The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-19 00:00:00

'POKING THB THIRD

TWAY BILL TILL FRIDAY MIXT.
Forbes, Sir Charles Rose, Rt. Hn. Sir G. TELLERS.
Heathcote, Sir W. Train, W. H. Osborne, Lord F.
Inglis, Sir R. H. Vyvyan, Sir R. Milton, Viscount
Petit, L H.

THE MURDER AT KENSINGTON.

ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE BODY.

Sinee the adjournment of the inquest on the body of the
unfortunate dec..ased, a knife has been found contiguous to
tl s place where the corpse was found, and is precisely such
a one as would inflict a wound similar to the one under
the deceased's left breast, and which occasioned her death.
It was remarked, that evidence would be adduced to
prove that Thomas Birmingham, the young man in cus-
tody, was present at the Camden Arms tavern, opposite
his barracks, until twelve o'clock on Wednesday night.—
Being considered a good vocalist amongst his acquaintance
he was called on to sing a song at the above time, but he
declined it, begging to he excused on account of illness.—
He appeared at the time much distressed in spirits, and
while there betrayed considerable anxiety of mind.
It will be recollected that at the inquest on Thursday
night last, a serjeant, belonging to the 15th Hussars in his
statement before the Jury, said that he saw the young man
Thomas Birmingham, on the night the deceased was mur-
dered, enter the Kensington Barracks near eleven o'clock,
with a female, whom he took to his bed-room. The ser-
;Pant was confident that the deceased was not the woman
he had seen with him. The sentinel on duty at Kensing•
ton Barracks on the same night, gave similar testimony,
adding, that on the following morning, about six o'clock,
he saw the woman who slept with Birmingham leave his
quarters, and go out of the gate leading to the Park.
The Coroner, Mr. STIRLING, having arrived, the de-
positions taken on the former occasion was read over.
Thomas Young Smith deposed as follows :—I am a
watchman. On Thursday morning last, about 20 minutes
after one o'clock, I saw the deceased walking with a young
:lava dressed like a groom. He had on a drab coat and a
rounti bat with a cockade in it. He had small clothes of
a light colour, and a pair of top-hoots. I saw no more of
him until three o'clock ; when near Kensington-gate I saw
him again, and on his passing me I said, " I suppose you
have had your fun for the night." At this time the man
was about 30 yards from me, and when I spoke he re-
plied, " You look so hard at me, I suppose you will know
me again." Witness said, " Very likely I may have oc-
casion to know )ou again."
By the CORONER—I addressed the man in the first in-
stance. At this time it was about a quarter to four
o'clock, and it was so light that I could plainly distinguish
his countenance.
It way here suggested by the Coroner that the witness
should be taken down stairs to the apartment where Bir-
mingham was in waiting, to ascertain whether he could be
certain he could identify him as the person whom he had
seen on the morning,
The witness accordingly went down stairs ; and on his
return to the Inquest-room, he distinctly stated that the
man whom he bad seen on Thursday morning was not in
Rho room to which he (the witness) had been taken.
The constable who attended the witness to the room
where Birmingham was, said that that person was amongst
six or eight other men at the time, but the witeess had
no recollection of ever having seen him before.
CORONER.—Is the young man you have seen like the
pe•son you saw on Thursday morning with the female?
Witness.—He does not resemble him; the man whom
I spoke of was long visaged, and not like any of those
whom I have seen in the room below stairs.
William Chichester Reynolds, of Hackney, produced a
knife, with a dark wooden handle, with a broad copper
ferule near the blade; there were some appearances of the
stains of blood on it. He also produced a small silk
purse, which opened with a clasp. The former be found
an Sunday morning about eight yards from the spot where
the body was found, with its point about eight inches in
the earth ; and the purse he also found in the grass near
to the same place.
The Coaosrea, after examining the knife, said, that it
was one of rather a peculiar description, and any one whe
ever saw it before must know it again.
Sarah Price was called, and the purse having been
shown to her, she said that she never saw it before, a..el
that she was sure that the deceased never had such a one
in her possession.
Mr. Parkins, the surgeon, examined.—The stains on
the knife appeared to me to be produced by blood ; I have
opened the body of the deceased, and pronounce the wound
on the body of the deceased to have been inflicted by an
instrument such as that produced. From the nature of
the wound, it was evident death must have been instan-
taneous.
Mr. Parkins here took an opportunity of alluding to a
letter which he had received since the previous examina-
tion, from an individual who held out threats against him,
for having stated in his former examination, that he was
of opinion that the deceased bad not committed the act her-
self. His opinion was now fully confirmed from all the
circumstances connected with the case, that the deceased
bad fallen by ties hand of an assassin. Mr. Parkins in