The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-28 00:00:00

IVENIN

EnirriON.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAN SION-HOUSE.
Alderman GIBBS having appointed yeaterday for an ir—
quiry into the case of fraud, stated by Mr. Chilton, in th.
purchase of a bay mare in Smithfield market, a great
number of persons attended. Besides Alderman Gibbs
who presided, there were present Aldermen Lucas, Lath-
am, Sir George Carrol, and Jolla Johnson, and lliput
Hicks, the Chairman of the Markets Committee. The
proprietor of the Bull's Head public-,one', in ::>mithacid.
at poor man, who appeared to be d,,ai.ply afflicted witi,
paralysis, and his son-in-law, Thomas Trifles, attend::d for
the purpose of being questiiyi.'d as to the knowledge they
had of the payment made by Mr. Chilori to the fdloa
naraed Brown, wh - Id the glandered mare, and the re-
commendatory terms in 'whi:h they had spotten of the
ckaunter.
Alderman Gunn asked whether Mr. Chilton had made
any search after Brown or any of the parties who applied
to him to dispose of the :care upon the assuranee that At..
was glaudered?
Mr. Chilton replied that be could learn nothing o:
them. He then, at the desire of the Atderinan, repcateo
his statement as to what had taken place in too public-
house, where he stated Thomas Trillei particularly ob-
served what was going forriard, and recommended Brown
as a respectable into, with whom he might properly hive
dealings. In the pi eaenee of Triltee he paid the Mi. for
the mare, but he solemnly declared that if the recommen-
dation had not been given, he would not have parted with
his money. Ile considered that a person who kept a
licensed publie•housc is the city was a suMeient guarantee
for the character of a seller on an occasion of the kind.
The landlord declared, and the Alderman did not doubt
his assertion, that he remembered nothing of the transac-
tion, and that a number of those dealers frequently called
at his house, but of their dealings he knew nothing.
Trilles denied that he had at all recommen.ied the man
named Brown. He had, he said, told Mr. Chilton that he
knew the man who cam© into the house with him, and so
he did; but all he knew was that the man paid for what
he Bailed for; and so far w s an honest man ; and that
was all he tad to do with the business.
Alderman Lucie.—The complainant swears that le
would not have paid the money for the mart' if you had nr t
told him that you knew the seller Brown to be a respect-
able man.
Trilles—l don't know whether his name 's Whit', or
Black, or Brown; and I know and said nothi. g hut that
merely knew him,
Mr. Chilton—You saw me hand over t,- him, in eonsr.
(pence of therecommendation you gave him, as the bar a
lot note ands al. note.
Alderman GIBBS—Pray what are you, Mr. Trines?
Trilles—l assist my tather-in law i his bar on Mon-
days and Suurdays, for he is pare ytk.
Alderman GIBBS—And you think that such a mode of
recommeading people is creditable to your character ?
Trillet—l only said I knew him, aid so I did lam not
°bilged to say that every man who comes in to take a
glass of gill is a ad.:S. I don't know that I did ant thing
tvronf4.. (spoke of the man as I found him, and that's au
.1 know.
Mr Chilt,-.nsa'd be had aseert&ne ti-at there were 18
or irnpostors of. this P',escriptio in Soi hfirld as a gang,
and 'hey rnan4g.d to evade detection 14 frig..nious ma.
nceayt.7ng of the deepest kind.
Triilea repeated, that all the knowledge he had of the
borne-d.!si,Ja who dealt at his fat.er-in-law's house was,
that they vaid for what they had.
Alderman Gives—l advise Mr. Chilton to endeavour to
ettaia the, papers of the parties who followed him after he
had purehas,:`l the mare, and also to endeletur to get hold
et fir.,;471. if he succeed, we shall see a hest as indict-
Mtn w;11 dc. As foe the conduct of the landlord's sou-
ia-latv, it will be a matter for corlidercion whether a
house aNilieb. such a transaction occurred w:11 again be

Tbe p trtics &elk 1:71t the th' Alderman
1",17 .sti%)rigly ifilles to iissist Mr. C'uilteri m
prQsteuting tn..;

