Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-06-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SELF-A001:18ATION OF MURDER. On Saturday morning, a man named John Key, accosted a constable on duty in Cambridge road, Bethnal green, London, and accused Mimelf of having murdered his wife. The constable at first discredited the statement, the man appearing so quiet and calm, hut m it was persisted in he took the man to the station-house. On the road thither an inspector, going off duty, was flirt, and to him Key repeated his statement. He had, lie said, hit hi. wife on the head with a flat-iron, to defend himself a. she was standing over 111111 in bed, with a poker. The man having been removed to the station, the inspector and constable proceeded to the house indicated by the man, 5, Patriot square, Cambridge road, Bethnal green, and there evidence of the truth of the statement was soon apparent. In a front room on the third story of the house, on a bedstead, lay the body of a woman undressed, with her bead almost battered in, and the body and bed saturated with blood. A doctor was celled and pronounced the woman dead. A flat-iron was found in the room, and was evidently the weapon with which the murder was committed, the prisoner indeed having confessed to using it. Key, it seems, first called on his son, who lives near, and told him that he had killed his mother, bat the son did not believe it, and allowed his father to go away. He had not been heard to go out of the house in Patriot square, but was always away early, as he worked a.. smith at the Imperial Gasworks, Haggerstotte. The prisoner was taken before the magistrate. at Worship street later in the day, and charged with the wilfal murder of Martha Key, his wife, that morning—He is a quiet.looking person, his skin and general appearance denoting his hard working trade; his hair, whiskers, &c., are deep grey; and his manner is composed and cairn—the only wanesn examined was Inspector Smith, K division, who deposed : At 6.20 thi. morning I met Police-constable ISO in Bethal-green road, and be had the prisoner in his custody. He mid to me, "This man wishes to gim himself up for killing his wife." I turned to the prisoner and asked a it was true, and he said, "That is !O. I struck her with a fiat-iron, and I believe she is dead." I mid, " Where?" and he said, The first house on the right hand side in Patriot-square." I asked him the number, but he said he did not know it. We went to the station together, and there I cautioned hint that what he said I should give as evidence against him, and then he said that he would tell toe all about it. Ile made this statement woke op at six this morning, and I found my wife holding a poker over my heed, and I jumped out of bed and took up a fiat-iron, with which I hit her." The prisoner added that his wife did not move after she lotion the bed, and when he believed that she was dead he drmsed himself and left the house. After the prisoner had made the statement, witneu left the station and went to the house, 5, Patriot-square. In • bedroom occupied by the prisoner and his wife he found a edinan lying on a bed, which we: saturated with blood. She had a wound on the head. She appeared tube dead. Witnms sent for a doctor, who came and examined her and pronounced her dead. Witness looked about the room and found a flat-iron (produced)—(an ordinary homernaid's iron, about 41b. weight.) It had fresh blood upon it. Then witness went back to the station and charged the prisoner. Ile made no other statement. The inspector added that Inc had. witness present, but such a short time having elapsed he had not been able to inquire further into the facts.—Mr. Bushby mid that the evidence of the witness would be sufficient for a remand. He told the prisoner he should remand him for a week.— The prisoner, who said he was rather deaf, made no remark on the evidence given against him, and was returned in custody.  EDISOR Ottroonw—MM. Gambetta and Jules Ferry recently attended in a Paris laboratary a lecture by M. Jamul, of the Institute, on a new syah•rn ol his invention of lighting by electricity, which, it is maintained, will supersede all other.. Illustrative experiments, sail to have been quite eueeessfli,, w..re watched with greet iamereet bg the distinguished rimer%  F. G.1,a.......0NC1GF8/ ,•118 WNOu AL Sold by Meals* Grows. Wks ifarettam.." jou.