The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

THE MUADER .1N LEIGH WOODS,

puny N.

BOURTON; FRIDAY MORNING;
The adjourned examination of witnesses in sup-
port of the charge of murder against John William
Beale was resumed this morning in the Board-room
of the Bourton union.
The prisoner was brought upfrom Taunton gaol,
and reached the Ashton station of the Bristol and
Exeter 'Railway about 10'o'clock, and was conveyed
thence to. Bourton. Mr. E. M. Harris, solicitor, of
Bath, appeared to watch the case on behalf of the
accused.
The presiding magistrates were the Rev. H. Mire-
house (chairman), Sir J. Hare, Col. Burrowes,
Messrs. Shortland, Mordaunt, Rockett, W. H. G.
Langton M. P., J. H. Mirehouse, W. Miles,
DL P. , ilc.
The prisoner's father and sister, who had come
over from Bath, were allowed to have an interview
with him before he was brought into court.
The Chairman informed Mr. Harris that the ma-
gistrates were satisfied upon consideration that the
shirt produced by the witness Payne was not stained
with the blood of the deceased woman, and that
therefore they should merely return the deposition
which had been taken, and give the prisoner's coun-
sel an opportunity f calling the witness if he
should think fit.

The evidence taken on the last occasion having
been read over, Mr. Harris declined to cross-
examine any of tieVitnesses.

In reply to Mr. Miles, George West, the under-
keeper, stated that the place where he first dis-
covered the blood was about two yards from the
place where the body was found ; this was a con-
cealed place under the rock, which he might have
passed several times without noticing the body had
not his attention been attracted by the:blood. The
body had evidently been placed where it was found,
because the clothes were all smoothed down in
order. The object appeared to have been to con-
ceal the body.
Mr. Superintendent Jones's evidence having
been read over, containing a Ist of the articles of
clothing found on deceased, ttc., the witness stated
in reply to the chairman that he bad discovered a
hat in Rownhain wood, near the buttress of the
Clifton suspension bridge, on Sunday, the 20th ult.
The hat was not there on the previous day.
Mr. Lncis, iurgeou, added to his former evi-
dence, that on the 19th Sept. it was impossible to
have identified the body, decomposition having set
in. '1 he only means which might lead to identifica-
tion of the deceased were the teeth he had extracted,
and which were very peculiar bath as regarded the
decay and the stopping
w,th which the decayed
places had been tilled. The peculiarity about the
teeth was such that it would have been noticed
during the life of the deceased. From the body
/laving been quite fre,li when he first saw it on
Saturday, the 12th ult., and from the heat of the
weather, it could not have been dead more than two
or three days.
A deposition of- Mr. Chadwick, magistrates'
clerk, embodying the previous statement, was next
put in, but as it contained additional matter, on
the recommendation of Mr. Miles, M.P., the depo-
sition was rejected and the original statement was
adopted.
The depositions of Inspector Noiris and of the
Daventry witnesses—Sausome, Payne, and Brans-
c•nmbe, having been read,
Charles Wallington deposed- .I am a railway
porter at the Freshford station of the Wilts and
Somerset Railway. I recollect seeing the prisoner
at the office at Freshford on the 9th ult. He asked
me the way to Mr. Bythesea's. I pointed. out the
direction of the house to him. I saw Mr. Bythesea's
butler the same day, who requested me to send for
the cook's boxes. I went there and fetched three
boxes ; they were each direetel to " Mr. Beale."
I added to the directions, " Till called for." I

afterwards entered the boxes and forwarded them
to Bristol by the 8.45 p.m. train from Freshford.
Louisa Elizabeth Ford, examined by Mr. Miles
—I am housekeeper to Mr. S. W. Bythesea, of
Hill-house, Freshford, near Bath. I have known
Charlotte Pugdey for more than two years. She
was cook in Mr. Bythesea's service from the 27th
June to the 9tn Sept., when she left. The prisoner
came to our house about 4 o'clock that afternoon.
Charlotte Pugsley brought him to my room and
introduced him. After shaking hands with me I
asked him to take a seat. I asked him where he
had come from, and he said from Bath. I asked
him about his father and mother, and he said he
had not seen them. I a.,ked if he wag not going to
see them Lefora he left England ' - and he told me
he was not, for they were not friendly. I have
known the prisoner more .than two years. I
was in service with Charlotte Pugsley before
at Mr-,. Admiral Western's, 8, River-stre 3t, Bath.
We were quite as sisters. We slept. together at
Mrs. Western's, and we left together in Doe. last.
The prisoner had v,sitel Charlotte Pugsley revea'-
edly at Mts. Western's. The prisonerhls told me
that he was going to be married to Charlo to Pup-
ley. He was living at the tane with Mr. Mogg,
near Park's cottage, about two miles and a-half from
Bath. When he came to Freshford he told me he
was going to be. married to Charlene Pugsley at
St. Mary's Church, Southampton, on tin Saturday
after they left, acrd that Charlotte was gOing to
lodge with: the clerk of the church till they were
. .

