The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1869.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

some time been progressive in all its branches, and
in the single item of pigs causing a diminution on
the half-year of over £1,360. The outlay charged
to capital expenditure was much reduced this half-
year, having been in the half-year ending June,
1859, £6,457 ; December, 1859, £6,050; June,
1860, £3,451. The outlay had been for addition to
rolling stock, £1,237 ; Parliamentary expenses,
£754 ; and works along the line, £978. The com-
pany's bill, which had been unanimously approved
by the proprietors, received the royal assent July 23.
The rejection of the bill for the sale of the Kilkenny
Railway opened the way for negotiations with the
directors of that company, which had terminated
in the Limerick Company undertaking an agree-
ment for the working of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny line, which was to take effect as soon as pos-
sible; also a prospective agreement for the working
of the extension line to Mountrath, for which a bill
had been obtained, and which they trusted would
afford a considerable increase of traffic. They had
also within the last few weeks completed arrange-
ments with the Limerick and Castleconnel Company
for the working of their extension line, which was
open to Birdhill, and in course of completion to
Killaloe. These agreements had been arranged on
terms which, while advantageous to the other com-
panies, would, the directors trusted, be found fairly
remunerative to their company. The capital ac-
count showed that £1,197,257 had been received,
£1,233,815 expended, leaving a balance of £36,558
against the company. The revenue account for the
half-year ending 30th of June showed that £32,278
had been received, and £13,600, or 42.14 per cent.
expended, leaving a balance of L 18,671.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE,

The report of the directors of this company states
that the policy of the board has never been aggres-
sive, but they have been too frequently forced into
litigation and Parliamentary contest in defence of
the interest of the proprietors. Mutual concessions,
however, and the consequent amicable arrange-
ments entered into with all opponents, have left
them free to develope the resources of the line ; and
although they have still to liquidate law expenses
already incurred, little outlay in Parliamentary or
legal controversy with other companies has this
year been requisite, nor is it anticipated that it will
, be necessary in future.
[ The revenue account for the half-year ending the
30th of June showed that £43,531 had been re-
ceived for passengers, &c., against £40,965 for the
corresponding half of 1859, showing an increase of
£2,566. The receipts for goods and minerals
amounted to £98,427, against £85,765, showing an
' increase of £12,662. The receipts for the canal
amounted to £69,863, against £67,233 at the cor-
responding period of last year ; and the expendi-
ture to £27,116, against £26,533, showing an in-
crease of £583. The net profit of the canals
amounted t 0142,747, against £40,700 in 'the cor-
responding half of 1859, showing an increase of
£2,047.. The quantity of materials, such as rails,
chairs, fish-plates, &c., required in the half-year
for the maintenance and renewal of permanent way
has been considerably in excess of any former
similar period ; but the directors see no reason to
depart from their uniform course of charging the
whole to revenue, rather than to adopt the practice,
now very generally pursued by other railway corn-
' panies, of carrying any part of it to a suspense ac-
' count, to be redeemed in fixed yearly amounts from
future revenue. The rates received on the Bid-
' dulph line for 32,677 tons of minerals and goods
amounted to £3,836. But this must not be taken as
any criterion of the value of this extension of the
North Staffordshire mineral trade. No passengers
have as yet been carried over it. The directors, after
making provision for bad and doubtful debts, lay-
ing aside a reserve of £3,000, and paying every
expense chargeable to revenue, are enabled to re-
commend to their shareholders a dividend at the
rate of 4 per cent. per annum, which will leave a
balance of £1,040 for next account. The articles of
agreement between the London and North-Western
and the North Staffordshire Companies have re-
ceived the sanction of the London and North-West•
ern proprietors, convened at a special meeting. The
capital account showed that the total amount autho-
rised was £5,820,000, of which £436,033 remained
uncalled. The total expenditure on account of the
canal was X 1,170,000, an d on the railway £4,191,179
—together£s,36l,l79. The balance in handamounted
to £22,717. The canal revenue for the half-year
ending the 30th June amounted to £69,863, and the
expenditure to £27,116, leaving a balance of £42,746.
