The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

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On the arrival of Mr. Elliott, the magistrate, at
this Court yesterday morning, it was announced
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to him that a murder had been attempted the previous
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ceeded, magi-
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for the purpose of taking her depositions.
The house surgeon, however, informed Mr. Elliott
that the young woman was not in imminent danger,
and that the excitement consequent upon such a
procedure would be highly prejudicial to the patient,
and as quietude was essential, he desired that the
y.ifori woman
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proceeding should be postponed for a few days, unless
more alarming symptoms should exhibit themselves,
of which the magistrate should have the earliest no-
tice. Accordingly Mr. Elliott returned to this court,
when the examination of the individual charged with
the perpetration of the outrage was proceeded with.
The prisoner, who on being apprehended had stated
his namo to be Stephen Alfred Jordan, but whose real
name was ascertained to be Dou'land, is a young
man apparently not more than eighteen or nineteen
years of age. When placed in the dock he exhibited
the most careless indifference, which he maintained
throughout the whole of the brief inquiry. Tke
circumstances of the case are disclosed by the follow-
ing evidence :
William Hunt was the first witness called, and he
deposed that he was a butcher, residing on Dulwich-
common, and that about ten minutes or a quarter to
ten o'clock the previous night he heard his dog bark
violently, and went out to the rear of his premises to
ascertain the cause. On reaching the back door he
saw a person standing there, but at the time he could
not distinguish whether it was a male or female--
subsequently it turned out to be the unfortunate fe-
male now in Guy's Hospital. The witness desired
her to go round to the front door, which was opened
by his (the witness's) wife, and then he saw the fe-
male in question, and that her hands' face, and
clothes, were all covered with blood. She held up
part of clothes to a gash in the throat. Some
friends who were at the house of the witness thought
the female was oily practising some trick, and she
went away. The witness, however, was not satisfied,
and, in consequence, he followed, and overtook her
near the toll gate, where he procured a light, and
again looked at her, and saw that her throat had been
cut. The witness asked her who it was that had done
that ? She replied, her husband. Witness asked if
her throat was cut, and she nodded in reply, indicating
that it was so. She added that it had been dune with
a dagger. The witness proceeded with her some dis-
tance along the road, and not meeting a policeman
on the way, he at last took her to the house of Mr.
Ray, the burgeon, at Dulwich, who immediately at-
tended to her wounds, and afterwards directed her to
be conveyed to Guy's Hospital.
William Pritchard, sergeant of the I' division, de-
posed that about one o'clock that morning the female
now in the hospital was brought to the station-house
in a cab by Mr. Ray, the surgeon, and a police-
constable. Mr. Ray stated that the female had in-
formed him that her throat had been cut in Dulwich-
wood by a man, who had also knocked her about the
head with the butt-end of a pistol. The woman's
hands were cut in several places. From other in-
formation which the witness then received, he pro-
ceeded to the house of a person named Courtney, No.
3, St. Andrew's-road, Brixton, where he found the
prisoner in bed. On seeing the witness the prisoner
said, "It's all right. I know what you are come
for." Witness asked him if he had been at Dulwich
in the course of the previous evening. The prisoner
answered in the affirmative, and was desired by the

witness to get up and dress himself. He did so,
and was told by the witness that he was charged
with cutting the throat of a female in Dulwich-
wood. The prisoner said, " I know all about
it • do not say any more." There were some
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clothes lying on the floor of the bei-rooin, which
the witness examined. In the breast pocket of the
prisoner's coat he found a pistol loaded with ball, and
with the stock broken; and in his presence police-
constable Pratt found in the pocket of the prisoner's
waistcoat about a dozen bullets and a small quantity
of percussion caps, now with the pistol produced. On
examining the prisoner's shirt, the witness found on
the front, the collar, and the wristbands, several marks
of blood, and this morning, on inspecting the prisoner's
hands, he discovered the marks of blood under the
fingernails; there were also the marks of blood on
the front and on the sleeve of his coat. Witness
brought the prisoner to the station-house, and th, re
charged him with cutting the throat of Sarah
Frances Ewins, in Dulwich-wood. The female was
conveyed, as already stated, to Guy's Hospital, whence
the witness had brought the subjoined certificate :
" I hereby certify that Sarah Frances EvvinA is unable
to atteed at the police court, and lies in a dangerous
state from the injuries she has received—a cut throat and
wounds about the head.
(Slgned)

