The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1864.

THE POLICE COURTS.

THE MURDER ON SAFFRON-HILL.
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Serafine Poleoni, a ferocious looking Italian of
about 33 years of age, was plated at the liar before Mr.
Knox, charged with the wilful murder of Michael Hai,
ringtoe, by cutting him with a knife. He was also charged
with feloniously cutting and wounding Alfred Itibbeek and
George Bannister. A brief account of the occurrence which
led to the above charge was given in our columns yesterday.
Mr. Thomas Wakeling appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Inspector Potter, who has charge of the case, was pre-
sent to watch the proceedings on the part of the police.
At the solicitation of the magistrate, Mr. G. Goering at-
tended as interpreter.
Mr. Wakeling said the prisoner was an Italian, and
lived close to the Golden Anchor public-house, Grail
Saffron-hill. He had ((mealy insulted the landlord, and
was turned out of the house some time before. On Monday
night • lot of Italians got up • disturbance in the honey.
The prisoner rushed upstairs, knocked a woman down, and
stabbed the decreed. He Lad previously stabbed two
others, one of whom, it was feared, was at the point of
death. The deceased made • statement at the hospital, as
did the ether unfortunate man. Those statements be pro-
posed to submit in evidence. They were se follows :
"My name ia Michael Harrington. I was at the Golden
Anchor publiehouse, Great Saffron-hill, about 7 o'clock
this evening. 1 was stabbed in the belly. The man with a
moustache is the man that did it. God forgive him. I
mean themes now present. lamon my dying bed. God
forgive him. I will not sign.
Inonas A. POTMR, IRlpeCtor.
RICHARD FAWILI, 423 A.
" Bt. Bartholomew's hospital, Dec. 26, 1861."

uMy name is Alfred Itibbeck. I reaide at No. 59, Greet
Saforn•hilL lam potman. lam 22 years of age. About
7 o'clock this evening there was • disturbance at the Golden
Anctor, Great Satfron.hill. I went into the room to try
to quell it. An Italian was in the room. That man stabbed
me. I immediately struck him with a stick. I after.
wards gave that man into custody of Police-constable 421
A, FawelL Thu statement is true. I know lam dying.
The man that stabbed me is now present. That is the man.
(Signed) " ALrazo RIBBECIL + his mark.
• wiumsee Thomas A. Parma, Inspector.
( RICLLILID FAWLILL, 425 A.
"Royal Free Hospital, Doc. 26, 186'4."
It was thought that the stab which killed the deceased
was intsioded for the landlord of the house.

The 131 lowing evidence was then taken, which wee inter-
preted to the prisooer :
Frederick Shaw-1 am the landlord of the Golden
Anchor, Saffron•hill. I saw the prisoner list evening. He
mane about half-put 5. He was talking to my wife. He
came with five or am other Italians. He said he could settle
me, and he could settle soy six Englishmen like me. I did
not speak to him. He thee left. They did not all leave.
He had been drinking. He returned in 20 minutes. I did
not see him return. The other Italians struck me. boon
after there was a row in the room. I west out for a con-
stable. The constable came, and the next thing I saw wee
the prisoner being taken out by the polio*. The ormetable
rimed", 425, went into the bagatelle room. I was pushed
into the bar•parlour by some of the customers, as the he-
lium threatened me. I then saw the prisoner taken
out. I alUrwards saw the deceased, Harrington,
at the foot of the stairs leading into tbe bagatelle
room. He was not able to speak, and his bowels were all
protroding. I got him into the bar parlour. 1 raised his
shirt, and found he had got • serious cut. Ile was then takes
to the hospital.

--Mari;lLleg—l am the wife of William King. Sgs Litdba-
lase. He is a bone button manufacturer. 1 wee with my
husband at the Golden Anchor on Monday night lest. 1
know the deceased ; he was in the room, the bagatelle room.
He was in the room with nay husband and several others.
They were sot playing. The English people were taking
redreahnienta by thainealvee. I maw the Fleenor. 1 was
going out of the bar to go home. It might be from six to
ball•psat, and the primmer met me at the door of the bar
and struck me full in the face with hie fiat and knocked me
backwards. There sae then a lush into the bagatelle room.
I wee knocked down. I wee stunned. I saw the constable
go into the room and bring out the prisoner. 1 did not see
the men that was struck.

