The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF PELIZZIONI.

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The trial of the prisoner Serafini Pelizzioni for
"tabbies Alfred Rear with iatest to murder him co-
emoted the wort we to Its erg yesterday evening. After
Its close of or yr erases sera,
Alfred Riarsok, the preater, re readied, sad
same quasar were poi to him as to the points upon which
there appeared to bs some disorepecy betra his ender
and that of the lest miter, and the effect appeared to be
that he parted hi the rater he bad gives is laid.
Mr. J. D. HOl said—l us one of the torpor arra
baths Royal Free Hospital, Gray'ciou-road. I remember
Briar being brush{ to the hospital on the 26th of Do.
ember. He was very fast sad weak from loss of blood,
sod I found a severe protund word biter the eighth
sad ninth ribs, or inch end therquartem long aid this'
boor deep, end one of the arteries was severed.
Oress-examised—The knife produced (the or that was
hand is the urinal) was ass that was likely to bar pro-
duced such • wound, sad I shoskl say that the pre who
haired it need his left red if the parties wan ring each
ether. nadir arra bed boss drinking. but Its wee
quite collected. He rat et engly d 'virile.
Rorazoined—ft strod to me as is
the hen had
been poser in obl4sa7 udders out vertically.
Mr. C. D. Psalms, at St. Batreicerw's
Hospeta. mid—l ressleet the parser being takes to the
bedside of Hatriegtor I had previously stated my of
that Herringtios would sot reser. He was air who
bed dared bir and Its paired out the primmer. One of
my farrompens had • arelsobs, but i did sot ors
mar d oars.
Orarrainisid--To tics bar of my belief, so one OW
who was present had a rostairee.
This was the ease for the prosecution, sad the toart
adjourned is order that the jury might take sows ar
stunt
Starr Warr thou proceeded to address the jury,
and made • most powerful aid eloquent speech on behalf
of the primer. He mid he was BUN that he need not ask
their careful attention to the observatioss that he proper
to offer them, because he bad observed that they had
paid the deepest arras to every fact that bad hers
brought forward is this meet important and extraordier
sr, which he believed was unexampled in the history of
(triad jerisprodesse. The facts that the primer was
darged with as attempt to murder, and that he WWI at the
preset moment under motor of death for another crime
that was undoubtedly involved in the ear transaction,
were suffeiset tomer peat public interest is the isquiry,
end he was crate, therefore, that the jury would retire
to give their earner arestios to every fact that would
leo laid before them. He believed that all the difficulty
that had been created arose from the polite having
muds • blonder in the first instance, and in their
Laving afterwards parr in that birder, broad of
having, when they ford that they were roes, der all ,in
their power to remedy the mistake that they bed made,
and endeavouring to briar the crime home to the party who
was really guilty d it. He would now proceed to place
before them what wets the admitted points in the case, and
span which he and his horsed friend who redacted tho
prosecution ware pretty well agreed. It appeared to be
admitted, in the first place, that if the offer was tom-
tatted by the prisoner at all, it was committed while he
oboe in the taproom, sad that he first stabbed Rab-
beck and then stabbed Harringtoutiod the other young man
Bannister. if he broke down this fast is appeared to him
that thins was as end of the cue for the prostration.
Them was another point that was conceded by his learned
frier, namely, that it was one and the same mu who coin-
mated all the injuries. One jury bad convicted the pri-
soner, soother jury hod convicted Mogul of the 'am
efface, nod they started therefore upon the ocaskleration of
the quern with this aztaserdisary conflict of War.
Yolizzioni was tried before one of the most learned end
humans judges upon the bench, who admitted every portion
of cridsoos which could be legally brought forward in Ids de-
fence, but be was convicted, and bad run the risk of being do-
pe ived of life by the meters of the law, although he ba-
rred he should bs ahlis to show that be was entirely inno-
cent art Use crime of which he bad been convicted. He
would now sek them in imagination to tuts their mire to
the scene that was enacted at this public-hoes on the
sight of the 26th d December. They wen all swam of
the nature of the neighbourhood, and might sadly ims.
1130 the clam of customers that wars likely to bequest •
house of such a dretription se the Golden Anchor. In sock
• neighbourhood, he thought they would agree with him
the police were likely to hays very great influence, sad
that he was pleaded in maw that such persons r wore
hi the habit of heparin the Golden Anchor would be
very ready to mist ia carrying out any object that the
pike might have in view; and he believed that this was
the explanation of • great deal of the rider that had
been given on behalf of the prosecution. The proposition
on the part of the crown wee that ou this night there
were two parties is this public-house—ltalians in their
dan room, Eardrums their bapteßrerooni
and nci
theyg armed to be pretty equally matched:
It was suggested that the men of whom oar soldiers
aid Bailors were node, were shivering for fear is the tap- '
room, end that, although they were singing, it war only to
keep their courage up. (A laugh.) It was true the prose.
