The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY.

This morning, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central
Middlesex, resumed the inquiry into the cause of the deaths
of Emma and Agnes Butcher, the children of Mary But-
cher, by whom they ware supposed to be murdered by
drowning them in a tub, on the 21st ult.
Inspector Fraser produced a certificate from Mr. Edward
Mahoney, the assistant resident surgeon, that Mary Butcher
was in an unfit state to attend. Mr. Fraser said that the
doctor and nurse both said she was in a very doubtful
state, one day better, and another day worse.
One of the jury said he had seen her, and she seemed
what he would call melancholy mad.
James Butcher, the husband of the accused woman, said
that he had seen his wife three times a day since last Fri-
day. She wanted to knew why she was at that place, and
could not go home. He told her he was out of work, and
she said sho supposed they were all starving, that the
children were dead, and that he would die.

Some of the jury intimated that they thought they had
better come to a conclusion, and
The learned Coroner, in summing up, pointed out that
whatever the state of the woman's mind at the timo of
the commission of the murder, asked if the jury were o
opinion that she had committed it.
A juror wished to know whether the woman was
dressed at the time she was found in the water butt.
The witness Brown replied in the affirmative.

After some discussion, some of the jury expressed an
opinion that they should wish to say something os to her
state of mind.

The coroner said there could be no objection, but it
really had nothing to do with their finding. Her state of
mind would have to be considered at her trial.

Ultimately the jury, by a majority, returned the follow-
ing verdict :—" That the two children, Emma Butcher and
Agnes Butcher, were found dead in bed on Saturday, the
21st of July, having died from the mortal effects of drown-
ing, and that the said children were wilfully murdered by
their mother, Mary Butcher, she being at the time in an
unsound state of mind."
The warrant of committal was then made out and
handed to Mr. Murray, the coroner's officer, to put in force
as soon as the woman is fit to be removed.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—Robt. Robinson, 17, was charged
before Alderman Carter with having stolen 35 £5 Bank of
England notes, and £lO in silver and postage stamps,
amounting in all to about £5O, the property of his em-
ployer, Mr. Pellatt, shipbroker, 49, King William-street
City.
The prosecutor said that on Monday the 16th ult. he left
town, and was absent until the following Friday. He
placed the money in question in a box in a safe in the
office, and on his return he found that it had been ab-
stracted, the safe having been broken open. The prisoner
had been in his employment about 10 days, She left the
office the day after he (the prosecutor) was called out •of
town. He gave immediate information to the police, but
he saw nothing of the prisoner until this morning. The
prisoner admitted to him that he had taken the money, and
said ho did so because he was starving. He (the prisoner)
was paid at the rate of £3O a year, and had received money
before prosecutor left town. The prisoner described the
way in which he broke open the safe, which he did by
means of a chisel, but be refused to give the prosecutor
any information as to what he had done with the money.
Charles Pembleton, a lock-up boy in the office of the
prosecutor, said that the night before the robbery he loft,
the prisoner in the office. He came the next morning, and
witness saw that he had a new suit of clothes, a new hat
and a pair of boots. Ho gave witness 3d., and he left the
office, and he saw nothing further of himuntil this morning.
George Lake, one of the City detectives, said that he
was in company with another officer in Adelaide-street,
Strand, yesterday afternoon, and he was induced to notice
the prisoner from some peculiarity in his manner, and he
accosted him, saying that he had a warrant for his arrest on
a charge of robbing his employer. He did not deny the
charge, and he took him to the station. On searching him he
found id. and two keys, which the prosecutor identified as
his property, and the prisoner told him that he had spent
the money, but said nothing further. He discovered, how-
ever, that the prisoner had been rather extravagant in his
mode of living since the commission of the robbery, and
he spent the money on women at the West End, for some
of whom he purchased expensive clothes.

The prosecutor, in reply to the worthy alderman, said
that he had no means of identifying the property further
than that he had received the bank notes from, as we un-
derstood, the Prussian Consul.
The prisoner was remanded.