The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

rilE SUN, LONDON, WED'NESDAY,, EVENING, SEPTEMBeR 26c_1860.

THIR J) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

FALL OF TWO FORTS AT

ANCONA.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

MONTEACETTO, SEPT. 26.
(OFFICIAL DESPATCH.)

The brigade of Bologna and the battalions of the
23d and 25th Regiments of Bersaglieri have taken
by assault two of the forts of Ancona, namely,
Forts Pelago and Pulito.

Our troops displayed admirable courage. An
attack on Fort Gardetto is imminent.

General Brignone has made four more officers
and seventy-eight soldiers of the Papal Army pri-

soners.

ARRIVAL OF ME QUEEN AT COBURG.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday.)
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 26. .
The Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., has received a
despatch from the Right Hon. Lord J. Russell, dated Sept.
25, 6 p.m., announcing that the Queen arrived at Coburg
at 5 o'clock that afternoon.

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

premises belonged to the deceased. I saw her Monday the
13th of August last, about 12 o'clock, in her usual health.
Mr. Wontner--Lcok at that cheque, produced by Inspec-
tor Thornton.

Witness—The cheque produced is for £lO. I paid it on
that day, the 13th. It is dated on the 14th. That is an
error. I wrote it on the 13th, and gave it to the deceased
on the 13th.

Miss Elizabeth Bushley deposed—l live at No. 16,
Grove-road, Mile-end. That is exactly opposite the house
of the deceased. I was well acquainted with her person. I
last saw her alive on the 13th of August, about a quarter
before or a quarter past seven in the evening. She was
seated at the first floor bedroom window. I noticed the
house again at a quarter before 12. The shutters were
not closed. It had been the custom of the deceased to close
them before I went. At daybreak next morning I observed
the house again. It was in the same state. The blind was
up in the first-floor window about half way, and the other
was down. There were no blinds on the top floor. One of
the windows was partly up, the other was closed. On the
Wednesday morning, the 15th, a man knocked at the de-
ceased's door twice, waited a short time, and then went
away. I have frequently seen people come to the deceased's
house, knock for admittance, and the deceased would
answer them from the window or the area. When persons
brought anything the deceased admitted them. No one
could enter the area. It was railed over.
By Mr. Herbert Wood—l have frequently seen the de-
ceased admit persons without first talking to them if she
knew them. She would look at thorn through the window
before going to the door. The people she admitted without
first talking to them were persons who went there very
often. I did not go to bed till a little after 12 on the 13th.
I got up at 8 on the 14th.
Sergeant Dillon recalled—There is no door out of the
back. It is entirely surrounded by walls about six feet in
height on three sides, and by the house on the fourth side.
I got over one of the back walls to obtain admission to the
deceased's house on the 17th inst., when I discovered the
body.
Miss Elizabeth Frances Muggeridge said—l live at 17,
Grove-road, opposite the deceased's house. I saw her on
13th of August seated at the bedroom window. I observed
the house between 10 and 11 the same night. I observed it
was exactly the same as when I saw it in the afternoon.
The parlour windows were not closed. On Wednesday, the
15th of August, about 11 o'clock; I saw a man and a woman
at the door of No. 9. They knocked two or three times.
The door was not opened. They looked up at the house
and went away. The deceased was in the practice of look-
ing at people through the window before she opened the
door and admitted them.
Wm. Smith, in the employ of Mr. Linsell, linendraper,
said—l live at 3, Prospect-place, Mile•end-road. On Tues-
day, the 14th of August, I went to Mrs. Elmsley's house
at half-past eight in the morning. I knocked at the door
several times, and could gain no admittance. I repeated
my visit the same evening, and after knocking several
times waited five minutes and looked through the keyhole.
The back door appeared to be open. I could see the garden.
Jcscph Biggs said—l reside at 25, Pollard's- row,
Bethnal-green. I was on very intimate terms with the
deceased and also with her late husband. I was greatly in
her confidence—no one more so. She entrusted me with
her plate for safe custody. I have it now. I visited her
every Sunday, and fsequently during the week, and kept
her accounts. I last saw her alive on the 12th of August.
On leaving her I appointed to meet her again on the Tues-
day following. I was prevented going there at the hour
appointed, but I went at half-past one. Knocked several
times, and, not being able to obtain admission, left. I re-
turned in:a quarter of an hour and was again unable to:ob-
tain admission. I was sent for on Friday, the 16th, and
then saw Mr. Rose, the deceased's solicitor, Mr. Faith,
and some others in the house. Mrs. Elmsley was then
dead. He was then directeed to look upon a pair of lenses.
He believed them to be the property of the d eceased. She
exhibited them to me three weeks or a month before her
death. I examined them; they were much chased. One
was thicker than the other. The witness was directed to
look at a pencil-case. lie believed it to have belonged to
the deceased. It was formerly placed in his charge with
some plate. He returned it to her some months ago. It
was a peculiar pencil-case. He noticed the peculiarities of
the head and the point.
By Mr. Selfe—l never knew the deceased to write. I
wrote her letters and her receipts. She had an account at
the London and Westminster Bank sometime ago, but not
of late. She had drawn all her money out of the bank to
make purchases.
Elizabeth Gibbs, the wife of Joseph Gibbs, of Barnsly-
street, Bethnal-green, ;said she was the niece of the de-
ceased, and was in the practice of calling to see her in her
life time. She identified the pencil-case, and she last saw
her aunt alive on Monday the 13th of August, and dined
with her. She left the house of witness at a quarter to 2
o'clock. The prisoner Mullins was often employed by her
aunt. He came to her house on Monday, the 13th inst.
for a box lock to put on one cf aunt's houses. She gave
him a box lock. Her aunt was present. The prisoner re-
turned with the lock, and said it was a key he wanted, not
a lock. Her aunt gave him a bunch of keys. He came
back a third time, and received another bunch of keys for
other houses.
After other evidence identifying the pencil-case of the
deceased, and a statement from Mr. Gill, the surgeon, that
there were spots of blood upon it, and that it was human
blood,
Ann Cooper, of No. 12, Little Orford-street, Marl-
borough-road, Chelsea, said—Mullins and his wife and
familf, consisting of two sons and a daughter, lived in my
house from the commencement of Tune until the 26th of
August. After they left Inspector Thornton came to my
house, and found a blucher boot in the dust-hole onh foot
below the surface. It was thrown out of the window of
the room where Mullins and his family lived the day before
they removed. My daughter put the boot in the dust-hole.
Mullins used to tell me that he was in the employ of Mrs.
Emsley, of Stepney. He was in the practice of going
away on Monday morning and returning on Saturday

