The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1863.

The Abduction and Murder in Islington.

CLERKENWELL POLICE COURT.

The further hearing of the evidence against the prisoner,
William Henry Clarke, who stands charged with the wilful
murder of the child Elizabeth Hunter, was proceeded with
today before Mr. Barker.

Mr Dickie defended the prisoner ; and Mr. Humphrey
attended for Mr. Rowe, one of the witnesses in the case, in
whose nursery the bones of the unfortunate child was found.
Mr. Barker said Mr. Rowe was there merely as a witness.
Inspector Williamson—We intend to put that person in
the box again, as he can now speak to an important fact.
Mr. Rowe than said—Since I was here last, from an
entry I have found in a day-book in my own handwriting
I can state positively that it was the night of the 30th of
March, 1862, that the prisoner was out of my house all
night.
Mr. Barker—You mean that he did not sleep in the house
all night ?
Mr. Rowe—That is so.
Mr. Dickie— You produce the book ?
Witness—Yes.

The book was then put in, and from certain entries for
purch,sing plants, he said he was quite certain the prisoner
was not at home that night.
By Mr. Vickie —I never said to the prisoner's mother I
could not rcc:Alect the circumstance.

Mr. Barker—Do you recollect speaking to the prisoner
about his being absent ?

Witness— yes, I told him I should not be able to keep
him in my employ. I went to bed about ten o'clock at
night. I told him when he went out that particular day,
that if he was not at home by ten at night he would be
locked out. I heard his voice in the passage about twelve
o'cl ck the same night, but I do not know what was said.
Miss Jennings will be able to speak about that.

Mr. D.ckie asked Mr. Rowe whether, when he resided
at Truro, he did not go by another name than Rowe.
The witness said that was so, but he declined to state
anything further than that there was an accusation against
him, bur, that it was oismissed, and the party making it
was thought gu ity of p,rjury.
Charlotte Jennings, of 5, Oxford-street, Islington, said—
I recollect on a Sunday night in March, 1862, Mr. Rowe
ordered the prisoner to be in at ten o'cicck at night. He
did not return as ordered, but came about half-past
eleven, and then Mr. Rowe had lock d him out. I
let him into the passage, and on going to Mr. Rowe's bed-
room-door he felt the handle, and said, " He's locked me
out, so I must go." I locked the street door when he left.
On that night he wore a very dark brown coat, with
pockets each side, black and white speckled trowsers, with
a black stripe up the leg, and a turban, or po,ll- pie hat,
with two black strings. The prisoner left .Mr. Rowe's ser •
vice two or three Sundays after that. Ile west away
the Saturday previous to Easter Sunday. When I
spoke to him the morning after I had locked him
out he said, " I slept all night in the green-house as it was
too late to go home to my mo hers." Mr. Rowe had been
ill for some time, and the rea*on I know he was at home
was that he Never went out for fear of the night air.

By Mr. Dickie—l recollect the clothes partly because I
was asked how I liked them when he had them new.
Prisoner—hid you not eee the hat with the strings off?
Witness—No. I will swear I never saw you wear the hat
without the black strings.
. _

Inspector Williamson said that is all the evidence I have
to offer to day, and I therefore ask for another remand.
Mr. Dickie—l think the police have had plenty of time
to complete this case against the,prisoner, and I object to
such a course.

Mrs. Clarke, the mother of the prisoner, said I recollect
seeing my son on Sunday night, in March. He left about
a quarter before 11, and returned a,short time after, and said
Mr. Rowe had ',eked him out. I made up a bed for him,
and he passed the night at home. I never noticed anything
about his clothes.
Mr. Dickie—You swear to that P
Witness-7I do.
Mr. Barker—Did you not etate to the constable that you
did not recollect the month when tuis took place ?
Witness—[he date, out not the month.
John Mason gave evidence relative to Mr, Itowe's garden
gate being left continually open.
Mr. Dickie again said he did not think there was suffi -
cient evidence to remand the lad.
Mr. Barker replied he should not be justified in taking
any other course than remanding the prisoner until to-
morrow week at 2 o'clock, and in such a case as the present,
it. was most important that soma legal gentleman should
attend and conduct the prosecution, especially as Govern-
ment had offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the
murderer of the child.
Mr. Dickie—Will your worship take bail?
Mr. Barker—Oh no, certainly not.
Prisoner—l don't get justice. I thought being a poor
lad I should, but I don't. I've been locket] up for a long
while, and for nothing. I say there is no evidence against
me, and I ought to be let go, or else you ought to take bail

for me.
Mr. Barker—That is a matter of opinion.
Pr soner—There is no evidence against me. I don't get
the juvice I ought to have, but I'm a poor lad.
The prisoner was then remanded.
The crowd arsProbled outside the police-ccurt was very
great and the excitement intense.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

