The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-27 00:00:00

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

The inquiries at the Charing-cross Hospital and
at the St. Martin's workhouse, during the
afternoon, have been most unceasing by par-
ties who feared—and frequently more from
fear than from any other circumstance—that their
relatives had either been killed or maimed
by the heart-rending occurrence, and the scene of
the disaster, and every spot which would com-
mand a view of it, was taken possession
of by immense crowds, ho flocked from
all directions—in fact the neighbourhood during the
whole day has worn the appearance of a fair. The
boat has been covered by the tide, and is
now slightly uncovered by its ebbing. Boats
have been busily engaged in dragging for
bodies, for there is a general belief that several have
yet to be found ; for it is quite impossible to esti-
mate whether there are yet fifty or more in the
water. A general opinion prevails that some
bodies will be found in the cabin, which has
been under the water since the moment of the occur-
rence, and as soon as the tide subsides immediate
search will be made. Up to the hour we write, no
more bodies have been found ; but that there are more
in the water, and that they will be found at the extreme
flow kof the tide there seems little doubt. The
sufferers in the hospital are improving ; no serious
result is anticipated. We understand that the unfor-
tunate man Blunt, the watchmaker, was proceeding
to his work in Cornhill when the accident happened.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A young woman, Mary Martha Stenson, attended
before Mr. Arnold to support an adjourned charge
preferred by her upon a previous day against Thomas
Storer, a police-constable of the H division, of com-
mitting an aggravated and indecent assault upon her
person on the night of Sunday, the 15th inst.
Mr. Medlicott, the superintendent of the defendant's
division, was present to hear the case.
The complainant was now accompanied by several
additional witnesses, amongst whom were City Police-
constable 736, who was stated to be prepared to prove
that the young woman Stenson had complained to
him immediately after the occurrence of the gross ill-
usage to which she had been subjected by the defen-
dant ; and also the servant of the premises adjoining
the scene of the alleged outrage, who had been dis-
turbed by the violent barking of a house dog, which
barking, as the complainant stated, was alone the
cause of the defendant releasing her and desisting
from her further molestation.
Upon the case being taken, the defendant, who
was three times called by Tilt, the usher, did not
make his appearance to answer the charge, and In-
spector Harris intimated to the magistrate that in
consequence of the report of the previous proceedings
being laid before the Police Commissioners, the con-
stable had not only been suspended until the result
of the investigation had transpired, but had received
express orders to attend the court at two o'clock that
day, and had not done so, and he (Mr. Harris) had
now no reason to expect that he would attend.
Mr. ARNOLD said, that under these circumstances
he should order the complainant's statement to be
taken down in the shape of an information, and issue
a warrant for the defendant's apprehension.
A powerful fellow, named Alfred Scovell, was
charged with having broken into the dwelling-house
of Mrs. Elizabeth Webber, in Old Gloucester-street,
Haggerstone, and stolen a large quantity of property.
Shortly before one o'clock that morning, as a pri-
vate watchman, named Pink, was passing at the rear
of the prosecutrix's premises, he observed a man sud-
denly vault over the garden wall. He communicated
what he had seen to a police-constable, N 229, who
searched about, and having discovered a large bundle
at the foot of the wall, secreted himself in an adjoin-
ing outhouse, and after watching there for a few mi-
nutes saw the prisoner stealthily advancing towards
the bundle, and immediately pounced upon and se-
cured him. Ile conveyed the prisoner to the station,
where the bundle was found to contain a quantity of
expensive female wearing apparel, and, on searching
the prisoner, a trinket box, two pairs of bracelets, and
numerous other articles were found in his possession.
The policeman then returned to the house, and found
that the lower part of it had been thoroughly ran-
sacked, and all the portable articles of furniture, from
the chimney glass and beds down to the very fire
irons, separately packed up and placed in readiness
for removal.
Mrs. Webber stated that she left home at nine
o'clock in the evening, and on her return, about one
o'clock in the morning, she found the back parlour
window had been forced open, and the lower apart-
ments in the disordered state described by the officers.
She identified the several articles produced as being
her property, and safe in her house when she left
home at the hour mentioned.
The MAGISTRATE directed the depositions of the
witnesses to be at once taken by Mr. Vine, the chief
clerk, and the prisoner, who reserved his defence,
was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
CLERKEN WELL.
Yesterday Hear% Scobell, aged 24, a journeyman
carpenter, was charged by Louisa Bradford, a young
woman residing at No. 2, Wheatsheaf-court, St.
Pancras, with having stabbed her with intent to
murder.
