Glasgow Courier. — 1855-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STATEMENT OF MRS. LANIBERT•  THE FOLEY PLACE TRAGEDY.  Ilthinigh by no means out of danger, the condition of Mrs. Lambert is stated to be improving. She is perfectly sensible and cheerful, and during Monday made the following statement in reference to the whole transaction :  'Before coming to live at this house (6, Foley Place), Mr. Lambert and myself lived at 35, Newman Street. Mrs. Williamson, who lodged with us, was very clever sea milliner, and when we came to live at this house we went into partnership together as wardrobe dealers, and Mrs. Williamson put down 4,100 as her share to wards furnishing this house. Mrs. Williamson had been separated from her husband about a year. Baranelli had been known to Mr. Lambert and myself for some years, and we had frequently assisted him. During the summer we met him at Tunbridge Wells, where he had a little girl staying, his wife being dead. He was very ill at the time, and Mr. Lambert brought him up to London, and got him admitted to the Middlesex Hospital, where an operation was performed on him for fistula. Since he had come out he had been living with us upon charity. His pension amounted to 10s, per week, which he said he received from Mr. Drummond. He paid ss. of that for the keep of his child at Tunbridge Wells' and the remainder, with what he could pick up and what we gave him, ss as all he had to live upon. We gave him a lodging, and he came with us to this house. On Thursday week last, in consequence of a communication Mrs. Williamson had made to mess to his conduct, Mr. Lambert, at the instance of Mrs. Williamson, ordered him to quit the house; and as Mrs. Williamson was called to say that she desired it, he went away. Mrs. Williamson expressed hsrself uncomfortable about his being there, but would not state the ground she had for feeling so. Since that time Baranelli has inade several attempts to obtain an interview with her, but without effect, and letters he sent were burnt unanswered. He sent two letters on Saturday, and I believe he thought Mr. Lambert was the cause of his receiving no reply. On Sunday morning we were in bed, in the back parlour, and the first I heard was the door open and a voice, which I knew to be Baranelli's, say, "Mr. Lambert, Mr. Lambert," and then I heard the report of a pieto!, and saw Baranelli standing with the pistol close to the back of Mr. Lambert's head. On jumping up I saw he had a pistol in his other hand pointing at me, and I first hid myself under the bed-clothes but after an instant's reflection I jumped up and rushed towards Baranelli to snatch the pistol from him. He still pointed it towards me, and I think I fell upon my knees, hut in an instant I heard a report, and felt I was wounded. He then ran away, and rushed upstairs. I ran to the front door and called for assistance to some gentlemen passing to save me. I then ran into the dining-room, and locked the door, and then !fell down. I shortly recovered my senses, and again unlocked the door, and rushed to the foot of the stairs, and called not to let him into Mrs. Williamson's room, as I felt assured that he had gone up to shoot her. I then got into the room again where Mr. Lambert was, and fell against the bed, when the policeman came. I think I saw Mr. Lambert's lips move convulsively once or twice after he was shot.' . _ .  The report as to the state of Mrs. Lambert on Monday evening was that she was better, and, on inquiry at the Middlesex Hospital the statement was that Boranelli was much in the same condition. The ball had not been extracted, nor was its actual seat ascertainable, but there was no apprehension of immediate danger. On Monday night, in obedience to the coroner's warrant, Mr. Bridge, surgeon, of Langham Place, assisted by the house surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, made a post mortem examination of the body of the murdered man, Mr. Joseph Lambert. The ball, after passing through the back of the neck, had entered the spinal canal, and passing along the spinal marrow, was found lodged in part of one of the vertebrae. Death, under such circumstances, must have been almost instantaneous.