The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-21 00:00:00

d to' a'orti of the conduct of the polite, and that one
oppne dto that verdict. A communication was made
to the Coroner, about half-past eight that there was no
likelihood of their agreeing. The Coroner said they would
agree when they became a little more hungry ; but the
jury several times sent a similar communication, and with
no better success.
DECISION OF THE JURY, AND REJECTION
(BUT ULTIMATE ACCEPTANCE) OF THEIR
VERDICT BY THE CORONER.
At half-past nine o'clock the jury returned, and the
Foreman informed the Coroner that they had agreed upon
their verdict, which he read in the following terms ;
" We find a verdict of Justifiable Homicide on these
grounds : that no Riot Act was read, nor any proclama-
tion advising the people to disperse ; that the Government
did not take the proper precautions to prevent the meet-
ing from assembling, and that the conduct of the police
was ferocious, brutal, and unprovoked by the people ; and
we moreover express our anxious hope that the Govern-
ment will in future take better precautions to prevent th,
recurrence of such disgraceful transactions in the metro-
poli-."—(Loud cheering in the room.)
The CORONER said—l do not know how you can say
all these things on the evidence which you have beard.
The only evidence which you have had to show you bow
this man met his death was of that young woman who saw
the stab given to a man who was acting in a laudable and
undrendinv, manner; and how any one on the Jury can
justify such an act, I don't understand. I hope, Gentle-
men, you will reconsider your verdict. You are not here
to try the conduct of other persons, whether in the Go.
vernment or the Police. This, in my opinion, is no
verdict.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Indeed, it isn't. It was
not justifiable homicide. It was either wilful murder by
some one you do know, or some one you don't know.—
(Laughter, and "Ch, oh," which was suppressed by the
officer in attendance.)
Foreman—We have patiently considered our verdict.
There have been conflicting opinions amongst us ; but we
have all anxiously compared our opinions ; and that is the
conscientious verdict of us all, patiently and carefully
formed with the most anxious deliberation.
CORONER—You are called upon to say how Robert
Cully came by his death, and the only evidence you have
to decide upon that is that of the young woman who saw
him stabbed.
Several of the jury exclaimed, " We do not believe
her; no, not one of us."
CORONER—And why not?
A Juror—Because she was contradicted by other wit-
nesses. She sail she was two minutes talking to the
policeman, and it was proved by all the other witnesses
that that was impossible. She was tutored.
Another Juror—She was ; she was tutored by the po-
lice. She acknowledged to having bee❑ with them ever
since that day. 'Why ask us to give a verdict against our
consciences?
CORONER...-.YOU say there were no precautions. I
think there were plenty of measures.
A Juror—There were no measures to prevent the meet.
ing ; and the means employed to disperse it were dis-
graceful.
Foreman—We are all of opinion that if 100 policemen
had occupied the ground, this man would not have been

Another Juror—We only wonder that there were not
more byes lost.
CORONER—WeII, Gentlemen, your verdict is, that
Robert Cully was killed with Justifiable Homicide.
Jurors—We do.
CORONER (to the Foreman)—Well, Sir, I shall strike
out all the rest.—(The Coroner here drew his pencil
across all the words that followed "Justifiable Homicide.")
Foreman—l cannot agree to that, Sir.
All the Jury—Nor any of us.
Foreman—Before God and our country—on our solemn
oaths—we have gives the subject all the consideration in
our power; and that paper, which I have handed to you,
contains the judgment in which we are unanimously
agreed. I, you strike nut any part of that, it is not our
verdict. Jury—Certainly not.
Foreman—We have told yon our verdict ; but we
would not give a verdict of justifiable homicide, standing
by itself.
CORONER—..So you say it was justifiable, because some
persons broke other persons' heads, some half hour after
the man was murdered.
A Juror—We are not of opinion that the heads were not
broken till after the man was killed. If you record any
verdict without the whole of what we say, it will be a
false and untrue verdict.
Another Juror—lt will be his verdict and not ours.
Another Juror—Yea ; what occasion was there to
swear us, and keep us away so many days from our busi-
ness and families, if it is to be a Coroner's verdict and not
the Jury's ?
Several of the Jury—You had better dismiss us if you
will not take our verdict.
Foreman—And the sooner the better. We are fatigued
to exhaustion. We have done our duty laboriously and
faithfully, and our country can expect no more of us.
CORONER—WeII, as you did your duty by giving a ver-
dict to say that a ma❑ is justified in stabbing an unof-
fending moo—
Foreman—lf proper measures bad been taken, either
by reading the Riot Act or a proclamation, or any other

