The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

THE CONDEMNED CONVIC7'.

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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hubert Wood, the soli-
citor, of Coleman-street-buildings, Moorgate-street,
City, attended at the gaol of Newgate, by the
special request of the wretched man (Mullins), for
the purpose of placing before the Secretary of State
another memorial, to show to the Government
authorities his entire innocence of the charge of
murder, for which he stands for execution on Mon-
day morning next, the 19th instant, in front of the
Debtor's Door of Newgate, Old Bailey.
Mr. Wood remained with the convict nearly an
hour, and the following document was speedily
drawn up and forwarded to the Home-office at a

late hour in the evening.
The subjoined is a•correct copy of the document :
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Mile-
end-road, Stepney, &c , wish to call the opinion of
the Right Hon. the Home Secretary to the follow-
ing facts in connexion with the evidence recently
given in the case of Regina v. Mullins :
"First—That many portions of the evidence
given on behalf of the prosecution, viz., the boot,
the hammer, the tape, &c., have not the slightest
connexion in any way with the death of the late
Mrs. Mary Emsley ; and although they may have
had no weight on the mind of the Lord Chief
Baron, yet on the minds of the jury they must
have created a very great prejudice, which . they
(in spite of the charge of the Lord Chief Baron)
may have been unable to have thrown off.
" Secondly—That it can be proved that the
clothes worn by Mullins, at the time he was taken
into custody, were the • same as those worn by
him on the day Mrs. Emsley is alleged to have
been murdered.. That it would be impossible
to commit such a murder without soiling the
clothes to a very great extent, and next to impossi-
bility to remove such stains or soils—that the clothes
have been analysed, but no traces of blood have
been found upon them.
" Thirdly—That Mrs. Barnes, a highly respect-
able witness, saw some one at the window of Mrs.
Emsley's room at about half-past ten o'clock on the
morning of Tuesday, the day following the sup-
posed murder, and since the inquest before Mr. John
Humphreys, the coroner, it has been ascertained
that she was in company at that time with a highly
respectable witness named Davis, who is an oil and
colourman at the corner of Grove-road. The evi-
dence was still further corroborated by the errand
boy, who on the Monday looked through the key-
hole and saw the back door open, whereas it was
found by the police closed, and the shutters were
fastened. This evidence was adduced before the
magistrate and the coroner, and clearly proved some
one must have been in the house on the Tuesday
morning.
" Fourthly —That Mr. Stephenson, known to
many of the petitioners as a highlyoespectable man,
swore on oath that he gave information to the police
that shortly after the murder he saw Rowland com-
ing from Mrs. Emsley's house, with paperhangings
under his arm on the Tuesday morning, a little
after the time spoken to by Mrs. Barnes and Mr.
Davis. This witness positively asserts, from writ-
ten receipts and from the evidence of witnesses,
that he was in Grove-road on the Tuesday morning,
and that he could not be mistaken in the date,
whereas Rowland swears he was not there at all,
and it is known by all who were on the coroner's
jury that Rowland, first of all, before the coroner's
inquiry, endeavoured to implicate a lame man, and
subsequently to that stated that he all along thought
Mullins was the man who committed the murder.
(Here follow the signatures of the several peti-
tioners.)
Upon making inquiry last night at the jail of
Newgate, no communication had been received
from the Secretary of State.
The Rev. Mr. Davis, chaplain to the prison, has
visited the convict almost daily, but Mullins has
rejected his interference, and wishes to be under
the exclusive attention of the Roman Catholic
priest, Father Callaghan.
The prison authorities have commenced proceed-.
ings for the execution, which in the opinion of the
eh sheriffs, will take place at the appointed time.

THE MURDER 1N THE COUNTY OF

DUREAM.

