The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

NURDER IN RATCLLET-HIGHWAY.

Yesterday Patrick Devereux, an Irish sailor, who
is scarcely 19 years of age, was brought up on re-
mand before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames Police-court,
charged with the wilful murder of James Gardner.
The deceased, a very respectable and worthy man,
was formerly in the army, and for many years kept
a boarding-house for seamen, at No. 1, Denmark-
street, Rateliff-highway, which was well furnished,
and fitted up in a comfortable manner, under the
requirements of the Common Lodging-Houses Act.
The prisoner arrived here in a ship from Quebec on
the 25th ult., and on the same day repaired to the
house of the deceased where he was treated well.
Several of the prisoner's shipmates also hired apart-
ments in the same house, and speak highly of the
liberal conduct of their landlord towards them dur-
ing the few days they were in the house. The pri-
soner was paid off on Wednesday, the 29th ult. He
had only £3 to receive, which he gave to his land-
lord, to whom he was then indebted £4 5s for board
and lodging, cash and goods supplied, including
£1 4s 6d fer a suit of clothes, a cap, and a necker-
chief. A dispute took place between the prisoner
and the deceased on the same day, arising from a
very trivial circumstance. The deceased had charged
the prisoner 4s for the repairs of a pair of boots in-
stead of is 6d. The mistake arose in this way.
Gardner sent a pair of boots belonging to one of the
prisoner's shipmates to be repaired at the same
time, and the charge made by the shoemaker was
4s. This charge was made to the prisoner by mis-
take, and is 6d, the expense of repairing the pri-
soner's boots, charged to another man. When the
mistake was discovered Gardner corrected it imme-
diately. The prisoner, however, made a grievance of
it, and swore he would be revenged, and he kept his
word, for on the same night he stabbed Gardner with
a knife in the abdomen. The unfortunate man, who
was only 40 years of age, lingered for four days, and
expired. The prisoner is a short necked, morose-
looking boy, in appearance 14 or 15 years of age ; but
there is no doubt he is within a few days of com-
pleting his 19th year. He was notorious for being
a lad of strong passions and ungovernable temper.
He was charged with stabbing a lad in Ireland be-
fore he went to sea, for which he was convicted by
a j ury, and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment
and hard labour. The prisoner was anxious to get
back the £3 which he had paid to Gardner in part
payment of his debt, under pretence that he wanted
the money to go to Cork, but in reality to indulge
in sensual gratifications, and on the refusal of the
deceased to comply with his wishes the young ruf-
fian murdered him. _ _

