The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

WANDS WORTH.

OVER-VIGOROUS EXECUTOItS.—Mr. Richard Brown,
of 7, Chapel-street, Edgware-road, baker, and Mr.
Edward Dell, of IS, Titchfield-street, Marylebone,
agent, were charged with having broken into the house
of Ellen Darby, a poor widow living in the Bridge
road, Battersea.
Mrs. Darby, who is an aged woman, very deaf, and
who was greatly agitated, said that about half•past ten
that morning the two prisoners and another man came
with a van to take her goods away. She had rented the
house for 33 years, and had pat(' her last quarter's rent.
Brown, find:ng the street-dour fastened, took a pickaxe
from Dell and broke it open, as also anothet inner do:.r.
She previously told him nut to do it, and to go to her
solicitor.
' Mr. Clav, wished to know why the defendants should
have resorted to so extraordinary a proceeding.
The complainant said that her son, who had been for
some titn;: insane, died on the 27th of August, and made
a will, leaving to a woman he was living with, and her
sister, a house in James-street, Chelsea, and some of the
furniture in her (complainant's) house. She had a lien
of 61. upon the furniture, and sh'a had been told by her
solicitor to resist any attempt on the part of the execu-
tors to obtain possession.
The defendant (Brown) said, he was one of the execu-
tors, and produced a probate of the will. lie said he
had been authorised to do what he did by Mr. Tibbs,
of Doctor's Commons, who tcld him if he found the front
door closed to force it open with his foot.
Mr. CLIVE said Mr. Tibbs wa: wrong in giving such
advice, and defendant t qually so in following it.
Joseph Larkin, a neighbour, said, had he not fetched
the police the poor woman would have been deprived of
everything.
Mr. CLIVE remarked, that it was monstrous for the
defendants to suppose they could force a door open with
a pickaxe; and the c.msequence of this proceeding on
their part would be, that if the complainant thought fit
to bring an action against them a jury would give very
heavy damages. The only question he had to deal with
was the act of wilful damage, and to ascertain the amount
done he would remand them to Wednesday, and they
must find good bail to appear on that day.
It was ultimately arranged that the defendants should
enter into their own recognisances of 101. each to appear
on Wednesday, and in the meantime, if the damage was
repaired, and the complainant satisfied, there would be
no necessity for their attendance.
HAMMERSMITH.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Two labouring men, named
Arthur Keefe and David Moore, were finally examined
on a charge of having been concerned with a third man
not in custody, in committing the following murderous
assault.

David 'really, who appeared in a very weak state, de
posed that he lived at No. 14, Stephen-street, Lisson-
grove, and was foreman over the labourers in the rmploy
of Messrs. Wright and Co., cement manufacturers,
Blackfriars. The prisoners, who had also been in
Messrs. Wright's employ, but had been discharged about
a fortnight before, came on Tuesday, the 29th ult., to
the new buildings in the Clarendon-road, Kensington-
park, Notting-hill, where witness is employed, with a
third man, who is not yet in custody. The prisoner
Moore said he wanted to speak to witness in the kitchen.
Witneis told him ho must do so outside the building.
Moore then complained of having been discharged
through witness, and made a blow as him with his fist, but

missed striking him. He ran away, when Moore tool( up
a piece of quartering, three feet lo.ng and two or three
inches thick, and ran after witness, .as did Keefe and the

third man, Keefe throwing a large stone at him, which
struck him on the right ear. After chasing him some

distance, they at length came up to :him, and drove him
into a plrtico of one of the houses, where they beat him
dreadtully, and after they had kne eked him down he was
kicked by Keefe in his left side; he was afterwards
kicked by all of them on different -parts of his body. He
cried out for assistance, and on the prisoners seeing
persons coming, they all ran off Ile had since kept
his bed nine days, and still felt tp.e effects of the ill-