The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-16 00:00:00

WEITTON AND CATO-STREET.

At the ineinest on Wednesday on Louis Kyezor and
Thomas Hyden Green, Frederick William Agar stated that
he had heard that Green's real name was Edwards; upon
which Mrs. Green stated that he originally kept a milk
shop in Cato-street, and having overheard the Cato-street
plot, he informed Lord Harrowby, and was afterwards
advised to adopt the name of Hidon. Whether the
murderer of Mr. Kyezor was Edwards or Hidon we
cannot say ; but Edwards was one of the conspirators, and
had been at tho time of he conspiracy for some time in
the pay of the Government, to whom he communicated
every step that was taken. The other man, Hidon,
who was a cowkeeper, had been solicited to enter
the plot, and warned Lord Harrowby of it the
day before that which was fixed for carrying it
into execution. Edwards was not called as a witness at the
trial of the conspirators, and formed the subject of a
debate in the House of Commons ; Alderman Wood
having moved first that he should be ordered to attend the
bar of the House, and afterwards that a secret committee
should be appointed to examine evidence touching his
criminal conduct and his connection with the conspirators,
both motions were negatived. Thistlewood, after he was
found guilty, gave the following account of Edwards :
" This Edwards, poor and penniless, lived near Picket-
street, in the Strand, some time ago, without a bed to lie
upon or a chair to sit in. Straw was his resting-place--his only
covering a blanket. Owing to his bad character and his
swindling conduct, he was driven from thence by his land-
lord. It is not my intention to trace him through his
immorality. Suffice it to say that he was in every sense of
the word a villain of the deepest atrocity. His landlord
refused to give him a character. Some short time after
this he called upon his landlord again, but—mark the
change in his appearance--dressed like a lord, in all the
folly of the reigning fashion. He now described himself
as the right heir to a German baron who had
been some time dead; that Lords Castlereagh
and Sidmouth had acknowledged his claims to
the title and property, had interfered in his
behalf with the German Government, and supplied him
with money to support his rank in society. From this
period I date his career as a Government spy." Thistle-
wood went on to say that Edwards proposed a plan for
blowing up the House of Commons, and also endeavoured
to induce men to thrown grenades into the carriages of
the Ministers as they passed through the streets.

Hidon's evidence at the trial was as follows :—" I was a
eowkeeper, and formerly a member of a shoemaker's club,
where I knew the prisoner Wilson. I saw him at the club
a few days before the 23rd of February; he asked me if I
would come forward and be one of a party to destroy his
Majesty's Ministers at a Cabinet dinner. Everything was,
hee said, prepared for tho occasion, and the dinner
was at hand. If I would join them, he said,
Mr. Thistlewood would be glad to speak to me. He
also stated that hand grenades were prepared for throwing
under the dinner table, and that the Ministers who escaped
the explosion were to die by the sword or some other
weapon. They were also to fire some houses and create a
general confusion to distract public attention for three
days, by which time all would be arranged. The fires were
to be at stations fixed upon, and among them were to be the
houses of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harrowby, Lord
Castlereagh, Lord Sidmouth, the Bishop of London, and
some others which I now forget. This was four or five
days before the Cato-street occurrence. I went to Lord
Harrowby's house before the 23rd of February to inform
his lordship of what was going on. He was out, and I
followed him into the park, where the servants said he had
gone ; I met him there, and gave him, while he was riding,
a note containing the whole plot, &c., &c."
Thistlewood, after the verdict, complained that he had
not been allowed to prove the " infamy" of Hidon and
other witnesses. If Green, who committed the murder at
Whitton last week, was either of these two men,
Edwards or Hidon, his early life must have have
been of an exciting description. It cannot be
correct, as stated in the report of the inquest, that he was
advised by Lord Harrowby to take the name of Hidon
after having informed his lordship of the plot; inasmuch
as Hidon was the name of the cowkeeper who gave the in-
formation. If he was Tilden, he has probably since that
time borne the name of Green. In the printed account
of the trial the name of the informer is spelt Hidon,
whereas Green's second name appears as Hytlen.—rall ..lfall
Gazcite.

It is stated that it is proposed to convert the Dept-
ford Dockyard into a fish market, in lieu of Billingsgate, the
lease of which will shortly exp:ro.

The Illustrated London News states that the will of
the Right lion. Sir Lloyd Kenyon, Baron Kenyon, Bart.,
M.A., of Gredington, Flintshire, was proved under ..£30,000.
A telegram from North Shields states that an ex-
plosion bad taken place in connection with one of the col-
lieries at Cramlington, about five miles from North Shields,
and that two men had been killed.