The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-13 00:00:00

LOSS OF TWO LIVES ON 711 E RIVER curiosity. She was a public curiosity, aat
OALLAN7 AND FATAL ATTEMPT 10 like to see her. (Laughter.)
RESCUE. , Mr. Quaintrell recalled, produced the
1 which was in blank. He was not in 1
- He nai&

On Saturday William Carter, Esq., Coroner for
the Eastern Division of Surrey, instituted an in-
quiry at the George Tavern, Great George-street,
Bermondsey, relative to the respective deaths of
Joseph Anderson, aged 67, and George Johnson
Hare, aged 38, :Labourers, employed at the Fountain
Dock, Bermondsey. wall.
Charles Brady, a labourer, deposed that on Wed-
) nesday, about five o'clock in the afternWn, he was
employed with Anderson, Hare, and a number of
other men in constructing a "gridiron" at Fountain
Dock. They had two barges about 25 feet apart,
and to get from one to another there was a raft
consisting of three logs of timber. The whole
of the men got upon the raft, and Anderson, in
endeavouring to push it from the barge, over-
reached himself and fell backwards into the water.
The deceased, Hare, without hesitation jum Into
the ,n o
the water and swam towards Anderson, but both
suddenly disappeared. He could not say whether
Anderson caught hold of Hare.
John Harris, a foreman at the dock, deposed that
he saw Anderson in the water. He (Anderson)
kept afloat for about three minutes by paddling
with his hands. Hare made some remarks and
dropped into the water, but directly afterwards
they both sank. The other men were in so much
danger on the raft that he thought it best to get
them on the barge before any attempt was made to
save the men. There was no doubt that Anderson
slipped in by accident,
Alfred Legon and Charles Davis, watermen,
proved finding the bodies close to each other in the
mouth of a sewer about half an hour after the acci-
dent.
Mrs. Hare, wife of the younger deceased, said,
in answer to the coroner, that her husband had
rescued several persons from drowning by jumping
into the river. _ _

Iroceed

The Coroner said it was a most painful case.
The deceased, Hare, in performing a gallant act—
that of endeavouring to save his brother labourer—
bad perished, leaving his wife and children to de-
plore their loss.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect—" That
the deceased, Anderson, was accidentally drowned,
and Hare lost his life in a praiseworthy attempt to
rescue bis brother labourer."
A subscription, headed by the coroner, was made
in the room, and the sum of one guinea and a half
was given to the widow of Hare.

7HE ALLEGED PROFLIGACY IN A
TVORKHO USE.

