The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-20 00:00:00

THE KINGSWOOD NU.RDER.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—June 19.

CLERK ENWE LL.--DARING ROBBERY AND
CHARGE OF VIOLATION.—Robert Hawkins and
John Flaherty, two ill-looking fellows, well known
to the police, were charged with being concerned,
with others not in custody, in stealing a brooch
and L 1 58., the property and moneys of Ann Cole-
well, and also with feloniously assaulting her.
The prosecutrix, who is a servant at Colney
Hatch, came up from that place on Monday morn-
ing last for a holiday, and when she arrived at
King's-cross she fell in with a gang of fashionably-
dressed thieves, who treated her to something to
drink. Unfortunately, she went with them the
whole of the day, and in the evening she went into
a public-house with the prisoners and some of their
companions, and there had some beer. There she
was seen to be robbed of her purse, and the parties
who were serving advised her to go home, as she
was then the worse for liquor. The prisoners and
their companions then took her to a beer-shop, and
had some beer, and one of the witnesses said that
the prisoner Hawkins took a bottle from a female,
and pouring the contents into the pot, gave it to
the prosecutrix to drink. She did so, and imme-
diately afterwards became insensible, and was then
carried by the prisoner Hawkins and another
man into a low brothel, in North-place, St.
Pancras—one of the worst places in the parish,
and a perfect disgrace, cases of robbery being of
almost daily occurrence there—the prisoner Fla-
herty leading the way. As soon as they got into
the house the window blinds were pulled down,
and cries of " murder" being heard the police were
communicated with, and Ball, of the E division, and
police-constable Towes, 185 S, succeeded in appre-
hending the two prisoners. From the appearance
of the complainant's dress there could be no doubt
that a serious offence had been committed, but no-
thing could be learnt from her, as she was then and
for some time afterwards in an insensible state. She
was examined by Dr. Hopton, of Judd•street,
Brunswick-square, who, though not going to the
extent of saying that a rape had been committed,
said that violence had been used towards her.
Police-constable Cook, 198 S, said that the pri-
soners were the worst of characters, and that
Hawkins had been previously Convicted of felony.
Mr. D'Eyneourt said it was a very serious charge,
and one that ought to be fully investigated, for
there could be no doubt that the young woman had
been sadly Rinsed. He should remand the case for
a week.
The parties prosecuting were told that they had
better apply for assistance to the Associate Institu-
tion for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the
Protection of Women.

WANDSIVORTIL—SHOCKING CASE OF DE-
PRAVITY.—Henry Newall, a respectably-dressed
youth, in the employ of Messrs. Price, candle manu-
facturers, at Battersea, was brought up on remand,
charged with indecently assaulting Itosina Eliza-
beth Allen, a little girl aged six years.
Mr. Edwin, on this occasion, appeared for th•
prisoner.

The evidence taken last time was to the effect that
the child was placed out at nurse with a married
woman named Terry, living in Meadow-buildings,
Wandsworth-road, and the prisoner was one of Mrs.
Terry's lodgers. The little girl was too ill to appear
on the first examination, but she now attended and
gave her evidence in a very clear and intelligent
manner.

Tho evidence of two medical gentlemen were
taken, and the whole case was one of unusual de-
pravity in a youth of the prisoner's age.
At the request of the court, the prisoner's mother
(Mrs. Mary Ann Newall), a very respectably-
dressed woman, who appeared very much affected,
was called to give his age, and she stated that he
was 15 last January.
Mr. Edwin addressed his worship in mitigation,
and said the prisoner's friends were highly respect-
able, and he had previously borne an excellent
character.