Richard Mellowship, 42, Coldbathoiriare—l am a button-
maker. On Monday night I was at the Golden Anchor,
kept by Mr. Shaw, Saffrou.hill. I was in the begatelle-
room between six and seven. I knew the deceased. lie
wee there, sod stood by the aide of nu. Ins prwwr
rushed into the room first., several behind him, all Italians.
I saw the prisoner strike the deceased in the stomach, and
the deceased fell to the ground. lie was cot picked up in
a moment. Ile had been stabbed, and Lis bowels came out.
I did not see anything in his hands. 1 MOM the prisoner.
My wife said, " Ob, come away, you will be murdered!" I
then saw the blood. She was near enough to the deceased
to have got the blood from him. It was on her shawl.
By Mr. Knox—l went out of the house, but I was obliged
to ran in again, as the house wee surrounded by Italians,
ehoutiay Garibaldi for ever. When the rush came the
had just finished singing a sung, and the prisoner,
without having a word with him, struck the deceased, arid
be falL

Liddle—l • John live at 10, South-square, Gray'sdnn.road.
lam a French polisher. I was at the Golden Anchor, Great
Saffron-hill, about six or seven, when this disturbance took
place. I know the deceased Martineau. He sat next to
me, I sang the first song, and he wog the last. It was in
the bagatelle room. Thre were some twelve or fourteen
peewee in the room. There were no Italians in the room.
The deceased called upon me for a wag. 1 then gave " The
Ship's Carpeiter." Tne deceased sang a son``;. just after it
the prisoner cam* in. I saw him strike Mrs. King. He
met her at the door and struck her, and knocked her down.
Then he rushed in and struck the deceased, who had lust
limo from the first seat near the fire-place. He struck him
on the stomach. The deceased fell on the boor. The
deceased had ,not said a word before he was struck by the
primmer. Two constables came, who took the prisoner into
custody. Several Italians came into the loom. I myself
struck the prisoner with • stick. The deceased said, " I
am stabbed," when be fell from the effects of the blow ;
whereupon I struck prisoner with • stick; another man
struck Min' end he (ell, and we bald him till the police came.
William Kisg, M. Leather-lane—l am the husband of
Maria King. I was at the Golden Anchor on Monday about
ti or 7. 1 was in the bagatelle-room. There was • company
of us there. I saw the prisoner there. I did not see Lim
striae my wife. I picked her up. I went out, and I found
that somebody had struck my wife. Harrimoon, the de-
ceased, was there. I saw the prborier conic into the room.
1 was knocked down in a struggle. I was knocked down
behind the door.

Mr. Kooz- -Laid you or did you not see the prisoner and
others come into the room

Waimea—Yea, when 1 got up I saw the priaoocr ors the
top of Harrington. I laid bold of him and held him till he
was gi►en in charge. 1 did not we say blood.
M. s—Were there aoy wards pawed before this
took place 7

Waness—No.
Additional evidence having been given, Mr. Knox salted
"rims deceased died

Mr. Jobu Year Tess, of SL Bartholomew. Hospital—About
half•pest three. 1 have uo hesatatioa iu sayiria that death
wee occasioned by the wouud ie the bowels.
Mr. Koos (to inspector Potter)—Hu the demised auy
Childreo

Mr. Potter—Hs leaves s widow sad five children totally
unprovided for. lis was about 38 ys•rs of ans. and was •
oostsrmongsr.

Mr. bout—Sonsethiog must be done for her. Before I
leave the court I will give some directions about her. In all
probability the prisooer will have to be brought here on
smother charge ; I *ball, therefore, remand him.
The prisoner was then removed.
Mr. Knox directed 5/. from the poor-box to be placed io
Mr. Potter's bands for the use of deceased's family.
In order to prevent the recurrence of stabbing outrage. in
Saffroa-hill, Mr. Potter has placed extra men in that
district.

RESPITE OF ONE OF THE LIVERPOOL MURDERERS.
—Thomas Linden, *moot the two men convicted at the last
anises of the murder of Mllirtlty.at Liverpool, has bees
reepited. The fact was communicated to Captain Gibb,
the Governor of Kirkdale Gaol, yesterday morning by a
letter from the Home Secretary. It will be remembered
that Linden, ll'Cartby, and Brown, each of whom lived in
• brothel, were drinking together in • public house, and
went into the street, where en old quarrel was revived, and
Linden and Brown attacked M'Carthy savagely. Brown
bed a pistol, the barrel of which be forced twice through
the orifice of M'Cartbre eye into the brain ; and both
Brown and Linden struck and kicked the usfortoo.te man
repeatedly. It was stated in the evidence that Brown's
wife beat 111'0u-thy about the head with a porter bottle
while be lay on the ground insensible. In consequence of
the injuries inflicted with the pistol M'Carthy died. Mr.
Cobb, the solicitor who defended the accused, is about to
forward a manorial to the Hon's-office on behalf of Brown.
The day at present filed for the execution of Brown, atcl
also of Ellis Green, the man zonvicted of the murder of his
sister-in. law at Tosteth Park, is Saturday, the 7th of
January.

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FATAL GrN ACcIDT2CT.-011 Monday morning
last, a man named John Hughes, who in joiner, living in
Torteth-park, Liverpool, went out of town with a double-
barrelled gun, for the purpose of shooting birds. He went
through Garston, and on his way stopped to listen to the
band of the local volunteers, wbo were performing in the
principal street. A crowd bad collected, and as Hughes
mixed with the people, by some means his gun went off.
The charge entered the abdomen of a little girl named
Agnes !('Millen, sin years of age, and she was so seriously
injured that she died immediately. Hughes appears to
have been holding the gun horizontally, nod to have been
very careless. He was brought before the county magis-
trates at Liverpool yesterday, and remanded until after the
inquest.

*CRYSTAL PALACIL ONIt SHILLING DAY.
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ditto by IMAINIM tiekeste, 1,579 total. 12,767.
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mplane sad dtailalial deep.

THE DOUBLE EXECUTION AT STAFFORD.

Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, Charles
Brough and Richard Hale were executed in front of Stafford
Gaol for the crime at wilful warder. The former, who was
only twenty-four years of age, murdered an old man of
seventy-four, named George Walker, at Bigoall Hill, near
Audley, on the 27th of July last, The poor old man was
a brokeudown farmer, and lived in • hut on the verge of
a farm of about 120 acres, which he bad held for many
years as • tenant His hermitlike life was not forced
upon him by necessity, as he had well-to-do frieods, who
were willing to support him ; but he preferred his rode
domicile, with a wooden tressed for his couch and hay foe
his bed, procuring a scanty subsistence by cultivating a
small piece of waste land, oo which his hovel stood. On
the night before the murder a relative had given the old
man half-a-crown, and he bad also in his possession at the
time an old silver watch, which he had purchased from •
gamekeeper mimed Obery, who had chalked up the number
145,177) on a beam in the hovel. When the murder was
discovered the old man was found la iog at the door of his
hut with his skull fearfully fractured, evidently by the
spoke of a cartwheel, which was found in the hut with blood
sod hair upon it. It was subsequently ascertained that
Brough tried to pawn the watch at Touren two days after
the murder; and upon being taken into custody and charged
with the commission of the crime be made the following
statement to a policeman :—" I took the watch from
the old man. I'd had • quarrel with my father,
and he struck me, and 1 left the house and
went to the hut to get • sleep. The old man came
to the door but would not let me in, and I struck
him with a piece of wood on the head. I don't know if I
knocked him down, but I did not think of killing him. He
began to call out and I hit him again. I then struck a
match and took the watch from him, and left him lying
there. It was about midnight. I did it myself ; nobody
was with me." The other evidence, coupled with the coo.
tension, left uo doubt of the guilt of the criminal, and Mr.
Justice Myles sentenced him to death on Tuesday, the Gth
instant, without hope of mercy. The other criminal,
Richard Hale, was convicted of the murder, at Casty,
of his illegitimate child, Eliza S:llitoe, aged ten years,
in which he was aided and abetted by Cecilia Biker, his
paramour, who, though sentenced to death at the same
time as Hale, has had a reprieve until she is delivered
of the child cf which she is at present pregnant. The
evidence proved that Hale was in the habit of beating
the child. On the 20th of July last it was miming, and
some days afterwards the body was found in a gravel pit,
in • state of great decomposition, with a handkerchief tied
tightly round the neck, her throat having been cut. The
evidence of • man, :lamed Jones, who saw the child with
the culprite, Hale sad Baker, on the day she was missed,
and who had withheld his evidence both before the corner
and the magistrate, clearly proved the came, and left no
doubt on the minds of the judge or jury that both the
man and woman had perpetrated this cold-blooded
murder. Throughout the whole of Sunday great numbers
of people assembled in the vacant space in front of the
scaffold, watching the progress of fixing the barriers. In
oddities to the fact of its being • holiday season, yesterday
wee the great " Gobey" fair, for hiring servants,
sad that, of course, added materially to the
multitude assembled to witness the horrid spectacle.
Neither of the culprits went tc bed daring the night, merely
lying down for a brief spaced time. The Rev. Mr. Vizi-
coat remained in prayer with Hale, and the Rev. Mr. Ent-
man attended to Brough. Both the unhappy men seemed
penitent, but Hale persisted to the last in denying his guilt
of the crime of which he was convicted. Brough made a
full confession (as already mentioned) of having murdered
the old man, and acknowledged the justice of his sentence.
The erection of the scaffold was not completed until
seven o'clock, at which hour the cross beam was fixed.
At ten minutes pat seen Major Thoroeyeroft, the high
sheriff, and Mr. It. W. Hand, the under-sheriff, proceeded
to the poL Smith, of Dudley, was the executioner ap-
pointed in this instance to carry out the last senteace of
the low. Having been taken to the pinioning-room, Hale
and Brough were led in. and submitted to the usual pro-
cess of pinioning. Brough was brought out of the hospital,
when he had been in consequence of his illness. They were
both quiet, and apparently resigned during the proms.
Hale repeating a prayer aloud after the chaplain. A
very few minutes sufficed for this preliminary
duty of the executioner, and as the prison clock struck
the hour the pinioning was completed. The funeral knell
was wended, and the burial service read as the prone*.
aim moved towards the drop. At the foot of the scaffold
Mr. Vincent besought Hale most earnestly to confess his
aims, if he was guilty. The condemned man, however,
adhered to his original statement—that he was innocent.
On mounting the last step of the ladder leading to the
scaffold, Hale slipped and fell forward, being evidently
is • state of great nervous agitation. One of the warden
helped him up, and the culprit, repeating prayerful OA.
ciliation for Divine mercy and forgiveness, took his place
beneath the drop. Brough, who had followed, was not so
loud in repeating his prayers, but apparently quite as earnest
as his wretched compacion. Hale's words were "Lord
Jena, receive my soul," " Pardon all my sins," and other
pious exclamations were heard at some distance from the
place of execution. He continued praying aloud until the
drop fell, and all was over in this world. The ropes having
been adjusted round the necks of the miserable men the
signal was given, the bola withdrawn, and both died with-
out a struggle. After hanging the usual time the bodies
were cut down, and will be buried in due course close to the
spot where the body of Palmer, the poisoner, was interred.
The
edpolice and other arrangements were all that could be
, and although the crowd eat by DO means so large
as had been expected, it was exceptionally drunken, dis-
graceful, and uproarious.

SHOCKING DEATH PROM STARVATION.

A painful inquiry was held by Mr. John Hum-
phreys Middlesex coroner, last evening, at the Duke of
York Tavern, King's-road, Houiertos, respecting the death
of Mary Hale, aged 04.
. . . . .

