The Sun. — 1845-01-15 (London, England)

DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN, S. LAING.  THE MURDER AT SALT-HILL. EXERIMATION OF THE BODY OF THE MUR DERED WOMAN.  WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—The mother of Sarah Hart, through the activity of the police, has been at length discovered. She was residing with her second husband, named Hadlow, a blacksmith, at Gravesend, and, strange to say, neither of them had heard of the supposed murder until they received a letter from one of the police on Friday last, communicating the particular. The mother and her husband arrived at Eton  this afternoon, when a meeting of the county magistrates took place, with a view to the further investigation of the case. After the depositions of several witnesses were taken, the woman proceeded to the churchyard at Farnham, where the body of the deceased was disinterred in the presence of Mr. Norblad, Mr. Champneys, and Mr. Moss, surgeons, the churchwarden of the parish, and foreman of the jury, and a number of other persons. The coffin was placed on trestles at the church porch, and the lid being removed, the mother placed her hand on the face of the corpse, and exclaimed in the deepest agony of feelings, "This, indeed, is my poor pa'. Decomposition had not taken place, and the corpse had undergone no change in appearance since its interment. The coffin was then consigned to the grave. It appears from information we have been able to ascertain from the mother, that the deceased's name is Lawrence, she being a daughter by a former husband. She was born at Chatham, in the year 1805. The last time she saw her was between four and fire years ago, whe❑ she was living with the prisoner Tawell, at Bridge-street, near Southwark-bridge, as his servant, but she was not aware of her having the two children of whom the prisoner is supposed to be the father. At this period the prisoner had established a charity school in the above neighbourhood, to which he subscribed one hundred pounds per annum. The poor woman declared her inability to support the two children, both of whom, being illegitimate, will be passed to their respective parishes, and one being born in Marylebone, and the other at Chiswick, the poor children will be separated. Larkin, the superintendent of police, produced belore the magistrates to-day a quantity of drugs found at the prisoner's house at Berkhamstead. There were upwards of fifty phials, containing various liquids, which underwent an inspection by the surgeons, Mr. Norblad and Mr.'Champneys, none of which, I believe, contained prussic acid. In obtaining the drugs the officer received every assistance and courtesy from the wife of the prisoner, who is a very elegant and highly accomplished woman, and the daughter, a young lady of seventeen years, assisted in packing up the drugs in a hamper. The assistant to Mr. Hughes, chemist, 89, Bishopsgate-street-within, has been down to Aylesbury gaol today, fur the purpose of seeing the prisoner, and he states that he remembers having sold to the prisoner on the day on which the murder was supposed to be committed a quantity of prussic acid. There are many additional facts with which the magistrates have been made acquainted, but in the present stage of the proceedings it would not be prudent or even fair towards the prisoner to publish them.