The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

GREENWICH.

Inspector Reece, of the Berke county constabulary,
stationed at Windsor, attended the court to receive charge
of a prisoner named Worm Baker, who has several aliases,
on a warrant granted so far back as June, 1865, for a
highway robbery with violence upon Captain M'Kay,
nephew of Mr. G. H. Vanaittart, of Bisham-abbey, Berks.
It appeared that the prisoner was given into custody a
few days ago for robbin:iiftan of two sovereigns and two
half-sovereigns while riding together in • cab in the neigh-
bourhood of Greenwich. e was remanded to Maidstone
Gaol, and there the prison authorities identified him as
having been frequently in custody. In 1849, when about
nine or ten years of age, he was convicted of stealing at
Tunbridge Wells, and was sentenced to three weeks' im-
prisonment and to be whipped. In 1853 he was
put upon his trial at Maidstone on • charge of
burglary, and acquitted. In the following year
he was indicted for manslaughter: and, being con-
victed, escaped with a month's imprisonment. He
was subsequently tried at the Surrey Sessions, and, being
found guilty, underwent twelve months' imprisonment.
In 1561 he was again in custody for passing counterfeit
coin at Seal, near Seveneaks, Kent, when, although hand-
cuffed by both wrists, be succeeded in making his escape
from the police. He afterwards appeared to have followed
the occupation of a cab-driver in the neighbourhood of
Windsor, and at the races at Ascot, in June, 1865, he was
engaged to cone Captain M'Kay from the race-course to
the residence of Mr. G. H. Vannttart, of Bisham-abbey,
instead of doing which he and another man (since con-
victed) drove the cab into • lane, where Captain M'Kay
was attacked and robbed.

It was stated that the man robbed in the cab declined to
prosecute, having been kept out of the way by the pri-
soner's companions, and
Mr. Trail ordered the prisoner to be given up to the
custody of Inspector Reece, by whom he was conveyed to
Berkshire last evening.

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELEN'S.—Shortly
after 12 o'clock on S •turday eight last a murder was com-
mitted near St. Helen's. The murdered man is Adam
Mather, about 60 years of age, who lived in a detached
house at Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on
the St. Helen's-road. He was a man in easy circumstances.
possessing • good income from household property, but to
fill up his time worked at the Garwood Colliery as fire-
man. It appears that the deceased and his wife, having
been to St. Helen's on Saturday night, retired to bed
shortly after 12 o'clock. They bad been in bed some four
or five minutes when the attention of Mrs. Mather was
aroused by hearing a drawer being opened in an ad-
joining room. She told her husband, and at the
same time said it was not " Dan," referring to
their son, who bad not then got home. Mather,
having got out of bed, went to see who the in-
truder was, and seeing a man whom be did not know
said, " What are thou doing here? thou had better be
going." The man then made a rush at Mather, and with
a razor which he had taken from a drawer cut a severe
gash across the deceased's throat and chin. The wife
hearing a scuffle went to see what it was, and seeing
her husband on the Boor covered with blood, she rushed
out of the house screaming " Murder," and went towards
• neighbour's named Mort. Before she got many yards
the murderer came upwith her and stabbed her in two
places, and struck her in the face, which caused her to
fall to the ground. He then made off. The man Mort,
having been aroused, came out of his house, and Mrs.
Mather told him the direction the murderer had
taken. Mort followed, but was not able to come
up with him. Ho immediately afterwards pro-
ceeded to St. Helen's and informed Dr. Jamieson,
who at once proceeded to the house of Mather, and in-
formation having been given to the police, Superintendent
Ludlam mustered his force and sent scouts through the
county. The murderer was traced across several fields,
but upon approaching the railway all clue was lost. He
left his clogs at Mather's door, and his cap was found near
to the deceased. He is said by Mrs. Mather to be about
40 years of age, light hair, under middle height, and had
the appearance of a tramping collier. The clogs have
duck-bill irons. two brass eyelet boles on each side, and
two on each tongue, with brass tae-tips. Apiece is cut out
of each hind quarter to give room for the ancle bone. His
cap is of brown cloth, ribbed in three-inch squares, old and
greasy. He was dressed in cord trousers, and had on •
light coat, and speaks with a Lancashire dialect. The un-
fortunate deceased lived about belt an boor. Our Liver-
pool correspondent, writing last evening, says : A man named
John Smith, a tramp, bag been arrested on the charge.
When taken into custody he was without cap and shoes,
and the right arm of his shirt was wet as though recently
washed. There was blood upon the sleeves and other
parts. Smith accounted for this by saying that he bad
been in a " row" at St. Helen's on the previous night.
The only money found upon him was some rippers. This
evidence having been taken before the magistrates, yester-
day, the case was remanded. The cap and clogs found in
Mather'. house bare been identified as belonging to Smith.
One man who has come forward states that the clogs were
offered to him by Smith for Bile recently, but be refused
them because they were cut in the sides. Another man
states that the cap found is one which he himself lately
exchanged with Smith for a hat. Front inquiries made
yesterday our correspoudents learn that Mrs. Mather,
though much injured about the face and neck, is in no
immediate danger.
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