The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-06 00:00:00

YR—Oct. 4.

POLICE

MANSION-HOUSE.—Stephen Keef, a blind '
man, who was brought before the Lord Mayor a
few days back charged with having caused the
death of Eliza Keel by kicking her in the abdomen,
was brought up on Saturday upon remand, to un-
dergo a final examination upon that charge.
The evidence given upon the last examination,
it will be remembered, was that of a sister of the
deceased, who lived in a room in the house next
door to the one in which the prisoner and his wife
lived, and who deposed to having been awoke on
the morning of Saturday, the 27th September, by
loud screaming and a heavy fall, upon which she
went to see if it were her sister, and found her ly-
ing on the floor in the passage, ,e.7.ainst the door of
her own room, and that she complaii:ed to her of
the ill-usage of the prisoner.
On Saturday one of the prisoner's children, a
little girl about 12 years of age, was examined, and
said she went out with her father on the evening of
Friday, the 26th September, and went home at
about one in the morning. The prisoner had been
playing and drinking at several public-houses.
When he went home he gave her mother a shilling
and told her to go and get him some supper. She
went with her mother, and they were gone about a
quarter of an hour. ll' hen she went back she be-
gan to take the things she had bought out of her
apron, when the prisoner got his stick, and after
shutting the door, hit her with the stick, and
knocked her down. He then put the stick down,
and she (witness) put it away in the cupboard.
He then hit her mother with his fist, and then
kicked her in the side of the stomach. The pri-
soner had opened the door again, and her mother
fell into the passage. Mrs. INPSweeney, her aunt,
heard the screams, and went to her mother, and the
prisoner hit her on the arm with a stick. The pri-
soner went into the room and locked the door, and
her aunt lifted her mother up, and set her on the
stairs, where she was sitting all night. Her aunt
went to her two or three times during the night,
and at six in the morning, while her father was
asleep, she got out of bed and unfastened the door
and let her mother in. Mrs. M'Sweeney was there
at the time, and either she or her mother told her
to light the fire, which she did.
The prisoner, who had been interrupting the
witness during the whole time she was giving her
evidence, telling her she was telling lies, and to be
careful what she said, &c., was asked if he wished
to ask her any questions, and he said he did.
The Prisoner said that what she had said was all
lies, and she had been " put up to it" all by her
aunt; and he asked her a number of questions with
a view to shaking her testimony, but she adhered
to all she had previously said.
Sarah Trusty, a person living in the house ad-
joining the one occupied by the prisoner and his
family, said she was awoke at about two o'clock on
the morning of Saturday, the 27th September, by
the screams of the prisoner's wife and children.
She heard a heavy fall, and heard the prisoner
threaten to rip her up, and use other threatening
language. She heard Mrs. APS weeney's voice, and
she heard the prisoner say he would kill them both.
She heard no more. The disturbances there were so
frequent that she took little notice of them.
Caroline Lewis, the midwife to the East London
Union, said she was called to attend the prisoner's
wife on Sunday evening, 2Sth September, at about
eight o'clock. She was expected to give birth to a
child every minute, and at the time she went to her
she appeared to be progressing very favourably ;
but shortly afterwards some very bad symptoms set
in, and she sent for Dr. Fowler, and at about half-
past eleven the child was born, but it was dead.
Dr. Fowler was then examined, but it is impos-
sible to give the minute details of his evidence ; the
purport of it was, however, that he was called to
attend the deceased woman, and he found her in a
complete state of collapse, and presenting the most
serious symptoms that could possibly appear. The
face was pale and anxious. The whole surface of
her body was cold. Her tongue and breath were
cold, and her pulse was scarcely if at all perceptible,
all of which indicated internal hemorrhage, the re-
sult probably of some internal injury. Upon his
arrival he found the progress of the birth such that
it should have taken place very shortly, and he used
I stimulants and the necessary medicines, but with
little or no effect. The birth took place at half-
past eleven, but it was not a natural birth, and the
child was still-born. In consequence of rumours
which reached him ho refused to give a certificate
of death, and a post mortem examination was made
at which he was present, and he was of opinion
that death was caused by laceration of one of the
abdominal organs, which caused a quantity of blood
to flow into the cavity of the stomach.
In answer to questions by the Lord Mayor,
Dr. Fowler said he could see no trace of external
violence from a stick or a kick, the body was too
far decomposed. He could not say how long the
child had been dead. It was dead before the birth,
and might have been dead two days. An injury
might have been inflicted by a kick, which during
the progress would have been aggravated, and
caused the hemorrhage.
The prisoner received the usual caution, and was
asked if he wished to say anything to the charge
of having feloniously killed and slayed Eliza Keef.
He said he did, and made a rambling statement,
the purport of which was to show that his wife was
in perfectly good health and spirits all day on
Saturday and Sunday, and he said all that his little
girl had said she had been " put up to" by her
aunt.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for
trial.
A morose-looking man, a foreigner, who refused
to give his name or any account of himself, was
brought up, charged with attempting to stab Ora-
tio Farmer, steward of the vessel Concordia, lying
off Fresh-wharf, with a penkife.
The prisoner was first spoken to in English, but
he appeared not to understand, and 1)r. Rechurst,
who was in court, addressed him in French, Italian,
and German, all of which he affected not to under-
stand. At Mr. Goodman's request he was told by
the interpreter that his remaining silent would
avail him nothing, and he then said his name was
Volaro Francesco, and he was a native of Savoy.
The captain of the vessel said the prisoner was
put on board at Bologne, about five minutes before
the vessel started, by the French police, and he
said he had no money.
The Lord Mayor asked why they sent him to
London.
The captain said he had been expelled from that
country before, and he arrived at Boulogne on the
previous day from London in one of the company's
boats, and he then had no money to pay his pas-
sage. The French police took charge of him and
put him on board the vessel.
His lordship asked if he was directed by the
consul to do so.
The captain said he was not. He was directed
by the French police. When they got to London
the prisoner said he had no money to pay his pas-
sage, and the ticket collector wanted him to leave
his overcoat. This he at first refused, but ultimately
he consented to do so. He was then told to go out
of the cabin, and he refused to do so. Hanbrook,
the constable of the wharf, was called to remove
him, but he resisted ; and as the steward was ren-
dering assistance the prisoner struck at him with
the penknife. When he was searched £1 ls. 717 d.
in English money was found upon him.
°ratio Farmer, the steward, said he went to as-
sist the officer, when the prisoner struck at him
three times with an open penknife. He did not
inflict any wound, however.
The evidence was interpreted to the prisoner, and
when asked what he had to say, he said they wanted
to take his money and an over coat from him.
His lordship told him through the interpreter
that the captain was quite justified in calling an officer
to remove him from the vessel, anel that he was not
justified in resisting, and by using a
.knife he had
committed an offence against the English law. Ho
then sentenced the prisoner to seven days' impri-
sonment.
The prisoner asked what would be done with his
money
His lordship said that would be given to him,
together with his coat.
The prisoner said they took a coat from him on
board the other boat at Boulogne.
His lordship explained to him that they were quite
justified in that instance in taking the coat. The
difference between that case and the present was,
that he went to Boulogne of his own free will, and
having no money they were justified in taking his
coat as an equivalent for his passage money, and
whereas in the present instance he was put on board
by the police against his will.

