The Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (Colchester, England), Friday, February 25, 1853;
Charles Saunders the murderer of the late Mr. Toller, remanded on the last Bench-day, was now placed in the dock and the following evidence was adduced against him:-
John Wilson Metcalf, police constable 142K stated that on the 8th February he received information that a man had been murdered in the high road between Chadwell and Ilford; he proceeded to the spot where he found the body of Thomas Samuel Toller, lying in the road in a pool of blood, quite dead: shortly afterwards he saw the prisoner coming towards him from Barley Mow Lane; seeing blood on his clothes, he asked him how uit came tio be there........he detained him, and shortly afterwards Willis came up and identified him as the murderer.......
Thomas Willis stated that on the morning in question........saw the prisoner hitting the deceased with a stick on the head.....he took a knife from his pocket and ran it into the neck of the deceased, and drew it right across his throat.......The prisoner having been duly cautioned by the Chairman in answer to the charge, said---"He tried to murder me, and now I have murdered him".....was then committed to take his trial at the next Central Criminal Court.