The statement of the deceased, taken in articzzlo ,
nzortis by Mr. Selfe, in the presence of the prisoner,
has already appeared in our columns. Gardner ex-
pressly stated that the prisoner abused him several
times on the night of the 29th ult., and that while
ho was talking to a neighbour, the prisoner, in a
most deliberate manner, stabbed him.
Mr. Morris Cohen, bootmaker, of No. 75, Ratcliff-
highway, after relating some previous transactions,
which the magistrate said were not relevant to the
case, said—l was with Mr. Gardner at the George
and Vulture publichouse, in Ratcliff-highway, at
half-past ten o'clock on the night of the 29th of
January. The prisoner followed us into the house,
came between the bar and the door, and said, " Now,
Mr. Gardner, are you going to give me the clothes ?"
or " chest" I can't say which. This was repeated
by the prisoner five or six times. Gardner was
smoking or filling a long pipe at the time. Gard-
ner said nothing to the prisoner, but he said to me,
" Mr. Cohen, it is a hard case to stand here and be
abused." The prisoner came to the house repeatedly
after that, and frequently said, "I'll let you know
in a minute," and went away again. About five or
six minutes afterwards I and Gardner left the pub-
lichouse together. Mr. Gardner was speaking to
me, when the prisoner came up and said, "Are you
going to give me my clothes and chest ?" and laid
on him.
Mr. Selfe—How did he do that ?
Witness—The prisoner thrust himself against
Mr. Gardner, and laid on his shoulder. Mr.
Gardner said "Go away, you rascal," or " saucy
boy," and pushed him away. The prisoner imme-
diately made a plunge at the deceased, and struck
him violently on the groin. It was an under thrust.
Mr. Gardner ran bac with the force of the blow,
and prisoner said " Take that," and stood with his
right arm extended, and a knife in his hand.
I called out, " A knife, a knife." Mr. Gardner ran
into the George and Vulture public-house, and said,
" Mr. Cohen, lam stabbed; go for a police con-
stable." The deceased took down his clothes, and
I saw he had a stab, and his bowels were pro-
truding.
In cross-examination by the prisoner, the witness
said, I heard you say "I had no knife." lam sure
you had one. I saw you first in Mr. Gardner's house
that evening. I did not want 4s. for heeling a pair
of boots. Mr. Gardner came to me about a mistake
I had made in an account rendered that day. I did
not say " You are a d—d rascal." Mr. Gardner
said, " You are a bad boy. You owe me £4 odd,
and you only gave me £3. I will keep the other
boy, but you shall go out of my house." Gardner
did not say, "I'll kick you out of the house." I did
not see Mr. Gardner strike you in the public house
or in his own house.
George Pitason, a Swedish seaman, said—l was
standing outside the George and Vulture public
house, and saw the boy Devereaux come out. In
two minutes Gardner came out. The boy had a
knife in his hand, and he went round and gave it
to Gardner.
Mr. Selfe—Gave what to Gardner ? I
Witness—The knife. He sent it into his belly.
Gardner was smoking a long pipe, and went into
the George and Vulture with his hands on his side.
The prisoner dropped a knife.
The Prisoner—Did you not see the deceased kick
me and beat me ?
Witness—No, I did not; he never struck you or
kicked you any way.
Mr. J. B. Ross, physician and surgeon, of High-
street, Shadwell, was called to attend the deceased
on the night of the 29th ult., at 15 minutes before
twelve, at the King David-lane station house.
The deceased was suffering from an incised wound
in the lower part of the abdomen on the right side.
It was 3A- inches in length. The gut was protruding.
The wound was dressed, and the deceased, who
would not go to the hospital, was sent to his own
home in a cab. Ile continued to attend upon him
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the abdomen, and wounding the peritoneum. It
corresponded with the external wound. The cause
of death was peritonitis, occasioned by the wound
in the peritonium. The whole of the body was in a
healthy state, except the liver, which was enlarged.
Robert Smith, a police constable, No. 353 K, said
he was called to the George and Vulture public-
house on the night of the 29th ult., about half-
past 11 o'clock. The prisoner was there and called
out " I am stabbed, I am stabbed." The women
who were about him said " No, policeman,
the man who is stabbed is in the publie-house ;
that boy is not stabbed." He went into the public-
house and saw Mr. Gardner, who exposed the
wound in his belly. The bowels were out. He
searched prisoner, and asked him if had a knife.
The prisoner said, " No, I have got no knife ; you
will find no knife about me." He took the pri-
soner into the taproom, and Mr. Gardner said,
" That is the boy who stabbed me." He again
searched the prisoner, and stripped him, but could
find no knife. Mr. Gardner said, "You vagabond,
what did you do this for ?" The prisoner said,
" You should have let me have my things then, as
I wanted to go to Cork in the morning."
Christian Olson, a seaman, after confirming gene-
rally the evidence of Mr. Cohen, said he heard the
prisoner declare, in the presence of Mr. Gardner—
" I'll give you something you don't know of yet,
unless you come home and settle with me."
This being the whole of the evidence, the pri-
soner was cautioned in the usual manner, and called
on for his defence.
He said—" I'll wait until I go before the judge."
Mr. Selfe—You are fully committed to take your
( trial at the next Old Bailey session for the wilful
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Liverpool fire brigade, was severely injured by falling into
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.711 E GREAT RUSSIAN BANK
FORGERIES.

Yesterday, at one o'clock, the five Polish Jews,
Abraham Rosenberg, Kauffman Weber, Wolff Hor-
witz, Ephraim Reichberg, and Abraham Joseph-
son, who have been in custody for several weeks
upon the charge of being concerned in an extensive
conspiracy, having for its object the circulation of
an enormous issue of forged rouble notes of all
denominations throughout the empire of Russia,
and also with having in their possession engraved
plates, presses, and all the other necessary acces-
sories to effect that object, were brought before the
Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, to undergo a
further examination upon those charges.
The inquiry, as upon all the previous occasions.
appeared to excite very great interest. Mr. Sleigh
the barrister, again appeared, instructed by Messrs.
Oliversen, Lavie, and Peachey, to conduct the pro-
secution on behalf of the Russian Government;
Mr. Macdonnel] appeared for Horwitz and Reich-
berg ; Mr. Lewis appeared for Rosenberg ; Mr.
Hope for Josephson; and Mr. Daniels, from the
office of Mr. Herbert Wood, for Weber.

