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London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

another man or woman who were also sesadleg there, and
the prisoner made no answer. Witness west towards his
own home, and shortly afterwards the deemed Came run-
ning down the court, followed by the prisoner. He knew
the prisoner very well, and he saw his number on the mi-
ler of his coat. The deceased got into his own house, and
as the prisoner passed witness he said that he would have
him before the night was oat, and he then went away
towards Holborn. 'fiat long after, the deceased came into
the court again, and wiles. said and m, were you I
would go up and change myself,"he went into hiskouse
and took off his biome and put on a coat, and then came
down again, and witness saw him shortly afterwards eating
some bread and meat. The deceased moved from No. 7to
No. 21, and he was joined there by • woman named Bridget
I Moore, and he then went into his house a second time and
put his blouse on again. The prisoner came into the court
I several times, but took no notice of the deceased while he
had the coat on. Between one and two o'clock the prisoner
came down the court, and upon seeing the deceased and
Bridget Moore he ordered them to go away, arid the de-
ceased went into No. 18. Ile was followed by prisoner and
another policeman, named Lockyer, and in a short time he
saw the prisoner holding the deceased by the collar and
beating him with his este about the head, and dragging
him along. When they got opposite No. 21 he saw the
rt=draw out his truncheon and beat the deceased with
the arms and the body. They went on towards
No. 28, and he saw the prisoner strike the deceased on the
heed, and he exclaimed " You I'll do for you," and
then threw him upon the ground. Lockyer, the other
policeman, came up at the time, end asked what was the
matter, and witness told him he knew very well what was
the matter. While the deceased was upon the ground the
struck him under the ear with his truncheon, and
CisserT.edi for mercy, and begged the prisoner not to murder
him. Witness called out that it was a scandalous shame to
treat the young man in such a manner, and Lockyer said
be would serve him the same if he interfered. The deceased
was quite sober when all this took place. On the following
morning, after Cogan was known to be dead, he saw Lock-
par and Cole together ; and some one said they had done a
nice job, and Cole said he did not do it.
By Serjeant Wilkins—He hail been hard at work until
nearly twelve o'clock on that night. He was engaged la
turning a mangle for his wife. (A laugh.) One of BM,
wan had been transported, but be thought this had n
te do with the present case. He was transported by 0213
the detective force named Moss, but nothing was head
upon him. Did nut keep an account how many times this
son had been convicted before be was transported. It was
sat his business. He was only step-father to him. (A laugh.)
He was told that he was in prison six months and three
months for picking pockets. He had two other sons--
neither of these sons had been convicted of felony. In 1848
be was committed for seven days because a policeman owed
him some animosity. (The witness here pulled out a piece
of paper and referred to it amid much laughter.) He was
committed again in September, 1848. lle was "in " fee
Mr. Chamberlain, the relieving officer, for a month for going
be relief. (A laugh.) Would swear that was his only
allante. Ile got 14 days in September, 1848, for assaulting
• piitentan. He was never in prison but three times fee
Ills pig*. It was all through their animosity towards him.
Us had a month's imprisonment in February, 1841. That
was all through the animosity of the police and Mr. Cham-
berlain. He was imprisoned another time for a month,
Pr an assault, but he was perfectly innocent, and it was all
through the malice of the police. Ile had lived in this
mart 27 years, and at the time the deceased lost his life
there were only two families lodging with him. As they
were going away from the police court, one of the wittiness
beat him, and he (witness) got a month fur it. (A laugh.)
Biddy Moore might have been a little in liquor on this
sight, but she was not much taken. She had a fit after oho
came out of No. 18. Their court was always very quiet,
(A laugh.) There might be a row and he might not hear it.
Serjeant Wilkins asked the witness if he was deaf, and be
replied that he was upon that system. (Much laughter.)
Cross-examination continued—He was shortsighted, sad
had been so since 1811, when he was struck by lightning.
