The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-05 00:00:00

THE FINSBITI MURDE_R.

On Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. John
Humphreys, the coroner for the eastern division of
Middlesex, resumed the adjourned inquiry, at the
Castle Tavern, Long-alley, Sun-street, Finsbury,
respecting the death of Mary Ann Moore, aged 31
years, who was murdered on the morning of Mon-
day last, at No. 13, King's Head•court, near Fins-
bury-market.

The following additional evidence was called :

Dr. 11. Letheby, the professor of chemistry of the
London Hospital, examined, said—On Friday after-
noon Inspector Bricknell, of the G division, brought
to me, at the laboratory of the London Hospital,
portions of fire-irons, consisting of a pair of tongs
and a poker, with a quantity of wearing apparel.
The broken parts of the tongs had spots of blood
which had coagulated before it had dried, and had
lost its vital properties. On the thick end of the
poker there was only one spot of blood, which, like
the former, had become coagulated. There were also
marks of the same kind of blood on a pair of cor-
duroy trousers. The blood was on the knee parts
of both legs. There was no blood on title coat, but
a shirt had spots of blood upon it on the front part.
The left sleeve of the shirt had evidently been
covered with blood and washed out. There were
portions of female dress, consisting of a petticoat,
stays. chemise, &c. They were stained on the top
and right side. The latter had been partly washed.
In every instance the blood was proved to be blood
which had coagulated after it had fallen upon the
several articles of dress, showing that its vitality
had not ceased until it had fallen down. I have
likewise examined the razor produced, and have
removed portions of blood from the inside of the
handle, and from its appearance it was clearly vital
blood coagulated.
By the Coroner—l think that the head of the de-
ceased was cut off while she was in a state of in-
sensibility, as there was no indication of blood
which had been spirted about. From the stains on
the dress I am of opinion that the wound was
made from the front of the neck round the right
hand side to the back. The immediate cause of
death was the sever in; of the spinal cord of the
neck. There were bruises or marks on the de-
ceased's arms, which showed that she had defended
herself. There were jets of blood on the cupboard
door, but they were of minute character. The blood
had no doubt come from the temporal artery, but
was then stunned, There was no marks of blood
on the bed.

Mr. F. B. Dixon, resident surgeon of Hoxton
Lunatic Asylum, said the prisoner James Moore
had been an inmate of that establishment since the
28th of August last, and he was discharged on the
23d ult., by the order of the Secretary of State.
The prisoner laboured under various delusions, and
had been heard to say that he had been electrified
in his prison-cell by means of wires passed round it.
He also imagined that he had been electrified in a
cab. He likewise laboured under the delusion that
he had a steam-engine in his inside. He had been
considered well three months before his discharge
from custody.
Mr. the warrant officer of the Worship-
street Police Hanes,ourt, was here re-called, and said—l
forgot to mention on the last occasion, that the pri-
soner exclaimed, while he was in the station, " I
did not do it."

The inquiry was, after some discussion, adjourned
till this day, when the jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Moore.

DISOOVE.RY OF A MURDER.

An unwonted degree of consternation has been
produced at Sigginstone, near Cowbridge, in conse-
quence of the arrest of a young woman, named
Mary Morgan, upon a charge of having wilfully
murdered her male child. It appeared, on the exa-
mination before the magistrates, that the body of
a child having been found in the month of Octo-
ber last, in a well on the premises of Mr. John
David, a farmer, near Cowbridge, suspicion was ex-
cited against the prisoner, who had formerly been
in David's service, and who left somewhat suddenly
in May last. David, who admitted having given
the prisoner £lO as a present when she went away,
because he thought she was in the family way, was
at first taken into custody as an accomplice, but
subsequently discharged, and allowed to give
. evidence. Another witness, Ann Bevan, lodging-
, house keeper, of Swansea, proved that the prisoner
was confined of a boy at her house, on the 22d June.
It was a fine child, and she was prepared with
clothing for it. She appeared fond of the infant,
nursed it carefully, and while at the house made
three sets of clothes for it. On the 7th July she
said she was going to take the child to his father's
brother's wife to nurse, and she packed the clothes
and left with the infant by the evening train. She
left on a Thursday, and returned again on the fol-
lowing Tuesday, and on being asked if she had met
the
.parties she wanted, she said " Yes, and they
have taken the child to nurse it." She afterwards
left, as she said, to go to Neath, but came back
again on the Ist August, and went into service.
The witness was unable to swear to the clothes which
were found on the child discovered in the well as
having formed part of that made by the prisoner.
Witnesses were called to prove that at a time,
which could not be fixed nearer than about the time
of the hay harvest, the prisoner was seen in the
neighbourhood of Sigginstone. She was first seen
with an infant under her shawl, and afterwards
without one, but with a bundle in her hand, and
she then stated to a person who spoke to her that
she had left Sigginstone on account of her health,
and had gone to fetch a bundle of her clothes, which
she had left there, This statement Mr. David said
was not a true one. The most important witness
against the prisoner was Police-constable John
Phillips, of the county constabulary, by whom she
was arrested. She at first said to him (on being
told for what she was arrested), " I have had a child
.and have taken it to the father, and ho has taken it
to Australia ;" but subsequently she said that John
David was the father of her infant ; that she was
seven months gone in the family way when she left
him; and that he gave her £lO to leave, and do
what she could with the child. She further stated
where the child was born, and said she had met
with a Miss Phillips, who was a bad girl, and
who asked her to join with her in following her
course of life ; that upon her saying, "I will, but
what shall I do with my child ?" she replied, " I
will do very well with your child ; I have thrown
many in the sea." Miss Phillips then asked her if
she knew where there was a winch, and she told
her that she did. They went to Sigginstone, and
when there Miss Phillips took the child from her
arms, and she (Morgan) stood a few yards from the
winch (well). The child cried as Miss Phillips took
it from her arms, and Miss Phillips then threw it
into the winch. Miss Phillips then said, " There, I
have done very well with your child now; you
must come with me to Cardiff;" and they went
through Cowbridge. She further said she told Miss
Phillips that she did not like to go into the town,
and she turned back, and called at Mrs. Morgan's
by the gate, and then returned by train to Swansea.
Mr. Superintended Sellers deposed that in conse-
quence of this statement of the prisoner, he took
from her a description of the alleged Miss Phillips,
and searched for her at Cardiff and afterwards at
Swansea. lie could find no such person at Cardiff,
but at Swansea he found a girl in the town of the
name and description, and took her to Bridgend,
but on her being confronted with the prisoner the
latter said she was not the girl, but was like her in
dress and person. No other Miss Phillips could be
found.

The prisoner, who under the advice of her solici-
tor, Mr. Verity, reserved her defence, was fully com-
mitted to take her trial for the capital offence at
the next assizes, and was removed in custody of
the police.
The case created intense interest, and the Guild-
hall, at which the examinations were taken, was
crowded throughout the inquiry.

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