The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

tomary for the messenger to receive a quantity of waste-
p4 per occasionally to dispose of as he might think pro-

per?
Mr. Chandler—lt sometimes happened that when
space was inconveniently occupied by old printed bills,
which had become useless from being subsequently
aiterecl, and newspapers, an order was given to the mes-
a enger to take them away; but it never happened that
such an order was given with respect to the stationery
used by the shorthand writers, which could not be mis-
taken for waste paper.
Sergeant Thornton showed by the books of Mr.
Parkins, the purchaser of the property, that 2.31. per
cwt. had been paid to Mitchell for 1,100 of waste paper,
and 293. per cwt. for 3001 of the ruled stationery.
Mr. Henry—lt is uselet.s to urge that the stationary
was passed in mistake for the waste paper, because it is
here shown that the prisoner received a higher price for

it.
0 wing to the absence of Parkins, his Worship remanded
the prisoner for further examination.
Mr. Lewis applied to have his client admitted to bail,
but the application was refused.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Jantes Phillips, tho
man who was charged on Monday last with the wilful
murder of his aunt, Ann Mathews, alias Brown, at 11,
Shepherd-street, and the particulars of whose examina-
tion appeared in this journal on Tuesday last, was yes-
terday fully committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL. A respectable-looking man,
who said he was John Wells, carpenter, of 6, Little
Cross-street, Islington, applied for advice under the fol-
lowing circumstances.
Applicant said that about six weeks ago his wife died,
and was interred in the burial ground at the back of St.
Mary's Church, Islington. Some alterations were being
made near the robe-room, and having heard that the re-
mains of the deceased ware exhumed, he, with a neigh-
bour, determined on keeping a nightly watch. They
saw men digging, and lifting the coffins from the earth.
Applicant, with Mrs. Davis, who buried her mother in
July last, made application to the church-karden and the
sexton upon the subject, but they could get no satisfac-
tory answer. They then applied to Mr. Lewis, the
treasurer of the Reform Association of Islington, who
also made application to the same authorities, but the
only answer was, that when the bodies were re-interred
information would be sent to the relatives. They ought
to have given him notice as to their being exhumed.
Mr. Hicks, the relieving overseer, who was present,
said he had no knowledge of the affair.
Mr. Corrie recommended applicant to apply again to
the sexton, and to make known to him the result of his
application.
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SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiam Miles, a tall powerful-
looking man, was charged with travelling in a third-
class carriage on the Croydon Railway without a ticket,
and refusing to pay the fare. He was also charged
with being drunk and acting in a disgusting manner
towards the passengers in the carriage.
Thomas Jordan, a ticket collector in the employ of
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com-
pany, said the prisoner came up on Sunday night from
Croydon in a third•class carriage. As he was not pro-
vided with a ticket witness demanded tenpence, the fare,
which defendant refused to pay, and conducted himselt
in a very disgusting manner. On the arrival of the train
inside the terminus witness gave him into custody, and
some of the passengers also charged him with annoying
them in the carriage.
Michael Weedon, a tradesman, said that he and his
wife got in! o the train at Annerly, and at New-cross
the prisoner entered the same carriage. He was very
drunk, and all the way up he acted very disgustingly to
his wifo and himself by tailing upon them and using bad
language. He pointed out the prisoner to the ticket col-
lector, and atter that he became more furious, and threat-
ened to throw him out of the train.
Another person who was in the carriage said that the
prisoner also acted disgustingly towards him, and tried
all he could to pick up a quarrel. He was not so drunk
as not to know what he was doing.
The prisoner said he took his ticket at New-cross, and
must have lost it from his pocket. As for the other
part of the charge, nll he could say was that he did not
know what he was about.

Mr. A'Beckett said the railway officer ought to have
taken care of the prisoner at the ticket-collector's sta.
tion, and not to have allowed him to insult tha passen-
gers after what Mr Weedon had told him. Ile should
fine prisoner 405., or 14 days' imprisonment.
Stephen Winter, a❑ ill-looking fellow, and Mary Jones
and Ann Riordan, were placed at the bar before Mr.
A'Beckett, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr.
James Mead of a watch.
The complainant stated that en Saturday night he
met with the three prisoners at a public•house in Ber-
mondsey, where there was a concert, and remained there

