The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE AND MURDER.

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James McDowell was charged with having been con-
cerned with several other persons now in custody with
having perpetrated a most revolting outrage upon the
person of an aged woman named Rebecca Brogden,
from the effects of which she died.

The facts have been several times given, and the pri
soner, who had been apprehended a short time back al
Rotherham, was remanded.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Mary Travers, a middle-aged
female, was charged with creating a disturbance in St.
Bartholomew's Church, Moor-lane, during Divine ser-

vice.
James Stevens, a verger of St. Bartholomew's
Church, said the prisoner on Sunday evening last came
into church, and during the delivery of the sermon
shouted out at the top of her voice and abused the minis-
ter in the most disgusting language, calling the congre-
gation a set of hypocrites, and the otinister a preacher
of lies. Several members of thngregation were
frightened at the awful language She made use of, and
hastily quitted the church. Witness removed her, and
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ultimately gave her into custody.
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how she got into the ehrrch,
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"r.r FRKENWELTA.—A. young woman with two
children appeared Corrie, and applied for his
advice under distressing cireunistances.
,she said that her husband was fornibrly in the cm-
ploy of Mr. Sloman, the Sheriff's officer. He ran away
with the wife of a licensed victualler (who subsequently
committed suicide by hanging himself.) Applicant had
not seen or heard of her husband ever since, and she was
left in great distress with her children.
Mr. Corrie said he had read something of the affair
in the newspapers, and inquired what parish they re-
sided in.

She replied St. Andrew's, Holborn.
Mr. Corrie—Then you ought to apply to that parish.
Applicant—I have done so, your worship.
Mr. Corrie—Then you must apply again, they are

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7:IIAME S. —Jeremiah, MiCarthi, aedit;,. illia.-,,'
Timothy Burke, aged 21, Irish lahourero;,3oo; eppixkli :`. ',l!jkl
• with committing a violent assault an 4A*Pkiliti ''''';
servant of No. 25, John-street, Peioiiiiil:4,Wl:'.;
other with attempting to rescue RlVarthYlfroinftbi
tody of a police constable.
The complainant, a slender female, wh'irdhadAceivig
a severe wound on her nose, said she was passing along
the Back road, St. George-in-the East, on Sunday even-
ing, soon after eight o'clock, when she was met by the
prisoners, and M'Carthy, without saying a word, and
without receiving the least provocation whatever, struck
her a tremendous blow on the bridge of the nose with his
clenched fist, and at the same time tripped her up with his
leg. She fell heavily on the ground and became insen-
Bible, in which condition she renmined some time. The
back of her head and elbow were injured, and there was
a swelling on both. She bled for some time from the
nose, and had been under medical treatment.
Mary Adams, a respectable married woman, was
with the last witness, and confirmed her statement, in
every respect. Directly her friend was struck she went
up to M'Carthy and attempted to catch hold of him,
when be struck het on the cheek, and was about to hit
her again, when a policeman came up and seized him.
William Cockerell, a police constable, No. 266 K,
was talking to a gentleman and saw the prisoners and
another man coming down the Back-road, They were
all rather tipsy. The women were walking along in
the most quiet manner, when M'Carthy struck one of
them. She fell as if she had been bit with a shot from
a gun, and bled profusely. The other two Irishmen
stood laughing at her, and 111`Ca,rthy tried to get away.
He seized him and was leading him away, when Burke
came up and laid hold of him, and tried to drag him
away. A scuffle ensued and all three fell. His hat was
knocked off, and a gentleman picked it up and gave it
him. He then secured 111`Carthy, and was leading him
away, when a person called to him, " Look out, he
has got a stone," and he saw Burke advancing towards
him with a large stone in his hand. Fortunately at
that moment a police sergeant and constable made their
appearance, and Burke was taken into custody. He
afterwards ascertained that M'Carthy had previously
knocked down one or two other women in the street.
The assault on the complainant Dungey was the most
cowardly and wicked thing he ever saw in his life.
The prisoners made a long rambling defence, and said.
they were very tipsy, and if the women were struck
they did not know the reason why, and then said the
women were not struck at all.

Mr. Ingham said if the prisoner McCarthy had com-
mitted such a violent assault on the young woman in
his sober senses, he should have concluded that he did
it from malicious motives, and should have passed a very
severe sentence upon him. As it was he should not
pass a light punishment. He was astonished how any
one could have committed such a brutal assault even
when drunk. He sentenced McCarthy to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for one month for the assault
upon the complainant Dungey, and that Burke should
pay a fine of 10s. for the attempted rescue.

LAMBETH.—PhiIip Grinnell, a wheelwright, who
stood remanded on a charge of cutting and wounding
with intent to murder Elizabeth Grinney, his wife, at
their residence, 35, Park-street, Kennington, on Mon-
day the 24th ult., was placed at the bar before Mr.
Elliott, for further examination. It being intimated to
the magistrate that the wife of the prisoner had not
sufficiently recovered from the effects of the wounds in-
flicted by the prisoner to enable her to leave Guy's Hos-
pital, and attend at this court to give evidence, the
11,risoner was formally remanded till to-morrow week.

THE WAGES' MOVEMENT.

PRESTON, OCT. 31.

