The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—IrsrcaDAY.
TRIAL OF CUFFEY, FAY, AND LACEY, FOB FELONY.

Before Mr. Baron Platt and Mr. Justice Erte.

The proceedings in this case up to the rising of the court
yesterday for retreshment, appeared in last evening's Express.
On resuming,
George Denis deposed that he was a member of the Wet
Tyler brigade of chartists at Greenwich, and he was accepted
as a delevate. He attended a committee meeting held at the
George in the Old Bailey. This committee was finned on
the day of the trial of Ernest Jones in this court, and he wu
present at that meeting. Mullins, Rose, Poyne, and others
were present. Mullins inquiredfirst whether any members
of the old committee appointed on Whit Monday were pre-
sent. Witness being one, answered "Yes,' and Mullins
then directed the delegates to go on one side of the room and
the committee on the other ; and after a abort consultation
they assembled together again, and Mullins then said it was
a stunne the prisoners should go to prison without one
struggle to rescue them ; and he said that as the chards*
prisemen were taken to Coldbath-fields they would have to
paw through Cow.aoss, where a friend, whom Le under-
stood to be Daly, would be ready to lead out the Irish to
men* them. . . .

Mr. Parry put it to the court whether this evidence, which
was quite new, was really relevant to the present issue.—
Baron Platt: Why did you not object before I—Mr. Parry:
We knew nothing of the Datum of the evideuce. We were
quite taken by surprise.
Examination continued.—l attended several meetings from
this time up to the 16th August, at the George in the Old
Bailey, and I reported within two hours all teat occurred
at each meeting to the inspector of police, and my statement
was taken down in writini' and I 'mind it. 1 attended one
meeting on the 16th, and the particulars were taken down
in writing.
Inspector Marks, inspector of the Greenwich division of
police, deposed that he was in communication with the la-t
witnee- and he matte s meort of what ocecrred at the meet-
ings, and witness took it down in writing, and Davis signed
it. He identified the reports produced as those so taken.
Davis was then re-called, and the Attorney-General pro-
posed to put the paw re into his hand to refresh his memory.
Mr. Hallman* objected, and the witness was examined
upon his recollection of the circumstances only.
The witness said he was present at the meeting at the
Lord Denman, in Suffolk-street, on the night before the in-
tended rising, and he proved that Mullins, Cuffey, Lacey,
Payne, Fey, Allan% and Brewster were present at that
meeting.
The Attorn:y-General then said that, as the witness had
omitted the names of some persons who were present,
therefore he proposed to put the paper into his hand to re-
fresh hie memory.
Mr. Ballantine objected to this course, and Argued that the
whams might not to be allowed to see the paper for the oh-
Jest oogiowed by the Attorney-General.
After sow dominion the court decided that the witness
look at the statement taken down by the inspector, in
seder to refresh hie memory; but that he must speak from
his memory, and not from what was contained in the papa.
The examination of the witness wu then resumed. He
said—l recollect being at the Lord Denman on the day be-
Art the intended rising. Twenty-eight or thirty persons
were present. Richie was among them, and a parson named
Johnson (Powell, the approver) was likewise present.
Mullins was chairman at that meeting, and he and Brewster,
Dailey, Payne, and Lacey, went out as a sub-committee.
They all returned in about three-quarters of an hour, except
Lacey ; and Mullins said they had come to the conclusion to
hays as outbreak on the following evening. and that he him-
self would take the Seven Dial dttriat, and Payne, Beew-
Mar, and Barrett, were to lead those other divisions. Tri-
mimed bands ware distributed for the leaders, and witness
had two given to him, one for himself, and another for a
reilwho could not attend. The witness then proceeded ,
viletia detail of what °warred at this meeting, corrohora- '
dog the evidence of the approver. He deposed that Richie
wee to command the "luminaries," as the firemen were
termed, who were to meet at the Orange Tree on the 16th,
sad that the paeaword by which he wu to know them was
"Justice." He also odd that a person who was one of the
hell of Ernest Jonas, was also present at the meeting on the
M. He was likewise present at a previous meetins, when
Malibu proposed that each delegate should provide four
men who were willing to fire houses, or do anything of
that kind that might be required of them, and Cuffey
at the same meeting remarked that it wasno use new m
the matter, for all their necks were in danger, and
they might ea well speak out plainly. He only knew John-
son b that name, and he bad no idea that he was commu-
nicating with the police until he read en account of his exa-
mination at the police-court. He had no idea before then
that he was a spy, and he was the last man he should have
suspected. He mead that at another meeting some pence who
was a stranger to him represented that the " Irish brigade'
had all provided tLemselves with muskets and several meads
of ball cartridges, and they ware ready to set in say =oar
in 00-operation with the chartists. The "yiskatasy prod-
dead" refitted to by the witness Pawn, ha said ha under
stood ma in realitylntended to be a pereoncamed Chasten,
then residing in France, and all the chartists in each misty
were to pay a farthing a week each for his support.
The Allorney•General here asked the witness whether at
any of the meetings it wee proposed that man should ge
round the town at eight, and see what force the government
had at its disposal.
Mr. Bellantine objected to the question, It was like
asking the witness whether the prisons', were guilty cf high
trews.

Mr. Parry : It was • scandalous question.
The Attorney-General raid the learned counsel had no
right to mike such an observatioa. In the course et a long
examinatiol like the present it was impassable always to
keep within the strict rules at evidenee.
The wham then promoted to date that Mullins told him
they Work(' to sleet haricots' tram the Seven Dials
down Dmy.lan• to Bt. Mary's Church, in the Strand ; and
be showed -bin • plan, with the barricades marked upon it.
Hs alto said that Temple-bar would sake • good barricade,
sad then they were to go down to the water-side ae.d make
WO of Chaplin and Hormel premier. Another party was
Mgo into the City, and to take powesion Bt. Paul's
Chard. (A
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mesuags a from Greenwich, and was acknow-
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