Mr. Sleigh, when the prisoners had been placed
at the bar, said he was happy to inform his lord-

ship, that on the present occasion he believed he
should be able to complete the case against the three
prisoners Horwitz, Reichberg, and Josephson, and
he should show, in addition to the former evidence,
that these prisoners had been engaged in procuring
ink and paper of a similar colour and quality to
those used in the manufacture of genuine Russian
bank notes, and he should then ask his lordship to
commit these prisoners.
The following additional evidence was then ad-
duced :

Thomas Rawlings deposed that he was a litho•
graphic printer, carrying on business in White-
cross-place, Finsbury. About Whitsuntide last
year the prisoner Josephson and another man called
upon him, and the former asked him if he would
have any objection to teach his brother-in-law litho-
graphic printing. Witness inquired in what way,
and he replied he wanted to take an impression from
a copperplate and transfer it to stone. He, at the
same time, produced a copperplate with a border
round it, similar to the one now produced, but he
was unable to say that it was actually the same
plate. The plate now produced had been disfigured,
but he had no doubt that there was originally a
border to it. (The plate was the one found by In-
spector Leonard and Scott, concealed in a piece of
gutta percha.) Witness showed Josephson and the
man who was with him the process he referred to, and
the latter went away apparently under the impression
that he could perform the operation himself. Be-
fore he left he said that he had got a press, and he
wished to have sufficient insight to enable him to
produce an impression upon stone. The same parties
came to him again shortly afterwards and pur-
chased a sheet of prepared paper, and they subse-
quently brought a stone for the purpose of making
an impression, and they also produced the copper
plate they had brought before, and asked witness
to transfer the impression upon it to the stone, and
he did so, and they took the stone away with them.
About a fortnight after this they brought the same
copper plate, and asked him to supply them with
some impressions from a stone of his own, and he
did so, and gave him about 70 impressions, which
were printed upon paper that the prisoner brought
with him. They came again a day or two after-
wards, and said that the impression was not good
enough, and they must make some alteration in it,
and they took away the stone for that purpose. At
one of these interviews it was arranged that wit-
ness was to have 9s. per 1,000 for the impressions,
and about ten days afterwards witness struck off
200 impressions for them. These interviews con-
tinued at intervals until August and September, and
in the latter month Josephson asked him, if he had
the border done in type, whether he could register
the writing in the centre. (The impressions that
were found concealed behind the picture of Gari-
baldi were here produced, and the witness said they
were of exactly the same description as regarded
the paper, the border, and the letterpress, as those
he engraved for the prisoner and his companion.)
Mr. Sleigh—Did The prisoner ever tell you what
it was that you were printing ?
Witness—Yes; he said it was a comic song.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Sleigh observed that he was afraid it would
prove a very serious song.
Mr. Abraham Kottowski deposed that he resided
at No. 7, Somerset-street, Aldgate, and carried on
the business of a "knickerbocker" maker. The
prisoner Horwitz lodged in the same house with
him for six months, down to the month of Septem-
ber. They occupied one room. On Wednesday, 15th
January, in the present year, he was present when
the officer Scott searched the room. There were
some pictures in the room belonging to Horwitz,
one was a picture of Garibaldi. He saw the officer
Scott take from between the wood and the back of
the picture the sixty rouble notes. He knew no-
thing about their being there. While witness was
looking at Scott, Pratt found the plate in the cup-
board.
On being cross examined by Mr. Macdonnell, the
witness said Horwitz had been in the room for
about six months. There were a good many living
in the house—how many he could not say.
The witness said it had been stated in the papers
that he was the party who gave the information to
the police respecting the forged notes which were
found behind the picture in Horwitz's room, and he
wished to state that such was not the case, and the
report had got him into a great deal of trouble
amongst his friends.
Mr. Sleigh said he was glad of the opportunity
of stating that that assertion was entirely a mistake.
