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hat, and boots which were cracked across the toe of one of them. The boots produced are those he had on. The trousers he wore were like those produced. I am almost sure the waistcoat produced is that he wore when he came into the house on Sunday morning, and I am quite sure that the jacket produced is the same. He had on a neck-tie also like that produced, and a white shirt. When he came into the house on Sunday morning, I stepped back and said, “Why, John, I don't know you." He said "I have been to see a brother." I said "You have no brother round about here," and he said "Yes, I have." He afterwards told me that his brother gave him the clothes. Jones remained all the morning, and went away at dinner-time, and came back at three o'clock. The last time I saw him at Mrs. Balham's was about five o'clock on Tuesday morning, when he came up into my bedroom and told me he was going to Reading. I saw no more of him afterwards until I saw him in the lodging-house at Reading. I had heard of the murder on Monday night, about eight o'clock. When prisoner was in the lodging-house on Monday, he told me he was going to pawn his watch. I did not see the watch, but I saw the chain, which was similar to that produced. I went on Tuesday morning to Superintendent Dunham, and told him what I knew of the matter.

Cross-examined-I remember being at the Queen's Head, Uxbridge, on Monday night, with the prisoner and Jem the blacksmith, and a man came in and asked if we had heard about the murder. Prisoner thereupon lifted up his head, and asked if there had been a murder committed.

Charlotte Balham said—I keep a lodging-house at Uxbridge, and knew the prisoner before May last. He came to me on the 22nd of May, and asked if he could have lodgings, and I told him "Yes," and he was to go to the kitchen where he was before. About eight o'clock I went to look for the money. The other lodgers gave me their money, and I looked at him, and he said, "You won't have any thing of me to-night, mother." I asked him why not, and he said he was going to see his brother that night. I said "That is strange, after coming and asking if I could lodge you." I then went about my work, and did not see prisoner any more that night. Prisoner had then a dark cloth jacket. When he came in next morning he was dressed in different clothes, and I looked at him rather surprised. He had striped trousers on then, a clean shirt, good coat, and altogether respectably dressed. He had a carpet bag with him. I looked surprised, and he said I need not look at him surprised. I said, "Yes, I am surprised to see you with a new suit on." He said "I have been to see my brother, and he gave them to me." I think I should know the clothes again. The clothes produced are very much like those he wore. He brought in a beefsteak, and asked me to make a pudding for his breakfast. He took the beef out of a carpet-bag. On Monday evening the prisoner came in, and I told him that Marshall, his wife, and all his children had been murdered at Denham, and he remarked that it was a very shocking thing. He afterwards asked for the carpet-bag which he had left in my possession, and told me he was going away for a fortnight or three weeks. Cross-examined-The prisoner has lodged with me several times, and his conduct has been very well in the house. When he came back on Sunday, he talked just as before, and joked as usual.

Henry Salter said-I am a carman. On the 22nd of May I was going along the road in the direction of Acton, and fell in with the prisoner near the Hanwell Asylum. He asked me for a ride, and I gave him one. He was in my company nearly three hours. I first met him about three o'clock, and it was ten minutes

to six when I left him. He had on the round billycock hat and the coat produced. The trousers were also the same. I distinctly remember it by the black patch on it. I had a conversation with him, in the course of which he told me that he had no money, but his brother had, and he would have some of it. He said he should not go to his brother's house until after dark.

Cross-examined-I am certain that the hat produced is the same one as that the prisoner wore. There is nothing particular about the hat, but it is the one which the prisoner had on. I have one like it myself.

Sarah Alderman said she kept a house on the road from Denham to Uxbridge. She saw the prisoner that morning at a quarter before eight. He called for some beer, and paid for it with a shilling, which he took out of the purse produced.

John Smith said he met the prisoner on the road, and he showed him a lot of money, and remarked "That is the way to get money." He showed him a watch and chain, and asked him to buy it. He told him before he counted his money that he had 197. 9s. 9d. He said he had been to see his brother who had given him 207.

Elizabeth Selwood said she was in the prisoner's company the Sunday before she heard of the murder at Denham, and changed a sovereign for him. He took the money out of a purse like that produced. He had a watch and chain with him; the chain was like that produced. He had with him a pistol also like that produced. He passed Sunday night with her, and left at half-past six o'clock on Monday morning.

James Weston, an assistant to Mr. Butcher, a pawnbroker at Uxbridge, said he delivered up a watch and chain to the police, which had been offered in pledge by the prisoner. He did not take it in pledge, but bought it of him, giving him fifteen shillings for it. He gave the name of Geo. Wilson, of Reading.

