At the Bow Street Office, on Saturday, Mr. Herring, who
had tie scuffle, and afterwards a duel, with the Marquis of Waterford, was held to bail, with his "friend," a Mr. Birt, for sanding a challenge Lord William Beresford, brother of Lord Waterfo:d.
At the Marylebone Office, On Monday, James Greenacre, maker, and Sarah Gale, a woman with whom he lived, was chargea with the murder of Hannah Brown, whose mutilated holy was found in the Edgeware Road. A good deal of evidence was gone into re- specting the appearance of the corpse and the limbs, and other pa:- ticulars which were mentioned at the time of their discovery. The new evidence was to the following ofect. Hannah Brown wae laundress, who was supposed to have been married, and to best widow, with one child, not her own, but adopted, who is hiving in Norwich. She had lodeings in Union Street, rear the 3Iiddlesex Hospital; and was engaged to he married to Greenacre, who believed that she had about 3001. or 4001. The night before ,he was to be married, sheleft the house where she lodged, and took away some boxes in a hackney- coach, saying that she would return the next day. She never came back ; and, if a confession made by Greenacte is to be believed, she went to his lodgings in Carpenter's Buildings, somewhat in liquor. When there, said Greenacre, she confessed that she had no property "I expressed my di.pleasure at being deceived ; when site its ale a laugh the matter, and said I was as bath as she was. as I had deceived her as regarded my property. She then began to sneer and torah at tha ...one time, roekier herself lawkward and forward in her chair, when I gave it a kirk, and she fell backward. in it to the floor. Her head came withaereat violence ae :inst a lump of wood behind her, which I html juq been u-inc : thia alarmed me very much. I took her by the bawl and lifted her up. and Mama to my astoni-hment, th She was no snore. I concluded I should be putt 110W11 far a murderer. I tale greatly excited, and came at length to the reaolution net to call any 'Isle in, hat to dispose of the body in the manner which has been so fully helot., the puldia., thinking it would be the safest and most prudent plan. No other person but myself witnessed the scene I have related, or had any knowledge of the disposal of the body."
Greenacre absconded soon after the death of tbe woman ; and wai; not discovered till last Sunday night, when he was apprehended in a house in St. Alban's Street, Kennington Road ; the other prisoner, Sarah Gale, being in bed with him at the thee. When in prison,
Greenacre attempted to strangle himself; and very nearly succeeded fit
putting an end to his life, when he was seemed by one of the gaolers. He was formerly a grocer and tea-dealer in the London Road ; and about five years ago published a pamphlet warning the public against purchasing sloe.leaves for tea, at the very time when Ile was himself env-girl in the manufacture. A quantity of sloe-tea was seized ; and to avoid the penalty, he absconded to America. He is, or was, the owner of some small houses ; and has always passed for a man of some propertyi, though of bad character. He was suspected of being con- cerned n the Rotherbithe incendiary fires ; of having killed his own illegitimate child, and sworn falsely against one of his apprentices, in order to pocket the premium, and something else for declining to pro- secute. When in America, he was a machine-maker, and failed : he was about to return to America, having taken and paid for his passage, when be was apprehended. The chief evidence against the woman, whom Greetiacre declares to be utterly ignorant of and unconnected with the death of Hannah Brown, is that some of the deceased's pro- perty was found upon her. A fine tooth saw and a pistol loaded were found in Greenacre's room. The prisoners were remanded to this day.
An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Coborn Arms, Mile-end Road, on the body of a Miss Helen Maria Wright, the daughter of a gentleman of fortune in that vicinity. Miss Wright, under the name of Mrs. Smith, had been delivered of an illegitimate child, at the house of a person living on Bow Common. She had left home, and gone there by the advice of Mr. Garman, the surgeon who attended her. The child lived, but the mother died three weeks after her con- finement. Some stories had been circulated to the discredit of of Mr. Garman ; but it appeared that that gentleman had acted throughout the affair with perfect propriety, A. verdict of " natural death" was given by the Jury. This was the second illegitimate child Miss Wright had borne: the first was ten years ago, by the same father as
the second.
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