The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

the prisoner was the party who made answer. She
tried the door but found it locked, when she returned
to her bed. She had not been there more than
half an hour when she heard deceased's room door un-
locked and some one knock at hers. She called out,
"Come in," and the prisoner, with a bundle of fire-wood
in her hand, came into her room, and said the old lady is
very poorly. Witness answered, "If she is very poorly, go
for her daughter." After a little time she said she
would, and went out. Prisoner came in again with her
bonnet and cloak on, and asked witness, in case
she beard any noise in deceased's room, to look in.
Witness said she would. Witness heard no more noise
after, though she stood on the landing-place and listened.
When Mrs. Gage came she heard her cry out in the room,
"Oh, my mother is dead !" Witness did not go into
the room but ran for a doctor. Witness had not the
presence of mind to ask the prisoner the meaning of the
cries she had heard from Mrs. Mundell. The old lady
was not accustomed to cry out so. Prisoner had lived
three months with deceased.
Edward Gage, a private in the Foot Guards,
is the husband of Ann Gage. The first time he
had any suspicion of murder was on Monday even-
ing, when he was pulling out the bed-sacking out of the
bedstead on to the floor, for the purpose of laying out
the body. Hesaw something which he thought was not
proper. When the bed was turned over he saw a great
deal of wet on the under side of the bed, and two folds of
sacking that had been under the bed were wetted
through. The upper side of the bed was quite dry, but
the sheets, on examination, were found to be wet. The
female who laid the deceased out would not touch the
body till a surgeon was sent for. Witness went for Mr.
Atkinson, but he did not think it necessary for her to go.
On Wednesday, about eleven o'clock, they went to see
deceased. Prisoner went with them, shuddering, and
kissed the corpse, and said, closing her hands, as in the
form of supplication, God knows all !" Prisoner
then said she bad a 51. note—she was going a shopping.
Witness asked her to allow him to go and get change
over the way, as the landlord of the house knew him.
Prisoner had promised witness the loan of a sovereign.
Prisoner refused, and went herself to get change at a
public-house (the Blue-coat Boy). She came back and
said the gentleman had played a trick on her. She said
he had given her a Bank of Elegance note instead
of a Bank of England note, and prisoner
asked what she should do with it. He bade her
go back immediately. Prisoner asked him to go with
her. He asked to look at the note. She hesitated, and
then gave it to him. The moment he saw it he recog-
nised it, by two marks of grease, as one he had seen in
his mother-in-law's possession. Witness then went home
to put on his regimentals to go across the Park with
prisoner. Prisoner made excuse that she wanted to go
and see the people where she had obtained the note, and
on the way proposed to go and see Jim, a soldier in the
same company with him. He objected, and they went
on, through the Horse Guards, up towards Charing-
cross, where she fell back on witness's arm, and said she
was so ill she could go no further that day. He said if
she could go no further he must get the assistance of a
policeman. " Good God!" she said, " don't call a police.
man; I will try and go further." Witness then assisted
her across the road, and she then fell back in his arms.
Prisoner said, " I can't keep it no longer. I murdered
the poor old lady, and deprived your wife of a good mo-
ther." Witness had suspicion of her, but did not let
prisoner know this. She then caught hold of witness,
and asked him to pray for her guilty soul, and forgive
her. Witness then called out for a policeman, and gave
her in charge. Witness knows the note, and
has identified the one produced in Court as the one he
had in his hands repeatedly from the deceased.
He had asked deceased why she should keep them.
Oh," she said, " they are no harm, and not heavy to
carry about." Saw deceased on the Saturday before in
good health.
Elizabeth Stevens, 5, Prince's-court, Commercial-
road, Lambeth, said on Wednesday last, about one
o'clock in the afternoon, she was going to Bayswater.
She passed the soldier and prisoner in Ve hitehall, where
the latter fell back in his arms, and said, " Oh, I have
done it, I have done it, for God's sake pray for my
soul." Witness was then asked by the soldier to find a
policeman.
Mr. Atkinson, surgeon, 16, Armondy-terrace, said he
had known the deceased for about two years, when he
attended her husband, who was dying. Deceased had
not been attended by him. Her health was generally
good and her spirits even. Was asked to attend the
body. twenty minutes past eight o'clock on Monday
morning. His assistant, being in the surgery, went.
In consequence of what he said, witness went himself a
quarter before nine o'clock. On entering the room he
found the body on a box two feet and a nalf long; the
spine and the back part of the head rested on
it. He wished to ascertain whether death had been
caused by hanging or strangulation. The cord by
this time had ben removed. Supposing the deceased
bad committed suicide, he tried whether the pegs above
could have supported her hanging, but they could not.
He then examined whether strangulation had taken
place. This he was convinced was the mode of death, for
the cord had been passed twice round the neck and
tightened from behind, as a part there was left t
marked. The two lines were visible round: one-1 Ali
the neck in front, but on the back only one mark vas
visible. He found no marks on the hands of decea ed
made by the strong powerrequisite to produce the ma: Its
on the neck, and he saw no place on which decea: ed
could be suspended. There were scratches on the un
lip, as though done by the deceased in the effort to get
air when being suffocated. The cord produced corre-
sponds with the mark on the neck. Had death come by
hanging, the marks, instead of being horizontal, would
