The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

TILE BRADFORD C HILD MURDER.

BRADFORD, Wednesday.
This morning John' George Gowland, attorney's
clerk, the father of the tWo children who were
murdered in this town on Sunday night, as re-
ported in The Sun, was brought before the Mayor
of Bradford (Mr. Wright) and other magistrates,
and charged by Mr. Grauhan, chief constable of
the borough, with having committed either perjury
or forgery.
On being ordered to stand up before the bench
the prisoner said, " In this case, your worships,
perhaps you will hear a word I have got to say
first."

The Mayor told him he must keep silent till he
was asked what he had to say.
Mr. Grauhan then said that the prisoner, when
giving evidence at the inquest held on Tuesday on
view of the bodies of his murdered children, stated
on oath that he was not married to the unfortunate
woman with whom he had been living, and who
was now lying in the infirmary with her throat cut.
Among the papers found in the prisoner's house
was a document purporting to be a certified copy
of the register of a marriage solemnised at the pa-
rish church of St. Oswald, in or near the city of
Durham, on the 23d of September, 1855, between
John George Gowland, aged 25, bachelor, attor-
ney's clerk, of Durham, and Margaret Sutton,
aged 26, spinster, of Bishopwearmouth, Sunder-
land. The parties were certified to have been mar-
ried by license by Henry Thomas Fox, and Mar-
garet Sutton was represented to have signed with
a cross. The witnesses to the marriage were
Elizabeth Proud and Henry Wilkinson; and then
came the following :—The above is a true copy of
all the particulars contained in the register be-
longing to the parish church of St. Oswald
respecting the marriage of Bohn George Gowland
and Margaret Sutton. Taken this 23d day of
September, 1855." Signed, " Henry Thomas
Fox." He (Mr. Grauham) had written to the
clergyman , of St. Oswald's, near Durham, and
it was necessary that he should ask the bench
to remand the prisoner till Monday next, for
he thought •he should be able to show that
this certificate had been used by the prisoner during
the time he had resided in Bradford or elsewhere.
If so, and he was not married to Margaret Sutten,
then he was guilty of forgery,
married, he had committed perjand, if they were
perjury in his evidence
the other day before the coroner.
The Mayor informed the prisoner that he would
be remanded to Monday next, and that the magis.
trates did not want to hear any statement from him
at present.
The prisoner said his case was a very hard one,
and asked to be allowed to be at liberty on giving
bail.
Mr. Grauhan opposed the application, observing
that ho had evidence to prove that the prisoner was
one of the most immoral characters perhaps that was
ever met with, and if he was bailed out the proba-
bilities were that he would get out of the way. The
papers which the magistrates had before them, and
others which he (Mr. Grauhan) could prodace'vvere
sufficient to show what sort of man the prisoner
was.
Prisoner—Then, will you give me leave to write
to my mother, and also two letters for the pur-
pose of obtaining something to eat while I am
confined ?
Mr. Grauhan--You will have the prison diet, the
same as the other prisoners in gaol.
Prisoner—Then, will
yon allow me to write a
letter to my mother P
The Mayor said he might write to anybody, but
the chief constable must see the letters.
Prisoner—Very Well, sir
He was then removed. *
At the rising of the Coroner's court yesterday,
after it had been determined to adjourn the inquest
relative to the murdered children to the 6th of
Movember, Gowland complained of the inconve-
nience and Annoyance which the adjournment

would cause him, by detaining him at. Bradford,
from which he wished to depart as soon as he
could. The Coroner (Mr. Jewison) immediately
bound him in his own recoguisances in the sum of
£4O to attend the adjourned inquest o.n the day
mentioned.

The mother of the children is still alive at the
infirmary, but in a very dangerous condition, aris-
ing from her windpipe being cut through. If in-
flammatiou can lie kept down it is thought she may
possibly recover.

IIEAL7II OF LONDON LURING Tiff,'
TVF.F.K.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London, 'which had been in a.
previous week 1,008, rose in the week ending
Saturday, October 20, to 1.116. In the teu years
1850-sg, the average number of deaths in the
weeks corresponding with last week was 1,020;
but as the deaths returned for last week occurred
in an increaNt'd population, the average should be
raised proportiooally,
a correction which will make
it 1,122, It appek2rs,
therefore, that the deaths in
the present return approximate closely to the ave-
rage rate of mortality at this season of the year.
The births last we 9k exceeded the deaths by 684.
The deaths by zymOtie diseases were 272. Under
deaths by small-pox, 56
this head are included
from Measles, 49 from scat-lh tina, 8 from diptheria,
34 from diarrhoea, and 2 from
cholera.
A blacksmith, aged 37 years, -.died of " cholera (3
days)" at 24, Acorn-street, Woolici.ch, and the wife
of a mason, aged 43 years, died of .1 cholera" at 20,
Wellington-street, Pentonville. Pu lm onary dis-
eases, exclusive of phthisis and hooping.eo,ugh were
fatal° in 211 cases, the corrected average be;ng only
167. Pneumonia was fatal in 103 cases, of which
78 were those of children under two years of alter
and 86 persons died from bronchitis. 109 persons
died from affections of the brain and nervous
system, 46 from diseases of the heart, and 46 from
diseases of the digestive organs. Seven infants
died from suffocation i n bed, and two children from
scalds. Four deaths wet.e the consequence of burns.
The son of a baker, aged ► 4 years, died at the West-
minster Hospital from bu.nis, the result of falling
into a baker's oven. A hotter, residing in Picca-
dilly, committed suicide by the inhalation of char-
coal fumes. A bailor, aged 31.1 years, died on board
ship in the river Thames from' •scurvy, A journey-
man painter fell a victim to the poisonous effects of
lead on the system. A Greenwich petitioner at-
tained the age of 93 years, two widows died, aged
respectively 93 and 90 years, arid two spinsters,
each of them being 90 years of age •
Last week the births of 939 boys wind 861 girls, in
all 1,800 children, were registered „it,' London. In
he ten corresponding weeks of the years 185 0.59
he average number was 1,576.