The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EATEN ING. FEBRUARY 25, 1856,

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THE LATE MR. SADLEIR, P.

hould be ascertained. The state of the Tipperary
Bank was certainly a reality.

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Mr. Norris said that Mr. Gurney bad told him that
be had given the deceased 1,3001. on Saturday.
Mr. Keating said that up to that time no other forged
documents than the one alluded to had been discovered.
['here was a foreign bill for 1,000/. that had not yet
peen traced.

Adjourne Inquest.—(This Day.)

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This morning the adjourned inquest on the body cf
the above deceased gentleman was resumed at the Work•
house, Hampstead, before Mr. Wakley, coroner, and a
reFpectable jury.

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Mr. Wilkinson said that 18, Cannon-street, was the
,ffice of the Swedish railway, of which the deceased was
the chairman. No forgeries had been discovered con-
aected with it.

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Mr. Manning said that Mr. Keating was ready to hand
in the letters written by the deceased to him and Mrs.
James Sadleir. At first it was hoped these letters might
have been withheld from the public, but in consequence
of what had transpired, they were desirous that the ut-
most publicity should be given to everything connected
with this melancholy affair.
The coroner said that he would read the letters first,
and if he found it necessary to read them to the jury it
should be done.

Ultimately`the inquest wag adjourned for a fortnight.
During the investigation the deceased's brother was
r.resent, and appeared much distressed in mind.

MURDER ON TOWER-HILL.

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Yesterday (Sunday) morning, shortly after two o'clock,
1, young man named George Brown, aged 26 years, was
topped at the corner of the Minories, Tower-hill, by
r,wo men and a woman, who knocked him down with a
life-preserver, aid after ransacking his pockets escaped.
It appears, from what can be gleaned, that the de.
.:eased resided in White's-buildings, Glasshouse-yard,
Rosemary-lane, \Vhitechapel. Ile had been with some
Friends on the Surrey side of the water, where he re-
nained until a late hour, :and while on the way
some, somewhat the worse for liquor, the two fellows
rushed upon him while he was talking to the female.
Ere was rendered insensible from the severity of the blow
on the head, and fell on the pavement facing the Crooked
Billet public-house, Sparrow-corner, where he was dis-
lovered by police-constable 588, of the H division, bleed-
ing copiously from a severe lacerated scalp wound, five
inches is length, on the right side of the head. The de-
' ceasee.'s pockets were turned inside out, and his cash
(forming a portion of his wages) stolen by his assailants,
Ile officer immediately had the wounded man placed on
a stretcher and carried to the Leman-street police-sta-
tion, Goodman's-fields, where Inspector Marsh, who was
duty, sent directly for Dr. Cornley, the divisional
medical officer, who found the deceased suffering from
concussion of the train, and an extensive laceration of
the scalp, which was the result of severe external 'vio-
lence. The necessary aid having been afforded that the
emergency of the case required, the peor fellow was re-
moved to the London Hospital, but the deceased was
rapidly sinking. Every possible assistance was rendered
by the house-surgeons, Messrs. Adams and Ross, but
the unfortunate man expired at four o'clock.

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Mr. Anthony Norris, of 2,Belford-rew, solicitor,
who was examined on a previous occasion was recalled,
and stated that he left Mr. Sadleir a little after 11
o'clock on Saturday night. He remained with him
about half an hour, during which time he received a
telegraph message from Dublin relating to the affair of
the bank. It did not appear to make any deep impree•'
lion on his mind. He read it, and threw it over to wit•
ness to read. The letter now produced is in the de-
ceased's handwriting.

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The coroner said the letter mentioned the names of
certain persons injured by the deceased's acts, and he
thought it would be a still greater injustice to these ur •
fortunate persons if their names were made public. He
therefore took the responsibility on himself of with-
holding them. The letter was then read. It was
dated Saturday night, and was to this effect :—" I
cannot live. I have ruined too many. I could
not live and see their agony. I have committed diabo-
lical crimes unknown to any human being. They will
now appear and bring my family and others to distress;
shame and grief that they should have ever known me.
I blame no one, but attribute all to my own infamou:.
villany, and hundreds of others

ruined by me. I can go through any torture or punish-
meat for my crimes ; no torture could be too much for
such crimes, but I cannot live to see the tortures I inflict
upon others.

