The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1867.

ONDON and NORTH-WEST-ERN
RAILWAY.
DERBY RACES, August 27th and 28th, 1867.
First and Second-Class Ordinary RETURN TICKETS
issued from London (Euston) and Wolverhampton to
DERBY, on MONDAY, 26th August, and intervening
dap:, will be available for returning by any Train on any
day up to and including Thursday, August 29th.
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Easton Station, August, 1867.

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Fri,lays and Saturdays, available for returning by any
Train up to the following Monday Evening inclusive.
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Tickets aro available to Great Malvern Station. Pas-
senrrs from London travel via Cradley and Stonrbridl.o.
W. CAWKWELL, Ci,;uoral Manager.
Euston Station, August, 18G7.

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LONDON and NORTII-WESTERN" RAIL-
WAY.—BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL,
August 27th, 28t14, 29th, and 3jth.
RETURN TICKE IS (First' and Second Class) for
BIRMINGEI AM, issued from any Station on the London
and North-Western Railway, at which Tickets may
usually be obtained, on MONDAY, 26th August, or any
of •tbe four following days, will be avAlable for the Re-
turn Journey by any Train up to and inclusive of the
Mail Trains on the night of Saturday, 31st August.
By order,
VT. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1867.

" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.
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WHISKY, BELFAST.

London Offlles and Stores,
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TMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
e Cork.--" The purest spirit and safest drink in the
vrorld."—Loudon Offices,
next the " Times." 7, Printing-boost-square, Ji.C.,

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7,
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square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
market., as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
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quotation. Alwayson viand a large supply of ye y old
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most reasonable terms.

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• GUN AND RIFLE MANUFACTURERS,
102, NEW OXFORD-STREET, London.
Gentlemen should inspect, their Stock of CENTRAL-
FIRE IIitEECII-LOADERS, on the Latest Improved Pat-
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Also their ordinary PIN CA.RTKIDGE GUN, on best
systems, from 10 guineas.
A large Stock of Second-hand Breech and Muzzle-loaders
at moderate pric s.

"THE RUIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF THE MANY."
THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression
of the Colonial Markets enables the "EAST INDIA
TV:A.OO3.II'ANY" to offer TEAS LOWER THAN ET"'
Six Pounds of Good Tea for 6s. 6,1. can't be dear.
The Company's kAISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really
delicious.
yard, Bishopsgate-
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1857.

HYAM & Co.'s ATTIRE.

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HYAM & Co.'s SUITS.

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ITYAM and Co.'s PRTCE LIST for GENTLE-
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Hyam & Co.'s Spring Overcoats
Ilyain & Co.'s Spring -Reefer 2ss. to 555.
Hymn & Co.'s Spring Snits
Ilyam & Co.'s Spring Jackets
Ityam & Co.'s Spring Frock Coats 3o.x, to 70s.
liyam & Co.'s S; ring Vests Gs. to 14s.
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I_IYAM & Co.'s BOYS' SPRING CLOTIIING,
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Tho first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile
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Boys' Sandringham Overcoats
Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer
Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys
Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425.
Boys' Jackets for School and Home Os. to 21s.

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TTYAM & Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS.
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DEWSI3I.T.RY—WESTQA.TE.

The Barbarous Murder at Alton.
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PICICE.... 4d.
STAMPED sd.

