The Sun. — 1846-01-08 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT YARMOUTH. EXAMINATION OF YARHAM. (Abridged from the Bury Herald.) After two remands for a week each, Samuel Yarham was brought up before a full bench of magistrates, assembled at the Gaol Hall, on Monday last, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on the charge of being a principal in the murder of Mrs. Candler. Mr. Tolver conducted the prosecution, and Mr. S. B. Sherrington attended as his solicitor. A large concourse of people assembled in the street outside the gaol, although the examination took place two hours earlier than had been very generally announced by the authorities. Amongst the crowd we observed Royal, who was acquitted at the trial last year for the same offence. The Mayor having informed us last week that the examination would be a public one, our reporter applied for admission ; but his Worship sent a message stating that the examination was a private one, and that no one would be allowed to be present but those necessarily engaged. We believe that the subjoined will be found a tolerably correct summary of the evidence adduced against Yarham, but we cannot pledge ourselves to any great accuracy. The superintendent of our police narrated the particulars of his attempts to apprehend Yarham, and of his taking him at Blakeney, in Gloucestershire. The principal testimony against Yarham will be his own evidence when admitted a witness against Royal, dall, and Mapes, and a conversation which Mrs. Dick, on oath, states that Yarham volunteered to her " about three weeks after the trial." It will be the object of the prosecution to prove that Yarham, when admitted approver, did not state the whole truth, which, if they succeed, according to the opinion of the Attorney-General, will subject him to a prosecution for the murder. Mrs. Dick adhered to the statement which she has recently, though not until to-day on oath, made, which statement we have recently published. Mr. Sherrington cross-examined Mrs. Dick on the improbability of her not knowing Yarham, having been examined in each others presence before the magistrates on several occasions and at the trial; on her talking with him for a quarter of an hour in the must public part of the town, and making a coafession, the effect of which, if true, jeopardizes his own neck. A witness was called of the name of Sims, a boy in the service of Mr. Hume, of this town, as chimney-sweep, for the purpose of strengthening the statement of Mrs. Dick, as to the fact of any conversation at all having passed between her and Yarham. We understand that this boy failed to corroborate Mrs. Dick's statement as to the time when she alleges the conversation to have taken place. The boy Sims states that he climbed up on the barrack palings the day after the murder (not three weeks after the trial) and saw Mrs. Dick and Yarham in earnest conversation together. Mr. Catchpole, solicitor, was called, who proved that he came home from the Angel Inn, where he had been dining, about half-past one on the morning of the murder, and was let in by Yarham, who was dressed. Yarham made no communication to him about anything having happened at Mrs. Candler's (whose house, it will be remembered, was separated only by a thin boarded partition), nor was he made aware of it until the police came and called him up shortly after he had been in bed. Yarham went with him into the shop, and saw the body of deceased ; he said he had beea awake all the evening, and had heard no noise of any kind. Police-constable Johnson, and ex-police officer Waller, proved the trying of Mrs. Candler's door and shutters, and finding the body of deceased behind the counter, in the manner described by them at the inquest and trial. J. B. Bales, sergeant-at-mace, stated that the day after the murder he went to the Denes, where the money rafhol ratfoot-marks, rhakonsed, somethhee of i was found ,and examined severays been which, on comparing them much with the size of the Ilcvntobw edge, froralhaving believed to be his. Yarham bad al foot, impressions, res shoemaker,sion s , from his es e (Bales) avleersy) The remaining part of the evidence given up to halfpastprisoner'sfive on Mondasya,mwehaesndethpoeseCdotuorot nadthjoeutrrniaLed, WAS almost literally the We have been shown a letter, dated Maidstone, April 24th, 1845, and bearing the London post-mark, the contents of which prove that Mrs. Dick must have erred in stating that the conversation between Yarham and her took place three weeks after the trial. The trial was on the 9th, and he must, according to the date of this letter, have left Yarmouth on the 23d.