The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven d Clock.

QUEEN'S BENCH;.—(THIS DAY.)
No causes of the slightest public interest were
heard up to the rising of the Court, shortly after four.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

TULLY V. HOFFMAN.

Mr. M. CHAMBERS said, in this case, which was
tried in Surrey at the last assizes, and a verdict found
for the defendant, he, on the part of the plaintiff, had
to move for a rule to show cause why the verdict
should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the
ground of misdirection with respect to the number of
days' demurragelwhich the Lord Chief Baron directed
the jury the plaintiff was entitled to receive. This
was an action for demurrage in respect of a certain
quantity of manganese which had been con-
veyed from Amsterdam to London by a
vessel called The Friends. This vessel was what
is called a general ship, and she was laden
at Amsterdam with a quantity of manganese in the
centre of the vessel, with potatoes at each end, and
with some rushes on the top of the manganese and
potatoes. The bill of lading, with respect to the
manganese, stated that " the goods and merchandize
w ere to be taken out of the said ship in ten running
days after her arrival at the port of London, or 80s.
per day demurrage to be paid." The potatoes were con-
signed to another party, and they were consigned to
Hayes' wharf. The vessel arrived at Black wall on the
21st December, 1848, when her arrival in the port of
London was reported, and on the 22d, at eight in the
morning, she came up to London, and was moored at the
Union pier of the London Docks. As between the con-
signee of the potatoes and the Captain there was
a dispute as to what wharf the vessel should go to,
she had been consigned to Hayes' wharf, but at the
end of five days, by the direction of the assignee of
the potatoes, she went to Beale's wharf. The man-
ganese was not begun to be unladen for three or four
days after that, and was ended on the Bth of January,
eight days after her arrival at the Union pier. The
action was therefore brought for eight days' demur-
rage at 4/. a day. The question was whether the
arrival of the vessel at Hayes' wharf was her arrival
in the port of London within the meaning of the
h irter party.
The COURT unanimously- refused the application.

THE PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK.
COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER.
HA MMERSMITH POLICE COURT.— (THIS DAY.:
Henry Bathurst Monkhouse, the young man charged
with having attempted to murder his own father by
firing a pistol at him, was examined again to-day,
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 Lid
on the table before the magistrate. The centre of the
tie was smeared with clotted blood, and slightly singed
in the Fart where the bullet had passed through.
Mr. Bird, the solicitor of Hammersmith, who is
intimately acquainted with the Monkhouse
a' ten& t 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 pipers,
stating that he had refused to give up a deed intrusted
to him by the prisoner unless he was paid a certain
turn 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 deck, 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 144. 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 High-
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
abut bringing the rent, they resumed their journey,
still stopping at public-houses OR 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
Mr. 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 SE nd in his name, observing, "I will go in and
see 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,
directing him to drive on. Witness asked him
" What as as 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
to settle with him, when he said he wanted to go to
Ealing. Witness replied that he could not go
as 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 him 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 pris mer's bro •
ther 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 a sovereign. 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.
Jehn 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 him, 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 cnce the prisoner rushed forward from the side
of the cabman, nearly knocking her down, and said—
" I am 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
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"fhere !" bounded past her and ran out of the
premises. She ran into the house, where she saw her
master crawling on his hands and knees towards the
parlour with blood upon his throat. &he and her
mistress assisted lahn 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 masters home, 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 Monkhonse, of Chiswick Mall, Chis-
wick, gentleman, the frither of the prisoner, deposed
as follows :—The prisoner is my son. On Thursday
night, the 4th of October, about ten o'clock, I 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.
Monkhowe." Immediately after I heard my son,
the prisoner say, '.I am a Monkhouse," and he rushed
up to where I was standing arel 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-
lege 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 sternomastoideal
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 Inn at Ealing. He
there saw th prisoner, and ask€d 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 he was after and he must go
with him. Witness then took bim 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 lefthand 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 him 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 laid on a table.
Witness took them up and placed them in a drawer.
At that moment some person called from the bar and
witness went to answer the call ; when he returned to
the kitchen the prisoner had a pistol in his hand, and
he said to him, "Do not take these things
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 egain, 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
produced.
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 in to see Mr.
Monkhouse. 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 fortnight 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. BEADO then asked the prisoner if he hail
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 manner in which the
case was got up.
The court during the investigation was crowded
with most of the respectable inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood.