The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

Walter Thomas Emma, boot and shoe maker and rent
collector, aged 45, dwelling at the time of his apprehension
in Elmsley's brick field, Grove-street, Bethnal-green, and
James Mullins, aged 50, a plaisterer, and formerly a ser-
geant in the K division of the Metropolitan police, after-
wards an inspector in the Irish constabulary, again a ser-
geant in the K division, subsequently employed on the
South Eastern Railway, and lastly a convict under sen-
tence of six years' penal servitude for a robbery on that
railway, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with the
wilful murder of Mrs. May Elmsley, a widow, at No. 9,
Grove-road, Mile End, on or about the 16th of August last.
Mr. Wontner, solicitor, conducted the prosecution; Mr
Rose, the deceased's late solicitor, and Mr. Ratcliff, solicitor,
of Dean Colet House, and acting for the relatives and exe-
cutors of the deceased lady, were also in attendance. Mr.
Charles Young, solicitor, of Arbour-square, again attended
for Emma ; Mr. Herbert Wood, solicitor, watched the case
for Mullins.

Soon after ten o'clock people began to assemble in Ar •
bour-street, near the court, and the multitude continued to
increase until the arrival of the police-van containing the
prisoner Mullins soon after eleven o'clock. The van was
driven into the station-house yard behind the court, and
no one was able to catch a glimpse of the prisoner except
the gaoler and the officers in charge of the van until he was
arraigned in the dock.
Envies, who had been out on bail, surrendered at eleven
o'clock. He appeared in good health and spirits, and was
attended by a host of friends. A general impression that
he is entirely innocent of the foul crime laid to his charge
is entertained. Mullins appeared ill and careworn.
The investigation is expected to last for many days. All
the witnesses examined before the coroner's jury will have
to give their evidence over again before the magistrate. On
Monday Sergeant Tanner, a detective officer, applied to Mr.
Yardley and obtained summonses against seventeen addi-
tional witnesses, who were all in attendance this morning.
At twelve o'clock, after the disposal of the night charges,
tie accused parties were arraigned. The court was then
crowded to excess, and hundreds sought- admission in vain.
There was a large force of police in attendance to preserve
order, both inside and outside of the court, under the direc-
tion of Superintendent Howie and Inspectors Griffin, Ker-
ressy, Allison, and Beard, of the K division. There has
not been so much excitement and interest created by any
criminal investigation since Captain Johnston, of the ship
Tory, was charged at this court with several murders on
the high seas, 15 years ago.
For the better understanding of the evidence given this
day, it may bo only necessary to state that the deceased
was collecting rents of her tenants on the 13th of August
last, which was the last day she was seen alive, and that on
the following Friday, the 17th, her mutilated remains were
found at the entrance of her own bedroom. It is supposed
that she was murdered on the 13th, and that the money she
collected on that day was stolen at the same time. Both pri-
soners were employed by deceased. The circumstances which
led to their apprehension were shortly these. Mullins waited
on the officers, Tanner and Thornton, engaged in the
case, and gave information which induced them to go to a
shed adjoining the dwelling occupied by Emms, and pointed
out a place where he said Emms had deposited a parcel con-
taining property belonging to the deceased ; and Mullins
on arriving at the shed with the detectives, after some
parleying, said to Sergeant Thomas, " Pull down that -
slab, and turn up those bricks." Thomas did pull down
the stone, and behind it found a parcel containing a cheque
for £lO, paid to Mrs. Emsley on the 13th, a plated spoon,
and other articles belonging to the deceased. Emms at
once said it was a wicked and cruel plot to implicate him;
and the theory of the prosecution is that Mullins is the
murderer, and deposited the parcel in the spot where it was
found for the purpose of committing Emma and obtaining
the reward of £3OO.

After a short consultation, in an under tone, between
Mr. Selfe, Mr. Wontner, and Mr. Pyn, tho chief clerk,

Mr. Wontner said that, since the last examination, he
had received information which led him to suppose
that Emms ought no longer to be detained in custody. In
his judgment the information given by Mullins against
Emms was totally devoid of foundation, and he should,
therefore, request that he should be discharged.
Mr. Selfe—ls Emms here.

Mr. Young—Yes, sir ; he surrenders upon bail.

Emms was called, and Mr. Selfe addressed him, and said
that the solicitor for the prosecution, in his judgment, was
of opinion there was no evidence to criminate him. He
was therefore discharged from custody. Emma had better
remain in court, for he might be required as a witness.
Mr. Wontner—Yes, I intend to call him as a witness.

Mr. Wontner said he now intended to put before the
magistrate, a chain of evidence which ho believed would
justify the magistrate in committing the prisoner Mullins
for wilful murder, The solicitor then went into all the
particulars of the disappearance of the deceased, her habits
of seclusion, the discovery of the murder, the efforts
made by the detective officers, and the extraordi-
nary conduct of the prisoner, who accused the unfor-
nate shoemaker, Emms, of placing a parcel in the
shed, to which any one had access, and said it was what
was vulgarly called a plant, on the part of Mullins. All the
leading points adverted to by Mr. Wontner have already
been published in detail. He should be enabled to establish
the perfect innocence of Emms, and the utter improba-
bility of Mrs. Emms's story respecting them. He would
make it manifest that the prisoner was in possession of the
articles contained in the parcel, and that he alone was the
murderer. Mr. Wontner then reviewed the conduct of Mul-
lins before and after the murder, and said part of his
conduct was inexplicable. There was one circumstance in
the case almost dramatic—the meeting of Mullins with a
man on the morning of the day the murder was supposed to
have been committed, when the prisoner was startled and
acted as if ho believed the man ho met with was an
officer in disguise. When the man identified Mullins in
Clerkenwell prison the latter quailed before his glance.
This was a grave circumstance in the case, and
greatly aided the other circumstances connected with
this horrible affair. The magistrate would find that the
prisoner was employed by the deceased, that he was
one of the few persons allowed to enter her house,
and that he was well acquainted with her
habits. He particularly dwelt on the circumstance of the
prisoner's wife selling a pencil-case of a peculiar descrip-
tion to a barman at a public-house, two days before he was
given into custody. That pencil-case would be identified
as having belonged to the deceased.
[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]

THE SEwING-MAcniNE.—The question as to
the right of Mr. Howe, the inventor of the sewing-
machine, to a renewal of his patent, which has for some
time been regarded in America with great interest, hasjust
been decided in his favour. A renewed term of seven years
has been granted. In the argument before the Commis-
sioners of Patents, the counsel for Mr. Howe took the
ground that it is the law and established practice of the
United States Patent-office to decide such applications, not
according to the profit received by the patentee irrespective
of the public value of the invention, but according to the
ratio between the profit and public value, and that value
in the present case, he contended, has been extraordi•
nary. According to certain detailed computations, it
was stated that the value of the sewing in the
United States capable of being done by the sewing-
machines is at least £58,000,000 per annum, and that Howe's
machine, even if applied to the work in the exact form in
which he first introduced it, would save to the public
£34,000,000 per annum. Looking only at the actual results
achiveed, it was pointed out that the sewing machine has
already entered into and revolutionised me re than 37 distinct
departments of manufacture, besides enlarging many and
also creating new ones. In the city of New York alone the
yearly saving by the machine is asserted to be £1,500,000
on men's and boy's clothing, £92,000 on hats and caps, and
£170,000 on shirt fronts, while in Massachusetts in the
manufacture only of boots and shoes the labour value of its
performance is £1,500,000.
Another failure took pliee-to-day in the corn
trade—that of Mr. Thomas Nokes, of West Thurrock
Mills, near Grays, Essex, with liabilities of about £20,000.
The books are in the hands of Messrs. Coleman.
The season of 1859-60 for the manufacture of
beet-root sugar closed with the month of August. The
quantity made was in round numbers 1261 millions of kilo-
grammes, being about 6 millions less than in the preceding
season. The number of manufactories at work had decreased
from 349 to 334. Since beet-root sugar first came into serious
competition with that produced from the cane, the manu-
facture has gone on steadily increasing. In the season of
1838- 39 the quantity made was 39} millions of kilogrammes,
and in that of 1859.60 126/ millions.
RICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London
is 25.15 per 11 sterling. On comparing those rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 424/ per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.4 per £1 sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is rather more than 3-10ths per
cent, dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 109; to 1091 per cent.,which2when compared with the Mint
par between the two countries, shows that the exchange
is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allow-
ance for charges of interest and difference of interest, the
present rate leaves a small profit 914 the importation of gold
from the Vaitc4 Stateai

[I3Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
ELEVENTH TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Mouravieff
The Rover

Four ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
20 to lon the field (offered)
22 to 1 agst Optimist (taken)
25 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken)
28 to 1 agst Starke (taken)
28 to 1 agst Golden Pippin (taken)
30 to 1 agst Bevis (taken)
30 to 1 agst Weatherbound (taken)
100 to 3 agst Courier (taken)
100 to 3 agst Conscript (taken)
100 to 3 agst Alderman (taken)
100 to 3 agst Glendinning (taken)
100 to 3 agst Plumper (offered)
40 to 1 agst Rocket (taken)
40 to 1 agst Barrabas (taken)
40 to 1 agst Newcastle (offered)
LO to 1 agst Lady Trespass (taken)
50 to 1 agst Richmond (taken)
50 to 1 agst Killigrew (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Dundee (take 6 to 1)

PUGILISM.