have been slanting, and crossing as they did the carti-
lege, which is vulgarly called Adam's apple, the deceased
might thereby have had power to cry out. From the
state of the bed described by Gage, Mr. Atkinson would
conclude that deceased had died on the bed.
The MAGISTRATE then committed the prisoner to take
her trial for the murder of Mrs. Mundell, at the Central
Criminal Court.
William Daer, who keeps a shop, 8, Queen's-build-
ings, Knightsbridge,'said he found that, for the three past
Sundays, his till had been robbed, while himself and his
wife were at chapel. He set himself and the police to
detect the thief, and for this purpose marked the money
left in the till on Saturday night last. He saw the
same money in the till five minutes before eleven in the
forenoon of Sunday, and missed it immediately after
coming from chapel. No one was left in the house ex-
cept the female servant, nor could any one get into the
shop without her leave. Mr. Daer has a moveable par-
tition which he always put up and fastened on the Satur-
day night, the door in which was locked with a patent
lock, and prevented access to the shop where the till
was. On Sunday forenoon the female prisoner was left
alone in the house at the hour for worship ; policeman
2 B, being in concert with the complainant, kept watch,
and saw the stable-boy, William Kniyh , come about
half-past twelve o'clock and pull the bell. The female
prisoner, Mary Maloy, admitted him.
Mr. Deer, on coming home, was told of what had
happened. Both the prisoners were in the house when
he went in, and he found upon examination of the till
that 14s. 6d. marked money, and a fourpenny-piece, un-
marked, were gone. Mary Maloy, on being accused, said
she had not gone to the till, and did not have the
money. When Knight, who had left the house, was
found, the policeman got from him the money in ques-
tion, besides quantities of candid orange-peel, figs, and
citron. The female now admitted having allowed him
to take the fruit, but not the money, and showed police-
man that the boy got into the shop by taking down one
of the boards which line the back of the counter, a mode
of entrance not suspected by Mr. Daer. In a drawer in
the kitchen, where the female prisoner admitted having
secreted some articles, was found some tea and sugar,
and in her box a quantity of isinglass and prunes, to-
gether with four books, which complainant believed to
be his also. The amount taken in all, including the
money, might be 18s. Mr. Daer seemed to have had a
high opinion of the boy Knight. He had got him from St.
George's-school, and during the three years which the
prisoner has spent in his service he had never had any
occasion to suspect him of anything improper.
Both prisoners were committed to take their trial.
Jacobus Bordeau, a Frenchman, charged two young
prostitutes with stealing his gold watch.
One of the girls, he said, met him on Saturday night,
and took him to her room, where he was, altogether,
three or four hours. Another girl, however, who had a
black eye, had come in to the same room, and was em-
ployed by the Frenchman to go out for some beer with
a shilling which he had given her. M. Bordeau said he
could talk some English. De girl not wid de black eye
cut my guard ; I did not have feeling of it in de moment;
she had her arm—(here M. Bordeau threw himself in
the attitude of embracing round the neck.) De girl wid
de black eye was so long away ; when she came back
she was wid four or five men. Ido not know how much
(many) de four or five men came into de room, and de
shaysf ront ; manan
d chargeddegr
lmwd
me one shilling
de
pay de shilling for de room, dis is de master of file room."
blillalcinkgeye for de room. No, I
shays, `..You shell
I shay, I have no shilling, I have but one crown. De
man shay he give me shauge, and I give him de crown.
He liy down on de table tree sixpences, and shay he had
no more, he would go and fash (fetch) more shange.
When dat maa go out, de next man come forward and
put de tree sixpences in his pocket. De girl
wid de black eye den shay, " You mustn't stay no
longer in de room." I say I shall no go down de stairs
till I got my shange. " You may stay," she said, " sho
long as you like," and dey all go out. I den feel for my
watch, it was away. De man could not take it.
The policeman who took them in charge, said, on
being called in, he found the girl without the black eye
in the room, and took her in charge. She said she had
not stolen the watch, it was the other. This other was
taken into custody afterwards, but the watch had not
been found.
The Magistrate remanded them till Monday next,
which was duly communicated by the officer in Court to
Monsieur in the best French he was master of—that is,

in Westminster English, with an additional strain of the
voice, and an attitude intimating anxiety to inform the
gallant foreigner.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Henry Fowler, John Freeman, Peter JP Guire, and John
Carden, young men dressed as mechanics, were charged
under the following circumstances :
Police sergeant, Wm. Adams. No. 52 of the C division,
stated that between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday
evening, he saw the prisoners in company together in
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. He watched and saw them
follow a gentleman, and Carden and Freeman attempted to
pick his pocket. They did not succeed; and crossing over
the way together, they followed up another gentleman.
Carden and Freeman again felt his pockets, and Carden took
something out, but witness could not see what it was. They
then went in front of an oil shop and looked at what they
had got, after which they went into Tottenham-court-road,
where witness, having procured assistance, the prisoners were
taken into mist*. Fowler however escaped, but was re-
captured. No property of any value was found in their pos-
session.

The prisoners asserted that the constable must have been
" mistaken," as they were " all decent working men."
Mr. MALTY asked if the prisoners were known ?