The Sun. — 1845-01-11 (London, England)

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT SALT-HILL. LATEST PARTICULARS.  SLOUGH, THURSDAY EVENING.—WhiIe the jury were deliberating upon their verdict yesterday afternoon, the prisoner, who was in an ante-room, asked more than once, " How king do you think they will be now ?" Upon being told they would probably be half an hour longer, ke betrayed great mental agitation. On entering the room to be informed by the coroner of the verdict of th, jury, he recovered himself, and heard the purport of the verdict with great apparent coolness. Indeed his fortitude while he was in the jury-room never once appeared to forsake him, listening with considerable earnestness and attention to the application made by his counsel for the restoration of his watch and the money found in his possession. On being taken back to his private room, at the Three Tuns, he became grestly agitated, and was at his own request supplied with brandy and water. His solicitor, Mr. Bevan, of the Old Jewry, London, and another professional gentleman, had a long private interview with him previously to his leaving for Aylesbury Gaol. A large concourse of persons bad assembled outside of the house, to have a view of the prisoner on his departure ; and it was with difficulty that the police were enabled to protect him from the threatened attacks of the mob, as he walked to the vehicle that was to convey him to prison. Their yells and hootings greatly disconcerted him, and he appeared terribly alarmed for his personal safety. Upon arriving at Amersham, a distance of fourteen miles, and about half-way between Salt-hill and Aylesbury, the prisoner alighted at the Griffin Inn. Here he partook of tea and a mutton chop, of which he ate heartily. He scarcely opened his lips during the whole of the journey. Once he started up, however, and said, with considerable earnestness of manner, " I can't think what the people made such an uproar about at Suit-hill, as we were coming away. Oh, dear !" Upon arriving at Aylesbury gaol, a few minutes before eight o'clock, and on being handed over to the custody of Mr. Sheriff, the governor, he requested to be accommodated with /a comfortable bed and a room to himself. On being told, however, that no relaxation in the discipline of the prison would be allowed in his case, and that he must submit to the same treatment as the other prisoners, he heaved a deep sigh, but made no remark. He slept in his clothes, merely taking off his great coat. The room assigned to him is in what is called the old gaol, in which he was locked in for the night by himself, having first undergone the usual personal search. This morning there was a visible alteration in his appearance, looking haggard and careworn. The assizes for the county of Bucks will take place in March next.  The funeral of the late unfortunate Sarah Hart took place this afternoon, the mournful procession leaving Bath-place at a quarter past two o'clock, for the churchyard of Farnham Royal, in which parish her death occurred. Her son, an interesting little boy of about five years of age, attended as chief mourner, led by the hand by Mrs. Moss, and followed by Mrs. Ashlee, leading her little girl. A great number of persons followed the corpse, It being supposed (but whether correctly or not it is at present impossible to ascertain), that Sarah Hart is not the right name of the deceased, the coffin plate bore no inscription, not even. " the date of death." Not one