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on the farm hi general, and told hit n that he wou
not employ him anyld
the premises at once. A.
gore, and.tha t he must leave
had been sitting and struck Z'is uncle a-
fter this th o prisoner took
sto of on which he
one of the legs from the m:lking-
on the face with it, and the cerf fearful blow
der him insensible. He would .
ect of it was to xen-
on a medical gen-
tleman.before his worship who w.ould speak as to
James Dale deposed that shorMT
the serious nature of the injuries.
day week he went into a field at ‘'.%rink
ai"ter six on Fri-
lewood with
about
the prosecutor, and heard him say somet 'lelnhing
and
not watering horses, and neglecting; to inter=
thinking there would be a fight he went
fere, but had scarcely done so when pris,rmer
a leg from the stool on which he had been sitting
milking a cow. Armed with this he approached
his uncle, and struck him across the nose aod fore-
head. The blow was dealt with such t.vemet-
dous force that it made him stagger back and
fall senseless, and he (witness) thought he Vas
dead. The blood flew Gut, and Mr. Decks v,'Bs
smothered with it. Witness went after prisoner,
who had rui: across the field, and asked him if he
knew what he ilad done, to which he replied, " that
he (Mr. Deeks) was always at h;ra, and that it was
one he owed him." He (witness) .`hen went back,
and found the uncle still insensible., and fearing
that he would bleed to death got some) vater. After
washing his wounds he lifted him iota
the call,
and after getting his wounds dressed at a ourgeon a
conveyed him home. he
Mr. Mansfield—When you took him up vr'as
saisible?
Witness—No, sir. Before I took him to the Ones'
tor's he seemed so exhausted that I had to stop ail%a'
give him some refreshment at a public house—
little weak brandy and water. He had seen him
two or three times since in his bed, and he appeared
very bad.
Mr Walton, surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, said,
Mr. Deeks had been a patient of his since Friday'
week. His injuries were of a very serious nature.
The bones of the nose were broken, the bone under-
neath one of the eyes was also broken, and the
bone of the forehead cracked. He certainly noW
considered him in a dangerous state. At first b°
thought h. e would get over it, but now he must sal
he had his doubts about it. On Thursday very e 3-
tensive hemorrhage set in, which completely pros-
trated him. Since then there was an accumulation
of matter about the wound, and should this con-
tinue to go on, it would affect the brain, and death
might ensue.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, and Mr,
Mansfield observed that if Mr. Deeks was not able
then to attend he would trouble the medical gen-
tleman to come, but would take Mr. Walton's word
to that effect.
A KINGLY CUSTOMER.—A respectable-looking
middle-aged man, who, on being asked his name,
said it was " Thomas Howell, one repentant silt"
ner," was charged as follows :
William Edmonds, barman to Mr. Rhodes, lana-
lord of the King's Head, Hampstead-road, said
About nine last evening the prisoner and a cabma,
came in and called for a bottle of champagne.
went into the cellar—(prisoner—For a king),"
!
(laughter)—and brought up two--(prisoner--'1
repentance)—(laughter). I opened one of the bottlVes
and filled a glass for the prisoner—(prisoner
a king)—and one for the cabman, after which -1.
walked away and left the second bottle by the side
of them. Directly after this I asked him (prisoner)
to pay, when he replied, "Kings never pay," ~,n„
took the second bottle and ran out—(prisoner--19:,
should not interfere with a king). He jumped in
the cab with the bottle, and a female told me 5,11.°a
saw him hand it out of the opposite window. a'
not get it back, and gave the prisoner in charge•,_°
Piisoner—How dared you take a king from 0
cab. He never comes out as a beggar.
Prisoner was remanded for his friends to see hid'

