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ton, that it happened at Mr. Lawrence's, the Sh'p
public-hcuse, near the Pear Tree, the landlord was .
DEATit OF ThFIN WILLIAMS. 'out at the time, but his daughter, a very ithlligent
The Magistrates assembled soon after ten o'clock, female, most completely contradicted the statement. '
accompanied by Counsellor Reaoret, and several
Miss Lawrence knew Williams before Marr's mtir-
other Gentlemen. They were then informed that der ;he used to be very free, go into the bar, take his
Williams had committed suicide. On hearinthis glass, and gained her good opinion from his insinu l-
information, all business was suspended until the are tulle address. After Marr's murder, he used to say,
Miss L. I don't know what is the mutter with me, I
rival of Robinson, the keeper of the lock-up room
feel so uneasy." Once he came into tOrn house greatly
attached to their office. Before twelve be returned
in a hackney-coach, when he stated to the Magis-
agitated, and said, " I don't thnk I am well, for I
trates, that on going to the Governor of the prison, am unhappy, and can't remain easy." Miss L. an-
with their order for delivering the prisoner into his swered, "Williams, you ought to know best what
custody, he proceeded to the New Prison, and on I you have done." He replied, " Why, lett night I
going into Williams's place of confinement, he saw
ate a good, supper off fowls, and had plenty of li-
the turnkey, whO conducted him to the cell, and to quor.' Miss L. inimediately said, " Good eating it
his great surpt ize saw Williams hanging to a ran, not the way to make you happy ;" ein e hich he retired-
which partly extended along the cieling, and is placed ,—The Magistrates asked Miss L. if she ever saw
for the accommodation of prisoners to throw their Williams in company with any other man ? "Only
linen, clothes, &c. on. Williams was suspended to once, to the best of my recollection; he was a stout
man; I only saw him, but cannot describe his person."
the rail or post by his white neck handkerchief, tied
securely about his neck. On inspecting the body, it The examinant was shortly after called in, to clear
was supposed that he had not long commi ted the
the character of two persons who were seen in Wil-
act ; his eyes and his mouth Were open, and the state liams's company the night preceding the mustier of
Mr. Williamson and family. Her statement was So
of his body clearly dettionstrated that he struggled
very hard. The turnkey of the prison locked him up correct, that the Magistrates were satisfied that the
the night preceding, men were free from all suspicion of criminal esiocia-
and did not discover any mate.
,iial depression in Ins spirits, although he had consi- lion with Williams.
derably fallen away since his confinement. John Harris deposed, that he vets iii the habit cf
. ticepinet with Williams, but knew of no friend he had On the relation of these particulars, the Magistrates
excepting Hart. On die night of the murder, 'Wit-
held a conference upon the steps to be pursue.l. At
n•liams can* to bed at a little past two. The witness
length it was determined to enter into the examination
rose first in the morning, wentout, heard of the intirdir
of Witnesses, whose testimony would bring the late
melanch ly events to more decisive proofs of Wit-
of Mr. Mate, and when he returned told Williamsot it,
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liams's guilt. In a preceding Palm-, the examination who replied, though he was :till in bed, " I knowit."
of Mrs. Vermilloe, Mrs. Rice, and the prisoner's fel-
The witness found the moldy stockings and shoes
low-lodgers, was fully stated. It is only'necessary
which Williams afterwards took out of his hands, and
now.to insert any new circumstances which were dis- said, " Give them to we, I will go indwarelt and
clued before the Magistrates, and tO establish the wash theta." Since the murder of Mr. Marr,Williams
fact of Williams having been assisted, in order to had slept little, and was very uneasy in his bed. Wil-
trace out his accomplices. * i liame once observed to the witness, that Mr. Lee's
the ! house, the Black Horse in Gravel-lane, was very con-
Ma Mrs. Vermillioe was very closely questioned by
venient for a robbery, the outlet behind was so good.
