The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-26 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN CANNON STREET.

RE-EXAMINATION OF THE SUPPOSED MUR-
DERER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE THIS DAY.
This afternoon the man named William Smith, appre-
hended at Eton on suspicion of being the murderer of the
unfortunate woman Sarah Millson, the housekeeper to
Messrs. Bevington, No. 2, Cannon-street, was placed be-
fore the Lord Mayor for re-examination.
Colonel Fraser, Chief-superintendent Foster, Inspector
Hamilton, chief of the detective department, and Sergeant
Moss of the detective force, watched the case for the police
authorities.

Mr.Wontner appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Scarth.
The evidence was in fact a repetition of that given at
the coroner's inquest yesterday, and which will be found
in another column.

Mrs. Robins, in her cross-examination, sacred to the
evidence she had given with respect to the prisoner being
the man she saw leave the door of Messrs. Bevington's on
the night of the murder. She did not know the prisoner
was blind in his left eye, which must have been towards
her when the prisoner passed her in Cannon-street.
The young woman Collins also repeated her evidence.
George Terry was next examined, but nothing in addi-
tion to that which he deposed yesterday was elicited. In
cross-examination, he said the prisoner wrote a letter,
which was found in Mrs. Millsom's desk, for him in the
George public house. He read a :portion of it
over to her. He didn't go to her for the money
himself from Mrs. Millsom because she had told
him to send somo ono better dfassed than himself.

He had heard that Messrs. BevingtOn had been robbed,
but never proposed to the prisoner to mention the fact of
the robbery in the letter. Ho had been in trouble for
illegally pawning a carpet. but he had only been in prison
21 days. On the night of the 11th of April he was in bed
in St. Olave's Union Workhouse from eight o'clock in the
evening until eight in the morning.
Sarah Webber said the deceased had borrowed £33 15s.
from her. She had lent the money through Mrs. Terry.
The deceased had paid her about .£8 of the amount, by
instalments of 10s. a week. She never authorised Terry
to send any person to Mrs. Millsom. About two months
ago Mrs. Millsom called upon her and said that some one
had called upon her for some money, but she (witness)
told her she had done wrong in paying any to any person.
Police-constable 34 M, said he knew deceased, and a
short time ago she showed him a letter she had received
(the one that has been so often referred to), and she ap-
peared to be in very great fear. And on the Wednesday
following he went with her to see if it was possible to find
the writer. Deceased showed him two receipts for certaii
instalments, signed "W. Denton." In cross-examination
witness said he first saw the letter on the 4th of February.
He could not find out the writer or Terry.
By the Lord Mayor—Mrs. Millsom said the person whom
she was in fear of was Denton, who represented himself as
a solicitor.

Henry Child said he lived in Brocas-lane, Eton,: and
know the prisoner, and saw him in the Jolly Miller beer-
shop one evening in the early part of the month, but he
sould not say whether it was the 11th or the 12th. He was
dressed in a black suit. He was asked if he would
make one at dominoes. Prisoner replied that he couldn't,
as he had got 40 miles to go. Witness said, " You can t go
40 miles to-night ;" to which he said, "Suppose I get to
London to-night—that will be 40 miles ? He (witness)
said, " Well, yes, but you are not going to London." Pri-
soner said "Yes, he was," at which remark he called the
prisoner a I—r, and left the house.
The public-house is about a mile and a half from the
Slough Station. He thought it would take about twenty
minutes to walk the distance between there and the rail-
way station. It was about seven o'clock in the evening
when he met the prisoner.
By the Lord Mayor—He (witness) could walk the dis-
tance in twenty minutes if he went along sharpish.
Blackman, a stoker at Eton Gas Works, said he left the_
works on Wednesday, the 11th of April, at. 7 o'clock. Jibe
saw the prisoner as he was going to light the lamp; he
met him between the Willow Brook and
ft Fifteen-arch
Bridge. He was going in the direction of
Sta-
tion ;ho had his best clothes on and a ir
articularly feast.
Cross-examined—He was not going
PlO minutes or a
more than
It would not have taken him Slough
tion from where he met
quarter of an hour to get to theeovsetan
or five minutes later
him. It might be half-past hehaStl."
' seven
but he could not say
when he first met the prisoner,
positively.
William Clark, of the
Bucks constabulary, stationed in
e dnesda y night, Aril.
Eton—lie recollected
to twolvo o'clock thatthe nth of
p
night. He saw
He was on duty up
quarter to twelve coming down the
the prisoner about
high street from
the direction of Wiudsor. He was going
towards his own home. H e had black
clothes on, a hat,
and carried a yellow walking-stick.
Cross-examined—lie was sure the trousers the prisoner
now had on were not those he wore the night he met
him.

John Pierman, an inspector of the Bucks police, sta-
tioned at Eton College, said he was acquainted with the
railway trains. There was a train to London from Slough at
743 p.m., it arrived in London at 8 40. There is also a
train which arrives at Windsor from London at 11 43 p.m.
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