The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON,

cussing the doctrines of equity as propounded by
Lord Cranworth, but to a man of plain under-
standing it would scarcely appear possible to pro-
pose a greater inducement to rascality and corrup-
tion. The whole tranaction reads more like a chapter
in the "Duc de St. Simon's Memoirs" than as a his-
tory occuring in our own time. Bend your thoughts
day and night upon the noble art of tnoney-getting,
said the Roman father to his son in Rome's degene-
days,—

Rem;
"Si possis, recta; si non, quocumque modo rem."
Such is the language of the late Earl of Bridge.
water to his heirs :—" Get a step in the peerage
at any price. Here is boundless wealth—hoard
it up for all purposes save one, then lavish it with un-
sparing hand. Rank, rank, hunger and thirst, and
lust far rank. Let the strawberry leaves which en-
circle the ducal coronet never be absent from your
waking nor your sleeping thoughts. I indeed cannot
hope to wear them. Life is too short for the attainment
of so noble an end. But at least I have the satisfac-
tion of foreknowing, that when my bones are moulder-
ing in the grave, my descendants—my devisees, if
you will—will one day bear that glorious cap for
which my heart has yearned in vain." Com-
pare for a moment this will of the Earl of
Bridgewater with the testamentary dispositions of
Sir Robert Peel. The late Premier had played
at skittles with coronets, but would none of
them. Not only would he not accept them for
himself, but, should his heir ever feel his veins
tingle with the expectation of a" step" in the peerage,
there is a warning finger ever raised from beyond
the grave, which bids him spurn from him so un-
worthy, so paltry a thought. And yet Sir Robert
had done and said things in bis time which would
have entitled him to place his family in the highest
position British subjects may attain. A comparison
between the will of the mere Lord and the great
Statesman is not devoid of interest or instruction.—
Morning Paper.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1851.

ceased. I beg leave to state that I would not attend
upon this occasion if I had not been summoned. I
saw the prisoner at the inquest. Ilts was in uni-
form each day he attended. I saw there the witness
Long and his wife. Long was asked, in my presence,
to point out Cole, who was scarcely a yard distant
from him. Mrs. Long was near her husband. When
Long was asked to point out Cole, he was not able in
the first instance to do so. I did not notice whether
Mrs. Long said for did anything to her husband.
Mrs. Long gave her evidence before me. I went,
as one of the jury, to view the place in Plumtree-
court. I know the position of the house in which
Mr. and Mrs. Long lived ; and I also know where
the deceased lived. It was not possible, in my
opinion, to see from Long's house what took place i❑
the passage of the house in which the deceased lived.
I can only form an opinion from having seen the out-
side. A solicitor attended the inquest on the part of
Cole.

Mr. Lewis—After the inquest was concluded, did
you sign a certificate to the effect that you believed
Cole to be innocent of the imputed offence ?
The City Solicitor—You had better not take the
answer of the witness to that question. It is a ques-
tion whether the signing of such a paper after the
delivery of such a verdict as that which was returned
is not an indictable offence.