There were not more than half-a-domn people in the court
when the prisoner struck the deceased, and the occurrence
took place between one and two in the morniug. He was
quite sure that was the time. A coroner's inquest was held
upon the deceased, and he was examined as a witness, and
so were all the other people who were here to-day. He did
not know that the deceased had been imprisoned for theft.
He could read figures. The number now shown to his
was 729.
Serjeant Wilkiwi—What number is this?
Witness-1 cannot tell you. I cannot see it.
The leaned counsel held the paper within four feet of '
the witness, and it appeared he could not see the number.
He was evidently aware of the object for which this was
done, for he exclaimed that he could see the yellow number
of the prisoner, and he knew the man very well.
By the Court—Did not know Lockycr's number, nor the
number of the policemau who did duty before the
arbioner. Ile knew that the prisoner's number was 813.
Ile looked at it particularly, when the people began to tell
him, on his coming into the court, after Cogan's death.
Elizabeth Long, wife of the last witness, said that on
the Thursday previous to the Saturday in question, she saw
the prisoner beating the deceased, about twelve o'clock at
night. The deceased asked what he had done, and said
that if he had done anything wrong he should lock him up.
The prisoner replied, " You —, rogue, I'll do you." On
the Saturdaybeing
she saw the prisoner pushing the de-
ceased, and him with his staff. She was looking
out of window distinctly saw the prisoner strike the
deceased six times, at least. The deceased called out for
mercy, and said ha would not do it again, and the prisoner
replied, " You —, I'll do you," and ho then struck him
with his truncheon upon the side of the head, a most
violent blow, and threw the deceased into the passage
of the house No. 28. She saw the deceased about one o clock
on the following morning. lie was then dead, and had
been so for some time. She had known the deceased about
a fortnight at this time, and never heard anything wrong
of him.
By Mr. Clarkson—The court was as quiet as any
other court that was inhabited by low characters. She
never saw the court more quiet than it was on this night.
She had two sons. Only one of them bad been in prison.
There was a pigeon board in front of her window on the
night of the tith of July. She removed it after the exami-
nation at the Mansion-house. Her son who was sent away
used to keep pigeons, and she sold them after he was gone.
She heard a doubt expressed at the Mansicn-house whether
she could see what the represented from her window, and
the pigeon board was removed after this. She was quite
certain she saw the primmer draw his truncheon from his
pocket whin he was opposite No. 21.
Ik-examined—She had sold the pigeon-house before she
was examined at the Mansion-house, and before the sth
of July. A policeman and Alderman Wilson also came to
her room to ascertain if they could sec the house from her
window,and she explained to them the position of the
Pit" i°x.
diary Lyons deposed that the was also living in Plum-
'tree-court at the time in question, and knew the deceased
by sight, but had never spoken to him. She said that she
saw the prisoner holding the deceased and beating him in
the way described by the other witnesses; but she added
I that she did not mean exactly to swear to him, but to the
best of her belief the prisoner was the man. She said that
Cogan had hold of the door of No. 28, where he lived, and
tried to release himself, saying at the same time, "Don't hit
me, I live here." The policeman tried to pull him back
into the court but could not do so, and he then knocked the
deceased into the passage and he fell on his hands, and the
policeman then took his staff out of his pocket and struck
him with it on the right side of his head, and Cogan cried
out " For God's sake don't murder me ; I won't come down
no more to-night." The prisoner made answer " You
I'll do you before I leave you."
By Mr. Ilallsatine—The deceasedpoli made no resistance,
bet was perfectly quiet while thepoliceman was beating
.. She had had a row with her husband on that night,
sad he had turned her out of the house. The prisoner
threatened to take her into custody, about half-an-hour be-
Bee the transaction, (or being disorderly. He dragged her
dews into the mud, and she looked at him ; but she could
aft swear positively that the prisoner was the man.
