The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 29.

LAMBETH.--FURTHER EXAMINATION OF THE
REV. THOMAS WYCHERLEY.—Ttie Rev. Thomas
Wycherley, late Baptist minister of the Baptist
Chapel, Clapham-rise, was placed at the bar for
the fourth time, before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of
being concerned, with Mary Ann Newton, in steal-
ing £6O in bank notes and other property.
Mr. Chipperfield, as before, attended for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Neale for the defence, and the
court was much crowded.
The first witness called was Mr. Alfred Cooper
Woodward, a clerk in the International Telegraph
Office. who attended with the documents relating to
the telegrams ; but before producing them ho said
that there was a rule of the company which bound
it to secrecy in its communications, excepting in such
cases as the ends of justice required their production
on compulsion, and he had, therefore, to request an
expressed desire on the part of the magistrate before
producing them.
Mr. Elliott made the request as desired, and the
witness produced the usual printed form filled up on
Tuesday, the 24th of February, and signed " Thomas
E. Wycherley," and containing the following tele-
gram addressed to Mrs. Mary Ann Newton, 143,
Great Gaol-street, Yarmouth•—" Have you arrived
safe ; are you well ; when do you return ; send a reply
to the Shoreditch Station." That message reached
Yarmouth as appeared byanother document acknow-
ledging its receipt, and signed " Mary Ann New-
ton;" and by a third document signed "Mary Ann
Newton," an answer was for warded on the same
day saying, " Arrived safe; I am quite well, and will
leave by the 2 o'clock train." By a fourth document
it appeared that the message was received at the
Shoreditch Station, and the acknowledgment of its
receipt was signed "Thomas E. Wycherley."
The young woman, Mary Ann Newton, was here
brought into court in charge of one of the warders
of Wandsworth House of Correction, and when
s worn admitted that her name to the telegram pro
clued, and which she had received from the prisoner,
was in her handwriting, and that the signature
" Thomas E. Wycherley" to the other documents
was in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. Chipperfield—Oa your leaving town on the
21st February, had any arrangement been made
between the prisoner and yourself about his follow-
ing you ?
Witness—Yes ; he said he should come down on
the following day (Sunday) after his sermon, and if
he did not I was to return on the next day (Mon-
day). He also said that if he did not come, and that
I did not return on the Monday, he should send me
a telegraphic message on the Tuesday; so that on
that day I expected one.

Mr. Oh ipperfield—Now,respecting the bank notes
belonging to your mistress. I wish to ask you whe-
ther you had any conversation with the prisoner
before you took them from your mistress's bedroom
drawer ?

Witness—Yes, we had a conversation respecting
the notes, with a view of our going to Egypt. He
said that if I could get a sufficient sum of money to
take myself, the owners of the ship woald take him,
but they would not take me unless I was married
to him.

Mr. Chipperfield—l want you to state whether
you had any conversation with the prisoner respect-
ing the bank notes before you took them from the
drawer.

Witness—Yes ; I told him there were notes in one
of my mistress's drawers, and we agreed with each
other that I should take them. He wished me to take
the notes for my passage out to Egypt, but I was not
to tell him the time I was to take them, but that he
should be in the kitchen when I brought them down,
and he asked me to give him a note as he owed £3
for lodging. He told me to put my name to it, and
I did so and gave it to him, qnd put the others in
the kitchen drawer. On the Thursday before I left
my mistress to go to Yarmouth I put my name to
four or five notes, and Mr. Wycherley had the rest;
and we agreed to change them between us. The
prisoner did not say how much he had, but the
.notes he had he must have taken from the kitchen
.dresser-drawer where I put them. When I started
'for Yarmouth I had £l5 and the prisoner had all
!the rest. When the prisoner came to me to Tun-
bridge I had 11 sovereigns and a half, and 13s. in
my purse, and out of that I gave him 10 sove-
reigns; he then asked me for my purse containing
the sovereign and a half and the 13s. in silver, and
I gave it to him. The prisoner then told me that
Mrs. Levy had discovered what I had taken, and

isked me if I wished to know what she charged me
with. I said I knew what I had taken ; that I had
aken three rings, two chains, and the notes; and
he then said that Mrs. Levy charged me with steal.
g four rings besides, and £2 10s. in gold that was
in the purse with the notes. I told him that when
I took the notes from the purse I left the gold, and
he then said that he took the purse himself, with
the £2 10s. and the four rings also ; that he pledged
them in the Borough, and destroyed the duplicates.
[ doubted whether he had done so, when, in proof,
he pulled out mistress's purse from his pocket and
burnt it, and then said to me, "You must swear
you took them ; for you are sure to go to prison."
said, " I don't care if they hang me, for my mind
is in a miserable state."