The witness did not answer the question.
Thomas Moore, aged 15, brother to Biddy More,
who gave evidence on the second examination, said—
I live at 23, Pluintree-court, and am a paperstainer
out of work. I knew Cogan about four months, and
remember the night he died. I saw him that night in
Plumtree-court, at about 11 the first time, and about
3 o'clock the last time. lie was then in the court
doing nothing. I saw Cole struggling with him in
the passage of his own house. Cole had hold of him
by the collar, and was trying to pull him out of the
passage, and Cogan was trying to keep himself in. I
did not see the policeman strike Cogan. This was
about 1 o'clock. I did not see any violence that I
know of by the policeman, except the struggling.
When I saw him at 3 o'clock he and I were sitting
on one of Mr. Pontifex's large wheels in the court.
When I left him it was halt-past 3 o'clock. I then
went up to bed, leaving him in the court.
Mr. Lewis—Did you see him climb up to a lamp ?
Witness—l did. I saw him climb up one of the
lamps in the court at the break of daylight. He got
to the top of it. He climbed up by the gaspipe,
which was fixed against the wall. He dropped down
from the lamp. He fell upon his knees—not upon his
head. His head did not go against the wall. It was
then about three o'clock—about daylight. It was
not a heavy fall. He went up to the lamp to put it
out, and he did so. I did not notice whether he
lighted his pipe at the lamp. His legs gave under
him when he dropped from the lamp. There is a
regular lamplighter to put out the lamps in the court.
I cannot tell whether Cogan's head, when he dropped
from the lamp, was towards the street or the wall.
Mr. Lewis—Did you see him get up another lamp
afterwards? Witness—l did. Johnny Burke lifted
him up to the lamp. Burke stood, and Cogan clam-
bered up his back to put out the other lamp, and he
remained. Burke and another young chap lifted him
down. He got down safe, and he seemed as well
upon coming down from the second lamp as he seemed
upon coming down from the first. When he was
coming down from the second lamp Burke said to him,
" You are light-headed." That was after the fall.
He did not become weak after the fall, as I observed.
He did not make any answer when Burke said he was
light-headed. Burke stood there in his own passage.
fter he " outed" the second lamp the lamplighter
came up.
Cross•examined by the City Solicitor—l was doing
nothing at 11, or 1, or 3 o'clock. I had been at work
at home, and I bad not been at Tottenham-court-
road that day. I first told Mr. Cale, the inspector, of
this on Tuesday or Friday morning. Mobbs, a police-
man, came to me when I was in bed to fetch me to
the station-house. I suppose Inspector Cale sent him
to look for me. I did not tell Mobbs, but I told In-
spector Cale.
By Alderman Wlnsox—Cogan, when he dropped
from the first lamp, fell upon his knees. He did not
say that he hurt himself. I dare say he was in his
usual good spirits. There was no way for him to climb
up the second lamp. Cogan and I, after he had put
out the two lamps, sat upon Mr. Pontifex's wheel.
I think I left him at his own door. Ia my eyes he
appeared quite well.
Sarah Fountain—l am a married woman, and have
lived in Plumtree court, No. 8, upwards of 12 years.
I was up all Saturday night till 4 o'clock Sunday
morning washing. 1 have known Cogan about a
fortnight. I saw him on Sunday morning, before the
gas-light was put out, from my room. I saw him
with his right hand upon the iron of the lamp, and
his left hand leaning over the lamp. When I got into
the court I saw that the lamp was out. The court
was noisy all night; but I heard no particular noise
that night.
Alderman WILSON—You mean that you are so ac-
customed to noises in the court that you took no
particular notice of the noises that night ? Witness
—res. 1 heard that Biddy Moore was in a fit, and
that the police were with her. You can see down the
whole court from my house. I heard of Cogan's death
on Sunday morning. I heard that somebody had
killed him.
William Schofield, lamplighter, said—On Saturday
I lighted the lamps in Plumtree-court at half-past
eight o'clock. On Sunday morning at a quarter be-
fore three I went again to the court. I saw Burke
standing at the door of No. 9. I did not know Cogan.
There are three lamps in the passage into Holborn-
court. Two of them were out. Burke said they had
saved me the trouble,. of putting out the lamps. I saw
Cogan. I did not see the little boy (Moore) who has
given evidence. It is no one's duty but mine to put
out the lamps. I put my ladder up to see whether
the lamps had been properly put out, and I found
they were. I did not observe whether, from the ap
pearance of the wall, any one had had a fall against it.
Here the station-house book of the district was
produced. It contained an entry to the effect that a
man named Cogan had died soddenly that morning
at a house in Plumtree-court ; that the ward-beadle
had been informed of the event, and had sent for Mr.
Digby, who examined the body, and expressed an
opinion that the deceased had not died in consequence
of violence.
Joseph Nathaniel King, of No. 60, Shoe-lane,
said—l was acting at the time of the death of Cogan
as ward beadle, and attended the inquest. I saw
there Long and his wife, and Cole. I fetched Cole
to the inquest on the first day. He was in the police
uniform. During the time that long was under exa-
mination he might have been about two yards from
Cole. Mrs. Long was behind her husband, who,
upon being asked if he knew Cole appeared to hesi-
tate, and then his wife pulled his jacket and nudged
him. I did not hear her say anything. I separated
them. My attention was partly called by Sergeant
Pattison and two or three other persons in the room.
Cole remained until the close of the Coroner's inves-
tigation on the first and last days. The Coroner sent
me for Cole.

Cross-examined by the City Solicitor—Pattison,
87, called my attention to the circumstance. He said
that a man had been found dead in Plurntree-court,
and there was a report that be was murdered by the
police. He made the communication to me between
nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morning, and accom-
panied me to Mr. Digby. He and I went to see the
body. It was partly dressed. There was a wound
behind the right ear. The skin was slightly broken.
I did not see Inspector Cale in the course of Sunday.
I saw no other policeman with whom I communi-
cated on the subject. Mr. Topping said he could not
tell what was the cause of death without a post mor
tern examination. Ido not remember whether be said
the death was caused by external violence. He said
it was a fit case for inquiry. The police gave me no-
tice of the event in the first instance, but I must have
heard of it in the course of the day.
Cross• examined by the City Solicitor—l did not
hear that the man was murdered. There was con-
gealed blood behind the right ear. The size of the
abrasion was, I believe, about that of a sixp..enny
piece. I mean the size lof the blood, not or the
wound.

Andrew Pattison—l am a sergeant in the City
police force, No. 87. I went on duty on Sunday,
the 6th of July. My beat was from Shoe-lane, and
from Smithfield, to the boundary of the City. I was
in Shoe-lane about a quarter past six o'clock, and saw
Lockyer and Dearlove, sergeants of police, who were
knocking at the door of the ward beadle, Mr. King,
but they could not nuke him hear. Lockyer told me
that a man named Cogan had died suddenly in Plum-
tree-court. I asked him if be knew the case of death,
and he replied, he did not. I believe I told him the
doctor had been. I after wards accompanied the ward
beadle to Mr. Digby, the surgeon's, and saw Mr.
Topping, the assistant, who told me that he believed
the deceased had died of apoplexy. I made a report
of the death at the station-house. I afterwards saw
Inspector Cale at the station-house after twelve
o'clock, but I am not aware that I made any further
communication to him. I attended the inquest, and
Long and his wife were there. Long was asked by
the Coroner if be could identify Cole, and he replied
be could not. Cole was then standing in the room.
When asked a second time Long said he could point
Cole out, and he did so, but that was after Mrs. Long
and Mrs. Lyons had pointed at Cole, Baying " That's
the murderer."

Mr. Peter Mitchell—l produce a model of Plum-
tree- court, on a scale of 12 feet to an inch. I made
it myself. The height of the lamp-posts is about 10
feet. I have not been in the rooms of the house No.
6, but judging from the outside, and standing at the
edge, looking towards No. 28,
it is impossible to see
into that house.

Joseph Marshall—l am constable of the City police,
No. 230. I was in Plumtree-court at half-past one
or twenty minutes to two on the morning of the 6th
603 of July, I was called there by Cole. We there
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