On Saturday Mr. R. B. Cane, one of the inspec-
tors of the Poor-law Board, resumed the investiga-
tion into the charges against Mr. Theobald Merrick,
the master of the Bethnal-green Workhouse, in the
board-room of the Bethnal-green Union, Waterloo-
road, Victoria-park.
Mr. Angel, solicitor, represented Mr. Onion, one
of the board of guardians, and other memoralists
who had procured the inquiry, and Mr, Lewis, of
Ely-place, solicitor, apieared on behalf of Mr.
Merrick.
The case of Sarah Anne Smith was proceeded
with.
T. Moffatt, porter at the Mile-end Workhouse,
said that some time since there was a girl named
Sarah Anne Skinner delivered in the house of an
illegitimate child. Soon afterwards three persons,
who gave the names of M'Sey, Dyer, and Jones,
called. Mr. M'Sey went in to see Mr. M'Donald,
the master, Mr. Jones asked witness to show him
over the wards, and witness refused. (A geiitle-
man, who gave the name of F. W. Fleck, was
here brought in, and identified by witness as
the party that gave his name as Jones.) That
person asked witness out to take something to
drink at a public-house. He told witness he
could have anything to drink. He then took
witness away from the others and said that two
were company, but three were none. He then said,
" I suppose you have heard of the affair of this girl
and the master of Bethnal-green." Witness replied
that he had, and that he was present in the police-
court when the case was adjourned at Mr. Angel's
request. Jones pressed him to let him see the girl
Skinner, and said that what witness did he should
be well paid for. Witness positively refused. Mr.
M‘Sev afterwards advised witness to have nothing
to do with it, and said that when the other two men
brought him (M'Sey) up to Mr. M'Donald he did
not know what they wanted him for.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—Witness had not
spoken to Mr. M'Donald about the evidence. He
spoke to Mr. Onion in n friendly way, The date
on which the three individuals called on witness
was, according to the porter's book, the 27th June.
Witness mentioned the conversation in question to
the master, Mr. M'Donald, within a fortnight. The
affair of the girl was generally talked about. He
was not prepared to say whether he had drunk with
Mr. Onion at the Grafton Arms or not. Very likely
he had, but not more than twice. Witness treated
him and he treated witness. They did not drink
together elsewhere. Mr. Onion had called at the
lodge three or four times before they went to drink
together. It was more likely that witness asked
Mr. Onion to the Grafton Arms than that Mr. Onion
asked him. Witness would swear that Mr. Onion
never asked for the names of all those that had been
to see the girl. Witness told him that Mr Merrick
had called at the Mile-end house, and also that the
three gentlemen had called to see the girl. He never
received money from Mr. Onion. Mr. Onion did not
say that the girl should not be seen without a writ-
ten order from him.
Re-examined—The day fixed for the adjournment
at the police-court Mr. Onion called, and said that
he was sold, and that the case had been settled for
money. Witness had heard previously from Mr.
Angel that the affair was settled. The girl had lett
the house three days before the date fixed for the
final hearing at the police court.
Sarah Anne Smith (re-called) said that her hus-
band was a bricklayer's labourer. Mr. Joseph
Wood Dyer (then present) was not the person that
called on her and offered her money to deny that
the child belonged to Mr. Merrick.
Mr. Morton, referred to on Friday, was brought
in and confronted with the other witness.
Witness said that on her oath she never saw him
before in her life. It was on a Sunday that witness
had been assaulted by Mr. Merrick. She could not
say whether it was the first or second Sunday after
she entered the house. The assault was committed
about 11 o'clock in the morning.
Mr. H. Quaintrell, White Hart, Bethnal-green,
said that he recollected giving Mr. F. W. Fleck a
cheque for £27. Mr. Fleck gave him gold for it.
The cheque was simply to bearer, the amount being
filled up, and there was a blank left for the party's
name. Mr. Fleck told him that he did not want
thearame put on. The cheque was returned from
the bankers with Mr. Angel's name upon it. It
had been paid. Witness had not that cheque now,
as Mr. Fleck had asked him for it and got it.
Mr. F. W. Fleck, house agent and electioneering
agent, said that he called on Mr. Quaintrell for a
cheque for £27.
The witness here said that he wished it to be
understood that Mr. Angel was formerly his private
solicitor, and therefore he considered that there were
some questions he should abstain from answering.
Witness then resumed, and said that he called on
Mr. Angel.
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Mr. Lewis objected that the fact of the money
being paid to the girl proved nothing, unless it was
shown that Mr. Merrick had known about it.

