never been a mother. While the party were engaged in this examination, their attention was drawn to an overpowering stench which proceeded from a harness-room. They entered; and in the fireplace they found a pile of wood, amid which were wood ashes, and the burnt remains of human bones of the head and limbs. A large axe was afterwards found in the room, and a saw, both covered with blood.

Good had been seen on the previous evening, with a young woman, at a public-house in Roehampton. It is said that they seemed to be "courting." He tried to take a wedding-ring off the woman's finger; but she told him that he should not have it except with her life. He reproached her with having lost a brooch that he had given her. But they left the place in a friendly mood.

In Good's house was found a little boy, his son, who had lived for two years with a woman whom Good called his sister, at No. 18 in South-street, Manchester-square. It appears that Good went to that house; and he left it on the evening in a cab-telling the man to drive as fast as possible to the Birmingham railway. He was so ghastly pale, that the cabman asked him if he was ill; and Good replied that he had been out all night drinking with some friends.

An inquest on the remains of the body discovered in the stable was held, and terminated on the 13th. The material facts elicited were these. Good had been in Mr. Shiell's service about two years; but he had not borne a very good character; and it was remarked that he had various engagements with women at different times. He rented a kitchen in VOL LXXXIV.

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South-street, Manchester-square; where lived a woman who when brought to the house was called Jane Jones, but afterwards they were said to be married, and she was called Mrs. Good. She appeared to be about forty years. of age, and reserved in her habits. With her lived a boy, said to be Good's son by a former wife. The man visited her occasionally. Sunday the 3rd instant, she left the house. Good told the landlady, about a fortnight before, that she would probably leave the lodging in about a fortnight, to go to a place, four miles distant from Roehampton. On the Sunday, she expressed to a neighbour much fear at going to Roehampton, as she did not know what Good meant, or what he was "up to;" and she was ordered not to take the boy with her. On Monday the 4th, Good himself returned for the boy, and took away his wife's bed-things and mangle, to sell; as, he said, she had gone to a place. Good was seen by Mr. Layton, a confectioner at Putney, at a quarter past four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, on the Barnes road, with a woman dressed as Mrs. Good is described to have been; and he introduced her to the witness as his sister. They were afterwards seen by a policeman, going from Barnes to Putney-park-lane; when they were talking loud and angrily. And a postman saw Good with a young woman who appeared very wretched, in Putney-parklane, on Sunday evening. said to him as he passed, "Don't say anything."

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Good had been "courting" Lydia Susannah Butcher, the daughter of a shipwright at Woolwich. She denied all criminal acquaintance F

with him; but admitted that once, when kept out late by Good, she slept in the harness-room at Granard Lodge, of which Good kept the key, with entire control over it. She expected to be married to him in about a fortnight; for he told her, that the banns had been put up, but she did not know where. On Wednesday the 6th, he went over to Woolwich, and gave Butcher a bonnet and shawl, and some other things. He had promised them to her before; and said that they belonged to his wife, who died five years ago of a decline. He promised to bring her some more in a few days. The things which he gave her were identified by the landlady and others, as the clothes which Mrs. Good wore when she left South. street, on Sunday, the 3rd inst.

Good often had large fires in the harness-room, to dry the harness. On Tuesday the 5th, there was such a fire; and Mr. John Oughton, second gardener to Mr. Shiell, observed a very offensive smell. He asked Good if he had been singing the horses. Good replied that he had drunk too much the night before, and that he had been taking some toasted cheese, which always set him right.

Dr. Benjamin Ridge, of Putney, who examined the remains found in the stable, said that he did not think that the woman had ever had a child, but he was of opinion that she would have had one in about four or five months. He thought that she had met with a violent death, and that the body had been dismembered immediately afterwards. Charred bones found in the harness-room belonged to parts of the human body of which the trunk had been deprived. Small pieces of clothing found in

the room, cut and marked with blood, were identified as having belonged to Mrs. Good.

The Coroner's jury returned the following special verdict

"We find that the human body found on the premises of Mr. Sheill, in the parish of Putney, is that of Jane Jones, otherwise Jane Good; that she was in good health at the time of her death; and that Daniel Good did wilfully murder her."

