The prisoners in custody on suspicion of being concerned in
the murder of Mrs. Thomas at Richmond on the 2nd March were brought up before the Richmond magistrates on Wednesday, when a good deal of evidence was taken,. resulting, of course, only in a remand. The tendency of the new part of the evidence was, however, rather favourable than otherwise to the male prisoner, Church, as showing that he, with the man named Porter, who had also known Katherine Webster at Hammersmith, had, on Friday, the 21st March,— three days after the uncompleted attempt to remove the furniture from Mrs. Thomas's house, and after the dis- appearance of Katherine Webster,—voluntarily presented themselves at the house of a friend of the late Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Charles Menhinick, to which they had been guided. by a letter found amongst Mrs. Thomas's property, to make inquiries concerning Mrs. Thomas, and to relate what they knew of the person and proceedings of Katherine Webster, who had assumed the name of Mrs. Thomas in her dealings with them. Whether the statement made to Mr. Menhinick be strictly true or not, it shows, at least, that three days after the flight of Katherine Webster, Church, instead of making any attempt to escape was, on the contrary, promoting inquiry,—a course certainly more like that of a man who had not been associated in the worst part of the business, than that of a. principal in the crime,—unless it were of a very deep and cool- headed principal indeed.
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