The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLICIBNCE—Nov. 22.

properties, not alone as a life-boat, but as a pontoon
raft. From the contents of the boat a raft rin air-tight
many-,haped boxes was 1(m-tied, eapatle of containing a
file of soldiers in continuous nsareh, leaving Vie boa 6
itself empty as a depot. The Commander in•Ciiief, Sir
Thoin,is Cochrane, Admiral Superintendent Martin, Cap-
tains Sir Thomas Maitland, G. Elliott, G. T. Gordon, '
R. Sharpe, Commanders Elliott and Franklin, Flag-
Lieutenants the Hor. A. Hay and Brandreth, Master-
Attendants Underwood and Davies, Mr. Abethd, Mas-
ter Shipwright, and other official•i were present, and
seemed much astonished at the boat's capabilities,

TEE MURDER OE A SURGEON IN
NORTH DURHAM.

GATESHEAD, Wednesday Night.—The inquest on the
body of Mr. Robert Stirling, assistant to Mr. Watson,
surgeon, of Burnop-field, near Shotley-bridge, who was
Murdered near Gibside, on Thursday, the Ist inst., was
resumed in the village school-room to-day. Major
White, the head of the county constabulary, Mr. Ram-
say, county magistrate, and other persons were present
during the inquiry. The jury having all assembled, ex.
cept the foreman, Mr. Burnett,
Mr. Farell, the coroner, remarked on the impropriety
of a gentleman in his position absenting himself after be-
ing sworn to inquire into a case, the atrocity of which he
had never known equalled in all his experience as coro-
ner ; and ho intimated that ho would present Mr. Bur-
nett to the Queen's Rernembrancer, by which he would
be liable to a penalty of 401.
Thomas Holmes, a workman living at Burnop-field,
was first examined. He stated that while searching for
deceased, with his father, Mr. Thompson, one of Mr.
Watson's assistants, and other persons, on the afternoon
of the 6th, he found Mr. Stirling's body in Smaile's-
wood. Mr. Thompson was with him when the body was
found. The deceased appeared to have been shot in the
right side. There was also a Wound on the upper part
of the nose and a cut over the right eye. His clothes
were much torn, and the trousers appeared riddled, as if
by a gunshot. Witness found nothing in his pocket ; a
piece of braid, apparently a portion of a watchguard,
was hanging out of his waistcoat pocket, as if the watch
had been torn from it. His hat was lying near to where
the body was found. The body was laid on its belly.
There was a gap in ths hedge, as if a body had been
pulled through it.
The Coroner—What induced you particularly to exa-
mine this plantation I
Witness—There is a foot road through it, and I ima-
gined that Mr. Stirling might hare taken it for a short
cut. I saw deceased's hat first, and then noticed his
body.