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Mr. Angel said he would track the cheque step
by step.
Witness resumed--He called on Mr. Angel, and
the subject of the girl and Mr. Merrick might have
been mentioned, because Mr. Angel and witness had
been mixed up in another case in Bethnal-green.
Witness had seen Mr. Ashford two days before.
Mr. Ashford accompanied witness to Angel's office.
After they left the office Mr. Ashford gave witness
£27 to get a cheque for. Witness received nothing
for his trouble in that matter. The cheque was
taken by witness to Mr. Angel's clerk, by appoint-
ment. He met Mr. Onion and Mr. Angel at the
Shoreditch County Court. There had been no special
appointment with Mr. Onion. A fortnight after-
wards witness got the cheque from Mr. Quaintrell,
and it was destroyed. He burnt it about a week
since. Witness then knew that the inquiry was
coming on, bat he did not know that the cheque
would be needed. He had had several cheques at
Quaintrell, but had never other times from Mr.
burned one of them. About a fortnight since witness
might have called on Mr. Angel, and asked him to
keep him and Ashford out of the matter, but that
was before Mr. Angel was his private solicitor.
By Mr. Lewis—Mr. Angel was the solicitor act-
ing for Mr. Onion. Whatever: arrangement was
made by Mr. Angel was in the capacity of solicitor
to Mr. Onion. Neither directly nor indirectly had
witness any conversation with Mr. Merrick relative
to the cheque or the £27. Witness received the
money from Ashford, and believed the money be
longed to him.
Re-examined—Witness knew Mr. Merrick. He
had heard the affair generally spoken of, but he had
nothing to do with the case; he had spoken to Mr.
Ashford.
Mr. Angel—Did you go with Mr. Dyer and an-
othmerr.toLet hwei
Lewis
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had been already
examined, and the present question was on a new
topic.
After some conversation Witness said that he re-
membered having a conversation with the porter of
the Mile-end house. He might have said to the
porter that he should
like to see the girl through

1. he should

book from
he habit of
have done

giving cheques unfilled up. -
so in one other instance.
At this stage,
Mr. Cane said that as it would not be possible to
conclude
the case at that sitting he a ould propose
t
and he asked the learned. gentlemen en-
gaged
o cli 't•her Wednesday next wot tld suit them
ao
wurht,, e'
for the rcsualption of the inquiry.
versation followed, and. ultimately the
A ,l,,,odnign:ouswere adjourned.

ALLEGED LnSGRACEEUL CO. &DUO' OF
A CAPTAIN.

At the United States' •i,Dstrct Court, San francifico, be
fore Judge Hoffman Misk '
- -
Caroline I Punter, formerly of
Wallasey, preferred a charg, i
against Captain H. J. Flagg
and the owners of the ,
-Aden Rule. The paper from
which we quote says—" Miss
Gsk i,
1 tinter sat by the side of her
counsel, Mr.tMauchester ; and t ship
he capti tin sat near his at-
tor:ley, Judge Campbell. The lady , was veiled, but as
much of her features as could be seen displayed a face
of a sty;,:i of beauty not met with evi Iry day ; and her
form was fa:iltless. She was dressed in g ood taste—neither
extravagantly
the defendant
fine nor too plain—and her ' conduct during
the examination: of the first witness, which is yet progress-
ing as our paper Joes to press, was that of a modest lady.
The libellant in hei ' complaint alleged that
had called her a struit 'pet, and used towarch ' her several
ile significance ; caused her to be
other terms of equally 1.
dragged on deck at the th...ie of crossing the equator, to be
ved/ and put in a hogshead
blacked, lathered and shas
1 neck. The libellant also
of dirty water up to her
affirmed that she was knocked down with a belaying
pin by the wife of the steward, ant: the captain said 'lt
*ed the who 10 of this
served her right.' The defendant dem,