HEENAN AND MORRISSEY.

The sporting world is informed by the New York Mer-
cury that Morrissey and Heenan will fight on the 10th of
November next. Both men keep up a system of quiet
training. Morrissey's health is good—his bronchial tubes
were slightly affected, but he is now in perfect condition.
In conversation at Saratoga, one day last week, Morrissey
was asked—" Shall you fight Heenan again ?" He at
once replied—" I certainly shall, and shall whip him too."
He went on to say that he wanted the challenge to come
from Heenan, as Heenan, having been defeated by Mor-
rissey, ought, of course, to issue the defiance. He said
that he should at once accept the challenge, and added he
—" If you've got any money to bet on the event put it on
me, and I'll win it for you." He continued—" lam con-
fident that I can whip this man. Sayers would have
whipped him easy if he had fought him as I shall fight him.
He can't stand body punishment, and I shall give him
my head to hammer away at, while I make my fighting at
his body. I can outstay him, and I'll win the fight, be
sure of that. His hands will go in a little while, and then
I can take him as I want to." Morrissey, the Mercury
says, "is full of confidence, and wants only, as he says,
once more to face his old antagonist on the turf to teach
him that he is still his master. Morrissey has many friends
who are equally confident witk himself, and who with him
will stake every dollar they can raise on the issues of the
fight. Experienced fighting men also declare their belief
that Morrissey will win the fight, and they found their as-
sertion on the same theory that is propounded by Mor-
rissey, that Morrissey can stay longer than Heenan, and
can take all the punishment his adversary can inflict, and
can then go in and whip him." If they fight it will be for
10,000 dole. aside, and besides the battle money the
two combatants will each bet from five thousand to fifteen
thousand dollars on the event.

POLICE INTELLIGERCE-(TIIIS DAY.)

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A LUCKY ESCAPE—A FRIEND IN A CONSTABLE:—
Fanny Wright, a prostitute and convicted thief, and Eliza-
beth Emma Cooper, a prostitute, were charged before Mr.
Beadon with being in the company of Mr. Morris Wilson,
of 1, Crescent-place, Brompton, fur the purpose of commit-
ting a felony.

Mr. Wilson, who had previously been charged with being
drunk, was seen by Chapman, 79 C, in company of the pri-
soners, and as he saw in the hand of Wright a £5 bank
note, and knowing her as a thief, ho took her and the other
prisoner, who was in her company, into custody for being
with the prosecutor for the purpose of committing a rob-
bery, and the prosecutor for being drunk.

Air. Wilson said he went into the Rose, Jermyn-street,
between 11 and 12 the previous Right with the prisoner
Wright, being at the time quite sober, and having in his
pocket 11 £5 bank notes. He called for a bottle of sherry,
and put down a sovereign to pay for it, the other female
not then being in his company. He had only drunk two
glasses when he felt quite overcome, and could not find his
gold. He threw on the counter a£s note to pay for another
bottle of sherry. but as it got stained with some beer the
landlord refused to take it. He put it in his breast pocket,
and was afterwards conscious of being fumbled by the pri-
soner Wright, and believed he should have lost the whole
of his money but for the constable (Chapman).
In answer to Mr. Beadon, the prosecutor said he would
not swear Wright was the one who fumbled hip, but he
believed she was, and also that she had all his gold, about
£4, and the change of a sovereign, because the other woman
had not come into the house at the time.

Sergeant Yeater, C, said that Wright was a well-known

thief, and had bees convicted. The man she had been co-
habiting with was at present in prison under a sentence of
four years for felony.
Mr. Beadon said he should remand them till Wednesday
next.

T.711S DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

An unusually small supply of English wheat was on
sale here to-day, mostly in very poor condition. Both red
and white samples of good quality moved off freely, at fully
Monday's advance in the quotations; but inferior kinds
were a slow inquiry, at that day's currency.
There was a large quantity of foreign wheat on the stands.
The transactions, however, both for town and country con-
sumption, were rather numerous, at very full prices.
Floating cargoes of grain were rather dearer.
Fine barley commanded rather more money, and other
kinds were quite as dear as last week.
Fine malt was firm in price, but other kinds ruled very
inactive.

The oat trale was steady, and good sound corn was

rather dearer.
Beans and peas were scarce, and in request, at very full
prices.
Flour moved off steadily, at extreme rates. The supply
of foreign-made is good.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 780 100 2,190 lO j 890
Irish — —.—
Foreign...
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