The Case Of Constance Kent. (pgOX ornB OWN It aEm SALISBURY, JuLY 20. AtlO od'4ock tis morning Ir. Justice Willes took his seat in the Crown Court, And the. usual formalities having been obserred-that i, the names of ihe magistrates and ja ury howinglhie caUeiover, saii the RoYA poc- I mation against vioe and imtorality having been read-hi5 otRDSne P prooteed to charge the grand jury, of who- the Hon. Tord H. F. Thynne was foreran. After refering to two or threcases which appeared in the calendar his IooiTSAP said the only remaining cue to whickt lie should allude was that of a young woman named Constance Emilie Ktut, who, wia chzrgea wita the mxatder o hcr brother bythe econd marriage of her father, which murder it ws alleged she hd commtutd As far bac- As the 29th of June,1l0. NoIW,heshouldtainfromainga nyerinarks upon the case, except those that might be useful to them in oonsidering it in their Room, s.ndA-tevrnini whether to fine or throw out tho bi1L 13 did not think it would be. wme'hamhercto enter into any general remarks upon the case, and it would be futile to say that it htd not attruted great attentiol and ledto much discussion. Hre thought it would be unwise and imprudent to disecn certin que, tions wbich might arise in the course of the trial, hut which did notappear to have arisen before the magistrateA. He ahoula uimply remind them thad it wa a case of a boy who wa muraerea by some one. He was teken in the courso of the morning aot of a. room wher he was sleeping with a maid and another chiid; taken in a blanket through the drawing.room widow to -privyn; therehis thbot was cut, and ho was thrust dowu in the blanket in which it was more than likely he Was carried. Inquiries were made, and peon stilled in the investigation of crime wnre sent for, and every effort was rnade to discover who wwa the murderer, but in vain. There was one remaxrk_ able cirumstonce wbich would he brought under their entiutin in Yha cousn of the iutruiy. &. night stift of the prisoner now charged with the crime 'was with. drawn from the wash, and a night-shift wit4 blood upon it was found on the day after the murder concealed in the ircullery. That was evidence from which the jury might drawtheirownconcluaion, whether that niht shift was abscted by the prisoner, and whether it was her night shit. They would fia amother matter of extreme impor- tance. He had enationed that the inquirieeswero frmitless, and attention was withdrawn from the case. The family leftthe nelghbourhood, and the prisonerwas senttoatenool abroad, ond in 1883 she was at an establishment called St. WAry'aHospital at Brighton, predaed over by Miss Grne, whowas called the Lady Superior. Her evidence was taken before the magetrate, And in the course of that evidence she stated that sbe commenced conversation with Constance Rnmilie Rent in 1863 with reference to certain suspicions that nxisted ia her mind u to her haxiug been tho murderess of her brother, and i answer to those iuquiries tho prisoner appeared to have stated toh is Grreme, if her evidence was to be relied upon, that ehh took tho lifo of her brother out of spito to her mother-in-law, and tbat sbe took the ehild in the blAnket, and that she withdrew the night.dress from the wash. It seemed that some convasmatimn f .9._ lkind bd taken pice between the pisoneir and % Ir. Wagner, who weathe incumbent of a church at Brightor. He desired here to state that conversations twook placo between them the preciseimport of which did not appear in the deposition; but what pased betwe en them resulted in the prisoner's writing down on paper a statement thist she co nitted the murder in 1860, and expressing a desir to gire herself up to justice. A communication took place with the authorities, the particulars of which it wss -annecessaryto enter Into. FinaUy tho prisoner, accompanied by-fr. Wagner, wentbeforeamagistrateof tceLt exptrience at Bowstreet, to wbom they tendered a statement tot signed by the prisoner, batin herown handwriting, in theec terms:- "1, ConstanceEmMie Bent, alono ana naided, on the 29th of June, 1S60, murdered at Road-hill House,Wiltshire, oneFrancis gsv1lle BeDt. Beforethedecd w onoknewof my intention, norafter oEmy guilt. No one eaistad meinthe crime, nor In my evasion of discovery. I do not wish to add anything to the above statement." Ypon that sbe was ordered into custoly by Sir Thomas Henry, and sent down tothe magistrates of this county, who took tho remaining depositions. She was called upon to sy whether she desired to state anything in answer, with the warning given pUrsuant to the statute. Her answer was-and tbey vould send tor the depositions for the purpose of seeing the original stateniont-." I wish to 'handin of my fre will tbe piece of paper," and she ap. pesred to hsve hnded in the papertowhich hehaddi- rected their attention and which he had read, and then proceeding she said, " I do not wish to add anything to the statement." She signed her name " Emilie," probably from having been partly eaucated abroad. She sinned her name to the sttement Nov, a ptrson unacquainted with judicial inquiries might ask why there thould ho any further discts- aioe or othtr ewidcce offered when there weve two confes- sons of the irisoner, one iu her handwriting and the other signod by her. Ho answered that admissions of this de- soription ought to be very closely investigated, and they ought, if poaible, for the purpose of arriving at a satisfac- tory conclusion as to the guilt of a person stating, " I am gunlty,", to take care that oertain answers had not been given iro-m other motives thana couscilousnesa of guilt and . desire to state it w whether it was a conscientious statement, or, in a matter of so much importance as the present, to see whether the circnmatances of the case didt or did not confirm the stAtement thatwas nnade. le was hound to say upon thio outline of tho aseo presented by the depo- sitions, it was one in which, in his judgment, they ought to act upon those confeseons and ought to fina a bill, when in this Court- questions mnight be raised in favour of the pri- soner which would be more satisfactorily discussed, and ho tuttd the cse would b tried oet it the otdinaryway before pett jury, and with the advantage of the prisoner being represented by counsel who would urge avery- thing that oould ho put forward on behalf of her. He thought itwould be their duty to send down a, bil against the prisoner for the murder with which hoe was oharged. He should mske no further remark beyond this, that it was a great a*iation to the judge to find thot even in these exciting times so many gentlemen of the county took such an interest iuothe administration of justict as to add weight to it by their attendance. Mr. AsLxra, QC, applied to his Lordship to fix to- morrow morning for the trial of this care. The TUDaz said he had thought of taking it on Saturday, but it it was atter of convenience to the learnea counsel he would tryit to-morrow. Mir. CoLrIIDGE said it was immaterial to him. h. AigjTA}w1 said it vouald be a pemrnal convenience to him to have the trial to-mrrorw. TholearneaJuDGEsaid-Then letit be so, at 9 to-morrow morning; that is if the biU be found, but it has not yet come dovn. The grandiury have since returned a truebiU for murder. T fl OASr OF COlOSTALCB KENT.