The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-16 00:00:00

THE TRAGEDY AT POPLAR.

On Wednesday Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, held
inquests at the St. Leonard's Arms Tavern:St. Leonard's-
road, Bromley, on view of the bodies of Jonathan Judge,
aged 33 years, Clara Ann Judge, aged :7,2, and
Louisa Emily and Charles Judge, aged respectively
3 years and 10 months, who were suffocated by the fumes
of charcoal at No. 18, Bromley-cottages. Inspector
Smith, K division, watched the case for the
Commissioners of Police. Henry Judge, 27, Englehelm-
terrace, blillwall, a driller, brother of the deceased man,
identified the bodies. He stated that he had never heard
his brother threaten to destroy his life or the lives of his
children. Sergeant Michael Holton, 2t? K, said, on Tuesday
morning, while on duty, a young man came up to him and
said, "A family has been murdered in your street." Upon
going to Judge's house, witness found that the top window
had been broken open, and that 229 K had entered by
means of a ladder. Witness entered the house and saw
the bodies of four penons lying upon a Led in the corner
of the top back room. The body of the man was lying
partially over those of his wife and two children. The
woman lav on her back, the infant being on herieft hand and
the girl some little distance off on her right. The witness
gave a description of the state of the room. An old can on the
floor contained the remains of charcoal. On a table was
some mutton which a cat ran away with while the police
were searching about. Two books—" Treasure Trove; or,
He would be a Gentleman," and "A Struggle for Life"
—appeared to have been read quite recently, one of them
lying still unclosed on the table. The chinks of the window
and of the door, &c., were pasted over with strips of the
Eastern Post and other newspapers. Brown paper was
used in addition where the crevices were large, as at the
lower part of the doorway, &c. Inspector Smith pro-
duced two letters in the handwriting of Jonathan
Judge, which had been found in the room. On one of
them was written a direction to give to his brother the
old family clock. The other was as follows :—" 13t1;
September.—T, J. Judge, hereby certify and leave to
Eleanor Wilson all we possess.— (Signed) J. JUDGE, CLABA
JUDGE." The signatures were in the handwriting of Judge
and his wife. Robert Thorpe said that he knew that
Judge's family were in great poverty in consequence of
being out of work. Thorpe, being also out of work, wa,
much with Judge, and he always thought him a sober:
steady man. He had been in the 24th Regiment for eight
years and had served in India. He often-said, "I wish I
were back in India again." Ms wages when in work were
a guinea a week. The coroner having summed up, tine
jury, after deliberating for an le u-, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Jonathan and Clara Judge for
destroying their two children, and sti:cide while in a state
of unsound mind in regard to themselves.

The total number of British vessels entering the
port of Calais during the year 1833 was 1,079, being 15'2
less than in the previous year.

The Tower Subway appears to be progressing in
a satisfactory manner. At a meeting of the shareholder
on Wednesday it was stated that out of a total length of
1,350 feet, 1150 had been completed.

It is officially stated that in consequence of the
proximity of France to England, pig iron can be imported
into the former country at a cheaper rate than it can be
produced at the foundry of Marquise, on the Calais and
Boulogne Railway. The productions of the said foundry
have therefore sensibly diminished.

The aggregate quantity of clean cotton produced
in Continental Greece in 1861 is estimated at about
5,950,8771b5. at this amount only 24,2161b5. were shipped
to England, which is mainly due to the want of direct
conveyance from the Piranis to Liverpool.

A correspondent, who has just travelled through
Ireland, declares that the only marks of disaffection he
encountered were shewn by two Protestants, one of whom
had the portrait of the Queen hanging in his dining-room,
with her Majesty's face turned towards the wall, and
another, who flatly told him that the Queen, in assenting
to the Irish Church Aet, had perjured herself.
THE LATE INTERNATIONAL BOAT-RACE. - The
gentleman of the English and foreign press who sub-
scribed to hire the steamer Sunflower, on the occasion of
the late boat-race between Oxford and Harvard Univer-
sities have, through Messrs. Clement Brothers, of 13ell's
Life, forwarded to the National Life-boat Institution a
contribution of £l2los. ; being a moiety of the balance of
their subscriptions after paying for the hire of the steamer.
WASHING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. - An English
visitor to Stettin thus recounts the troubles of his coun-
trymen in Prussia with respect to their toilette. " I hap-
pened to call on a friend at his billet, and found him
vainly endeavouring to explain to the people of the house
that he wanted a tub of some sort wherein to relieve his
cuticle of the dust that bad accumulated upon its surface
-luring a four hours' ride with the Staff. My friend spoke
no German—the Starngarder, if anything, still less Eng-
lish—and my appearance was hailed with joy by both
parties, as a means to the arrival at something like a
mutual understanding. Of course, I proceeded to inquire
whether the resources of the establishment included the
common appliances for washing. Oh ! yes, best foreign
lord ; there is that good large basin there,' pointing out a
shallow pie'dish, up to about half-a-pint of water. But have
you not the tub in which the house linen is washed ?'
We do not, ah ! my honoured Sir Baron, wash at
home!' But do you never, never, wash your bodies in
the privacy of the chamber ?' You should have seen the
man's face of astonishment and dismay. Never—upon
honour—word, never !We rinse, so'—the gesture is in-
describable—` our faces sometimes:; but our bodies—oh,
how could you think we would do such a thing ?' This is
a true story ; nothing extenuated, I assure you, nor aught
set down in malice.

CHASE AFTER AN ESCAPED MILITARY PRISONER.
—A remarkable occurrence took place at Hounslow on
Wednesday morning. It appears that a private of the
9th Lancers, named James Chinery, bad been convicted
of neglect of duty, and was under sentence of six months'
imprisonmen in Aldershot Military Gaol. Corporal
Lowe had charge of an escort, which was under
orders to convey Chinery to Kingston Railway Station,
and thence to Aldershot. Soon after the escort
had left Hounslow Barracks, and on reaching the
London-road, Chinery, who was mounted on a very fleet
horse, suddenly applied the spur and shot off in the direc-
tion of London. The escort pursued, but did not come
up with the prisoner. Seeing this, Corporal Lowe ordered
his men to draw their pistols and fire if Chinery relnBed
to surrender. But pistol shots would not have reached
the distance between the pu:•sued and the pursuers, and
for nearly two miles the cf;a: carried on. Wip:o
midway between Hounslow and :Isleworth the horse of
one of the esc:)rt stumbled, thrOwing the rider with
great force to the ground, and his pistol went' off. The
contents happily struck against a wall, occasioning no
serious damage. The soldier was, however, very much
shaken. Meanwhile the prisoner Chinery was riding
madly along, and had reached Brentford-end, when, on
the horse shelving signs of restiveness, the pursuing party
were enabled to come up with him. Their prisoner had,
however, in the meantime secreted himself in a market
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