The Sun. — 1862-09-01 (London, England)

WORTH.  `3 SL.  The further examination of Thomas Cooper, with several aliases, was resumed on Saturday, at the session room in the Town Hall, before Capt ain Donnethorne and a full bench of magistrates. In order to obviate the difficulty experient 'ed last Saturday in gettjng the prisoner through ti he dense mob that congregated round the entrances .) to the police station, the Town Hall, and the streets leading thereto, the prisoner was brought down from the House of Detention, where he had been under remand, at an early hour in the morning, and he was safely conveyed in a ca,h, and lodged. in one of the private rooms in the Towil 1-1311, without the public being aware of the fact. Punctually at the time appointed the accused. murderer was placed in the dock. 11:43 appeared careworn and anxious, but considerably unproved in his appearance. On the prisoner being asked by Mr. Rt.s, ton if he had any professional ad viser, he replied, " Not yet, sir." Mr. Ruston, the clerk to the magistrates, t, hen readover the evidence given at the last examinatit'n. Rosina Barnham repeated the evidence she ha d given at the inquest as to we possession by Mae prisoner of three bullets, one of which he said w for the deceased, one for her mo,,he r, and. one for: the first izian that tried to take him. The prisoner said, " That is false, Bose, and you know it is." Harry Everett, a tailor, deposed to having met the deceased and he thought the pris oiler on the evening of the murder about 20 yards; from the milestone on the Twickenham-road. I'hoy were talking together. He did riot hear any ch.c the conversation, but the woman sneered at the mut He should not like to swear that the prisoner va a the man. Thomas Maddock, a gardener, said he met' the prisoner and the deceased about 25 minutes to , nine on Thursday evening about 100 yards from the Chequers public-house. He had previously kno\ '7ll him, and he believed him to be the man he saw. Ephriam Caughtney repeated his statement tha t the prisoner and deceased had had some ale toge- • ther at the Chequers on the night in question. Mr. George Turpin, a retired officer in the army, said he was going to Isleworth on the 7th ult., and. when near the corner of the lane he heard a man and woman inquire of Another person what time it was, and the man replied 25 minutes to 9. He had naonteseaena seen that man mthaendaetetehaesed court. He then crossed the l but he would not like to swear standing there, the prisoner was the man. He resembled him, how" James Hedges, a groom, repeated his statement that about the time mentioned he saw' Anne Barnham and a person he believed to be tihe prisoner at the Corner of Brazil Mill-lane; the man bad a moustache, and was dressed in dark clothes. He heard him say, "I have told you of it before." Thos. Barnham, a cousin of the deceased, ~nether and the prisoner together on the night in qua. stion • Joseph Burniss, a boy, saw a man and woma n m Brazil Mill-lane on the same evening ;he heard tihem quarrelling; he passed them, and noticed that they shook hands. Soon afterwards he heard a report; of a pistol. He did not then see either the man or woman, as it was too dark. James Andrews, a letter carrier, repeated his former evidence.  Charles Brown, a detective, produced the Letters found on prisoner when apprehended, one of which related to the crime, and actually admitted the commission of the murder.  After a consultation, the Bench decided that the letters should not be read. The prisoner admitted that he was in Brentford on the Thursday, and that he had watched Anne because he thought she was, going to keep company with other men. John Hawker, another detective, deposed• to having found a pistol in prisoner's pocket. Witness asked him what he meant to do with it, and he replied " Shoot myself." He said he had read all the papers had stated, and was only waiting to get .some more information before he shot himself. While going down to Brentford the prisoner said, "I wish I could have found the grave of Anne that I might have died there too." Mrs. Barnham, upon being recalled, said the prisoner had no moustache the day he was at her house, but his whiskers were larger. Rosina Barnham and Ephraim Caughtney confirmed this evidence.  The prisoner stated, in answer to the Bench, that he would reserve what he had to say. He was then fully committed for trial.