Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-03-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE RICHMOND MURDER.  At the Erentford Police.court, Inspector Morgan, of ' the Criminal Investigation Department, stationed at Paddington, appeared in support of the application of Joseph Sherwood, carman, of Ealing Dean, for a summons against Sarah Kelly Essam (the woman who made a statement at Uxbridge a few days ago implicating him in the Richmond murder), for using abusive and threatening language towards him. Inspector Morgan said: "In consequence of a telegram I received from Uxbridge, I saw the woman Rearm, and proceeded to take down her statement in writing. I questioned her minutely with reference to the details of the whole affair. She commenced by telling me there was a quantity of valuable stolen property in a box at 3, Buckingham-terrace, William's Toad, Ealing Dean, the house of the brother of the accused. I insisted on her accompanying me there at once, and carefully searched the boxes in her presence where she alleged she had seen the articles witnin a few days. I could see nothing like the property described by her. Every possible assistance was rendered me by the Sherwood family, who made no objection to the search, and said the house was at my disposal to do as I thought right. The sister-in-law said that the brother (Joseph Sherwood), in consequence of Essam's disgraceful conduct, had been compelled to leave the neighbourhood and seek employment elsewhere. With reference to Essam's statement that she peeped through a crack in the door at William's-read, I told Maim I intended to look for the crack, and she then admitted that there woe no such crack, but said the door was partly open at the time. I questioned her about the Greenford burglary, which she said had been perpetrated within the last four months, and have ascertained from inquiries that there has been no such robbery for the last eight years at least. }lmam denied having had any quarrel with Sherwood, or that anything had occurred to create an ill-feeling between them; but from further inquiries I found that she had violently assaulted him on the Saturday previous to her statement, and that Sherwood had been obliged to leave his house in consequence of her conduct, although he had lived there for some years. I further learned that the women of the neighbourhood on the Saturday night mentioned had hooted her and given her rough music.' In consequence of his ejectment from the house he was obliged to put his furniture at his brotheer, in the same row, hoping by that means to get rid of Essam. I also find that he could not possibly have been at Richmond with Kate Webster at the time when the murder was committed, because he was employed regularly at Hanwell, and was at his work between five and six every morning. After careful inquiry, I find that there is not the slightest particle of truth in what the woman has alleged as to Sherwood's complicity with the murder of Mrs. Thomas. Immediately the report of the statement appeared in the newspapers Sherwood presented himself at the Ealing Police-station, and expressed himself willing to render any assistance to the police in testing the correetnms of her remarks." Sherwood, having unfortunately missed his train, did not reach the court until the magistrates had retired from the bench. He, however, corroborated in every particular the statement made by Inspector Morgan before the magistrates. He was particularly desirous that this denial should be published, since his means would not enable him to rernove this aspersion on his character in any other way.  Dean,