The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

After the other business of the court bad been dis-
posed of, Matthew Williams, a well-dressed young
man, of rather respectable appearance, and who had
been brought from the Mansion-house, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of receiving
a silver pencil-case, and other articles, the property of
Mr. Henry Isaacs, from a young woman named Mary
Ann Borebam, with a guilty knowledge that they
had been stolen.

Mr. Gilham appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Hobler for the defence.

Mr. Gilham having briefly stated the outline of
the case, called
Mr. Henry Isaacs, a City officer, and officer to the
Committee of London Bankers, who stated as fol-
lows :—About the middle of July last I missed several
articles from my residence, 157,,Fenchurch-street, and
my wife, in consequence, spoke to a young woman
named Mary Ann Bareham, then in my service, re-
specting them . My wife told me—
Mr. Hobler—You must not tell us what your
wife told you, as that cannot be evidence against the
prisoner.
The magistrate having ruled this in Mr. Hobler's
favour,
The witness, Mr. Isaacs, said—On the 15th of
August the young woman Boreham disappeared from
my service, and, from what I had heard, I on the
Monday following called on the prisoner at the place
of business of his master. Mr. Byass, a wine merchant,
in Langbourne-chambers, which is nearly opposite to
my residence, and where he holds the situation of
messenger On seeing him, I said, " Matthews, do
you know anything of my servant girl ? " and his
reply was, "I never saw the girl." I then left; but
from what I subsequently heard, I went back, and
saw the prisoner. Addressing him I said, " Mat-
thews (for such w as the name I called him), you
know where the girlis, I am certain, and if you do
not tell me, I shall see Mr. Byass." The prisoner re-
plied
_that I might, with pleasure ; and I went into
Mr. Byass's office. When the prisoner was called in,
Mr. Byass, upon being informed of the circumstances
asked the prisoner what he knew of the affair; upon
which the prisoner began to laugh, and his master
checked him, and remarked that it was no laughing
affair, but, on the contrary, a very serious =Use
and requested me to put such questions to him as I
might think proper. I then said, "Did you ever see
the girl ?" He replied, " No." I then asked if she
had ever given him anything, and he replied that she
had given him an apple. I then said, "I have lost
such a description of articles as are likely to come
into the possession of such a person as you," and
produced a card containing a list of the things, 'and
stated what a part of them were. The prisoner then
said, " I havegot the slipper-tops, they were given to
me by a young woman of the name of Hannah, a
servant to Mr. Swift." I asked him his address, and
he said "8, Church-street, Kennington," but added
that he also lived at Hanscomb-crescent, Union-row,
Clapham, for he had hardly removed. I then said
" I shall take you into custody for having in your
possession things that have been stolen from me," and
I did take him into custody. At the station-house
he was searched, and a cigar-case was found in his
breast pocket belonging to me. I have since seen
the pencil -case, penknife, and the worked slipper-tops,
found at the lodgings of the prisoner, and also a gold
pin, found on a young woman at Camberwell, to
whom the prisoner had given it, and identified all as
my property. Oa the 27th of August I received in-
formation that the girl was discovered drowned in a
pond near Brixton, about a mile and a half from the
prisoner's lodgings, and at a place where she had
never,
,I am convinced, been before. The shawl,
apron, shoe, and bonnet produced were those worn by
the girl when she left my house on the 15th of
August, and the pin, pencilcase, and some other. ar
ticks I have spoken of, were stolen from a small iron
safe.
City police-constable Charles Dodd, 511, deposed
to finding the articles produced on the person and at
the lodgings of the prisoner.
Harriett simmonds, a good-looking pug woman,

to whom the prisoner was paying his addresses, de-
posed to his having presented her with the gold pin
produced, and also a knife, both of which articles had
been stolen from Mr. Isaacs's house.

Sarah Brown said the prisoner had lodged at her
house for 14 or 16 months, and up to the time he
was token. the showed her the cigar- case and
slipper-tops, and said they had been sent to him, but
had never spoke❑ to the person who had sent them.
The slipper-tops, he said, had been passed through the
letter-box.

Hannah Gerrard, a servant at Langbourne-cham-
bers, Fenchurch-street, said she had seen the prisoner
speaking to the deceased in the court where he lived
on the day before she disappeared. The deceased was
coming towards witness to speak to her, when she
saw the prisoner leave the counting house, and, fol-
lowing him, she did not return.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Gilham the witness
said that she had seen the deceased and the prisoner
speak together four or five times, and she had taken
in letters from the former to the latter.

Thomas Baker, a fellow•servant to the prisoner,
said he had seen the prisoner and the deceased speak
together several times, and on one occasion the former
gave him a package of five cigars to give to the latter.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Hubler, the witness
admitted having spoken to the deceased himself, and
said he assisted the prisoner in smoking the cigars
she had given him.
This being the whole of the evidence,
Mr. Hobler contended that there was nothing that
would induce any jury to find a verdict against his
client of receiving the articles spoken of knowing
them to have been stolen ; o❑ the contrary, there was
nothing whatever to show a guilty knowledge.
Mr. ELLIOTT differed from the Learned Gentle-
man, and said that his different and conflicting state-
ments, and particularly his assertion to his landlady
that he had never spoken to the person from whom ho
had received the cigar-case and the worked slipper-
tops, when the contrary was shown to be the fact,
was, to say the least of it, most suspicious. Had the
slipper, tops been passed through the letter-box of his
master, he (the prisoner) had no business, in his (Mr.
Elliott's) opinion, to appropriate them to his own use.
Mr. Isaacs here said that the father of the young
woman was in attendance, and, as he had come from
the neighbourhood of Great Leigh, beyond Chelms-
ford, and was most anxious to have the fullest investi-
gation into the circumstances attendant upon the very
suspicious death of his daughter, he hoped his worship
would hear him.

