28 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Feb. 



then asked him whether the 

 clothes he then had on were the 

 same in which he did the murder, 

 and he said " yes." Witness next 

 asked him what instrmnent he had 

 used, and whether it was a knife? 

 he said " no :" and on being asked 

 if it was a razor, he made no 

 answer, but subsequently, after 

 some hesitation, said he iiad 

 thrown the instrument into the 

 Thames. This morning he asked 

 the witness if lie had been to 

 Union-street, and had seen Mint- 

 ing (meaning the deceased), 

 adding, " Poor thing, I dare say 

 she must be dreadfully mangled." 



Sir Nathaniel Conaut now ad- 

 dressed the prisoner, and directed 

 him to attend while the evidence 

 was read over to him, intimating 

 at tiie same time, if he had any 

 question to put, his wish should 

 be attended to. 



The prisoner asked Mrs. Streel- 

 ing whether she could swear to 

 his person ; but she answered as 

 she did before, that she could not. 

 The prisoner put no other ques- 

 tion. If not insane, he is a 

 wretch without common feeling ; 

 his manner was so utterly indif- 

 ferent. 



A surgeon was then called, 

 who proved that he had seen the 

 deceased. The main artery was 

 separated as well as the windpipe. 

 This was the cause of death. 



The witnesses were then bound 

 over to appear at the sessions 

 against the prisoner. 



Henry Adkins, who had been 

 to the prisoner's lodgings, and 

 had brought from thence some 

 clothes, now asked him if he 

 would have them delivered to 

 himself, or taken back to the 

 place where they were found. He 



said he wished to put them on, 

 and they were handed to him. 

 On being searched, one half of 

 the Observer newspaper was found 

 next his skin, in which was an 

 account of the murder, and a 

 description of his person: it ap- 

 peared to have been torn from 

 the shutters of the office. — He 

 was fully committed for trial. 



Tottenham. — The inhabitants 

 of this place were thrown into the 

 utmost consternation, by the 

 discovery, on Friday morning 

 the 20th, of the dead bodies of a 

 man named Knighton, a carpen- 

 ter, at Tottenham, and his wife, 

 who were found with their throats 

 cut in a bed-room of their house, 

 which had been shut up for a 

 week past. This melancholy 

 affair occasioned an inquest to be 

 held before J. W. Unwin, Esq. 

 one of the coroners for Middle- 

 sex, on Saturday afternoon, and 

 the following statement contains 

 the substance of the evidence 

 adduced : — The jury having been 

 sworn, adjourned in the first place 

 to view the bodies, as is usual, 

 and certainly most proper, and 

 here a scene presented itself 

 almost too shocking to relate. 

 On going up to the bed-room 

 upon the first floor a quantity of 

 blood was found upon the stairs, 

 which had flowed under the door 

 of the bed-room. On opening 

 the door the first object seen was 

 the unfortunate wife lying on the 

 floor by the side of the bed, with 

 her throat cut from ear to ear, 

 her shift drenched in blood, and 

 the floor of the room perfectly 

 deluged: there was also a deep 

 wound on her chin ; behind the 

 door, in the opposite direction, 

 lay the body of the husband with 



his 