M ARLBOROUGH• STREE r.

WIFE BEATING.—COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE.
John Regan, ot 31, Little Windmill-street, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant with assaulting his wife,
Mary Regan.
The wile said that on the previous morn ing her husband
came h,,me from the publichouse where he had been almost
stripped of his clothes. He took away all his and the
children's clothes, and sold them, and then beat her op the
head with a poker.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said her
husband had been drinking since Monday,
Mr. Howard, the landlord of the house, said the prisoner
broke down a cupboard door, some of the banisters, and tore
his trousers while he was assisting the police,
Prisoner said his wife irritated him so much that he
feared he should be hanged for her.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked whether the prisoner worked at all,
and was told by the wife that she kept the home, and paid
the rent, and she was willing to work for herself and chil-
dren, but would not work to keep her husband in idleness.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for a month, and
ordered him to find one Buret) for a month afterwards.
SUNDAY TRADING.—CAUTION TO LICENSED VIC-
TUALLERS.—Mr. James Harrison, of the Sun, Noel-street,
W ardour- street, attended befere Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the
complaint of In4ector Bowles, of the C division, ot serving
during the. prohibited how s on Sunday.
From the evidence of Binsted Webb, 112 C, it appeared
that at half-past ten on the morning of Sunday week he
knocked at the side door of defendant's house, and was
admitted by the defendant, He called for a pint of " cooper,"
with which he was served by the defendant, who received
the money for it; and while in the house two persons came
in and had a quartern of gin each, which they paid for and
took away with them, and some others were also served,
Defendant admitted that all the constable said was true,
but said that it was the first time he had been summoned,
and that he had not long been from the country.
Mr. Bowles said there bud been no conviction during the
time the defendant bad kept the house, but he had reason
to believe that Sunday trading had been going on for some
time, and in consequence a plain clothes officer was obliged
to be employed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s. and costs.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. CommiPsioner Holroyd.)

IN RE BALDRY.

This bankrupt was alcuitererr:iNorwich, and this was
a meeting for last examination and discharge
Mr..R Griffith opposed, on behalf of creditors, on the
ground that the bankrupt had incurred debts shortly before
his bankruptcy and when in a state of insolvency, as he had
offered a composition of 4s. in the pound, which the credi-
tors refused to accept, as they believed that the bankrupt
was not acting fairly. It was now alleged that he had
fraudulently made away with or concealed a gold watch
and chain, and he had only got £5 Bs. for his furniture,
and he now owed £498 without anything for a dividend,
The bankrupt swore that he bartered away his watch for
funds twelve months ago—the chain he had with him.
Mr. Griffiths—Why did you not give it up to your
assignee

Bankrupt Because he said it was not worth anything.
Mr. Sargood—Not worth anything!—it is gold, is
not ?

B ankrupt— Some people call it so : I call it brass.
,Laughter.)

The article appe,red massive and valuable.
Mr. Gr fd h said it was only a " duplicate" of the
gold chain, rnd asked for a further adjournment to make
inquiries, as the creditors believed some property was con-
cealed.

Mr. Brough supported.
His Honour saw no occasion to doubt the bankrupt, and
if he had concealed property he would be worse off atter
his passing his iximination than before. As to the con-
tracting the debts, the bankrupt had kept up raying the
creditors with whom he dealt up to his bankruptcy ; he had
come before the Court himself, but the creditors might have
wade him bankrupt if they had thought fit.
Bankrupt passed and obtained his discharge.

MARKETS—This Day.