The railway revenue amounted to £156,283. in-
cluding £12,476 from the London and North-West-
ern, and the expenses to £77,900, tolls to Midland
£3,884, leaving a balance of £74,499.

'NOTTINGHAM AND GRANTHAM.
The report of the directors states that the name
of this undertaking was changed by the Act which
received the royal assent on the 15th of May last,
from the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston,
to that oC the Nottingham and Grantham Rail-
way and Canal Company. The other principal fea-
tures of the Act were a reduction of the share capital
to £1,014,000, in lieu of £1,056,250, and of the bor-
rowing powers from £358,333 to £265,000. Look-
ing to the desirability, as expressed by the proprie-
tors 12 months since, of discharging the existing
debenture debt of the company as from time to time
it became due, and there being many proprietors
who desired at once to pay up in full, the directors
had resolved to a:low interest at the rate of 4 per
cent. per anrum to shareholders paying up the un-
called £2 per share of the capital. The general
business of the undertaking contrasted favourably
with that of the same time last year, or any similar
period, the increase on the railway being in every
class, and amounting in gross to £3,253, while the
tonnages on the canals showed an addition of £139.
The amount received of the Great Northern Com-
pany for traffic, station rent, and interest, with the
net earnings of the navigations, showed a balance
to the credit of revenue of £14,878, which would
admit of a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share, or 31 per
cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £9l. The
capital account showed that £1,029,041 had been
received and £1,028,987 expended, leaving a balance
of £54. The revenue for the half-year ending the
30th of June on the Nottingham canal amounted
to £3,132, the expenses to £994, and the balance to
£2,138. The receipts on the Grantham canal
amounted to £2,164, the expenses to £714, and the
balance to £1,450. Those balances, added to
£15,213 received from the Great Northern, and £Bl
from the last account, amounted to £18,882, the
interest on loans and the expenses to £4,004, leav-
ing £14,878 for dividend.

POLICI? INTEL 1,10- ENCE-Aug. 25,

WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY DIS-
CLOSURES.—AIien Fairrie Johnstone and Sarah
Elliott, the latter a vulgar-looking but well-dressed
and well-spoken woman, with a nervous affection of
the eyes, and a large sear on the left hand, were
brought up for further examination, charged with
stealing a valuable child.
The child, Jane Smith, a very pretty, precocious
little girl of five years of age, is very intelligent,
and although so young draws large audiences by
singing at various concert-rooms. Three weeks
ago the female called upon the child's mother, and,
under pretence of buying her a new sash, as she
was to sing at the Spread Eagle, Wandsworth, that
evening, absconded with Johnstone, with whom she
cohabits, taking the child to Southampton, and the
prisoners were apprehended at Portsea, by In-
spector Street, of the Portsmouth police, with the
child in their possession.
Firman, Inspector of the A reserve, who has
had charge of the case, said since the last hearing
the mother of the female prisoner had given
money to the child's mother not to press the charge
any further, and he had stopped the mother in the
act of leaving the court. Apart from this he had
some very important facts to communicate to his
worship. The female prisoner had passed by the
names of Arnold, Randall, Elliott, Hapgood, John-
stone, Farrar, Lady Fortescue, and other aliases,
and after making diligent inquiry he found there
were more than 20 cases of fraud against the pri-
soners at Southampton, and he had several people
present who had been duped by the female, in con-
sequence of her making various false representations
to them. They (prisoners) had visited almost every
lodging-house keeper in Southampton, absconding
without paying, and had on one occasion repre-
sented that they had obtained the child for the
purpose of taking her to sing before Lord Palmer-
ston. The mother of the female too had come to
London, and representing herself as the aunt, had,
he believed, obtained some of the property the pri-
soners had become possessed of by fraud.
Mr. Paynter asked if Johnstone was a party to
' the frauds ?

Mr. Firman replied in the affirmative ; .he had
been living with her all the time. He then called
Mrs. Clara Gregory, who said—My husband is a
house painter and decorator, and I keep a wardrobe
shop at 52, Dorset-street, Portman-square. I know
both prisoners, and the dress and bonnet the female
has on are mine. I knew her as lodging in the same
street, and on the 21st of June she brought me
several letters to prove she would in a few days be
iu receipt of large sums of money. She also said
she was the niece of Lord Palmerston and Lady
Fortescue in her own right, but had married Mr.
