The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-09-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE MURDER OF BRIGHT, THE CONSTABLE. Thomas Lattimore John Lattimore, Win. Parker, James Wrigley, Thomas Lattimore, John Sefton, and Thomas Wmterbottom, were next placed at the bar.—Mr. Newton said that they had been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the constable Bright. He was not prepared to go into the case then, and he wished that they should be remanded for a week. If he were prepared sooner he would go into the case on an earlier day.—Mr. Jowett said the charge was a most serious one, and they would agree to grant the remand, on the understanding that the case would be gone into sooner if Mr. Newton could complete his evidence. The prisoners were then put back. CHARGE OF Omismucx.—Richard Sill was then brought up on a charge of conspiracy. Mr. Newton said he wished the prisoner to be remanded till Saturday, when he hoped to be ready with his evidence. The prisoner was remanded wicordingly.—Mr. Newton said that he had also apprehended William Winterbottom and Thomas Hunt by virtue of bench warrants, on the charge of conspiracy. On leaving the court-house shortly after six o'clock, when the examinations were finished, Broadbent's wife was followed by a large crowd, principally boys and girls, who uttered fierce exclamations against her and her husband for having become evidence against the prisoners. She was ultimately taken under the protection of the police.  a wish to die? He said, "No." Her sister never told her that she thought he was likely to die. He was quite rational up to the time of his death. While she was with him she did not see that he took anything excepting a glass of water. Mrs. Jane Harvey, who was previously examined, was again called. When visiting Mrs. Ham's house had seen her take arsenic from a piece of paper and scrape it over bread and butter for the purpose of destroying rats and mice. She knew it to be arsenic, as Mrs. Ham and her husband told her it was such. She could not say how long this was done before the deceased's death. _ _ _  At six o'clock, the evidence having concluded, the coroner proceeded to address the jury on the painful duty left to their charge, at the same time going over the whole of the statements adduced by the witnesses. At the conclusion the inquest-room was cleared for the jury to deliberate. In the course of half an hour it was reopened, when the foreman, addressing the coroner, said— " The unanimous verdict of the jury is Wilful Murder' against Hannah Southgate, the widow of the deceased Thomas Ham."  The prisoner exclaimed—" I am innocent, gentlemen, of the crime," and exhibited great composure. She was immediately removed, and conveyed by the train to Chelmsford county gaol, where she was committed on the coroner's warrant to take her trial at the wiuter assizes.  The inquiry did not terminate till nine o'clock. It was said that application was intended to be made to Sir George Grey, the secretary of state, for further exhumations of bodies of persons suspected to have been poisoned in the neighbourhoods of Dovercourt, Bradfield, Tendering, and Ramsey, as well as the remains of the formet husband of Mrs. May and her children. '