The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-09 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1885.

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always with my solicitor. Why I gave a bill for more than
£97 was because of expenses. He read a paper to me tell-
ing me what he liked. I know that if Ido not pay the bill
of sale my goods can be seized. The bill of sale I signed
was not road over before I signed it. There was a lawyer
present, but I did not know his name nor the witnesses'
names. I was told to sign it, and did so. I believe two
witnesses were present. I did not see them sign their
names. I signed my own name, but I can't say what names
were on the paper. At first I did not wish to sign the bill,
but on Meyer saying, " Very well, very well, I'll seize the
goods," I did so. I did not at first wish to sign the bill.
[A paper was here handed to the prosecutor which he had
sent to Meyer, stating that he was in want of money.]
After the first £4O was advanced he made me sign the bill
for £550, as he would not, after the house was set on fire,
have got more than £l2O. The first proposal to set fire was
on the 30th, and in consequence of the proposition he was
made to sign the bill of sale. They told me on the 28th
to make a claim for £550. I only signed one account be-
sides the bill of sale.

Mr. Montague Williams—We deny having any bill of
sale at all. We advanced the £l2O on the two discounts

produced.

Prosecutor—l did not want £550, as it was under the
threat that I should be sold up that I signed the bill of
sale. Gray has left the house and Ido not know where
to find him. Noble did not say anything to him. Before
Noble came Meyer made me sign a paper, giving Noble
authority to come to the place so as to give him time to
see better that he did not repent of his bargain to set
the house on fire. I know Shaw ; Ido not know Meyer
applied for a summons yesterday against me for threats.
I saw Meyer on Tuesday. I did not seize him by the throat,
nor demand £l5O more of him. I sent a man yesterday to
come to some arrangement about the £l2O. I did not tell
Shaw that I had got the combustible in the house, and that
if Meyer did not let me have £l5O I would bring a charge
against him, in proof of which I may state that
Shaw does not know French, and I do not know
English. When Meyer made the proposal about setting
fire, Gray and ShaW were present. I didignot give anybody
into custody. I made my complaint, and they took who
they thought proper into custody. Ido not know whether
I mentioned Gray's name as I was so complexed.
Mary Callman, a widow, servant to Mr. Picom, said—
Ido not sleep in the house, being a daily servant. Yes-
terday morning, hearing Noble call, I went to his room, and
pointing to some candles he said "If you take them out Gray
will give you something." He then said the reason why
Gray would not take them himself was that Gray and the
master had had such a disturbance that they were going to
shoot each other. Noble then went to a black bag, and took
out a bottle, having unlocked the bag. Ho put the bottle
into my pocket, saying that my apron would cover it. He
said I was to leave it somewhere, and that Meyer would be
sure and give me something for it. I then fetched him a
Telegraph, and left the bottle at a shop in Frith-street, and
on my return my master and Mr. Meyer were quarreling in
the passage, and Mr. Noble said if I would go and remove
the black bag he was sure it would be a£lor £2 to me. I
told him that I would have nothing to do with it ; that I

did not know what it meant, and that I was trusted within
the ,khouse. He then told me to tako up a slop pail and
remove a tin can I should find there. I said I would not
do so.

By Mr. Knox—l saw the black bag yesterday morning
for the first time. I went afterwards to see what the bottle
contained, and found it to be paraffins oil. I gave it to
Sergeant 'Druscovitch yesterday, about twelve Qclock, in
my mother's passage. '

[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]

THAMES.

STEALING TEA IN THE LONDON Does.—James White, a
carman, was charged with stealing a pound of tea in the
London Dock. ,

The prisoner was in care of a van drawn by-two horses,
yesterday afternoon, in the London Dock. He received a
load of tea at a warehouse, and on his way to the gate with
team he stopped and put some clean straw in his horses'
nosebag. Other movements of the prisoner attracted the
attention of a constable, named Edward Ellis, who stopped
the prisoner on reaching the western gate in Upper East
Smithfield, and found under the straw in his nosebag a
pound of clean and good tea. The prisoner said that the
tea was a " shaking" out of cases which constituted a
former load of teas he had taken from the London Dock
to a warehouse in the City. He now set up the same de-
fence, and said he took the tea he was charged with stealing
into the dock, and was bringing it out again when he was
arrested.

Ellis produced a sample of tea taken out of a chest which
had been broken open and plundered in the dock.
Mr. Eldridge, belonging to the establishment in which

the prisoner is employed, said the tea in the nosebag was
not sweepings, but good clean tea, exactly similar to that
in the case which had been plundered.
The prisoner implored the mercy of the Court. He raised
the stale cry of a wife and large family in palliation of his
offence, and said he should lose. his situation if he was
convicted.

Mr. Paget—l know you will and ought to lose it. You
aro a dishonest man. I sentence you to be imprisoned for
one month, and kept to hard labour, for the unlawful pos-
sesion of the tea.

THE MURDERER'S DAUGHTER AND HER PARAMOUR.—
Roger Scanlan, an Irishman, aged 53, and formerly a sea-
man's boarding-house keeper, in good circumstances, but
now reduced to poverty by dissipation and strong drinks,
and Mary Sophia Mullins, 30, daughter of an Irishman
named Mullins, who was hanged in front of Newgate four
years ago for the murder and robbery of an old widow
lady named Elmsley, were brought up on a charge of be-
ing drunk, disorderly, and annoying Mr. Thomas Crafford,
a refreshment-house keeper, of No. 20, King-street, Tower-
hill.

The prisoners have been frequently in this court, and
are a most disgraceful couple. The woman Mullins, whose
extraordinary likeness to her late father was noticed by
many in the court, is a person of notoriously bad charac-
ter, and has been living in a state of concubinage with
Scanlan for some time past. He preferred a charge against
his daughter, a Mrs. Murphy, a few days ago, for stealing
silver spoons, which he had given to her on the day of her
marriage. Mr. Paget dismissed the charge with indigna-
tion, and said Scanlan ought to be prosecuted. Mr. Charles
Young, solicitor for Mrs. Murphy, said that he would cer-
tainly bring an action against her father if he was worth
powder and shot.

Payne, a police constable, No. 94 H, said that Mr.
Crafford, in whose refreshment house the prisoners had
misconducted themselves, was not in attendance.
The prisoners were discharged and hastly left the court.
Mr. Crafford arrived a few minutes afterwards, and was
very much annoyed on hearing the prisoners were at liberty.
He said they had committed a serious outrage in his house,
and he had been a great sufferer by them.