The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT BARNET.

Yesterday, Patrick Farley, Michael Cunningham, and
Robert Magennis, the three men charged on suspicion of
being concerned in the brutal outrage and
murder of
poor old woman, Elizabeth Brogeden, Underhill,tlie
Chipping Barnet, on the night of Sunday, the
at Barnet,
on lOtharuulett.,
were again brought up before the magistrates
on remand from St. Albans gaol, for further examina-
tion.
Prior to the bench entering on the case, Mr. Inspector
Billes, of the S division, announced that he had received
a letter from the police authorities at Winchester, stating
that a man had been apprehended, and was now lodged
in Winchester gaol, fully answering the description of
the man described as " the Sailor,l or "Yorkie," as he
was called, who has absconded, and who is supposed to
be the ringleader in the horrible transaction. The fol-
lowing additional evidence was adduced :
Mrs. Hales, a lodging-house keeper at Underhill, de-
posed to the deceased woman coming to her house about
half-past ten o'clock on the night in question and asking
for a lodging, and that she had Is man with her with a
dark coat on. She could not, however, swear that either
of the prisoners was that man.
Mary Coombes, a married woman, living at Barnet,
deposed that on the morning after the occurrence she
was haymaking in Mr. Smith's field, and overheard the
prisoner Magennis and some other men talking about
some woman and laughing, and she asked him what it
was about, and he told her that an old woman had been
used in Mr. Bryant's shed by sixteen of " our men"—
meaning Irishmen—and that he had gone down to the
shed that morning to see her, poor old girl, and that he
gave her a penny ; and he said she was so used she was
like a piece of tripe. He had on then a velvet jacket
like that produced.
Magennis protested that he never made such a state-
! went.
After some consideration, Mr. Phillimore, the chair-
man of the bench, announced to the prisoner Patrick
Farley, that the magistrates bad determined to discharge
him from custody, feeling that there was not sufficient
evidence to justify his longer detention. The bench
hoped, however, that if he knew anything about the
' horrible occurrence, he would aid the ends of justice by
at once disclosing it.
Patrick Farley was then sworn. He said—Between
' ten and eleven o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 10th

Mr. S. Stone, town-clerk of Leicester, deposed, that
he had known the deceased for some years. He resided
at Leicester, was by trade a cotton-winder, and in exten-
sive business for himself. On Tuesday morning last,
about 10 o'clock, one of his brothers came rushing to
witness's office in a state of great agitation, with a
letter in his hand. He was unable to speak and handed
witness the letter. [The witness here produced three
letters, which were identified by Mr. J. Hunter, of
Leicester, as being in the handwriting of the deceased.]
After reading it he immediately dispatched two of
the detectives of the police force by special train to
Rugby. No trace was found of him there, and they
proceeded thence to Liverpool, Birmingham, &c. The
letter was dated "Rugby, Monday," and the following
is an extract :—" I now feel that I have offended every
friend and also my God. What is to become of ntie ?
For a year and a half I have thought of nothing but
death. Oh, dear brother, there is no hope of me. I
cannot face my creditors ; I am mad, and have been for
a long time." . . . "I will write again and tell you
where you may find me. Your lost brother, William."
On Wednesday morning deceased's brother received an-
other letter, bearing the Swansea postmark, in these
words—"My dear brother, I shall be found in Carmar-
then, South Wales. Farewell." The difficulties of de-
ceased were not serious, only pecuniary liabilities,
nothing criminal. They would have been instantly
settled by his family had they known them. He was a
man of character and a member of the town-council.
He was 38 years of age.
Mr. James Rowlands, surgeon, deposed to having
made a post mortem examination of the deceased, and
described the appearances presented by the body. He
had analysed the contents of the stomach, and detected
prussic acid in considerable quantities. The result of
his examination proved that he died from the effects of
prussic acid. The bottle would contain enough to kill
two or three persons.
The coroner having summed up, the jury returned as
their verdict, " That the deceased died from the effects
of prussic acid, taken while in a state of temporary in-
sanity."

STATUE OF THE MARQUIS OF BUTE AT CARDIFF.
The colossal statue of the late Marquis of Bute,
has been erected at Cardiff, intended as a tribute from
the county at large to its most munificent benefactor.
The statue is a full length, and represents the late mar-
quis in his robes as Lord High Commissioner to the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The
drapery is flowing and effective, the position easy and
graceful, and the likeness is admitted to be an admirable
one. The whole stands twenty-two feet in height, and
the pedestal, which is of granite, is thirteen feet. The
statue has been executed by Mr. Evan Thomas, the
well-known sculptor of Belgrave-place, London, and the
model was exhibited in the Great Exhibition, where it
occupied a prominent place, The whole will be enclosed
with a handsome iron railing.
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PUBLISHER OF A DIREC-
TORY.—Mr. Sheriff Bell, of Glasgow, has fined the
managing proprietor of the Glasgow Directory in twenty
shillings damages, and the cost of suit, raised by Mr.
Macquorn Rankine, civil engineer, for the omission of
the firm of Rankine and Thomson in the present edition
of that publication, and also for misstating the number
of pursuer's office address, which was duly furnished
to
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the defendant in the usual schedule. —6 1 api :
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WOOLWICH, AUGUST 1.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant William G. Dougl ;1.3(1846), from the Coast
Guard service, to the Odin, 16, paddle-wheel steam-
frigate, at Portsmouth.
Mate John B. Balfour (1851), from the Excellent,
gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Sidon, 22, paddle-
wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.
Midshipmen P. J. Hankeir, to the Plumper, 9, screw
steam-sloo?, at Portsmouth ; 8.. St. J. Mildmay, to the
St. Jean d Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at Devonport.
The Bloodhound, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel,
arrived at Woolwich from service on the West Coast of
Africa, and was taken into the basin in the afternoon,
preparatory to being shipped and paid off.
The Firefly, Commander George A. Seymour, having
delivered all her stores, was paid off on Saturday.

