and Bowler you
will find says that the man afterwards walked up
Southampton-row on leaving the Turk's Head,
whilst Helson says he got into a cab and drove
away.

Witness—Yes he did, and the cabman who drove
him away is here.

James Bush, cab-driver 4,670, said he drove the
gentleman, whose name was Monson, from the
Turk's Head on the night in question. He cer-
tainly was not a fair man, and he was quite certain
that he could not have been one of the persons who
followed M'Donnell and his companions on the
night of the murder.

John Wiggin said he was near Vernon-place on
the night of the murder. He saw a flash of fire
and then heard a report of fire-arms. Immediately
after that a tall man ran up the street, but he re-
traced his steps, and then he (witness) saw the
wounded man. In a very few minutes a great many
persons assembled near the spot. The witness gave
a confused version of what he saw on the night of
the murder near Vernon-place, but it was impossible
to discover, from his over particular description of
the matter, whether he really saw the man who it
was supposed fired the shut at all, or whether he
was not mistaking M'Donnell's friends for some of
the party. According to this witness's statement
there appeared to be more than an ordinary number
of persons walking up Southampton-row on the
night of the murder than 'on ordinary occasions.
His version differed so materially from the evidence
already received that it produced some hilarity in
the court.

The Coroner said it seemed to him that people
were coming forward and swearing in the most
opposite directions. Qne witness says there were
but one or two persons about Vernon-place on the
night of the murder, and now we have it that there
were a great many.

Dennis Healey said he knew Groves, and was
with him in the early part of the Friday evening
at the Turk's Head, but he left him early. He had
known Groves about 10 months, but he was not
aware that he was in the habit of carrying a dagger
in his pocket. When he left Groves he went
home, and nothing occurred up to that time worth
recollection.

Stephens, the witness, who met Furber running
up Southampton-row for assistance, was next
examined, and nothing beyond that he has already
related in his evidence before the police magistrate
was elicited.

Inspector Garforth, of the E division of police,
repeated his evidence with respect to the steps he
ha :1 taken as to the evidence of Mrs. Jenman. He
was alluding to the statement sho bad made and
signed as true, when

Mrs. Jeninan, who was standing against the
witnesses at the further en(' of the room, in a loud
voice exclaimed that the statement the inspector had
now put in was an imperfect copy of that originally
made by her. She said she had been treated
throughout in the most shameful manner by the
police, and that the present proceeding of putting
in an untrue and imperfect copy of the information
whe had given relative to the murder of 11.1'llonnell
was only of a piece with all thy had done to injure
her iu every way.

An angry discussion then ensued between Mrs.
Jenman, the coroner, and jury, which was only
brought to an end by Dr. Lankester ordering Mrs.
Jenman to quit the room, which she refused to do,
but she remained quiet during the remainder of the
proceedings.

The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and
the jury, after about ten minutes' deliberation, re-
turned an open verdict, to the effect that the de-
ceased, Edwin M'Donncll, was wilfully murdered
by some person or persons unknown, and that the
jury were of opinion that the witness, Ann Maria
Jenman, ought to be prosecuted for wilful and
corrupt perjury.
The proceedings then terminated.

As the woman Jemuan was leaving the hospital
the crowd hi.,:sed and hooted at her in the most
vehement manner, and it was with great difficulty
that actual personal violence was prevented.