The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1867.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

HANDICAP PLATE. Half & mile.

Queen of Trumps, Thit ifarle7junia, 7st 61h Her La.ly.
ship, 74 21b ; Panacea, list 121 b ; Sylph, 64 816 ; King
Charles, list 71h. All are here.

VETERAN STAKES. Three miles.
Lincoln, erley, Gemerre, Shakespeare, and Dermot
Asthore are here.

GRAND MILITARY GOLD CUP. Three miler.
Pixie, Remedy, Forloni Hope, The Falcon, King Arthur,
King Pippin, Tally Flu, Bird of Passage, Lincoln, and
Tiger are here.

LIVERPOOL SPRING CCP. One mile and a half.
Honesty, Skirmish, Fortunatus, Duchess of Wellington.
Honestish, Wellesley, Rejoinder, Clarice, Foresight, and
King Charles are here.

1'i11) I''oBrrrr.lWsithuess, Musketeer, and The Russian
Bee.

MILITARY HINTERS' RACK. Three miles.
The Falcon, Newcastle, Amy, The Cardinal, and The
Banker are here.

• STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP. Three miles.
Dermot Asthere, Lightbmirt, Rennet, Shangarry, Re-
volver, Despatch, Silver Star, Doctor, Sea King, Sensa-
tion, Bodkin in, Duke, King Arthur, and Genievre are
here.

l'Arn Foßreir.—Flyfither, L.S.D., Albrighten, and
Grace Darling.

Annivan.—Wandering Blinstrel, Mn. Allan, and Edg-
baaton.

THE ALLEGED HURLER IN BERMONDSEY.-
ANOTHER MAN ARRESTED.

INQUWT.-(THIS DAY.)

•
At half-past ten o'clock this forenoon Mr. \V. J.
Payne resumed, at Guy's Hospital, an inquiry touching
the death of Michael Wilton, aged 53 years, who was
,e supposedd to have been
Maker
k of leather. On last Monday
week in the evening he went into the King Jelm's Head
public house, Bennondacy.square, and he treated several
persons to drink. A man named Crawley and a woman
named Harriet Gilbert. a widow, who had partaken of
the deceased's beer, left the house between 11 and 12
o'clock ; the deceased followed them, and all three were
seen to go into a fish shop, when Wilton again stood treat.
Gilbert represented to Bade, the fishmonger, that she was
the deceased's wife, and she took :id. belonging to him.
They left the shop together. Next morning the deceased
was found lying in Long-walk, Bermondsey, not far from
Crawley's door. He had serious injuries to the head, and
he died therefrom the same day. His pocket was torn,
and there was no money on his person. The injuries to
the front of the deceased's head might have been at-
tributed to a fall which he had received in the public.
house, but those at the side and back of his head ap-
peared to have been caused by kicks or blows. Crawley
and the woman Gilbert have been arrested by the police ou
suspicion of having robbed the deceased.
Inspector Sillifant produced a plan of the Long-walk,
Bermondsey, the street in which the deceased was found
lying injured, and on it was marked the residence of the
man Crawley, and the house in which the woman Gilbert
had lived, The inspector said that the police had arrested
another man on suspicion of being concerned in the mur-
der. His name was William Blaney, and he lived near the
man Crawley. The arrest took place on Monday. He had
been taken before the magistrate, who remanded him.
Robert Beavis, 490 ?d, said that when he came up to
the deceased on the morning in question he found bbn
lying on the ground. Two policemen, named Langley
and Burt, were standing near him. It was then a little
before 4 o'clock in the morning. Neither of the police-
men had their staves in their hand. Witness did not see
a policeman strike the deceased. There was a civilian
standing near, he said that the man was drunk. The man
Blaney, now in custody, was not that civilian.
Police-constable Longley said that when he first saw the
deceased on the ground no one was near him. Three
policemen came up in half a minute. He looked like a
drunken man. .Witness shook him. He raised him
slightly off the ground. He did not let him fall on the
ground and injure the back of his head. The police did
not strike the deceased.

