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London, England, 1852-03-06 00:00:00

first in 3 vary small way of business, but, being a man not
only of popular manners, bat also of industrious habits,
he had increased his trade to a great extent in the
neighbourhood, and had amassed considerable -worldly
substance. Some years ago he left England and
proceeded to Italy, and was absent about 20 mouths.
In the latter end of October, 1851, his nephew, the pri-
soner, came over from Italy to reside with his nrac:e,
end to assist him in his business. Mr. Kalabergo was
in the habit of making circuits, generally about twice a
week, round the neighbourhood of Banbury, in a light
spring cart, in which his goods were placed. On these
journeys his nephew had accompanied him since his ar-
rival in England. On Friday, the 9th of January in
the present year, John Kalabergo started with his ne-
phew on one of these tours. They left Banbnry about
10 o'clock in the morning, and slept that night at Prior's
Maratoo, about 13 miles from Banbury. where ihey also
breakfasted and dined the next day. About halfepast
three that afternoon they left Prior's Marston on their
return to Bsnbury, and between four and five they were
seen on the road near Chipping Warden. by a. person
who was well acquainted with the eider Kalabergo.
They were n: xt traced to the Rose and Crown public-
house in Chipping Warden, where they stopped a feiv
minutes, and then °pursued their journey towards Bait--
bury. At a quarter past five they passed through the
Williamscott upper turnpike-gate, and the gatewoman
remembered Mr. Kalabergo's paying the toll, and re-
ceiving a ticket from her to ,clear the Ban-
bury gate. At the Rose and Crown, Chipping
Warden. the deceased and his nephew were also seen
by a 'publican and a baker named Walker, who was tra-
velling with a compaction in a covered cart. Mr. Walker
left the Roateand Crown after Kalabergo, but over-
took hita'near the Williamscott gate On the Banbury-
road. At the time the baker's cart passed him the de-
vased was walking slowly up hill, and his nephew
was by the.side of the-horse. ;alaving passed on a short
distance, Mr.. Walker and'his compstion heard the re-
port of firearms, and 'almost immediately afterwards a
second shot. ' About the time the first shot was fired Li
man' was seen near their horse's head, coming towards
them, from Banbury. With the exception of this person,
they had met with no one on the road; but who this man

way the prosecutors could not tell, although they had
made every effort to discover him. t The persons in the
cart, however, thought nothing of the matter, and drove
on to Banbury, entirely unconscious of the fatal occur-
rence which had taken place. On the same evening a
carrier named IVard left Banbury with several passen-
gers, and drove in the direction of Williamseott. In the
road he met a cart without a driver, which proved to be
Mr. Kalabergo's, and near the Williamscottsgate, his
passengers having got out to walk up the hill, one of
them," who was in advance of the others, discovered the
body of the deceased, which was subsequently placed in
a cart and removed to Williamscott. At the time of the
removal of the body two hats were found .near it—one
belonging to the deceased, lying close to it, and another,
afterwards proved to belong to the prisoner, at a little
distance from it. Upon examining the body of the de-
ceased, it was found that a great-coat which he had worn
had not'been unbuttoned, nor had his pockets been rifled
of their contents, although they contained a considerable
sum of money. 'f he back part of his head was blackened
with gunpowder, and a comforter which ho wore round
his neck was singed. Upon a post mortem exa-
mination of the body it was found that a bullet had
entered the skull above the right ear, passed through
the brain, and lodged in the skull over the left ear,
whence it was taken by the medical man, and produced
on the trial. It was composed of a white metal, and a
similar bullet was found in the cart in which the body
had been placed when first discovered. There was also
a lacerated wound on the forehead, which, in the opinion
of the medical man, might have been caused by a bullet
or any hard substance, and there was likewise a slight
abrasion on the left cheek, apparently caused by the
falling of the body to the ground. The boxes in the
cart, containing jewellry, &c., had not boon opened, nor
had any attempt been made to force them. At the time
the body was discovered nothing was seen of the pri-
soner; but in the course of the evening be was met at a
place called the Huscot Cottages, on the Banbury-road,
by a labourer named James French. He was then with-
out his hat, and seemed to be crying very much, and to
be in great distress. He called out " Master, master!"
and pointed in the direction of Williamscott. After
this he appeared .to have gone to the house of Dr.
Sandy, the Roman Catholic priest, at Banbury, where
he knocked at the door several times, exclaiming,.
" Priest, priest! Uncle dead!" but could not obtain.
admittance. About half-past six o'clock he came to
his uncle's house, when he was seen by a woman
named Sophia Roberts (his uncle's housekeeper), and
by two young persons, named Harriet and Louisa Egg,
wbo carried on the millinery business, and lofted in
the house. His first exclamation to Sophia Roberts was,
"Uncle dead ! Uncle dead ! Go ! Priest, priest!" He
appeared much agitated, and said something about
Lenthreeerneu." making motions witfehic erinseeis though.
his uncle bad been beaten. Upon this Sophia Roberts
hastened to Dr. Tandy, who arrived soon afterwards,
mud found the prisoner still in a state of great agitation.
Dr. Tandy asked him in Italian what gas the matter.
The prisoner raid that his uncle bud been killed—that
three men had jumped out upon him, nod he added
something about " sticks," but Dr. Tandy could only
imperfectly understand the peculiar Italian dialect which
the prisoner spoke. It was then suggested, that the po-
lice should be sent for, and Dr. Tandy proceeded with
the prisoner towards the house of the superintendent of
police at Banbury. At Banbury-bridge they met Ka-
labergo'e cart, and the prisoner then asked if his uncle
was dead. Upon being answered in the affirmative, he
broke out into fresh paroxysms of grief, and sobbed and
cried bitterly. Besides Dr. Tandy, the prisoner was vi-
sited on the same evening by Mr. Samuelson, an iron-
founder in Banbury, who also spoke Italian. To this
gentleman the prisoner stated that he and his uncle had
been attacked by three men as they were coming down
the bill at Williaaaseott. A man jumped out of the
hedge, and asked them for their life or Weir purse. His
uncle took up the stick which he had in his hand, and
aimed a blow at a man with it, but the other man then
fired at his uncle, and he (prisoner) was pursued by a
third man across the fields. The man called out to him,
" Stop, stop," and followed him for eight or ten mi-
nutes. He also said that he had afterwards met a man
with a horse and cart, and had endeavoured- to alarm
him, but the men, sound not understand him. On that
evening the prisoner was given into custody, and on the
following day (Sunday) he expressed a wish to write a
letter to a tripled of his uncle, a Mr. Stophani, whose
address he did not know, although he believed it to be
somewhere in Red Lion-street, London. The !otter Was
written, and a copy of it was taken, the original being
forwarded to its destination. The following is a transla-
tion of it ns read at the trial:—

