The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

THE FRIMLEY MURDER.

Yesterday the adjourned inquest upon the death of
the Rev. Mr. Holiest, incumbent of Frimley-grove,
was resumed before Mr. Woods, the coroner. One
of the jury was prevented from attending by indispo-
sition, but, there being 13 still present, the proceed-
ings were not interrupted by this casualty. The evi-
dence adduced has been for the most part anticipated
by previous reports, and it is only necessary to give a
few details embraced in the examination which have
not hitherto been published. The prisoners were not
present during the day.
The CORONER, in resuming the investigation, drew
the attention of the jury to the additional evidence
furnished by Hiram Smith's confession, and reminded
them thai, in the present stage of the proceedings,
that confession could only be received as proof against
Smith himself.

Mr. Keene, the governor of the House of Correc-
tion at Guildford, was then celled, and repeated the
evidence which he gave on Friday last before the
magistrates. He added, that on Sunday last, while
on his usual visit to Smith's cell, he said to him,
" Well, governor, how do you think I shall get on ?"
Witness replied, " I really can't say ; and added,
" Are you quite positive, in the statement you made,
that Levi Harwood was the man who fired the pistol ?"
He replied, " Yes, lam positive of it. Moreover, on
leaving the room, Levi Harwood said he hoped he had
not killed Mr. Holiest."
Superintendent Hollirgton, after corroborating, as
on a former occasion, Mr. Keene's evidence with
reference to Hiram Smith's confession, made the fol-
lowing additional statements :—Three of the pri-
soners, he said, now in custody, were taken by him
on the night of Sunday, the 29th of September. On
the morning of Saturday, having heard of the bur-
glary, and that Mr. Holiest had been shot-, be made
inquiries at Guildford about the prisoners, and ascer-
tained that all of them had been absent from their
homes on the night it occurred. He saw Jones in
Guildford at midday on Saturday. When he took
him, Smith, and Levi Harwood into custody he told
them the crimes of which they were suspected, but
they denied knowing an:.; thing about the matter. He
said he had heard they were from home on Friday
night, and asked them to account for where they had
been ? Levi Harwood said they had been to London.
Smith said he was at home. Witness replied,
"At home I which home ?" Smith answered
"You know." Witness then sail, "Do you
mean the address you gave me a few weeks ago at
Merton ?" Smith said " Yes;" and he added that
he had applied for work near, the Kingston sta-
tion, where they were laying down iron pipes fit the
new water works, and that there he met a young
man, with whole he agreed to go to the theatre. He
did not, however, mention the name of the theatre.
The statement of Jones was, that he went up on the
Downs, overlooking Guildford, by the Wheatsheaf
Inn, and set a few snares to catch rabbits. On
searching the prisoners, he found upon Levi Har-
wood two sovereigns, one shilling, and sixpence, a
knife, a piece of printed paper, and part of a letter.
On Jones he found a piece of linen cloth like a hand-
kerchief, a bit of sealing-wax, and a penny token.
Upon Smith he found 2s. 61., a tobacco-box, a piece
of string, and a knife. While Levi Harwood was at
the police-station, witness took from him a shirt
bearing a stain upon the left arm, as if he had fallen
upon wet gravel. On his right foot, also, witness
found two or three pieces of skin torn off the great
toe, and dry blood between the toes. The attention
of the prisoner was called to this, but he denied that
it was blood. In a table- drawer at his lodgings wit-
ness found a small marble. On the 2d of October,
having beard that a small box bad been removed from
Samuel Harwood's lodgings, he traced it our, and dis-
covered in it a cord jacket belonging, by his own confes-
sion, to Levi Harwood, and a powder flask. On the
evening of the same day he apprehended Samuel Har-
wood, at Stoke, near Guildford, but he denied having
any knowledge of the affair. Witness found in his
pockets 6d. and two penny pieces. He also took from
his legs a pair of thick blue worsted stockings, with
the feet off, and the colour of which corresponded
exactly with a small bit of woollen material found near
the scene of the murder. The various articles thus
referred to by the witness were produced by him in
court, and he further stated that, upon the 4-h of
October, be exhibited them to Mrs. Holiest, and she
at once identified the penny token. On the morning
after taking the three prisoners into custody, Levi
Harwood told him that he had come down from Lon-
don by the eight r.m. train on the Saturday night.
Witness was aware of this, and said so, to which
Harwood replied, " Then you know as much as I do."
Everest, gamekeeper to Mr. Burrell, repeated his
evidence before the magistrates, and in addition pro-
duced the worm of a centre-piece which had since
been found by him two or three feet from where the
silver cup was discovered.
Mr. Adsett and the high-constable also repeated
their evidence before the magistrates.
The last witness examined was Miss Caroline Bul-
pin, mistress of the national school at Frimley. She
had been called as a witness before the magiArates at
Guildford, but from the exclusion of reporters on that
day her evidence has not hitherto been published.
Her statement referred to the penny token already
alluded to, which she raid was given to her by a little
girl named Mary Ann Smith, either on the 15th or
223 of last month, and on the same day handed over
to Mrs. Holiest. Witness observed the peculiar
make of the coin, and on offering it to Mrs. Holiest
she said that it was a penny token. She also re-
marked that the image of George 111. on one side
had rather a long nose, and, referring to a dint in it,