I left, hi lodgings to proceed to business, at ten
o'cloc:7 is the morning, and his landlady said that
he did pot return during any portion of the day.
He seems to bare left the office of Messrs. Clements
at one o'clock, to have returned again at four, and
it is stated that between that hour and the time of
his apprehension be was in and out the office
several times.
The prisoner, since his confinement at the station,
has not in any way referred to the dreadful deed
with which he is riccused, but has maintained the
closest reticence. On Sunday the greatest excite-
ment prevailed in the town, and thousands of per-
, sons vi.ited the site of the harrowing tragedy, where
pools of the life-blood of the innocent child were
painfully visible. The morbid feeling animating the
public was conspicuously developed by the denuda-
tion of the hops and the cutting off pieces of the
plants and hedges growing in the immediate
vicinity.
The prisoner was taken yesterday before E.
Knight, Esq., one of the county magistrates, and at
the request of Superintendent Cheyney was re-
manded until after the coroner's investigation,
which will probably take place on Wednesday.
In searching the prisoner's desk at the office yes-
terday a well-kept diary, in the prisoner's hand-
writing, was discovered under the date " Saturday,
August 24 :" the following entry was written in a
bold and unfaltering hand :—" Killed a young girl;
fine and bot." The prisoner is a native of Guild-
ford, and for some years was in the office of Messrs.
Small peice, the eminent solicitors of that town. He
was afterwards employed by Mr. P. W. Lovett,
solicitors of the same place, and during his period of
_service was found to be guilty of embezzlement.
He then absconded from the town, but on the in-
tervention of his father, a respectable master tailor,
who paid the amount of his defalcations, he escaped
prosecution. The prisoner subsequently obtained
an engagement with Messrs. Clements, of Alton,
with whom he has been for about twelve months.
The prisoner is a thin spare man, about twenty-
eight years of age, and possesses a countenance of
much mildness and benignity. He bears but an in-
different character in the town, and it is related
that a fortnight ago he accosted a lady in a secluded
pathway, in Alton, and made improper overtures
to her. These she resisted, and ran away. The
prisoner, not succeeding in overtaking her, pelted
her with stones. He has always been looked upon
as a man of great animal passions.
Although every search has been made for the
weapon with which the crime was committed, it
has not been found.