" Dearest Friend,—By the present I let you know
that on the 9th of January instant we came at night
from Barrington, I and my uncle. We were met by
three assassins, who asked his life or his purse. Ile had
in his hand a stick, and let it fall upon one of the
assassins, and another Ered at him twice, and brought
him to the ground dead, so that I, being without the
language, would have you come immediately to Banbury
on receipt of the present, I pray you warmly. lam
also iu bad 'health through extreme fright, and I re-
main saluting you heartily and ever your friend,
" GUGLIELMO KALABERGO:
The cireamstancea of the prisoner's arrest,
and
strange story which he told, having excited the greatest
consternation in Banbury, several persons came to see
the
i him while in custody on the Saturday and Sunday.
Among them was a shopman to Mr. Welch, a gunmaker
of Banbury, named Watkins, who at once recognised
the prisoner as a person to whom he had sold a double-.
barrelled pistol on the previous 15th of December. On
that occasion the prisoner came to Mr. Welch's shop in
the afternoon, and took a pistol out of the window, on
which the name of" Welch" was engraved. lie agreed
to purchase this pistol for 11., and the shopman showed
him how to load and use it. and at the same time gave
him a wollen bag in which to keep it. lie also gave
him a bullet mould with the pistol, in which ho made a
bullet, to show the prisoner how it was used. This
bullet (which was a leaden one) the prisoner took aways
with him, and he also, at the same time
pur-
chased a quarter of a pound of gunpowder, 'whichPtiPchearoef printedform:d pact of a Banbury - shop-
manPilot, ,
which th.eoh was
, w
wrapped up
remembered
o
that is, a printed announcement of the contents of B
bury paper, issued on the day of publication. a "I-
the 20th of December it was also b° About
pri-
soner went to the shop or another shown that the
Ban-
bury, and endeavoured to exebar gunmaker in
gunmaker believed to be the (me g° a pistol, which the
another, but he went away with etterwards found, for
Upon the clothes of the prisonerout e ffecting his object.
his arrest, a small quantity of gunpowder
being examined after
his waistcoat pocket, and °gunpowder was found in
with the turnpike ticket also a copper cap, together
Kalabergo by the gatekeeper which had been given to Mr.
eeper of Williamscott. It was
also shown that on the
evening
of the 10th of January
having seen it, key of his uncle's cart, and denied
key." After this exclaiming, "Me no key—uncle got the
attached to the he was observed to go into a yard
house in the direction of the privy, and
was sorb within a '
very
short
distance of it. Oa the
following Monday the r ' was searched, and a key
on the to
found lying of
thery soil,
which
proved to be
the key of the cart. P M° r lialahergo's premises wen
subsequently;strictly examined, and a ballet-:Herald, which
was identified by Mr. Welch's shopman as the one sold
to the prisoner en the 15th of December, was found
concealed in a stable rack. On further search being
made, between an old chimney-board and the rafters of
the stable were found a woollen pistol-bag, six whole
bullets of white metal, an unfinished one of the same
material, together with a 'cation bullet and seven bullet
shanks, or tops cat off after the bullets bad been taken
from the mould. These bullets fitted the mould which
bad been previously discovered. Two parcels of gun-
powder were found in the same place, one cf which was
enclosed in a piece of the Banbury Pilot, already spchca
ff. In the deceasea's houei a piece of le hite metal, of
the same material as that of which the six bullets were
'cast, was discovered in a box in the passage. It farther
appeared that the bullet which had been taken from the
head of the deceased was made of the same white
metal, and, like the other six found in the stable,
was very clumsily cast. ' After '.
the prisoner bad been
taken into custody he was conveyed to Wrexten and
locked up with two constables in the same room.
,N9twitheteudiog this precaution, he managed to jump,