The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-06 00:00:00

THE LATE MURDER IN GRAY'S INN-LANE.

'Yesterday the Investigation of this horrible affair was re.-
sumed at Hatton-garden Police-office, betbre Mr. Sergeant
SELLON and Mr. Lavin.
The prisoners, Jeremiah Caen and Mary Caen, the wife,
lifargarct Caen, the daughter, were placed at the bar. The
father and daughter appeared to
.preserve the satin: degree of
composure that they did at the former examinations, but Mary
Caen, the wife, seemed to labour •:nder great perturbation of
spirit and very great lassitude of body. She was accommo.
dated with a chair, and an infant, apparently about two years
old, frequently interrupte.l the business by its artless prattle
as it played unconscious!) around its unhappy mother. The
exterior habiliments of all bore ample testimony to their ge-
neral novelly.
There were some fresh witnesses examined, but their .testi.
ninny did not tend to any further elucidation of the principal
point, namely, the actual perpetration of the deed. They all
spoke to facts either antecedent or subsequent to the.crime,
which seems to hare been committed only in the presence of
four persons. The lips of one of the four are sealed for ever.
Caen himself cannot be made an evidence against his wife ; and
the daughter, of whose presence and cognizance no moral
doubt can be entertained, still obstinately adheres to her first
assertions, that she knows nothing of the murder beyond find.
ink the deceased lying in her father's yard, wounded and dy.
ing. With respect to the fourth, and, as is believed, the prin.
mind actor in this tragic scene, the secret rests between God
and her own soul.

After all the evidence had been taken down, Mr. Sergeant
SELLOW observed, that ll* there was no evidence against Jere-
miah Caen, he was dischattred ; that the daughter, along with
the other wi,nessesi should enter into recognizances to appear
at the next Old Bailey Sessiomt, to prosecute Mary Caen for
the wilful murder of Alaitrice F!l;f4.qald.

..
Caen then bowed to the Bench, kissed his infant child, and
left the office.
11r. Sergeant SELLoxr then infOrmed the prisoner, that he
was ready to hear any thing she might have to offer in her de-
fence, but at the saute time, he begged to caution her as to say.
ing anything which might militate against herself'.
The wretched woman rose, and sustaining herself with some
difficulty against the bar, feebly said, " Your Honours, I have
' nothing more to say than this :—On the night in question I
got a cow-heel tar our suppers. I took the child and went out
for some pepper and unions, and it being boxing-day (Saint
Stephen's), I was Made to drink two glasses of gin, one at the
green-grocer's, and another at the oil-shop ; and in consequence
of a circumstance which occurred in my family about sixteen
months ago (which was broached that day
my), whenever 1 drink
'
any thing I always lost my reason. lure y itmearnar, I
now declare, that I don't know what. happened. and how the
man came y his death. I only know that I went for my hus-
band, wbo was drinking nt the public-house, tut he did not go
to work all that day. I brought hint home to suPper, and he
wanted to go back again: some dispute arose- on that,- and we
quarrelled, but what followed I Dili remember.. Whether
the man was there or not, I can't say ; but I dln't recollect
seeing him, if 1 a was—that is all I have to say, gentlemen."
The purport of this declaration was entered on the minutes,
and the prisoner was fully comtnitted for trial.
Air. Patrick Dunne, of Laystall.'street, with whom the
daughter lives servant, entered into a recognizance of 401. for
her personal appearance at the Ses,inns,
The office on each day was immensely crowded by Irish
people, but what was very iemarkahle, there was nothing of a
tumultuous or disorderly character in their behaviour, even on
the removal of the prisoner.