The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-15 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPT TO NUMB A POLICE

DiSPECMR.

Edward Mark Council, a pensioner from the Royal
Bagbeere, formerly employed at Woolwich was
yeetteler chirped, to rimmed, at the Woolwlck D°Pc=eoarit,
winith le mode, Mr. James William Budd, odor
at
etednesalay, the 6th lost the deskyard, by a laded pistol
Veleed, W.,lir*
The court we dewily crowded, bat pressenter wee sot la
attendsom, fa of his preset week condition,
malting lima the in mho reesived.
Thomas Peters, waiver et the Black Beet. Tavern. oPPG- I
die Os Deritysed gates, Chnroh-emeet, Woolwich, deposed
that Oa prisoner bed boa astir daily WO of visiting the
Bidiseafe. Witness knew that the prisoner bad bees
kora the Dockyard, sod hedl heard him complain
of Oa the of Wednieday, the
Oh WO., L allgebeimeLr ems to the Black Lies, and left
abet Om* teintee r time deka. After his departure
WiIIISM hued a robot el pews as the seat where the pri-
soner hei hem Oting. Be took the pocket, intending to
beep it me Imo whiner inquired for it. About two boars
saw be heard that the prisoner had shot Mr. Budd, and he
Oa delivered the packet to the polies.
flees mere, which consisted of letters written by the
police, clearly indicative of long-cherished malice to the
peoonier, wire hooded to our reporter by Mr. Beeetree,
Met &eh of thsceort.

Tle Its& ;kaig b • espy of • letter addressed by the pri-
sm, is Ilk. Pus Jewson, 8, Bt. Thome-pleas, Lambeth,
em tie des pevtom to the occemisatos of the dia.
Weil est :

" Woolwich, Oct. 6, 1868.
Dam spin write to you, but shall corer do
is awls., .
the time this reaches you I shell hare dons
what I My misfortunes hare been great, but by
the Po WWos restates you all will be at an end, and I hops
Vie iappaludty will scour this night. I erM sheet my old
dal IdeeM Wore I go. When you come to Woolwich, ask
tbi pima windier that unfortunate fellow, Council, left
I. I give you, as my last remembrance, my medal
One dew. I bees yawned list Greenwich, and send
yea lie Minh ' Ton tea lake It out end sell It for fa., or
yea sea heepit. If you lake it to the barrack., they will
eve 76s Me Sawereawall east, 12a. 6d. for It. I will now
does, sad ellberialt a peat sinner, my prayers will be heard
g eeed as asea en thole el Archbishop of Canterbury, or
so=lPiaci Roma Therefore, pity your unfortunate
ifileed, Edward Mark Council, who ought rather
to sign Mundt tbe Hon. B. H. Scott, my grandfather, the
Chief Judea et Ireland, in 1798, being Earl of Clonmei.
So anal be pser Ned. My cousin now lives in Eton-
elasalt—Likalsiesag Boat, of the Coldstream Guards—but
he Imam aa/Mag dins, and arm will unless be reads elle
law pews; sad I hops the prim will espoes the villainy
while MS to my murder. May I be psrmited be take the
id eap perjurer and I shall die happy."
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Another letter, kowtow the awe date, ow Wood to
Mr. 0. J. Owes:, wooer' sad stets, : I hoe sot ro-
osted potilloes to the etteteeeteet, bat 0107 ill play
the see tattooist Old eddies who how bled eat
essatry sn Wood Mot dogs, sad 'Bowel to beg sad Om,
by s est et yahoo who thandos get Ist as the peello
woo. They get onkel it by asylum •itle go ;
Baehr the law ? set the norselostives of the pools, but
the 4- stowdwitser? of. Chiba lioseL Alto tab-
.

hag away my former peasisa they pee me 9d. a day; bat a
day et retribution will same, sod a maw as bad
as that et the &goys la India will be the result
The aid midis is amt away se weir% sad
le lam Anglia althea the ass slag weeper thinks al his
linos. I write dais is the assmasr and jury who will it on
rag body, mad trot they wfil ambler the vita wrongs which
hd le my mesder. Mr. Troth, the magistrate, ie as
*ad man, or he would not have reftued my application for
a Imams value Inspector Budd for perjury. He is my
warier, backed up by a rotten and infamous government.
Mr. Carew and gentleman of the jary, forgive the unfarta-
ale wren* upon whom you ne boidb6 se baggily, sad
make public the manner an which he iv berm fajored. If I
samased ia my intention I die in pmt.—Bowsvo than
Convect."
Mr. Twill now remanded the prisoner until Saturday, the
2ilrd last