The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

DARING OUTRAGE.

A single ruffian, okthe tfith of last month, spread weed
and trouble through half Marseilles. Ihe following AN
the facts:—

" A man named Laurent Lelong, nicknamed Marlon,
about 39 years of age, a scavenger and a liberated galley.
slave, was dismissed, by the contractor fir keeping the cit./
clean, on account of discontent at some part of his con.
duct. On Wednesday last, at about half-past four in the
evening, he went to his former roaster's office, in the ride
des Recolettes, where he met a man named Christ,
also a scavenger, who had taken his place, sod
whom he accused of having been the cause of hit
dismissal. A 'quarrel arose between them. and two
clerks in the office interfered, but too late, for, at
the instant Christ received a mortal blow, the two clerks
were also struck with the same weapon, but not serlintale.
hurt. The assaesin made his escape, and Christ expiresi
upon the threshold. All was in commotion, the populace
assembled, and with the judicial authority in the person
of the Procureur du Roi, the Commissioners of the Police,
and the gendarmerie, went in pursuit of the criminal. AS
be lived near the Minims, M. Marry, Commissioner
of the Police for the arondissement, accompanied the
public force and his own agents towards the quartet of
la Plaine. When arrived at the rue du Pew*, M. Magy
perceived the assassin, and pointed him out to a gendarme
named Errant, who was by his side ; and, although fore.
warned by the Commissioner of the villain's ferocity, he
attempted to seize him by the collar, but bad hardly got
within his reach when he fell under I mortal blow frotu
the monster. He was then pursued into the rue de Cypres,
and opposite /a rue Nau turned and defended himself
against the attack of an agent of police, named Driest,
and notwithstanding a wound inflicted by the latter,
he struck him a blow in the groin with the same
knife with which he had killed and wounded his former
victims. A gendarme then rushed upon him, d struggle
ensued, and he was ultimately secured and given into the
hands of justice. Three men have been killed and three
wounded ; the latter are Messrs. Gayet and Jeannin, clerks
in the office, and Brion the police agent. Fortunately
their wounds are not in the, esst dangerous."

We copy the relation of this affair as we find it in tke
Journal de la Mediterranee, although it appears to us
that no more than two have been killed.—Courier Francais.

BRUTAL. TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY ITI trOTHItt.
—Yesterday afternoon the crowd on aerken well-green were at-
tained to one spot, where a number of women keep fruit-stalls, by
the screams of a little girl about seven years of age, who it if.
peered had been left by her mottler to take care of the fruit-stall;
while she retired to guard herself against the severity of the weathe:
by taking some cordial in one of the adjacent houses. The poor
girl, from the intensity of the cold, and the raggedness of her
raiment, dropped off into a kind of stupid sleep, and while sht
remained in this state some of the fruit was stolen from the stall.
but the greater part was accidentally shoved upon the ground by
coastal passengers. When the mother returned from the gin-shop,
and saw the state of the stall, she seised the child by the hair, and
struck her two violent blows on the head and on the mouth ! and
When the child fell, quite senseless, she kicked her In the moutb
and stomach ! ! ! Several human,: persons interfered, and pre-
vented probably a fatal result. The child bled so profusely from
the mouth that she waft taken to an adjacent surgeon's shop, who
on examining her was of opinion that she sustained no vital injury.
The inAuman mother took her station at the stall in the most un-
concerned manner, notwithstanding the execrations pf the crowd.
swearing that she would always beat her child as she thought
proper.