Death of the Duke of Hamilton

By a telegraphic despatch received from Paris we
[earn that his Grace the Duke of Hamilton died at

the Hotel Bristol, in that city, at noon yesterday.
His grace bad left England for Paris, en route for
Baden, and was suddenly taken ill at the hotel men-
tioned, the disease being congestion of the brain.
His grace's family were sent for, and the Emprers
of the French paid the husband of the Emperor's
cousin assiduous attention till his death. So sudden
and premature a death will excite profound emo-
tions of regret both in Great Britain and in France,
his grace having been as well known in the latter

country as iu his own.
The deceased nuke, William Anthony Archibild
Douglas Hamilton, was born on the 18,11 February,
1811. He was the only son of Alexander, tenth
Duke of Thmilton, K.G., F.R.S., by Susan Eu-
phemia, oaug h ter of Mr. \Vm.Beckford, of Fonthill,
M.P. He married on 234 of February, 1843, the

Princess Marie Amelie of Bader:, youngest
daughter of Charles Louis Frederic, reigning
Grand Duke of Baden, by the Countess de Beau-

harnait—the adopted daughter of the Emperor

Napoleon and niece of the Empress Josephine—by

whom he leaves issue two sons and a daughter, the

eldest son and heir, William .Alexander Louis

Stephen, Marquis of Douglas, having been born on

he 12th of March, 1845.

In his own person the late Duke of Hamilton
combined the dukedoms of Hamilton and Brandon,

besides independent marquisates and earldoms con

erred at different times. He was Earl of Angus

1327), Lord Hamilton (1445), Earl of Arran (1503)

. ,
Marquis of Hamilton (1599), Marquis of Douglas,

Lord Abernethy, and Lord Jed burgh Forest (1633),
Earl of Lanark, Lord Avon, Lord Polmont, Lord
Machanshire, and Lord Innerdale, (1643), all in
the peerage of Scotland, Duke of Brandon, in
Suffolk, and Baron Dutton of Dutton, in Cheshi►e
(1711). He was the Premier Peer of Scotland,
Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Hereditary Keeper

of Holyrood Palace, Colonel of the Lanarkshire
Militia, and Knight Marischal of Scotland. The
owner of such priecely seats as Hamilton in La-
narkshire, Kinniel in Linlithgow3hire, Brodiek in
the Idle of Arran, Ashton in Lancashire, and Easton
in Suffolk, could not be other than a foremost man
i❑ a social and political point of view.
The Duke of Hamilton's father was a Whig of
the old school, and probably one of the haughtiest
men of his day. He cherished an idea that he was
the legitimate King of Scotland, penurious and
miserly as he was ; and at his death, in 1852, his
body was embalmed and deposited in a sarcophagus
brought from the pyramids of Egypt. Die late
duke graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1832.
He never sat in the Lower House of Parliament,

and, vt hen a member of the Upper House never took
any part in the debates, if in aced he ever voted at
all. From his foreign connection he preferred to re-
side almost entirely abroad, and except for a month
during the shooting season, at Brodick Castle, he
lived chiefly at Paris and at Bader. He was a Con-
servative in his views; and in Lanarkshire his
tenantry were always urged to support the Conser-
vative interest, but personally his Grace never took
the smallest interest in the politics of either Eng-
land or Scotland. Through his wife's connection
with the Emperor Napoleon he was always a wel-
come guest at the Tuileries; and, though a Protes-
tant, he caused much joy among the supporters of
the Pope's temporal power a few years ago, by de-
voutly kissing the Holy Father's foot, and at the
same time placing on it a purse containing notes of
the value of several thousand pounds.
The history of this illustrious family is curious
from its various ramifications. There was a Sir
William de Hameldon, a younger son of Robert
de Belloreent, third Earl of Leicester; and hie
son, Gilbert, for praising the valour of Robert
Bruce, received a blow from John de Spencer,
which he returned, whereupon he bad to fly for his
life, and hid himself and his servant in a wood in
the disguise of labourers. When the pursuers came
up to them the two were sawing an oak; Hamilton
said " Through," and dashed across the forest, and
his descendants have always since taken an oak tree
with a saw in it as their crest, and the word
" Through" for their motto. The eldest son of Sir
Gilbert Hamilton swore fealty to Edward I. in 1292.
The second earl was regent of Scotland on the death
of James V. (1542), and heir presumptive to the
crown ; and in 1549 he was created Duke of Chatel-
herault, in Poitou—a title which, by-the-by, was
borne by his descendants, the dukes of Hamilton,
until the last few years, when a Chancery suit decided
that it belonged of right to the Marquis of Abercorn.

