The Sun. — 1860-08-16 (London, England)

THE MURDERS AT WALWORTH.-CONVICTION OF THE MURDERER.  William Godfrey Youngman, 25, tailor, was indicted for  _ . the wilful murder of Mary Wells Streeter. There were also three other indictments against him for the wilful murder of his mother and his two brothers.  Mr. Clerk prosecuted on the part of the Crown; and Mr. Best, of the Oxford Circuit, defended the prisoner. Yesterday the indictments were severally read over to him, and he pleaded not guilty distinctly to each of the charges. From the circumstance that the evidence against the accused having already appeared in The Sun, in the copious reports of the examination of the accused, before Mr. Elliot, the magistrate at the Lambeth Police-court, and Mr. Carter, the coroner fer East Surrey, we deem it unnecessary to repeat it. The following brief narrative of the facts will be quite sufficient to refresh the memory of our readers.  It will be recollected that a constable on duty (David Luck, 133 P), about six c'elock in the morning of the 31st of July, just prior to ks leaving his beat, was called to No. 16, Manor place, 'Walworth-road, by the landlord of the house, Mr. Bevan, vrho informed the officer that a child had been murdered. The constable at once sent to the chief station for a superior officer, and Inspector Dann, accompanied by Police-constable Varney, proceeded to the house. On the officers going upstairs to the landing of the second floor, a sight at once awful, sickening, and harrowing presented itself, The whole of the floor of the landing was saturated with blood, which had scarcely coagulated, and lying in the midst of it were three human bodies, fearfully mutilated. The first was found to be that of a boy, about six years of age, lying on his back with his head towards the stairs. The next body was that of a young female in her night-dress ; lying on her right side, and partially resting upon her, was the body of an elderly female. Mr. Inspector Dann was then informed that a youngman, the son of the elderly female, was on that storey, and on stepping over the bodies he saw a man, about 25 years of age, in his night-shirt, standing perfectly calm and quite indifferent to the horrible scene around him. Inspector Dann told him that he must take him into custody, when the young man made the foll6wing remarks :—" I was in bed with my brother, when mother came up to the bedside with a knife, and killed my brother who was sleeping with me; then she made a stab at me, and I wrested the knife from her and killed her in self-defence." The young man was then taken into custody, and Inspector Dann proceeded into the back room on the same landing, and discovered a fourth body, that of a boy about eleven years of age, lying in bed in a pool of blood. The prisoner was then removed to the chief police station. On a search of the rooms being made a large dagger clasp knife was found completely covered with blood. About an eighth of an inch of the point of the dagger was broken off, as also a portion of the guard. A lodger named Beard, a carpenter, was preparing to go to work when he heard a kind of cry and a heavy fall. He went to see what it was, when he observed the body of oae of the deceased boys lying on the landing covered with blood. Being greatly alarmed Beard did not search further, but ran down stairs and informed his landlord, and Mr. Bevan immediately called in the police as stated above.