Some particulars appeared in the papers of yes-
terday of a murder, unparalleled for its brutality,
committed in the quiet market town of Alton, in
Hants, on Saturday evening. The facts which have
already transpired show that, about half-past one
o'clock on the afternoon mentioned, a little girl
named Fanny Adams, eight years of age, left her
home near the church, in company with a younger
sister and a playmate named Minnie Warner, for the
purpose of playing in the meadow adjoining Amery
Farm, which is situated a few yards distant from
the home of the deceased. The meadow is crownel
by a hop-garden of consiLralile extent, approached
by a grassy and sequestered lane, from the entrance
of which a charming view of the quiet old town is
obtained. It was in the hop-ground- referred to
that the crime, of which full details have now come
to hand, was committed. It appears that at two
o'clock the children, having partaken of dinner,
were engaged in play near the entrance to the se-
cluded lane, when a man, described as wearing a
black coat, with light vest and trousers, and who
was sitting on the gate, beckoned Fanny Adams,
the unfortunate deceased, towards him. All the
children approached, and singling out the-deceased,
he offered her a halfpenny to accompany him for a
walk in the adjacent hop-garden. Seeing that the
other children were disposed to follow he distributed
amongst them three halfpennies, telling them to run
away and buy some sweets. They accordingly did
so, and, as they were leaving, saw that the man had
taken hold of the girl's hand and was leading her up
the lane. They also saw that the poor child began
to cry, and heard the man say these words :
" Don't cry, my dear ; keep quiet, and if you will
come up into the hop-garden I will give you
some more money." From this time until
seven o'clock in the evening nothing
more was heard of the deceased. The
child, not coining home to tea, her mother
became alarmed at her absence, and made inquiries,
but nothing was elicited beyond the statement of
her companions, that she had been seen going up
the lane with a strange man. Between seven and
eight o'clock the same evening a labourer named
Thomas Gates, returning from work, had occasion
to cross the hop-ground, when he was horrified at
beholding the dissevered head of a child resting
upon two hop-poles placed at the foot of the hedge,
and lying horizontally on the ground. The man
took up the head and ran with it to the row of
cottages at the foot of the meadow, in one of which
the parents of the unfortunate child reside. The
neighbours, who were standing in groups talking
about the missing child, on seeing the head imme-
diately declared it to be that of Fanny Adams.
With a coolness which would seem almost increli- DUBLIN, Aug. 26.
ble, the man Gates took the head to the father's The Queen's County Agricultural Society held its
cottage. All doubts were then set at rest, the poor fifth annual show at Maryborough on Saturday. It
mother identifying the head as that of her daughter, was one of the best exhibitions which the society has
and immediately falling into hysterics, from which yet had, the entries being more than usually nume-
she has scarcely since recovered. The police were roue, and the quality of the stock very good. The
at once communicated with, and search was made chief feature was the collection of sheep, to which
fcr the remaining portions of the bo ly. The larger all the best breeders in the county contributed. In
portion of the population of the town having speedily a field adjoining the grounds in which the cattle
become acquainted with the barbarous fate of the show was held, the given's County Horticultural
child scoured the hop ground and adjoining fields Association held its annual display of flowers and
to discover, if possible, the body of the deceased. fruits. The co-operation of the two societies, the
Within about twenty yards east of the hedge, and one devoted to pursuits of substantial utility, the
between growing hops, were found a leg and thigh, other to culture of a refined order, but each in its
with a stocking and boot on, and neer the same spot way promoting the social interests of different
the right arm and hand, severed from the elbo'w, classes, secured a combination of attractions which
were discovered. A little further to the right, the drew together a large assemblage of the local gentry.
left hand, severed froth the wrist, was found, and The friendly alliance was cemented by a public
some distance below were the mutilated remains of dinner in the evening, at which both associations
the trunk. The other foot, which was the left., were representel. The Right lion. J. W. Fitz-
was picked up by a young man named Henry pa rick, M.P., occupied the chair.
Allen in a field adjoining the hop plantation, Mr. Mensal, M.P., has done good s rvice in call-
where it had evidently been thrown with suffi- ing.attention to the causes which operate against the
cient force to carry it over two high hedges and an interests of the Irish butter trade in the English
intervening lane. The left arm was also picked market. The subject le engaging the attention of
up in this field. Horrible to relate the eyes local bodies in Cork and Limerick, who urge the
had been coned out with almost scientific necessity of takinr, immediate measures to retrieve
skill. At -this time the intestines anti heart the character of Irish butter, which now Babel% in _
were missing, but on the following (Sunday) competition with French, owing chiefly to the
morning further search was made, when both these
greater care bestowed upon the making-up and
portions were discovered, the former not far from packing of the latter. At a meeting of the Lime-
the spot where the trunk had been found, and the rick Farmers' Club on Saturday, Mr. Harris gave
heart in an adjoining field where it had been thrown. an account of a recent visit to English markets,
The body displayed several fearful stabs and gashes, with the object of acquiring correct information.
the ribs being severely punctured, the calves of the Ile found that buyers complained that Irish butter
legs and thighs had been completely ripped up, and is fraudulently made up, that the tare is irregular,
the intestines entirely removed, leaving the mere that the butter is too strongly pickled, and is packed
frame of the body only. The right ear was picked so carelessly that its taste is deteriorated by the
up in a corner of the hop-ground by itself. No
flavour of the cleks, and loss occasional by hav-
ing to scrape it from the sides of the firkins. 0 n
traces of the eyes have as yet been discovered, and
the right breast !s also missing. In consequence of
the other hand, French butter, though the
terial is by no means so good, commands a better
ma-
the disjointed and mutilated condition of the whole
