The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-24 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Howe, a cab-driver, badge 8,440, was charged
with furious driving and being drunk.
James Lenney, of No. 7, Brill-row, Somers-town, stated
that about half-past six o'clock on Monday evening, as he
was driving in a cart along Regent-street, the prisoner,
who was driving a cab at a furious rate, ran up against
him, and broke the spring of his cart. The prisoner was
very drunk at the time. On the police coming up, com-
plainant gave him in charge
Ur. MALTBY—At what pace was the prisoner driving?
Complainant—At at least between eleven and twelve
miles an hour, and in a most reckless manner.
The defendant said the complainant's statement was
correct, excepting that he was not driving at the rate of
speed stated.
Mr. HARDWICK said he should fine him 305., and 10s.
the amount of the damage done to the complainant's
cart, or, in default, one month's imprisonment in West-
minster Bridewell to hard labour ; he would also have
to pay several shillinas', to get his cab from the green-
yard, where it was taken by the police.
The prisoner said he could not raise the amount re-
quired, and was committed accordingly.

THE WESTMINSTER MURDER.
CONFESSION OF THE PRISONER.
It will be remembered, very shortly after Martha
Browning had been placed in the cell, on the female side
of the prison, which is appropriated for capital convicts
of this sex, she appeared desirous to unburden her mind
of the dreadful weight which lay upon it, and in the
presence of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the chaplain, and the
governor of Newgate, Mr. Cope, she made a full admis-
sion of her guilt. Of course no questions were
put to her, nor anything said to induce her
to make such an avowal, but as she appeared
really desirous of making it, and did so of
her own free will, she was allowed to make the statement.
She said that her only motive for the commission of the
dreadful deed was a desire to possess herself of that
which she believed to be a 51. Bank of England, but which,
as it turned out, was only a "11 ish" note, or one of the
" Bank of Elegance." It should be stated that the pri-
soner can read and write very well, but she says that she
never had an opportunity of fully seeing the note until
after the crime was committed, and she declared that there
was only one note. and not two, as was represented at the
trial. She said, that being determined to possess herself
of the note, she considered the means, and at length re-
solved to take the old lady's life, as being the readiest
mode of attaining her object, and that she would effect
this by strangling her with the cord which was in her
box, and fixed upon the Sunday night for
that purpose. Accordingly, in the middle of the
night, she got up, and cut a portion of the rope off,
and then, while the unhappy deceased was asleep,
she twisted it twice round her neck, and be-
gan to pull it violently. The old lady awoke in the
agonies of suffocation. She struggled slightly, and had
just sufficient power to exclaim, " Murder, murder; what
are you doing?"—an expression which was spoken to by
one of the witnesses, who occupied an adjoining room—
and that almost immediately she expired. At this
moment, she says, the person referred to came
to the door, and inquired what was the matter.
She was then standing over the dead body of her un-
happy victim ; and she states that it was with great
difficulty she was enabled to procure an answer to the
effect that nothing was the matter, and thus induced
the party to return to her room. She then remained
upon the bed with the dead body until daylight, when
she examined the box of the deceased, and took out of
the housewife that which she believed to be the 5L note;
and, without attentively looking at it, she placed it in
her own pocket, and considered of the best mode to
escape detection for her horrid crime ; and at length
the thought came across her to make it appear that the
deceased had committed suicide. With a view to this
she tied the cord in a knot, and then lifted the body
from the bed, and placed it on the box by its side in the
position in which it was afterwards discovered.
In the morning she gave an alarm, as appeared by
the evidence, of the, old lady being ill, and went
out to inform his daughter of it, and to request that she
would come to see her. Upon the prisoner being asked
how she could have been strong enough to lift the dead
body from the bed and place upon the box, she said, " I
think the devil must have helped me, but I did it." The
prisoner then went on to describe the other circumstances
narrated in the evidence, and said that the statements of
all the witnesses were correct, with the exception of that
of the surgeon, which she declared was not so in !two
particulars, wherein he stated that he was the first me-
dical person who saw the deceased, and that:when he did
so her eyes were staring and wide open ; but she de-
clared that bis assistant saw her first, and that
her ey•s were closed, and her face appeared per-
fectly composed, when he saw her. She stated that,
having resolved upon the course she intended
to pursue, she made the statement she did before the
coroner with a view to show that the deceased destroyed
herself, and which had that effect. She stated that by
this time she had discovered that the note was of no
value ; and she said she should never have attempted to
make any use of it, if she had not been pressed by the
old woman's daughter and her husband to lend them some
money ; [and she said she went to the public-house with
the pretended purpose to change it, in order to pacify
them, and on their insisting to know how she became
possessed of it she did not know what to do, and
actually told them the story about her having received
it from some person in Bedford-street, in the Strand.
When she found that the witness Gaze determined upon
accompanying her to Bedford-street, she became quite
beside herself, and felt that she could no longer support
her position ; and she said she did not recollect the in-
coherent expressions imputed to her by the several wit-
nesses, although she had no doubt she had made use of
them. This was the substance of the statement of the
unhappy criminal, and after it was made she appeared a
good deal more composed, and ever since her firmness
has appeared to increase, and she is evidently perfectly
resigned to the fate that awaits her. The execution
will take place on Monday, the 15th of January.

THE YARMOUTH MURDER.
RE-APPREHENSION OF YARIIAM.

GLOUCESTER, MONDAY.-Our readers will doubtless
remember the particulars of the murder of Harriet
Candler, a shopkeeper in Yarmouth, on the night of the
18th of November, 1844. We have from time to time
detailed the circumstances and particulars as any fresh
evidence or fact has been adduced, and we have now to
state that Yarham has been apprehended at Blakeney, in
Gloucestershire. Our readers will remember the extra-
ordinary testimony of the woman Dick, who stated that
Yarham had confessed to her that he wit.; concerned in
the murder. On the strength of this evidence a warrant
was granted by the Yarmouth magistrates, on the 6th of
December, for the apprehension of Yarham, and placed
in the hands of Captain Love, the Superintendent of
Police there. Some suspicion being entertained that
he was in Gloucestershire, Captain Love came to
Gloucester on Saturday morning last, and immediately
proceeded to Mr. Williams, the Superintendent of the
Gloucester City Police, who, together with the Captain,
went off to the town of Blakeney, about sixteen miles
from Gloucester. At the house of Mr. Smallwood, shoe-
maker, Yarham was found at work, and informed of the
reasons of tho presence of the officers. He said he was
aware of the circumstances of the murder from reading
the newspapers, but denied the truth of the statement
made by Dick, who said that he had confessed his guilt
to her three weeks after his release from custody, whereas
he says he left Yarmouth fourteen days after. This he
says he can prove. He was taken to Gloucester, and on
Sunday Trimming was removed to London, on the way to
Yarmouth.

TEE LATE LORD WRARECLIFFE.--.WO understand
that on Sunday morning Mr. Meriman and the physicians,
who were called in to consult on the serious illness of this
respected nobleman, assembled at the family mansion in
Curzon-street, as well as Sir Benjamin Brodie, when there
was a post-mortem examination of the deceased, when it was
ascertained that death was caused by an effusion on the brain.

At the Congregation at Cambridge, on Friday, a
grace passed the senate, appointing Mr. Cockerell to be the
late Mr. Basevi's succesalr, as architect to the new Fitz-
william Museum, in conformity with the recommendation of
the Fitzwilliam Syndicate, in their report of the 9th of De-
cember inst.

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