" J. SADLEIR.

" Telegraph to - and others when you read this."

Mr. Keating, M.P., of Clapham, produced the-letter
received by him from the deceased. The first was fol-

The parties who were engaged in causing the death of
the deceased are known, and it is fully expected that
Sergeant Forey, the detective officer of the H division,
kill speedily apprehend them. The two men are what
are called " duffers," geverglly prowling about Ratcliffe-
highway, St. George's-in•the•East.
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lows :

"Dear Robert,—James sent me over his title deeds
of Cohnartick and Kilconnell. I have not used these
deeds in any way. I gave J. Gur: of a letter from James,
intrusted to be by him, which J. Gurney had sent to
him. This letter cannot be acted upon, by J: Gurney
without my brothe►'s expiess authority. J. Sadleir.
16th February, 1856. R. Keating, Esq, M.P. T.
Uzielli has a bank bill for 2,0001., on which nothing is
due. It should be at once cancelled. If on Monday
the bank is to be saved, 8,2001. must be paid to East
Kent Railway for two orders-6,200/. and 2,0001.
2,0501. must be paid in to Glyn's, to meet order at sight,
issued to-day at Carrick, Gurney Brothers. The orders
falling due on Thursday all are advised, save one for
6,2001., my favour. This must be taken up on Mon-
day, not being advised. I cannot live, "J. S."
The letter written by the deceased to Mrs. James Sad-
lair, of Dublin, was also put in and read. It referred to
the acts he had been guilty of in similar terms to those
of the other letters, and acquitted his brother James of
any knowledge of, or participation in them.

Information of the death of the deJeased has been for
warded to the coroner.

SPORTING NOTES.

THE LIVERPOOL MEETING.

The energy and enterprise of Mr. Tophatn have this
year provided turfites with two days sport at Aintree,
instead of one. This arrangement will, doubtless, be
an additional inducement to metropolitan speculators to
snake the long and tedious journey from London to
Liverpool, and it is likely to be carried out in a man-
ner peculiarly advantageous to the indefatigable lessee.
My "advice:;" from Aintree are most encouraging ;
notwithstanding the slight frosts which have set in at
lightfall, the ground is in good going condition,
whilst the steeplechase course has been improved
by extending the ploughed portion of the line of country.
ieveral horses have arrived, and the increasing demand
tor stable accommodation give: promise of large fields.
rhe Betting room will be opened at Lucas's Repository,
and placed under the superintendence of the well-known
turf "janitor," Fuller Andrews, who, by the way, has
not " wintered well," having recently recovered fr.nn a
severs illness.

The other letter was this :----
" Gloucester-terrace, Feb. 16.

"Dear Robert,—To what infamy have I come, step by
step, heaping erirae upon crime, and now I find myself
the author of numberless crimes of a diabolical char-
acter, and the cause of ruin and misery, and disgrace
to thousands—aye, to tens of thousands.
" Oh 1 how I feel for those on whom all this ruin must
fall. I could bear all punishmeists, but I could never
boar to witness the sufferings of those on whom I have
brought such ruin. It must be better that I should not
live.

The varied and attractive character of the programme
requires no indication. Every turf tyro has long studied
its "features." Despite the "bad odour" which has
4 late years attached to eross country events, the
Grand National Steeplechase still maintains a flourishing
popularity. It has,. too, been operated upon with consi-
derable briskness; albeit, the somewhat limited range of
peculation has rendered it abad and unprofitable betting
race. At the present scale of prices it is impossible for
the most industrious book-maker to get round. Al-
though the event will not be decided until Wednesday,
yet the interest which it excites entitles it to the priority
of consideration over the legitimate items contained in

"No one has been privy to my crimes. They sprung
from my own cursed brain alone. I have swindled and
deceived without the knowledge of any one. Stevens
and Morris are both innocent, and have no knowledge
of the fabrication of deeds and forgeries by me, and by
which I have sought to go on In the horrid hope of re-
trieving.