The Coroner—Did you observe a gap in the hedge of
the plantation ?
Witness—Yes ; after I found the body I saw a gap, as
if some one had been dragged through it.
Mr. Watson, surgeon, stated that deceased left his
house on the let, to visit a patient at Spen, and did not
return. Deceased had received an appointment in the
Turkish Contingent, and had only been 10 days in the
neighbourhood.
Mr. Geo. S. Thompson, a student in medicine, stated
that the deceased bad a silver watch with a silver face
when he left Mr. Watson's on the Ist to go to Spen.
Deceased did not want to wear a gold watchguard in
going this journey, and witness gave him a piece of silk
to make him one. Witness had ascertained that deceased
had left Mrs. Corn's house, at Spen, about half past 1
o'clock on that day.
The Coroner stated that Mrs. Corn was now confined,
and could not attend the inquest to give evidence of the
time the deceased left her house.
Mr. W. K. E Idowes, a retired surgeon, residing at
Der went Cote, near Medomsley, saw the body of the de-
ceased on the morning of the Bth, at Mr. Watson's. He
was laid on the floor, and the clothes had not been re-
moved; decomposition had taken place. The trousers
of deceased were torn, apparently by a gunshot ; and
the torn part of the trousers corresponded with a wound
found in the right side of the abdomen of the deceased.
On removing the clothes from the body a dark patch of
extravasated blood was observed on the ride of the ab-
domen ; the discolouration was the size of the palm of
the hand, and was punctured with holes, as if a charge
of shot had penetrated. Witness also found a cut on the
left side of the neck. It was about two inches i❑ length
and two inches and a half deep. 111 addition to that de-
ceased appeared to have been struck on the right cheek
with the butt-end of a gun. Some of his teeth wets
knocked out, the bone of the nose was broken, and there
was a slight wound above the right eye. Those were
all the external appearances presented by the body.
He had lost very little blood. Witness made a post ?nor-
tens examination of the body the same morning. On
opening the abdomen he found the intestines much in-
jured by shot corns having penetrated into them. Wit-
ness took some of the shot out, which he now produced.
[A. juryman, after examining them, said that they were
No. 4 shot.] The large omentum was also riddled with
shot. Witness also took two of a smaller size from under
deceased's clothes.
The Coroner—They look like No. 5.
Mr. Ramsey—They appear home made.
Mr. Eldowes—The trousers produced were those taken
from the deceased's person. They were much riddled.
Witness found a good deal of blood in the cavity of the
pelvis. The right iliac vein was wounded. The charge
from the gun appeared to have penetrated deceased's
person at a level. The gunshot wound would produce
death in a few minutes—less than five. Death would be
caused by the shock sustained by the nervous sytem.
Deceased would be able to cry out after receiving the
charge of the gun. Witness found the lungs and heart
healthy and uninjured. He examined the head. There
was no fracture of the skull. Death would be accelerated
by the blow deceased had received in the cheek. The
injury to the nose appeared to have been caused by the
guard of a gun. The wound in the throat did not pene-
trate any vital part.
By Major White—The wound on the neck appeared
a clean cut, inflicted by a sharp instrument—probably a
broad knife.
The Coroner asked if the charge did not appear to have
struck something in deceased's pocket.
Mr. Watson—Yes ; his knife, and probably his purse.
Mr. Ramsey—From the nature of the wound dis-
covered on the person of the deceased he thought that
deceased must have been met in the road and shot at.
The Coroner had viewed the place where the murder
had been committed, and was of opinion that deceased
had been shot from the bankeide, through the hedge.
Robert Anderson, a young lad, son of a farmer at Low
Spen, said it was about a mile from his father's house to
Smaile's-lane, where Mr. Stirling was said to have been
killed. Witness saw the deceased on the Ist of Novem-
ber, about 1 o'clock, as he was passing his father's house.
Witness saw the deceased about 15 or 20 yards down
the lane. Deceased was about the same height as wit-
ness's father. When his father went to the rent-day at
Gibside on the Ist he was dressed not unlike Mr. Stirling.
Witness did not hear a gun fired. He never saw Mr.
Stirling alive again. He was walking very quick as he
passed him. Witness was giving some water to a foal as
deceased passed him. Deceased was coining from Mrs.
Corn's. Witness saw no one else passing at the tines.
Deceased had a stick with him.
The Coroner—Has the stick been found `I
The Policeman—Yes ; it has been found in the wood.
Mr. Thompson—One of deceased's hands appeared
contracted when we found the body, as if a stick had
been wrested out of it.
William Coxen, a youth, at present a farm-servant at
Black Collerton, in Northumberland, said that he was
working in a field on Low Friar-side Farm on the Ist of
November. It was opposite &nails's-lane, across the
Derwent. He was gathering potato tops, about half-
past one or a quarter to two o'clock, with some women,
when they beard a gun fired, apparently in Snaaile's-
wool. He afterwards heard a voice exclaim, " Oh,
dear ! ob, dear !" It was followed by the voice of a man
shouting " Hoy, hoy !" and a sound like clapping of
hands. He first imagined that some one had been firing
at a hare, and that the gun had burst ; but when he
heard the shouts of " Hoy, boy !" he thought that
nothing was the worse, and that some one was setting
dogs after a hare.
A Juryman—Did you mention what you heard to the
women 1
;,Witness —Yes ; I said that some one was running
dogs after a hare, but they made no reply.
Mr. Ramsey—Was the report a loud one ?
Witness—Yes, but I never thought about it until I
beard that a man was murdered.
Major White—Did you hear the clapping of hands
and shouting long ?
Witness—About two minutes.
The Foreman of the Jury—Why have you left this
part of the country t Had you not the offer of another
master

