The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-05 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 5, 1849

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Two inhabitants, residing in London-wall, entered the
court, and in the midst of the business addeessed Sir P.
Laurie in an agitated manner, and wished for his inter-
ference to cause the removal of a coffin which was under-
stood to contain the body of a person who had died of
cholera in the churchyard of St. Alphage, in Philip -
lane, London-wall. They stated that the coffin had been
brought there and laid upon the ground with the lid off,
there being no grave in the churchyard at the time, and
it being understood that it had been removed to that
place by order of the coroner of London, merely that it
might be viewed by the gentlemen composing the coro-
ner's jury.
One of the innabitants said one of his children was
now ill, And he did not know how it might aggravate the
disease. The people were looking out of several win-
dows that commanded a view of the churchyard. How
long it might lay there he did not know, it something
were not done to abate the nuisance.
Sir P. LAURIE said the public mind was fed by the
newspapers with accounts of cholera, and it frightened
them into it by hundreds. Ile should order ltoe the 11
officer of the court to go and see the churchyard and re-
port
as to the facts stated.
On the return of Mr. Roe, he said that from the
first and second floors of the houses close to the
churchyard the coffin could
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in the churchyard, it might have been taken into the
church.
Mr. M‘Lellan, one of the churchwardens, said that
application had been made to him to allow the body
to be placed in the churchyard, but he positively re-
fused, but having occasion to go out on business, he
handed the keys and communicated his views to his
brother churchwarden. During his absence the ward
beadle repeated the application in such a way that the
churchwarden felt bound to obey the coroner, and gave
up the keys.
Sir P. LAURIE asked why an inquest was being held
on the body?
Mr. M'Lellan explained that in going round to in-
quire from house to house the health of the parish, he
found a woman was dead whose sickness he had not
heard anything of. Finding the shutters were not open
as usual on Sunday, some children had pulled them
open, and seen the body. As it was known her hus-
band was entitled to 16/. from his club, the neighbours
were greatly excited, suspecting the poor woman
might havb been murdered. As this information was
being given to him, the man came walking up the court
with a pipe in his mouth, as unconcerned as if nothing
had happened.
Sir P. LAURIE then said he had no doubt this was a
proper case for inquiry, and observed that with respect
to these house-to-house visitations, it did more harm
than good, as it continually reminded the tenants of the
pestilence that was going abroad, and whatever trifling
indisposition betel them, they were reminded that it
might be the cholera. In the district where he lived
the medical officer bad declined to visit from house to
house, believing that the alarm might create more mis-
chief than the knowledge of cases of sickness could do
good. In ordinary times an inquiry of "Is anybody
sick in this house?" would be harmless enough, but the
people now were in such a state of excitement that it
must be mischievous. He wished to know when the
inquest would be held and the body removed?
Mr. M'Lellan said the inquest was then assembled.
The jury had viewed the body in the open yard, being
afraid to enter the room where the death had occurred.
Sir P. LAURIE said he did not see that he could inter-
fere with the coroner to any purpose, as the inquest
would soon be over and the body removed; but he should
like the churchwarden to assure him such was the fact
as soon as the jury gave their verdict.
In about half an hour afterwards Mr. M'Lellan re-
turned to say that the jury had given a verdict of death
by cholera, and that the body had been instantly re-
moved to the Golden-lane burial ground to remain until