Notwithstanding the closing of mills in the districts
from which pecuniary, assistance has hitherto been de-
rived, the amount received by the Weavers' Committee
yesterday was about the same as last week, viz., 1,7501.
Although the number of unemployed has been increased
by 1,000 since the last pay day, it was resolved to dis-
tribute 4s. per head, as before, the week's expenditure
under other heads being curtailed to the extent of about
1301. This morning from 10,000 to 12,000 operatives
assembled in the Orchard, when Mr. Walton was called
upon to preside.

•Mr. COWELL spoke chiefly on the municipal elections,
urging his hearers to exert themselves to oust every
cotton lord from the council-chamber. Referring to the
Wigan riot, the speaker said he was very sorry the
Wigan people had no more sense than to resort to a
system of wholesale levelling. There was no sense in
working people collecting together and destroying the
property they had produced. The property never did
them any injury ; it was the men who held the property
that were the tyrants. Let them respect property and
life, and by proceeding in a peaceable, orderly, and
quiet manner, they might rely upon the struggle termi-
nating in their favour.

Mr. GRIMSHAW argued that the operatives were jus-
tified in their present struggle, because the manufac-
turers promised that when trade revived (and when we
had lately had every evidence of prosperity) they would
restore the 10 per cent, taken off the wages of their
hands in 1847.

Mr. WALTON challenged the manufacturers to meet
one or more members of the operatives' committee to
discuss the question at issue ; and if the former could
prove that the demands of the hands were unreasonable
and exorbitant, and - that the state of trade would not
admit of their giving the required advance, he had no
doubt the leaders of this -movement would retreat until
a more favourable opportunity.

Mr. GRIMSRAW moved the following resolution :
" That this meeting pledges itself to use all the legal
and peaceable means in its power to return to the Town
Council to-morrow the friends of the working classes."
Mr. BROWN seconded the resolution, and it was car-
ried. unanimously ; as also was the annexed :—" That
this meeting pledges itself at all times to support the au•
thorities of Preston in maintaining peace and order."

After several rounds of cheering- for Blackburn and
Is allies, for their liberal contributions, the vast mul-
titude dispersed.

THE WIGAN RIOT.

Themany people town was perfectly
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which yesterday succeeded the cattle fair, but the pur-
chasers were mostly country people, a great portion of
the townsfolk being too much impoverished by the strike
to lavish their money as they always do on such occa-
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atnh the sosource of security, " but," said a
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collier, who was talking one of these, " the colliers
as a body are too ignorant°and uninformed to calculate
the risks of such a i collison ; a thousand strong able-
bodied men might be chosen from them who would do
much mischief before they could be stopped, and that is
all at present they think of."
The prisoners taken '
on Friday night were brought
before the magistrates at the Town-hall, at 11 o'clock,
but the only evidence taken had reference to the riot
generally, and no special evidence was given implicating
them. The witnesses examined were Edward Birchall,
police-officer in charge of the police office on Friday
night, and Mr. Part, the clerk to the magistrates. The
accounts given by these witnesses bear out all the princi-
pal statements already given, but Birchall gave more
minutely the details of demonstrations made by the mob
at the commencement of the riot, in front of the Town-
hall and of the Royal Hotel, where it appears that many
stones were thrown at the police, in volleys, before they
were driven from the front of the mob.
The prisoners were remanded until Wednesday.
Should the peace be preserved until to-day (Tuesday),
the municipal elections may be expected to cause a good
deal of excitement. All candidates for the town council
obnoxious to the turn-outs will, of course, excite strong
feelings should they be successful.

WIGAN, MONDAY NIGHT.
There has been an attack on the sawmills, where the
Welsh colliers were lodged, at the colliery f Earl Bal-
carres, to-night. The people in charge fired, and a man
is supposed to be wounded, or killed ; he was carrird off
by the mob. The soldiers were called out from Wigan,
but the mob had dispersed immediately after the shot.

WARNING TO BOYS USING PISTOLS.--Last
ral youths were amusing themselves near twheeekWseel
Welsh-
bridge, in this town. by firing a pistol which they had
on it was very
mounted on a rude stock. On one occasion
ing the strength of when a boy named
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stowed on • his case at the life,
Salop Infirmary, he is now
convalescent.—Shropshire Conservative.
ATTEMPTED
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—We understand
that another daring " cavalier" has been pursuing his
perilous calling •
in the neighbourhood of Brockley ; for
on Saturday evening last as Mrs. Ford, of Nailsea, was
returning with some other women from market in her
cart, when on this side of Brockley Combe, a fellow rode
up and stopped the vehicle, by calling out to the women,
and as a means of enforcing hig mandate, firing a ball
into the tilt of the cart. He then demanded their mo-
ney, but the women began shouting, so the fellow,
scared by the noise, took to his scrapers. It is conjec-
tured to be the same fellow who robbed Mr. Hamlin on
Thuriday night.—Bristol Times.
DISMISSAL OF PROFESSOR MAURICE BY THE COUN-
CIL KING'S COLLEGE.—A painful sensation was created
at King's College on Saturday morning, by an announce-
ment on the part of Dr. Jeif, the principal, that Pro-
fessor F. D. Maurice's lectures en ecclesisastical history
would be discontinued. It is understood that Mr.
Maurice has been definitively removed from his chair by
the council of the college, in consequence of the doubts
respecting his orthodoxy suggested by a volume of
"Theological Essays," recently published by the rev.
and learned ex-professor. The students of all depart-
ments, however, have taken up the matter very warmly,
and will no doubt make a strong demonstration in
favour of Mr. Maurice. The greatest excitement pre-
vails in the college, and expressions of indignation and
regret are beard on all sides.