The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-12 00:00:00

The Saffron-hill Murder.

Yesterday having been appointed far the re-examinatiorr
of the Italian picture-frame maker, Seraphin Pelizzioni,
who stands charged with the wilful murder of Michael
Harrington, at the Golden Anchor public-house, Saffron..
hill, on the 27th ult., and further, with attempting to rant'
der Alfred Rebbeck, the potman at the Golden Anchor
public-house, and Charles Banister, at the same time and
place, the Clerkenwell Police-court and its approaches were
densely crowded by Italians and others, who appeared to
take great interest in the progress of the case. Mr. Knot,
who had heard the evidence on the first occasion, attended.
to hear the case:

Mr. T. Wakeling appeared for the prosecution; Ml'
Lewis, sen., defended the prisoner; and Inspector Potter,
of the G division, watched the case on behalf of the Com-
missioners of Police. Mr. G. Guerini, professor of the
Italian language, Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-square, attended
to interpret the evidence, at the request of the court.
Mr. Lewis said that as Mr. Knox was not present at the
last examination he would again state that he was
strutted by a number of Italian gentlemen who had taken,
an interest in the case, and he should call witnesses to almv,
that the prisoner was not the man who had committed the
murder. Having alluded to the statements he had made
last week, he said he would just call the attention of the
magistrate to the fact that although the prisoner was taken
from almost off the man that was murdered, yet no knife
was found on the prisoner, and none, so far as he knew, ie
the house.

The witnesses having been heard,
Mr. Knox said there were two reasons why he should
send the prisoner for trial on the charge of murder. 311'
Lewis had called a number of witnesses to show that a mall
named Gregordo had committed this crime. That 00;
according to their statement, ran out into the street and
admitted that he had done it, that he went to another
public-house where he gave the knife to a man,who thrall
it away, and that that man had been out of the way ever
since. Now he had to weigh their evidence against the evi'
deuce of the witnesses for the prosecution, and they clis-
tinctly slated that they saw the prisoner strike the elan
Harrington. Mrs. King also swore that the prisoner was the
man that knocked her down. It was rather mysterious the
absence of the knife, but according to the testimony there
were other Italians in the house, and the knife might hate
been passed to them. The deceased spoke to the prisoner+
and one of the witnesses swore that he saw the blow given
by the prisoner, and therefore he struck the prisoner 011
the head, and that would account for the wound the Pri-
soner had received. The evidence for the prosecution fat
outweighed the evidence for the defence, and if for 11°
other reason than 'that he should send the prisoner to the
Central Criminal Court for trial on the charge of wilful
murder. He would direct Inspector Potter to put on the
back of the bill the names of all the parties who were ill
the room, as they might be of use to the prisoner.
The prisoner, who treated the matter with the great
indifference, was then removed, but he will be brought 11
again on Wednesday next, when the charge of attempted
murder of Rebbeck andßichardson will be gone into.
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Mr. J. D. Hill, the resident medical officer of the ROA
Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, was in attendance, s'
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stated that Rebbeck was going on favourably.