The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Feb. 13.

THAMES.—A Chinese seaman, named Scqui,
apparently about 25 years of age, was charged with
cutting and wounding another Chinaman, called
John Ahui, with intent to murder him.
Isaac Excel!, a police coast able, No. 493 K, stated
that half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday night he was
in Narrow-strt et, Limehouse, and heard cries of
4, Police" and " under." On proceeding' to the spot
whence the cries proceeded he saw a Chinaman,
frightfully wounded, lying on the ground in a pool
of blood, in trout of the house No. 27. He directed
a police constable, No. 137 K, to stay by him, and
went to the surgery of Dr. G. R. Arnold, in Brook-
street, with whom he immediately returned. Dr.
Arnold examined the man, and found he had two
wounds, one in the abdomen, and the other in the
left shoulder. He was immediately conveyed
to the London Hospital. The witness then went
in search of the prisoner, and found him at No.
5, New-court, Bluegate-fields, St. Georges-Vl3t;
East. He arrested the prisoner, and took
the bedside of the wounded man in the
Londonh
Hospital. Ahqui recognised the prisoner, and l

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said he Watt the man who stabbed him. Thkp*
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the Regent's Canal dock. The wounded reTin4v.i.ls
foand within a few feet of the canal. The wit4i4Se S
understood from Ahqui that he was wounded by the
prisoner 150 yards from the place where he fell,
and ran with the blood gushing from him until he
became exhausted.
Emma Sarginson, a woman of the town, welt
known at this court, who formerly cohabited with
a Chinaman who kept a lodging-house for sailors,
said she could throw some light on the matter. She
deposed that she was now living f t No. 3, New-court,
Bluegate-fields, and that the prisoner had been liv-
ing at No. 5 in the same court, where he renttd an
apartment for ls. 6d. per week. Ahqui had been
living under the railway arch in Gun-lane, Lime-,
house, and had been in the port of London fcr three
or four months. The prisoner had been cook of en
American ship, and when he left went to the Stran-
gers' Home, in the West Ind;a-road, Limehonse.
Ahqui took the prisoner away from that institution,
and had deprived him of berths on braid three chips,
in each of vs hieh he was engaged as cook. Ahqui
took a coat cut of the prisoner's loom on Thursday •
and pawned it, and afterwards promised to take it
out again. The prisoner Stqui went after Ahqui
to obtain his coat. The witness then said the pri.•
Boner was a most excellent. man.

Inspector Hayes, of the K division, said the
house-surgeon at the hospital was of opinion that it
was necessary the deposition of the wounded man
should be received as early as possible.
Mr. Selfe accordingly proceeded without delay to
the hospital, to which the prisoner was also taken.
The Rev, James 11. Taylor, a missionary, of No.
1, Beaumont-square, Stepney, was sword As inter-
preter.
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He made the following statement :—My name is
Ahqui, of 1, Limehouse. 1 have been in England
14 days. lam the cook of an American ship. I was
going away in a ship to Shanghai. The prisoner was
going as cook also in another ship. At half-past 9
o'clock last night I went to the prisoner's house.
I saw him there, and asked him to come along
with me to my house at Limehouse. He said, " No,
not to-night. I went back to Limehouse, aid five
minutes afterwards the prisoner came into my place,
where the master of the house, his wife, and two
children were. He said, " Ahqui, you go out your-
self and buy opium." I s tid, "It is too late. I
have walked till lam tired." The master was there
at the time. He asked me again to go, and at half-
past 10 I went out with him. We were good
friends up to that time. We walked through four
or five streets when he said in Chinese : "
you," and took a long knife from his coat-
pocket, and gave me two heavy blows, one in the
belly, the other on the left shoulder, I had no
quarrel with him. No angry words, and no blows.
ran with all my bowels out and bleeding, until I
fell down. I could not walk any further, I was
near a cane when he struck me.
Mr. Selfe (pointing to Sequi)—ls that the man ?

Ahqui—Yes, that is the man.
"In answer to Mr. Selfe, the witness added that
he took away from his place last evening a coat
which belonged to him. He lent it to the prisoner
two weeks ago, and only took it back. The pri-
soner never said it was his coat, and did not object
to the witness taking it. He did not know why the
prisoner struck him. He never prevented his going
in a ship as cook, and did not know whether he was
ever in the Strangers' Home, West India-road. He
hal only been there 14 days. The first time he ever
saw him was when he came to his ship. He was
in very great pain, and did not know whether he
would live.
Mr. Pyer then read the deposition in English,
and it was translated to him, sentence by sentence.
The prisoner frequently said, " It is quite correct,"
in his own language; and he also said that part of
it where he was accused of stabbing Ahqui was
very correct, and added—" lam the manf After
the whole of the deposition was read the prisoner
was asked if he wished to put any questions to
Ahqui, to which he replied, " No, I don't wish to
say anything to him."
The wounded man having signed his deposition in
Chinese characters, the prisoner was taken back to
the Thames Police-court, and Mr. Selfe formally
remanded him for a week.