Mr. Chipperfield—What was it that induced you
,o give the prisoner the £lO at Tunbridge?
Witness—He asked me what money I had, and
said they ,vould take it all from me at the station,
Ind I then took out my purse and gave him the
10 sovereigns.
Mr. Chipperfield—Did ho say anything about
what he wtt►s about to do with the £lO.

Witness—Yes, he said he should take care of it
hi I came out of prison. Out of the sovereign and
t half and 13. in my parse, the prisoner took the
calf sovereign and 13i. in silver while we were in
the cab going to the station-house to give myself up,
Ind the sovereign and the purse he gave up to me.
I begged of him that I should have a solicitor to de-
tend me, and he said he should take care I had one.
Mr. Chipperfiold—Had the prisoner said anything
to you about the key of the dressing-room P
Witness—Yes; he said the key of the dressing-
room would open Mrs. Levy's bedroom ; and on my
saying I was not aware of it, he said, " What, surely
you are not going to look me straight in the face
and tell me, after living four years and a half in the
house, you do not know that the dressing-room key
will open your mistress's bedroom P and I said I did
not know it.

Mr. Elliott—What you have been swearing to-
day the truth ?
Witness—lt is, sir.
In reply to further questions by Mr. Chipperfield,
The witness said that the first day she had been
brought to this court to give evidence against the
prisoner, she had ben locked up in one of the cells,
and while there had a conversation with the pri-
soner and his friends. The first person who came to
her was a young woman, who called herself the pri-
soner's daughter, and she requested that she would
not say anything unfavourable of the prisoner, and
that she was to state that she had borrowed money
from the prisoner, though she never borrowed a
farthing from him in her life.
The gaoler to the court denied that the witness
could have had any conversation with the prisoner,
but the witness reasserted the fact, and the prisoner
on the occasion called her his dear Annie.

Mr. Chipperfield here said he required further
time to complete the case, and the prisoner was
again remanded.

GREENWICH.—Mr. Charles Edward Butler.

of 31, Farringdon-street, and Sutton, Surrey, ap-
peared to three different summonses, at the instance
of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way Company, charging him with travelling on
their line of railway without first obtaining his
ticket, and with intent to defraud the company.
Mr. Sleigh, barrister, appeared for the defendant,
the railway company being represented by Mr.
Inspector Carpenter, the chief of the company's
police.

John Wright said—l am a servant in the employ
of the company, and on the 13th of the present
month I was a passenger by the 9.30 a.m. tram
from Epsom. On the arrival of the train at the
Sutton Station at 9.45 I observed the defendant
enter a first class carriage. I entered the same com-
partment, and sat with him and a lady Ns ho was a