Johnstone unknown to her friends; and, on the
faith of her representations, together with the let-
ters she produced, 1 let her have three dresses and
three bonnets, of the total value of £9 3s. 6d. She
was to pay on Saturday following, and I was, to go
•
to her house, which I did, when she had left word LATEST PARTICULARS.
she was out of town, and on the .Monday I heard It has already been stated that application had
been made by the authorities of the Home Office to
she absconded from her lodging, and had pawned
one of the dresses on the same day she obtained it issue a reward for the apprehension of the mur-
of me,
derer or murderers, and that Mr, Faith and Mr.
The female prisoner—Did I not tell you I was in Whittaker, the two sons-in-law of the deceased,
the habit of meeting gentlemen, and wanted the had also declared their willingness to add £2OO as
a further reward of the assassin or assassins. The
articles for that purpose ?
Prosecutor (most emphatically)—You did not, or application to the Home Office in this respect would
you would not have had them, appear to be successful, for during Saturday after-
Mr. Paynter asked prosecutrix how she had al- noon the police were busy posting at the various
lowed herself to be so duped. There was nothing in police stations, and throughout the Eastern dis-
prisoner's appearance to show she was a lady. triers of the metropolis, monster placards, as well as
;d_isgtriisbautiong small hand-bills, of which the Prosecutrix replied she spoke in so plausible and
follow-
ladylike a tone that, coupled with showing the let- ''' a
" 1 HRECE copy
POUNDS REWARD.—MURDER.--
tors purporting to be signed by noblemen, one Whereas, ' Mary Elmsley,' widow, has been brutally mur-
dered at 9, Grove-road, Mile-end-road, on or about Mon-
Defendant denied this charge and all others that
shall day, the 13,th August, 1860, £lOO reward will be paid
iby
apapeenrsln n lead to
might be brought against her, and then looking
Governmentthe to n
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ego snuvihetionn
formation Majesty
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round the court, and scrutinising the persons ready
of
the guilty person or persons; and the Secretary
to give evidence against her, she admitted she had of State for the Home Department will advise
taken lodgings of several people and had not been the grant of her Maja!dy's gracious pardon to
in a position to pay. any accomplice, not being the actual murderer,
Sophia.
Dawson, 16, Southampton-terrace, 'Pater-
who shall give such information as shall lead to
100-bridge, said—l let apartments, and know the
the same result. A further reward of £2OO will also be
paid by Mr. Ratcliff, solicitor, Dean Colet House, Stepney,
prisoners. They took apartments on the 6th Febru-
to any person who shall give information as Etovel.B3oA.
ary last for one week, as man and wife, under the mourning ring to the memory of ..T..Jo.nes, who di d name of Elliott.' They slept there two nights, and a dark-coloured pocket-book, containing an acceptance of
£25 • also a cheque on the Bank of London for £lO are
then went to Southampton. They returned on the
miss'in Information to be given to Inspector Thornton,
Ist of March, and stayed till the 24th, again going
or Seq,g,eant Tanner, Detective Police, Scotland-yard, or to
to Southampton, where she told me she was to meet Inspector Kerressey, Bow Police Station, K Division.—
her uncle and obtain some money from him. On Metropolitan Police Office, August 24, 1860."
April 3d she came back again, stating that she and Amongst the various rumours that are afloat as
her husband had quarrelled. She often told me she to the murderer of this unfortunate woman, none
was Lord Fortescue's daughter, and that Lord Pal- appears to gain so much credence as that which
merston was her uncle, and on the 14th she said assumes that the party who committed the crime
she was going to call on some friends to lunch with was well known to the deceased, and that he had
them, and at half-past one would return, and bring been to see her upon some business connected with
her friends with her to dinner ; and to carry out this the rent for one of her houses, or the pretence of
is the course of the morning a large quantity of purchasing some of her paperhangings. On Satur-
poultry, lobsters, prawns, and other dedcacies came day, however, a curious circumstance occurred,
in. She said after she hail lunched with her friends which has put the police upon quite another track.
