The Sun. — 1859-11-15 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT COVENTRY.  The sang froid and coolness of the author of this horrid deed are almost unexampled. As soon as he arrived at the station where he was to be confined prior to appearing before the magistrates, he said he should want something to eat, and he went on to say, with indescribable harshness, that if the knife had been sharper, he would have cut his wife's head quite off. An inquiry, touching her death, was held before E. Poole, Esq., yesterday, when Mr. Smallbone appeared on behalf of the father. Henry Quinney was the first witness examined. It appeared from his evidence that he saw the murderer and his wife " wrangling together in a field, and heard the former say, " I only asked you how you were, and how the child was." She replied, " That's nothing to do with you ;" and he rejoined, "It has—everything." The woman then asked witness to fetch a policeman, and ho went away. Elizabeth Elliott said—l saw Kingston and his wife together on Saturday morning last. He knocked her down and knelt upon her. I saw him cut her throat with a knife. She screamed out, and I ran away. The next witness was a factory girl, who also saw the couple. He said, " I have forgiven you times enough, and you may thank your father for it all ;" and he said if her father had been there he would "do for him," as well as her. He said so while ho was cutting her throat. If I had been near enough I should have tried to take the knife from him. When she gave over speaking, I said " There, let her alone now ; you have done enough !" I was about 20 yards off. Jones came up and called him a villain. Kingston accused his wife, after he had done the dee'l, of selling up his house twice. Edward Salmon, sergeant of the Coventry police force, was next called, and said :—On Saturday morning last I received information of a murder, and came up with Kingston in Ford. lte called me by name, and said " Salmon, I'm here; I'll go with you quietly." When I got near him he said, " Don't handle me !" I asked a man who was with him where the knife was ? The prisoner replied himself, "It lays beside her. She's dead enough. If she had gone to live with me lavt night this would not have happened ; but lam satisfied now." He also said that the last words of his wife, when she was dying, were, " Jack, Jack, it's my father's fault." I took him to the police-station. His hands were covered with blood ; so was one knee, which was saturated. There was also blood on his face. He said he fhould have come to the station if I had not come.  Mr. W. Dresser, surgeon, described the post mortem appearances of the deceased. There were three gashes on the right-hand side of the head, the principal one severing the arteries of the face. Another cut severed the windpipe and carotid artery. These appearances went to show that there had been peat resistance on the part of the woman. The jury, accordingly to the direction of the Coroner, returned a► verdict of " Wilful Murder " against John Kingston. The prisoner will be committed for trial at the Warwick Winter Assizes.  The widow of Balzae is married to Gigoux, the painter and expert of the Louvre. The condition of the marriage is singular enough. The lady is to retain the name of Balzac, even in signing legal documents, and to be called in her domestic circle by no other name than that of her first husband, from whose glory she will not depart. —Court Journal. W A