SUSPECTED Mu ftnrit.—Considerable consternation was
spread in this town and neighbourhood on Wednesday last, from
the report of another barbarous murder having been committed in
this county. Like the murdered Weare, the victim was reported
to have been concealed in a pond, where his mutilated remains had
been dragged by the merciless assassins. Robbery was also attached
to the crime of murder. The detention of 2. men of suspicious cha-
racter stied not a little to give credence to the general report. We
are happy to have It in our power to Lie before our readers the whole
facts of the case, the authenticity of which may be relied on. It is
so far true that the body of a man was found in a moat of water,
within a few hundred yards of the linens public house, at Bull's-
green. The deceased, whose name is Thomas Chalkier. and who
was a ploughman in the employ of Mr. Hudson, of Frogmore, in
this county, went to gee his daughter on Sunday, and on his return -
home in the evening called at the Horns, where he took a plot of
beer, and left the house about seven o'clock, perfectly sober.
This was the last time he was seen alive. The family ot
the deceased entertained no fears for his safety until Tues-
day, concluding he might have remained with his daughter,
when their alarm was excited, and diligent search and in-..
quiry was made, without effect. On the following morning the
body was found in the pond before mentioned with some slight
• wounds upon the face and right ear. It was immediately con-
veyed to the Horns, at Bull's-green, to await the Coroner's is.
quest. The last person the deceased was known to have been iu
company with was a man named Solomon Shadbolt, from whose
idle habits of life a supposition arose that his detention might be
necessary. He was accordingly apprehended, as well as his bro-
ther, Joseph Shadbolt. In the investigation we are happy to state
that nothing transpired to attach the least criminality to either, and
they were ordered to be discharged. The deceased, it is supposed,
owing to the darkness of the night, had missed the footpath, and bye
failing into the moat had met his untimely end. The wounds ow
his face were accounted for by the deceased having fallen over
some brambles before he reached the water. A strong proof of
his not having met his death by unfair means is. that the money
he was known to have had about him, seven shillings, was found
in his pockets : and the Jury found a verdict acceethogly.--fiertz
Mercury.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—The Invest which was held
on Tuesday last on the body of Sarah Malone. an Iriahwomac,
resident in Mill-bank, before the Coroner, Mr. liTigieswonh, and
smolt respectable Jury, has disclosed one of the molt brutal trans-
actions which it has yet becn our business to record. The circum-
stance,' which led to the inquest, and which were elicited chiefly by
the evidence of the son and husband of the deceased, (Ate as follow.
On the night of Tuesday week, about clevan o'clock, Valentire
Malone, a youth of about twenty, the son of the deceased, went out
after sapper to draw water; immediately upon leaving his door, he
was set upon by six or seven ruffians, who shouted " hurrah,
hurrah, Pat," seized and threw him down, and maltreated him.
His father, hearing the noise, opened the door, came oat, and ago.
ceeded in dragging in his son ; before the door could be got closed,
three or tour of the ruffians rushed forward, and two large .tortes
were thrown in ; the deceased wall then employed in removing the
dishes, and one of the stones hit her on the forehead. end frairturad
the skull, of which she died last Sunday. smorning. Mr. Sherwin.
surgeon, of this town, who had been sent Co., about a quarter of
an hour after the occurrence happened. and who, on perceiving
the nature of the accident, very properly immediately despatched a
messenger for the constable, opened the skull on Monday, anti
tnitng that a portion of that part of the bone which forms the visor
ot the orbit of the eye, had beets driven up into the brain, which had
actually oocasioned her death. The conduct of these salvo brutal
villains did not MSC with the perpetration of this deed ; they im-
mediately afterwards went to the adjoining house, broke in the.
doors off the hinges, and felled the mistress, If onoria White. to tins
ground. Her daughter, a girl about fourteen years old, ttulv
also seized, tore her shift off her, and most savagely and basher-
ously maltreated her, until she took refuge in a neighbour's house.
Upon the evidence laid before the Jury, a verdict was returned of
Manslaughter against seven persons ; of these, three have been
sent to Yok ; but those who appear to havo been implicated the-
deepen have absconded; they :were also apprehended, but tie
a•cond night of their apprehension, between Thursday night sod
Friday morning, they succeeded in cutting their irons, and escaped.
out of the window. The Fames of those committed to, York.
Cattle,. are Abraham Brunifit, William [lodgings, and Thome*
Spurns. The names of those who have absconded, me Matthew
Spurra, William Briggs, and James Hardacre the seventh, Ro-
bert llowgate. who has been committed as a rogue and'vagetnmei
to Wakefield House of Correction, is also supposed to be implis,
cated ; and it is believed that those who have absconded, are can..
cerned in some former murderous transaction committed in claihr
neighbourhood of Colne.—Bradfbrd Costricr.

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