CLERKENW E U.—CHARGE OF CAUSING THEI
DEATH OF A WIFE. —Simon Richard Hence Hyde, a
bricklayer, residing at No. 7, Hertford-street, Somers
Town, was charged with having caused the death of
Sarah Hyde, his wife, by striking her ou the head.
Sergeant Hill, 39, S division, having been sworn,
said—On Wednesday evening, at half-past 6 o'clock, I
received information that a man had caused the death
of his wife, at a house, No. 7, Hertford-street, Somers
Town. I immediately proceeded there, and found a
woman lying dead on a bed, in a room up stairs. It was
a four-roomed house. No one was in the house at the
time. I made inquiries, and was informed that the
woman and her husband (the prisoner) had quarrelled
the night before. The deceased had been washed and
laid out, and a shawl tied round her head to keep her
chin up. She had a black eye. I made inquiries to
trace the husband, and at length found him at a house,
No. 2, Hertford-street. They at first denied that he was
there, but being positive that he was I went into the
house, and found two men in a back room. I asked the
prisoner, who was there, if his name was Hyde ! He
said, " No, my name is Penn." I said you are the man
I want. He replied, "I am not ;it is your mistake."
I told him he must come with me. The prisoner then
said, "Itisof no use to conceal it, I am the man. I
shall reserve what I have to say."
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did the woman appear to have been
dead for aoy length of time?
Sergeant Hill—She died at half-past o'clock ; she
had been dead about an hour, your worship.
David John Short, of 7, Hertford-street, Somers
Town, landlord of the house, said—On Tuesday night
last, at half-past 11 o'clock, I went to bed. Shortly
afterward I heard a noise up stairs, and on going up
stairs I saw the prisoner and his wife (deceased) on the
floor, struggling together. They were both dressed as
usual, in their clothes. The deceased asked me to se-
parate them. They were both quite exhausted. The
prisoner was bleeding from the mouth and face. I se-
pirated them, and persuaded her togodown stairs,which
she did, and she sat down with me three•quarters of an
hour. I advised her to go to her mother's house in the
same street. She shortly afterwards returned again, and
went up stairs to bed, At half-past five in the morning
I went to call my sons to go to work, when all was
quiet. I left betwee* seven and eight o'clock, and
found a crowd in the street, and a report that the woman
was dead, and had been killed by her husband.
By Mr. Ty rwhitt—The prisoner was drunk and the
deceased was sober. She put the candle to her bead,
and said, "Look, Mr. Short, I shan't be able to go to
work again." They lived on good terms when the pri-
soner was drunk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner.

WESTMINSTER.—THE SUSPECTED MURDER Al
CHELBEA.—Sarah Allen, wife of a messenger in the
offices of the Iron Steam-boat Company, at Chelsea, was
placed at the bar for re-examination upon the charge of
attempting to drown two her children, respectively aged
11 months and three years.
Mr. Newbon, solicitor, stated that he was instructed
by the Citizen Steam-boat Company, in whose service
the husband of the accused held an humble but respon•
sible position, to attend and watch the case, which was
of a very peculiar nature, on her behalf.
The particulars of the former examination have been
detailed, and upon tie accused being placed iu the dock,
Inspector Drake, of the V division, stated that since
the former examination, the body of the third and oldest
child of prisoner had been found in the Thames, and a
coroner's jury had returned the open verdict of " Found
drownoi."

Mr. Arnold intimated that the charge upon which the
prisoner had been remaaded, and the only one at pre-
sent before him, was for attempting to drown the two
other children. He wished to know whether there was
any other charge.
Inspector Drake replied that there was not, but the
charge originally brought under the notice of the magis-
trate upon the police sheet, was for having caused the
death of the eldest child, as well as for having thrown
the other two, who were rescued, into the water.
Mr. Arnold observed that, for the present, he would
only go on with the charge of attempting to drown. He
then desired the witness, Mrs. Woodland, who gave evi-
dence on the first examination, to be recalled.
In reply to the magistrate's questions, she stated that
she did not observe anything peculiar in the prisoner's
manner at the time she left her house, at five in the
evening. She took the youngest child, who of course
could not walk, in her arms. That and the one three
years old, after their immersion in the water, were
brought home at at out eight on the same evening.
Prisoner's husband first came home that evening at half•
past five ; then he went out again, and came home about
six.

Cross-examined by Mr. Newbon.—Witness had lodged
in prisoner's house above two years. Accused was
always very kind to her children, and discharged her
duties to them properly, but latterly had not seemed to
take the same pride in their appearance as before. Sh•
said they had scurvy in their blood, and borrowed a
medical book from witness about scrofula. The eldest
boy, who was turned six, and not five years of age, as
she had before stated, was healthy and robust. Witness
never saw him carry the youngest (the baby) about.
She had seen him take the infant up when crawling,
that was all.

John Massey, of 3, Waterloo-place, Church-street,
Chelsea, a blacksmith, was called to prove that a little
after five on the evening in question he met the prisoner
and the three children in Church-street, about 400 yards
from the water, but he gave his answers in so incoherent
and strange a manner, set up a hearty laugh when goes•
tioued, and behaved so indecorously that he was ordered
down from the witness box, it being presumed that h•
was under the influence of liquor ; but on a subsequent
stage of the inquiry, it having been stated that there
was every reason to believe he was sober, and that be
was a man of ♦ery eccentric habits, he was again put
under examination. Mr. Arnold having animadverted
upon his extraordinary conduct, and pointed out to biz
that be was giving evidence in a case possibly affecting
the prisoner's life, he then became decorous in his de-
meanour, and added, that when he met the accused she
had the infant in her arms, and one of the other children
on either side of her, and addressing him said, "It iS
very foggy, is it not ?" to which he replied, " It is."
At the request of Mr. Newbon, the witness Wood•
land was recalled, and said that the accused was in the
habit of going with her children to meet her husband on
his return home from his office.
Robert Spink, of 15, Laurance-street, Chelsea, cab-
driver, proved that he was opposite the Cadogan Pier 00
the evening the two children were rescued from the
water, when he heard cries, and proceeding to the upper
"dummy" at the pier, endeavoured to seize one of them
as it floated up from the arch of the pier, but failed. He
heard the cries of two children in the water.
In cross-examination by Mr. Newbon, witness said it
was a very high tide, reaching close to the shore. There
were only posts and chains to separate the road from
the water, with here and there interstices and stairs for
men to get to their boats. He got up to his knees in
water in going to see what was the matter when he
heard the cries.
A police-sergeant of the V division here made the
quiry whether a statement made by the rescued child,
three years of age, to its father, respecting the occur-
rence, in the absence of the accused, could not be given
in evidence.

