The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-April 14.

(Before Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Smith.)
PELIZZIONI'S CASE.-." THE SAFFRON-WIT.T. MURDER."

The case for the prosecution having closed,

Sergeant Ballantine proceeded to address the jury for
the defence. He dwelt upon the great importance of the
inquiry, owing to past trials, and upon the fact that the
prisoner was under sentence of death. The police,
he contended, had commenced with a blunder,
and that sooner than admit tho blunder suppressed
matter, which was of the greatest importance to the pre-
sent inquiry. He should endeavour to lay before them what
he considered the admitted facts on which the jury would
have to decide. It was conceded by the prosecution—
and that would be the first matter for consideration—for
upon it the entire case for the prosecution was founded—
that the act was committed, if it was committed by
Pelizzioni, was committed by him when he was down
in the bagatelle room. If he succeeded in breaking the
groundwork and point of the prosecution that Pelizzioni
was the only Italian in the room, he should destroy the
whole case for the prosecution, for it was obvious that the
other circumstances of the prosecution were of secondary
importance. The case for the defence was this—There
had been a variety of discussions, amounting to scuffles, in
the course of the evening, and an ill-feeling had sprung
up between the English and Italians. The English were
by no means behind the others in returning any compli-
ments the Italians might pay them. The Italians said that
while they were ready and intending to have a row the
English were quite as ready to create a disturbance them-
selves. The Englishmen, they say, had been calling the
Italians ruffians, and using other expressions of that
kind, and that two or three of the Italians did, in point of
fact, force their way into the bagatelle-room, into which
the English had retreated, and that it was then the matter
occurred which formed the subject of the present inquiry.
The question then arose, Who was it that struck the blow?
The defence said, in contradistinction to the prosecution,
that not only one man got into the room before Harring-
ton was stabbed, but that two or three of them got in be-
fore that event took place. Upon this point there would
be a great conflict of testimony. It would be
shown that amongst others Gregorio Mogul and his
brother John got in. John, indeed, was one of the first,
and when Gregorio saw that his brother was being mal-
treated he took out his pocket knife, with which he stabbed
Harrington, Rebbeck, and Bannister. At that time Peliz-
zioni, who was a man of great influence amongst the
Italians, was at a neighbouring public house, and was in-
formed that a serious disturbance was going on at the
Golden Anchor. He went there for the purpose of putting
an end to it, and directly he entered the house and went
to the room he was knocked down, and fell on the body of
Harrington. In a moment afterwards he was seized by
King, and was taken into custody by the police. That
was the case to which, upon satisfactory evidence, he
should ask the assent of the jury. The learned sergeant
then called attention to the evidence for the prosecution,
which bore upon these points.
At the clq,se of the learned counsel's address, which
lasted three hours and ten minutes,
Gregorio Mogni was called, and in answer to Mr.
Ribton said he had been sentenced to five years'
penal servitude for the manslaughter of Harrington.
He was then subjected to a long examination, during
which he repeated his account of the disturbance at the
Golden Anchor on the night of Dec. 26. He admitted taking
a knife from the pocket, when Marazzi told him not to use
the knife, but he .replied that if he did not he
would not get out of the room alive. He then struck the
knife into the belly of the first person who came up to
him, but he did not know who it was. He then struck the
knife into Rebbeck. He did not know into what part he
struck the knife, but he struck the blow with his left
hand. He wounded another man, but did not know him
by name. He did by sight.
The witness Bannister, one of the parties stabbed on the
evening in question, was called into court, and the witness
at once idendfied him as the person. He also identified Mrs.
King as the female he threw down when he entered the
bagatelle-room.
The witness was under examination when we went to
press.
The case was then adjourned till Saturday.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
THE CITY BURGLARIES.

This morning Wilkinson, alias Carotty Fred, Brown;
alias Scotty, Jeffrey, and Brewerton, were indicted for a
burglary at Messrs. Bennoch's, warehousemen, in Wood-
street, Cheapside.
At the close of the evidence for the prosecution the
Recorder said there was no evidence against Brewerton,
and he was acquitted upon that indictment.
The learned counsel engaged for the prisoners addressed
the jury, who found them guilty.
Mr. Ribton having intimated that the other cases against
the prisoners would not be proceeded with,

The prisoners were asked in the usual form why sen-
tence should not be passed upon them.
Casloy asked the Court for mercy, as he said he had
been forced into an indecent life, after the greatest struggle
to avoid it.
The other prisoners remained silent.

The Recorder then passed on them the judgment of the
Court. Brown (alias Scotty) and Jeffrey were sentenced
to 20 years' penal servitude, Casley and Brewerton to 14
years', Wilkinson and Hurley to 10 years', and Roberts,
the receiver, to seven years' penal servitude.

NEW COURT.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

John Walters was indicted for highway robbery from a
boy in Oxford-street, and found guilty.
The learned Judge sentenced him to 14 years' penal
servitude.

PHOTOGRAPHY.—Dr. Van Monkhoven has pub-
lished a process for extracting the silver contained
in photographer's waste. Old nitrate baths are first fil-
tered, and .ammonia is then added in sufficient quantity
to redissolve the brown precipitate which has been formed.
Sulphate of ammonia is next added, and the tempe-
rature of the liquid is raised to 40 deg. Centigrade. In the
course of an hour all the silver will be found precipitated
in a state of absolute purity. It is then washed and dis-
solved in nitric acid, whereby pure nitrate of silver is ob-
tained. The waste obtained from toning is poured into a
large vessel, and a lamina of copper put in. In the course
of 21 hours all the silver will be precipitated. After the
contents of the vessel have been several times renewed,
the grey powder at the bottom is collected and dissolved in
nitric acid ; ammonia is added, and the liquid, after being
filtered, is treated with sulphate of ammonia to obtain the
pure metal. PhotogrAphers' waste paper is reduced to
ashes, and the latter are treated with an equal weight
of nitric acid diluted with twice its volume of
water. The liquid is then heated to ebullition, and the
silver is thus dissolved. The residue is filtered and poured
into the vessel containing the lamina of copper.—The
Bulletin Belge de la Photographie publishes two processes
for transferring photographs on painters' canvas. The first
merely consists in coating a fine canvas with collodion
containing chloride of silver, and then performing the
other operations of toning and fixing as usual. The other
process consists in applying a coating of collodion to the
canvas—before it is dry (a point, we think, requiring con-
siderable nicety, since collodion dries almost instantane-
ously) ; another coating is laid on. consisting of 100 gms.
of albumen, 100 do. of water, 1 do. of bromide of potassium,
and 2 do. of iodide of the same. When this is dry, the fol-
lowing solution is applied with a dabber:—Distilled water,
100 gms.; nitrate of silver, 10 do. ; acetic acid, 100 do. The
canvas is then washed to carry off the excess of nitrate of
silver ; then, when the whole is dry, it is exposed to light
through a negative, or in the frame of a solar camera, if the
image is to be enlarged, until a faint outline becomes per-
ceptible, which is then developed with a saturated solution
of gallic acid, and fixed with hyposulphite in the usual
way.