James Woodeson said he saw the prisoner at the Oxford Arms, Reading, on the evening of Tuesday, the 24th of May. He saw a key with him, an ordinary door-key. He was offering it to any person in the room who would have it. He asked a woman in the room if she would have it, but she said she did not want it. He took the key from the prisoner and put it in a cupboard. He said he would sell his coat to get some beer, and he went with him to a marine store dealer's shop, Mr. Lyons, where he sold his coat and waistcoat for 4s. 6d. He showed him a pawn-ticket then for fifteen shillings, which he had for a pledge at Uxbridge.

Mary, wife of Martin Lyons, a marine-store dealer at Reading, proved buying the coat and waistcoat produced, for 4s. 6d.

Harriet Willis said she worked at the Oxford Arms at Reading, and proved finding the key in the cupboard, which she gave to Superintendent Jervis.

Superintendent Jervis produced the lock of the front door of Marshall's house, and said-It is an ordinary house-door lock. The key produced fits that door, and on the key is some paint exactly corresponding to the paint on the lock of the door.

Mary Ann Sparks said-I am sister to the late Mrs. Marshall, and was the first person who noticed the house shut up on Monday, and got a man to break open the door. The tie, collar, and shirt produced belonged to my brother. I did some of the work on it myself. The braces I also recognize as his, as well as the trousers, but not the waistcoat. The purse I don't know, but I know the knife to be my brother's. Miss Marshall had a watch and chain, and locket attached to it. I recognize the chain as hers. My brother had a pair of pistols.

The one produced I found in the house. The other (found on the prisoner) is like it.

Thyrza Spooner said-I am a sister of the late Emmanuel Marshall. My late sister, Mary Ann Marshall, had a watch and guard. The watch is very much like that produced, but I cannot swear to it. I can swear to the chain as hers. Daniel Love, warder at Reading Gaol, said that the prisoner left that gaol in January, last year. When he left he gave him the jacket produced.

Dr. Ferris then detailed the nature of the wounds which he found on the bodies of the murdered Marshalls, and stated that the weapons produced would cause such wounds as were found on the deceased. The deceased had been dead for forty hours.

The different articles of clothing which had been put in evidence were then, at the request of the judge, placed on the table.

Dr. Abdy then addressed the jury for the defence in a long and able speech, and urged every point that could possibly be urged. The points he raised were, that the prisoner was not seen going in or out of the house; that Marshall was found dressed as if for the day, and did not come down in a hurry; and that the coolness with which he went about mingling with persons in the neighbourhond was incompatible with guilt.

The learned Judge then commenced his charge to the jury, which occupied three-quarters of an hour and embraced the most salient points in the evidence. The jury were only two minutes in consultation, and when they had taken their seats, the clerk of arraigns, addressing the foreman of the jury, asked— Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?

Foreman.-Guilty.

Baron Channell, then assuming the black cap, proceeded to pronounce sentence upon him. He said John Jones, you have been convicted, after a lengthened and patient trial, of the very serious offence charged against you on this indictment. Although the indictment of wilfully murdering Emmanuel Marshall is the only indictment which has been tried against you, there is no reason to doubt from the evidence that you have been guilty of wholesale murder. The evidence which has been produced is, to my mind, quite satisfactory to show that you were the perpetrator of these murders. Although I suggested to the jury any points which may possibly have admitted of doubt, yet the short time which they took to come to a conclusion shows that the evidence was quite as satisfactory to them as it has been to me. I hope the Lord will be more merciful to you than you have been to your victims. I trust you will make the best use of the time which is left you in this world, and that you will endeavour to obtain forgiveness and pardon for the offence which you have committed. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form, after which the prisoner (with a wave of the hand) said, Thank you, my lord.

His lordship then called up Superintendent Dunham, and said that on the recommendation of the magistrates he would give directions, in accordance with the Act of Parliament empowering him to do so, for a gratuity of ten pounds, to be given him for his conduct in apprehending the prisoner, and getting up the

case.

APPENDIX.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND STATE PAPERS.

I.

CORRESPONDENCE IN MEDIATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND PRUSSIA'.

EARL GRANVILLE TO LORD LYONS.

Foreign Office, July 8, 1870. MY LORD,-Count Bernstorff called upon me to-day, and informed me that he had received letters from the King of Prussia, and also from Berlin and from Count Bismarck, from the general tenour of which it appeared that the reply of the North German Government to the request first made to them by France, for explanation respecting the offer of the Crown of Spain to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, was to the effect that it was not an affair which concerned the Prussian Government. They did not pretend to interfere with the independence of the Spanish nation, but left it to the Spaniards to settle their own affairs, and they were unable to give any information as to the negotiations which had passed between the Provisional Government of Madrid and the Prince of Hohenzollern.

Count Bernstorff said that he was not aware of the date at which the demand for explanation was made by the French Government, or of that of the answer which was returned to it.

His Excellency went on to say that the North German Government did not wish to interfere with the matter, but left it to the French to take what course they liked; and the Prussian representa. tive at Paris had been directed to abstain from taking any part in it.

