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No. 24.671.LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1871.PAGE 4.A Newspaper for Newspaper Proprietors.AT WIMBLEDON.9Wednesday’s weather was as good, for the greater part of the day, at least, as Tuesday’s was bad, and the competitors “ went into ” the shooting at Gun-fire (9.15 a.m.) on their third morning with great vigour, to make up forIthe enforced, half-holiday of Tuesday. The sky was occasionally overcast, with a fresh breeze from the north-west. The contest for the Queen’s Prize—the blue riband of the meeting—commenced on Wednesday at the 200 yards range only by2,000competitors, and the first stage will be concluded on Friday. On Tuesday next the sixty winners will shoot for her Majesty’s Prize, of £250. The following prizes complete Wednesday’s programmeThe Windmill Prizes, 200 and 500 yards - T' -1—e ”—i~jj—»-Special Breechloading Prizeshold; arrived in camp shortly Ducie and other members of tifmill Prizes, 200 and 500 yards; the Duke of Cambridge’s Special Breechloading Pi Cup, and the _ Graphic Prize. His Imperial the Crown Prince of Germany, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Major Mischke and Count Eulenburg, of his Imperial Highness’s house-after ten o’clock. Earl e Association received hisImperial Highness, and a guard of honour was formed by detachments of the Victorias, London Rifle Brigade, and other regiments. The Prince at once proceeded with Earl Ducie and Captain Mildmay to tne rifle ranges and was continuously cheered by the volunteers in camp. Apropos of visitors, great preparations are made to receive our Belgian friends. An acre of ground has been cleared and laid out with great taste as a flower garden, in which twenty bell tents, a commodious mess tent, canteen, Ac., have been pitched, slt;* that they will, on arrival, not be relegated to a furze brake, as Btated. Their enlt; unpment is next to that of the 4th Company of the Honourable Artillery Company, and opposite to the Victorias, on the Strathnairp-road. About 120Imention the capital little theatre erected by the 37Middlesex, who nave put out the following programme :— “ July 12th, theatricals; 14th, f.G.B. coloured minstrels; 15th, assault of arms; 18th, comic oper. ; 20th, theatricals.at noon, at Blackfriars, to conduct them to the camp. The journey ■will be by special steamer from the Temjple-ier in Putney, and then by march. They will be received y (Jolonel Gourley, M. P., chairman, and other members of the Belgian Committee, as well as by a guard of honour from the various volunteer regiments. There is to be a full dress mess dinner in their honour in the evening, followed by various entertainments, in reference to which we magowing programmeB. coloured minstre• 1Sera; 20th, theatrici by the members. Not to forge the Canadian contingent, it has been decided that to ei ible them to compete in an open match, the Rajah of Kolapore’s Cup, the newprize, will be shot for by international competition, wherein the mother country is to be restricted to a sinj le squad, bound to compete w *th an equal number of colonists whensoever they may come. After the International match, therefore, on Saturday, a squad omposed equally of the three i itions will meet the men of Canada in friendly rivalry for the Rajah’s new prize. Captain Knox has again been requested to act as umpire in the International match.(central press telegram. )The wind was so strong and variable that good shootingfcwas rather difficult. For the Queen’s Prize at 200 yards, Private Stewart (Edinburgh), and Captain Caldwell (3rd Renfrew), made 18 points each; Captain Radcliff (2nd Middlesex), 17; Private Taylor (5th Cumberland), Private Cole (29th Middlesex), and Sergeant Hill (3rd Essex), each 16. Private Blackmore (2nd Devon), Private Doe (1st Middlesex), Private Wilson (2nd Cumberland), Sergeant Matthinson (11th Cumberland), Private Wheatley (29th Middlesex), Sergeant Pursell (29th Middlesex), Sergeant Younger (2nd Middlesex), Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde (2nd Middlesex), Colour-Sergeant Corbitt (31st Lancashire), and Colour-Sergeant Wright (39th Middlesex), all made 15 each.THE ELTHAM MURDER.