By the Court—No one could have seen the blows inflicted
lips the head of the deceased unless they could see into the
rof the hom as e. She w sure the truncheon was not
varruntil the policeman and the deceased were in the
Mune-
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and joking about the court, but appeared to be quite sober. r
lie asked witness to lift him up to the gas lamp opposite
NO. 9, that he might light his pipe, and he did so, and in
about a minute or two witness put him down quite gently.
When the deceased came dawn the light was puc out.
The lamplighter came round to extinguish the lights about
ball an hour afterward..
By Mr. Ballantine—The deceased said that he wanted to
light his pipe, hut witness did not sec any pipe with him.
lie was sure this took place between one and two o'clock
in the morning. lie went afterwards to have some coffee
at the corner of Shoe-lane, and he did not go to bed till
three o'clock. Ile was quite sure he did not tell the
police inspector that it was three o'clock in the morning
when the deceased slipped off the lamp. Ilia name was
Burke. Did not know that be had ever gone by the name
of Sullivan. Would not swear that he had not dune so,

but he did not recollect it.
Nicholas Simmons proved that he went to the room
occupied by the witness Long, and he stated that he could
see the door where the assault was alleged to have taken
place. Two bandboxes were placed upon the ledge where
the pigeon-house had been, but they did not prevent him
from seeing the doorway.
Mr. C. Pearson, the City solicitor, deposed that he had
conducted this prosecution under the authority of the cor-
poration of London. He thought it right to employ a
person utterly unconnected with the City authorities to go
to the room occupied by Long and see whether the witness
Mrs. Long had an opportunity of observing what she had
reported to have taken place. He had also gone there him-
self for the same purpose, accompanied by the counsel for
the prosecution. (A laugh.)
Mr. Topping, a surgeon, deposed that at five o'clock on
the morning of the 6th July he went to the room occupied
by the deceased in Plumtree-court, and found him lying
upon the bed quite dead. Ile examined the body exter-
nally, and found bruises on the right side of the head and
right arm, and he was of opinion that those bruises were
the result of repeated blows or falls. Upon a goat-mortem
examination lie ascertained that a blood vessel in the head,
called the sinus, had been ruptured, and that that had
occasioned en extravasation of blood upon the brain, which
was the cause of death, and, in his opinion, this rupture
was the result of the external violence that had been sus-
tained by the deceased.
By Mr. Serjesnt Wilkins—lf the deceased had sustained
the injury which caused the rupture of the sinus between
one and two o'clock, he did not think he would have been
playing about and climbing up lamp-poets at three. The
exuding of the blood through the fissure in the sinus end
its pressure upon the brain would very speedily produce the
effects of apoplexy. Excitement accelerated by drink might
cause a rupture of the sinus, but as in this case he found
external marks of violence corresponding with the internal
injury, he thought it much more reasonable to attribute it
to that cause. The sinus pawed through a sort of groove
formed by the bones of the heed.
Re.examined—Judging from external appearances, ho
should say that the rupture of the sinus was the effect of
the blows inflicted upon the head of the deceased.
Mr. W. U. Sheehey another surgeon, corroborated the '
evidence given by Mr. Topping. He also expressed an
opinion that the rupture was the result of violence, and
said that the injuries upon the head and arm of the de-
ceased were such as might have been caused by a
policeman's truncheon. lie also said that the bruises
could not have been occasioned by one blow or
fall, but that they were tho result of repeated blows.
lly Scrjeant Wilkins—He had never before seen a case
where the sinus had been ruptured without the skull
being fractured. He should have expected. if the deceased
had received tho injury at half-past one o'clock, that he
would not have lived till four, and he should have thought
that the effect of the rupture of the vessel would have been
felt almost immediately.
Another medical gentleman gave similar testimony, and
this concluded the cape for the prosecution.
