The Sun. — 1864-09-02 (London, England)

THE TRAGEDY IN HATTON GARDEN,  ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY.  The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Wilkinson was resumed this day at the Three Tuns Tavern, Cross-street, Hatton-garden. The inquiry, it will be recollected, was adjourned in order to enable the coroner to communicate with Sir Grey to obtain the attendance of the prisoner. The application had been successful, and the accused man this morning was in attendance, in custody of an inspector of the S division. The first,witness examined was Mrs Turnbull, the aunt of the witness Collier, who gave her evidence before the magistrate, She merely repeated the statement as to the prisoner entering her bedroom and pulling his wife out of her bed and kicking her violently. Ann Chadwick said she had known Mrs Wilkinson for two years. The deceased often told her of her husband's illusage, but that he always was anxious to make it up with her. She saw her last Sunday about 8 o'clock, when she told her what had occurred at the railway station. She said she and her husband had quarrelled, and that he had struck her in the eye. She left witness's place at 10 o'clock and went home, but she said she should not go into her own room until her husband was asleep, as be was sure to be quarrelling with her, and she was afraid of him when tipsy, but that he was always kind to her when sober. By a Juror—The bruise on the eye was not visible when she saw her. She appeared quite well when she left her. Police-constable 116 G said he took the prisoner into custody. He asked him how he accounted for the marks on the deceased. He said, " Well, there was some blows on Friday last, but none since.  Police•constable 1 G said, the prisoner was brought to the police station et Clerkenwell about half-past one on Sunday morning. He informed the prisoner he was charged with a serious offence, and, having cautioned him, ho said, "It's not what I've done to-night, it's what I did on Friday."  Mrs Collier recalled—She had never heard the prisoner threaten the life of his wife.  The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, said it was ' for them to consider the charge, which was a very serious one against Henry Wilkinson, who was supposed to have murdered his wife, It would be for them to consider whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain an accusation of wilful murder. The coroner vent through the evidence, and stated that, according to the testimony of the medical gentleman, the injury which caused the death of the unfor• tunate woman did not arise from any violence she might have sustained on the Friday, but from a rupture of the spleen, which, however, was in a diseased state, The kick which it had been proved the prisoner had inflicted on . the deceased appeared to have caused that rupture, and, under all the circumstances, they would have to show whether the blow was inflicted with the malicious intention of killing the woman. If they should be of that opinion, then it would be their duty to return a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner, but if they thought that he had been guilty of unintentionally causing her death, they would return a verdict of manslaughter. The jury then returned to consider their verdict, and after about half.an-hour's absence, returned to the inquest room.  In answer to the questions of the Coroner, The foreman of the jury said they were opinion that the prisoner did not contemplate killing his wife, and they therefore returned a verdict of manslaughter against him. The prisoner, a man about 30 years of age, of the middle height, with sharp features, and deeply pitted by small-pox, daring the time the jury were in deliberation seemed to suffer the greatest anxiety. Immediately the verdict was pronounced he seemed for the moment entirely prostrate, but he quickly recovered himself and burst into tears. He was then taken from the room, and on making his appearance in the street on his way to the Clerkenwell PoliceCourt, to which he was conveyed in a cab, the crowd made some little attempt at hissing, but it quickly subsided as an immense number of idlers followed to the cab with a view of:getting another glimpse of the prisoner.  The final examination of the prisonar took place al Clerkenw ell Police Court shortly after tho .termination of the inquest. The same witnesses were examined, and a simi• lar conclusion was the result.