The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

THE PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK.

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER.

HAMMERSMITH POLICE COURT.
Henry Bathurst Mon/Mouse, the young man charged
with having attempted to murder his own father by
firing a pistol at him, was examined again yesterday,
before Mr. Beadon. He does not appear to have
suffered much from his incarceration, but although
his complexion looked healthy and florid, there was a
tinge around his eye that clearly indicated his mind
was but ill at ease. He bears a striking resemblance
to his father, whose features have also a florid com-
plexion, and anything but an unhealthy appearance.
While his father was giving his evidence the prisoner
turned his eyes away from him, as if he was anxious
to avoid a recognition, but the father closely scruti-
nized the exterior of his son with a melancholy ex
pression of countenance. The prisoner paid great
attention to the evidence as it went on, and cast
occasional glances at the bullet and neck tie when
they were produced by the medical witness and laid
on the table before the magistrate. The centre of the
tie was smeared with clotted blood, and slightly singed
in the part where the bullet had passed through.
Mr. Bird, the solicitor of Hammersmith, who is
intimately acquainted with the Monkhouse family,
attended on behalf of the unfortunate young man.
Mr. Bird, however, is not the Mr. Bird referred to in
a paragraph that has gone the round of the papers,
stating that he had refused to give up a deed intrusted
to him by the prisoner unless he was paid a certain
sum of money.

At two o'clock Mr. Beadon took his seat on the
bench, and immediately afterwards the prisoner was
brought into court by Mr. Inspector decks, and placed
in the dock, when the evidence was gone into, as
follows :