It will be convenient to insert here a narrative of the apprehension and trial of the miscreant:

After eluding pursuit for nearly a fortnight, he was discovered working as a bricklayer's labourer at Tunbridge. He arrived there on the 10th, in a fish-van, and slept for the night at a public-house. He described himself as a bricklayer's labourer; and early the next morning he applied for work to the foreman of Mr. Henry Barrett, who was building some cottages near the South-eastern Railway. He gave his name as Connor; and in answer to some ques tions which were put to him, be said, that he had been a bricklayer's labourer for eighteen years, and had been working on the South-eastern Railway for fourteen days. He was accepted, and was found to be a good workman. He avoided communication with his fellow-workmen, and returned abrupt answers to any questions that were put to him. On one occasion he addressed one of the men in Irish; but he was not understood.

On getting work, Good took a lodging in the house of a Mrs. Hargreave. He told her that he had been a hawker and dealer in hare and rabbit skins, but had left off the business because the person with whom he used to deal had

become insolvent. Mrs. Hargreave noticed while he was with her many peculiarities in his conduct -such as being restless, and frequently sighing and moaning during the night; and when any one knocked at the door, he showed great anxiety and curiosity to know who it was.

On the 16th he was recognised by Thomas Rose, a man who had formerly been a policeman at Wandsworth. Rose said that he had frequently seen Good, and had often asked him for a light when in the stables in Putney Park-lane. This man gave information to the police, and the fugitive was seized and carried before the magistrates. While denying his identity to them, Good took out a comb, and with it turned back the hair from his forehead, as if for the purpose of hiding a bald place on his head; this had been mentioned in the police description to be a habit with him. When confronted with Rose he seemed agitated. He declined making any statement; and was conveyed to Maidstone Gaol. In a bundle which he brought with him to Tunbridge were found the clothes which he was described to have worn when he escaped; and under his jacket, as if to save the shoulder from the pressure of the hod, was found a piece of a woman's calico apron, stained with blood. On the evening of the 17th, he was removed from Maidstone to Bowstreet Police-station.

Next day Good was examined before Mr. Hall, the magistrate; remanded to Clerkenwell prison; and again examined at Bow-street on the 21st. The evidence was for the most part the same as that given at the Coroner's inquest.

Lydia Susannah Butcher made her deposition on both days with an expression of violent grief. On the first day, Good closely watched the evidence, but declined to examine the witnesses; and he did not evince much agitation, except once, when he heard the voice of Mary Good, his reputed wife in Spitalfields, who had been taken into custody-he then turned very pale. All his anxiety seemed now to centre in his son, an intelligent boy of ten, who was examined at the inquest. When the boy was brought forward now as a witness against him, he sat down, and wept much; and when the child was led out of court, Good asked and obtained Mr. Hall's permission to shake hands with him. He was then committed to Newgate for trial, on the charge of murder.

His trial for the murder took place in the Central Criminal Court. The place was crowded; several women, even young ladies, were among the auditory; and the number of barristers was great. On the bench were Lord Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coltman, and the Recorder; and by their side were the Duke of Sussex, the Chevalier Bunsen, and others. With Good, Molly his reputed wife was placed at the bar, which both the prisoners approached with a firm and confident step, and both pleaded "Not guilty." Molly Good was removed, and the trial of Daniel proceeded.

It was conducted by the Attorney-General, whose statement, with the evidence which followed, added little of interest to the facts already known. Lydia Susannah Butcher now appeared to admit that her intercourse with Good had been more familiar than she

formerly confessed. Thomas Sales, the waiter at a public-house at which Good called after the murder with Mary Good, overheard him say, that she" would not be troubled with that any more." The son was brought into court, but he was not examined, apparently from a spirit of forbearance.

Mr. Doane, for the defence, reminded the jury, that the case against the prisoner rested entirely upon circumstantial evidence, and that there was no proof that the woman had not destroyed herself; while there was a total absence of all probable motive.

The Chief Justice, in summing up, likewise reminded the jury of the necessity of caution in judging on circumstantial evidence. That the deceased met with her death by violence appeared to be clearly proved by the medical witnesses, who declared their opinion that death was occasioned by the severance of the windpipe, the carotid artery, and the jugular vein; and that the body was instantly drained of blood. If she had destroyed herself, it was most improbable that a man with whom she had long been living on intimate and friendly terms, instead of calling assistance, would proceed at once to dismember the body.