"It was a sad day for all when I came to London.
" I c In give but little aid to unravel nisets and trans

actiorv.
" There are serious questions as to my interest in the
Grand Junction and other undertaking..
" Much will be lost to the creditors if these cases are
not properly treated.

" The Grand Junction, the East Kent, and the Swiss
railways, the Rome line, the coal company, are all liable
to be entirely lost now, so far as my assets are con-
cerned.

" I authorise you to take possession of all my letters.
papers, property, Ice., in the house, and at Wilkinson's,
18, Cannon-street.

" Return my brother his letters to we and all other
papers. The prayers of one so wicked could not avail,
or I would seek to pray for those I leave after me who
will have to suffer agony, and all owing to my criminal
acts.

"Oh that I bad never quitted Ireland ! Oh that I
had resisted the first attempts to launch ins into specu-
lation !

" If I bad less talents of a worthless kind, and rnore
firmness, I might have remained as I once was—honest,
truthful ; and I would have lived to see my dear father
and mother in their old age. I weep and weep now,
but what can that avail !

" J. SADLEIR."
The witness was much affected during the reading of
these letters, and was greatly overcome on finishing the
reading of the last letter.

rho following is the telegraphic message received with
the letters from James Sadleir, Dublin, to the de-
ceased :

" All right at all the branches. Only a few small
things refused here. If from 20,0001. to 30,0001. are
here on Monday morning all is safe."

Mr. Wilkinson, of Cannon-street, deposed that the
deceased came to him on Saturday to raise money to
assist the Tipperary Bank, and showed me a telegraph
message he had received from Ireland on the subject of
the bank. Ho was much excited, and laid many schemes
before
andfr rhaeistilnegclined to assist him. The de-
ca money, which he did not ap-
prove witness
excited, and frequently put his hand
to his
wwh sied of a
shead, and said if the hank failed to meet its lia-
bilities, it would be the ruin of hundreds and thousands.
Witness had a deed as security purporting to be from
the Encumbered Estates Court, which had turned out to
be a forgery. Having ,suspicion that the deed was a
forged one, he sent his partner to Ireland to make en-
quiries which was known to the deceased. Deceased
did not throw any obstacles in the way of his making
the enquiry. The deed had been in his possession since
July last, and had reference to an estate of the
deceased's that bad gone through the Encumbered
' Estates Court. He had assisted the deceased to a great
extent which he had paid, and had further advances.
Witness's suspicions were first awakened to the de-
ceased's position about 6 weeks since, and his security
not being registered in the Encumbered Estates Court,
he determined it should be done. The deed bore the
genuine seal of the Court, and was signed in two places
by what was purported to be the signature of two of
the commissioners, and also two witnesses, all of which
were forgeries. The seal could only be accounted
for from its being taken front a genuine
deed. Witness had learned that deceased received on
Saturday morning, before his death, about 1,3501., but
be had no knowledge of it, nor could he recollect from
whom he had received it.

The Coroner said the court had an undoubted right
to pursue this enquiry relative to the deceased's pro-
perty. He had not yet carried the examination far in
that direction, but, if necessary, he should carry it
further.

Mr. Wilkinson—He could give no information rela
tire to the money.

The Coroner said Bates appeared to have been
the first man who saw the deceased and who stated that
from fear h• stood abreast 20 yards from the deceased
until assistance came. It some times happened that
persons who had been too near a body frequently
were afraid to remain close to it afterwards, but
from the manner in which Bates bad given
his evidence he appeared to be a man of a simple
and artless character.

Ono of the jurymen said that he was a very honest
man.

Mr. Wilkinson said that, as far as he could ascertain,
his document was the only one the deceased had
forged.

The Coroner asked Mr. Manning, the legal adviser of
the family, if he was prepared to show that the deceased's
statements contained in his letter was a sham and a
delusion ?
Mr. Manning said he was not.

The coroner amid it wao most important that thaq