The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

, a wound
died of Internal haemorrhage producedky
of-, the left renal artery; which must nave., been
caused by a sharp cutting instrument.. There is no
appearance of pressure on the neck, but I an't tell
you how the abrasions on the chin or lips have
been caused.

A Juror—Would a kick produce them ?
Witness—lndeed it would ; there also some
hair in her teeth. I think the woman must have
fainted almost after she got the renal wound. I
really could not say what description of instrument
caused the renal wound ; it must have been a sharp
knife, and the instrument went in a good distance,
but a chisel would have done it. I measured the
wound with the chisel in the room, and found the
wound to be a little longer than the edge of the
chisel. The appearance of the lungs gives no indi-
cation of suffocation. The stays of deceased was
produced; it was much torn, and had something
like a long tear or cut on the right breast, and also
a small incision on the left side, but there was no
mark of blood whatever on it. _

Dr. Porter took the stays into the room where
the body lay, for the purpose of making a further
examination, and on his retnrn said that, by fitting
the torn stays to the body, it was possible to make
the tear or cut in it correspond with the wounds
on the deceased's chest and side, but he could not
swear that the stab was inflicted through the stays.
The circumstance of the stays being wholly free
from blood was not easy to account for, if it were
on the deceased's person at the time of the infliction
of the wounds. There were three slight abrasions
on the knuckles of the left hand. The renal wound
is very clean throughout, and the renal artery is
quite cleanly cut.
To a Juror—At the instant she got the wound
she might have screamed.

Anoiker Juror—There was no one in the room
at the time.

John Salmon examined—l live at No. 10, Deane-
street. lam a clothes broker. I knew deceased
by sight perfectly well, and I also know Thomas
Black by sight. I saw him getting shaved on
yesterday morning in the shop of Browne, a barber,
at about ten o'clock. He got shaved by Browne.
He appeared to be sober. I heard Black say some-
th:_ng about a grey linen jacket which he had in
his hand rotted up. He said that it went astray
the night before, and that he had got it again. He
was not more than five or ten minutes in the shop.
I was sitting on a form at the time. Black did
not get his whiskers shaved off. He did not appear
to be excited, but spoke in a cool, regular manner.
Mrs. Catherine Kelly examined—l live at No.
12, Deane-street. I know Thomas Black. At very
near nine o'clock on Saturday morning I saw
Thomas Black standing at his own hall-door for
about five minutes, after which he walked up New-
row very quickly, with his right hand thrust into
his breast, and his left hand swinging. He seemed
excited—in a great hurry like—and I thought he
wanted to be in time for mass at the Nunnery.
Constable Thomas Bell, 164 A, examined—l was
on duty on Sunday about 12 o'clock on the side of
the street opposite to this house. Hearing a scream
apparently proceeding from the house, I crossed
over and asked a little girl at the door what was
the matter, and she told me that there was a woman
murdered. I came up stairs here, and on my way I
heard a woman say that "he murdered her, and
that he was gone." I went into the deceased's
room, and saw Mrs. Quin there, crying; laid my
hand on the body of deceased, which lay on the
bed naked, and on her back, and found it to be
quite cold. I saw the wound in her side, and the
sheets stained with blood. I looked about for any
instrument that might have inflicted the wound,
and found the chisel now produced opposite to the
bed, lying on the upper of two boxes placed on one
another. I found no trace of blood on the chisel. I
found her stays and some of her clothes on the foot
of the bed, and more of them on the ground. Her
chemise was on the ground, torn in pieces, and with
blood on a portion of it. Her cape was on a chair
at the foot of the bed ; it was not torn. I did not
observe the fender or notice a poker. I left a con-
stable to take charge of the body, while- I made a
report at Chancery-lane Station. I saw a straw
bonnet on the table, which appeared uninjnred.
Several chisels of various sizes and gouges, which
belonged to the husband of the deceased, were pro-
duced to the jury,
Catheiine Walsh examined—John Walsh, my hus-
band, is a labourer. I live in the front dining-room
of this house. I knew deceased and her husband.
I heard them coming up stairs on Saturday night ;
I think at about eight o'clock, but could not exactly
tell the hour. I heard Black giving his room door
two or three kicks, and in about ten minutes after-
wards I heard deceased come up the stairs and call
out " Tom" twice. He muttered something which
I did not hear, and when she got to the top of the
stairs she tuned up some sort of a song to please
him, and after that I heard no more of them until
she was found dead.

To a Juror—l could not say whether or not either
of them was then drunk or sober.

The Coroner recapitulated the evidence, and said
there appeared to be no doubt that the deceased had
been murdered by her husband.

The jury, without hesitation, unanimously found
" that Margaret Black was wilfully murdered by
her husband, Thomas Black, on the night of Satur-
day, the Bth of January."
An order was made for the interment of the
body of the deceased, and the coroner issued a
warrant for the apprehension of Thomas Black,
for the murder of his wife, who surrendered him-
self to the police yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon,
and he was committed to gaol on the coroner's
warrant.