The jury, baring been sworn, proceeded to view the body
of the deceased, which lay in the room where she had
bora Marred to death. Upon enteriog the small back
routs at the top of a respectable-ha:Mies house. No. 16,
King's-terrace, King's-road. they found it destitute of fur.
%item, but more than ankle deep with ashes, and with •
heap which it was explaiced was composed of old rags and
newspapers, and bad formed the bed of the deceased.
On • narrow and rieketty table lay the ghastly remains, or
rather skeleton of the deceased. A few dirty rags that had
been her clothes were thrown over the body, but they
were too scanty to cover her nakedness, and the holies
could be seen starting through the skin, which was of •
dark yellow colour. There were no cooking utensils, &e., in
the place; two broken plates which were found were
covered with earth from • broken dower-pot, and could
not have been used for months. The deceased bad not, it
was stated, let anyone into her room for 18 months past,
doubtlees in order to hide her mosey. As a juror es-
Emeedicik.t,
." the whole scone was horrible, and made the

Martha Harrison, 16, King'aterrate, Homerton, said
that she wa• • lodger in the house where deceased lived.
Hemmed had lodged there eighteen months, and about
four years in the belt house. She had bees • servant, and
had earned her own living for forty years. She was • single
woman. Witness was out at work daily, and therefore she
did not know much about the deceased, bat she believed
that she used to go out chariog for • few halfpence when she
could get it to do. It was very irregular —certaiely not Mere
than two or three days in the week, and she could not have
got lid. a day at the outside. When she wee out witness
believed she got something to eat, but could not say if she
had anything when at home. She was very tea/eyed, and
she used to keep her outside clothes very clean and neat.
She was thinly and poorly clad. She had no clothe. fit for
the weather. Witness saw her lost on Wednesday ; on
Friday she was missed, and her room entered. She was
dead on the floor. There was no bed, but rags and all
manner of things, old papers, fic., in the corner. An old
broken chair and • table were there, but no other furniture
of any kind. Her sister was comfortably off. She was
stewardess on board the Queen's yacht, and she paid the de-
ceased's rent.

Mary A on Wright, another lodger in the same house, said
th►t she could not say if deceased had anything to eat at
home. She sometimes said to witness, " I should like •
bowsprits." Witness would then, if she got any, put • few
us • plate and leave them outdid.. deceased's door. De-
ceased would cane and t•ks them, and go iu and lock her-
self is again.

Mr. William Harbin, 1, King's-road, said that he believed
what he gave the decease,' was her principal support. She
used to come and clean the place for a few hours on Satur-
days, and he gave her Is. and her food. She had good
qualities and was very honest. His wife used to give her
gowns, but she latterly became so badly dressed that he
could not have her come to his house, and be told his wife
to pay her without coming. Twelve mouths ago he applied
to the parish for her, and she was allowed two weeks' relief.
Then they wanted her teenier the house, and as she re-
fused ahe got no more.
The Coroner said he supposed the jury had seen
posh a Sight in their lives before ; he could only hope that
they might sever see inch a one again. There did not
seem to be any ground for blaming the sister of the deceased
in the matter. She bad paid the rent for the deceased,
and even if she were written to by Mr. Harbin she might not
easily have believed that deceased was really in such
frightful circumstanoes. She appeared to have done all she
could.

The jury returned a verdict, '• That deceased was found
dead iu a certain room, from the mortal effects of cold and
starvation."

CHRISTMAS IN THE CORONER'S COURT. —ln the
. lists of the Liverpool borough corooer's court, yesterday,
1 there was a startling array of fatalities. No lees than :10
deaths requiring iovestigation bad been reported between
I Saturday sod Monday eight. Of these, two or three had
been calmed by drowning, one or two by accidents in the
streets, four by hurtling, and similar casualties ; 15 of the
bodies bad been found dead, and three were uokoown. The
coroner was of opinion that 26 °Ply required the atteotion
of a jury ; and of these will be gone into this May
(Wednesday), when the usual eases will probably have
increased the total to sornethiog above 30.
Water colours, those gems of British art, are
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UMW& magnetic brushes and combs, which with almost un-
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