plssenger. At New-cross the collector came to
the carriage and asked for the tickets, The lady
gave up her ticket, but the collector knowing me
did not ask for my ticket. The collector then
asked defendant, who sat at the further end of the
carriage, for his ticket, and the defendant replied,
"I am an annual." The collector remarked that
he must see the ticket, and the defendant put his
hand into his pocket and took out a pocket-
book, which he exhibited to the collector, The col-
lsctor then observed, " That w ill not do ; I must
see your ticket, sir, if you please;" and defendant
replied, "I have left it in my other book." The
collector asked defendant the station from which he
came, and he said Sutton. The fare from Leather-
head, the station whence the train originally started,
was then demanded, which the defendant paid with-
out any demur. I was at the London bridge Station
on the afternoon of the same day, and saw defen
dant approach the booking-office, pass through on
to the platform without taking a ticket, and enter
a first-class carriage by the 510 train. I entered a
second class carriage adjoining, and on the train ar-
riving at Sutton I saw the defendant get out of the
carriage. The ticket collector was standing at the
gate through which the passengers passed, but the
defendant passed through the goods yard into a
lane. On the afternoon of the 17th inst. I was
again at the London-bridge Station, and saw de-
fendant get into a first-class carriage by the 4 15
train. I travelled in a second-class carriage, and
at Sutton I saw the defendant again pass through
the goods-yard into the lane, which annual ticket-
holders are in the habit of doing, instead of passing
through the gate at which the tickets of ordinary
passengers are collected. After the defendant had
got over the stile into the lane I went up to him
and said; "I beg your pardon, sir, but did you give
up your ticket on getting out of the train ?" He
said " Yes." I asked him to whom he gave the
ticket, and he replied " The boxing clerk." I told
him he had not done so, and he then said, "Did I
not ?" He searched his pockets, and accompanied
me back to the collector, when he asked him if he
hid not given up his ticket ? The collector said he
had not, but that he had seen him take a single
ticket in the morning. The defendant, without any
further words, then took 18. 6d. from his pocket
and paid the fare.
John Marsh, ticket collector at the New cross
station, was called to prove demanding defendant's
ticket on the morning of the 13th, and said that,
on defendant showing him his pocketbook, he told
him he must see his annual ticket, when defendant
said he must have left it in his other book.
Inspector Carpenter said the defendant had been
an annual ticketholder for a period of ten years,
but not since the 22d of October last.
Mr. Sleigh said, for the defence, that the defen-
dant had been an anuuel ticketholder of the com-
pany, but beirg about to dispose of his property at
Sutton he had not renewed the ticket, and having
a large business under his management, and heavy
Gifitction among his family at home, he had forgot-
ten that his annual ticket had lapsed, and had paid
his fare when demanded of him. He (Mr. Sleigh)
thought there was some discrepancy in the evi-
dence of the ticket collector and the witness
Wright as to the defendant having first said
he was an annual ticketholder. It had been ad-
mitted that the defendant had taken a single ticket
on the morning of the 17th, the difference between
which and a return ticket was only 9d. If a charge
of endeaeouring to save such a sum had been made
against a person to whom 9d. was an object there
might be supposed to be a motive, but to defendant
the money was no object. It was well known that
if the wife of a peer took a sixpenny packet of
needles for which she could have no possible use, it
would not be called stealing, buy it would be said
she was mad, although a person to whom the needles
might be of value would be held guilty of stealing.
'rho learned counsel, in conclusion, made a strong
appeal on behalf of the defendant.

The defendant also addressed the magistrate, ob-
serving that on the very next day after being
stopped by the witness Wright he went and paid
£l7 for an annual ticket, in order that a mistake
should not again occur, and that in exhibiting his
pocketbook he had-done so, thinking he had his re-
turn ticket, and that nothing was said either by him
or the coltector as to the annual ticket.

Mr. Maude said he was sorry that he could come
to no other conclusion than that the defendant had
knowingly con_mitted the offences with which he
was charged. He saw no discrepancy between the
statement of the ,a itnesses and the statement mad •
by the defendant himself, that in showing his pocket
book he thought it contained his return ticket ; but
this could not have been so, or he would not, when
unable to produce the ticket, have said he had left it
in his other book. A great deal had been said about
the respectability of the defendant, but ho knew no
distinction of persons while sitting us a magistrate
in that court. His worship then imposed a penalty
of 40s. and costs in each of the three cases.
Mr. Sleigh—I suppose the defendant has a right
to appeal ?

gr.. Maude—He has that right, and if my judg-
ment is wrong I shall only be too glad that it should
be set right.

An awkward incident occurred the other day in
reference to the writ for a new election for Halifax, It
seems that by some inadvertence the writ was directed to
Halifax in Nova Scotia, instead of Halifax in Yorkshire I
The accident was discovered before the despatch of the
colonial mail, and the letter was delivered up by the Post-
office authorities.
[AnvElsTlSEMENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
Bad breasts, ulcers, abscesses, wounds, and sores of all
kinds may be thoroughly healed by the application of this
ointment to the parts affected after they have been duly
fomented with warm water. The discharges should not be
checked at once, but rather encouraged, for such sudden
check must of course be always dangerous. Nature is the
noblest of physicians, and must not be opposed, but seconded.
All sores are for a time the safety-valves of the constitution,
and should not be closed or healed until they assume a
healthier character. Under the action of this powerful oint-
ment, together with the pills, the depraved humours of the
body will be quickly romoYed,

Mysterious Attempted Suicide by a French
Officer in the City.

