The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-16 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLP,BONE.
Mr. John Harvey, at one period a banker in Guern-
sey, but now residing at No. 32, Surrey-street,
Strand, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton,
for further examination on the charge of having stolen
a leather case, containing a Bible and Prayer-book,
from the Kentish-town parochial chapel.
The particulars of what previously transpired ap-
peared in The Sun of yesterday, and it will be re-
membered that the inquiry was adjourned for the
attendance of the verger and the owner of the property,
to insure which summonses were served upon the
parties in question.
Mr. Humphreys again appeared for the prisoner.
William Kentish, the verger, was sworn, and he
deposed as follows :—On Saturday afternoon last, at
ten minutes past four o'clock, while I was engaged in
the chapel in making necessary preparation for service
on the next day, the primmer came in and walked
about. He looked at many of the monuments, the
inscriptions upon which he read, and also expressed
his admiration of the painted windows. lie went
into pew No. 74, and sat down, and on his coming
out of it he went away, wishing me good night.
Observing that he had left the pew door open, I
went up to shut it, and then found that some
prayer and other books, which just before
were in their proper places, had been moved, and
I immediately missed the leather case now produced.
I hastened out, and seeing the prisoner making his
way in the direction of Hiirhzate.-I ran after 11;,,,
or,rtook him by Craven-place. I said to him, "I
beg your pardon, sir, but I think you have taken some
books from the chapel," to which he replied, " Don't
make any piece of work about it, and I'll go back
with you." He accompanied me to the chapel, and as
I was approaching towards the pew door, he being
just behind me, I heard something fall down by the
free seats. I looked round and picked up the case at
a distance of from 12 to 14 yards from the pew. I
said to him " You had the books," when he directly
turned round and walked out of the building. As
soon as he had got through the churchyard he ran
very fast, and I followed him, crying " Stop thief!"
Ile then ceased running, upon which I laid hold of
him, took him back to the chapel, and gave him into
the custody of Police-sergeant Sibsey, 16 S. He said
he was very sorry for what he had done, he knew not
what could have possessed him, and that if he might
be allowed to go he would deposit any amount in the
charity-box at the door.
The case and books were identified by Mr. Bulmer
Brecknock-cottage, Camden-town; the cost of the
articles was 275.

The prisoner, whose legal adviser declined in the
present stage of the matter to offer any defence,
stands committed for trial, but will be brought up
again to-day (Wednesday), when the depositions
taken will be completed, and the several witnesses
bound orer to appear at the session.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Stephen Brown, Michael Garmon, James Hughes,
and Thomas Coyle, whose ages varied from 10 to
14 years, were placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold;
charged with numerous acts of robbery, and Emma
Galloway, a coarse-featured masculine-looking
woman, was charged with inciting them to the coin-
mission of the offence, and receiving the property
well knowing it to have been stolen.
About a week since the prisoner Brown suddenly
absconded from the house of his parents, who were
described as honest hardworking people, and, after an
anxious and incessant search for him, they at length
obtained information that he was harboured, with
several other boys at the house of the woman Gallo-
way, in Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields. In-
formation of this was given to a constable named
Grady, who at one o'clock on the preceding day ab-
ruptly entered an apartment on the first floor, and
there discovered the female prisoner presiding at the
head of a table, round which the younger prisoners
were seated, and in the centre of which was placed a
heterogeneous collection of articles, consisting of new
sugar basins, saltcellars, a flower-vase, and other
property, all evidently the produce of recent rob-
beries. A piece of meat was cooking before the
fire, and a peice corresponding to it was deposited
upon an adjoining shelf, and upon further search
a long brass-mounted whip was discovered
secreted beneath the bed. On calling upon them to
account for tho pssession of this property, one of
the boys at once acknowledged that the whole of it
had been stolen within two days from various shops
by the juvenile members of the gang, and that the
meat which was then being dressed for their dinner
had being purloined that very morning from a neigh-
bouring butcher. This statement the woman Gal-
loway positively denied, and having declared that
the property had been brought to her house by
the boys without her privity or sanction, and that
they had only got there a few minutes before the
officers appearance, the whole of them were taken into
custody.

In answer to this a lad named William Brown,
brother to the prisoner of that name, was called and
stated, that the other boys had been in the habit
of calling for some time past at the house of his
parents
sfor his brother, who was constantly associat-
ing with them, and he knew that whatever articles
the boys stole were always carried to ,the house
of the woman Galloway for sale. Missing
his brother on the preceding day he went out in
search of him, and while so doing was rapidly passed
by one of the other boys, who had something
wrapped up in a handkerchief, and who ran into the
prisoner Galloway's house with it. Fearing his brother
might be there he immediately followed the boy into
the woman's room, and there also found the prisoner
Gannon, who had likewise just entered. A knock
then came at the door, which he went down to open,
and his brother, Hughes, and Coyle rushed past him
up the stairs, and upon' his again entering the woman's
room he found some stockings, the meat, flower-vase,
and other articles deposited upon the table, and all
which must have been just then brought in by the
boys, as he could positively state that none of them
were there when he went down to admit them.