The poor man, who seemed much dejected, said,
that from what he had learned, he did think that the
inquest was hurried over exceedingly and unnecessarily
quick, but this he supposed was owing to his daugh-
ter's apparel not being such as to denote her to be a
person of consequence or fashion, and therefore no
adjournment was considered necessary. He also
learned that no medical msn had been examined
before the coroner, and that the evidence was very
scanty.
Mr. ELLIOTT could hardly suppose that a case of
the sort could have been disposed of without the tes-
timony of a medical man, and inquired of Sergeant
Merritt, 8 P, who attended before the coroner, whe-
ther such had been the case, but
That officer replied in the negative, and said that
since the inquest had been held there were rumours
in circulation in the neighbourhood which rendered
it very desirable that a further inquiry should take
place.
On hearing this Mr. ELLIOTT said he should re-
mand the prisoner to a future day, when he should
expect the whole of the witnesses before him.
The lather of the deceased hoped that the body
would be exhumed, and a proper surgical examina-
tion take place before the next investigation.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that he had not the power,
as the prisoner was not charged with being concerned
in the death, to order this, but he had no doubt the
authorities of Lambeth parish would, on the applica-
tion of the father, permit the body to be exhumed
and examined.
On the application of Mr. Hobler the prisoner was
admitted to bail in two sureties in 1001. each.

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 2.—A brief announcement appears
in The Sun of this day of a fatal colliery accident
which occurred yesterday afternoon at one of the
Kingswood collieries, situated about four miles from
this city. From inquiries on the spot, and at the
Bristol Infirmary, where several of the sufferers were
removed, the following details of this calamitous
occurrence have been gathered.
It appears that the accident happened at the Deep
Pit Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Brain and Co.,
which is situated about half a mile from the Starveall
Pit, belonging to the same firm, where it will be
remembered some months since a dreadful boiler ex-
plosion took place, which resulted in the loss of seve-
ral lives. The routine business of the colliery pro-
ceeded as usual quite safe yesterday till about half-
past two or a quarter to three o'clock in the afternoon,
at which time " a turn" of nine men were being
hauled up the main shaft. The names of the men
were—Bryant, Stone (married), Joseph Parker,
Stephen Newman, John Parker, George English, John
Bright, William Wiltshire, and Nathaniel Dix. They
were drawn up in safety as far as " the stage," their
accustomed landing place, at the mouth of the shaft,
when just at that critical period, it is stated
by the engineer Stone, the bolt of the reversing handle
of the engine broke short off. He was instantly
aware of the perilous nature of the consequences
which were likely to ensue, and he caught hold of the
" eccentric rods," and endeavoured to lift them. He
also turned off' the steam. Finding he could not lift
the eccentric rods, he called out to a man (George
King) to come and help him, but before they could
be lifted the accident happened, the cart with the poor
men being drawn right up over the " shiver wheel,"
and then dashed to, the ground, a depth of 25ft., the
iron cart crushing them in the fall. The men, as soon
as they were paa,ing the stage, saw their danger, and
two of them, Bryant and Stone, jumped out, and for-
tunately escaped uninjured. Another poor man,
Stephen Newman, also jumped out, but must have
miscalculated his distance, for he fell short and was
precipitated right down the main shaft, a depth of 147
fathoms. Of course he was instantly dashed to pieces ;
his body was discovered a little after four o'clock,
dreadfully disfigured, so as to be scarcely recognisable.
The other poor fellows were also much crushed by
the heavy iron cart which fell with them, and which
weighs about ai cwt. The "cart," or iron bucket,
on looking at it this morning, was covered with
blood. They were immediately placed in carts,
in as easy a position as possible, and conveyed to
the Bristol Infirmary. The two worst cases are
those of N athaniel Dix and George English. Dix
was found to have sustained a compound comminuted
fracture of both bones of the right leg, fracture of the
right thigh, extensive lacerated wounds of the left leg,
contusion of the scalp and other parts of the body.
His leg was amputated last night by Mr. Morgan,
one of the surgeons of the infirmary. English sus-
tained a fracture of the skull, and an extensive wound
of the cheek, extending right across through the lip,
also severe contusions and injuries. The recovery of
these poor men is extremely doubtful. The injuries
of the remainder of the men who were precipitated to
the ground with the cart consist chiefly of very severe
contusions. _ _

On an examination of the broken bolt of the re-
versing handle of the engine, the immediate cause of
the accident, there does not appear to be any flaw iu
it. The engine, too, was, generally speaking, in good
order. The broken bolt had been placed in the hands
of Samuel Osborne, the blacksmith of the pit, prior to
the investigation into the circumstances which must
take place. Notice of the fatal accident had been
forwarded to the coroner, Mr. W. Joyner Ellis, and
after he has given the notice required by Act of
Parliament to the Secretary of State, an inquest will
be held.