on a distance; but I went after him, offering to show him the way to the Oxfordroad, but really to look at him. I then took particular notice of him and of his dress, and as the under-coat which he wore under a fustian jacket made him appear very bulky, I purposed searching him; but seeing that the bulk was only this extra coat, I did not search him. The coat and hat produced are like those which he wore. The hat was drawn down over his eyes.

Cross-examined.-After I spoke to the prisoner I followed him into the village, so that I might have a better look at him, and spoke to him for some time, I felt under his coat to see what caused the bulk underneath it. I noticed glass buttons shining on his coat. I noticed them particularly.

Elizabeth Simpson-I am the wife of William Simpson, groom, and live at Cheapside, Denham, about 100 yards from Marshall's house. I never spoke to Marshall, but my husband has often spoken to him. I saw Marshall about eight o'clock on Saturday night, and the eldest little girl also just before that time. I was out on the road early on Sunday morning, about seven o'clock. I went out to look for a key which I had lost the night before. I saw a respectably-dressed man come out of Marshall's house, and walk up the road. At first I thought it was Mr. Marshall. I have since seen that man, to the best of my knowledge, at the prison. I only saw his side face, so I cannot swear to him for certain. I overtook him on the Uxbridge-road, and he bade me Good morning," and asked me if I was for the train. I told him I was looking for a key I had lost, and he said I had a bad chance of finding it, as there had been a good many tramps about in the morning. He told me he had been nearly running over a man and his wife the previous night, and that the man had tried to throw his wife into the canal. He said also that he told the policeman about it, and said he would not interfere between a man and his wife again. He told me he did not know Mr. Flitney, as he had not been in the place for six years. I said I thought I had been speaking to Mr. Marshall all the time, and asked him if I did not see him come out from that house. He said, "Yes, you did. The man at that house and his wife-his mother and his children are all gone for a holiday." I said "I dare say they are gone to London," and he said "I dare say they are."

Cross-examined-Mr. Arnold and his son passed us going to the train, while I was speaking to this man. I have always said that young Mr. Arnold and his father were in the trap. I have not said that it was Mrs. Arnold who was with Mr. Arnold. All I can say is that the man I was talking to was a man with a dark beard. I went to the prison to see this man with Mr. Dunham and Mr. Tavener. Before I gave my evidence, I spoke to Mr. Dunham in my house. He asked me the description of the man whom I met in the morning, and I told him as well as I was able. When prisoner met me, he did not attempt to conceal his face from me.

Charles Coombs said-I am a bricklayer, and was lodging with Mrs. Balham, at Uxbridge, on Saturday, the 21st of May. I know the prisoner, whom I saw sitting in the kitchen when I returned from my work about half-past five or six o'clock on Saturday evening. At nine o'clock, when I came in again, prisoner was not there, and I do not think I saw him any more that night. I saw the prisoner next morning, about half-past eight, or from that to nine o'clock. On the Saturday he was dressed in clothes like those produced. I will not swear to the trousers, but I will swear to the jacket. The other coat produced, which I can swear to, he wore over his jacket. On Sunday morning he was dressed in a pair of striped trousers, light waistcoat, nice coat, and a black neck-tie, and a straw

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.

CORRESPONDENCE IN MEDIATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND PRUSSIA'.

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