of the body, it is impossible for the medical gen-
tlemen to determine whether the poor child had price, and is coming more extensively into favour
been violated. An ineffectual attempt appears to because it is not so highly salted. It is made up
have been made to cut off the left arm from the neatly in 561 b. casks, with cloths to protect it from
shoulder. The deceased child was the fomeh of a the influence of the wood. He spoke from expe-
rience of the injurious effect upon the Irish.trade.
family of six children, and was a tall, comely, and
intelligent He found that nearly every store in Manchester was
girl. She bore the appearance of being file 1 with French butter. Iu Rochdale he could
several years in adrance of her age, and was of a make no sales—the French hal obtained a start of
lively and cheerful disposition. The clothes worn him. After failing in Lancashire, he went to Lon-
by the unfortunate child were found scattered about don, but there, too, he failed, although he offered
the plantation. They were much torn. The dis- the butter at a reduced rate. With respect to the
severed remains were pieced in a truck and conveyed
charge of fraudulent making up, he knew an in-
to the police-station, where they at present
lie, stance of 111 b. of salt being found at the bottom
awaiting the coroner's inquest. In the meantime, of a firkin, but he felt bound to add that the far-
Superintendent Cheyney obtained a description of mers generally did not deal in this dishonest way.
the man in whose company the ill-fated girl
The chairman mentioned the case of a butter-
was last seen, and, aided by his local knowledge, maker in Cork who told him that £3 a firkin paid
answered to a young man named Frederick
Y him better than £3 Bs. paid others, because his
Baker, firkin contained 91b more of salt. These are start-
whom he knew as in the employ of Messrs. Clements, line. facts, which ought to make an impression op
solicitors, of the town. Ho thereupon proceeded to the farmers. To require cleanliness and honesty
the office of Messrs. Clements 'about nine o'clock is to impose upon many of them conditions against
in the evening, and saw the accused sitting appa- which their nature revolts, but they are indispens-
rently engaged in his ordinary avocation. Super- able to success in this important branch of Irish
intendent Cheyney then inquired if he had heard
trade, and it is to be hoped that the experience of
of the murder, to which the accused replied n
" Yes ; bitter disappointments in the exports to England
and they say it is me, don't they ?" Leaving Baker i
will oblige them to submit. Such unprofitable
charge of a police-constable, for the purpose of
tours as that of Mr.. Harris will teach a necessary
making further inquiries, the superintendent shortly
afterwards ascertained that the prisoner was the man
lesson to the farmers, and the evil will cure itself
in time, but the danger is that before the Irish
who had given some coppers to the children, as pre- makers can be persuaded to change their habits the
viously alluded to, and on returning to the office, French will have so fortified their positionin the
accompanied by one of the children, lie asked him if
can-
the statements were true. He admitted the fact, effort must be used to
markets by continued improvements that they ,
not be dislodged. Every
but said he was innocent of the crime of murder.
He was identified by the chili, and the superin- effect an immediate reform and reinstate Irish
produce in the place which its superior quality, if
tendent removed him to the police-station, on sus- there were no serious drawbacks,
pieion of being the murderer. The melancholy news command. would be sure to
had rapidly spread, and an immense by visiting, Ireland
concourse i
Lord and Lady Fitzwll iam set an excellent ex-
assembled in the High-street outside the office, ample to other proprietors in
whose menacing attitude and threatening language their estates
annually and residing for some time in
presence gives
necessitated recourse to a stratagem on the part of the midst of their
le;
t nantry.
to the people, who are
the superintendent to effect the prisoner's removal. pl
ee confidence and
He was accordingly taken through the back pre- grateful for the attention bestowed upon them, and
re
mises, and safely lodged in a cell at the station.
ly causes of complaint, and judge
Here he was closely searched, and in order that no the fact that their landlord can make personal in-
quiries respecting al . .
damn of the farms and the
link in the chain of evidence might be missing, Mr.
improvements which may be required, cannot fail to
Cheyney caused bins to be stripped. This was done, improve') .
for himself as to the con
The light
and all his garments taken from him.have a beneficial effect. Coollatin-park, at which the
tweed trousers were marked with blood. On both family are now staying, is a centre of gaiety and
the legs there were signs of very recent washing, rejoicing in honour of
the marriage of Lord Milton.
and they were still quite damp. The socks worn Among the entertainments which have been given
by the prisoner were wet, the result evidently of a to celebrate the event not the least interestine. was
recent washing. The front of the waistcoat onwas Friday, when 600 children belonging to that
splashed with blood, and the wristbands of the shirt several schools on the estate were hospitably received
were saturated with blood. The prisoner's boots
in the park, and the most liberal arrangements made
were
sodden with wet, leading to the supposition for their enjoyment.
that he had washed them in the rivulet near the A compliment is about to be paid to Mr. Justice
O'Hagan in Belfast, his native town, which must be
scene of the murder. In his pockets were found
the
and two pen-
sum of £1 Gs. 11,1. in money, peculiarly gratifying, as it indicates a generous
knives, one of which contained three blades and the spirit in political opponents. It is proposed to place
other two. Neither of these appeared to be of in the Town-hall abust of the learned Judge, which
sufficient strength for the committal of the atrocious
crime, and no sign of blood could be discovered on has been executed by Mr. Shakespeare Wood. A
I committee has been formed, subscriptions have been
them. The prisoner was asked if he could account
for the state of his clothing, and he answered that, freely given alike by Conservatives and Whigs, and
he hr ,d, he could not; but as to his trousers legs • stheChairman of
on the list of trustees are the names of the Mayor,
the harbour Commissioners, and
when out, a habit of stepping into the water. It
'SOLI r cordially in testifying
the President of the Chamber of
.Commerce, all
appears that on the day of thee glT'dcr Pri ,•--g parties, in fact, co-operating

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