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THE MURDER IN BROUGHAM PLACE.
The S. M. Herald of Friday contains ad.
ditional particulars of the evidence taken at the
Coroner's inquest on Thursday, respecting the
death of the woman known as Lizzie Moore.
Ellen Ryan deposed that she knew the man
named Jemmy Mason, then before the court ; he
slept at her house on the Sunday night
and on the Monday night previous to
the murder. She saw Mason on Thursday
night (the night of the murder) at Hopgood's
public house; she left there at a quarter to
eleven, but she saw him again about half an hour
afterwards, at the Criterion Hotel. Mason
came to her place about one o'clock on Friday
morning ; she saw him again after she got up in
the morning. She did not see him again till
the evening of Friday. The police apprehended
Mason at her place of abode on Friday night
or Saturday morning. When she first met
him on Thursday night he was very drunk,
and when he came on Friday morning he was
also staggering, apparently under the influence
of drink.
Mary Prosser, or " Polly," corroborated the
evidence of the previous witness. She believed
it was about half-past eleven on the Thursday
night when she saw Mason at Hopgood's; when
she left Hopgood's it was a quarter to twelve.
[This witness was tested as to her ability to tell
the time by a clock, and it appeared she was
able to do so on some timepieces, by a rather
clumsy method of reckoning.]
At the suggestion of the Coroner, the jury,
accompanied by senior-sergeants Waters and
Taylor, and preceded by the Woman Larkins,
went to the late site of Butts's Metropolitan
Hotel, to view the ground. It was found to be
very uneven, and the part where Moore was said
by Larkins to have fallen when struck down was
found to be a sort of ditch, about two feet deep,
very rugged, and covered with stones and gravel,
eneircling a mound, between thirty and forty
yards from the road, and nearly in the centre of
the vacant space. The jury were also shown by
the woman Larkins the position on the kerb at
the corner, from which she saw what took place.
The inquest was adjourned till eleven o'clock
on Friday morning.
At the resumption of proceedings on Friday
morning, senior-sergeant George Waters was
first examined; he stated that he had accom-
panied the witness Agnes Larkins (the woman
who gave the principal evidence against the pri-
soner Mason) to the various places mentioned by
her. He said she pointed out where, on the site
of Butt's Hotel in Foxlow-place, she, the de-
ceased Moore, and "Jim" (the prisoner), stood
when deceased was struck ; also the spot where de-
ceased fell - a hollow ; she indicated the places
where the bag had been deposited till it came to
Brougham-place, and the kerb stone where she
had described herself as sitting, when the body
was being put into the bag. It was possible, from
this kerb stone, to see everything that took place
in the place she had said the parties stood, and
also to hear any ordinary conversation.-James
Montague McDonald, a labourer, residing at the
Fountain of Friendship, remembered seeing the
woman Larkins there on the morning of Friday
with the prisoner Mason ; both were drunk, and
the prisoner was pouring water on her, appa-
rently to sober her, when she said, " I'll tell
all," which caused prisoner to endeavour to
pacify her; she would not be quiet, and he
commenced to swear at her. Prisoner and Lar-
kins had left the house by eleven o'clock, but in
the evening she came back, and said she wished
she was dead, she would give herself up to the
police. The prisoner Mason was in the " Foun-
tain of Friendship " on Thursday night with a
woman named Deaf Nell, and remained there
about an hour, coming in at eleven and leaving
about twelve.-Jacob De Leon, and George
Frederick Daroay gave their opinion that
death had taken place about an hour before the
body was found by Sergeant Goldrick-Ser-
geant Goldrick, recalled, stated that the spot
pointed out by Agnes Larkins in Brougham
place, as where the prisoner put the bag with
the body down, was about a foot from where he
had found it.-Thomas Hopgood, George Hop-
good, and Ann Hopgood, the landlady of the
Fountain of Friendship, and her sons, proved
that Mason (the prisoner) had visited that house
on Thursday and Friday; and that on the evening
of Friday, when Thomas Hopgood was reading an
account of the murder from the Evening News,
Agnes Larkins, who was present, said she knew
all about it. The inquest was then adjourned
till Thursday morning next, and the prisoner
was remanded in custody.-Abridged from the
Herald of Saturday.
LOBD BXOCQBAX ARD Da CAOVW.-The oase of Lord
Brougham and 1 >r. Cauvin is drawing to a close. The
chief clerk, Mr.Choroh, at the Bolla Chambers, has fixed
ti e oampeniatien for the literary as«istanoe rendered to
the late lord in arranging bis oorraspondetceat £330 on
a claim made Of 1000 guineas. Lord Brougham, the
present plaintiff, bas apphed to vary the certificate of
theohief clerk as to thaamount, and the matter will in
a fe* days go before [the Master of the Molls for his
deoUien end probable settlemsnt, before the publication
of the life and times 61 the .Ute noble and learned lord.
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