The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-10 00:00:00

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED
MURDERERS.
Yesterday morning a man named George Mul-
lins, a plasterer, Barnsley-street, Bethnal-green,
who had been occasionally employed by the de-
ceased Mary Emsley, proceeded to the chief office
of the Metropolitan Police, Great Scotland-yard,
and gave information that he had a clue to the
murderer of the deceased lady, and he had good
grounds for believing that a man named William
Thomas Emms was the murderer.
Inspector Thornton, of the detective force, with
Sergeants Thomas and Tanner, at once engaged a
cab, and taking the informer with them, they pro-
ceeded to the residence of the man Emms, who
lived in a cottage situated at Emsley's brickfield,
Globe-street, Bethnal-green. It was about twelve
o'clock when they reached the plane, and found
Emms at home with his wife and children. The
officers interrogated the man Emms, and °thin. mem-
bers of the family, and commenced searching the
house and the back of the premises, to ascertain if
they could find anything to implicate the accused.
After some time the officers went into a shed on the
north side of the dwelling, and one of the constables
removed a slab of stone which had been placed
against the wall inside, and there they discovered
the missing cheque for XlO which the deceased had
received on the morning of the 13th ultimo from
Messrs. Pickering and Carryer, the manufactniing
chemists, Lamb's-fields, Bethnal-green. There
were also four silver spoons, a powerful magnifying
glass, a piece of red tape, several documents, a
newspaper, and a bunch of keys containing twenty-
four in number, which it was believed belonged to
the deceased.
The officers accordingly took charge of Emma,'
and then apprehended the informant Mullins, who
had been standing aside for some time, and a cab
having been procured by Sergeant Tanner, the two
prisoners were conveyed to the Stepney police-
station, at Arbour-square, where they were charged
with being concerned in the murder of Mary Ems-
ley, of No. 9, Grove-road, Mile-end, Stepney.
The two prisoners were much affected, and the,
man Mullins was evidently labouring under great
excitement. After the charge was duly taken by
Inspector Griffin, the prisoners were placed in
separate cells with a constable.
Information of the apprehension soon became cir-
culated, and in the course of an hour the vicinity of
Barnsley-street was crowded by anxious inquirers.
The police subsequently took charge of Mullins's
room at the house in Barnsley-street, and secured
the door, so that a complete inspection of the place
might be made this day, and several officers have
since been making further examination of the pre-
mises where Emms had resided, as it is supposed
the things found in Emms's shed might have been
f, planted" there to implicate him, and secure the
reward.
Mullins was formerly a constable in the K divi-
sion of police, and was superannuated for some
time, and subsequently he obtained a situation on
the Brighton Railway, where he was detected (as
a detective) in the serious robbery, of which he was
convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude, and his daughter was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment for being concerned in the same
felony.
It seems that Mullins has been living alone in
Barnsley street, and his wife has not been seen at
the house for some weeks past. He has also been
seen by the children of the man Emms loitering
about the brick-field, and sleeping on two occasions
upon the grass near a pile of bricks.
The prisoners will be brought before the magis-
trates this morning, but they will, no doubt, be re-
manded for the completion of the evidence neces-
in such an important_

