The Sun. — 1848-01-03 (London, England)

THE DREADFUL MURDER IN GOLDEN-LANE. INQUEST ON THE BODIES (THIS MORNING). This morning, at eleven o'clock, the inquiry as to the death of Robeat;Henry Blake, aged 5, and Armenia Blake, aged 7, was resumed. The CORONER, on the court being opened, complained of a statement which appeared in the morning papers, to the effect that Mr. Blake, the father, gave the alarm, at four o'clock on Saturday morning, that his children were murdered. This could not be the fact if Blake stated the truth. A policeman said no such statement was made at the police-court. Stephen Hewlett, a lodger at the Duke of Bedford, Golden-lane, stated that he was in front of the bar a little before five o'clock. Robert Blake called him out. He asked witness if he would go to the theatre with the woman Parker, who was with him. He refused. Blake said, "We will go fora walk then," and they went towards Oldstreet. Parker followed them. She said, " You shall find a complete devil in me." She appeared sober and not much excited. All three then went to a public. house in Goswell-street, and Blake and the woman Parker appeared more comfortable. Having returned to the Duke of Bedford, they had some gin, and Blake got away unseen by Parker, but she missed him in half a minute, and ran out greatly excited. She came back in five minutes, and said, " It is a good job you did not go with him; he shall repent of this before morning. I will do something that he shall repent, and die like a trump at Newgate." She then went away. In a few minutes after he went to her house, No. 3, Cubit's-court. She opened the window, and he said to her, " Mrs. Blake, what is the matter?" She said, " I have something very black in my mind, and I'll stop it before long. You will hear of me before you see me." This was about half-past eight at night. Mr. Charles Adams, landlord of the Duke of Bedford, repeated the evidence given before the magistrate on Saturday last. Jane Jones, of No. 2, New-court, Goswell-street, said that she knew Robert Henry Blake. On Friday evening last. about seven o'clock, she met him at the corner of Golden-lane and Old-street. A male and a female were with him. They passed on into Goswell• street, and witness lost sight of them in Fan-street. As they were going down Goswell•street, witness said, as they passed, " Robert." She did not think Harriet Parker heard her address Blake, In three quarters of an hour after that time Blake met her at the corner of New-court, and said, " Make haste, Jane, for I think lam watched." They then went to a publie-hbuse at Cow-cross, where they stopped till half-past eleven o'clock; from there they repaired- to a: house, in alley, Goswell-street, where they stopped until a quarter to ten o'clock the following morning. She had not made any arrangement to meet him that night. She was quite certain that she did not touch Blake's arm when she addressed him. Richard Wright, of 15, Arthur-street, said that about half-past twelve on Saturday morning, as he was passing down Golden-lane, he met Harriet Parker with the eldest deceased. The child ran after him and called him by name. Immediately after wards the woman came up to him and asked if he had seen Robert, for he had given her the slip? She also said, he has gone to the play and he shall repent it. She appeared at that time sober, but very excited. He told her that he thought it was very bad to have a child out so late as that was. She said, " I always take the girl with me, but you know they are not mine." lie then bade her good night and went home. Witness afterwards saw Parker proceed in the direction of her own home. [The inquest was proceeding when our report left.]