Mr. Arnold replied that could not.
This being the whole of the evidence adduced—
Mr. Arnold observed, that he must at present require
the same amount of bail for the prisoner's appearance
on Wednesday next.
Mr. Newbon .übinitted that there was was no case
made out against the accused.
Mr. Arnold repeated, that at present he should re-
mand the prisoner till Wednesday. There was another
child in question, whose death might be made the sub-
ject of inquiry before him. That of course he at present
could not say anything about.
The prisoner, whose demeanour was composed, wall
then removed to her cell. As on the former occasion,
her commitment to gaol was made out, in consequence
of no bail being presented for her.

ST. MARYLMIONH BANE /FOR SAVINGS.—CoMpar I'6oo
statement of progress, at specified periods, during. the
last seven years :

Sums Inv teed,
with Nati 01131
Open Deposit Debt Coin, air
On 20th November, 1849 . Accounts. stoners.
..... 20,382
1850
it 1851
IP 1852 , 22,774
1853
f 1 1854
II 1855
—D. FINNHY, Secretary and Actuary.

do not like this part. My friends lire at
Black CoHerten.
A Juryman—Nothing has been done to induce you
to leave this neighbourhood
Witness—No ; nothing.
The Coroner said that there was another witness, who,
in passing from Burnop-field to Rowland Gill on Thurs-
day afternoon, about half-past one o'clock, heard a gun
fired in the lane, but she would not attend without a
summons.
The policeman produced the clothes taken from the
person of the deceased. The right side of the trousers
was riddled with shot, and shot holes were also in tin e
waistcoat. Deceased's coat was also much torn, as if he
had been dragged through a hedge. His hat was also
broken. A portion of a pocket-knife roduced,
which had been shattered by the charge fro wasm
the gun.
The Coroner at this stage of the proceedings ad-
journed the inquest for a fortnight, to give the police
ample time for further inquiries. They have some clue,
but they are keeping their suspicions quiet at present.
The reward offered for the apprehension of the perpe-
trators of this horrible outrage is 5001. ; the inhabitants
of Winterton have give 501., the inhabitants of Tanfield
501., the Government 1001., Lord Ravensworth, Mr.
John Bowes, and other county gentry, 3001.
Since the murder of Mr. Stirling the inhabitants of
the villages in this neighbourhood have been kept in the
greatest alarm by a series of outrages, which, in point of
DIED.
fact, have made it dangerous to leave home after night-
fall. Two or three highway robberies have been coin-
rho 20th inst., at 27, Cannon-street-road, Commer-
a
ma gad east, Mr. Charles Massie.
misted and others attempted. A house has been broken '
into at Wickham, and the house of a man named Robin- , the 22d. inst., at Norland-plieee, Nottinhill, Ken•
son, residing at Blanchland, formerly a carrier between s,n John Saunders, Esq., aged 82. g-
On the 21st inst.. at 7, We,odland-terrace, Trafalgar-
Newcastle and Hexham, was entered while he was in
road, Greenwich, Mr. Matthrew Marshall, upwards of r
bed. He was awoke, but to save his own life
d dt
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riot/ stir, anlathe burglars came into his room, aro_
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out of ket, with which they gottct edar ff
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4 oth inst.,
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impudent highway rubbery was commi e on Mon ay Captain F redo; ick Maleae, H.C.S., of Northwick-terrace,
afternoon at 'Swalwell-bridge, about two miles from Loudon aged 20.
where Mr. Stirling was murdered. Mr. Connell, a On the 20th inst., at Mercian College, Blaokheath,
publican, belonging to Blackhill, was proceeding to meet fohu Jacoe'e Battier, aged 79.
the Shotley-bridge coach, when he was struck down by
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?diddles iv:, Friday, Novena% er 23,.1855.

BIRTHS.
OP A EON.

On tho 20th inst., at Holkham, Norfolk, the Counts, If
of Leicester.
On tho 21Ht inst., the wife of Herbert Ingram, Esq., '
Louc!water 2fills, Herts.