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their way from Galicia into the most important of
the three southern provinces of ancient Poland—
those of Horodycki, Wysocki, and Minniewski,
under thegeneral command of Wysocki; and within
the last few days that of Leszek Wiszniewski (who,
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ALLEGED MURDER IN LAMBETH.

Yesterday forenoon Mr. W. Carter, one of the coroners
for Sutrey, resumed at the Henry the Eighth's Head Ta-
vern, High-street, Lambeth, the inquiry relative to the
death of Ann Griffin, aged 30 years, who was alleged to
have been murdered by a man named George Bagent, with
whom she lived at N 0.2, Windmill-court, Black-boy-alley,
Lambeth.

On Wednesday last the deceased woman was found lying
on the floor of her room, dying, apparently from dreadful
injuries. Her face and other part of her body were shock-
ingly bruised and disfigured. There was a cup on the table
containing some white sediment. It was stated that, on the
previous Monday, the wan Bagent had several times knocked
her down, and kicked her in the stomach with savage vio-
lence, and he had been heard to say that he would " do for
her." He was consequently arrested by the police on suspi-
cion of having murdered her.
Mr. Ramley, surgeon, now deposed that he had made a
post mortem examination of deceased. The vessels of the
brain were very vascular, and there was extravasation of
blood on the left side. A table-spoonful of blood formed a
coagulum at the base of the brain. On the same side of the
face, externally, there was a severe bruise. The viscera
were healthy, excepting the liver, which was enlarged, but
not from drink. He found a recent transverse fracture of
the fifth-rib on the right side. The rib was so completely
divided as to penetrate the pleura. The stomach was in-
flamed, but there was no sign of poison. The rib was frac-
tured by a blow. A kick would have caused the injury,
which was occasioned by great violence. The immediate
cause of death was the shock to the system from that injury.
The extravasation of blood on the brain might have been
from a blow, or from the fall on receiving the black eye.
The Coroner—The deceased was sick. Which do you
suppose that arose from, the injury to the brain or from
poison ?
Witness said that the sickness might have arisen from
irritation of the stomach from spirits. There were bruises
on the thighs and legs from blows or kicks.
Mr. Jessom, 45, High-street, Lambeth, said that about 12
o'clock last Monday night he was standing opposite the
Windmill public-house, near the court where the deceased
lived. He saw the deceased running out of the public-house,
and she was followed by a man. She ran against Mrs.
Cook's shutters, and he caught her there. He then hit her•
in the face, and knocked her down with great violence. When
she lay on the ground he kicked her in the stomach two or
three times. When she got up she sat on the door step of
the public-house. He then ran at her and hit her again
several times, and said, " I will kill you." She said, " A
pretty face I shall have to go to work to-morrow morning."
He replied, "I don't want you to work—l want my tickets."
It seemed to witness that he was accusing her of pledging
his clothes and drinking the proceeds along with another
woman.

had to contend with. There were enough to cut

his little force to pieces, and if it had not been
utterly destroyed on the first day it would have

been annihilated all the flame on the second or

hird: I am assured by an insurgent who took

part in the battle that the Poles fought most eon-

rageously, but that it was all over with them from

the first moment that they were perceived by the
Russians. The Poles crossed the frontier near Sokal,
in the district, and intended, no doubt, to remain
for a time in the woods which separate Galicia from
Volhynia, and Volhynia from the" Government of

Lublin, in the kingdom of Poland." A squadron of
Hungarian Hussars, drawn up in the garden and
fields of Count Komarowski, kept the ground on
the Austrian side, and the battle was fought so close