The prosecutrix, having been sworn, said she was
a single woman. She occupied a parlour in the
house No. 2, Wheatsheaf-court, St. Pancras. On
the night of last Saturday three weeks, about twelve
o'clock, she met the prisoner on Pentonville-hill, and
entered into conversation with him. He accompanied
her to her lodgings, and remained with her for soisie
time, when they quarrelled in reference to some
money. The prisoner struck her a violent
blow on the head, knocked her down,
and otherwise ill-used her, and stabbed her
with some weapon, on which he rushed out
of her apartment, locked the door, and ran away,
leaving her bleeding. Her cries of " Murder
brought the assistance of a young man, a lodger in
the upper part of the house, who finding the door
locked, got in at the window. When the prisoner
stabbed her he said, " There, I have done you, and I
will do it again." She never saw the prisoner after-
wards until Wednesday night at twelve o'clock when
she met him in Pentonville-road, and gave into cus-
tody on the charge of stabbing her. He then said he
had done it, and he would do it again.
By the BENCH—I believe he stabbed me with some
metal instrument. I am sure it was done by the
prisoner's hand, and not by falling against anything.
Asked him for the key of the room, and he said he
would stick to it.
John Turner, the lodger, said he lived in the upper
part of the house, 2, Wheatsheaf-court, St. Pancras.
On the above morning, between one and two o'clock,
he was in bed, when he was alarmed by the cries of
"Murder." He went down stairs, and knocked at
the door of the prosecutrix's room. The prisoner,
who was inside, said, " What do you want ?" Wit-
ness inquired why he had been ill-using the woman ?
He replied, " You had better get a light and see."
I returned to my room to get a light and dress my-
self, and when I went back again I found her covered
with blood. The prisoner rushed out and locked the
door.
By Mr. TYRWRITT--When I went to the room on
the first alarm of murder, the prosecutrix said, " The
beast has cut and stabbed me."
Police-constable 73 N deposed that on Wednesday
night, at twelve o'clock, he was on duty on Penton-
ville-hill, when the prosecutrix was looking fbr a
policeman, and the prisoner was about a dozen yards
from her. Heard him say to another woman, "Never
mind, I can soon run away from the policeman. The
prosecutrix said, "I give this man in charge for stab-
bing me." The prisoner said, " I did it, and I will
do it again." She said she had given information
to
the police of the E division. He said he had done it,
and would do it again, several times on his way to the
station-house. He was searched, and a clasp knife
(now produced) with the point broken was found in
his pocket.
Mr. Delany, surgeon, of Chalton-street, Somers-
town, deposed that on Saturday, the 14th instant, the
prosecutrix came to him, when he examined her and
found a circular wound near the thigh three-quarters
of an inch in circumference, and so large that it had
the appearance of something having been turned
round in it ; and in his judgment it must have
been inflicted by some weapon of metal pushed in
with force.
Mr. TYRWIIITT now intimated to the prisoner that
the evidence was concluded, and the time had arrived
for him, if he thought proper, to say anything in his
defence, but he would caution him that he was not
bound to say anything ; if he did, it would be written
down and used for or against him at his trial at the
Old Bailey, where he would be committed to take
his trial.

The prisoner, a tall, raw-boned, sullen 100",
better a°'
fellow, said, indifferently—" Then I had
say nything."
He was then fully committed for trial, fina the
parties were bound over to prosecute. r
LAMBETH.
Yesterday Thomas Fo.,ter, alias Chitty, JAI'
Taylor, Charles Smith, and Eliza Eaton, alias Fitz'
gerald, were again placed at the bar before 3,11'•
Elliot, the three former on suspicion of breaking irlit°
the dwelling-house of Mr. William Strange, a tailor
and draper, at Tunbridge-Wells, and stealing the!'
from superfine cloth to the amount of upwards of 701.;
and the latter with receiving a portion of the stolen
property with a guilty knowledge.
and
In addition to the evidence already given/
which appeared in The Sun of Tuesday,
Mr. Strange, the prosecutor, deposed that on !Jet
evening of that day week, at about half-past or
o'clock, he closed his shop, and on leaving the thee,Pllce
locked the door after him, and went to spend
evening with a friend. On returning at about 0°
o'clock in the morning, he discovered that his Shop
door had been forced open, and the sho clearedp 0,
cloth of the value of about 701. He heard nothing 0
'
'eves or his property until Saturday raorai°!:
the th
when he proceeded to the railway station at Tub
bridge, and there saw a portion of his cloth Pac'e
upc in a hamper, which was directed street," New'Gf?
. Chitty, 2, Arnold's Paragon, Frances- cv
ington. The cloth he then saw was the seine 11401.
produced, and was of the value of from 301. to
.(r.