The fourth earl was created Marquis of Hamilton,
and his son Earl of Cambridge and Baron loverdale.
In 1633 the son of the latter was created Mar,uis
of Clydesdale, and ten years afterwards Duke of

Hamilton. The first duke was beheaded in 1649,
and the second found himself left penniless, his
estate being forfeited, and his title passed to Lady
Anne Hamilton, his niece, who married the eldest
son of the Marquis of Douglas, and obtained for
him the Dukedom of Hamilton, and for his second
son the Earldom of Selkirk,
In 1711 the English Dukedom of Brandon and
Barony of Dutton were conferred on the Duke of
Hamilton ; but it was decided by the House of
Lords that by the 23d Article of the Union no peer
of Scotland could be created a peer of England.
The sixth Duke of Hamilton married one of the
beautiful Misses Gunning, whom Horace Walpole
so repeatedly mentions in his letters, and his son
succeeded to the Marquisate of Douglas and the
Earldom of Angus, in 1761, by the death of
the Duke of Douglas, not without a struggle.
Tne " great Douglas case" was the most exciting
affair in England, and indeed in Europe, for many
years. Dr. Johnson vehemently espoused one side;
Boswell was the advocate on the other. The
" princely Douglases," as Swift called them, had
been long at the head of a baronial family in Lanark-
shire. There was " the good Sir James," " the
flower of chivalry," and the friend of Bruce, who
was slain on his pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre,
whittler he had travelled to deposit IBruce's heart.
The Earldom of Douglas was conferred in 1350.
The fourth earl was created Duke of Touraine by
Charles VII. King of France. The first earl rebelled
against his sovereign and died, a pensioned monk,
in the Abbey of Lindores, when his title passed to
the son of William, first Earl of Douglas, by the
Countess of Angus, The fifth Earl of Angus was the
famous " Archibald Bell-the-Cat," the hero of a
well-known story. He was the " great earl." The
sixth earl married the Princess Margaret, widow of
James IV., King of Scotland, and by her had a
daughter, who was mother of Henry Darnley, King
Consort of Scotland, and father of James I. of Eng
land. The eldest son (by the secisnd marriage) of the
eleventh earl, w ho was created M arquis of Douglas
in 1633, married the Duchess of Hamilton. The third
marquis, who was in 1703 created Duke of Douglas,
was the hero of the " great Douglas case," in so far
as he left his sister, Lady Jane, the heiress of his
vast estates, to starve in his lifetime, and to die in
a garret, leaving a son by her husband. (Colonel Sir
John Stewart, of Grandtully), whom he on his death-
bed declared his next male heir, Boswell was for
Young Douglas, and be was successful in the Hoa
of Lords against the Duke of Hamilton, who
of
ob-
rained the Marquieate of Douglas and Earldom
Angus by his death, but not the estates.
in brought
In 1782 the eighth Duke of Hamilton a
gase of Lords
forward his claim to a seat in the
as the Duke of Brandon, and
summoned to the house by that
vve title.
record this day,
The late duke, whose deathed
heir, born in 1845,
he waTian that Sear
leaves issue, besides the sone
daughter—L'Ay Mary
born in May, 1847,
aduke was for a short time at
a sou—Lord Charles Ge:criga Archibald Hamilton—
's parents, has mostly spent Lis
Eton, but, like his Victoria.
life abroad.
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TUE COUBT-MARTIAL ON LIEUT.. COL. CRAWLEY
having it
—The United Service Gazette announces " that Chelsea,
take place at Chatham, and besides, the •
public. mind, now
morbidly suspicious of everything that
great
LCt Chatham, gen;e:.ltriall
is done in connection
wiih this unhappy affair, would be to imagine apt •
final mischief was intended in Temov.gine that some
ing the investigation
to Chatham, where the action of public opinion would be
much less direct on all concern
pcaing the trial to be carried concerned than it would be sup-
on in the metropolis,"