gtstrates as to her knowledge of the fatal maul, ,
Mr. Lee said that he once caught Williams opening
which she declared she never missed" until Monday 1
his till. i Corbela coal-heaver, was one of Williams'
last, . She could not be at all positive that it was one
most intimate frlentli, but he was in bed at the wit-
of those which belonged to John Peterson. She ap-
ness's house at the time of Kith murders. The witness
Wired Unwilling to identify it, and was asked by the
Magistrates whether, when she heard that her bus-
was standing at his derr, nearly opposite Williamton's
band in Newgate stated it to be the same, she had not when 'l'urner descended from the window. Just be-
exclaimed, " Good GOD, why does he sty so i"
She fore that he heard " Mr.Wiltiamson exclaim in a weak,
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at first denied having used the expressi n ; but, on a half-stifled voice, Watch, Watch, Watch ! The
witness being called who heard her, she confessed , witness telt certain that more than one man had been
that she emproyed it, or something like it. The first concerned in the murders.
llfargetra Reilly, a girl of the town, deposed that
time she lai.d any suspicion that W Mien's was con- '
she saw two Men tun out of Gravel tine, one of them,
cerued in either of the murders, was, when a young
as st ell as she could see, with large whiskers, the other
man named Harris, who slept vith Williams, spewed
lame. She thOught that a man brought before the Me-
, her a pair of stockinge belonging to him, which had
gistrates on Tuesday was like one of them.
been tucked behind a mink in an extra ntely muddy
! John torlett, the coal-heaier, being called, pointed
state, even to withinfibout an inch of the op. On it
named
man, lia comonly called
1 further examination of them, she saw evidently the cut
a
Long Billy, who wWilas lamm Oldblass,e, ns an intimate friend of
rmarks of two bloedy fingers aeon the top of one of
Williams. 'the witness and those two were death iag
them. She then called in a man named Glass !
to look at them, who, believing the stains to be those :
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'of blood, advised Mrs. at Mr. Lee's on the night of the mUrderif Williamson.
Vermilloe to turn Williams : Trotter, the carpenter, once said to the Witness, It
out of the house. The witness was asked why she is a very shocking concern, and you would say so in-
did not disclose this important fact at her former exa- 1 deedit_you knew as muck as I do.'
Mrs. On' agan gave her evidence, as desiribed in
mination ? and whether she was not intimidated by I
Williams ? On which she admitted that she was : rfs'er•targparer. On the eu bject of tbet chivied,
afraid that either he or some of his acquaintances
tee Vern-Aloe corroborated the accuracy of the wit-
would murder her, j nest, and said, that she well remembered the china,
.
Q. w You need have no such fear; yon knowelvlr froinjak
l t were the motives for Williainf e ailiseite.-allatakilegietra tee asked Mt%
*hats.atet
'situation: you have heard diet he has hanged him-
self P'*tinning out . the house when the watchman enter-
' A. (Much affected and shocked) " Good Goal?, I .ad t- She !risked, KTo look after the chisel, and
hope not." , finding that die watchman had picked it up at her
Q. 4, Why do you hope not ?"
• I doter le returned in,a great passion, which now con-
-0 A. (After some hesitation) " I should have beebeene
t vinced her be intended to break into her house."
sorry, tf he were innocent, that he should
Several witnesses were then called as to the coraluct
Irate sufa.l
feted." *
i of Hart and Fitzpatrick before the murders, but they
The discovery of the maul marked .
„ J. p.r, was I were completely exonerated.
the first thing that made her suspect Williams of the I Cuthbert, who slept in the same room with Wil-
murder of Mr. Marr's famil - The witness then res. i limns, deposed, that • e heard him talk in his sleep,
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since the niurdas, and say, 41 }lngo, what is this ?"
lated the circumstances of the dikovery before men-
timed of the ripping iron, at Mrs. On's window, The witness called out, Williams, what is the
which somewhat coati med her suspicions. j matter ?" Williams replied, incoherently--" Five
The questions then put referred to the connections' shillings ! Why my pockets are full of shillings."
and associates of Williams, to which she replied, that It appear. that Williams was a shipmate of Mr.