" CHARLES SANDERS.
" Assistant to 11r. B. B. Cooper.
" Guy's Hospital, Sept. 20, 1349."
In answer to a question from the magistrate, Prit-
chard stated that he had not yet been able to ascertain
whether or not the prisoner was married to the injured
wo n an.
John Wood, police•constable P 131, deposed that,
accompanied by another constable, he went to Dul-
wich-wood, and there found the several articles now
produced—a bonnet, a fur victorine, two white pocket
handkerchiefs, a silk neck•tie, a black shawl,
all
completely saturated with blood. Witness also
found a bottle of blue ink and the handle of a razor,
the blade of which (stained with blood) was found by
Jefferies among some dry leaves a short distance from
the footpath.
The prisoner, after being cautioned by the magis•
!rate, said he did not wish to say anything at present
in answer to the charge. The prisoner was remanded
until ruesday next, and left the bar with the most
perfect self-possession.

souTHWARK.
James Tapper, a respectable-looking man, residing
in Long-walk, Bermondsey, was brought before Mr.
Sacker, charged with stabbing his wife, Sarah, in the
breast, from the effects of which she lies in a danger-
ous condition.

Henry Chater said that on the previous night,
about ten o'clock, his attention was called on hearing
a loud scream proceed from the prisoner's house in
Long-walk, Bermondsey. lie hastened there, and on
entering the front parlour he saw a female lying on
the floor, with her hand to her breast, and she
said that she had been stabbed by her husband,
and begged him (witness) to take her into the next
house, occupied by a neighbour whom she knew. The
prisoner at that time was standing in the room, and
on hearing his wife complain of being stabbed, he
ejaculated that he was sorry he had not killed her.
Witness, upon finding the wounded woman express
such anxiety to quit the house, assisted her off the
floor in his arms, and carried her into the next house,
where she became faint from loss of blood, and when
a surgeon was sent for he pronounced that she had
received a dangerous wound in the breast.
A policeman stated that while on duty the preced-
ing night he was informed that a woman had been
stabbed by her husband, and on proceeding to the
house next to that in which the prisoner lived, he
found his wife there bleeding from a wound in the
breast. He (the policeman) was then told that the
man who had inflicted the injury had shut himself up
in his house, and that he refused to admit any person.
He (the policeman) instantly went there, and was
proceeding to force open the door, when the prisoner
made his appearance, and opening it, said "There is
no occasion for using any violence. I freely give
myself up. I did the deed, and am only sorry I did
not kill her." The witness then handed in a medical
certificate as to the condition of the prisoner's wife :
" I hereby certify that Mrs. Tapper has been wounded
in the right breast with a sharp instrument. She is
now suffering from bruises and other injuries, the ex-
tent of which cannot at present be asc-rtained.
(Signed) " NV. TURNER, Surgeon."
The p ,lic..man produced a table knite with marks
of blood on the point of it, which he said he found in
the room where the woman was wounded.
Mr. SEcicuit asked the prisoner whether he vrs
desirous of saying anything in answer to the very
serious charge alleged against him, and that perhaps
at present it would be better that he remained silent,
as he intended to remand him until the fate of his wife
was known.
The prisoner said that at present he should decline
making any answer to the charge, and be was re-
manded until Tuesday next.
THAMES.
Mr Thomas Barrett, one of thE churchwardens of
St. George's- in• the-East, chairman of the board of
guardians of that pariah, and also chairman of thy

