The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

THE STORAGE OP GUAPOWDEL

At the inetice-mote of the Mansion-howl°,
obterday, Miners. Lew and Joyce, gunmaker% of
hiesolticed:e-street, and No. 2, Sweet' s-coot, 41141.4
Trinity-lane, C.ty, appeared before the Lord M.iyor to
gnawer five summonses taken out by lu.peeter Cater, of
the City Police, charging them with various odeneee
t.itinit. the tiunyowder Ad. The first sumo'. ,n 4 alle4ed
tLat the defendants did unlawfully, wtthout any lionise
for that purpose, carry ou the manufacture of ammuni-
tion within a dietetic, of 100 yards of divers dwelling
homes. In the second summons they were charged with
keeping a quantity of cartridges, containing 61bl. of gun-
powder and upwards, in a place not licensed for that p 17.
pore, pursuant to the 23rd and 24th Vict , cap. 139. They
were charged, thirdly, with makiWg q uantity of cartridges
tt e raper strop of ailing and charging which war perform •el
Ma building Fitnatc eta di tans low than twenty yarcli
frontother workshops connected with the same manufac-
ture ; fourthly, with keeping a factory for the in thing of
tnniunition, not having a magaine'built with brick or
stone for Fairly keeping gunpowder used in the menu-
tattnie of cnrtlidges, and the cartridges made at each
factory ; and fifthly, that they, being manufacturers of
cert./Wl:etc d tl have ut one Cane ou their pretniku 2.1311 u.
of tompowdt r.
air. Nelion, the City Solicitor, Amami In soproort of
the adantnotu-eg; and the defendants were' reprirJanted by
by lir. Metcalfe, her, nitt,r (Instructed by ide:eirs. %Vuntuer
and Sao). . . . . .

Iteq osier Carter having been *worn, gave the follow.nit
midi nee. ton the 4th Men* !wit 1 rotted the read...
of the defendants at No. 2, Sweeirs-court, ;mat Triniry-
lane. 1 taw Mr. Dew, and told him I had flleelTiMl a
corn muubetion from wine of the inhabitants to the elf ct
that a laepr quantity of gunpowder was kept there, amid
that they felt cosuriderable alarm in oomequence. II
raid, "On in and ere; I will chow you what I have."
He look me up to the second fluor of the hone No. 2,
Swettreeourt, awl there showed me two barrel mweirine..
Teri were about the Ail' of a firkin of butter, heed with
out per. In cue of them there were about 201 b.. of tine,
at.d in the other revel, or eLibt lbe. of worse powd..r. Ile
sail, " I fissure you I never keep a large quantity." I
asked him what business he did, and he said he was a
cartridge rase munufarturer. The wiliness went on t
state that Mang satisfied with Mr. Haw's B:planation, ho
went away, and nothing further occurred until
the poet nt mouth of September. On the
Illth of this month he again called at the
&louden:4' po ,niteis in consequenee of receiving as
ancroiruotis ceniniunication, and saw Mr. Haw, who re-
peated the statement ho made on the 4th of March, and
al red to show the witseas over the premiers. Ho
(w :tom) went through some of the aptirtmeuta, and in
one of them saw two boxer', one of which contsined about
fifteen Fiends of gunpowder, and the other was nearly
empty. Again feeling satisfied, he wont away, bat cw. the
14th he returned with Inspector Bailey, and proceeded to
examine the premise, under a watch warrant, They then
found Nibs. of loose gunpowder, and 16.607 tuatrelgus,
cotiteining 16211. e. of gunpowder-in all ?.161b.'.
For the defence it was contended that the powder ow-
Wrest in the cartridges was perfectly sec, 11.1 the
cartridges were made on a new prise pie, which had been
peentitl, and that the loose powder was kept to fiU
cartridges thet were adored by customers. Kr. I'igon
and Mr. Smith, two powder manufacturer in a large way
en businetst were celled, and proved that it wan ..semen
for Funimakers to order gunpowder intensely for the pur-
Foie of filling ceirtridgot, and that nine-tenths of the gun-
makers tided carbides* on their own premiere.
The Lord Mayor held the infnueemeuti of the set to
bare leen proved, end imposed pmoults s in respect of fear
of 111.11111111t4.11...., 11,11.,,U11ti11g SA -1(11. Oa inn of the
reenniontres the City Solicitor did net s.lt for the loth:Lim
of a is.nalty.
The µmil...ware anti eartrhlgee were ordered to be for-