to the frontier that the Russian bullets fell, from
time to time, among the neutral lookers on. Capt.
Szirma, one of the officers on duty, had the sheath
of his sabre shot away, but, as far as I can learn,
no one on the Austrian side was wounded.
Oat of 200 incur gents who in this last mad foray
entered Volhynia (which is held by a well discip-
lined army of nearly 20,000 men) 30 have come
back sound and free, 70 have been taken prisoners
by the Austrians, and the remainder are either
killed, wounded, or captive in the hands of the Rus-
sians. In other words, the Poles have lost 170 out
of 200 men. They have also lost their chief. Leszek
Wiszniewski is thought to have been killed ; but,
alive or dead, his body remains with the enemy.
I find now that the losses in Wysocki's expedi-
tion to Volhynia must have amounted to at least
half of the entire force—and they would have been
greater still had there been more fighting. Min-
niewski never got across the frontier, but half of his
men were made prisoners by the Austrians. Nearly
half of Wysocki's detachment (at all events a
sufficient number to render two companies of in-
fantry out of four next to useless) disappeared under
fire. Finally, out of 250 men who composed the
whole of the infantry, under Major Synkiewicz,
when Horodycki led his detachment into Radziwil-
low, 214 are now missing. The battalion when it
was counted in the wood of Nakwasha numbered
nearly 340, but about 40 took to flight when the
outposts were fired upon, before the passage of the
frontier, and some 30 were afterwards sent back
from the Russian side as unfitted for the dangerous
and desperate work in view. The chosen band of
250 (without counting the cavalry, who, when they
are well dressed, are more ornamental than useful)
consisted of 150 riflemen and 100 sithemen, and,
whether they had to attack 800, 900, or 1,000 Rus-
sians, certainly did their duty most heroically. If
the Russians had not been confused by the intrepi-
dity of the Polish attack—on leaving as well as en-
tering the town—they could not have allowed one
man to escape. As it was, 214, out of an entire
force of 280, were killed, wounded, or captured,
while out of eight infantry officers—all men of ex-
perience and of tried valour and ability—six, in-
cluding the colonel, fell. The major and one of the
captains (not poor Tchozewski, as was at first re-
ported) have alone returned alive, the latter with-
out a wound, the former wounded only by the
leeches which stuck to his legs when he was in the
water without the boots.
Detachments are making ready for fresh incur-
sions into the Ruthenian provinces. I cannot be-
lieve that the Poles are not, by this time, thoroughly
convinced that in Volhynia they are, at least for
the present, quite powerless. These repeated in-
vasions, of such an utterly hopeless character, can
only be looked upon as diversions made by men
who are quite ready to sacrifice themselves in one
part of Poland that their countrymen may have a
better chance in another. Although Volhynta,
Podolia, and the Ukraine remain perfectly quiet,
the Russians, not knowing at what moment these
provinces may be invaded from Galicia, hold them
with a force of nearly 50,000 troops; and, were it
not for the suicidal expeditions made from time to
time by men like Horodycki and Wiszniewski, at
least 30,000 of these troops might well be spared
for service elsewhere.
The war in Poland is carried on in such a despe.
rate fashion that no account can be taken on either
side of the position of non-combatants. Otherwise,
I do not think it would be unpatriotic on the part
of the National Government to reflect that every
incursion into Volhynia, and every attempt at in-
surrection in the province itself, subjects the Polish
inhabitants to the most cruel outrages on the part
of the Ruthenian peasantry. I asked a Polish
surgeon the other day, who brought back a con-
siderable number of wounded from Radziwillow to
the frontier, whether he received any assistance
from the local population. He said that a few
people outside the town ventured to give him what
aid they could, but that they ill upbraided the
insurgents with having entered Volhynia, and that
one man called out " Unhappy wretches, why did
you come here to be slaughtered, and get us
massacred also ?"
Several political prisoners were liberated here a few
days ago, among others Count Severin Borkowski
and Prince Radziwill. One of the captives, on being
set free, requested permisesrisoonntoof winaflituaenlictet? little longer,
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leave to remain in prison until the evening. This
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The banquet came off in the afternoon, and
is said to have afforded general satisfaction. I sup-
pose that this may be looked upon as a proof that if
political prisoners are badly treated in Austria their
ill-treatment is at least not the result of any deli-
berate intention.
great majority Nevertheless, the position of the
of persons now in confinement, on
suspicion of having aided the insurrection, is most
unfortunate for them and most discreditable to the
Austrian Government. It might at least be expected
of a Government which imprisons on the largest
possible scale that it should learn to keep its
prisons in something like decent order,
Count Mensdorlf returned here a few days ago,
freshly decorated with the Grand Riband of the
Order of Leopold. Marks of distinction have also
been conferred on all the officials through whose
special activity the recent arrests are supposed to
have been effected, such as the director of the police,
the president of the tribunal, &c. M. Merkl, one of
the chief police official of Cracow, has also been de-
corated, from which it may be inferred that his
Government quite rejects the story of M. Merkl's
having become a Russian spy, and that it regards
the disgraceful letter recently attributed to him by
several newspapers as one of many similar forgeries.
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Police-constable 14 L said that from information he re-
ceived he went to the house in Windmill-court, and he found
the woman Griffin lying dead. She was shockingly dis-
figured from blows. Witness took the man Bagent into
custody on the charge of causing her death. Bagent said
that deceased got the black eye by falling down stairs on
Monday. He said nothing more.
Other evidence showed that at 3 o'clock on Monday de-
ceased had no black eye or swollen face, but she had on the
Tuesday morning. When Bagent came in on the Wednes-
day he was much affected, and placed his arms around a
man who was present. He said he did not know what to do,
and was near fainting outright. Another witness said that
deceased did not fall down stairs on the Monday, as Bagent

stated to the police.
The Coroner then summed up, and said that the scope of
the evidence had done away with the suspicion that deceased
had taken poison. If the jury were of opinion that the de-
ceased died from the violence of Bagent it would be their
duty to return a verdict against him. If the threats he
uttered against her were held by the jury to be a proof of a
design on his part to kill, the case of course was one of mur-
der. But if the fact that he did not strike her with any
weapon, and that there appeared to have been a quarrel
about some tickets, appeared to show that he had no deadly
intention, the case would be one of manslaughter.
The court was then cleared, and after half-an-hour's de-
liberation the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
George James Bagent for killing and slaying Anne Griffin.
The Coroner then issued his warrant for the detention of
Bagent in Newgate until his trial at the ensuing sessions of
the Central Criminal Court.
The proceedings then terminated.

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