Sanitary Committee, was charged under the 11th and
12th Vict., cap. 123, sec. 16, with violating the direc-
tions of the Board of Health, issued in April last.
Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, who appeared on behalf
of the parish authorities of Whitechapel, accompanied
by Mr. Smith, solicitor to the parish, by whom the
proceedings had been instituted, said, though the case
might appear trifling, it was of the utmost importance,
more especially whilst the present epidemic prevai.ed,
that the modes directed by the Board of Health for
abating all dangerous and offensive nuisances should
be adopted. When those rules were violated, and
more especially when they were violated by a person
holding such authority in his parish as the defendant,
it was necessary that an example should be made.
The defendant was the owner of some houses in Rose-
court, Aldgate, in which four privies emptied them-
selves into one cesspool, and by the negli-
gence of the defendant they were allowed
to become a most formidable nuisance. He
received notice of this from the proper officer,
and one man in the neighbourhood complained to him
of the injurious effect it had upon his wife's health,
but the defendant seemed to think that the law did
not apply to him, and when told that the board of
guardians would see to it, he courteously replied that
they might be —. The nuisance had been abated
by the parish, at an expense of 31., but the present
proceedings were for the penalty—not exceeding 51.
—imposed by the 16th section, of the Act. Instead
of doing his duty by the public in abating a dan-
gerous nuisance, the defendant chose rather to
expend his money in retaining a lawyer to meet this
charge.
Mr. John Parr, inspector of nuisances to White-
obars-st r•y4.1,, 4. LIZ h, aLFILe Or LIIC pnvies,
the soil from which overflowed into the court. An
inquest was held on a person who died of cholera,
arising, as was believed, from the nuisance a few days
previously.
Mr. Pelham, after vainly attempting to throw a
doubt on the defendant's proprietorship, said their
was no use in troubling the court any further. He
would be the last to justify anything injurious to the
public health at a period like the present; and with
respect to the 31. paid by the parish, his client had not•
been sued for it. He would have to pay for the
abatement, and it was to be hoped that the parish
would not press for the penalty.
Mr. Ingham suggested an adjournment of the
summons, to allow an arrangement.
Mr. Bodkin wished for an adjudication for the
purpose of an example, even though the penalty were
only one shilling.
The defendant was ultima'-ely fined 61s. and costs,
with an understanding that the fine should go to the
parish rates, for which the cost of abating the nui-
sance was paid.
CLERKENWEL L.

Nelly Clare was finally examined, charged with
stealing 25 yards of flannel from the shop of Mrs.
Brown, linen-draper, of High-street, Islington.
The prisoner, it appeared, bad formerly lived with
the prosecutrix's husband for many years, when he
deserted her. He recently died, and the prisoner
called to ask if he bad left her any property. Being
answered in the negative, she took the flannel and
walked off with it. She was pursued, and given
into the custody of Dunbar, the officer.
The prisoner did not deny taking the property, but
not with a felonious intention.
She was fully committed for trial.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTII, SEPT. 19.—The East Indiaman
Bangalore entered the Sound on Monday, with her
mizen topmast struck, and its standing rigging
snaked down on the rigging of the lower mast.
Having learned that she had experienced 1 eavy
weather, and had been self-supplied with an excellent
temporary rudder, we boarded and examined her
yesterday, and were kindly permitted to look over
her log. The Bangalore registers 876 tons, belonging
to Messrs. Phillips, Shaw, and Lowther, of London,
aid is commanded by Captain J. A. Martyn.
Having a full cargo, the dead weight of which ap-
proached 1,100 tons, consisting of gambia, hides,
gutta percha, pepper, spices, sago, antimony, cocoa-
nut oil, sperm oil, &c., she saile d from Singapore on
the 4th of April last, called at St. Helena on the Ist,