The jury retired at a quarter to eight in the evening, and in about half an hour returned into court with a verdict of "Guilty."

When asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him, Good made no answer.

God and man, which he had so grievously offended; and that his case would bear the aggravation that he would leave the world regretted and pitied by no

one.

Good then burst out into a passionate asseverance of innocence, declaring to the judge and Almighty God, that he had not killed the woman-1 -that Susan Butcher was the cause of it all; and that Jones destroyed herself-she cut her throat, while he had left her alone in the stable. He afterwards saw a man of whom he occasionally bought matches, told him, and asked him what he should do; and the man said the body must be concealed. Good gave him the axe and the knife found in the harness-room; and, while he was away, the man cut off the head and limbs: then he told Good that he must have a fire to burn the body. Good gave him a sovereign; he took away some of the burnt bones, and was to have come next day for the trunk, but he did not.

Good took off the dead woman's wedding-ring, which had belonged to his wife-for she was not his wife; and he gave it, with a shawl, to Susan Butcher, telling her of the event, at which she expressed her satisfaction. Good finished his story by saying, "Good night all, ladies and gentlemen-I have a great deal more to say, but I am so bad I cannot say it."

Good was removed from the dock, just as the announcement of the verdict was greeted by the crowd outside the prison with tumultuous cheers. He was afterwards executed.

11. Robert Caldwell, a solicitor, was indicted before Baron Richards, in the Dublin Commission Court, for a criminal assault on

Anne Corbett, the wife of Edward Lestrange Corbett, a barrister.

The evidence for the prosecution proved that Caldwell made an attack on Mrs. Corbett (who is a young lady of considerable personal attractions), during a morning call; and detailed her resistance, her escape from the room, Mr. Corbett's approach at her - screams, and the obstruction which the maid-servant, fearing bloodshed, offered to his pursuit of Mr. Caldwell.

The cross-examination aimed at drawing from Mrs. Corbett and her servants the admission that Mr. Caldwell had visited her unknown to her husband, and that certain letters produced in court, alleged to have been received by the prisoner, had been written by her-but with little success.

A servant said, that Mr. Caldwell had been at the house once, when her mistress desired her to tell Mr. Corbett that she was out, because she was going out; and if he knew that she was at home, he would detain her. Witnesses of high character deposed to the general correctness of Mrs. Corbett's conduct.

The defence was, that an objectionable connection actually existed between Mrs. Corbett and the prisoner. Letters were put in as her's, addressed to Mr. Caldwell as 66 'My dearest friend :" speaking apparently of the husband, as "King Richard," or "Mr. Lamb;" and exhorting to caution, because that person was suspicious. One letter suggested an assignation at a house which was to let. Witnesses also swore positively, that they saw Mr. Caldwell and Mrs. Corbett walking together on the 10th of March, and on other occasions, which she had denied;

and a car-driver said, that he had been engaged for six hours to drive them about. This man confessed to having been in prison for stealing and other misconduct.

In his reply, the counsel for the prosecution dwelt on the fact, that the allegations for the defence were utterly irreconcileable with Mrs. Corbett's whole conduct and character; and he made much of the nature of the defence, as adding to the enormity of the crime.

The jury found Caldwell guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Baron Richards. - Upon what ground, gentlemen ?

Foreman. Upon the ground of previous good character."

Baron Richards.-Oh, that is the only ground then.

The prisoner was sentenced subsequently to two years' imprison

ment.

12. MURDER BY POISONING, IN LEICESTER.-A coroner's inquest was held at Leicester, on the 7th instant, and afterwards adjourned to this day, on the body of an elderly woman named Mary Waring, when a verdict of "Wilful Murder" was returned against two young women, Mary Barnes and Charlotte Barnacle. The evidence was very long, but the facts may be gathered from the testimony of Mr. John Penfold Stallard, surgeon, who stated that at two o'clock on Thursday morning, the 7th instant, he was rung up by Stephen Barnes, who asked him to come to his house immediately, as one woman was dead there, and he thought his wife was dying. Mr. Stallard got up at once, and on stepping out from his door, he saw Stephen Barnes leaning against the lamppost, and vomiting violently. As he suspected something might be wrong, he took a policeman (whom