In reply to the questions of the magistrate,sSes
Strange said that he left no person in his house„ 'ori
he went out, as before stated, and that the Pr"°
were all perfect strangers to him. s nia•
Mrs. Mary Ann Webb, the wife of a baskew -
ker at Tunbridge Wells, said,- that on Saturdl
morning last a man came into her husband's Or;
and purchased a hamper, in which he packed 61,
brown paper parcels, and had it removed to the ra:or
way station. That man she had not since seen,
was he then in court. Extern
was
Isaac Hubbard, a porter at the South
.Railway terminus, deposed, that on Moo
daY tileh
ins he went to the house, No. 2, Arnold's arahefe:
with a hamper, directed to " George Chitty to his
stThet. female prisoner opened the door, aild on for
ma stating that he had a hamper which carne 131,r; feel
i .r. Chitty, she replied that it
the
all rig"
ace
paid him the amount of the carriage' a
se,
itt en told her he wanted his book signed as a and
shnovvledgement of the receipt of the hamPer'yos-
tse took it into the parlour whereby he prisoner 0 G.
r was in bed, and brought it ck, sighed'
Chitty." and
Mr. ELLIOTT remanded the female prisoner,
_„ v.'d
smith
F oster for another week, and discharged
Taylor. ..-e ntaer•
On the application of Mr. Games and gr. 11_4%00
the Magistrate agreed to accept bail for the P'4- an
appearance on a future day, themselves in Ov •
two sureties in 100/. each.
Yesterday JosiVepEhBl li
Saunders,lSTEttfl. rietcr'
cab 1)1* hog
produced one of his men to answer the c haj
of careless driving, whereby considerable (101 of
been done to a clarence and horse, the proPerje/en's
Thomas Trindar, a livery stable keeper at St.
Wood.
nLeoaTrrdhteAh a nee °f
caseb
n.iabgaisdtrbaeteen. adjourned for the atten a
sest
Inger, who was accommodated with °
nd two
Thomas West, the driver of the clarence' a oted
other witnesses, who said they were linaccluloce on
with either party, stated :—At about eight o'icist was
the evening of the 28th of June, whichm 1-1 e 100
drivingd a pair-horse clarence, in l-1
die,
an a gentleman were seated, near I.3ucknc,lla_"`Ziet
when the collision which gave rise to the comp the
occurred. He was within seven or eight yards °yip
gate, about to enter the park, when defendat ON
wasat on the wrong side, suddenly came out oftd broke
it litnrapid pace, caught the end of his pole, and down,
d three pieces, knocked his near side hceeiae
loft
anddamaged the harness and splinter
of
.defendant's cab which struck they orse, %Iced
juredlit severely. The whole of the tnesse9 care
driving
hour,
thatfll Vest was on his proper side, was
at the rate of from seven to eight miles an de
bar. ..I._iso in,
thnatythe defendant was going at a faster pacer one
scribing it as 10 or 11 miles an hour, and the Jr
bad the
of them agreed in their statement, that., lie iffite•
fendant drawn on his own side on leaving '
the collision would not have taken PlaCe. 0 f theca Wits
Mr. Burnes, in his cross-examination t
nesses, elicited from West that he did not
see for
bi
until it came upon him, which he hisaccounteuc yielf•
stating that the lodge at the gate hid it f P
t° Protn reen
e other witnesses said West pulled 11
the collision when he saw the cab coming' was
Evidence was given to show that t e . ie e
h how a •
indentworth 10/. less in conseqence of the iniuries'eeteri.
naryL togethereoirsadurreAgonfebeo7tnuhinederhhaae‘rn, se s
with incurred
ahou
ti nae. a Ifloi
rn gai silin 0g c t °
the
meet of the occurrence, :which haddraw° °lift.
weakiatie. ly afterwards, was, by the t 0
b!weeahnhiedshy4h,oern. written Alt;
Tr g, put in as evidence and read.
Tmehodsetaratetempeaucte,was as follows : °coding
and
waes,cabriolet in which I was riding was Er tee gte_i
tart‘i!,‘
ack for those who wuphpoeadarrneivddebad just got thretig" ad OP'
ren c e , with tyro
cab that the pole entered the left window, strict throvt
roof, and broke. The shock was so great 0
~ of the
apwn the horses of the clarence. The coachlootio'll pia'
aclarence certainly endeavoured to pull up, "Leif ill tbet
ti ally succeeded. I believe he thought' hill'? ,i 0 ths
the
until some of the bystanders rernde9 .
true; °
,thee.e.abriolet was on the wrong side. This is a i„ 031
cnabnmi 00 the
judgment the accident was not fairly chargeablea_ who
himself was equally on the wrong side, an
if upon anybody, upon the
at too rapid a pace; for it should be obs!r ogo
carriage which may be coaling
ctthhaeomsee who drive into that gate should go slowlp
_.,";11 00
seen until quite close to the gate, and the c
bc'yollited the
cabs; tt
to
carria
that or coming
the enterin carriage. If the gate were r rasto
out is necessarily 111: treca:llrnerla°C'reutb:
as to face rather moreg towards the Palace, it would leave
accidentsto of the kind less probable. intehdillstaateineacti
0.. ndon to-day, I have given the cabman
the °I
myrtam opinion that he ought not to bear te„, upon. „
I_ ready to affirm it elsewhere when calm'', the co.
