Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1874-06-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE EXTRAORDINARY MURDER AT HACKNEY.  At the Central Criminal Court, June 11, before the Loril Chief Baron, Henry Goorge Cetasoll, 23, shoeblack, was charged upon indictment, and upon a coroner's inquisition with the wilful murder of Margaret Ball. The prisoner, it appeared, got his living as a shoeblack, and he lived with his mother and several brothers and sisters in a small house in thet_Homer-road, South Hackney. The deceased, who was a strong, healthy woman, twentyseven years old, lived wit), her husband and two children in the same house. It appeared from the evidence that they were on the ntost friendly terms, and that the prisoner was in the habit of calling the deceased "aunt," there being, however, no relationship between them. The fatal occurrence took place on the 6th of May, and it appeared that the deceamed had parted from her husband in good spirits shortly before, and she and the prisoner were seen going towards their home, apparently on good terms, about two in the afternoon of that day. Very shortly afterwards the prisoner went to Mrs. Lane, a woman residing nearly opposite his own house, and he told her that he had conic to bid her good bye, and asked her to tell his mother that she would not see him again ih London, and he added, " I have done a murder I have hung Maggy." Mrs. Lane said, in reply, "Go along • I do not believe you," and the prisoner responded to this " Well, if you don't believe me, come over and see," and he went across, the road to his mother's house anti pushed open the door. The witness Lane followed him, and the moment the loot was opened she saw the . 'deceased apparently sitting upon the bottom stair, with the rope round her neck. An alarm WM given, and the police were called in, and the deceased was cut down, but although the body was still warm, she was quite I lead. The prisoner left, after this hall taken place, and he met a man he knew and made a similar statement to him to that he had previously made, and at the same time produced a duplicate tor a pair of ear-rings, which he said he hail taken front the deceased, and had pawned for eighteenpence, and he tore up the duplicate. Nothing more was seen of the prisoner until the following looming, when he was found on a bench in the Victoria Park, fast asleep. There did not appear to he the slightest motive suggested for the commission of the act by the prisoner, except that he intended to steal her earrings.— Mr. Aveling, one of the surgeons who was examined for the prosecution stated that there was nothing in the appearance presented by the body or the position in which the deceased was found that was inconsistent with the I suggestion that the case was one of suicide.—The defence I set up for the prisoner was that the deceased had destroyed herself, and it was urged upon the jury as almost an impossibility that a boy like the prisoner could have destroyed the life of a young and powerful woman, I such as the deceased was represented to be.—The jet"' retired, but returned into court in a few minutes and I found the prisoner Not Gully.  THE Watch Committee of Salisbury Town Council last Friday appointed Inspeetor ll,latthews, of Winchester, to he Superintendent of the city force in the place of Mr. White, resigned. Supt. Coward, of Dorchester, was ona of four selected candidates.