The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENiNO, DECEVIBEW 10, 1862.

but then again there is no part of the City which
quaz ter, 59.1, has
been
has been entirely free from either of the maladies.
"The
little
below h the temperature
average,of th6e2.7 ;
and the range
of temperature has been from 76.2, that of the first
day of August, to 48.9, the temperature of the 11th
of September. The mean fluctuations of tempera-
ture during the day has been 15.5 degrees of
Fahrenheit ; but in many cases the daily range has
been above 17 degrees. Nothing peculiar has been
noticed in the pressure of the atmosphere, for the
range of the barometer has only been from 29.49
to 30'28, the mean of the whole quarter being
almost exactly the usual average, namely, 29.91.
So also with respect to the humidity of the air, its
condition has not been remarkable. In the first
week of the quarter the amount of moisture was
nearly 90 per cent. of saturation, but frequently it
has been less than 70, and nearly always less than
80. The total rain-fall of the quarter has been
5.84 inches, and the number of wet days 42. These
are almost the average for the corresponding period
of the last four years. The temperature, therefore,
as well as the rain-fall have been such as to keep
the Thames in a wholesome condition,
" The details of this are tabulated in the last two
tables of the Appendix. Altogether there have been
1,295 houses inspected, and 796 visits made to the
common lodging-houses of the City. These have
resulted in the issuing of 622 orders for sanitary
improvement.

" The markets and slaughter-houses have been
duly inspected, and the officers have seized
30,8591b5., and 1,357 head of game and poultry, as
unfit for human food ; 19,3381b5. of the meat were
diseased, 7,9351b5. were putrid, and 3,5861b5. were
from animals that had died from accident or disease.
It consisted of 100 sheep, 33 pigs, 5 calves, 207
quarters of beef, and 162 joints of meat. Lastly, it
may be mentioned that 20,3941b5. of the meat were
seized in Newgate and Tyler's markets, 6,9501b5.
at Leadenhall, and 3,5151bs of it at Aldgate. All of
it was at once sprinkled with carbolic acid—the
creosote of coal-tar—and then sent to the boilers.

"During the quarter, three persons have been
brought to justice, and convicted for having sent
diseased meat to the City markets. They are Wm.
Samuel Speller, of Woodford, in Essex, who was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment ; William
Neville, of Kingston, in Surrey, who was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment and £5O penalty ;
and William Crust, of Ashford, in Kent, who was
fined £lO and costs."

The Court after transacting some other business
adjourned.

7.ELE RIBCHES7ER MURDER.

Five men, named Duncan M'Phail, Daniel Carr,
William Woods, and Benjamin Hartley, who stood
remanded on the charge of murdering an old woman
named Ann Walne, at Ribchester, on the 11th ult.,

were again brought up on Monday, at the Black,

burn Police-court.

The court was crowded, and the greatest excite-
ment prevailed on account of it being understood
that the prisoner Hartley, who had previously in-
timated as much, would make a full confession.

Benjamin Hartley was first placed in the dock.
Mr. Higgs, superintendent of police, said that
they would first take the case against Hartley, who
had made a statement of the whole circumstance.

