The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

. THURSoAY EvENING, DECEMBER 26, 1567.

EXAMINATION OF 7'ilE FENIAN, FINITE

BOW-STREET.---(THIs DAY.)

Michael Finity, a ferocious-looking personage,
was charged on remand with using wicked, mali-
cious, and seditious words and expressions against
our Sovereign Lady the Queen.
Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Hodgson, the
solicitor to the Treasury, appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, defended.
To accommodate the prisoner's solicitor, the de-
positions taken at the last examination were read
of er.

Mr. Poland—Did.the prisoner say. Mr. Somers,
in what way the Queen would be shut ?

Witness—He said the first time she went to Ulu',

house.

Mr. Poland—lle did not say by a bullet or not.

Witnes.s—No.

Cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts—l don't think
he was drunk. He had a wife and little child with
him. I did not see any fellow-workmen of h's
there. They were principally men working
on the railway works. I have known him about
five years. For the last twelve or thirteen months
he has not much used my house. He never did
much. I never heard him say anything when he
was sober, unless you put him out, and then he
would talk as he did on that night. There wa3 no
one to dispute with on this occision. He was shout-
ing out at the top of his voice. Ido not think that
any one spoke to me. I do not know Mrs. West.
I did not hear any female speak. I have no bar-
maid. My wife and daughters assist in the busi-
ness.

George Baiderstin, cross-examined, said that he
heard prisoner
‘say he would shoot the - Queen
the first time she opened Parliament. He was not
drunk. He thought it extraordinary conduct. He
was in the house from 9to 11 o'clock. He heard
the man while he was passing, and he looked at
him. He thought it odd conduct. Ile worked for
the Midland Railway Company.
Thomas Lintot stated that he lived at 5, Hull-
street. He was a ganger on the Midland Railway.
On the 14th ho was in the public-house where the
prisoner was. He was damning the country and
all in it. Witness said then you are damning me.
He said he was not. He did not appear drunk.
This was soon after 10 o'clock.

Cross-examined—He did not appear to be sober.
He might have been excited. His manner impressed
him that he was sober.

Thomas Wood said he lived at No. 2, South-
wark-street. He was a valveman at the Imperial
Gas Works. He then confirmed the statement
made at Mr. Somers 'sby the prisoner.
A witness, Huckel, was called, and he stated that
he had never heard the prisoner at the gasworks
say anything seditious whatever. He thought him
a harmless man.

This was the last witness, and Mr. Ricketts com-
mented upon his evidence, and said if it had not
been for the late detestable crime at Clerkenwell,
would Sir Thomas have entertained this charge as it
had been entertained ?

Sir T. Henry (emphatically)—Certainly.

chief warder of the Westminster House of Corrcc -
tion, Tothill Fields.

A solicitor appeared from the Visiting Justices to )
prosecute.
Mrs. Howe said on the 14th of November sht
passed into No. 3 prison, C section, to see th e
work taken by Warder Lambert, and the prisons r
passed into the room to the oakum scale. She was
suffering a term of two years' imprisonment,
when she got to the scale she had not picked h et
day's oakum, and the warder at the scale asked 1 ter
if she was excused. She said "No ; she had b: :en
'stated' for the doctor." She turned round to t •he
warder and directed her to put the prisoner down as
"No work until inquire." Prisoner was then tc ld
to stand by the scale. She did so for a minute, a id
then suddenly picking up a 21b. weight, threw it
with all her might at witness, striking her on the
arm. She picked up a 11b. weight and also threw
it, but witness ducked her head, and it pissed over
it.
By Mr. Arnold—Could not suggest any motive
for it except that prisoner had been reported before
by another warder fol. having forbidden things
without permission. Her character was bad during
the whole time.

Mr. Arnold inquired why the prisoner had not
been brought up before ?

Mr. Walley, the solicitor, said the visiting justices
considered the matter on the 16th, and thought it
too serious for any punishment they could inflict,
and ordered her to be brought up at the expiration
of her term.

Mr. Arnold said it was just a case that came
under Jervis' Act, where the prisoner should have
been brought up at once, and at the expiration of
the term inflicted for the offence sent back to finish
the original term. He found that when the pri-
soner was sentenced to two years, she had insulted
a witness in court and ordered to find bail for
three mouths. Prisoner seemed to be a person of
ungovernable temper, and it was necessary to re-
press exhibitions of this sort in a prison, where
the utmost discipline should be kept. He sentenced
the prisoner to three mouths' hard labour.