The police are at present engaged in investigative
the circumstances of a most determined attempt at
suicide by a French gentleman named Hippolita
Linde, who had been for a month past residing at
Fiveash's Hotel, Aldersgate-street. It appears that
on Monday evening the commissioners of the City
and of the Metropolitan Police received simulta'
neously letters stating, that by the time the letters
came to hand the corpse of the writer would be lying
in a room in the above hotel, as he would have shot
himself dead with bullets from a revolver. He con-
cluded by saying that the police would be rewarded
for any trouble they might be, put to in conse-
quence of his act. The singular circumstance of
the letters being directed both to Scotland-yard and
Old Jewry by a foreigner, who might be supposed
ignorant of the respective headquarters of the dif-
ferent police forces, deserves remark. When the
letter was received at the Old Jewry, Inspector
Hamilton, Sergeant Packman, of the detective force,
and five constables were met by a similar body of
the Metropolitan force, who had been despatched
by the authorities at Ssotiand-yard, and who, find-
ing their services were not required, withdrew.
The City police proceeded upstairs to the second
floor front room, and found the door fastened, and
it required their united exertions to force it open
few inches. They then found that all the furni-
ture had been piled against the door, and that the
room was perfectly dark, the blinds having been
drown and the shutters closed. The writer of the
letter was not dead, and, from the tone of his remarks
Inspector Hamilton judged it necessary to be very cir-
cumspect in order to prevent casualties. TheFreech-
man said that he was a ruined man, and that he had
been disappointed in the object of his life. Sergeant
Packman said, " We are Englishmen; we do not
wish to injure you," and he offered to shake hands
in proof of friendship. He put in his hand, and
found that the unfortunate man's body was wet with
blood. The Frenchman shook hands, when Packtnan
said, " Let us shake hands in the English manner,
with both hands." The proposal threw the man off
his guard, and while he was held fast the door was
burst in. Upon the light being let in a shocking
scene presented itself. A tall young man, of aris-
tocratic and military bearing, and of dark corn'
plexion, was clothed merely in his coat and trousers,
and was covered with blood, which was pouring
from three dreadful ballet-wounds in the breast
and side. The room was in complete disorder,
and the bed and floor were saturated with blood.
Upon the floor lay a revolver of French manufac-
ture, and near were some military orders and
decorations, one of which appeared to be of
great value. Three of the six barrels of the revol-
ver were found to have been recently discharged
and completely reloaded, doubtless in readiness for
a renewal of the attempt. The shirt, waistcoat,
and two flannel shirts were picked up on the floor,
and were each found to contain three bullet holes,
and to be completely saturated with blood.
had, no doubt, divested himself of the garments to
allow himself the more freely to bleed to death.
The bullets used were conical balls, of a patent con'
struction, which rendered the injuries inflicted of
very aggravated character, A surgeon was seat
for, who temporarily bandaged the wounds, and
ordered the sufferer to be forthwith carried to St'
Bartholomew's Hospital, where he now lies under
the care of Mr. Lawrence.

The police, in searching the room, dis covered a
number of documents and letters in the French
language, the contents of which have not bees
allowed to transpire, but which it is understood
contain detailed statements as to the reason of the
suicide.

M. Linde is understood to be a member of a family
of wealth and position, and to have been an officer
in the French service, in which it is believed he ob.
tained the decorations already mentioned, which
were found in the blood upon the floor of his roots•
Upon•inquiry at the hospital yesterday, it Was
ascertained that, though the unfortunate gentleman °
lungs have been penetrated and fearfully injured'
he still survives, but without hope of recovery.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

... 4.),

LYNN-TUESDAY.

A good attendance at market to-day, with an average
show of wheat, in excellent condition. The demand wB°
good, at an advance of fully 2s per quarter Lion late rates'
New spring corn unaltered.
White 50s to 52s I Barley. 37s to 40$
EA.. 44s to 47s 1 Grinding ...... ..30s to 3,2.
Beans .—s to —s 1 Oats..
New 36s to 38s I Peas —s to --4

NEWARK—
White wheat new, 45s to 54s
Red do. 44e to 48s
Old white --s to —s
Red do. --s to —8
Barley, malting 37s to 43s
Peas,....