'William Anderson, the driver of the cab No. 815,
was the first witness examined—He stated that he
resided at No. 2, Size-yard, Whitechapel. On
Thursday evening, the 4th of October last, between
seven and eight o'clock, he was on the rank in the
Minories, when the prisoner came up and engaged
him to Chiswick for 14s. The prisoner did not
appear quite sober. They went into a public-house
together opposite the stand, and the prisoner entered
the parlour. After witness had partaken of a glass
of rum, which the prisoner had ordered for him, he
went into the parlour, where he saw the prisoner with
his hand on some silver, which was lying on the
table, which induced him to observe to the landlady,
" he seems to have a good deal of money about him."
They then proceeded on the journey, and on
the way they looked in at several public-houses on
the road. They called at the White Horse, in Hieh-
street, Knightsbridge, where the prisoner appeared to
be known, and where they had some more drink.
The prisoner said something to a female at the bar
about giving her some rent, and having left his hand-
kerchief with her as a pledge that he was in earnest
about bringing the rent, they resumed their journey,
still stopping at public-houses on the way, and drink-
ing at each. When they came to the Black Lion, in
Black Lion-lane, they stopped again. The prisoner
spoke to the landlady, who seemed to know him, and
witness had something to drink, but he did not see the
prisoner have any. It was brandy they had. The
prisoner then got up on the box of the cab and directed
witness where to drive to, and when they came to
kr. Monkhouse's residence the prisoner requested
witness to get down, ring the bell, and ask if Mr.
Monkhouse was at home. If he was, witness was
to say there was a gentleman from London at the
gate who wished to see him. Witness did as he
was told, and a female answered the door. He
asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at home, and she said
Yes," when he told her there was a gentleman
from town who wished to speak to him. The female
' closed the gate, and after being absent for a few
minutes she returned, when the prisoner came up,
And rushed past her, disregarding her statement that
he must send in his name, observing, " I will go in and
iee him myself." The prisoner then went in and
closed the gate after him, and witness returned to his
cab. Shortly afterwards he heard a report of fire-
arms, and the prisoner then joined him in the cab,
lirecting him to drive on. Witness asked him
What was that noise I heard," and he said, smilingly,
" Oh, that's nothing," or words to the effect of
" that's not here." Witness then drove to a public-
house in the main road, and there asked the prisoner
-o settle with him, when he said he wanted to go to
Ealing. Witness replied that he could not go
ss it was his time home. The prisoner said
You must, and I will give you a
sovereign altogether." Witness ultimately agreed
to go, and took bim to the Bell, at Ealing,
where they had some more brandy, and then, at the
prisoner's request, witness drove him to a house up
the lane, where witness believed the prisoner's bro
cher resided. The prisoner rung the bell several
times, but receiving no answer, they returned to the
public-house, and he asked the 'landlord to give wit-
ness alcvereign. The landlord refused, and while
they were talking about the fare the constable came
up and took him into custody.
Elizabeth Barnes, housemaid in the service of Mr.
John Farmer Monkhouse, the gentleman shot at, was
the next witness examined—She stated that she knew
the prisoner, who was the second son of her master.
On Thursday night, the 4th of October last about
ten o'clock, she heard a ring at her master's gate
bell, when she went out and saw the last witness,
who asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at home. She
replied, yes, and asked the cabman his name. He
said, "Here's a gentleman from town wants
to see him." She left the man at the gate,
closed it, and as she approached the house, which
was about five or six yards from the gate, she saw her
master standing on the threshold. She told him there
was a gentleman from town wished to see bins, and he
told her to go and ask his name. She went back,
opened the gate, and asked the cabman the gentleman's
name. The cabman hesitated a moment or so, and
all at once the prisoner rushed forward from the side
of the cabman, nearly knocking her down, and said—
"lam a Monkhouse and I will speak to him." He
rushed forward to the house, and she immediately
afterwards heard two reports as of fire-arms. She saw
two flashes and smoke close to her master. At the
first shot she observed her master fall, and at the
second shot the prisoner returned, and saying
" There I" bounded past her and ran out of the
premises. She ran into the house, where she saw her
master crawling on his bands and knees towards the
parlour with blood upon his throat. :he and her
mistress assisted him into the parlour. He was after-
wards removed to a bedroom, and then Mr. Perfect,
a surgeon, was sent for. About a week before the
prisoner was at her master's house, and she heard him
say to her master, stamping his foot upon the ground,
"This is the last time I will ever cross the threshold
of your door."
John Farmer Monkhouse, of Chiswick Mall, Chis-
wick, gentleman, the father of the prisoner, deposed
as follows :—The prisoner is my son. On Thursday
night, the 4th of October, about ten o'clock, 1 heard a
ring at my gate bell. I went to the front door when
the maid went to the gate, and I then heard a man
say " a gentleman from London wishes to see Mr.
Monkhouse." Immediately after I heard my son,
the prisoner say, " I am a Monkhouse," and he rushed
up to where I was standing and shot me. I fell and
heard a second shot. It was so momentary that I did
not observe anything particular. It was previous to
my falling that I heard the two shots.
Mr. Thomas William Camberlain Perfect, the
medical gentleman who was called in to see Mr.
Monkhouse after he was shot, stated that he found that
gentleman vomiting blood, and ordered him to be
immediately put to bed. Upon examining the neck,
he found that a ball had passed through his neck-tie,
and perforated the flesh, passing by the thyroid carti-
lage of the neck, at the centre of the most projecting
point of the wind-pipe. It did not penetrate the air
tube, but passed up on the right of the neck, and
through the throat, wounding the gullet, striking
against the cervical vertebrae, and apparently
descending between the external and internal carotid
arteries, in the direction of the sternomastoidal
muscle, and coming out at the back of the neck, just
above the clavical posterior part, lodging in the shirt
collar. He produced the bullet, together with the
collar and stock which Mr. Monkhouse wore at the
time.
Henry Reason, one of the mounted police, T 247,
deposed to having received information on the night
in question of Mr. Monkhouse having been shot at,
and to tracing the cab to the Bell lon at Ealing. He
there saw the prisoner, and asked him if his name
was not Monkhouse. The prisoner told him that it
was not, but witness told him that he answered the
description of the person be was after and he must go
with him. Witness then took him to the Ealing
police-station, where he searched him and found the
barrel of a pistol in his right-hand coat pocket, and
the stock in the left-hand pocket, together with eight
bullets and about thirteen caps, all of which he now
produced. There was some loose powder in the inside
pocket of his great coat. He examined the pistol and
found that it had been recently discharged, and while
doing so the prisoner observed, " If I had a brace of
loaded pistols I would blow my own brains out." He
then took bim to the Hammersmith police-station.
On the Sunday night following, from information he
received, he went to Mr. Williams, at Ealing, the
landlord of the public-house, and there received a
powder-flask containing gunpowder, and a second
pistol, both of which he also produced. The pistol
appeared to have been recently fired.
Mr. William Williams, the landlord of the Bell Inn,
at Ealing, stated that he knew the prisoner by sight,
and recollected his coming to his house on Thursday
night, the 4th of October. He came into witness's
kitchen between eight and nine o'clock, where witness
was sitting, and took from his pockets two pistols and
a small packet of powder, -which he laidn on
drawer.
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from the drawer again, as it is very improper
to have such things in a room." At that
moment he was called to the bar again, and
in going there he met the officer Reason
in the passage. The officer said, will you allow
me to go into the kitchen, and he replied " Cer-
tainly, by all means." The officer then went in and
arrested the prisoner. On the Sunday following the
officer called again, and he handed to him the second
pistol and packet of powder, which had already been
prod uced.
Mr. Edward Halford, surgeon, of Hammersmith,
the medical attendant of Mr. Monkhouse's family,
stated that on the 4th of October, late in the
evening, he was called i❑ to see Mr.
Monk house. He found him suffering from a
wound in the neck, which seemed to have been produced
by a pistol shot. He continued to attend him, and
for about a fortnig'it Mr. Monkho use was in imminent
danger. The wound was now healed, but Mr. Monk
house was not yet perfectly recovered.
Mr. BEADON asked if the bullet of the second pistol
had been found ?

Mr. Inspector Jecks intimated that it had lodged
in the ceiling of the passage, from which it had not
been extracted.

