The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Thomas Golden Valle, the
first mate of the Pekin on her voyage from Columbia to
England, who was charged upon suspicion of having
caused the death of Doyle, a Sandwich Islander, one of
fifteen natives who were engaged to navigate the vessel,
was brought up for re-examination.
The prosecution has been instituted by the directors
of the Hudson's Bay Company, whose agent having en-
tered into a bond to send back the foreigners to their
own country, it was found upon inquiry that one was
missing ; in consequence of which the rest of the crew
were questioned, and it was ascertained that the missing
man had expired on board under circumstances of great
suspicion.

Tom, one of the witnesses, upon whose information
that the first mate had struck Doyle with a piece of wood
and a rope, and that Doyle was disabled by that violent
treatment, never spoke afterwards, and died next morn-
ing, the warrant was granted, was put in the box. The
Rev. Mr. Ellis attended as interpreter, and the exami-
nation, which varied in no respect from the statement
made upon the application for the warrant, was neces-
sarily tedious and unimportant. The manner of the
witness certainly seemed to cause a general belief in the
court that he really stated what he considered to be facts.
On his oross-examination, Tom said : I was in the
rigging when Doyle fell on the deck, and I was going
up to the maintop when the prisoner beat him with the
rope.
vessel was astern when the pi ,soner beat the man
with the rope, and did not see him to so. The Captain
did not know of the striking of Doyle with the rope after
he fell. I know Mr. Cumming, the second mate. Ile
was up with us in the rigging when Doyle fell on the
deck, and when the prisoner beat him with the rope. We
were aloft at the time of the beating with the rope, reef-
ing at the top. I had not been aloft before the prisoner
beat Doyle with the wood. I was on one side, and Mr.
Loftus, the third mate, was on the same side, and Mr.
Cumming was on the other side. I was the last man
up the rigging before Doyle. I saw the prisoner take
the wood with which he beat Doyle from the upper
deck, and I saw him take the rope from the side
of the ship, where it lay coiled up. I saw the prisoner
come down the rigging after the beating had
taken place. I do not recollect Doyle being about
a month before, nor do I recollect his being missed from
duty, or being found between the decks apparently
dead. Doyle complained of having a pain in one foot,
otherwise Ido not know that he was ill. He was much
the same as the rest of us as to being dirty or clean.
[Some laughter was caused by the difficulty which the
interpreter found in this passage of the evidence, there
being no word in the language of the Sandwich Isles to
express the meaning of either filth or its contrast.] We
all slept down below. We did not turn out Doyle from
the place in which we slept. I did not beat Doyle, for
he was a great man, and I had never seen any of the
others beat him. We never took Doyle's food. He
would sometimes give me some food, or we would give
food to one another. The captain did not put Doyle by
himself to eat his food. The other men did not steal his
food. I have been in prison in my own country once.
It was for riding on a horse—not for stealing a horse.
The Lord Mayor said that as it would be necessary to
pursue the investigation, and a considerable time must
still be occupied in the investigation, he would adjourn
the case.

Mr. Mullens said he had no objection upon the part
of the prisoner, but he took that opportunity of declaring
that more gross misrepresentations could not have been
made than had been made by those who accused his
client. The facts would be found to be, and there was
no foundation whatever for the charge; that .the de-
ceased was a man of such filthy and lazy habits that his
own countrymen could not endure him, and had refused
to let him mess with or sleep among them ; and he had
been found between decks after having gorged himself
with food, as it was believed, which he had stolen, and
upon being ordered up the shrowds with the other men
when there was necessity for considerable exertion he
refused to do the duty ; that the chief mate had refrained
from punishing him for his breach of duty, and merely
tied him up for a short time ; and that he came down
upon the deck himself, without being treated with the
least violence by an one. It was the fact, too, and
would be proved, beyond all question, that the com-
rades of the deceased had refused to carry him doWn
when he was ill upon deck ; and that his illness was pro-
bably occasioned by his exposure to the weather, from
which he suffered, on account of the objection which the
rest of the crew entertained to his presence amongst
them in the proper place for repose.
The prisoner was then remanded, and bail having been
accepted for his future appearance, he was permitted to
leave the justice-room.

GUILDHALL.-- We are requested to state, with re-
gard to the practice complained of at this court by Alder-
man Copeland and Sir James Duke, of putting the names of
several defendants in one warrant of distress, and charg-
ing each one for that warrant, that Mr. Wood, the chief
clerk, said that this was the practice of the Commission-
ers of Sewers, but was not the general practice.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday was appointed for the
re-examination of the man Fitzgerald, on the charge of
attempting to murder his wife, on Saturday night, in
Angel-court, Strand.

Since the prisoner's last examination, it was thought
necessary to take his wife depositions at King's College
Hospital ; but she has on all occasions, when questions
were put to her, endeavoured to free the prisoner from
blame, and refuses to make any statement that can in
any way bring the offence home to him. It is now hoped
that death will not result from her wounds.
The prisoner was again remanded.

SOUTHWARK.—Joseph Miles, a bricklayer, was
placed at the bar charged with a brutal assault on Ann,
his wife.
The complainant, with difficulty, ascended the witness
box, in consequence of the injuries inflicted on her per-
son by the prisoner, and a certificate was handed to the
magistrate describing that her body was bruised nearly
from head to foot. She stated that on the previous
evening the prisoner returned home, and in consequence
of her not having his supper ready for him the moment
he came in, he began to abuse her. She accounted for
the delay by telling him that their little girl was longer
in fetching the things she required than she ought to have
been. This, however, instead of appeasing him, made
him more violent, and he began to kick her and to beat
her with his fists. She implored for mercy, but instead
of listening to her supplications he snatched up a long
piece of wood and commenced hitting her with it over
the head, arms, shoulders, and, in fact, the whole of her
body, until she fell on the floor in a state of insensibility.
She added that eight years ago she was laid up in the
hospital for thirteen weeks owing to the prisoner's vio-
lence. They had been married sixteen years, and had
six children living, and she assisted in their support by
selling fruit in the streets.
A policeman produced the stick with which the unfor-
tunate woman had been beaten. It was a very for-
midable weapon, and had marks of blood upon it in
several places.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
Mr. Combe said he should fine the prisoner 51, or
commit him for two months, and his wife was or-
dered to receive 2s. 6d. a week out of the poor-bo-
until his liberation.

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