should add, that some of the bystanders satoia, ear,"
grave
-place,
which made me observe hi° P'-scls )6e'r
titularly during the remainder of his drive to:1,7; eire
could
sober.perceive nothing of the sort, and ..,„„TG
and in a short conversatilerliev'e beiri
66 As.p.l--
" June 30th." 11 W3l‘e'
_. His Lordship, in cross-examination by rat secell
ling, said, that the cabman was only Ping roaa 65
miles an hour. He was in the middle of the iv en'
hed came out of the gate. If the calo3o aide 111'4
Leoarydosuhriepdwtous dnroatw more towards his °yr' colliej°l3
might have been prevented.prepared to
Had
thheatraiatt?aornifighiaeg.
Trhoong side, it might, from the position of toe -11- the cab
driver of the ciarence came so rapidlY urieentere,
taht his Lordship could not move before the P°,,,,,e9 inec,:
thetablcearriage, although he saw that a collon when ha
The driver of the clarence pulled 111) e was 5°
saw a. concussion must take place, but his Pace 0 5°
great that he could not prevent it. Oa pace Nay'
°fa'
rapid that the cabman could not get out c'
nee cani-
B_ooth were on the wrong side, and the dale. It 'l'l
td wn on the cab obliquely from the left side _ hiec
hat sort of accident in which neither driver Was
to blame. after
i IY, to
t Mr. BURRELL said that he could not posa-,boself,
he evidence of Lord Abinger, take upon ': Pi'
say that the fault was on- the Cabillan'S side A
therefore dismissed the complaint. P
iia 26'<,,e6
ROYAL ARTILLERY.--WooLwior, A-,--,;,,, ser•-• ~
considerable augmentation of this branch of the will la•
is about to take place ; an additional ecleatnober 013,1
attached to each of the ten battalions 3ke the the
and another in April, 1848, which wilesrasiuring the '-0
of battalions and companies the sam c, strong I
war, although each company will pot be 5 outer
.: Also de
number as it was at that period. It " cadets Poi
plated, when a sufficient number of gentlenlelif
.1. the Vbe
passed for officers, to increase the strengo.
r°lions, 60
Regiment of Artillery, by adding two hs" being -;
denominated the eleventh and twefth, ther.e,otieno a
many artillerymen required for the new fortin
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home stations and in the colonies.
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On the 7th ininsntsit,o.sa,ht
a,Mo V Hall
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Diec'
theo Mackintosh,
BIRTffS. , ~ grit.
i n too_snh ,hous ,
Place, Lime
of W. W. Johnson, Es of d liter, horn. f Brent
On the 22d inst.
On the 21st inst., q" a aug
Egg"
°
the lady of Thomas Haig,
, a c
Ea uxgthont
park,
ford, Middlesex of dt of
w-a
astoenr
1.
0,0
..1 n v e rn Os s u 1 L,-,
se,
the
wife
Rutland,the Lad}
Agnew, of of the
a daughter.
On the 22d inst.,Esq.,
—,
utose, Salisbur or the
Y., . a son.
On the 23d IV braond Surrey,
inst., at Sion Lodge, tc '
wife of • •
Ito
William Napier, ' f
Esq o a son. ifs Of 5..-
On the 23d inst., . " in Berkeley-square, the Iv
Richard Howard, Esq., of a daughter.
On MARRIED. be flair.
the 26th inst., at St. Peter's, Walworth, by tiviiiiaul
Geor •
ge Ainslie, Frderick Thomas, second son of v,„4a,
K. Cowley, Esq., Coast LI" f
R.N., late Secretary of the f,co 0
to Louisa Emily, second ITh as Body,
, daughter o Thomas
Walworth. lt Wbistler,
On the 24th inst., at Isleworth, Middlesex, L.-e.,• DI r.
of the Strand, to Mary Ann,
eldest daughter of P'l..
well, of Islewortli.
('WO
DIED.
On the Sth of June, at the Residency, Lahore, ''
Frederick Cost, 51st Native Infantry. sr a tsglie
On the 16th of June last, at Calcutta, John °ll bat,
Ruddach, only son of the late Dr. Ruddach, of Montego-
Jamiaca. or,
On the 24th inst., at Royal terrace, Ramsgate, 'T°l3ll
Cundy, Esq., aged 62. lc')
On the 24th inst., islr. Richard Torr, of the mai
Works, Lower-road, Deptford, aged 62.

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