The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-22 00:00:00

MARLBOBOUGH-BTRBST.

John Clark disiorms, described cm the ohargeshest u a
wine merchant, reeidleg at Large, Ayrshin, was charged
with seesling, at Lene's Hotel, at Jame's, a geld watch
end silver guard, together with a Crimea' medal and a knife,
the et Lieutenant Evan Paden Wltayne, late of
the l7th Foot, reading at Litlisid-place, Chtton, near
Bristol.

1711Tproseentor stated that he arrived in London at 6on
Ikeda, evening, and went to the Three Tans public-hones
In Moor-street, where, in a crowded room, he met the pri-
soner, and got into conversation. They went away together
In a alb to a supper and oyster moms, and thence to Lane's
Hotel, where he (prosecutor) had put no. After some li,tle
time he fell salesp, and, waking, mimed from his waistcoat
pocket his gold watch and chain, which he had seen oafs on
his estranee. The prisoner was still in the same room, and
he asked hint to give it up. The prisoner said he knew no-
thing &booth, and threatened to pitch him out of the window.
Honked an alarm, the police were sent for, and the prisoner
given in charge. He also mimed a Crimean medal and
pocket-knife, and these articles were subsequently found on
then=sr. The value of the property was 361.
Codenbarn, the night porter at Lane's, said—Pro-
mouth" and prisons came in about two in the mottling, and
both bad been drinking. Prosecutor, after sleeping some
time, awoke and called out that he had lost his watch. The
police were sent for, and the watch we. then found under one
slats tutors of the table.

The eootti•dsaidhoWase knife and medal got in hie pooket
was quite • mystery to him.
Remanded for • week; but admitted to bail In two
.eels at 801. each.

THAMES.
Amongst the applicants a stalwart, weather-betten'ssaman
peeped in among the crowd, and said he had some very un-
portant information to tarniah to the magietrate, which might
save mach trouble, and be the means of clearing up a no-
tary. Oa being desired to enter the witness-box. he said
his aims wee Francis Reeves, that be was in the employ of
the Trbdtv 11011/0 Cori:scream, and that ha was at present
living at No. 1, Tilley-street, Poplar New Town.. He was
one of the mew tithe Primo..., Channel light ship, stational
of Haas Bay, mad was two months on board and one month
on shore. On the 4th of November last the body of a
, mem, who he bad no doubt woe a limbo in Lis life-
' time, was seen floating past the vessel. The muter of the
light-ship gave immediate orders to get up some ballast
to sink the body. The tinier was obeyed, and the ballast
was tied up in a piece of old emend mad mad* fast to the
body with a rope. Another canvas beg, oleo containing
was made fast to the legs of the demand, but that
was not sufficient to sink it, and se the tide wee drifting
Use body past the fight vessel, the crew had no time to
attach more ballast to It, and the meter gave orders to
prick it. The body wee mooed la places, and
drifted eat towards the deeps" end was some lost to view.
On the 16th of Nofteribte he reed in a newapsper, left
on board by • passing abeam tog, an account of the
audios of a body at Westgate Bay, near Marsate, and an
account of the Mellleal Inquest upon it. It wee stated
that the body presented marks of violence, was stabbed in
several places and two bags of canvas were attached to it.
The jury had come to the conclusion, from the extraordinary
Mrctunstanoes connected with the cue that a foul murder
had been committed, and that the deoneeed had been mur-
dered on board ship, and after be was repeatedly stabbed,
bags of sand were attached to the body, and it was thrown
overboard. A verdict of trate murder wee returned against
some persons unknown, and the coroner was in communi-
cation with the authorities in a foreign country, to whi,h the
ship from which the body la supposed to have been thrown
had returned. He had no doubt whatever that the body
which drifted into Westgate Bay, was the imam as that
which floated past the light-ship, and to whit& twat
What were attached, and afterwards pierced. The Wm
made in the body with a harpoon were mistaken for stabs
inflicted before death, and the description given of the body
on which the inquest was held corresponded In every re-
spect with the body which wee handled by the crew of the
light-014. He had thought it his duty to communicate
with his worship directly he came on shore, that Innocent
parsons might not be brought into trouble, and charged with
• murder they had not committed. He believed the body had
been identified as that of a North Sea pilot, who left a port In
the north with a foreign ship which was wrecked, and the
mew, or a portion thereof, saved.
Mr. Yaruley said he had read of the finding of a body in
Westgate Bay, sad that its peculiar appsaraoailed to a sus-
ploion that • murder had been committed at sea. The state-
ment just made was of the highest importance, and the more
publicity was given to It the better. The applicant bad done
quite right fa comber to that court and making the state-
ment he had done, and he hoped that if anybody was taken
into custody on suspicion of murder, the justice who would
have to hear the case would he Written to and informed of
what had taken place.

The applicantrthen retired, end said he should comrausi-
oats by fewer with the authorities at Marcus.