and left there on the 3d of July. By the 20. h of
August, the officers had got the rigging in good trim,
and the hull and spars painted throughout, intending,
with a proper pride, to enter the docks with a
creditable appearance. On the 4th of September,
however, when in lat. 50 2 North, long. 10 3 West,
they were overtaken by a gale, varying from south to
south-east, which split their jib, and carried away
their mainsail, separated the main stalk of the ruchl-r
from the fan part, and did other damage to the ship.
As so-m as possible the rudder was secured by a
yoke and hawsers, but on the 7th of September
they experienced another gale, by which the
fan part of the rudder was carried away,
taking the false stern-post with it. On the Bth
they cut away the taffrail, and fixed over the stern a
steer-oar, made of a mainyard, with studding,,ail.
booms for a fan, and having a crossbeam for a lever,
they worked the oar with chain guys and teakles.
Finding this not to answer, they on the 10th set about
making a rudder more like the original one, and for
this purpose they ransacked the ship and her rigging
for every available material. Her carpenter, Mr.
Sullivan, took about thirty feet of the foreyard for a
mainpiece, and a portion of the remainder, with a
topsailyard cut in two for a fan ; these were lashed
together with a copper wire reap, the lightning
conductor, &c., and secured with chains and strong
iron bolts. All this was done while the nnmanage-

able ship was experiencing the shocks of a short sea,
which made her tremble all over, and the wash was so
great that they were compelled to trice up the ports,
to give the water free passage across her waist.
Frequent showers of cold rain were fulling, and five
or six of her crew were disabled by scurvy. Captain
Martyn was, however, ably supported by his officers,
Messrs. Smith and Harvie, and the rest of the crew.
The rudder being thus far completed, a clamp, some-
thing in the shape of a ship's trestle-trees, was formed
to receive it. The clamp was made of a spare anchor-
stock, and one of the orlop deck beams; it had two
jaws to receive the ship's stern-post, and was fastened
to the rudder, so as to be seven feet from its heel,
which was intended to be two feet from the lower
part of the ship's keel. The topsail sheet chains
were unroved and fixed to the clamp, on either side,
for use as guys.
The next difficulty was to get the rudder under
water, and for this purpose they attached to it an
anchor weighing half a ton, but the rudder being
made of fir, proved too buoyant for the anchor,
which was taken off and replaced by two guns
weighing from seven to eight cwt. each, and fastened
with slip ropes. By this means the rudder was at
length sunk to its place, and the chain-guys from the
clamp having been brought on either side to the
gangway ports, teakles were fastened from them to
ring-bolts in the deck, and the whole hove taught by
the capstan. The rudder being all right, the slip
ropes were cut adrift and the guns hove on board with
strong tackle fixed to the head of the mainmast.
The after accommodations having been cut away, and
the rudder case redUced, the tiller now works on the
maindeck by ropes which run through the poopd.-ck
up to the wheel. All this while the unfortunate ship
had been gradually drifting upon a lee shore, and on
the 14th September, with the wind from the N.W. to
N., right on the land, Ushant light bore S.E. by S.,
distant only fourteen miles. The skill and energy of
British seamen had, however, under favour of a kind
Providence prevailed; with her new rudder the Ban-
galore was once more under control, and by it she
at length reached this harbour in safety. It is to be
hoped that this act of seamanship, by which a valuable
ship and costly cargo have been saved, will not go
unrewarded.
PORTSMOUTH, TUURSDAT.—By the death of Ad-
miral of the Red Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart.,
K.C.B , who expired on the 14th inst., the following
promotions will be gazetted to-morrow evening :
Admiral of the White Sir John White, K.C.8., to
be Admiral of the Red.
Admiral of the Blue Sir Graham Eden Hamond,
Bart., K.C.8., to be Admiral of the White.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Zachary Mudge, to be
Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White John Allen, to be Vice-
Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Edw and Hawker, to be
Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart.,
C.B , to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Hyde Parker, C,8., to
be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry A'Court Re-
pington, to be Rear- Admiral of the White.
Captain Sir James John Gordon Bremer,
K.C.H., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
By the promotion of the last-named officer a good
service pension reverts to the gift of the First Lord
of the Admiralty.
The Inflexible steam-sloop, Commander Hoseason,
sailed from Spithead this afternoon, for Sheerness, to
be paid off.
'rug NAVAL BRIGADE.—The Clarence-yard Bat-
talion (artillery) have completed their drills for the
season. As a specimen of their proficiency in the art
f warfare since their inauguration we may merely
state that on the 15th inst, the two field-batteries of