Ahqui was in a very low state yesterday evening,
and it was feared he would not survive many hours.

SOUTHWARK.—DanieI Cormick, He nry Prit-
chard, Samuel Pritchard, and Matthew Hayward
were summoned before Mr. Combe by Miss Angelica
t3tanift, Bliekfriaralrhaaty-for--- •
having .unlaw fully,,wWrisdieritiftwasi goad- with- --
strong hand, entered certain messuages„Nos. 1,2,
3,5, 19, 20, and 23, Stamford-street, the property of
Miss Read, and for unlawfully and injuriously Seep •
ing possession of the same.
Mr. Francis Russell, instructed by Mr. J. C.
Mey mott, appeared to prosecute; Mr. Bin ns defended
Cormick ; and Mr. L. Lewis defended the others.
Miss Read, on being sworn, said that het father
and herself had been in undisputed possession of the
houses named in the summons for upwards of 40 •
years. Her father died about 18 years ago. At his
death she received the rents and kept the keys, but
for some years they had not been tenanted. She
had property in all the houses. She had been
in the habit of entering all the houses occasionally
to see that all was safe. Lately she bad had the
whole of the roofs put into proper repair, and she
intended to thoroughly repair all of them, so as to
let them to respectable tenants. On Monday after-
noon she went to No. 1 with a workman, when she
was surprised to see a crowd round the doorway.
The iron gate had been forced, and one of the men
(she believed Hayward) had a crowbar, with which
he forced open the door and entered. The other
defendants were there, as well as Mrs. Cormick, who
asked her to show her tide-deeds. Being very much
frightened, she got out of the crowd as quickly as
possible, and returned home. In the course of the
same evening she went to the same house again with
a carpenter and smith, regained possession, and
secured the door. Shortly after they had entered,
the house was broken into again by Mrs. Cormick
and her party, and she was compelled to seek escape
by the roof.
In cross-examination by Mr. Binns, witness said
that since her father's death none had ever disputed
possession with her until now. She knew nothing
of Mrs. Cormick or the defendants.
Henry Scroggs, a smith, said that during the last
three months he put a new lock and box on the
door of No. 1, Stamford-street. The door was very
strong and calculated to resist great violence. On
the evening c f the 19th ult. he accompanied Miss
Read to No. 1, which they found had been broken
open. They gained an entrance and fastened it
again. A minute or two afterwards a mob sur-
rounded the outside, and he heard persons break-
ing the door. Miss Read told the carpenter to ask
what they wanted, and while the carpenter was in
the act of drawing the top bolt the door was burst
in. Mrs. Cormick and a mob then rushed in.
Among the latter he recognised Hayward, Cormick,
and Henry Pritchard. There was a great tumult
outside at that time, and stones were thrown in,
one of which struck witness. Miss Read made her
escape by the skylight, telling him to stay in till
they turned him out. Soon after that the defend-
ants turned him out. The door was opened, and he
was pushed out of the house.
In cross-examination witness said that before
that he drank beer with them. The defendants
never told him they had been pushed in. The wit-
ness saw all the defendants there.
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JONES-HERBERT CONTROVERSY.—At a
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meeting of the Usk Fishery Association at Aberga-
venny on Wednesday last, the 11th inst., Lord Llanover
read the following communication :—" Newport, Mon-
mouthshire, Feb. 10, 1863.—Sir,--I am directed by the
Lord-Lieutenant to inform yon that, in accordance with
the request contained in your letter of the 30th ult., that he
would forward a letter enclosed therein, and which was
addressed to the Lord Chancellor, his lordship did forward
that letter, and he has received a communication from the
Lord Chancellor as follows Inasmuch as her Majesty
has been pleased, on the petition of the Lord-Lieutenant, to
issue a Commission Hof Sewers for the county of Monmouth,
and to include Mr. Jones therein, under his assunnd name
of Herbert, I consider his case an exceptional one, and will
therefore direct his name in the C, nitniesion of the Peace to
be altered accordingly.' I will intern' you of the stltera
lion as soon as it is effected. I am, sir, your obaeodo._wm.
ser-
vant, CRAULES PROTIIEROE, Clerk of thoeripLe
lanover, in
Jones, Eeq., Clytha House, near Usk.'
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cellor having thus declared. him justified in the alteration
of name, Mr. Tones will become legitimately Mr. Herbert
isnowtheres being
gission of the Peace. The Commission of
under the Great Seal, the L°rd Chancellor
has considered it to be Royal authority for the change of
name.

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Commence at 7.

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