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cers vity ----, in St. Mary axe,
for the purpose of further investigating charges
brought against the Rev. F. Pearce Pocock, the
chaplain of the union, in relation to his connexion
with the United Kingdom Mutual Annuity Society
and the United Kingdom Benevolent Fund.
Mr. Selfe, the magistrate of the Thames Police-
court was present, and appeared to take great in•
terest in the proceedings. Mr. Warwick, one of the
vice•chairmen, and a large number of the members
of the Board of Guardians, were also present, as was
also Mr. Bowring, the clerk to the guardians.
Mr. Farnall opened the proceedings by stating
that it was his intention upon that occasion to
examine the accountant who had been entrusted
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with the investigation of the accounts of the two
societies now before him. Mr. Selfe, the magistrate,
was also present, and would give them every in-
formation in his power.
Mr. Edmond Pullein, of the firm of 'Harding,
Pullein, and Co., accountants, of 3, Bank-buildings,
City, was then sworn, and, in answer to questions,
booksetuot:hbe esl
society,
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societies, it eh se, butresult
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said :—The report handed to me is mine. I made it
aretua substantially
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imperfect. I have not been able to obtain all the
correct. I find an advance made by the Rev. Mr.
This is a balance of an aceaunt. There does not
appear to be any security taken for these advances.
It is all cash. Some of these advances appear in
the banking books of the London and County
Bank, and at Messrs. Barnett and Co.'s, and I con-
sider every item I have passed in the Rev. Mr.
Pocock's account is sufficiently vouched. I think
it my duty to state that I knew nothing of the
Rev. Mr. Pocock until employed on this report,
that Mr. Pocock knew nothing of the report until
it was completed, and that from time to time he has
attended me, and done his best to clear the ac-
counts. The policy ledger is missing, and I cannot
give a list, with correctness, of the annuitants now
living. I know that a person named Harrison ob-
tained an annuity of £lO from the Benevoieut As-
sociation, and Harrison's friends subscribed £l5O to
get it. ifarrison in this case wss not benefited by
the public subscription to the Benevolent Fund.
Mr. Pocock has an annuity for £l2 10s.
Mr. Pocock endeavoured to clear up for
me any difficulty I met with in the books,
besides which he brought me vouchers for pay-
ment made by him for the society, and for these
we give him credit, unless we find them already
entered in the books. They form part of the £B9l
Ils. Id. He worked the balance out of the books
and the vouchers. We never admitted Mr. Pocock's
verbal assertion that he was owed anything. He
had vsuchers for everything. The Mutual Annuity
Society is insolvent. The advancement to the Rev.
Mr. Pocock commences with £lOO, made in Dec.,
1852. The only considaration in cash received by
the Anglo-Australian Company was £1 9s. The
purchase money for annuities which they undertook
to pay was £3,200, together with the sum of £513
2s. 9d. As to loans, the largest is £230. Bills were
taken for these loans, but no other security, but as
the largest loan the security was an account of £BOO
due to a solicitor. This was the best secured loan.
The later published reports of the funds could not
have been made up from the books which have come
into my hands. That is my opinion.
Mr. Selfe, at this stage of the proceedings, said
that having business to attend to at the Thames
Police Court, if the inspector wished him to answer
any questions in relation to the societies, the ac-
counts of which were under investigation, he
should be perfectly willing to do so. At the same
time he might state that it was his intention to
publish a pamphlet in relation to the subject, and
this would be ready in about ten days, and if the
inspector pleased he would submit it to him as soon
as it was completed.
Mr. Farnall—l think I had better leave the mat-
ter to take its own natural course, without any in-
terference on my part. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Selfe said that although he should have very
serious accusations to bring against Mr. Pocock,
yet he wished to take that opportunity of publicly
stating his opinion that Mr. Pocock had not, to use
a common expression, pocketed any of the money
of the societies, or made anything out of them.
The examination of Mr. Pullein was then re-
sumed. He further stated that the secretary for-
merly employed was quite unfit to keep a set of
books. One of the directors was a printer to the
society, and he was paid a considerable part of the
sum of £984 for stationary and Printing. The
books had never at any time been balanced. He
thought that an annuity of £l2 10s. was assigned
to Mr. and Mrs. Pocock. On an advance made to
the Benevolent Fund of £3OO by the Rev. Mr.
Pocock, they had given him credit fur 5 per cent.
interest. The sum of £B9l lls. ld., the balance
due to Mr. Pocock, did not include the directors'
fees. It was a bona fide debt. £56 10s. was
granted by way of annuities to Mr. Pocock and his
family. The previous annuities were £l7 10s. to
Mr. Pocock, and they were all up to the time of
the transfer. These annuities were all paid for.
Witness had no means of showing the exact amount
of subscriptions received by Mr. Pocock for the
society. Mr. Pocock did not deduet 10 per cent.
for the total amount of subscriptions received by
him.

Mr. Parnell said that this was all the evidence
he intended to take. He should make his report
to the Poor-law Board, and their decision would be
given on as early a day as possible.
The proceedings then terminated.

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