This was the case against the prisoner.
Mr. BEADON then asked the prisoner if he had
anything to say now that he had heard all the evi-
dence against him, giving him the usual caution that
he was not bound to say anything unless he choose,
but that if he did it would be taken down in writing,
and might be used against him on the trial.
The prisoner made no reply, but Mr. Bird inti-
mated that he would reserve his defence till the trial.

The prisoner was then fully committed to take his
trial at the ensuing Old Bailey sessions, and was
removed in custody of Mr. Inspector Jecks, to whom
great credit is due for the skilful manlier in which the
case was got up.
The court during the investigation was crowded
with most of the respectable inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF TUESDAY.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION FOR A

GENERAL TEIANKSGIVING.

VICTORIA, R.—We, taking into our most serious con-
sideration the indispensable duty which we owe to
Almighty God for the manifold and inestimable
blessings which we and our people have received
at His hands ; and desiring, by prostrating, ourselves
before His Divine Majesty, and offering up in
the most public and solemn manner our praises
and thanksgivings, to manifest to our faithful and
loving subjects, and to the world, our deep and devout
sense of His late mercies in having abated the grievous
disease with which many places in this kingdom have
been lately visited, which mercies have established and
confirmed in us the surest trust and confidence in His
protection and good providence, have thought fit, by the
advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal
Proclamation, hereby appointing and commanding that
a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these His
mercies be observed throughout England and Ireland,
on Thursday, the fifteenth day of November instant;
and we do earnestly exhort that the said Public Day
of Thanksgiving be reverently and devoutly observed
by all our loving subjects in England and Ireland
as they tender the favour of Almighty God. And
for the better wad more orderly solemnizing the same,
we have given directions to the Most Reverend the
Archbishops and the Right Reverend:the Bishops of the
United Church of England and Ireland, to compose a
Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving suitable to the occa-
sion, to be used in all churches and chapels, and other
places of public worship; and to take care for the timely
dispersing of the same throughout their respective
dioceses.
Given at our Court at Windsor, this sixth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, and in the thirteenth
year of our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.
BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION FOR A

GENERAL THANKSGIVING.
VICTORIA, e, taking ir.to our most serious consi-
deration the indispensable duty which we owe to
Almighty God for the manifold and inestimable
blessings which we and our people have received at
His bands; and desiring, by prostrating ourselves
before His Divine Majesty, and offering up in the
most public and solemn manner our praises and thanks-
givings, to manifest to our faithful and loving subjects
and to the world our deep and devout sense of His late
mercies in having abated the grievous disease with which
many places in this kingdom have been lately visited, which
mercies have established and confirmed in us the surest
trust and 'confidence in His protection and good
providence, have thought fit, by the advice of our
Privy Council, to issue this our R.Tal Procla-
mation, hereby appointing and commanding a
General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these
His mercies, to be observed throughout that part of
our kingdom called Scotland, on Tnursday the fifteenth
day of November instant; and we do earnestly exhort
that the said General Thanksgiving be reverently and de-
voutly observed by all our loving subjects in Scotland
as they tender the favour of Almighty God. Our will
is, therefore, and we charge, that this our proelamati,n
seen, ye forthwith proceed to the Market-cross of Edin-
burgh, and all other places needful, and there, in our
name and authority, make publication hereof that none
pretend ignorance : and our will and pleasure is, that
our solicitor do cause printed copies hereof to be
sent to the sheriffs of the several shires, stewarts of
stewartries, and bailiffs of regulities, and their clerks,
whom we ordain to see the same published; and we du
appoint them to send copies thereof to the several
parish churches within their bounds, that, upon the
Lord's Day immediately preceding the day above men-
tioned, the same may be published and read from
the pulpits, immediately after Divine service.
Given at our Court at Windsor, this sixth day of No-
vember in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-nine, and in the thirteenth year of
our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.
At tho Court at Windsor, the 6th day of November,
1849, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council, it is this day ordered by her Majesty in Coun-
cil that the Parliament, which stands prorogued to
Tuesday, ;the twenty-second day of November instant,
be further prorogued to Wednesday, the sixteenth day
of January next.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 31.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Sir James
Duke, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
WAR-OFFICE. Nov. 6.

BREVET.—Captain Richard Johns, of the Royal Ma-
rines, to be Major in the Army, Oct. 19.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 1.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-Gen.James Arm-
strong to be Col.-Commandant, vice Major-Gen. Munro,
d, ceased; Second Captain the lion. George Talbot Deve-
reux to be Adjutant, vice Buchanan, promoted, Oct. 17;
Second Captain Roquier John Cannon to be Adjutant,
vice Mundy, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Aug. 25;
Second Captain Artbur George Burrows to be Adjutant,
vice Gilbert, promoted, Sept. 18, 1848.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Southamptor.
North Hants Militia—Richard Henry Fitzroy Somer-
set, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Oct. 31.