The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MURDER OP A POLICEMAN AT

.4CTON.

A deliberate and cold-blooded murder was perpe-
trated last night at Anton, under drumbeater of peculiar
atrocity. The facts are briefly these :—Yesterday afternoon,
a poliosoonstable named Davey, of the T Division, while
on duty in the neighbourhood of Acton, met two brothers,
named respectively Isaac and Jobs Brooke, the first a
bricklayer, and the latter a labourer, laden with •
quantity of fence palings which they had broken down and
stolen. He appears to have stopped them, and made them
put down their spoil, but unfortunately not to
have then arrested them, probably being unable
to do eo single handed. He reported the circumstance to
the inspector, telling him where the Brooks's lived, and it
was arranged that after Davey bad eaten his supper
be and the inspector should together apprehend
the brothers. Davey went to No. 1, Pemberton-
vil/as, a house of which he had charge for a gentleman,
sad was in the act of taking supper when a loud knock
was heard at the door. Mrs. Davey opened the
door, when a abuse man, with a gas in hie hand,
said, "Is Davey within?' She replied in the affirmative,
and called her husband. The moment Davey came to the
door the man deliberately presented the gun at him
and fired, blowing the roof of his head completely
off. The blood and brains of the unfortunate
man were splaahed over his wife, who was standing at his
side. He of course fell instantly dead. The murderer made
off and Mrs. Davey was rendered too bubo to follow
him. Owing to the dark:nem she could not recognise the
dastardly mandrel, bat she states.that she oan swear to his
voioe. The three inspectors of the division initially made
every inquiry over the district, and they learned that one
of the Brookes. had been seen with a gun within 30 yards
of Pemberton-villas, just before the murder, and that both
brothers had been seen together immediately before.
This morning Inspectors Scott and Searle went to the
boom where the brothers lira and ordered them to get
up, making Isaac if he had any fireorms. The
man replied that he never had any ; but the inspector, on
pulling up the mattress, found a gun which had only been
recently diacharipd.
Both men were conveyed to Hammersmith, where they
will undergo examination this afternoon.
The unfortunate dowsed had been twelve years in the
lone, and sever had a single report made against him.
He was a particularly mild and inoffensive man.

The business of the Bathgate Town Council wee
interrupted au Thursday night, by a myeloid Millie, who
nog the whole of the members out of the room. At theoloes
of drat rem of "Boy's Wife of Aldivelleels,” the clerk
plagpd his ears, peeked up his minute book, and walked
oat of the building ,• end as verse followed vase, the dieson-
oerted osimeilkes donned their hate and followed suit.
I When the maga Willie found that be bed been left " alone
in his dory " be burst into an uproarious tlt of laughter, and
I with the grielert sionelialissoce walked out of the room, sing-
" Wiser bee ye been a' the day, my boy,Tammy r

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Yesterday a number of gentlemen representing
the Press Amociatioa and the Association for the Repeal of
the Taxes on Knowledge held a meeting at 47, Paternoster-
row, for the purpose of presenting to Mr. John Francis a
testimonial in acknowledgement of the great services be bad
rendered during a period of 13 years in Tempting the re-
peal of the times on the press. Mr. D. N. Chambers, in the
unavoidable absenoe of his brother Robert, occupied the
chair. The testimonial consisted of a masa= elver salver
and a tea and coffee service bearing the inscription "Per
dam of the Pr= from Taxation.—This salver, tegelltar
with a tea service, la preowned to Mr. John Francisi as a
testimonial from the committee and friends of the Preis
Association in acknowledgement of his persistent services is
promoting the repeal of the taxes on Master, end the
press ; the adveetiemect duty repeal, 1853 ; the repeal
at the oonipulsory stamp on newspapers, 1855; and the
repeal of the paper duty, 1861."
AZTLUM FOR FATHCRL CHILDREN. —lllO
Quinines sled= in =maxim with this clarity, which is
iambi at Needham, near Croydon, took plane at the
Leedom Tame_ yesterday. Mr. H. Harvey prended. The
ember el seadidates was 86, =debase to be elected 10.
The honed ha their circular Meted that they would gladly
take awe anew, but they aoald net der on account of
the low sleas of the funds. The heard dried to do hone=
to the mesery of the founder of the clarity, which, it ap-
peared, ccateiaed 177 children, and they =mg= that oonH
not be dew in • way that would more have mended with
him =Hags than by attempting the alik• assamal of the
debt of 17,0001. A proposition had been made by John
Crossley, Sm.. of Halifax, to give 5001. is =awl payments
of 501. for ten yean , p.ovided the whole el the arsouot of
the debt would be taken up by friends. itamael Morley,
Keq., bad pledged himself to gibe a similar sum, and Sr
Morton Pete having previously given 250 guineas, had
2501. additisoal in tea years. The boar! anxiously
pad het the benevolent publio generally would come
forward with emistenee. The Rev. J. Ambit& the lam
, Mated that en Friday last • dandies of 500 gni-
seu been received, and on account et it two additional
children would be elected. The • ballade, was then pro.
medal with.