until 12 o'clock, at which hour they left together, and
proceeded to another house, where, at their invitation,
ho drank a glass of gin. He. however, had scarcely
swallowed the liquor before he was seised with giddi-
ness, and suspecting something of a deleterious nature
was mixed in it, he became alarmed and quitted the
place. He was followed by the three prisoners, and
while he was conversing with one of the women (Jones)
in walking along, he received a severe blow from some
person behind under the ear, which knocked him down,
and while he was on the ground he felt a tug at his
watchguard, and the watch was dragged from his
pocket. The prisoner Winter, he bad noticed a moment
or two before, was walking close behind him. Before he'
had time to rise from the ground the prisoners ran
away, bat he pursued them. and they were taken into
custody soon afterwards. The complainant here identi-
fied the watch produced as the one of which he had been
robbed.
Policeman 76 M, stated that, hearing a noise, he
hastened to the spot, and saw the prisoners running
away from the place where complainant was knocked
down. He succeeded, however, with the assistance of
another man, in taking the prisoners into custody, and
the watch was found on the ground, not far distant
from where they were secured.
The prisoners, who asserted their innocence, were
committed.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AIVD SUICIDE
AT sTEPNEY.

LAMBETH. —DESPERATE ASSAULT. —Yesterday
Fred. Warman, a smart young fellow, the assistant to a
hawker, was brought up for further examination, before
Mr. Elliott, on a charge of having committed a desperate
assault on the person of Thomas Elliott, his former
master.
From the evidence of the latter, it appeared that on
Friday week the prisoner abused him very much, and
acknowledged to having robbed him three years ago of
151. 1.10 was so exasperated at his conduct, that he ran
at him, with the intention of chastising him, when the
prisoner snatched up a large tongs or pincers used by
blacksmiths, and gave him a desperate blow on the head
He instantly fell as if shot, and. still suffered most in-
tensely from the deep .vound he inflicted.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

Yesterday, the inquest, adjourned from Tuesday last,
on the bodies of William Thomas Elliott and Jane Col-
lins, was resumed, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Nelson-street, Stepney.
The following additional evidence was taken:—
Mr. Henry James Taynton, member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, residing in Commercial-road East,
said he had examined the body of the child William
Thomas Elliott, and found externally no marks, with the
exception of what he had before mentioned, viz., two
bruises on the back and a scratch on the cheek, which
were not sufficient to account for death. On opening
the chest and abdomen he found all in perfect health.
On opening the head he found a great congestion of the
scalp just behind the right ear ; and on opening the
skull, below the dura mater was a large quantity of ex-
travasated blood, which diffused itself over a consider-
able part of the brain. He had no doubt this was the
cause of death. The effect had been produced by a
blow over the ear.
A Juror—How long do you suppose the child had
been dead ?
Witness—lt was quite cold, and it might have been
dead all night, but it is impossible to say precisely.
Ann Greenlees, the mother of the girl, was at the re-
quest of a juror called, sad in answer to questions put
by him, said that her daughter was very bad in her
head, and strange in her conduct, but she had no idea
that she was insane. She had heard that the person
with whom she had lived for four years could speak as
to the strangeness of her conduit whilst in her service.
Elizabeth Mary Elliott, mother of the child, recalled,
said after the girl came in on the night in question with
both the children, the deceased was asleep in her arms,
and she cautioned her (witness) against waking her.
She trusted the girl as much as if she had keen her own
child. She had no other recommendation with her but
what she received from her parents, a's they were very
respectable persons. She did not go up into the room
to see her child after he was pat to bed, as she had the
utmost confidence in her.
There being no further evidence forthcoming,
The Coroner summed up the evidence.
The jury said it was their wish to return an open
verdict, and accordingly gave in to the coroner " That
on the 11th of October, the deceased, William Thomas
Elliott, was found dead in bed, the death caused, as it
appeared on the post mortem examination, by an effusion
and extravasation of blood on the brain, but how that
was produced there was no evidence before the jury to
show."
Tho Coroner—And I suppose in the case of the girl
you are of opinion that she destroyed herself whilst in a
state of temporary insanity.
The Foreman having consulted with the jury, said
they wished on that point also to return an open verdict,
as they had no evidence to show that she committed
the act, and it was their wish to spare the feelings of her
relatives.
The Coroner—But do you not think that if you
return such a verdict as that you will be throwing a
suspicion on some other persona ? It is due to the per-
sons in the house not to leave her death as a matter of
doubt, for I have myself not the slightest moral doubt
that she first killed the child, and then took away her
own life.
The Foreman said that a majority of the jury appeared
to be opposed to the views of the Coroner ; upon which
he said that in that case it would be better that the room
should be cleared, and then they could discuss the mat-
ter amongst themselves.

After nearly an hour's consultation the reporters
Vere admitted, and it was stated that the jury had, in
the case of Jane Collins, returned a ver(iiet, '"rhat she
bad destroyed herself whilst in a state of temporary
insanity.
The proceedings then terminated,