allegation." Plerso sailor
The first witness introduced was Andrevo
and third
for 14 years, officer for 7 years, a native of SweLleat
mate of the Golden Rule. He testified that the :ady was a
cabin passenger, and he first became acquainted Ivit,‘ her
on the ship, a few days after leaving Liverpool. Caro-
line one day told witness that she wanted to. see the
captain. Witness told the captain that the lady pas-
senger desired to sea him, and he replied " Let the ------
-go to The woman was sea-sick sevi In or
eight days, and had no attention paid her. After she re-
covered, the captain said i n the presence of witness that k the
was a —, and was geing to San Francisco to con x3/4
mence afreah. The captain said he would have the steps;
removed, so that she should show her legs when she went
up. The steps and chairs were I'e
the
The day before
the Neptune operation came on, the captain said to the
mate, "-- her, give her a duckint;e." The next day the
ship's company was collected by the captain's orders, and
as soon as Caroline Hunter's name was called, three of the
men rushed to the cabin—one of them took hold of her,
with his arm around her back and hand on her breast, and
endeavoured to disengage her hold. Witness told Miss
Hunter to come out, as she was "in duty bound" to be
shaved. Witness then went on deck, and in IlVo minutes
after she was brought out, held to the place of sa\aving by
Mat. Larking, a sailor, and guarded by severs 1 others.
When her turn came, one of the sailors lathered and
shaved her, and she was put in:khogshead of dirty water.
The lather was a mixture of soot, grease, &e., pu't on
with a substitute for a brush, and she was shaved with an.
old iron hoop. Witness assisted in holding her. The hogs-
head was filled with salt water, which eight or nine of the
sailors bad been put in ; she was put over her shouidexas
in the water. A board was nailed by the carpenter °vex'
the window of her room, by order of the captain. Then
captain's gig was on the quarter deck ; it was covered up,
two months after the ship left Liverpool, until the vessel'.
arrived at Valparaiso. After the chairs were removed by
order of the captain there was no place to sit but in the boat.
After the beat was covered over there was no place for a
passenger to sit on the quarter deck. A piano was in the
cabin. Witness was removed as third officer on the Bth
day of November, and remained in irons until the 17th, on
the charge of having been improperly intimate with Caro-
line Hunter. The charge was false. The captain made the
charge public throughout the ship. Had heard the captain,
on two occasions speak against the libellant. On the 13th
of October heard the libellant tell the first officer that she,
would prosecute him on their arrival at San Francisco.
He replied, " You rotten —, I don't care for
that. You tried to come over the captain, first and second
mate, and did not succeed, but you have gained the third
mate's affections."

In order to disprove the charge of improper intimacy„
Miss Hunter submitted to a medical examination, and Drs.
Howell, Bowie, and Murphy testified that she was perfectly
chaste and unsullied in every respect. The trial, which
lasted six days, produced a most extraordinary excitement.
The judge, who took time to consider his judgment, dis-
missed the case on the ground that the evidence of the third
mate was not corroborated. Notice was given of an appeat
to the United States Circuit Court.
A San Francisco paper, in commenting on the unex-
pected decision of the judge, says—" The peculiarity of this
case, the length of time consumed in the trial, and other
circumstances, invested it with general public interest, and
the long delayed decision of the court was looked for with
earnestness by thousands who had listened to or who had.
read the court proceedings. With many of these we have.
11 conversed, and have yet to find one who is not biassed by
his esprit do corps as a mariner, who, from the testimony,
has arrived at a similar conclusion to that of the learned
judge. Other occupations have, during the present week,
not allowed us time for a careful examination of the volu-.
minous document in which the judge has enveloped the
conclusion that a woman who has suffered, with the con-
sent of one whose manhood, independent of his special ob-
ligation as a shipmaster, should have made him her pro-
tector, the most direful outrages which a set of cowardly
wretches could inflict, is entitled to no redress in a court
having sole jurisdiction of similar offences, and that a wan-
ton and malicious attack upon the good name and fame of a
lady, proved spotless by the most irrefragable testimony, is
a good defence before an American tribunal. We shall,
however, take an early opportunity to peruse the decision
with due deliberation, in the hope, for the honour of our
country and Its courts, that it will present something more
forcible to sustain the conclusion than a cursory examina-
tion has yet revealed."

YORII. —SATURDAY.
Wheat, red 48s to 5619 1 Oats.... 22s to 241
White do .50s to Os f Beans 42s to —s j
Barley .32s to 36s Peas .....—s to --s
Malt, 64s to 66s per qr. ; r7e, 39e1 per qr.; flour, 403
to 42s per sack.
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LEICESTEB.--SATun).I.4Y.
Old white wheat, 60s to 638; new, 66s to 60s per 36
stone. Old red, 56s to 59s'per stone. Barley, malting,
new, 38s to 42s per qr.; grinding, 30s: to 335; old oats,
28s to 325; new oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans,
new, 40s to —a ; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone.

NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY.
New wheat, 50s to 555; old, 53s to 575. Barley, 365
to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 28s ; old, 28s
—tos3.2srpeeras2,43Bstso to
tnoe .448Bp:ran
qr.s, 34s to 428; seconds,

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
White wheat, from 50s to 628 ; red wheat, 46s to 600•
Barley—malting, 36s to 428 ; grinding, 29s to 325. Oats
old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 25s to 275. Beans sold at 410-
to 458 per qr. Flour, 41s to 445.

NORWICH—SATURDAY.
White wheat. 50s to 52i 1 Red wheat 44g to 500
➢Zalting barley ...34s to 37s 1 Chevalier barley 33s to 360
Distilling do 28s to 30s I Oats.... 259 to 300
Flour, 30s 6d to —s Od per sack from the miller.

CORK—OCT. 10.
The following were the quotations this morning :—lte.,cl
wheat, 18s Od to 25s Od ; white, 19s Od to 28s 3d; barley
6d to 16e 3d ; oats, 9s Od to 10s 9d.; new here, —s OcT t°
—s Od.

DUBLIN—
.d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Wheat, white.. 30 oto 34 0 Beans.. ..... 24 oto 27 0
Do., red .. 27 0t032 0 Bere ......... 15 3t016 0
Do., new .... oto 0 I Rapeseed .... oto 0
Barley
Oats .... 15 3t017 9 Bakers' flour •• 16 6t021 6
Do., black.... 14 6to 16 6 Indian corn .. 31 oto 35 0
____......

BIRTHS.
BARNARDISTON.—On the 10th inst., at Acton-place, Suf-
folk, the Lady Florence Barnardiston, of a daughter.
BARRON.—On the 10th inst., at 10, Devonshire-torrac 0
Hyde-park, the wife of Richard Bankes Barron, Bsq't
of a daughter.
BRANDT.—On the 10th inst., at Woodford, the wife of 11'
'
of a son.
am-hill, SurreYt 411°
o a daughter.
0 B:i Brandt,:o7 nGEe
thesoqr
9th inst., at Streathg.e Rice Ord Esqf

EPRress. -
MARRIAGES.
—cotOt,nHt.hAevs9tlhndi.nst
Army,., at
t,Brighton'm
daughter of the late Henry A, 11.1 tan _ „_nd,
PnEs
Major-GeneralcoTT—MAT
near Clifton. ayers, Esq., of Real*
RAWLINS—WILTON.—On the 9th inst , at St. Georgetfl
Hanover-square, George William, eldest son of Sanins't
George Rawlins, Esq., to Charlotte Amelia, the el"
daughter of Lieut.-Col. Wilton.
DEATHS. NThitSt
FELLOWS.—On the 9th inst., at Beeston House, A.- --,,,2.
very suddenly, Alfred Thomas Fellows, Esq., aged I
..
FISHER.—On the sth inst., at Weston-super-Mar"
Joseph Fisher, Esq., aged 80. Tat.
GARDEN.—OR the 10th inst., at 63, Montagu-square,
Theophilus Garden, Esq., ate 73.
Andreve°
EIANKINs—On the 9th inst., his residence, St. „„kiusf
Wharf, 316, High-street, Wapping, Mr. Edwin 11-''''
aged 37. Glow
Horr.—On the 10th inst., at 19, Cleveland-terrace,
jolt,
cester-road, Downham-road, Kingsland, Thom
Esq., aged 72, ~,:d-Lo'
TYTLER.—On the 10th inst,, at Woodhouselee, 1":: 83.
thian, James Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee, age",,roia
WEBB.—On the 13th inst., Margaret, wife of 1:30,1,1 v
Webb, Esq., of Addle-hill, Doctors'-commons, egv
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LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAP'2t
of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN OffiCe, NO.II ;
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County
Middiesei.—Monday, October 13, 1864.