Seijeant Wilkins then addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner. In the course of his speech he compliieed of
the manner in which the prosecution had been con-
ducted, end said he thought that the counsel for the
prosecution had not acted fairly by the prisoner in
keeping back witnesses whose names appeared on the back
of the bill, and he said that the manner in which the east
had been conducted savoured more of the nature of a tricky
action upon a bill of exchange, than a prosecution instituted
nutter the authority of the Secretary of State and the corpo-
ration of the City of London. The counsel for the prosecu-
tion had thought it right not to call Lockyer, the other
policeman, or the woman Moore, who it was proved had
been present during the whole of the transaction, but,
having the choice of the witnesses, the City Solicitor had
considered that he was doing his duty in bringing forward
several persons, some of whom were of the most depraved
and desperate character, and upon the evidence of such
persons it was sought to convict the prisoner of this
most serious offence. The learned scrjeant then pro-
ceeded to comment upon the contradictions and dis-
crepancies that ho said appeared in the evidence of the
different witnesses, and he asserted that they had every
one contradicted the other in almost all the essential por-
tions of their evidence, and it appeared perfectly clear that
the place in question was a den of thieves, and it was dread-
ful to contemplate the fact of such a horde of desperadoes
being congregated together in the midst of a civilized com-
munity. It was impossible to suppose that the transaction
could have occurred in the way stated by the witnesses,
and it was pretty evident that the story had been got up in
the neighbourhood by parties who had good grounds for
entertaining animosity towards the police on account of
their interference with their lawless and violent proceedings.
He submitted that the evidence was in almost every
respect unsatisfactory, and that even supposing the
jury should come to the conclusion that the man's
death arose from violence, there was no evidence
that could be relied upon to drew that the prisoner was the
man who inflicted that violence. There was even no evi-
dence to shew that the prisoner was on duty on that night;
and, surely that could have been proved easily enough, but
still the jury were left in the dark upon the subject. Coder
these circumstances, he submitted, with great confidence, to
the jury, that the charge had not been made out against the
prisoner, and that it was their duty, consequently, to ac-
quit him.
Mr. Justice Talfourd summed up the coo with great care
and impartiality. In the course of his observations, he said
he could not help remarking, that it would have been
much more satisfactory to him if the policeman, Loekyer,
and some of the other witnesses whose names were upon the
bill, had been called. He did not make any complaint of
the counsel for the prosecution for not calling them, as he
had no doubt exercised a sound discretion, upon the circum-
stances that had come to his knowledge with regard to these
persons' testimony, but still it appeared to him that it
would have been more satisfactory if some of them, at all
events, hart been examined. He did not feel himself called
upon to require the counsel for the prosecution to put any
of these witnesses in the box, but had left it to their dis-
cretion, and as these witnesses had not been called, it was,
at all events, fair to suppose that their evidence would not
have tended to sustain the prosecution, but that, on the
contrary, it would, in all probability, have had a different
effect.
The jury retired, and were in deliberation about half-an-
hour, when they returned into court, and the foreman, in
an emphatic manner, gave a verdict of Not Guilty.
There was an attempt at applause when the verdict was
delivered, which was speedily repressed.
The prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged
from custody.
This was the last case for trial, and the court was ad-
journed to Monday, Oct. 27.

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- Simone King. residing at No. IS, in the court, deposed
that she was standing at her street door en the TZz
of** 9th July. She could not tell the tam, but
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thim
it we between 2 and 3 o'clock. She woe phase= sad
the deosascd go into the plow at the sad the
lei=caught Copes bEilig gnat wed him into
She then law "Moab." tine police-
um. one sal melbas yalkasess whoa she did not
bars. The *hems west by the sane of Bui-
lds in Os smut. (A laugh )
ig lerjellit Wilkins—Thought it was between '2 and 3
Wink, but she could not my why she thought so. She
bad been out washing at a Mrs. Connor's over Westminster-
bridge. and it was Just upon 3 o'clock in the morning when
she finished. She was quite sure of that. She had bees
at home more than an hour when the affray took place.
Charles Williams said he lived at No. 19, Plumtree-
court. at the present time, but in July he lodged in the
same house with the deceased, and they occupied the same
room. He saw him lying on the bed on the morning of
the 6th July, about lour o'clock, frothing at the mouth.
