The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-19 00:00:00

MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.

(From the Times of Friday.)
THURSDAY.—This day Curvoisier was again brought up
for examination. Previous to Mr. Hall taking his seat on
the bench several persons of distinction arrived, and were
accommodated with seats near the magistrates, among whom
were the Duke of Brunswick, Count Alan, Earl Clarendon,
Colonel Angelo, Earl Mansfield, Captain Donellan, Colonel
Fox, Sir George Beaumont, Mr. Murray, the secretary to
the church commissioners, the Earl of Essex, the Hon. Edw.
Phipps, Mr. Hodgson, private secretary to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, and several others. It
was stated that some persons of distinction bad attended for
the purpose of giving evidence respecting the character of
the prisoner while in their service. After the examination of
the maid servants was again gone into at great length, the
prisoner was remanded. During the examination he paid the
greatest attention to the evidence, and seemed perfectly com-
posed.
The crowd collected opposite the house of the late Lord
William Russell has been to-day considerably less than on
any of the preceding days, the point of attraction being the
police-office, Bow-street, where it was known Courvoisier
would be examined.

About twelve o'clock Mr. Commissioner Mayne arrived at
the house, as did also Mr. Superintendent Barker, but in
consequence of most of the persons who have been actively
engaged in examining the premises being required to attend
for the purpose of giving evidence before the magistrates, the
examination was not proceeded with to-day.
The whole of the property missed from the house, and sup-
posed to have been stolen, has been found on the premises,
with the exception of the silver tablespoons and brooches.
The watch, as was stated yesterday, was found on Wednes-
day. It was discovered in the sink removed from the pantry,
and which, after its removal, was thrown into the yard,
where, on Wednesday, it attracted the attention of a sergeant
of the C division, who began examining it, and eventually
turned back the lead from the wooden frame, where he dis-
covered the watch artfully placed in between. The lead had
evidently been beaten down after the watch had been intro-
duced, and the glass of the watch was broken, which was
apparently all the injury it had received. There was no chain
or seals attached, and what makes its preservation most re-
markable is the fact that the sink, since its removal, had
been repeatedly used as a stool, without a suspicion being
entertained that it was the repository of a portion of the pro-
perty.
Under the flooring of the pantry a sovereign was also found,
which is supposed to have been one of those stated by Cour-
voisier to have been seen by him with the £lO and £5 notes
in the possession of his lordship on the evening previous to
the murder.

Soon after one o'clock Mr. Commissioner Mayne left, and
shortly after a hackney-coach drew up at the door, into which
Superintendent Baker, accompanied by the cook and house-
maid, got, and proceeded to Bow-street, followed by Inspec-
tor Tedrr an in a cab, with a number of bundles and other
property.

The following paragraph appeared in the Sun of Saturday,
hut we do not find it corroborated by the morning papers of
yesterday :
Norfolk-street, Saturday, Three o'Clock, p.m.

, . .
" The workmen engaged at the residence of this ill-fated
nobleman, resumed their researches at an early hour this
morning, anticipating that the whole of the missing articles
would be found.

" In the course of the day Inspector Tedman, Sergeant
Pcllard, and four constables, made an important discovery
(which, it is stated, was a shirt spotted with blood belonging
La Courvoisier), which was the resultfof their labours yester-
day. It is reported that they found this morning a waist-
coat, also spotted with blood, belonging to Courvoisier."