means, we would not bring in a verdict to justify the homi-
cide. Therefore, to let that verdict go abroad alone would
be very dangerous, and it might be thought that we jus-
tified the stabbing a policeman who was legally employed.
CORONER—I think that is the fact.
Foreman—No; on the contrary, we wish to give the
police every protection.
CORONER—What you call your verdict don't sound
like it ; I don't think that a fair verdict.
Several Jurors—We will not give any other.
is not a good verdict.
A Juror—Well, if you will not take it, you had better
dismiss us and call another jury.

CORONER—DO you call these remarks a recommenda—
tion ? Why, you ate finding filth with everybody with
a vengance. Wnit reason was there to stab the man?

Juror—Mr. Coroner, do you not recollect that before
there was any stabbing or throwing of stones, or any other
violence, s man rushed out from the body of police, and
violently struck about him, having said to those behind
him, " Now, go it, 13,:y5." We are of opinion from the
evidence that this was the same man.

Foreman—We have read over all our notes, and we
can come to no other verdict.

After a further delay, perhaps a quarter of an hour,
A juror said—Mr. Coroner, we have become as quiet
as a Quaker's meeting. May we go, or have you any other
little job for us ?--(Laughter.)
CORONER—You may go when you agree to your
verdict.

Foreman—Mr. Coroner, we have as strong an impres-
sion of the importance of our duty as any man can have,
and we have agreed to that •erditt, and we will agree to
none other.

CORONER—So you think that a meeting to overturn
the Government was a justific ition of this homicide ?
Foreman—No, Sir; far from it ; we are all of us men
who have families, and some stake in the country ; indeed
I think there are none of us but have some little property.
We all of us are of one opinion shout the impropriety of
that meeting, and we are fir from liking mob meetings.
If the police had acted with propriety, we would all of us
have turned out to assist and protect them at any risk.—
(Hey, hear, from the rest of the jury.)

Coe°Nza—Why, every precaution was taken.
Foreman—Oh, Sir, certainly; they prepared means of
dispersing the meeting, and how were those means em-
ployed ? We blame the Government and the police, be-
cause they made no attempt to prevent the meeting. One
hundred men upon the ground in the morning, or the ex-
postulations of a Magistrate, would, in our opinion, have
prevented any meeting.
CORONER—There were proclamations, forbidding the
meeting, posted all over the town.
A Juror—l am en my o,th, Sir, and I say that I saw
imame of those posted on the Tuesday, the day after the
meeting.—(Shame and laughter.)
CORONER—lnstead of inquiring how the man was
killed, you are trying the police, and other people fur quite
different things.
Foreman—lt is the conduct of those people which jus-
tifies us in giving that verdict. If precaution had been
taken properly, there would have been no murder.
Coaorira—Flow do you think you can justify a man
for murdering this policeman, who offended no one, and
who was giving advice to that woman whom we heard ?
Several Jurors—Her evidence was disproved. She is
not worthy of credit.

A Juror—l have seen her drinking gin on the leads of
this house with a crowd of policemen, with whom she ad-
mite she has been since the day of the meeting.
Another Juror—She is still there drinking, though she
swore this morning tbat she was in a hurry to go home,
as she bad been ordered not to stay long.
Foremoo—We can give no other verdict. We are of
opinion t‘ at this man would not have lost his life had
proper meimires been taken. No one saw the stab given.
Wv are of opinion that it was given in the confusion which
the violence of the man himself produced.
CORONIK—But you can give a conscientious verdict
without libelling any one.
Foreman—lt is no libel. Jury—Certainly not.
CORONER-It certainly appears that there was a good
dui of knocking about on one side and the other.