motor supplied them with sticks, and there woe no doubt
that they were well armed. It was said they were very
quietly inclined, but from what he knew of his own
countrymen, he did not believe it ; be believed that tea or
• dozen Englishmen armed with stirs would be rather too
reedy to hue • fight, aid that they would sot have been
afraid to encounter 50 Bair The anggention on the
part of the ptaeeeaton woe that • number of Italians tried
be fors their way into the room, but the primmer alone
roserd is pitting is, sad that he first stabbed the pro-
secutor and then the other two men. The case, however, on
Mrs part of thsVasoser was thin that the two parties were
en bad terms and were abusing each other, and that the
Hagfish called to the Baru to come out sad meet tbam,
and opened the door of the bagatelle-room its that purpose,
and that three or four of the Italians got into the bagatelle.
room, and that it wu not true that Peliasiosi was the
may roam that got in. Among those who got in were
the two Moguls, and Oregorio found that hie brother
had bees severely maltreated sod was bleeding, sod
be himself was wounded, and be drew him rife and
stabbed Rebbeck, Harrington, and Bannister. The pri-
soner had been at the house oh the evening in question ;
but before anything took place be bad left, and riot to
the Borders public-hour, which was are by, and while
be was there he was told there was • senor row going on
at the Golden Anchor, and having considerable influence
ever his eountrnnan, be went to the Golden Ascher solely for
the purger of making peace. He passed through the tap-
room quickly ; he went into the bsgstalle-room, and he was
felled to the ground inetastly, and fell upon the body of ,
Harrington, and almost immediately afterwards be was '
taken into custody upon the charge of murder, both of the
'brothers .lingoi rim in the interval, made their escape.
Toe loosed rasa then referred to the evidence that bad
loon given by Mr. Shaw, sod observed that it we. clear
there was a diffusive of feeling and opining between him
sad his wife with regard to the prisoner, and he said be
should show that it was OregorO and not the wirer who
made or of the expression about killing six English-
men that was attributed to the latter by Mr.
Shaw. He next referred to the terrible state of
excitement sod confusion that prevailed at the Golden
Anchor nn tbie night, and said Out although this might
mount for • good many of the contradictions in the ri-
ders of the different Intl:NOM, he was afraid that the jury
would in the Tar be repelled to come to the coochisios
that many of the wrier had wilfully endeavoured to
deceive the Whore befogs whom they were *zeroed.
As to the statements that had been made by Harringtos
when on his deathbed, and by Robber when he undoubt-
edly believed that he was dying, be believed they had
stated what they believed to be true. but that io the coo-
ditios they were in at the time their nervosa eat-eu was
shakos, sod they had made a miatake—although be would
cords that they believed at the time they wens apsalriog
the truth. He aid he thought that nothing aould have
been more unfair, or more likely to divert &trona°. from •
guilty person to an Wrest one than the proceeding that
vas adopted by the police, of only planing one Italian with
a moustache before the persons who wars to be required to
Identify him. He asked the jury whether, upon the en-
der before than, them was anything to show that it was
Immovable for this. or four prose to hays got Into the
bagatelle-ream, and whether, on tho contrary, it was not
abundantly clear that they easily cord bar does se. The
learned sarjeaut next proceeded le comment spa the evi-
dence of the different witnesele for the presser, and to
abs meaner in which tits prosecutor had ocielsedisted him-
self
with retard to the pnseeer being the nee whip reeked
down Mr King; and he remarked that if the wirer was
teethe man who did this, it was dear that be could sot
have committed the act of 'tabbies the promoutor and the
ether two parr ; for it was the ors cis the part of the
prosecution that all these acts were committed by one
ran. With regard to the evident* of Mrs. Slag, he said
he thought it was almost Naar, from the different story
she told when she was first arra before the magistrate,
that by some Maser or ether she had bees Induced to'
alter her evidence, so as to maks it dovetail with the theory
al the proescutioa that the prisoner woe the guilty man.
The re pre Aerations would apply to wet of the
err wirers, and ha sonsidered be was perfectly justified
k saying that the procesitios had bees got up dishonestly,
and that err infirm' had been improperly brought
is her upon the wirers who bad bees examined.
Every MO of the wirers swore is the first
Later that there was a rash of Italians into the room,
sad every ass at them now attempted to shafts away from
that stareasell when they four that it was troonsiatrot
with the we that wee to be set up for the prosecution.
He said that the wirer Brasier was a most imp:neat
repdos, and the ender he gave expired very clearly
why be was not celled as a witness en the former loisL He
was usdeuredly worded upon the octssioo; bat what was
his evidence! Why, that • number of Hairs rubbed Into
the baptale-rooss, and that the primer was moor them;
sod this was exactly what he was isaretod to peeve on
the pert of the prisoner. They would alio remember that
this poor young mu, although no doubt severely rjured.
sod probably astir to park the men who lad injured
him, etdl admitted that besstortaised grave doers whether
the primmer was the mat who stabbed the prosoontor, sad
he parted in this story notwithatinediag the attempts
that had bra made by the police to iron him
to prosecute sad alter his testimony. Ms then
diservid upon the exprorke of Harrington that
be rawer the man with the black marthe,
sod 'aid lao should prim that at the time eel