he had non,!, excepting now and then a fey? shipmates; Mart's, and came home with him aboltt a year and a
he was in the habit of going to all the public-houses, half ago, in the Dover Castle East Indiaman. Marr
and behaving with great familiarity ; but she never was Captain's servant, and Williams was registered
knew that he .had any friends. When he returned as an able seaman. Williams has since been to Rio
from the East Ilidies in the Dover Castle, three : Janeiro, from whence he returned about 12 weeks
mouths ago, he deposited £BO in her husband's' ago. He had often mentioned being in comp my with
hands, which was not all expended at the time of the , Marr. He always passed by the name of Williams,
'orders. i except when he first introduced himself to Mrs Wit-
The stockings and shoes Williams is supposed to liamson.
- the night -*of Williai

Marr, from his good conduct, was put into business
by Captain Richardson, of the Duver Castle, and a
Mr. Lloyd, of this city.
CORONER'S INQUEST ON WILLIAMS.

have worn on of the murder .amson,
*ere now prnilw.ed. The stockings ap.tred to have
been washed; but the stains of brood had not quite
disappeared ; the shoes had likewise been washed.
Williams was in the habit of wearing very large
whiskers, and Saturday night last was the first time
she perceived that he had cut them off. Alter this
period she closely watched him, and she thought he
seemed to be afraid to look at her. The subject of
the two murders was of:en mentioned in his company,
and though before very talkative, she observed that
Williams always slunk out of the way into the pas-
sage, and seemed to be listening to what was said.—
One day it was remarked to him that Williamson's
*as a very shocking affair-4, yes," said he, " very
shocking," and he then turned off ti*.: conversation.
The maul, the ripping-iron, and the two chissels,
were now brought. before the witness, that she might,
if possible, ideutify them, but she shrunk away from
the fatal instnsments with horror. All she could say
was, that she had seen a maul something like it in
her lunband's house. She remembered alhetuguese
being stabbed in Newmarket-etreet, and seat Wil-
liams was then in Eaglinsde as well aS Richter. She
never heard it salltilleit wait ohildtert had seen Wil-
liams stab the Fllll. Since the arrest of Wil-
hams, a carpentjalr name of Trotter had called
ingoire after him aad said he would soon be clear-
ed. On the eight of the last murder, Williams had
fold the witness that Williamson was going next day
to pay his brewer. Williams's name, she Irad heard,
Was John Murphy.
Mr. Lawrence, the landlord of the Ship and Royal
Oak public-house, spoke of the familiarity with which
Williams used to come bird his house, and a in the
bar. He never liked the man, and he always wished
him to avoid coming to his horse.
Williams having stated on Tuesday, *Wu he en-
deavoured to account tor his shirt being- Moody and

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the
House of Correction, in the parish of St. JAmett,
Clerkenwell, on the body of John Willows, who eras
found dead in his cell, in the Coldbath-fields prison,
before JOHN WIUCHT UN WINS r sq. one of the Coro-
ners for the County. AU the witnesses on this In-
quest signed their declarations.
THOMAS Wens sworn.—" I am surgeon to the pri-
son - I was Called to the deceased this morning; I
found him in his cells lying on his back on the bed,
whet e he had been placed by the person who cut him
down ; he was dead and cold, and had been dead
many hours; on his neck on the light side, it a very
deep impression of a knot, and a mark all round the
neck as from the handkerchief by which he had been
suspended; the handkerchief was still on-the neck ;
I saw no other marks of violence on his body ; I
have no doubt he died from strangulation ; he told
me the day before yesterday, he wts perfectly easy
and satisfied, for that nothing couldhappen to him.
THOMAS scene."
FRANCIS Knovv sworn—" I am a prisoner here ;
I saw the deceased alive and well yesterday, about
half-past three in the afternoon ;he asked me if he
Could see his friends? I told him I did not knieiv.—
This morning, about half-past seven o'clock, Soleph
Becket, the tnenbey, came to tile in the yard, and de-
sired now go up tp the cell of the deceased and cut
him dot* that be had found him hanging ;
went up immediately, and put my arm round his
body, and eat the handkerchief,. tart of which was
vounithikneck, and the otber part was fasten td to

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