married, after which they were going to America.
All this was s aid iu the preseuco of Charlotte Pugs-
ley. I asked him where Charlotte was going to
sleep at Bristol, as he said they were going there
that u4.5,ht, and he told me he had taken lodgings
for her near the railway station, and ho was going
to sleep with his cousin, but he did not say where
his cousin lived. I told him I thought it would be
nearer and less expensive to go to Southampton by
the London line ; he said he had business to tran-
sact in Bristol and he was bound to go that way.
He said they should leave Bristol about 5 o'clock
on Thursday afternoon, the 10th. He asked me if
I knew the church at Southampton. I told him
that I did, as I hal been there. I tdd him I did
not approve his not going to see his father and
mothk r, as no-blessing attended children who were
not kuil to their parents. He told me that they
oared nothing about him, and he should not ewe
for them. fasked him bow he had left his situa-
tion at Daventry, and he said his master and mis-
tress had-gone with their family to India about a
fortnight before, and htd disdiarged all the servau is
except Vie maid. After some time the prisoner belt
the h also with Charlotte Pugsley about half-past 6
the same evening. She had on a gray alpaca dress, a

speckled straw 17ounet with dr .b ribandye lged with
peen. I believe it was pink inside the bonnet.
S'io had a black fall with lace edge, a black
clo ik trimmed with black braid. She carried a
green barege shawl on her arm. I paid her on the
Ist of September 31.. Iss. wages up to the 27th of
Septemb r. On the following Monday I paid h3r 9s.
board wages. She had taken some money out of the
Bath Savings' bank on the Saturday previous to her
going away. I was present when the boxes were
fetched. The prisoner bad previously corded them
in the kitchen. I was present when Pugsley pack€d
the large box, and saw her put nearly all the
things in. I have since seen the box at.the Bristol
Central Police-station. It contained nearly all the
things I had seen put in. Some of the things in the
large box were her wedding things. (Inspector
Norris here produced the largo box, which was
identified by the witness) I saw this box packed. I
saw the prisoner cord it, and I saw it taken away.
luspeat Jr Norris stated that th© boxes contained
wearing apparel, bock?, and other things ; he found
the large one in the bedroom of the prisoner at
Badby-souse, and the two others in the cel'ar.
Leuisa Eiietaheth Ford examined—There are only
two things in the three Loxes which I do not know
to belong to Charlotte Pugsley. (Superintendent
Jones here produced the clothes which were taken
off tlps deceased. They were also identified by the
witness Ford as having belonged to Charlotte Pugs-
ley.) The deceased told me the way her teeth were
stn, red. I have seen the teeth extracted by Mr.
ley4as and am satisfied they are the teeth of Chat-
lotto Pugsley. •
By Mr. Harris—l have not seen the teeth in the
body since her decease.
Re-examined—When the prisoner was leaving
the house I asked her to write to me from South-
ampton ; she said she would, but the prisoner said
she would not have time before she left Southamp-
ton, bet she should write when' they got to Ame-
rica. The prisoner and deceased both drank tea
together in my room before they left.
Mary Jane Kilson—l am a (ire ismaker, rendingat Freshford. The gray alpaca dress now'
li
roduced
to me was remade by me for Charlotte Pugsley
the Ist of September. I made some print dresseso
n
for her at the same time, which I Beet home on
the morning of the 9th of September. I have
since seen those other dresses in the possession of
Inv ctor Norris.
Charlotte B. azor—l am housemaid at Mr. S. W.
Bythesea's. I have seen the clothes in possession
of Superintendent Jones. I know the stockings to
be Charlotte Pugsley's. I darned them for her
myself a few evenings before she left. I also know
the grey alpaca dress by some black undersleevea
which were put in it the evening she let. I
know the boots by having warn them myself. .1
also k"l4 a piece of netting produced franc ono of
the boxes ; it is my own work, and I gave it to
tugs
ley.
tuey.
John Naslifeet
- am in the service of the Great
Western Railway Company. I recollect Wednesday.
Sept. 9. The prisoner me.; the 9.40 p.m. train from
Weymouth; a woman was in company with him.
I assisted in getting out the luggage from that
train. There were three boxes in it addressed to
Mr. Beale. The woman did not sty
anything ; the
prisoner came forward when the boxes were taken