The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE COURT.

As early as 10 o'clock this morning a vast number of per-
sons of both sexes assembled near the court for the purpose
of obtaining admission to hear the investigation of the
eharge of murder preferred against two men named Emms
and Mullins. At 11 o'clock Arbour-street East, opposite
the court, was thronged, but admittance was denied to
everyone except those upon actual business, and the police
engaged in the various night charges. The crowd was in-
creasing when Our repdrter dispatched his messenger. The
adjourned investigation will commence at two o'clock
this afternoon, when Emms, who is out upon bail,
and Mullins, will be arraigned on the charge of
wilfully murdering Mary Elmsley, a widow, at No. 9,
Grove-road, on or about the 13th of August last. There
is a general belief in the innocence of Emma, who is a very
respectable and inoffensive man, and has for many years
maintained an irreproachable character. The antecedents
of Mullins arc very bad, and it is well-known that he was
sentenced to six years' penal servitude for a serious rob-
bery committed on the South-Eastern Railway, where he
was appointed to a situation after he left the K division of
police. Ever since the murder was committed in:the Grove-
road, he has been suspected of having perpetrated it, and
several detectives of the H and K divisions were constantly
watching him. His clumsy attempt to implicate Emms by
secreting the parcel containing a cheque received by the
deceased the last day she was seen alive, and other articles,
on the premises of Emms, is likely to recoil upon himself,
and to insure his conviction for the foul deed. The inquiry
is not likely to terminate at the police court this day. The
inconvenience of having two inquiries—one before the
coroner and one before the magistrate—on the same day
must be manifest to every one. The same witnesses exa-
mined before the magistrates on Monday, the 10th inst.,
repeated their evidence the same day before the coroner
and jury, and the witnesses to be examined this morning
before the coroner will repeat their testimony before the
magistrate this afternoon. There will be a third
investigation before the grand jury in the event of one or
both of the prisoners being committed for trial, and two sets
of depositions will be returned to the Central Criminal Court.
This course of proceeding is not only productive of great
trouble, inconvenience, and expense, but absolutely absurd
and not likely to promote the ends of justice. • As the coro.
ner and jury first commenced the investigation and have
examined a great number of witnesses, and as in the event
of a committal the witnesses must go before the grand jury,
all the inconvenience and expense would be avoided by the
magistrate declining to enter upon a second investigation,
and allowing any prisoner against whom a verdict of wilful
murder is returned to be arrested on the coroner's warrant,
and forthwith committed to Newgato.
A great mass of additional evidence will be brought for-
ward this day before the coroner and the magistrate, but
there will be nothing in it to implicate Emms in the slight-
est degree, and there is no doubt Mullins intended to make
him the victim of a foul plot for the purpose of obtaining
the reward of £3OO offered for the discovery of the person
or persons who committed the murder.

The vast crowds assembled near the court were, at 12
o'clock, discussing the probability of seeing Mullins enter
the court, and giving vent to the strong feeling which pre-
vails against him. In this they were happily disap-
pointed, for he was brought into court by a private way,
and shortly after two the examination was gone into.
The same evidence as that given at the coroner's inquiry
having been taken, Mullins was again remanded, and Emms
liberated.

CENTRAL CRIMLNIA,L COURT,—(T/ is Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

Thomas Murphy, 25, who was convicted at the petty
sessions of burglary, was brought up for sentence. It ap-
peared that the prisoner was a very desperate character,
and offered a most .violent resistance when arrested. A
previous conviction of burglary, in 1846, was proved against
the prisoner, for which he had undergone four years' im-
prisonment.

The Common Sergeant having remarked on the very
violent conduct of the prisoner, sentenced him to eight
years' penal servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGERCE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING AND RECEIVING.—WiIIiam Reynolds, an
errand-boy to Mr. Edward Davis, of 11, Great Newport-
street, was charged with stealing a quantity of horsehair,
the property of his employer; and Frances Bern, servant
to a marine-store dealer, of 20, Tower-street, Seven Dials,
was charged with receiving the same.
From the evidence of the prosecutor's foreman, it ap-
peared that horsehair having been missed for some time
past, a watch was kept on the prisoner, and after he left
the workshop that morning some horsehair which he had
been employed packing was examined, and a quantity was
missed. Tho foreman's brother had watched the prisoner
on leaving the workshop, and on his return the foreman
asked what he had done with the horsehair. At first the
prisoner denied having taken any away, but on being told
that he had been watched and asked what the woman had
given him for it, he admitted taking some, and said the
woman, the female prisoner, had given him 4d. for it
A constable said the boy pointed out the female as the
person he sold the horsehair to, and on asking her if she
bought it she adulated doing so, She did not produce it,
but her mistress afterwards brought it to the station.
Mr. Davis said ho had lost a large quantity of property,
and he believed ho had been robbing him for some time.
Mr. Beadon said the female must be discharged, and he
was sorry the more guilty of the two was obliged to escape,
and it was a source of great annoyance to him that ho had
to send the female from the bar. The boy he should com-
mit for two months.