The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

the upper parts of the sheets and bed, which stood
close agairst the window, were completely satu-
rated with. blood. Ile instantly hastened -in a state of
extreme terror to the next house, which was occu-
pied by his two elder brothers, and on apprising
them of what he had just witnessed, they ran back
with him and burst open the bedroom door, when
they found their parents extended side by side
on the bed, with their throats cut in a horrible
manner, and both of them apparently lifeless. On their
recovering from the shock produced by such an appal-
ling sight, a messenger was dispatched for Mr. Hall, the
surgeon in Paul-street, who soon after attended, but on
examining the bodies, declared that his aid was useless,
as both the maa and his wife had been dead for several
hours. The inspector added, that he, accompanied by
police-eonstalale tames, of the G division, had arrived at
the house directly after the surgeon had left it, and
made a minute examination of the room in which the
shocking occurrence had taken place, and, on searching
the floor at the foot of the bed, found two razors, both of
them open and covered with blood, one lying close to
the left footpost of the bedstead, and the other between
the opposite valance and the wall adjoining the window.
Beside the spot where the first-mentioned razor was dis-
covered the officers found a chair, on which was placed
an open razor-case, greatly disfigured with the recent
impressions of bloody fingers, and from an examination
of this it was now evident to them that the wretched
man must have opened the case, and, belectlng one of the
razsra, cut his wife's throat with it, then flung the razor
away from him, returned to the case for .ht second
razor, and, getting into bed with it, afterwards commit-
ted suicide by destroying himself in the same manner.
From the unruffled appearance of the bed-clothes, and
the placid expression on the unfortunate woman's coun-
tenance, it was likewise manifest that she had not been
disturbed by her busband'a getting into bed, and that he
must have murdered her in her sleep. The inspector
concluded by stating, that a great number of rumours
were in circulatiot , assigning motives for the mati's com-
mitting such a horrible deed, but that the whole of them
were perfectly groundless, as from all the inquiries he
himself and the other officers had made, it appeared that
the murdered woman and her husband lived on the most
cordial, if not affectionate terms, were in very comfort-
able circumstances, and that it was impossible even to
guess any reason for the perpetration ofsuciti adreadful act.
The melacholy occurrence has created a most painful
sensation in the neighbourhood, and attracted vast
crowds to the house during the whole of the day. The
deceased had lived a great many years in the locality,
and, together with their sons, who are in the same line of
business in the house immediately adjoining, had by the
propriety of their conduct acquired the respect and good-
will of all their neighbours. The bodies are now lying
in the house, under the care of the police, awaiting the
coroner's inquest.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT
LAMBETH.
Friday afterrerna Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East
Surrey, renewed the inquiry into the death of Diana
Kemble, alias Campbell, who it may be remembered was
found dead in the passage of her house in Fore street,
on Sunday morning last, under very suspicious circum-
stances, which induced the police authorities to cause
her son, at present in custody, to be charged with sus-
picion of having ill-used his mother, and thereby caused
her death by an act of violence. On Saturday night
last, about 11 o'clock, the deceased was observed in a
beastly state of intoxication in Paradise-street ; after
which her son, the prisoner John Campbell, alias
Kemble, took her to the Ship public-house, and after
wards carried her into the house where she rented a
room, and left her in the passage at half-past 11 o'clock.
Police-constable Whitcomb stated, that about 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning last he took the son of the deceased
into custody on a charge of attempting to commit
suicide. The prisoner rushed from his custody and
ran towards Lambeth-stairs, with the intention of
throw'ng himself into the river ; he caught hold of
him, when the prisoner said, " I have been the cause of
my poor old mother's death—l have lost my right hand,
and my best and only friend, and I will now find a place
of rest for myself in the water." The prisoner was then
taken to the station-house.
Policeman 57 L deposed, that on Saturday night
last be saw the deceased in Paradise-street exceed-
ingly drunk, and saw her fall in the street. Her son
(the prisoner) was with her, and the son struck at a man
for offering to render her assistance, but did not see the
son ill-use her.
John Le Groves proved that he assisted the prisoner
home with his mother, and left her in the passage about
half-past eleven on Saturday night, but no ill-usage took
place ; on the contrary, the son behaved with the great
est kindness towards the deceased.
David Hughes—Saw a man, who resembled the pri-
soner, and whom he believes to be the person in custody, ,
in company with a woman on Saturday night, near the
Feathers, in Lambeth. She was an elderly woman, and
the man put his hand out and struck her. She then fell
down, bet the man immediately picked her up, and
placed her against a doorway. After this the man said
his did not care for any man in Lambeth of his own
weight and size. He did not hear any threatening lan-
guage, but he seemed dreadfully cut of temper. The
man seemed as if he struck the woman purposely. He
was very much in liquor.
The evidence of Mr. Jeffree, the surgeon, went to
show that the deceased died from the effect of a rupture
of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a blow or
fall, but he thought the latter was the most probable.
The room was then cleared of strangers, and after half
an-hour's consultation, the jury returned a verdict—
" That the deceased died from the effects of the bursting
of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a fall while
in a state of intoxication."