BU TV- cTREI.c: T'.
MADER OF LOIID WILLIAet
Yesterday being fixed for the reading over te.
of the witneeees who had given evidence against Coe.
the street fronting the office was crowded at an early hour.
the aceival of the van from Westminster Bridewell at ten
o'c:oek, there must have Vet at least 2,000 people present, but
owieg to the e:tert:ons of the police, eho are entitled to the
highest praise for their firmness and urbanity,. not the slightest
disorder occurred. The prisoner, on his arrival at the office,
appeared in much better spirits than he had done on previous
occasiene. She by before one o'cicek, the night charges having
been ilispereed of, Mr. Hall took his seat on the bench, which
was occupied by persons of distinction, amongst whom were
zeviral lath s. fite bogy of the Court. was also crowded.
At one o'clock :sir. Flower, the solicitor for the prisoner, en-
tentel the office and took his seat at. the table appropriated to
il-teprofessional gentlemen; he was followed by Mr. Nobler,
the solicitor for the prosecution, accompanied by Mr. IVing, the
solicitor to the Jake of Bedford and shortly after,
Feeneeie Benja;nie Co2trzotsler was !,laced at the bar. He
looked in better health than on Saturday, and bowed to the
Court ;.4 he entered. He appeared perfectly calm and firm,
awl lees anxious than on former occasions. The following ad-
ditional evidence vae then gone into

• RU SS EL
%.1 deposL. ikons
—rvoisier,

Lady Sarah Haillie, wife of C. N Balite, residing at Himp-
ton. Court, said—l knew the late Lord William Ru-sell; he
married my eldest sister. He came to see me at Hampton
Court isst Easter Sunday-. as& gave me a letter to read, which
he too& from the lett hand pocket of his cnat. He took it out of
hial case , which was abrowrisilk one, and from lys letter-case
there feli a small which remained on my table while hia
T...c.richit-we;.4 to the afternoon chapel. On his return from
the chapel I retarned him his locket, which 1 believe he put
into:be side-pocket of nis coat, but he did not put it into the
ease.. lie Lordship some time afterwards wrote to me to in-
quire if hc had lett the locket on my table. I caused a search
to be made, 41:Iti replied that I thought his Lordship would find
that. 1!:.• hal put it in the pocket of his coat after he had dropped
It. I never saw his Lordship after. I believe that the smaller
locket of the two produced is the one that was dropped at my
apartmems by hiyLordship. The hair in that locket was tied
svith blue silk.

Cross-examined by Mr. Flower—l never saw the other locket
in lily life.

