The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN CANNON-STREET.
Shortly] after after Waltman Smith, whoethade,
on suelffelon with the murder of Earth Million, thftde-
keeper of Messrs. Bevington,had undergone examination
at the Justice-room of the Mansicet-house, on Wednesday,
he was pined among 14 other men, some of whom had
been brought in from the street indiacriminately, and
passed with them along a corridor below the court, in
which a young woman had been previously stationed. As
they peened before her she selected the prisoner from among
the *hole number, and will be called as a witness at
the next examination. She is housekeeper at • homed
ad johing that of Messrs. Bevington, and about lff
o'clock on the night of the murder she had gone out
upon an errand. On her return, in less than a quarter of
an hour afterwards, and as she was entering her manor's
door, she heard Mews. Bevington's front door slammed
violently, and saw a man have their premise* by it. When
called as a witness she will state whether or not she has any
belief as to who the man was. The circumstance of a man
leaving at that hour struck her as unusual, and she men-
tioned it to a fellow-servant when she entered the house,
looking at • clock as she did so. It was then a quarter-
past 10, and it will be recollected that this was exactly
the time at which Messrs. Bevington's cook, concerned
at the prolonged absence of the deceased, went down-
stairs to learn the cause of it, and found her dead and.
the body still warm. The circumstances which led to
the prisoner's meet are curious, and relleet credit on
the zeal and astuteness of these of the City police who
were employed in the matter. Finding on the morning
afadtegeZmegderronieng the demand:a
to net 111 end Um. of George TeZ,ib.
evidence at the Mansion-house on I% ednesday, it e
important to lean who and what the writer was. At
that time the pollee had • theory as to the murder quite
independent 'of that letter, but it !tided entirely on
conjecture. Upon inquiry they found that a man named
Terry had some years ago been employed under the
Messrs. Berington, at their mills in Bermondsey, and was
likely to have been acquainted with Million, the husband
of the deceased, who had also been employed there, and
likewise with the declined herself, but the firm knew
nothing of what bad become of him. The letter was with-
out date or address, and though an address was attached
to the receipt on the back of it for IL, which the deemed
had paid, it proved to be a false one. Further inquiries
resulted in showing that Terry had lapsed into poverty
alter leaving the service of Harm Bevingten, and lad
become an inmate of a workhouse. Such was the dili-
genes with which those inquiries were pursued that in
little more than twelve hours after the murder Inspector
Hamilton and Sergeant Moss, of the City detective pollee,
found the man of whom they were in quest—namely,
Terry—at a workhouse in Bermondsey. He was not
then at all likely to have heard of the murder, for it did
not become generally known until the evening of that
day. For some time they did not produce the
letter before him, nor tell him who they were, or
what was their object. Indeed they partly suspected at
that time that he was concerned in the murder. After a
long interview, in which little or nothing that was satisfac-
tory was disclosed by him, but being, nevertheless, con-
vinced that they had found a clue, they left him for the
night and returned to see him next morning. On the
, second interview he was confronted with the letter pur-
porting to have been written by him to Mrs. Killeen, and
before they parted he explained that, before he was an
inmate of the workhouse, he had become acquainted
with a young man at a publichouse at which lunging
entertainments were given in the evenings, that they
afterwards lodged together at a house in Kentatreet,
Borough ; that in the °ours° of their acquaintance Terry
disclosed some of his private affairs to him, and among
others the loan transaction of :iO/. odd to the housekeeper
of Messrs. Bevington, which he had procured for her,
and which she had not repaid ; and that the young man,
whose name he did not then know, undertu4i to get the
money for him. On hearing of the murder from them
Terry gave further information, and ultimately accom-
panied `.sergeant Moss and I'ulice-constable Hancock, de-
tective officers, to Eton on Tuesday last, thus becoming
hurl:mental to the apprehension of the man who now
stands charged on suspicion with the murder. From the
murderer, whoever he be, having left no vestige behind
him on the scene of his crime, tending to indemnify
him, the pollee almost despaired at first ; but possessed of
ithe slender clue afforded by the letter, on which, evi-
dently for purposes of concealment, a false address was
written, they have pushed their inquiries to a result in
less than a week, which, in their opinion, fixes suspicion
at least upon one man.— Times.

Zoo Lamar, SOCIETY.—At the monthly general
meeting held yesterday, at the society's house in Hanover-
square—Mr. Robert Hudson, V.P., F.A.S. in the chair—
her Serene Highness the Princess Soltykod, his Grace the
Duke of St. Alban's, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir A. Fitzge-
rald, Bart., Major-General C. H. Burnaby, R.A., Colonel
Astley, Major Geisford, Dr. C. B. Brown, Rev. T. J.
Batchelor, Professor G. M. Humphry, Mrs. M. J. Kidd,
Mrs. H. De la Peer, Mrs. A. V. Owen, and Messrs. D.