GATESHEAD, THURSDAY

Circumstances have just come to light which
fully establish the facts given in The Sun last week
that the poor man John Baty, found lying dead and
robbed on Tuesday morning week,had been cruelly
murdered by the person who left a public-house
with him on the night of the murder. The person
who left the public-house with Baty was a Lanca-
shire pitman, named Thomas Smith, employed in
the neighbourhood. It seems that a young man
named Edward Armstrong and Smith had been in
a row with the police at Blaydon, on Monday, the
sth inst., the night of the murder ; and that sub-
sequently Armstrong saw Smith in Baty's company
at Winlaton. They were in Mrs. Parker's, the
Crown and Cannon. Armstrong was there with
his father-in-law, William Oliver, but they both
left at about ten o'clock, before Baty came. Arm-
strong then went home with his father-in-law, who
was very drunk, and remained there all night. The
next morning, as soon as the news of Baty's death
became known, Smith the " Lankie," went and saw
Armstrong, and asked him to have a walk out of
the village, and consider what they had best do to
evade the police and get out of the affray they were
both in at Blaydon the night before. Wallring
along thefields to the west of Winlaton, Armstrong
remarked to Smith that he had new clothes on,
upon which Smith told him what had occurred.
Smith said that he knocked Baty down to get his
money. That he never intended to kill him,
and when he left him he did not expect that he
was dead. That as soon as the news of his being
dead reached him he had determined to be off, but
upon second thoughts he had half decided to re-
main and confess the matter, as while he had in-
tended to rob, he never meant to kill the unfortu-
nate man. The recital of this tale rather alarmed
Armstrong, who felt desirous to leave his com-
panion. He did so on his way to Barlow, Smith
having on at the time Baty's clothes; his own
being bloody, he had thrown them away.
. This is the substance of Armstrong's tale, and
there can be but little doubt !but it is correct.
Armstrong presented himself at the Gateshead
police-court on Tuesday to answer the assault
charge, but for some reason or other it was not
gone into He last night surrendered himself to
the police at. Biaydon, and is now in custody.
There must have been more than one person con-
cerned, and the police are understood to have a
clue to two other men in Winlaton against whom
there are strong suspicions.
Smith is said to have been one of the men that
suddenly disappeared from the Hobson's just after
Mr. Stirling's murder, and left their wages behind
them. Stirling was shot,, and Smith is a great
poacher.
If the police are active, and their proceedings are
conducted with a reasonable degree of intelligence,
all the persons implicated in Baty's murder may
be secured.

The remains of the poor man Baty, were in-
terred in Blaydon churchyard on Sunday. He
was well known and much respected in the neigh-
bourhood, and several hundreds of people attended
his remains to the grave. A universal wish was
expressed that a subscription should be started for
his wife and family, who are now left helpless.

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) .. .. .. .. . Nov. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles). Nov. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds .. .. .. .. Dec. 5.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. .. Nov.
.. ..
Dec. 2.
22.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York):
Canada, &c. (via Galway)
s: a: m p t o.n.
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Overdue.
India •• • Nov.• —.
Cape of Good Hope, &c... ..
China, Penang, and Singapore (via
Do. (via Marseilles) Nev. 12.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) ..
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Overdue.
Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 12.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .' Nov. 10.
Do. (via Marseilles)
on) • • Overdue.
.. .. Nov. --..
Lisbon • . • . • • • ' '' • • Nov. 11.
Cuba and Mexico .. • • • • • • .. Nov. 28.
Teneriffe ..
Do.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden
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• . NOV. —.
Vigo, and Oporto • ••°_, • • • • .. Nov. 11.
igtclei;;a, .. Nov. 14.
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Nov. 10.
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Nov. 13.

THE
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QUEEN AND THE NEW ZEALANDERS.-At
(a Wanganui chief) to step forward, and his
Excellency
M'Lean called upon
llori Kin
name of her Majesty, with
the close of
four very
gi i
en
handsome and valuable staffs, with silver mount
pthreesnattievde h conference,
ilig, and bearing the royal arms, for himself and three other
chiefs who were not present at the conference. His Excel.
leacy observed that her Majesty desired in this way to ac-
knowledge the services rendered to her Government in New
Zealand by these chiefs and the appreciation of the very
beautiful mere pounamou presented to her Majesty last
year by the Rev. R. Taylor, on their behalf. Hori Kingi
acknowledged the honour in a very appropriate manner,
and the conference testified their gratification by loud ap-
plause.—New Zealand Gazette.
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