The inquiry before the Norwich Magistrates into the facts of
the Stanfield Hall assassinations terminated on Friday, with a public sitting of the Bench, at which all the depositions taken in private were read over to Mr. Rash. Some new and interesting matter came out. Miss Emily Sandford seems to have been the intelli- gent but passive instrument used by Rush in the working of divers nefarious schemes. Her evidence had disclosed a secret place in a closet of the Potash farm-house used as a depository of documents. Rush himself one day showed it to her, saying, "I want to let you into a secret." He lifted a board in the floor with a chisel, and said, "This is a place made to keep all my papers: my poor mother was the only one that knew of it, and now she is dead I will let you into the secret."
In that repository the police found a box containing a number of documents neatly engrossed on stamped paper. One of them seemed an agreement signed by the late Mr. Isaac Jenny, to the effect that he would burn his mortgage and release Mr. Bush from all the money he owed, on condition of Mr. Rush's giving up all writings about the title to the Stanfield Hall and Felmingbam estates, and main- taining Mr. Jenny in possession. Two other documents were agreements for leases of these estates; one of them from Mr. Isaac Jenny to Rush; and the other from Thomas Jenny and two persons of the Lerner family, three of the persons who have litigated the ownership of the 'Stanfield Hall property. It turns out that the signatures of the late Mr. Jermy's name are forgeries; and Miss Sandford ad- mitted that she engrossed these, papers for Rush, and signed her name as a wit- ness to the execution of them, "without thinking much about it, as she was in the habit of obeying him." She habitually engrossed business documents on stamped papers like deeds, for him. Daring the private examination, Rush had conducted himself with extreme vio- lence towards Miss Sandford and the Magistrates: he called the Magistrates villains —villains whom be would show up. On the 14th, at the close of Miss Sandford's examination, speaking of her depositions, he said—" If she signs them, I hope her hand will rot off; and if she bear a child by me, I hope it will be born with a brand upon it; for she has done all she could against me. At the end of Thursday's examination, Mr. Rush produced some notes which he diligently and coolly.studied: he then said he had "got a good deal to say." Ile complained that copies of the depositions had been denied to him and to his family; that documents of his own, important to his defence, bad been taken and kept away by Mr. Cann the Magistrates clerk; who had acted from the 29th of November to the 4th instant as an attorney for his defence. He repeated the charge he bad made against the Magistrates, that " their conduct had been most salmons in the examination as regards the ends of justice, and particularly. as re- gards their conduct in getting the evidence of Emily Sandford "; and he believed "they knew the two last depositions or examinations, whichever they liked to call them, to be false." He signed his statement in bold writing; and was committed to be tried for the murder of Mr. Isaac Jermy and his son. On retiring, he jo- cosely observed to the reporters, "All will be oat by-and-by; time will show."
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