Mr. Beet sugeeeted that perhaps it would be a convenience
to the medical mon, if their depositions were read over.
This euegestion having been acceded to, the evidence
of Mr. Ehgood was read over, and the wit tie.s, in addition to
his former deposition, stated in answer to questions from Mr.
Hall, that his Lordship's shirt collar was not cut, and it Yeas ,
open ; that the wound was from left to right, and had been
inflicted by the right hand.
Sarah ilancell, the housemaid, in addition to her former
deposition, stated in answer to Mr. Hall, that on the Tuesday '
night Care. .lett the house with the prisoner, when he went to
take the letter the first time to the stables, and did not after-
wards return. She also stated, in answer to Mr. Hall, that
-when she went into Lord W. Russell's bed-goons fir the first
time oe Wednesday, 10 lowing the prisoner, and calling out
" My Lo, d, my Lard," to which the prisoner then replied, .• there
Ile is;" the' the prisoner had not previously said anything, or
enade any exclamation on entering the room. 'f he words, " there
Ise is," were all that the prisoner said, and he uttered this wnile
he was opening the shutters. She also stated that when the
-valet came from Richnunel to London, on 22.1 April, the pri-
soner said that his Lordship hid lost a little locket while he was
at Richmond. Prisoner said he could not find :t, nor did he
know how it was lost. The prisonee was sometimes in the
habit of having a fire in the pantry. There was no fire there
un the Monday before the murder. and the cook had cleaned
the place up on the Tuesday morning. Prisoner was up before
the witness, and on her coining down stairs she observed he had
a large. fire in the pantry. She said, " Why have, you got sot h
a large fire ?" and he said, " I thought I would burn the rub-
bish up." Witness locked into the pantry on Tuesday evening
when she went to-bed, and the lire was out. She did
not take any notice of the fireplace in the pantry on
the Wednesday, and cannot say if there were any ap-
warances of anything having been burnt. The. e is a
door leatline' from the attic staircase from Lard William's
bed-room. When that door is closed, what is going on below
earinnt be heard. On Wednesday morning the door was slightly
open. You could not hear a person with light shoes walking
about below if the attic bed-room doers were shut. The door
'wee tot a spring door, and did net make much noise. She did
not hear any noise from the door on the night of the murder.
(Mr. Hobler handed two small spoons to witness—one a salt
tad the other a tea-spoon--which she identified as his Lord-
ship's property.) She found them on the Thursday after the
murder. in the prisoner's pantry, in a cupboard on the left
hand side. The crest on one of them is nearly rubbed
out. Cannot sal' whether it is by wear or not. Inspec-
tor Pearce was just at the pantry door, and the cook
.was in the pantry when she found the spoons. She had
seen rate previously in the same press. She has seen the
Joceei now produced frequently in his Lordship's possession.
The last time she saw it was on the Tuesday before he went to
Riche:mate the i4th April. There was hair in it, bound with
blue silk. ShAI never recollects seeine the other locket produced.
eVttness bad a glees of ale on the Tuesday night about three-
quarters of an hour before I went to bed. It was hande ito
her by the prisoner. He also offered her something out of a
pint bottle, which she tasted and refused, lost tne cook took a
sgsess of it. It was sweet. She felt very sleeey after she had
taken the ale. lie said in the evening we were going to have
a pot of ale at nine o'clock, and lie invited witness to take some.
He had not been in the habit of offering witness ale. He
had done so, bat ilsey had had none for a week previously, as
the peieener had been under the doctor's hands. There was
nothing particular in the taste of the ale. It was shortly after
the cook came in that he asked witness to take. something
out of a pint bottle. He poured it in a wine glass.
-witness tasted it, but declined taking any more. He said
what was the name of it, but witness does not remember he
said it was some wine his Lordship had had on the Monday be-
fore when he had company. itness felt unusually sleepy
and heavy—that sensation came ever her shortly after she had
teeters the ale. Prisoner drank some of the same ale eut of
another glass.
..Mr. }lower said he should have asked that question, but he
thought it better to defer the cros,-examination. They would
pot all their questions together at a future day.
Mary Hammel!, the cook, in addition to her former evidence, '
said, I left a fire burning in the kitchen, when I went to bed
on the Tuesday night, and I left coals to feed it- the prisoner
was tie when I went t ; bed. It was usual for me to leave a
fire lighted in the kitchen, arid coals to feed it with. Ido not
recollect whether any of the coals appeared to have been
used the next morning. I do not recollect awing
the lower bolt of the back door. It was so diffi-
cult to move it, that latterly I hod not been in the habit
of attempting to bolt it. Ido not think I attempted to bolt it
oft the night of the Tuesday in question. I kept the thimble in
my workbox in the cupboard of the kitchen. On the night of
Titeeday, May 5, when 1 went to bed the box was not locked ;
the next morning the cupboard door was open, and the box
out on the table. We never kept any plate in the drawers of
the kitchen. There was nothing of any value kept in them
The drawers were shut when I went to bed. I found them
open the next morning, but with the exception of their being
open they were in the same state I had left them over eight.
Two of the drawers had been apparently rummaged, and their
contents disturhe f.
Inspector Tedman, in addition to his former deposition, said
the door of Lord W. Russell's bedroom in opening and shut-
ting made so little noise that a person Icing in bed could not
h( a r it. The bed clothes on the prisoner's bed, on the Wednes-
d slaloming, were partly turned down, as if a person had got
c Leif bed, but it is impossible to say whether any person had
~een lying between the sheets that night, or had been merely
on the bed. It was the uncle of the prisoner who made the
application at Norfelk•street on the 19th of slay for a change
of linen• for the prisoner. There was a scar ou the prisoner's
face on the Wednesday morning, May 6, which appeared much
al it does now.—( There is a scar on the bridge of the prisoner's
nose as if from a ecratch.)
Inspector Beresford, in answer to Mr. Flower, said I do not
think 2,1 r. Russell was in the house when the prisoner gave me
the de,crietion of the watch. A gentleman has been pointed
out to'nee as Mr. Russell, but I saw him only for an instant,
and should not know him again.
Inspector rearce said the spoon found by the. witness, Sarah