Leckie, W. C. Peltherhain, W. B. Simmonds. W. S. Potter,
F. Griffin, T. J. Miller, T. Atkinson, J. Ludam, M. A.
Dam, M.P., W. W. Sprigge, J. Wilkinson, R. A. Barlow,
A. H. Paley, N. V. E. Vaughan, T. Chamberlayne, W.
Ewing K. Easton, G. A. Andey. N. Lubbock, L. Levy, T.
R. Williams, G. Penton, H. Hardy, C. 11. Allen, G. E. Fox,
and G. Hallett were elected Fellows of the society. Fifty-
six new candidates for the fellowship were proposed for
election at the next meeting in May.
THE CAR FARES OF LONDON.—Alderman Begley,
on taking his seat at the Guildhall police court yester-
day, said he had received a communication from Sir
Richard Mayne, enclosing the list of hackney carriage
fares according to the recent measurement of distances
from Charing-cross railway station. The table was a very
valuable one, and he should request that it be mounted
and hung-up in the court for the information of the public
and the magistrates. A gentleman in court quite con-
curred with the remarks of the alderman, and suggested
that if Sir Richard Mayne would have a number of them
printed in book form and compel every waterman of • cab
rank to sell them for Id. or 2d. to every one that might
wish to buy them it would be a public boon. The water-
men might be paid a commission out of them so that it
would pay them for their labour. Alderman 1301107 said
it was a very good suggestion.
A WARNING TO PARENT`.—The following appears
in the Times :—" Permit me to solicit your sympathy by
giving publicity in your valuable columns to the following
heart-rending case :—My eldest girl, aged 11, was sitting in
the Kennington-park yesterday morning with my youngest
girl, an infant of 11 months, in her arms, when a oung
woman, who was sitting opposite to her, beckoned her to
come and sit beside her, and after conversing for some time
asked to be allowed to nurse the baby for a little while,which
she did,and then said she would take the baby and buy her
a cake at a refreshment-booth in the park, promising to
return immediately. Five or six minutes elapsed, and my
claughtor, finding she did not come back, ran to look for
her, but the woman had gone out of the park, taking my
poor baby with her. We at once communicated with the
police, but up to the present time have learnt no tidings.
The woman was about 20 years of age, of medium height,
pale face covered with blotelies, dark hair in a chenille net,
and had on a common description of black velvet hat
trimmed with beads round the brim, a rusty black shawl,
and a light linsey dress. Trusting this may lead to the
restoration of m_y child, I urn, sir, yours gratefully,
A DISTRACTED PARENT. 24, Albert-street, Kennington-
park-road, April 19."
SIXTEEN GRAMPUSES ASHORE IN WALES. —Last
Saturday morning a long arr..y of these sea animals was
seen at Valley, three miles east of Holyhead, wending their
way in the stream that separates the island of Holyhead
from that of Anglesea towards the St. George's Chan-
neL Having been arrested on their way by the rail-
way embankment, it is believed that they got con-
fused, and made towards the Anglesea coast at Valley.
The receding tide left them with a sandbank be-
tween the land and the Irish sea, and, failing to find their
way to its extremities, they became quite enraged, and
those who witnessed the agonies of the animals in their
anxiety to get to their ocean home describe the scene as
being a very rareorie. The larger grampuses were seen to
jump over the smaller ono, and the latter making their
way towards the sea would return to their senior partners,
who were unable to follow their comrades in shallow
water. The workmen of the Valley Foundry witnessing
all this repaired towards the invading A-my with cutlasses,
ropes, dagger, ke. No sooner had the men commenced
the difficult and heartreniliag business of killing the dis-
tressed visitors than the latter became exceedingly furious.
The deep gashes inflicted and the bullets seemed to add to
rather than diminish the vigour displayed by the animals
for their lives. The bay is said to be coloured by the
blood shed. Ropes were fastened to the tails of some, while
others were killed in the water ; all were secured after an
encounter of seven house, they were then tugged to shore by
four boats, when three horses completed the work by
drawing them up the beach to the land. Their carcases are
truly grand, allbmring signs of an awful conflict for life.
The smallest of these animals measures sit, the remaining
ones of intermediate sizes. Hundreds have been seen
wending their way before and during storms from the St.
Georges Channel towards the Irish Sea, and rice versa,
on the west coast of Holyhead Island, near the Stack
Lighthouse. They are reported always to be passing in
regular lines of • quarter of smile to one mile long, lifting
their heads above the waves. It is believed that these
numbers caught formed part of a larger group, but
were separated in search of small fish, which abound in
this bay.
POPULAR Asresamccra TN NORTH CAROLINA.—
A recent letter from Wilmington, N.C., states that on the
15th Met., eight coloured men and one white were strung
up by the thumbs in the moat frequented street of that
city at noon, stripped and flogged—till the agent of the
Freedmen's Bureau arrived and interrupted this recon-
structed amusement.—New York Trilotne.