The Sun. — 1845-11-06 (London, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER. At Woolwich Policescourt on Tuesday, John Boyd, a grinner belonging to the first company of the fourth battalion of Royal Artillery, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jeremy, charged in the police-sheet with being the cause of the death of Elizabeth Herren, at Woolwich. Lieutenant W. Swinton, belonging to the prisoner's company, was present to watch the case. William Swain, a parochial constable, deposed that about half-past ten the preceding evening he went to a lodginghouse in Ropeyard-rails, kept by a person named Burnett. He there found the deceased lying in a back room dead; she was covered with mud. The surgeon, Mr. Penny, was with her, who said she died frem a fractured skull. He found on inquiry, that the prisoner wavin her company till within half an hour of her death. Ifisaw the prisoner with her himself, about an hour or an hour and a half previous, standing on the pavement near the Duke on Horseback. While witness was at the house inquiring the name of the girl, the prisoner came in and said, " I know her name; I know all about it." The prisoner then pulled a letter out of his uocket, and said her name was Elizabeth Horrell. He then began to cry. Witness said, " I have some opinion that you know something about her death?" The prisoner replied, "I do nut." Witness then said, " I shall feel it my duty to detain you." The prisoner expressed a desire to go to the guardroom, and not to the station-house; but as they were going pa.st the guard-room, witness called for a file of the guard, and the captain of the guard sent a guard with him to the station-house. Susan Watson deposed that she was in company with the deceased, whom she accompanied on board a coal vessel lying off Jones's Wharf. They went on board with two voting men. Shortly afterwards they returned on shore. Witness came fitst, and was led over the plank. She was very much iutoxicated, having been drinking all day long. As 40011 as witness got out of the gate she heard the deceased halloo. Witness went round the lane leading to the waterside, but did not see her. She also called out, and finding she did not answer, returned to the Duke on Horseback. The pi ironer did not accompany them ; they left him drinking in the Duke on Horseback, and witness found him there when she returned. John Bushel, one of the crew of the brig Henry, of London, deposed that the deceased and the other girls had been .bothering them all the evening for some biscuits and beef; they told them if they liked to come down to the ship they should have some. they caine down, but did not stop on board more than two minutes. The deceased left the ship first, the other girl following her, and shortly afterwards witness heard a cry, and on going down to the aide of the ship found the deceased with her head leaning on the shoulder of one of his mates who had descended the ladder. Mr. Jeremy having expressed his desire to hear the evidence of the landlord of the Duke on Horseback, or of some person who was present in the house, the waiter was sent for, who deposed that the accused was present during the whole of the evening, and did not quit the house during the time that intervened between the absence of deceased. and the period of the accident. Mr. • eremy said, after hearing the evidence, that the prisoner could not even have been the accidental cause of her death, and directed him to be immediately discharged.  Lord \Vharncliffe, we regret to say, is confined to lids residence in Cullen-street, from an attack of gout. ASYLUM IfOR