COUNTRY MARKEI AS:

NORWICH—SATURDAY.
There was a small supply of wheat offering to-day, 11'.
prices for the best sorts remained at about the currenolee
of last week, but other sorts rather easier to buy. Bade'
scarce, at full prices.
White wheat 50s to 52s Red wheat
Malting barley....36s to 37s I Chevalier barley 4334: tio°3l
Distilling d 0..... 28s to 30s I Oats.. 25s to 01)
Flour, 36s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller.

YORK-SATURDAY . OP
Wheat, red 48s to 50s Oats.... 24s to --
White do .50s to 54s Beans
Barley .32s to 36s Peas
Malt, 64s to 66s per qr.; rye, 39s per qr..,..-41C2O:urttd:::4‘5
to 42s per sack.

,—SATuRDAY.
Old whito wheat, 60sLEICESTE11 to —s ; new, 54s' to 5Ss Pain 6
stone. Old red, 56s to 58s per 36 stone. Barleh
old oa°
new, 36s to 41s per qr.; ding, 29s to 328; .9
0
grin
26s to 30s; new oats, 22s to 26s per 24 gone. 13e °
new, 40s to —s ; old, 43s to per 38 stone.

NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY.
New wheat, 44s to 555; old, 50s to 575. Barley, 3,
to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s' to 28s ;
to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 34s to 42s ; seconds, ---$
—s. Peas, 38s to 44s per qr.

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
White wheat, from 50s to 62s ; red wheat, 46s to 611 t
Barley—malting, 36s to 428; grinding, 29s to 325. 0131:
old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 25s to 275. Beans sold at 4
to 45s per qr. Flour, 41s to 445.

CORK—Ocr. 3. -fled
The following were the quotations this morning
wheat, 20s Od to 25s:Od ; white, 18s 6d to 28s Od; harleY 'to
Od to 14s Od ; oats, 8s 6d to lls 2d.; new here,. °a
—s Od.

.-0 CT. 3. d
Of native wheat, cal—, 513,1
de supply. Trade in cne-

. cl.
0. cl• 1 0
Beans.. . 24 ot°'' 0
Bore l5 3 t° 12. 6
Rapeseed - oto,f 0
Oatmeal l5 0 to 13. 0
Bakers' flour
Indian corn