a grave could be dug.
One of the applicants said that tLe terror of the dis-
ease tended much to produce mischief, for his servant,
who had been looking out of an upper window, had sup-
posed she had caught the infection, and was then seriously
ill, as was likewise his son. When the ward beadle was
spoken to, he became very pompous and self-opiniated
on the subject.
Sir P. LAURIR—SO they are all by virtue of their
office.—(Laughter.)
Mr. M'Lellan said he was exceedingly sorry his bro-
ther churchwarden parted with the keys at all.
The two applicants having thanked Sir P. Laurie for
his prompt attenti,in to their case, then retired.
WEST:MINSTEII.
Edward Rees Sitzenich, late a clerk in the establish-
ment of Messrs. Mare, upholsterers and house agents,
21, Lower Belgrave-place, was brought up for re-exa-
mination, charged with embezzling upwards of 4001., re-
ceived by him in the transaction of their business.
Mr. Ballantine attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Humphreys for the prisoner.
The circumstances of the case, in which there were
three distinct charges proceeded with against the pri-
soner, are briefly these :—The accused entered the ser-
dvinctey fp
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department, see those who wished to let or take houses,s
receive the money from the residents, and account fur it
to the firm. The Messrs. Mare let a house belonging
to a gentleman named Fletcher, of Manor-house, Esher,
to a Mr. Harris, upon a written agreement drawn by the
prisoner for 3001., which was paid in three instalments,
Mr. Harris handing the prisoner a cheque for 100/. at the
time of signing the agreement in March, it being his
wish to pay that sum before taking possession, a second
and like amount on the 13th of July, and a correspond-
ing sum on tho 17th of August, in anticipation of the
instalment due in September (the present month). Tne
first of these amounts the prisoner handed over to Mr.
Fletcher, but never accounted to either of the Messrs.
Mare nor the owner of the house for the other two sums.
In the third charge against the accused, his em-
ployers had let a house belonging to the Hon. Adolphus
Liddell to a lady named Burgoyne for 420 guineas, the
term of occupancy being from the 20th of February to
the end of last July. In May the prisoner handed over
to Mr. Liddell the first moiety of the amount agreed
upon, deducting the commission for agency ; and sub-
sequently, at the expiration of the term, wrote to Messrs
Mare, requesting them to receive the residue, 2201. 10s.
The prisoner both wrote on the 9th of August and
waited upon Mr. Liddell on Wednesday fortnight, on
both of which occasions he denied that he had received
the money, alleging in the letter that Mrs. Burgoyne
had been too ill to attend to business matters. Mr.
Liddell wrote to the lady, and it was then ascertained
that Mrs. Burgoyne's butler had paid Edgar Reader, a
junior clerk in Messrs. Mare's firm, the second 2201. 10s.
on the 29th of July, which he had handed over to the
prisoner, who, in writing the letters to Mr. Liddell, had
done so without the knowledge or authority of his em-
ployers, whose names be signed.
Mr. Ballantine having called two witnesses to prove
that the two last cheques of Mr. Harris and Mrs. Burgoyne
had been severally paid into the banker's upon which
they were drawn, asked for the committal of the prisoner
for trial, at the same time observing that he felt it his
duty to state that there were two other cases against the
prisoners, and that in the event of proceeding with them,
he would give Mr. Humphreys four or five days' notice.
The witnesses in attendance were then bound over to
prosecute the prisoner at the Central Criminal Court,
but as there were two, whose evidence had been pre-
viously taken, absent, it was arranged that the prisoner
should be remanded from time to time, until the 17th, on
which day it is expected that the absent witnesses will
be able to attend to sign their depositions, and be bound
over to prosecute.
Bail, upon the application of Mr. Humphreys, was
refused.

