The Sun. — 1857-10-14 (London, England)

THE LATE HORRIBLE DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT WARLEIGH.  W-ARLEIGH, TUESDAY. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Andrew'. and Sarah Border was resumed at ten o'clock this morning, before Mr. Bruges Fry, the county coroner.  Mr. Gould, the chief of police, said he wished, the coroner, before he proceeded to tFeke the medical evidence, to examine Mr. Skrine's bailiff, who saw the prisoner very shortly befbrei the murders, and could speak to some conversation ho had with  Charles King, bailiff to Mr. Skrine, then deposed —He knew the accused, Thomas Miller, who had -been uuder him for many years. Saw him on the morning of the murder between 7 and 8 o'clock. He then- looked wild and deranged, and did not come to-his:work at the usual hour. Witness went to his father's house to inquire about him, and was there told, that he had been ill all night. As he was'ou his way back he met the accused, and asksa him what was the matter with him. He said he had:pains all over him, and that he kept seeing things before his eyes like angels. Witness advii oil hint to go'to the doctor, and he said he would. He had complained of pains in his-head, and witness went to the housekeeper at. Warleigh-house, and requested her to give him some laxative medicines for his head. Witness had never seen hinr in the state in which he was on Saturday:beferothat He was fond of liquor, but was not a drunkard. Saw him two hours beTere the murder, and he appeared in a very unsettled state of mind, and said they were all troubling him. Witness skid, " Who, Tom, tell me, and I will speak to them ?'.! Ho replied, "Mrs. Border his been asking if I knew" anything of the murder •in Leigh Woods. Whatcan Idoinit I" Witness said, " Take no notice of it, and I will speak to them to-nvirrow." Ho then left. _ .  Mr. Edwards, surgeon, then depo3ed to having made, assis•ed by Mr. Skeates, of Bath, a post modem, examination of both bodies. In the husband they found a wound an inch long in the small intestine, and a large quantity of blood had flowed from the small vessels feeding the intestines into the cavity of the abdomen. That wound was the cause of death. On opening the chest of the wife found a wound in the greet aorta, at about an inch from the muscular structure cf the heart. The pericardium' was full of blood. Tho death must have been instantaneous from the effects of the stab. The left parietal bone was fractured, but that must have been from the fall afar death. The Coroner then proceeded to sum up the evidence. HO said there could he no doubt that both Andrew and Sarah Border had died from the effect* of violence, and although there was no direct ovi• deuce to show by whose hand that violence was inflicted, yet there could bP, heapprebended, but too little doubt on that point.. With respect to the state of mind of the accused, that was a matter into which the jury had no jurisdiction to inquire (although he had-not felt justified in-excluding.the evidence tendered on that point). Their proviooe was to inquire what had been the cause of deaa. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a • verdict of wilful murder against Thomas Miller itt both cases. The accused is still very ill from the effect* of his,wounds, although some hopes of his ultimate recovery aro entertained by his medical attendant  • [