she was going to call on Lord Palmerston, and asked , During the morning, three well-dressed foreigners,
me to lend her my watch, chain, and brooch, which who could speak English tolerably well, and who,
I did, and never saw her again. She also stole an we believe
article of wearing apparel belonging to me. , gave their names and addresses, called
at the police station, near Arbour-square, Stepney,
watch, chain, and brooch, did she styFortescue she was Lord Inspector Griffin of the K division, then on duty,
? that they had a strong suspicion as to who were
Mrs. Dawson.—No; but she had
thatfrequently
account told the murderers. They said their suspicions rested
me so before, and I believed it, and on
lent her the things, During her sta with me in upon three or four Frenchmen who had been for
y some time lurking about the East-end of London,
March, too, she showed me a life policy, purporting whom they knew to have been French convicts, and
to be for £l,OOO, and her will, and I thought her a who upon their release or escape from the bagnes
lady of great property,
had made their way to England. They stated that
The female prisoner denied this charge, and said these men were in the habit of going about in twos
that the watch and chain were the property of her and threes with slippers, which they represented as
husband, as she called him (Mr. Johnstone), and of French manufacture, and on gaining access to
that she had slept with two men, one of whom was premises for the purpose of effecting a sale, they laid
Mr. Blackman from Lambeth, while in Mrs. Daw- their hands upon anything which was within their
son's house,
reach. Several house robberies and burglaries
Mrs Dawson denied this, have lately been reported as perpetrated by
The prisoner then stated that her mother's name foreigners answering the description given of these
was Hewett, and her proper name Hewett ; but she men. The most remarkable part of the representa-
was the illegitimate child of a csentleman named tion, however, is that the three foreigners stated to
Fortescue, and she did not consider it was wrong the inspector that they have seen the individuals to
to use a name to which she thought herself entitled whom they refer since the period of the murder,
—the name of her father. and that they are now well-dressed and have been
Mr. Firman here produced the life policy and spending a deal of money. It is their impression
will, which he said were shams. The will was her that one if not two of these men had called upon
g
own, and she pretended to be willin awe y far ge the deceased, and having gained access to the
sums of money and property, while she was worth house, and finding she was alone, had committed
nothing except what she obtained be her fraudu- the murder. Whether the police authorities
lent practices.
attach any importance or not to this representa-
tion Paynter said he did not think there was any tion remains for themselves to decide; but certain
case made out here, as the prisoner had not made it is that in the course of the afternoon Sergeant
the false representations to Mrs. Dawson at the '
time she obtained her watch arid chain. Coppia one of on of the detectives of the K division in Miss Ann Hemmings of Davis-street, Berkele the case, and who has been directing his energies
square, was then called, and said—l let m house y- to a particular quarter where he has suspicions, re-
in apartments, and have at present a y ceived a communication from head-quarters, Scot-
there, and this woman has among otherrince
thin lodging land-yard, to turn his efforts in quite another direc-
deavoured to take away my character and the gs e
cha- n- tion, but in what direction the police very properly
abstain from affording information. It was stated
racter of my house. She did not come to lodge with at the inquest that the deceased, when discovered,
me. I should be very sorry to have such a
person in was perfectly dressed, with the exception of one
my house, but I went to see the last witness, my slipper, having one on, and the other laid a short
sister, one day, and heard that the female prisoner distance from the left foot. It has since been dis-
wished to be introduced to me, and my sister intro- covered that these slippers are apparently quite
duced her to me, which circumstance I shall ever new, and of a kind which Mrs; Emsley had never
regret. On that occasion prisoner and myself had been seen to wear before.
