The Sun. — 1832-07-31 (London, England)

UNION-HALL.  Yesterday James Jarratt, the man in custody, charged on suspicion with the murder of a woman with whom he cohabited, was brought up for reexamination.  The body of the deceased woman was found in the Surrey Canal, on Tuesday last, without bonnet or shoes on, but the surgeon who examined it was unable to state whether any injuries had been inflicted, in consequence of the decomposition that had taken place from the length of time the body had remained in the water. When the accused was taken into custody, he stated that he was with the deceased on the Saturday preceding her death, and that he left her the same evening with a man named King, with whom she went towards Peckham, and he (the accused) returned down the Kent-road himself, and called at several public-houses by the way, at some of Nr hick he sold herbs, which he was in the habit of selling. The magistrate (Mr. MURRAY) on hearing Jarrates statement with respect to King, in whose company it was alleged the deceased had been last seen alive, despatched Jeaffreson the officer to Oxted, were he said that King lived. Yesterday morning the officer returned from the above village, and gathered in the course of his inguides, that King, although having resided there about four years ago, had since gone to sea, and was therefore a stranger to Oxted, and had been so for the above period. Jeaffreson said, that in justice to the accused, he was bound to state that when he took that individual into custody, he told him that when he met King on Saturday, the latter person in the course of conversation said, that he had been at sea for the period above-mentioned,—that he had recently come home from India, and that his intention was to leave England again for a foreign country. This statement on the part of the prisoner, when he was taken into custody, was confirmatory of the ac• count the officer had subsequently heard during his inquiries relative to King at Oxted. Jeaffreson added, that be had also made inquiries at various p übF c h he had c ouse s alongad on the night ile the Kent - r adh ,t wherethed de thecea deceased was alleged suspected to have been drowned, and ascertained that his account as related to that particular fact was also correct. _  Mr. MURRAY should remand the prisoner until Thursday next, in order to give more time to make inquiries after King, as well as to give the officer an opportunity of summoning the attendance of all the witnesses whose evidence was material in the case.  Richard Stanton, the man whose wife in a fit of jealousy nearly deprived him of life, was brought up for final examination, charged with bigamy. When the prisoner was placed in the slip, and the witnesses called, the officer said that there was no one to appear against him. The MAGISTRATE expressed some surprise at the circumstance, especially as the woman who represented herself to be his second wife seemed, on a former occasion,so anxious to follow up the charge. Mr. Harmer was instructed that the accused was perfectly innocent of the alleged charge, at all events there were no witnesses in attendance to prove any thing against him. The Magistrate said, that as the parties who formerly attended and made the charge against the prisoner were not in attendance that day, he was entitled to his discharge. They were aware that he was to have been brought up for re-examination, and by absenting themselves showed that they were not desirous of following up the charge. The prisoner, on being discharged, merely said, " I am innocent of the charge that has been made against me." The sister of John Palmer, the celebrated comedian, who died suddenly on the stage, attended at the office for the purpose of being passed to the settlement of her late husband, who was recently carried off by the prevailing epidemic.