Inspector M'Nab said, that at the request of the
prisoner Hartley he visited him in his cell. Heard
him say that he felt very uneasy, and that he wanted
to make a clean breast of the affair, as he had no
rest for several days. He was duly cautioned, and
he then said:—" I am a steam-loom weaver, and
live in Blackburn. I have known Duncan M'Phail
about three months. I became acquainted with
him at Thomas Bowling's. I have known Daniel
Carr for about 15 years. I have known Geo. Woods
about 6 months. We were all friends. M'Phail came
to my house in the week before the murder of Mrs.
Walne, and said that he had been over to Ribchester;
that he had seen an old woman who kept a beer-shop
(Mrs. Walne), and that she had sold a cow for her
rent. He then said, We must have the money,
for I am fast for it.' He said, 'Dan and George
and thee and me will be enough.' I then said that
I cared nothing about it. He told me that he had
seen the others, and that we were to meet on Friday
night following, at six o'clock, on Salford-bridge,
in Blackburn. On the night named M'Phail
brought his trap to the bridge, where we all met
him; but we objected to go, as it was moonlight.
We did not go to Ribchester that night. We went
home, and on the road we arranged to go on the
following Sunday evening. We met at Dan Carr's
on the Sunday evening; but George Woods was
drunk, and we decided not to go to Ribchester that
night, but that on the following Monday evening,
whether the weather was wet or fair, we would go.
M'Phail accordingly came to my house on the even-
ing of the 10th ult. He said he had seen the others,
and they had gone on to Salford-bridge. We then
set off together, and on the road met the other pri-
soners, Dan Carr and George Woods. William
Woods was net with us. Carr had a cane with
lead on the end of it. George had a stick like it.
He had also a crow-bar with him. M'Phail had a
dark lantern and a pistol with him. I had no wea-
pon. We then started for Ribchester together. It
was a rough night. We got to Ribchestcr about
eight o'clock. We went through the village, and
as we were going on M'Phail said, There's a foot-
path up to the old woman's house; let us take it;
it will be the quietest.' As we were going up the
fields we came to a barn. We went into it, and
stayed there until about twelve o'clocK at night.
M'Phail had some rum with hip, and we all drank
of it in the barn. At twelve o'clock we left this
barn, and went to that belonging to the old woman
on the opposite side of the road to her house.
We laid down on some hay near the cows.
When we had been in the barn for some time
M'Phail said, ' It's time to begin.' He then
went out. Carr followed him, and then Woods, and
I last. They told me to stand at the end of the
house for the purpose of seeing if any one came up
the lane. They said they would go and examine
the window at the back of the house. shortly after
M'Phail came and shouted, ' Come here.' Than he
said, I will get up the steps at the end of the house
and jump over.' M'Phail said they had got the
back window out, and then he said, la with you.'
George Woods got in first; I followed; and then
Dan Carr and M'Phail. Dan lighted the lamp, and
he and M'Phail plundered about downstairs. George
and I went upstairs. As soon as we got upstairs
we saw the old woman. She was sitting up in bed.
George said, ' Where's thy money ?' She began
screaming, and I got hold of her and held her down
1 on her back. George then commenced rooting about
the bed. Then we went downstairs. When we got
i down Dan and M'Phail were looking about into the

clock and the cupboard, and all around the house.
They had a lighted candle. At this time the old
woman screamed, and George and I and Dan went
upstairs. I held the old woman on the bed, and
Dan drew out his cane and said, "I'll make her
make leas din' He then aimed a blow at the old

woman's head; but he missed it, and caught my
hand. He hit my left hand. [Hartley has a bruise
on his left hand, apparently caused by some heavy
blunt instrument.] I asked him what he was doing,
and he replied, Have 1 hit thee?' After that he
struck the old woman twice on the aide of the head,
and she screamed out, Oh, dear me, you have killed
me!' George Woods held a light whilst this was
going on. We all then went down, when Dan said,
She must be tied.' George then got two handker-
chiefs, and he and I tied the old woman's hands.
Whilst we were tying her down Dan and M'Phail
were searching the room. We then left the old woman
moaning. When we tied her hands we had no light.
When we first went upstairs and when George
asked her where her money was, she made no reply.
We then left the house and walked up the road,

through Longridge, and on to Preston. Whilst on
the road from Longridge to Preston, and when ox
Ribbleton Moor, near the latter place, George took
the lead out of his stick and put it in his pocket.
Dan Carr gave his stick to George, and he took the
lead out of it, and then threw both sticks away.
M‘Pbail and George went through some brickfields.
When we got to Preston we went into a publichouse
near the House of Correction, and had two glasses
of whiskey each. We paid for our own drink with
silver. After that we walked down to the Preston