►At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Edmund Walter Pook (20), printer, was charged, before Chief Justice Bovill, with the wilful murder of Jane Maria Clousen. The Solicitor-General, with Mr, Polaud, Mr. Archibald, and Mr. Beasley prosecuted On behalf of the Crown; and Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., with Mr. Harington, Mr. Besley, and Mr. Straight, defended. The precincts of the Old Bailey were crowded with persons anxious togain admittance.The prisoner pleaded not guilty in a firm tope of voice,and exhibited great coolness of manner.The Solicitor-General, in opening the case said: Theprisoner, who was charged with the murder of this younggirl, was the son of a stationer in a respectable way ofbusiness, and living in London-street, Greenwich. 'S lemurdered girl was 17 years of age, and the daughter of night watchman of Deptford. She had been for two years in the service of the prisoner’s father, and lei there in April, going to stay with a female fnend, Mrs. J f ton. The last time the poor girl was seen alive by anyone who could speak positively was about a quarter toseven on the evening of the 25tb April, and abouthalf-past four on the morning of the 2bth she was found still alive, but frightfully wounded, and never, after she had said a few words to the policeman, did she utter a word. It would be his duty nowRegistered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper.to place the facts before them in chronological order, and as they had been set down in his instructions. The Solicitor-General then described the particulars of the murder, with which the public are familiar, and also the grounds for the charge against the accused. The learned counsel pointed out that on the 27th of April a hammer, with marks of blood on it, and some hair was found on the grounds if Morden College, near where the girl was murdered, and it was important to notice the fact that going by these grounds from the place of the murder would be the shortest way to the prisoner’s house. He should be able to shew that a hammer of that sort was purchased at the shop of a person named Thomas on the previous Monday. The learned counsel proceeded to observe that the prisoner was a young man given to flirtation (innocent flirtation, it might be) with young ladies in the neighbourhood of Greenwich. On the Sunday previous, the 23rd of April, he had been taking a walk with two young ladies, and, in so doing, had walked over the very ground which it was suggested was passed over by himself and Jane Clousen on the anight of the murder. He had also sent a message to another young lady to meet him on the Thursday night following, giving as a reason that on Monday ana Tuesday night h was engaged to sing atae plat of amusement, St. Alb a’ Halt, in London, low, on Monday and Tuesday night he was not in London, which was a circumstance of corn derable suspicion. It appeared that among other young ladies v th w om the prisoner was .intimate, was Miss Alice Durnford, of Lewisham. It was not an unfrequent thing for the^ prisoner to give a signal to he: from a shrill metal whistle. On the 26th of April, after Jane Clousen hat been discovered, a whistle of that description was found sticking in the mud about fourteen or fifteen yards from the place where the crime was committed. No^ doubt there were hundreds of thousands of whistles of the kind about London, but when the prisoner was searched no such thing was found upon him. The learned counsel then drew the attention of th} jury to the position in which the prisoner and the murdered girl were supposed to have stood to each other. She was 17 years of age, and a pretty girl, had lived in Mr. Fook’s service, and was pregnant when her death occurred. At this time the accused was carrying on an intimacy with two young women. To one of these, Alice Durnford, he wrote a letter after his apprehension, inflt; ming her that he had been taken into custody for the murder of that Eltham girl, but that the charge was almost too ridiculous to mention. On this account he could not keep Ms appointment with ei but hoped to be out on Thursday to do so. In conclusion the learned counsel said these were mainly the facts that he should have to prove before them-in evidence. He felt that anything like an appeal to their feelings wou 1 be out of place, and was not consistent with the duty of counsel tor the prosecution. The Solicitor-General then proceeded to call witnesses.The evidence adduced was chiefly that given at the examinations before the coroner and the magistrate, and was in corroboration of the facts stated by the Solicitor-General.The case was adjourned until Thursday. ,
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