4aßn/...13te0d RbOurUgrarH,
John Veal,M
escapedwho lately
the Middlesex Hospital, where he had been confined in
consequence of a serious accident which he ieust'ained
when attempting to escape from from
the police about ten
days ago, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, having
been retaken by the police yesterday morning. The
prisoner, it will be recollected, was detected, with a com-
panion, on the top of some houses in Argyll-street. The
prisoner made his way over the tops of the houses, and
entered a house, from which he leaped, and seriously
injured the bones of one of his feet. His companion fell
from the roof of a house, and was killed on the spot.
The prisoner, it appeared, contrived to elude the vigilance
of the constable who had charge of him in the hospital,
and secreted himself for several days with success.
Police-Inspector Whall and Police-Sergeant Gray ob-
tained a clue to his hiding place, in Corbet-place, Brick.
lane, and making their way into the house by the back
premises, in order to avoid an attack from a large and
ferocious bull-dog kept in the passage, they took the
prisoner as he was lying in bed, playing a game of
cards with one of his companions. The prisoner was
remanded till Saturday, and removed for the present to
the infirmary.

1 THE CHOLERA. AT SEA.—Tne ship Sheridan,
Captain Cornish, arrived ut Quarantine from Liverpool.
She lost 31 of her steerage passengers and seamen by
cholera. The following are their names:—Mr. Sim-
mons, of New York, second officer of the ship; J. An-
derson, of Liverpool, carpenter of ditto; William Ogden,
seaman, of Liverpool; Frank Conklin, ditto, of Rouen,
France; Walter Riley, ditto, of Weatherfield, Connecti-
cut; George Simmons, ditto, of Dantzic. Steerage pas-
sengers—John Grimes, of Sligo; Frank and Ellen Dal-
ton, of ditto; W. Hollyridge, and Martha, his wife (who
have left four children on board the ship, without rela-
tives or friends); m
' Mary, Catharine, Sarah, and Charles
Barnes, of Craxton, England (all of the same family,
and the mother is on board); John Mickleworth, of
Leeds, England; Sarah Pratt, of Oxford, Ireland ; John
and Edward Richards, of Leeds, England; Catherine
Doyle, of Ireland; Michael Breene, of Tipperary ;'James
and Richard Smith, of Ireland; Martha Farrell, of
Longford; William and Dorothea Uhlman, of Cornwall,
England; Sarah and Morris and Edward Lloyd (mother
and two children), of Kidderminater, England ; lohn
Shannon, of Rosscommon, Ireland ; (Joseph Kavanah,
of Dublin, fell overboard and was drowned). C.tptain
Cornish had a very serious and trying time the first
week out. The cholera broke out among the crew on the
7th of August; for the first eight days there were from
eight to ten new cases, and from three to five deaths
daily for eight days iu succession. Out of 22 seamen,
only four could be mustered in a watch. 80 caves and
31 deaths occured since the ship sailed. All that could
be done was done by Captain Cornish and his officers
for the sick. Several were ill when she reached Staten
Island; they were taken to the hospital. The vessel has
been detained at Quarantine.—New York Herald.
The shipwrights who struck work in Shields some
time ago, in consequence of an attempt on the part of
their employers to reduce their wages, persist in refus-
ing to submit to the proposed reduction, and the most of
them have been set on again at their former rate of
wages.—Newcastle Journal.

MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN,

AND SUICIDE, BY A FATHER.
On Monday morning, about half-past eleven, a most
fearful tragedy took place at East-street, Ipswich, when
a man named Grayson, murdered three of his male
children, of the respective ages of four years, three years,
and eight months old, by cutting their throats with a
razor, and afterwards cutting his own throat with the
same instrument. An inquest upon the bodies vi as held
in the afternoon at the Dove Inn, when it appeared, by
the testimony adduced, that the father was a painter by
trade, about thirty-three years old, and had been mar-
ried nearly tea years, the fruit of his marriage being
seven children. He was always kind to his wife, loud
of his children, and of particularly temperate habits.
During the last five or six weeks, however, his appetite
fail, d him, and he frequently exhibited a strong tendency
to despondency, arising from the cares of his large
family, whom he seemed to apprehend he should not
be able properly to bring up. Latterly he suffered from
acute pains in his head, producing lowness of spirits, and
he sometimes was heard to say I shall never live to get
through any troubles." On Sunday he retired to bed, and
appeared to sleep as usual ; but after breakfast yester-
day cotnplaieed to his wife that he telt very languid and
faint. Shortly after eleven o'clock Mrs. Grayson went
shopping into the town, leaving her husband and children
in the house; but she had not been absent more that
halt an hour when she heard the an ful risings of what
had occurred. As soon as she returned the shocking
spectacle presented itself of the four bodies lying on the
ground in the front roon, with their throats cut; all dead
—a razor lying between i.er husband's legs. It appears
that no sooner had his wife left ail house than the Lill-
fortunate MAU said to the three deceased children, who
were playing in the room, " Come to me here and play
in the front room, and I will give you a halfpenny each."
This observation was heard by his daughter Emma,
aged eight, who wns washing up plates in the adjoining
kitchen, and she in consequence left the kitchen and
stood at the back door, where she saw her father take
the babe in his arms and carry him into the front room,
the other two children following. She then returned
to the washhouse, but in a few minutes went into the
front room, when she beheld her father and three
brothers lying dead on the carpet. An alarm was given,
and surgical assistance instantly procured, bur, of eourse,
it was ineffectual. After a lengthened examination of
several witnesses. the jury returned a verdict, that Gray-
son had cut the throats of Arthur, Walter, Frederick,
and his own, while in a state of temporary derangement.