evening.
In cross-examination by 11r. H. Wood, the witness said
that she knew games Mullins, the prisoner's son. He oc-
casionally dined with her. She was not engaged to him.
Mr. Wood wished to show there was angry feeling exist-
ing between the witness and the prisoner's family, when
Mr. Selfe interposed, and said all the witness had said was
that a shoo was found, and had not even said it belonged
to Mullins.
Ellen George, a charwoman, said—l was in the employ of
the deceased, and occasionally waited upon her. She had
no other attendant. Her becroom was on the first floor
front. She was a woman of cautious habits. She answered
all strangers from the window when I was not there, and
when I was there she answered the door herself, if they
were strangers, and inquired what they wanted. On the
Saturday week before Mrs. Emsley was supposed to be
murdered, I found the parlour and other rooms were half
full of paper hangings. I saw Mullins carry those which
were in the parlour up stairs. Mullins came to the house
to be paid every Saturday. I saw him there on the Satur-
day before her death. I saw him paid. I heard her give
him orders to whitewash the kitchen when Mrs. Elmsley
paid him on the Saturday before her death. She paid him
about 6s. He left at seven. I did not leave until ten.
Mrs. Elmsley had some spoons. They viire safe when I
left. I heard of Mrs. Elmsley's death on the Friday week.
Cross-examined by Mr. H. Wood—l saw no one carry up
paper hangings in deceased's house except Mullins.
By Mr. Selfe—l have seen Mrs. Elmsley write. Her
sight was good
Thomas Pryor, barman of the Royal Oak, Keppel-street,
Chelsea, knew the prisoner Mullins. He had seen him
several times. On the 7th September he bought a pencil-
case (the one with the spots of blood upon it) of the pri-
soner's wife. After he heard of the prisoner's apprehen-
sion he gave it to his master, who went with it to the police
station.
Michael Garferey said—l live in Crombie's-row, Cam-
bridge-road, Bethnal-green, and am a cooper. On the
13th of August last the prisoner came to my house to in-
spect some work that was to be done, and appointed to be
with me next day at an early hour, but he did not come at
the appointed time. In the course of the week the pri-
soner put up some paper-hangings. He put up some of the
paper topsy-turvy, and did not do his work as he ought to
do. On the following Friday while they were at work, a
man named Rowland said I have heard there has been a
murder in the Grove-road, I wonder whether it is old Mrs.
Elmsley. Mullins said I have heard something of it my-
self. Rowland went away from the house for a short time,
and when he returned he said, " I am blowed if it is not
true, for I have heard it from a woman I summoned last
week." Rowland and Mullins went away and returned
again.
The witness then deposed to a long conversation between
Mullins, Rowland, and himsell, relating to Mrs. Emsley,
in which an anecdote of her manners was related by Mul-
lins, who said he had two drops on the strength of it, and
meant to have another.
In cross-examination by Mr Hubert 'Wood, the witness
said he " did not know whether the drops were taken on:the
strength of Mrs. Emsley's death or any other cause."
'William Rowland, of No. 26, Barasley .street, Bethnal-
green, formerly awarrant officer and policeman at the:Wor-
ship-street Police-court, and now a paper-hanger, was in
the practice of collecting rents for the deceased. He saw
her last alive at. two o'cloek on the 13th of August last,
when she had paid him a balance of money. The evidence
of the witness was confirmatory of the last witness, and
when he had finished the Court adjourned, and the pri-
soner was remanded.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London
is 25.15 per LI sterling. •On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 140th per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.4 per £1 sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is rather more than 3-10ths per
cant. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
chrmge at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 1094 to 10914 per cent.,which,when compared with the Mint
par between the two countries, shows that the exchange
is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allow-
' ance for charges of interest and difference of interest, the
present rate leaves a small pried 911 the importation of gold
fr9nA the United States,