Alderman, the gaoler, stated that two of the pri-
soners, llughes and Gannon, had been repeatedly in
custody, and summarily convicted lOr similar rob-
beries, Hughes rot having been out of gaol upon
the last conviction more than a fortnight, and that he
felt quite certain that Garmon had been committed
and sent for trial.

Upon being called on for their defence, the younger
prisoners declined offering any, and the woman Gal-
loway repeated the statement she had already made
to the constable before being taken into custody.
Mr. ARNOLD directed the child Coyle, who was
scarcely 10 years of age, to be delivered up to his
mother, a poor widow, in Finsbury-market, but com-
mitted all the others for re-examination, to enable the
police, if possible, to ascertain and procure the per-
sons from whom the property produced had been
stolen.

THE lIIURDER BY HIGHWAY NIEN.
The unfortunate man, named William Whyatt, who
was shot on Friday near Adlington, in Lanaashire, by a
robber whom ho had just captured, died on Saturday
morning. The inquest upon his body was held on
Monday, at the Rising Hart, Pott Shrigley, before Mr.
Roscoe, of Knutsford, coroner for the district. The fol-
lowing are the particulars of the evidence :
James Emil! having been sworn said—l live at Mac-
clesfield, and am a shopkeeper. I was at the Unicorn
public-house at Hollingworth-smithy,
Adlington, on
Friday last. I got there about a quarter-past three
o'clock in the afternoon, on my way to Macclesfield.
There was no company there except the landlord. I
remained there about ten minutes or a quarter of an
hour. I then proceeded to walk along the turnpike-
road towards Macclesfield. There was no one with
me. When I got up to the small Watch-wood planta-
tion, about 300 yards from the public house, I saw
two men in the act of getting over a gate at
the further end of the wood into the turnpike road.
They walked close behind upwards of a quarter of a
quarter of a mile without either of them speaking to me.
I then heard a quick step, and one of them came came
directly in front of me. He took hold of me by the
breast, tearing my waistcoat and shirt, and said, " D—n
your eyes, give up your purse and your watch this
minute, or you are a dead man." At the same moment
he presented a horse-pistol just in front of my eyes.
The other man, who had also come up, presented a pistol
to my left ear. He said, "D—n you, I'll blow your head
off." I did not at first believe they were serious, but
perceiving the?, they were, I told them that they would
have a tougher jet. than they thousht.
a;. h. rd, and I prepared to resist. The little man who
had presented the pistol to my ear then knocked me
down. They both kicked me several times ,while I was
on the ground about the head. I got up again, and the
pistols were again presented at me by both the men, the
action being again accompanied by threats. I told them I
would not give up my property, and they knocked me
down again. The same thing was repeated, and I was
knocked down in all five times. During the attack upon
me I screamed out and called loudly for assistance. A
Mr. Hordern came up, and got to within ten yards of us.
At this time we were all in the ditch together. On see-
ing him the men got up and began to walk away. Mr.
Hordern and I followed them and they held the pistols
towards us, threatening to shoot us. We had not seen
then any one else. When we got up to Stanhope's yard,
there was a young man and some railway men who had
seen the whole affray, who came up to us, upon which
the two men ran away, and we pursued.—(Mr. Legh
here stated that the spot was not more than forty yards
from the railway.) I was too much exhausted to go far
myself, and I was not present when they were captured.
They were taken, and I saw them the same evening
at Adlington Hall, in the custody of Mr. Williamson,
special high-constable of Macclesfield. I am quite
certain that the two men I saw in his custody are the
same who made the attack upon me. I was not aware
till an hour after that I had been robbed.
Matthew Mitchell, a young man, a labourer, said that
about twenty minutes to four o'clock on Friday after-
noon he was at work on the railway at Addington, when
be heard a man shouting on the highway for assistance.
He immediately ran towards the spot, and saw three
men, one of whom was the last witness ; the others he
did not know. The two had something bright in their
hands. Witness was about 150 yards from them when
he first started. The two men ran away. Witness
stayed with Mr. Ernill ; heard from him a brief account
of the matter and set off in pursuit. A great many per-
sons joined also in pursuit. _Followed them out of
Adlington in Shrigley. William Whyatt was amongst
the pursuers. The pursuit lasted about an hour and a
quarter. Witness came up with them at Blakley-wood
in Pott Shrigley. The two men were together when
witness came up with him. Each had a brace of pistols
in his hands. William Whyatt was just before witness
making towards the robbers. The taller of the two men
(Bates) fired a pistol, and William Whyatt instantly fell.
Almost at the same instant the shorter man (Walmsley)
fired a pistol at Thomas Whyatt and wounded him in
the arm. The little man then ran away and was fol-
lowed by John Hunt, who took hold of his coat laps,
and they both fell down together. The little man then
fired another pistol, and others corning up both he and
the other were secured. Witness saw William Whyatt
carried off. Thomas Whyatt was able to walk away.
Witness was at Adlington Hall the same night. Did
not hear the names of the prisoners, and not know them,
but can swear to them. Did not hear of anything being
said on either side before the tall man fired.