The North German Government had no desire for a war of succession, but if

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France chooses to make war on them on account of the choice of a King made by Spain, such a proceeding on her part would be an evidence of a disposition to quarrel without any lawful cause. was premature, however, to discuss the question as long as the Cortes has not decided on accepting Prince Leopold as King of Spain; still, if France chooses to attack North Germany, that country will defend itself.

Count Bernstorff went on to say that the language which he had stated to me as held by the North German Government was also held by the King of Prussia. His Majesty, he added, was a stranger to the negotiations with Prince Leopold, but he will not forbid the Prince to accept the Crown of Spain.

Count Bernstorff dwelt much on the violent language of France.

I repeated to his Excellency the principal arguments of a despatch which I had addressed to Lord Augustus Loftus, in which I pointed out that it was in the interest of the world that Her Majesty's Government pressed the North German Government to consider the importance of an amicable solution being found for the question that had been raised, and I added that the position of North Germany was such that, while it need not yield to menace, it ought not to be swayed in another direction by hasty words uttered in a moment of great excitement.

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1 Selected from Papers presented to Parliament in the Session of 1870.

LORD LYONS TO EARL GRANVILLE.

(Received July 9.)

Paris, July 8, 1870.

My Lord,-The Duc de Gramont expressed to me this afternoon great satisfaction with a report which he had just received of a conversation which your Lordship had had with the Marquis de Lavalette. He desired me to give your Lordship his best thanks for the friendly feeling you had manifested towards France.

M. de Gramont went on to say that he was still without any answer from Prussia, and that this silence rendered it impossible for the French Government to abstain any longer from making mili. tary preparations. Some steps in this direction had been already taken, and to-morrow the military authorities must begin in earnest. The movements of troops would be settled at the Council to be held at St. Cloud in the morning.

On my manifesting some surprise and regret at the rapid pace at which the French Government seemed to be proceeding, M. de Gramont insisted that it was impossible for them to delay any longer. They had reason to know (indeed the Spanish Ministers did not deny it) that the King of Prussia had been cognizant of the negotiation between Marshal Prim and the Prince of Hohenzollern throughout. It was, therefore, incumbent upon His Majesty, if he desired to show friendship towards France, to prohibit formally the acceptance of the Crown by a Prince of his House. Silence or an evasive answer would be equivalent to a refusal. It could not be said that the quarrel was of France's seeking. On the contrary, from the battle of Sadowa up to this incident, France had shown a patience, a moderation, and a conciliatory spirit which had, in the opinion of a vast number of Frenchmen, been carried much too far. Now, when all was tranquil, and the irritation caused by the aggrandizement of Prussia was gradually subsiding, the Prussians, in defiance of the feelings and of the interest of France, endeavoured to establish one of their Princes beyond the Pyrenees. This aggression it was impossible for France to put up with. It was earnestly to be hoped that the King would efface the impression it had made by openly forbidding the Prince to go to Spain.

There was another solution of the question to which the Duc de Gramont would beg me to call the particular attention of Her Majesty's Government. The Prince of Hohenzollern might of his

own accord abandon his pretensions to the Spanish Crown. He must surely have accepted the offer of it in the hope of doing good to his adopted country. When he saw that his accession would bring domestic and foreign war upon his new country, while it would plunge the country of his birth, and indeed all Europe, into hostilities, he would surely hesitate to make himself responsible for such calamities. If this view of the subject were pressed upon him, he could not but feel that honour and duty required him to sacrifice the idle ambition of ascending a throne on which it was plain he could never be secure.

A voluntary renunciation on the part of the Prince would, M. de Gramont thought, be a most fortunate solution of difficult and intricate questions; and he begged Her Majesty's Government to use all their influence to bring it about. I have, &c., (Signed)

LYONS.

LORD LYONS TO EARL GRANVILLE.

(Extract.)

M. de Gramont said that in this matter the French Ministers were following, not leading, the nation. Public opinion would not admit of their doing less than they had done.

As regarded military preparations, common prudence required that they should not be behindhand. In the midst of a profound calm, when the French Cabinet and Chamber were employed in reducing their military budget, Prussia exploded upon them this mine which she had prepared in secret. It was necessary that France should be at least as forward as Prussia in military preparations.

M. de Gramont went on to say that he would tell me exactly how the question now stood. The King of Prussia had told M. Benedetti last evening that he had in fact consented to the Prince of Hohenzollern's accepting the Crown of Spain; and that, having given his consent, it would be difficult for him now to withdraw it. His Majesty had added, however, that he would confer with the Prince, and would give a definitive answer to France when he had done so.

Thus, M. de Gramont observed, two things are clear; first, that the King of Prussia was a consenting party to the acceptance of the Crown by the Prince; and, secondly, that the Prince's decision to persist in his acceptance, or to retire, will be made in concert with His Majesty. Thus, then, said M. de Gramont,

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