The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-20 00:00:00

OMON.OARDEN.

Yesterday morning a man of the name of James
Timmonds was brought before Mr. Serjeunt SELION,,
in custody of Police Serjeant Ashton, of the G di-
vision, charged on suspicion with having been con-
cerned in the lute murder of the policeman, John
Long. After hearing evidence, the Magistrate dis-
charged the prisoner.
A respectable-looking young man, of the name of
Charles Dawson Smith, was afterwards placed at the
bar, charged also on suspicion with having been con-
cerned in the murder.—Discharged.
Mr. Busain, one of the police-inspectors cf the
Ci division, appeared before the Magistrates, accnin-
ponied by Nlary Ann Griffiths, otherwise Stevens,
one of the principal witnesses against the maii,
Smith, who was committed from this office on Tues.;
day to the New Prison, Clerlienwell, for re-examina,
tion, charged with the murder of the policeman, and,
stated, that since she had given her evidence at this
office, she had thrown herself entirely under the pro.
tection of the police, and fearful of being seen and
recognized in the streets, she continued at the police
station, not daring to return to her lodging., or even
to stir out either by day or by night without, some
of the police constables' to rtccomp my her, lest she
should be attacked and perhaps assassinated by some
one of Conk's murderers or their friends. She was
consequently in a state of considerable trepidation
and ularm,and was most anxious that the Magistrates
would take into their consideration her circumstances,
and provide for her some place of refuge until the
trial of the accused party.
Mr. LAM; said that the best way to make such
provision for her would be to send her to the 'nl ro
limy of the House of Correction.

The chief clerk, Mr. Mallet, asked if he should
bind over the witness as considering the prisoner
fully, committed ?—Mr. Setjeant SMON did not
consider the prisoner as committed at all for trial, as
no evidence hull yet been taken against him at this
office.

Mr. Ma!lett ahaerred that in such ease the witness
could not be committed.

Mr. LAING observed that if she could not find
securities for her appearance at the trial, the Magis.
trates bad the power of committing her.
The witness was asked if she could find securities
for her appearance, and she replied in the negative,
but she expressed a wish to be committed to the
House of Correction for her own safety, until the
ensuing sessions_ commenced.

Mr. LAING asked her where was her par6h set-
dement, and whether she had ever gained any such
settlement in London.—The witness was horn in
Glamorganshire, and lived about ten years ago in the
parish of St. Pancras, where she occupied a house,
and paid rent and taxes for it daring the space of
four years and a half. She was now a widow, she
said, and ever since the death of her husband she
had been reduced to the necessity of living a life of
prostitution, of which she heattily repented, and
wished for nothing more anxiously than to reform
her life and habits.

Mr. LAIN( told her that by being committed to

the House of Correction, she would come waiter the
notice of the visiting Magistrates, and it was very
!nobble that something handsome would be done for
her. She would, besides, have every attention paid
to her, and would not be considered in the light of
a criminal.

Mr. Sergeant SELLON said, that it was necessary,
for the sake of public justice, to commit her, and
that every attention should be paid to her comforts,
consistent with her safe custody.
Mr. LAING ordered that Mr. Chesterton, the
Governor of the .House of Correction, should be
stint for, and that gentleman shortly afterwards en-
tered the office, wlt n the Magistrates told him to
take the witness into the infirmary, and to pay every
attention to her consistent with the prison regulations
and her own security. Mr. Chesterton engaged to
do so, end adJed durt the visiting Magistrates were
then sitting, and he would ley before them the cir-
cumstances under which the witness was placed,
tenl her anxious desire that something might be
eventually done for her to rescue her from the course
of life she had hitherto pursued.
The wi.ness wept bitterly, and, expressing her
gratitude to the MagiArates, she withdrew in the
custody of the inspector.
Two men, accompanied by police-constable Joh►►
NeWton, tippled to the Magistrates for an order to
the House of Correction, to see the p►isoner Smith,
alleging that if they recognized .him to .be the same
person they supposed him to be, they could give
such information us would lead directly to the appre-
hension of another of the murderers, whom the we-
ness Mary Anne Stevens described as having been
dressed in blue at the time of the murder, and
marked with a scar on the left cheek.

The Magistrates granted the order, and desired
Mr. John Titterton, inspector of E division, to ac-
company the men to the prison. Mr. Titterton did
so; but when he returned he informed the Magistrates
that neither of the men could recogniie the prisoner.
Mrs. Stevens, who describes herself as living at
No. 1, Gray's-inn-lane, we are informed, never re-
sided there.