Railway Station, and booked for Cherry Tree Sta-
tion, near Blackburn. When we got to the station
we walked forward to Blackburn. We separated
at Banksop, in Blackburn, and I went home. When
we were on the road to Preston, we stopped, and
George, who had the money, said there would he
about £4O ; but when he opened it, it WAS not all
gold. He had the money tied tip, and some of it was
silver. He divided the money amongst us. We each
got £4 10s. 6d. The money was in a flannel. He
threw the flannel away. The day after wereturned
to Blackburn I went down to Dan's. He said that
George and M'Phail were out drinking, tad that
they had hired a cab. When Dan struck the old
woman's head he m,de it rattle. The crowbar was
thrown away over a hedge, not far from the old
woman's house at Ribchester. When we got out at
the Cherry Tree Station we met Bill Lanklen, flagger
and slater. This is all I have to say, I hare given
this statement without any promise or reward. I
have been very uneasy in my mind ever since. I
thought of making this confession before I was ap-
prehended, but I have not done so until now."
Mr. Higgs, superintendent of police, said that he
intended to rest Hartley's case upon his own con•
fession, and he asked the magistrates to give their
decision.

The magistrates then committed Hartley to the
next Lancaster assizes for trial.

The prisoner, William Woods, who had: been
apprehended as an accessory, was then placed in
the dock ; but there appeared to be no evidence
whatever against him, and the magistrates dis-
charged him " without the least taint upon his cha-
racter."

The examination of the prisoners was resumed
yesterday,when about 30 witnesses were examined,
all of whom, more or less, corroborated the state-
ments made by Hartley, who has been received as
Queen's evidence.

and observed that since a better perfume could be I
had from essence not containing the poison, there
was no reason why any that did contain it should
continue to be sold. In this case the chemist had
marked "poison" on the bottle containing the es-
sence, but probably it was that word which sug-
gentcd to the deceased to Make use of what she had
purchased for a perfume as a means for destroying
life. It was notorious that the poisonous essence
was very generally sold.
The jury found that Constance Vanden Alleele
committed suicide by taking essence of bitter al-
monds contained in hydrocyanic acid, and that when
she did so she was in an unsound state of mind.

ASSIZE IN 7 ELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT-DURUAM, TUESDAY.

TICE BROADMIRES MURDER.