PEMBROKE, JULY 31.
The arrangements for getting off the Caesar have been
wholly changed. A secure foundation having been
made she is effectually shored up, and by the aid of
powerful wedges applied at them the &flexure has been
considerably reduced. Attention is now being directed
to the means of floating bier off, which work is to be
attempted on Thursday next. Immense air tight tanks
of capacity sufficient to lift the entire vessel are being
constructed, and on them the whole available force of
the establishment is employed. They are to be securely
attached to her after body, and when sufficiently
afloat the power of various mechanical forces will be
brought into requisition to force her into the water.
The workmen carrying out these operations are em-
ployed from four o'clock in the morning until eight in
the evening. Several immense pieces of African oak
;
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the largest the dockyard can produce are to
b
projected through the after ports on the gun deck
be-
neath, and to these the tanks are to be firmly attached.
The getting these ponderous pieces of timber ?Tleyboaarred
is a work of great difficulty and interest.
klle,
and
taken in through the bow port by powerful tacr
then drawn along the deck to their place of destination,
operations which require great care and attention to
firm
prevent accidents. To effect a foundation for
shoring up after part of the ship, large logs of
layer, and another,the and another, each crossing the
former, until a foundation equalling the solid rock has
been obtained. On Thursday the Vulture steamer
African timber werefirst laid down, crossing those another

A CLERGYMAN GAROTTED.—A daring outrage of this
kind was perpetrated at Worcester on Thursday night,
and has caused no small consternation in that city. The
circumstances are these :—The Rev. George St. John,
who resides in Britannia-square, Worcester, was return-
ing home from a party, shortly before eleven o'clock
on Thursday evening, and had approached within a
short distance of his house, when he heard some men
walking rapidly behind him ; but lie took no notice
of them, not having any suspicion that they enter-
tained any evil intentions towards himself. Pro-
ceeding onwards, he r eached his door, and was in the
wh
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feltthe door-bell, when
applied
hand
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over his mouth, and another grasping his
arms were also held firmly, so as to prevent any re-
sistance being made. The rev. gentleman struggled
violently against his assailants, but they proved too strong
for him, and throttled him so closely that he became
insensible. When consciousness returned he found him-
self at the door, and was not aware that be had been
upon the ground. It seems that the servants at the
house were expecting his return, and, that hearing a
shuffling at the door, one of them looked from an
upper window and saw a man lying on the ground with
two others leaning over him, but she supposed them to
be a drunken party. Soon afterwards she saw two
of the men place the third against the wall as though
he was unable to stand, and she thought they had deter-
mined to leave him. A quarter of an hour after, how-
ever, the servants heard a knocking at the door, and a
feeble voice, which they mistook for that of a drunken
man, and it was with some difficulty that Mr. St. John
made them understand that it was he who was knock-
ing. On their opening the door they saw their master
with his face covered with blood, and he was so much
injured and exhausted that medical assistance had to be
called in. The rev. gentleman is still very ill. The
thieves robbed him of a gold watch, a purse containing
a 51. note, and four sovereigns, a gold key, g
gold eyeglass, and other articles.
I was found
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—John Hurley
and robbery
guilty at the Galway assizes of the muerntri
n at Dun-
chi seal,
of a young girl named Katherine ICf 8
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sandle on the 16th of May last.
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the former was dismissed for dishonest practices, and, as
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for which he is to pay the penalty of
mere child in years, he conceived. and carried out the
dreadful revenge
his life. When believe
t h
sentence was passed upon the hardened
miscreant, he declared he would have satisfaction of the
jury and the prosecutors, " either in this world or the
next." •
RUSSIAN MODERATION.--The following from the
is significant.— Persia's
loardnepheasadcoatircnee.B:_eige of Sunday
" Our correspondence from Constan-
tinople, bearing date the 18th, fully ehnfirnas the asser-
tion that the protest of the Porte is principally due to
Lord de Redcliffe. In other respects, the news con-
veyed by our correspondence, by way of Germany, are
not so late by two days as those brought by the Cada-
doe ; but there is one point highly interesting in this
correspondence ; it is the demands of Russia upon
Persia. The Muscovite demands of the Persian, instead
of the 80 millions of roubles which he insists on being
due to him, the cession of the province of Tauris, one
of the most important Persian provinces on the borders
of the Caspian Sea. As this province may be worth
more than 80 millions of roubles, Russia will pay Persia
the value beyond that sum in ready money !" This is a
fine commentary on the Nesselrode declaration that
"his Imperial master desires not extension of territory.'