NETTWARKET .RACES—(This Day.)

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GRANBY STAKES.

- - -
Folkstone • 1
Hesper . . 2
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T.Y.C.

Parapet •
Sister to Itoesia

Six ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. DX.

Amy Scott
Tomboy
ELEVENTH TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Mouravieff
The Rover
Four ran.
TWELFTH TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Capo Flyaway 1
Ebony
King of Diamonds

Five ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Mousetrap
Amy Robsart
Eight ran.
ST. LEGER STAKES.

The Wizard . .
Leprochaun

Three ran.
£5O PLATE.

Pitman
The Greek

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCR STAKES.
20 to 1 on the field (offered)
22 to 1 agst Optimist (taken)
25 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken)
28 to 1 agst Starke (taken)
28 to 1 agst Golden Pippin (taken)
30 to 1 agst Bevis (taken)
30 to 1 agst Weatherbound (taken)
100 to 3 agst Courier (taken)
NO to 3 agst Conscript (taken)
100 to 3 agst Alderman (taken)
100 to 3 agst Glendinning (taken)
100 to 3 agst Plumper (offered)
40 to 1 agst Rocket (taken)
40 to 1 agst Barrabas (taken)
40 to 1 agst Newcastle (offered)
50 to 1 agst Lady Trespass (taken)
50 to 1 agst Richmond (taken)
50 to 1 agst Killigrew (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Dundee (take 6to 1)

WALSALL RACES.—(This Day.)

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TRIAL STAKES.

Greenwich Fair
Lady Bird