1 V
Barley, E D x sgpr
iAnYth. g
Oats, old, 305 to
New do 23s to 260
Beans. 43s to 450
W
Beans, new 35$
33s to 38s. 2Bs to 31g

HULL—TUESDAY. • a
The wheat trade in the early part of the week reraanie„,
dull; but, owing to the advices from America, a brisk '-`,
mend sprang up. A small supply of English wheat A;),
day, for which farmers asked extravagant prices, but in "'cl
i,
business passing is to 2s per qr was generally realio_l
Foreign was also from is to 2s dearer. Spring corn of ,‘,
descriptions met with more general inquiry at extreme ctir,
rencies.
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr .. 48s Od to 503 oOd
I ~
Old red
New white .. , 47s Od to 500 ,'A
New red ... ~
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 38s od
Grinding 27s 6d to 29 oa
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 2Bs Od to 293 v,a
Grinding
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per st.. 22086 s ssl°°2(d to
il todtols
5.,11
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 031;51,
Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to 001
Beans ....English, old, per qr 4ss Od to 463 (,',4
New pigeon 42s Od to 41s ~a
New tick. 4os Od to 423 (4
Egyptian .. 33s Od to 34s `,ii
Peas Foreign boilers ..
: :533623:5: °l-I°o° c idddd to
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o: 5333- -684100: pa,
dacl33 '
Grinding
Tares .... Spring. 0
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing . 4os Od to 525 0
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 0
Foreign 0
8 5 oto 9in
Rap 1
e cakes 6 5 oto 6 .;1" 0,
Bones

COAL ili
Prices of Coal per Ton a'

ARKET.

the elose of the motet.

Walls End. s.
Hartlepool.. ......... 16
South Hartlepool.... • 161
Kelloe .... .16. 16 0
South Kelloe.. ....... • _
Rid dell ........
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14
Wharncliffe .......... 14 p,
Framwellgate ........ vf,
Haswell .. . ...... •11 "0
Hetton
1/ 6
South Hetton ...... • '
Tunstall
. 15
Hough Hail ......... 15 v
Camp ...
Ships at market, 92; sold, 46.

s. .
Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 d 3
Bates'sWest Hartley, .13 9
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley
.. 15 3
Wylam 15 0
Lambert's West llart-

ley l5 0
Carway and Duffryn
Malting l9 6
Hastings Hartley l5 3
anfield Moor 12 6
Tantield Moor Butes l2 3
Eden Main...... l4 6

nrile.
A DEATH BED.—It is good to have one's iweci
tical sense of the world's nothingness refreshed and ot"
up anew by the sight of a delitli bed,

Bths.
EURTON.—On the 28th instir
~ at Walmer-beach, the Wife
of Colonel Fowler Buxton, of a son. coo
. PAKENIIAM.—On the 28th inst i at-St. Leonard's-ow
the Hon. Mrs. Pakenharcr,•of it,..danghter. the
VINCENT,--On the 28th inst. 'tt Hemingford Abbots,
wife of Captain Vincent, M.T., of a son.

Marriages. Chrißt
BOWRING—TOULMIN. On the 2Sth inst., 8-t
f
Church, Bayswater, John C.
.Bowring, Esq., °,.,"-og,
beare, South Devon, eldest son of Sir John Bo%sc, of
Isabella, younger daughter of Calvert Touluali,
Inverness-terrace, Kensington-gardens. jolVi
COLES—LERMITTE.—On the 28th inst., at Bright°llAoo9
Coles, Esq., of Notting-hill, and the Stock B...s.;ffraittoy
London, to Amelia, thftedaughter of Fredk. Pe'
Esq., Montpelier Yalu, Brighton.

Deaths. Francis
BONHAM.— On the 26th inst , at Knightsbridge,
It. Bonham, Esq. . gall
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Berke, aged 38.
. On the 26th inst., at Melbourne, Derbyshire'
Fox.
On phire, lielirj
W. Fox, Esq,, aged t 4. TRIP
Thames LAMBART—Onithe 28th inst., at Ditton. tilhe /ate
Corn. Oliver WM. Lambert, retd. Co R.N., son °f the
Earl of Cavan. ir• Ilr'
POWELL.—On the 26th inst. at at Cheltenham, the Ii - vicar
Powell, B.D , Canon of Landaff, and for sixty Years
of Abergavenny, aged 91. •,- ~, s O'
for Buckinghamshire, aged 74.
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