a long chat together, and she showed me several letters, one of which bore the In the placard offering the reward for the appre-
pretended signa- In
of the murderer, it will be observed that
tore of a solicitor, and stated that she would re-
ceive £5,000 on production of her marriage book, with an acceptance for £25, and a cheque for
cite. She also told me she was going to Cambridge £lO on the Bank of London. It has since been
House. I could not believe it at first, and when
ascertained that that cheque was paid to Mrs. she came back, remarking on my not crediting her Emsley on Monday, the 13th, the day of the sup-
story, she read me a letter from Lord Palmerston, posed murder, in the evening, by Mr. Carryer, of
and showed me the envelope it carne in, which bare the firm of Pickering and Carryer, operative
Lord Palmerston's crest, and when she showed me
this, I believed her other statements to be true. chemists, for the rent of premises • they
occupy be-
She told me she was going again to Cambridge
Bethnal-green. Up sto Saturday afternoon that
y cheque had not been presented at the Bank of Lon-
Palmerston, who would get Lord Palmerston to in- don. Mr. Carryer
has, however, been to the bank
tercede with her (prisoner's) aristocratic family in and stopped it, stating the circumstances. The
order to reseore peace between them. This, of person, therefore, who presents, should any one do
course, was not true; and among twenty-two other
letters which she showed me at that time, several so, will of course be detained, and the chequ© may
probably lead to the discovery of the murderer.
bore the signatures of the nobility. These I have
During the afternoon, Inspector Kerressey waited
ascertained to be forgeries, for I must tell you she H h the at his office •
upon Mr. ump reys, coroner,
can write no less than seven different hands. Spital-square, and intimated to him his hope that
Lord Palmerston w
Mr. Paynter inquired whether the letter from
sham or not ? he shall be able to produce some evidence calculated
as a
to elucidate the mystery, which up to the present
Mr. Firman replied, he had every reason to be-
on time is almost equally profound as that of the mur-
lieve the letter was, but not the envelope, for be. der at Road. Sergeants Coppin and Venables, upon
sides it having Lord Palmerston's own crest up a
receiving their fresh orders, at once set out upon
it, he had been to Downing-street and was told
letter had been written to her by Lord Palmerston's their new line of investigation, and it is hoped their secretary, but as the latter was out of town he (the efforts will be attended with success. Sergeant
inspector) could not find out the purport of it. Miller, another detective of the K division, has also
prepared plans of the premises and of the spots
Mr. Paynter said no doubt she had written to
where the footmarks of blood were found on the
strayed the original letter, substitutin
obtain possession of the seal, and had then de stairs, in order to lay the same before the coroner
for it. g another eand jury at the adjourned inquest to be held to-day
(Monday). There can be no doubt that the large re-
The female prisoner declared that Lord Palmer- ward offered will stimulate the police to energetic
ston himself had written to her making an appoint- action, and if there are any accomplices it may lead
men t with her; she had often been to see him, but to one turning Queen's evidence, as it is understood
it was not likely she was going to say there what that not only the reward but her Majesty's free
connexion there was between her and Lord Pal • - pardon will be accorded to any one except the ac-
morston. (A laugh.)
tug! assassin. It appears that the income of the
Miss Hemmings continued—Daring the con ver- deceased, althoughvery lair was by no means so
e,
sat ion she and I had, she stated that she was Lady
great as has been represented, and it turns out that.
Fortescue and Lord Palmerston's niece ; that she she had only a life interest in the property left by
was short of money, but would have some in a few
her last husband, Mr. Emsley, which now passes
days, showiree me letters to that effect, and into the hands of Airs. Faith and Mrs. Whittaker,
asked me to °lend her some, and believing her her stepdaughters. With reference to her character,
story I did not hesitate. I first lent her a although attempts have been made to deny that she
sovereign, and then £4 10s., receiving an I 0 U for
the money. These sums wee, to purchase various was of slovenly and penurious habits, the state of
the place, for a woman of her wealth, clearly estab-
her a very handsomely-worked and valuable
articles to visit Lady Palmerston in, and I
also lent
fishes the accuracy of the first point ; and the dis-
petti- covery of the money secreted in the cellar amongst
coat, but never saw her again.
the coals, coupled with her general appearance and
The female Prisoner—You lent me the money to her dealings generally, is ample_ evidence of the
go to the Argyll Rooms with, to see a gentleman. latter. There is one trait in tille deceased's character
Miss Hemmings (in an ironical tone)—How do admitted on all hands by her tenants which ought
you make that out ? You were a lady in your own not to be overlooked,
and that is, th t '
a in all in-
right, and one great person and the other. Surely' stances where her rent was paid regularly she was

THE STEPNEY MURDER.