The jury found a verdict of guilty against Cox
and his wife. They were both sentenced to death.
The latter, however, was respited, being enceinte.
It was a la.e hour before the case concluded.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SHREWSBURY, Dec. 8.
(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)
Elizabeth Boughey, a married woman, aged 35,
was charged with the murder of Clement Boughey,
on the 13th August, at Drayton-in-Hails.
Mr. Boughey and Mr. Warren prosecuted ; Mr.
Benson defended the prisoner,
It appeared that the prisoner, while a pauper in
the Drayton Union, was delivered of a male child,
the subject of the present charge, on the 28th July.
On the 13th August she left the Union, taking the
child with her. Previously she had remarked to a
witness named Stubbs concerning the child, that
" it would not take much to kill a little buffer like
that." This observation was supposed at the time
to be uttered in jest. When she was about half
a mile from the Union she was teen to beat some-
thing in a bundle against several gates. The bundle
was opened, and the child was found dead within
it. Dr. Saxton examined the body shortly after
it was discovered. He found many bruises on the
head, and ono ,; t
ear, from which blood was oozing. He made a
post-mortem examination the next day. He found
that there was a fracture of the skull, and gave it
as his opinion that the death was caused by violence
such as might be inflicted by striking it on a gate.
The child was in a healthy state. Tt was scarcely
cold when first examined. The effusion of blood
under the skin satisfied the doctor that the bruises
were caused during life. There was a ligature round
the neck of the child, but not sufficiently tight to
' cause suffocation. On cross-examination Dr. Sax-
ton said that the total suppression of milk (a sign
observed in the prisoner) was a bad sign. This
would indicate fever. Puerperal mania might be re-
ferred to hereditary causes. Dr. Saxton, who knew
the prisoner's family, said her mother was weakin in-
tellect, and the sister an idiot ; that in puerperal
mania a person might be under an irresistible im-
pulse to commit an act which she knows to be
wrong. In his opinion, the woman was allowed to
leave the Workhouse too soon. From what he heard
he thought the prisoner very likely to have been
subject to the puerperal mania.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and sen-
tence of death was pronounced.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, Dec. 9
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
Joshua Oldham was indicted for maliciously
wounding Martin Gibbs, with intent to murder
him. There were other counts in the indictment
charging different intents.
Mr. H. T. Cole prosecuted, and from his state-
ment, which was afterwards proved in evidence, it
appeared that the prisoner was a convict in Portsea
convict prison. On the 17th of November the
prisoner, with other convicts, was employed in the
dirt ground, sorting rubbish that was taken out of
the ships and putting it into carts. The convicts
were furnished with shovels for the purposes of
their work. On the morning in question the pri-
soner neglected his work, and picked up bits of
biscuits and carrots, contrary to the prison regula-
tions. Gibbs, the warder who had charge of that
party of convicts, desired him to attend to his work. For a short time he did so, but then he again
picked up bits of biscuit. Gibbs then told the pri-
soner he should report him. In a minute or two
after this the prisoner came across to Gibbs and
said, " Master, are you going to report me ?" Gibbs
told him to go on with his work. The prisoner
said, " I wiil, sir ;" but almost immediately after he
turned round and struck Gibbs a violent blow on
the side of his head with a shovel. The effect of
the blow was to fell Gibbs to the ground. The
prisoner then struck Gibbs another blow with his
shovel on his head while he was on the ground. The
prisoner was about to strike a third blow when a
workman named Slade rushed forward and pinned
the prisoner's arms and made him drop the shovel.
Gibbs then called to the convicts to assemble
and go in. The prisoner then said, " There are
too many here for me to complete my business."
This observation, however, was very differently
related by two persons who professed to have heard
the prisoner's statement. Gibbs had suffered very
much from this ill-treatment.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he admitted
having struck Gibbs, but he did not intend to kill
him. He was irritated because Mr. Gibbs had
threatened to report him.
The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was
for the jury to say whether the prisoner's real in-
tention was to kill and murder the officer, or
whether his intention was such as was charged in
the other counts of the indictment. -It was a very
serious case, and they must exercise great care.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, with intent
to do grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner was then sentenced to 15 years
penal servitude ; but, as he was being taken from
the bar, asked how it was to be carried into effect.
We presume, if he does not obtain one of Sir Joshua
Jebb's tickets, he will in time discover how the sen-
tence will be carried into effect.
Robert Oldham was indicted for uttering a forged
check.
Mr. Way prosecuted ; and Mr. H. T., Cole ap-
peared for the prisoner.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Way said he was instructed by the directors
of the London and County Bank that this young
man, staying in the house of Mr. White, and being
in want of money, and knowing Mr. White had an
account at the London and County Bank, had been
tempted to utter this check. The directors said it
was a case in which they would wish to recommend
the prisoner to mercy on account of his extreme
youth. No loss had occurred to any ono, and he
trusted his lordship would be es merciful as he
thought would be consistent with the ends of jus-
tice.

Mr. Cole said the family of the prisoner was most
respectable.
The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said he
felt himself placed in a very painful position.
This was a commercial instrument—a check upon
a banker. It was necessary that such cases
should be treated with severity. He had been re-
commended to mercy by the directors. His parents
had suffered more severely than any severity of
punishment he could inflict, and they were very
anxious he should be treated with leniency. Taking
everything into consideration, and that no money
loss was incurred, the sentence would be three
years' penal servitude.
Several uninteresting cases have been disposed
of during the day.
Alfred Smith was indicted for burglariously
breaking into the workhouse of the guardians of
the poor at Southampton.
Mr. Bare conducted the case for the prosecution.
The evidence went to show that the workhouse
had been broken into, and a very large quantity of
articles stolen, and that the prisoner two days after-
wards was found offering the goods for sale at
Winchester.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of larceny,
and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.