James Bell, assistant to Mr. Betteridge, 47, Old
Bailey, deposed that in August last the prisoner
Reichberg called and asked witness to cut him some
brass type. The type was to represent a piece of
paper which he produced. He wanted ten of each
figure from 1 to 0. The prisoner gave him an order
for 100 types and four No.'s and four type cases.
That order was executed. The prisoner ordered two
brass plates, which were made. Those produced by
Scott were the same. At the time the prisoner took
the plate away there was no figure 10 upon it.
Reichberg afterwards brought some paper, and
asked him to take some proofs from the plates. He
cut a piece of the paper to make it the size he wanted,
and witness produced it. It had the watermark of
the maker upon it. He shortly afterwards gave an
order for the figure 10 to be cut in steel.
It was done, but the prisoner never called
for it. Upon the last occasion Horwitz called with
Reichberg. He cut up a ream of paper for
Reichberg. The parcel produced was the same.
This paper was found at Reichberg's lodgings, and
was cut exactly the size of the notes.
Upon being cross examined by Mr. Macdonnell,
he said he was certain he cut the paper produced.
The piece of paper which he produced was left on
the press. It had a watermark. He noticed that
Reichberg cut the watermark off the whole of the
ream. He put the piece of paper in his desk because
he thought it strange that a man should want a
ream of paper cut up, and be so particular about
the watermark being cut off.
Mr. James Joyses, assistant to Mr. Crypt, of
Skinner street, Snow-hill, wholesale stationer,
stated that in August last the prisoner Reichberg
called and wanted to see some paper called bank
paper. He was shown some samples, and he asked
if he could have it without the watermark. Hewes
told he could not have it without the watermark.
He then ordered two reams, and as there was none
in stock they had to send to the mills for it. The
prisoner asked if they could not put a wavey line in
the paper. He was told they could not, and he said
he would have it without, On Aug. 27th he called
and took away one ream, and paid for it. The water-
mark on the paper was " Watman, 1861." The
paper produced, found at Reichberg's lodgings, was
precisely the same as that supplied to him by witness.
Mr. RobertDunford, in the employment of Messrs
Smith and Sons, Wine-office-court, Fleet-street,
printing ink manufacturers, stated that on the 27th
September last the prisoners Reichberg and Hor-
witz called at his master's shop, and Horwitz said
he had been recommended by Messrs. Adams and
Gee for some coloured ink. He showed them some
red ink, and Reichberg pulled part of a border
printed on paper in red ink out of his pocket, and
said that which witness produced was not the colour
he wanted. The piece of paper which he produced
was similar paper to that of the forged notes found
behind the picture in Horwitz's room, and the border
was also similar. The witness showed them carmine,
and Horwitz said it was too dark. The witness
eventually sold them a box of common carmine
printing ink. That produced by Scott was the same.
The box of ink with which he supplied him would
serve to print 500 impressions.
Mr. Andrew Rurk, Providence-row, Finsbury,
manufacturer of engravers' copper plates, deposed
that Josephson called upon him in the month of
July, and bought several small copper and zinc
plates for engraving plates, about the size of the
plate produced. (The same found in the gutta
percha.) In December he called again, accompanied
by Reichberg, and asked him to supply a copper
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from the plate, which was the shape and size of the
engine turning in the centre of the back of a rouble
supplied the plate as he had none
enough,
and that plate was brought by Hor-
witz.Reichberg The witness prepared the border for engrav-
ing and gave it to Horwitz, who called alone for it,
and paid for it.
Air, Sleigh said that really was the case against
the three prisoners, Horwitz, Reichberg, and
Joseph:soZ Theremere some more witueeseo, but

he did not think it necessary to occupy his lord-
ship's time. If there should be anything more to add,
notice would be given to the .olicitors for the de-
fence; and he asked that the prisoners might be
committed for trial.

The three prisoners were then committed for trial,
Rozenberg and Weber being again remanded.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, FEB. G.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Ralph
Charlton, M.A., to the rectory of Althorpe, in the county
nd diocese of Lincoln, the same being void by the death
f the Rev. James Aspinall.