THE DrIST FATOURITI, LORD CAUDILL—Great
preparation (nays the Sesser Express) are being made for
the Derby favourite at Telecombe. nee r Lewes, to which
place be will be removed from Oodmersham-park, Can-
terbury, to finish his Derby preparation. Lord St. via-
oent has had a Wien laid out on the Downs, chained at
lintervals, and nearly six miles in extent.
CHURCH-RATS CONTRAT AT DINT, RILL KINDAL.
A close and severely contested church-rate battle bas jun
been decided in this parish. it was oesoluded on Friday
night, when the numbers stood as follows :—For the rate,
116 votes ; onion, 125 votes ; majority against the tate,
9 votes. Eighty-six vote, were unveiled, and of three the
anti-rate party claim a majority.
THs aurrom Ceas.—At the Liverpool Police
Court yesterday bail was accepted for James Bertie, who is
charged with Georgelinxten with conspiring to defraud owe
of the London insurence companies. The bell had been
directed to be taken before the Liverpool magistrates, the
amount axed befog 1001. io two sureties of 501. each,
rres-
epeetivs of his owe reoogoizancee. Peter Killer Larson, a
seamen's boarding-house keeper, 10, Kent-square, and
Thomas Sharpe, boot and shoemaker, 116, Park-lane.
IBertie's own recesmicanees will be taken in London.
COLUIRY ACCIDENT& —FOUR Mu KILLED.—
Yesterday montiog, • couple of labourers, named William
Alker arid Thomas Thorpe, the one 52 years of age, and
a native of Wigan, the other aged 28, a resident in Ines,
were employed at Kern. Case and Morris's, Bon Bridge
Colliery, I coo, Dear Wigan, in making a part of the mine read
for the colliers to work io. They were moo at sine o'clock
by a man named John Burgess, but the spot where they
were engaged was not again visited till half-put eleven,
when the two men were found busied hearth a men of
rubbish which had fallen from the roof. The time when
this fell it is, of comae, impossible to elate. Both men
were quits dead, sod the bodies were removed to await the
coroner's inquest. Yr. Duffield held as inquest yesterday,
at Ism, on the body of Peter Tickle, aged 21, who was
killed or the 1511, instant in the Kirkham Hall Company's
Arte4.117:2, teen by a fall of roof ; and on the body of
wbo was employed at Moen. Blundell's hoe
Pit as a henna. Oa Saturday Dye= wee 'needing
from an nage to another at tbei pit top, when be fell, sad
wee crushed beelrellei the stage and the cage. The Muria
he received mused his death the following dry. He was 36
years of age, and heed at Hindlery.—The verdict of the jury
in each mot was " Aseideatal dmth
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CZYSTAL PALACI.--ONZ SWILLING DAY.—MON-
DAY, JAS. 19.—Adadatioos oa mama. 1,185 ; ditto by
mum tiiskor. 796 ; total, 1,98 L

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Mammvurax Fars Hairum4 Dmvmmms.
soacr.s. CITT.—The wegate number of patients relieved
dories the week 'riding January 17 wax :—Yedioal, 1,271
eereical. 813—tatel, 1,884 ; et which 737 were eew sem

ORLI' NORTHIUM HOOPITAL,
Number d pelieete for the week coding Jas. 17, 1,016, of
whisk 461 mese saw arm

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