The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.!

THE HOLBORN MURDER.—William Cogan was this
morning placed before Mr. Henry, charged with the wilful
murder of his wife, Mary Ann Stokes Cogan, by cutting
her throat with a razor.

Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, attended for the accused.
On entering the court Cogan was accommodated with a
chair, and after saying " Good morning" to his solicitor he
assumed an easy position, and appeared to watch the diffe-
rent witnesses as they gave their evidence with great in-
terest.

The witnesses examined were Mr, Paynter, the surgeon,
who examined the body of the deceased ; Mr. Fortescue,
house surgeon, of King's College Hospital ; Inspector
Mackenzie, and Sarah Harwood, sister of the deceased ;
Police-constables 144 F and 36 F, who severally repeated
the evidence they gave at the coroner's inquest, and which
appeared in the late edition of The Sun last evening.
The observations the prisoner made to the constable 144 F
previous to the murder, when he was met in Holborn, occa-
sioned Mr. Lewis to cross-examine the man, but without
shaking his evidence in the least. He remained positively
certain that the words Cogan said, when he diet him after
quarrelling with his wife on the first occasion, were " I'll
have no more of this; I'll settle it to-night or to-morrow."
The second time he saw him he (Cogan), being unable to
speak, nodded when he was asked " Have you cut your
wife." The constable,- however, said when he first saw
Cogan ho did not anticipate that he intended the slightest
violence to his wife.

Police-constable F 82, in the course of his examination,
said he omitted to state yesterday, before the coroner, that
when he saw Cogan in the hospital he (the constable), put-
ting his hand up to his throat, asked the prisoner whether
he had served his wife as he had served himself, and he
nodded assent. In cross-examination, he said the reason
he had omitted to mention that circumstance to the coroner
was because it slipped his memory. He, however, men-
tioned the circumstance to Inspector Mackenzie when he
first saw him after the occurrence.

The statement taken from the witness was hero handed
to Mr. Lewis, who, after reading it, said the words did not
appear.

While Inspector Mackenzie was describing the appear-
ance of the room on the discovery of the murder, the pri-
soner seemed to watch him with great anxiety, and every
now and then applied his handkerchief to his forehead ;
but on the whole during the examination his manner was
quiet and attentive.

At the termination of the examination of the witnesses,

The prisoner was cautioned in the usual manner, and
asked what he had to say in answer to the charge. He
denied killing his wife.

The depositions were then read over, and the magistrate
fully committed Cogan to take his trial for wilful murder.
The crowd outside the Police-court and Station-house
dining the whole of the day was immense. At an early
hour most of the inhabitants of Newton-street and
the surrounding neighbourhood, chiefly costermongers,
commenced assembling in Bow-street, as it was
well known that the prisoner Cogan would have
to cross the road in passing from the station to
the court. Before the prisoner was brought out about 20
or 30 constables made a clear way, and then Cogan, accom-
panied by Inspector Mackenzie and several other officers,
walked to the Police-court ; the crowd behaving in a much
more orderly manner than was expected. During the
whole of the time the prisoner was under examination the
people remained collected outside, the majority having
made up their minds to witness his departure in the prison
van.