Mr. G. H. Spicer, foreman of the candle-works
at Battersea, said the prisoner had been under him
for 15 months, and he always considered him a
moral youth.
Mr. Edwin said be was not prepared with any
other witnesses, as ho
was led to believe that the
case would have to go for trial.
Mr. Ingham said the medical evidence relieved
him from the necessity of sending the prisoner for
trial, and in consequence of his youth and promise
in life he was induced to deal summarily with him.
Two cases of assault had been proved, and they were
of so serious a nature that he felt it was his duty
to inflict the full term the law allowed. He sen-
tenced him to be imprisoned for six months for the
first assault, and on the expiration he would be
further imprisoned for six months, making together
12 months, with hard labour. He regretted ex-
ceedingly that it was his duty to inflict so severe a
sentence, but he could not properly do otherwise.
The prisoner was removed to the cells, and the
mother left the court crying bitterly,

KINGSWOOD, Wednesday Evening.
This morning at 11 o'clock Mr. Wm. Carter, the
coroner for the Eastern Division of the county of
Surrey, and a jury of the most influential residents
of the district, resumed and concluded the investiga-
tion, which was opened on Friday last, at the Red
Lion Inn, into the circumstances attending the
death of Mrs. Martha Halliday, aged 55 years,
who was brutally murdered on the night of the
10th inst., at Kingswood Rectory, the residence of
the Rev. Samuel Barnard Taylor, and which is
situated on the estate of Mr. Thomas Alcock, M.P.
The jury, after a short deliberation, expressed
an opinion that the premises had been burglariously
entered, and returned a verdict of wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown.
The proceedings were then brought to a con-
clusion;

REIGATE, Wednesday night.
Considerable interest was manifested in this town
to-day by the receipt of information that two
foreigners, confidently believed by the police to be
the murderers, had been apprehended walking
together a short distance from Chichester, in Sus-
sex, and were to be brought here by the first train
this afternoon for examination before the local ma-
gistrates in whose jurisdiction the murder had been
perpetrated. Accordingly about one o'clock Mr.
Superintendent Pratt, of the Sussex Constabulary,
arri,ved with his prisoners, who were at once con-
veyed to the Reigate police station. They gave
the names of Jacob Zimmerman and Henry Myn-
fon, and admitted they were Germans, one saying
he was a native of Hesse, and the other (as we un-
derstood) of Frankfort-on-the-Maine. In most
particulars their height and general appearance
bore a striking resemblance to the descriptions
circulated by the police authorities of the
two men supposed to have committed the
murder, while the younger of them closely answered
the description given by Madlle. Tietjens of the
person who called upon her at her residence at Grove-
end, St John's Wood. One, too, was rather shorter
than the other, while to give greater support to the
probability that they were the parties sought after,
only one of them could speak English. They like-
wise possessed striped shirts, and three different-
coloured cloth caps, all with peaks, were found upon
them. There was also a coat with pockets outside,
like one of those worn by the missing foreigners,
and various other matters of detail strengthened the
belief entertained that the right men had been cap-
tured. The elder of the two described himself as a
sugar baker out of employ, recently residing in
Whitechapel, and the younger as a waiter, but he
added that he had been travelling through the
country, vending dried rhubarb, a quantity of which
was discovered in a box one of them was carrying
at the time they were apprehended. They had
very little valuable property about them, and one
was without his passport, which was said to have
been stolen from him by another German he met at
Winchester, and who told them he had left Ger-
many because he had murdered a man there. They
answered all questions put to them with the greatest
readiness, and did not seem at all alarmed. They
denied all knowledge of the murder of Mrs. Halli-
day, and stated that en the day it was perpetrated
they were at Ryde, Isle of Wight. They had after-
wards, they asserted, visited Portsmouth, South-
ampton, Winchester, and other places, and were
leaving Chichester when they were taken into cus-
tody. They mentioned where they had lodged in
the above towns.
Captain Hastings, Chief Constable of Surrey, and
Superintendents Coward and Parr, of the Surrey
constabulary,
.with Sergeant Robinson, of the de-
tective 'police, hastened over from Kingswood,
where they had been attending the inquest upon
the body of the murdered woman, for the purpose
of seeing and interrogating the prisoners, and
several persons who had seen the two Germane
while they remained in this town prior to the
murder, were sent for to identify the persons in
custody. Amongst them were the ostler and the
female servant from the Cricketer; where they
slept on the night preceding the murder, and also
a person from the shop where the cord found round the murdered woman's hands and feet was pur-
chased. They, however, failed to identify them,
and the prisoners asserted that they had never been
in Reigate before in their lives; in fact, they did
not know this part of the country at all, and, in
conclusion, mentioned the names of some persons
who they said knew them in London. The prisoners
were, however, put back for the purpose of being
taken before a magistrate.