Sergeant Hereon said that he bad arrested the man
Blaney. He lived at No. 23, Abbey-street. He said, "I went
into the King John's Head on Monday night about 11
o'clock, and had a pint of beer. There were two pints of
beer on the counter. Wilton was there. I paid for my beer.
I left at 11 o'clock. I went to the fish-shop, and had fish,
which I paid for. I left Crawley, Gilbert, and the deceased
there. It was 12 o'clock. I went to a baked potato-shop
in the Grange-road, and took one pennyworth of potatoes
home to my family. That is all I know of it." Witness
went to the shop—to Grange-road—but they did not re-
member serving the prisoner.
Police-constable Burt, 164 11, said that he thought the
deceased was drunk when he saw him lying on the pave-
ment. He did not see the police strike him.
Police-constable Hawkins said he was quite certain none
of the police struck the deceased while he was present.
Margaret Higgins, a widow, living at No. 3, Long-walk,
Bermondsey-square, said that the amused man Crawley
lodged in the first floor of her house. Crawley went
out at 7 o'clock in the morning of the day of
the alleged murder. Witness did not see him until the
morning after. He then went to work as usual. He had
not returned home at 12 o'clock on the night of the fatal
occurrence. There were other young men living in the
house. Their names were Sweeney, Callaghan, and Bar-
rett. There were two young Barrette. They came in at
7 o'clock on the night in question after they had had a row
in the square. Witness saw Crawley in custody. He said,
"I am innocent. 1 was so drunk that I did not know that
I was in the King John's Head." There were three rooms
in witness's house. One was a kitchen.
A juror—Could Crawley and the woman Gilbert have
taken the deceased into the kitchen of your house without
your knowing it!
_ . . .

..
Witnese—l do not know. Ido not think they would
do it.

Elisabeth Pope, the wife of an engineer, living at 112,
Long-walk, whose house was exactly opposite Crawley's,
said at 10 minutes to 1 on the morning of Tuesday week
she was waiting up for her husband, who had gone to the
theatre. She fell salsep and was awoke by a loud
knocking at a street door. She went to the window and
looked out and said, "Is that you, father ?" She meant
her husband. The man Crawley said, " No, ma'am, it's
me." Crawley was quite alone at that time. The street
was quite quiet, and Crawley, who was very tipsy, then
went and closed his door. He 'tumbled from the effects
of drink. At 20 minutes to 2 o'clock her husband re-
turned home. In a short time witness asked
her husband if he heard a noise. She heard
• " sort of a noise" at the top of the square, uif four or
five men were quarrelling. Witness and her husband then
heard four or five men run past their window. They were
on witness's side of the street. She did not hear them
call out. Their " footsteps soddenly ceased," as if they
had turned off abort down some turning. Witness heard
nothing more. In the morning, at 9 o'clock, witness
beard that the deceased had been found on the pavement.
A juror said that Crawley could get into his house
without knocking. His street door was on the latch.
The witness could not say whether any of the men had
turned into any of the houses in her street. She heard no
person groan.
The potboy at the King John's Head said that he was
present at the row in the tavern on the night that the de-
ceased was there. The sow was between two men, and
the deceased did not interfere in it. He was drunk, and
be left thel house. At 10 minutes to 1 o'clock the
boy saw the deceased, two men, and Crawley standing
outside the house. There was a woman with them. That
woman was not Mrs. Gilbert. Mrs. Gilbert went away
with two men some time previoualy. The boy would know
the other woman again.
The Coroner said that as the case went on the plot
seemed to thicken, for other people were brought into the
affair.

the fishmonger, was rec.illed, and he Raid that the
accused Blaney was with Crawley. Gilbert, and the de-
ceased in hia house on the night in question. It was then
10 odnutes to 1 o'clock.

The Coroner ear tltat there was a strong case of suspi-
cion against the persons at present in custody, and he
thought that it would be advisable to adjourn the inquiry,
for the purpose of getting further evidence. Four men
dept in Crawley's room, and it would be well to have them
brought before the wort and let them state at what time
the man Crawley had gone to bed on the night of the
alleged murder.
The Proceedings were accordingly adjourned.

FALL or Snow.—(Tees DAY.) —As early as 2
o'clock this morninganow commenced falling, and has con-
tinued at intervals up to the time of our going to press.
At 10 o'clock the wind was blowing in a northeasterly
direction. and the large flaked of snow drifted thickly
about as in the depth of a severe winter. The steamboat
traffic was • touch impeded, the pilots being unable to see
which course to steer. The thaw of the snow on its de-
scent has made the streets very muddy and unpleasant.
SA MORS AND CRIM PS. —The chaplain to the
Sailors' Home asserts that "nine•tenths of the misery
suffered by sailors' wives and families might be wholly
avoided if their wives could meet them at their ships, and
take them straight home. These homes must necessarily
be close to the docks and shipping offioex. The chief
mischief arises within twenty-four hours of his first
patting foot on shore." For my part, I don't see what is
to prevent each seaman receiving part of his pay when the
ship arrives in dock, as the act requires. Let a policeman
attend to prevent crimp* and other thieves from entering
the ship, and an omnibus or van come alongside and take
our and ourselves to the railway station, or to
any baggage
within four or five miles, for Is. or so a
head. We could then go straight home at once, the rest
of the wages, with the papers, being forwarded to our
homes through the post-office. How many sailors' wives
and families would bless the shipowner who took this
little trouble on their account ! Ah, but what would the
crimp interest say ?—Argosy for March.