He had seen him at one o'clock the same m 'ngo sad be
was then perfectly sober, and appeared to De is good
health. NN Untie went to fetch a doctor, but the dowses&
died before he arrived.
By Mr. Clarkson—He had never said that the dammed
told him that he had gone up stairs to change his coat to
cheat the -- coppers. He knew that a " copper " meant
a policeman.
Mr. Clarkson this proceeded to ask the wibese NM
questions with regard to his own character, but the haesM
judge said he thought it was hardly right to take this
course, as the witness merely to have epoken to a
fact that was not
Serjeant Wilkias said it had been opined by his learned
friend that the dossed had estinguished the pm hap, sad
Ids object was te thew what sort of peewee asespied the
wart, sad whet was the reason they extinguished the light.
sight lb. Justin Teamed maid that in that ease the "Mew
be made/
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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1851.

THIS DAY, Now!.
colon?! Mad. Strewth of Wind. State of the Weather.
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The returns from the following plum did not reach this
once in time for publication yesterday; they therefore
indicate the state of the weather on Thursday morning at
tine o'clock.

Hang Breen;
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Strong Mesa

Cloudless
Overcast

Cloudy
Partially Cloudy
Partially Coady

FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES AND PARISH VES-
TUIII3.—On Thursday a vestry meeting was held in the
parish of East Moulsey, for the purpose of making a rate,
and on other business. The Westminster Freehold Land
Society have an estate in the parish The number hitherto
rated has been 146, while 72 will be added by the purchase
made. Of these about 20 members have cultivated their
allotments with potatoes, &c., and they have been rated at
sums varying from 20s. to 40e. In former times six or
eight persons have constituted the vestry in the parish ;
but, as the occupiers of the newly-purchased land are now
rated for the relief of the poor, it was determined that they
should assert their right, and be present at the making of
the rate which they would have to pay. Accordingly Mr.
Haggett, the secretary of the society, and the twenty per-
sons rated, proceeded from London to the vestry-room,
where there was not room forthem ; and at last an adjourn-
' ment took place to the Bell Inn. The church-
wardon's
accounts were first read. Mr. Haggett de-
sired that the minutes of the last vestry should first
be read.—The chairman said it was not usual to read the
minutes of a past vestry.—Mr. Haggett: Have you no
entry of them ?—The chairman said of the last two there
was no entry, but he had the memoranda of what had oc-
curred.—Mr. liuggett expressed his surprise at such an
irregular mode of proceeding.—The chairman assured
Mr. lluggett it should be dune for the future.—The
accounts were then read.—Mr. Haggett observed there
were two charges for which there were no receipts, one
was a payment to the inquest of 101., and another for
income tax for land belonging to the parish ; this was also
very irregular, and net as business was conducted else-
where.—The chairman said ho would take care it did not
occur again.— Mr. liuggett then said he saw an
amount of 4001. or aOOl. for law expenses in-
curred three years ago about a disputed right to
a pew in the church. This could not be allowed.
The parish could only make a rate for the current year;
and he might here observe, that he aad these who were
with him had large and permanent interests in the parish,
and although rated as yet at but 20s. or 40s. fur their land,
it would, when they really held it as the freeholders, be
rated at from 151. to 201. It was, therefore, to them a
matter of great importance to see that no exorbitant rates
were attached to the property, as the occupiers would not
only inquire what the rent was, but the taxes also, and if
they were heavy it would depreciate the value of their
whole property. Mr. Andrews, the junior churchwarden,
said he had written a letter to the Bishop of Winchester,
asking him to head a subscription for the payment of this
sum of money, but he bad received no answer to it. lie
had urged upon his lordship that if this money was not
paid, they would be obliged to resort to a church rate,
which from time immemorial had never been done in that
parish. The matter then dropped, and after the compli-
ment usually paid to the chairman the meeting separated.