The Express. — 1849-04-03 (London, England)

TEE MURDERS IN LIVERPOOL. THB INQUEST. Yesterday en inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by the late murders in Liverpool was held before Mr. P. F. Curry, the borough coroner, and a jury. The iury proceeded in the first Instance to view the body of Mrs. llenrichson, at the Southern Hospital, and the inquest commenced at the police court, about Itelf.past eleven o'clock. Daniel Roebuck, a boy was the first witness called. He said that on Wednesday he took some chilli to the houie of Mrs. Henrichson. I rang at the bell, but got no answer. I then looked through the keyhole, Ind saw the legs or feet of some female lying in the lobby. Mold not Fee her head. When first he locked he heard mynal steep groans. Concluding that she must. have faineed, he called a boy and told him to look through the key-hole. Then went to the cellar door and shouted. Got upoothe window sill, and saw the servant and child lying in the front patlonr. He then fetched a policeman. . John Hughes, the young man who:broke the window and Bret entered the house, reposted•the evidence he had given before Mr. Rushton. When it was finished the prisoner said " I've get no questions to put to that chap." Mr. Martin, surgeon, first adled to the house, repeated the evidence already published. Jas. Wilson, police-constable, 623, produced the knife with which the youngest child's throat had been cut. Its production caused a shudder of horror in court, and the prisoner was apparently the only one unmoved. Police-constable Hough produced the bent poker found near Mrs. Henriekson's head. It was the head of the poker, it appeared, with which the blows bad been inflicted'. He also produced the shattered bonnet and veil that Mrs. Henrieheon bad worn. Henry rover, another officer, exhibited the broken tongs and bloody shovel. The newspaper, it appeared, which the murderer hM been reading just before the tragedy was the Eastern Comas, Herold. The witness went up stairs on the diseeney et the murder, and found a box of jewellery that had been broken open. A chest of drawers had also part been opened, and of Ithe clothes scattered upon the floor. (The box of )jewellery was produced ; it was in a very shattered condition. undisturbed. ained also several era' Iles of plate, appanntly lt hid a clasp lock in front. The prisoner at this stage of the proceedings intimated to the turnkey a desire that witnesses should be called to prove an alibi. The Coroner said, very well, it would be desirable to do se. He meant to sit till twelve o'clock at night, if necessary, to complete the inquest, and he would rather finish it in one day. He asked where were the prisoner's witnesses ? The Prisoner.—l gave timely notice that I wanted them. The Coroner ordered them to be sent for. The inquiry was proceeding when our parcel was de .F 15.116•••••• • Our reporter adds:—Mn. Henrichson's death was communicated to the prisoner Wilson on Sunday, but the intelligence bad not the slightest effect on him. He bu been rather sullen of late; but on Sunday this gloominess gave way. to a fit of passion, during which he vowed vengeance asainst Mr. Commissioner Clough, and made an attempt to force a stick out of the hands of the turnkey who attends him, designing, ibubtlewly, to commit some mischief; but fortunately he was foiled. He afterwards b meditative, and ejaculated something to kjeSsoft., diloin* after some preliminary remarks, deoleavytthisn j would, when at the gal.ovre, come out Irttlisonselevala that would astonish everybody Aftnirds. Inr.ffilif. quiet. °. A - ! tfl a.. 144. -04 "7