James Bowes, one of the Cheshire constabulary force,
said he received the prisoner Walmsley from some men,
and also two pistols, a powder-flask, and some cotton
wadding, which had been found upoa him. He said at
first that his name was John Reddens but when both
prisoners w. a Wilasal.er. Adlington Half, Bates said
that his name was John Walmsley. Walmsley made no
reply. The pistols were very large ones, the barrels
being about nine inches long. Witness also found eight
percussion caps upon Walmsley. [The witness pro-
duced a steel chain, two gold seals, and two keys, which
he said were found upon Bates, but the Coroner did not
think it necessary to go into that.,)
Edward Newbold, surgeon, stated that about six
o'clock on Friday evening he was sent for to see the
deceased, who was lying at the house of a person named
Wainwright, at Pott Shrigley. Gut there about seven
o'clock. Drs. Harrison and Vaux were there when
witness arrived. Found a wound like a bullet wound on
the fore part of the abdomen, about three inches above
the navel. A ball had been extracted before witness
got there by Dr. Harrison. Attended the deceased till
the time of his death, which took place on,Saturday
morning about a quarter to eleven o'clock. Made a
post ',torten* examination yesterday, assisted by Dr.
Vaux. The external appearances were those of a very
stout, able-bodied, healthy man. On opening the
abdomen witness traced the ball from the external
orifice. Found that it had passed obliquely downwards
and backwards underneath the integuments, fascia, and
muscles, perforating the peritoneum and entering the
cavity of the abdomen, penetrating the omentum, pene-
trating also the small intestines, from which some of the
contents had escaped into the cavity ; then passing
through the colon, giving vent also to some of its con-
tents. It then escaped from the abdomen, passing
completely through the hip bone, and ultimately lodged
under the skin of the thigh, It only required a slight
incision to enable De. Harrison to extract the ball.
Witness had no doubt whatever that the death of the
deceased was occasioned by the wound from the ball.
The CORONER then said there were a great many
circumstances connected with the case which it was not
at all necessary to inquire into, since it appeared to him
that the cause of death was very clearly proved, and
that was what they a- h a
met to inquire into. Still, if
the jury required any further evidence, the witnesses
should be called. The law, too, was too well known to
the jury to need many remarks from him. He would
only observe that it was either a murder or nothing.
There was only one point which he wished to explain to
them, and that was,
that when two or more were en-
gaged in a common design, and death ensued in conse-
quence of that design, through the act of only one of
they were all equally
them, guilty. So that in the case
of these two men, Walmsley and Bates, the intention of
both was sufficiently evident, and both were equally
guilty.
The Jury without any deliberation returned a verdict
of " Wilful Murder against John Walmsley and William
Bates."
The inquiry lasted rather more than two hours.
The deceased William Whyatt has left a wife and
seven children, the youngest of which was only born
last Monday. Thomas Whyatt is said to be going on
favourably.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
,TILE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 12, 1548,
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 313
Diseases of Uncertain Scat ...
41
Turbercular Diseases... _
.•208
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 152
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32
Diseases of the Lungs, and other organ, of
Respiration ... •:. ••• 315
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ..• 73
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c, 15
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &C. ...
36

__ ...
Malformations... ••• ..• •••
••• ..• 8
Premature Birth ... •••
•••
084. 18
Atrophy PO.. ••• 0•• •••
••• ••• 20
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •
• • ••• 71
Sudden ... ... ••• *4O •04
••• ... 11
Violence, Privation, Oaf or Intemperance
—. 26
Causes not specified ... ... .a.
••• 00. 1

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...
-......-. .•• 1,324

Population Averarn
-- weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7, in the
1841. Fire Winters. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 • • 161
... 180
North Districts.. 375,971 ••• 209
... 233
Central Districts 373,653 ••• 203
... 22G
East Districts ... 392,444 ••• 235 ... 2,,
South Districts.. 501,190 ••• 299 ... 386

Totals... ..... 1,948,425 ••• 1,107
.. 1,324
Males ... •-•• ••• 674
Females ••• ••• 650