The Northern Guardian. — 1898-08-17 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

CRIME.  VERDICT OF VILFUL MURDER ' VRAD ;T VINEY. _  - - • ---- -• The Coronit.ifs .'resliury into the murder of the three children of William Viney on Leyton Marshes on Friday ; was held yesterday at. the Olive Twist Hotel, 1..• /ton. The names of 4he. r,urdered children are Harry Viney, aged 11; Berl Viney, aged 5; and Annie Viney, ageo 2. V r father has been remanded at Stratton: Polite Court on the charge of mining, their throat&  Mrs Viney, who was not living with the accused, was escorted to the witnes?-box trembling violently, and evidently in a condition bordering upon llapse. She said that she lived at 89, West Street, Lepton. The boy Harty waa in—her care until up to Friday hat, when his father fetched him away. He had been tramping London recently, an dappealed ta her to have the children back. She expected him to 'call with some money for the keep of the children, but did net do so. She knew nothing more about the children until her son Joseph came to her on Friday night and told her the terrible story of the murder. The lad said that Lis brothers and sister were to be fcund in a field close by, murdered. The Coroner: Had you any reason to supp,se that your husband was insane?  .--Witness: No, sir: nor do I know why he shou/d have taken the chi!dren away. Witness added that just before the murder Viney asked her if sl.e Would Live With Him Again. The Coronsr : What was your ,eply? Witness: I said, "Yes, if you will keep me as you should."  Joseph Viney, the boy who informed hi, mother of the crime, was then called. Ile related the story of tie murder as it has been preview& told in the newly:Ter report,. In reply to Mr Lovi. bond (reprwenting the accused), he said that his father went to London for money on Thursday, but was not successful in obtaining any. John Golds-worth, a builder's foreman, of Ley. ton, deposed that, in consequence of a oommunloa. tion from Mrs Viney he went with the police and the laat witness to the Lammaslands, where he found the three clii!dren dead and one little lad alive, but bleeding at the throat. Witneza did not know the children. Re endeavoured to staunch the bleeding, and took the surviving boy to a doctor.  After the med:eal evidence 413^ Walker, Wm. Smith, a florist, of Lea Bridee Road, spoke to arresting the accused on the edge of the marshes on Friday. He conveyed h;Tri to the station in a Carter Paterson's van. Vinev was wet up to the waist.  Bateq qtated thr 1 cha-g-d rriqoner at the Lea Bridge Road. The ma,rl ma-le the foil-w-ing statement : —"I have no home for the el ildren and lam out of work. They are homeletst and fatberleqn and I have cot the'r throat. I could have done the la 4 one, h"tle matte a row. Here iq the knitfe I Lave dme it with, and read that paper." The raper referred to wait worded an foil, RR ! "A navvy dicing out a 17-4 etao-rt called Curley, he came to lodge at my Ogee. He and my mother hug been the cane, of What has eeeur-ed. Let Them say wirt they will to iust;fy thernnelveq. tley are the close of wltole Ifrair. Ti,ev will tell any un to make their MVP rause swot"  „ After the retire row+ evidence the jury SC, f,,,i1,11 a verdict cf crsurfkr” against