The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1862.

Baron BRAMWELL has pinned the ruffians by
the throat as vigorously and effectually as ever
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY did the Yorkshire School-
master. The learned Judge has punished some of
the Garotters literally within an inch of their lives.
Penal Servitude is the one only kind of expiatory
infliction his lordship could apply—but he applies
it vigorously—rigorously ! " Penal Servitude "
he condemns one ruffian to for ten years—another for
twenty—another for Life ! The force of determina-
tion could not go further than that, it may be al-
lowed, under the circumstances. But it is the
manner in which this was done by Baron BRAM-
WELL that excites at once our gratitude and our
admiration. Addressing the first of the Garotters
brought up before him yesterday to receive his sen-
tence, the learned Judge said forcibly that, " As to
ANDERSON, it appeared that he was convicted of a
robbery with violence in 1859, and sentenced to
three years' penal servitude, and he had also suf-
fered fourteen other convictions, so that the present
Was his sixteenth conviction. He was sure, there-
fore, that with regard to him it was unnecessary to
make any observations to justify the sentence that
he was about to pronounce upon him. As to
any chance of his being reformed, he feared that
it was utterly hopeless ; he did not believe there
were any of the materials of reformation in him, and
that he was utterly destitute of morality, shame,
religion, or pity, and that if he were let loose he
would do what any savage animal would do—
namely, prey upon his fellows." Consequently,
taking all these things into consideration, he pro-
nounced upon ANDERSON the extremest penalty at
his (Baron BRAMWELL'S) disposal—viz., the pun-
ishment of venal servitude for the remainder of the
ruffian's natural existence.

Before saying another word, however, upon what
occurred yesterday in the Central Criminal Court,
let us epitomise Baron BRAMWELL'S sentences upon
the first batch of Garotters :

1. James Anderson For life
2. Edward Marks (41) For life
3. George Roberts (33) For 20 years
4. James Mowatt (31) For 20 years
5. Thomas Redahaw (20)
6. James Dixon (20) For 20 years
7. John Allen (30) For 10 years
8. John Redwood (22) For 10 years
9. John Painter (22) For 10 years
10. Charles Thompson (22) For 10 years
11. John Kingston (19)
12, Joseph Hall (30) For 6 years
13. Robert Leat (25) For 5 years
14. Charles Jones (18) For 4 years
15. Charlotte Redshaw (19) ..For 4 years
16. John Lane (18) For 4 years
17. James Butler (18) For 4 years
18. John Ford (18)

_:ertainly, a list of punishments—that—calcn-
-1 ed to prove to all intending Garotters what the
Yank,es _
expressively term Cautionary ! Punish-
ment, it ie, in the fullest sense of the word—Exem-
plary 1
Baron BRAMWELL having doomed, it will
be seen, the two most hardened among these
Eighteen brutati
zed
offenders to penal servitude
during the whole
residue of their lives ! And
having distributed,
Garotters more outatnetg the remaining Sixteen
n
hundred and Sim a century and a half—" one ,
,'
servitude, varying from
four
of Penal servitude ! Penal
years, to five, to ten,
to twenty, according to t
famy of the criminal he greater or lesser in-
and the
greater or lesser
,
atrocity of the particulariztgautche of garotting
(l
brought home to each! Among
cluster of garotters sentenced yesterdeayehte e°jceittle
o
a term of twenty years' penal servitude, • ergo
e, it will be
seen that the first-mentioned—a ruffian,narnediazo.
ROBERTS, aged at this present time, 33, will, at
the close of his felon life of imprisonment, pass oat
Jr to the world again, if he be still surviving: a
sadder and, it may be just barely possible, a some_
shady side of fifty ! The
wh,t wiser man on the
twenty hest years of that man's life having been
in the meanest of all possible
passed in durance vile,
uniforms. Worse even (wonderful to tell) than that
badge of the very high crime and misdemeanour,
here in Euglacd, Poverty—the Pauper' dress worn
by the inmates of our workhouses. There was a
touch of refined irony, now and then, in the man-
ner in which Baron BRAMWELL awarded some of)
the leaser punishments—leaser, that is, than the

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