The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-11 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The West Kent Regiment of Light Infantry Mi-
litia, under the command of Col. Sir T. M. Wilson,
was inspected on Friday last, in the Barrack-
square, at Maidstone, by Col. Douglas, the Deputy.
Adjutant-General of Disembodied Militia, and re-
ceived compliments from the Colonel for their good
conduct and appearance.
The Artillery Regiment of Militia, under Lieut.-
Col. Cator, was inspected on Saturday last on the
Western neights, at Dover, by Colonel Brown,
the Commandant of Royal Artillery in Dover gar-
rison, and received great praise for the excellent
target practice made by the regiment from the
batteries in Dover Castle. Both regiments have
completed training, and were also reviewed, pre-
vious to their dismissal, by the Lord Lieutenant of
the county of Kent.
The Northumberland Artillery Militia, under
the command of Lieut. -Col. Clementson, after un-
dergoing their 21 days' drill at Hexham, was on
Thursday brought by special train to Clifford's
Fort, at the mouth of the Tyne, where they have
been disbanded. The conduct of the men has been

highly satisfactory.
The King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire
Militia will assemble at Newcastle-under-Lyne on
Tuesday, the 19th Oct., for 21 days' training and
exercise.

The 2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia assem-
bled at Derby last week, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. F. Cavendish, for 21 days' training and
exercise. _ _

The Duke of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant of the
comity, has issued an order that the Royal Sussex
Militia are to assemble on Wednesday, the 20th
inst., for 21 days' training and exercise. The
muster will take place at Lewes.
An address has been presented to the officers of
the Fermanagh Militia, lately stationed at Great
Yarmouth, and removed from that town in conse-
quence of disturbances having arisen between some
of the privates and a portion of the townspeople.
The address is of a complimentary character, and
has been signed by the mayor and a number of the
inhabitants of Yarmouth.
The hired steam transport Melbourne left Ply-
mouth Sound on Friday afternoon for Queenstown,
Ireland, with the 2d Staffordshire Regiment of
Militia, consisting of 29 officers and 817 rank and
file, besides women and children.
The 2d Warwick Militia Regiment, 650 strong,
which left Aldershot on Friday afternoon, arrived
at Plymouth by the South Devon -Railway on
Saturday morning.

THE CRAB GE OF COINING TURKISH
PIASTRES.

COMMITTAL OF MR. MOSS.

On Saturday, before the Birmingham magistrates,
Mr. Thos. Moss, described in the charge-sheet as a
Manchester merchant, but who, it appears, is sim-
ply managing clerk for the house of Otho Hamson
and Co., of that city, was brought up on remand
charged with being concerned with Antonio Cal-
vocoressi, already committed, in having a large
quantity of Turkish piastres coined.
The evidence proving that he had accompanied
Calvocoressi from one diesinker to another, though
informed by the first that what they were about
was illegal, was given in the Sun of Saturday.
The principal additional testimony on which the
prosecution relied as proving complicity was the
following letter addressed to Messrs' Wood, of Bir.
mingham

" Manchester, March 10

" Gentlemen—Ott friend Mr. Calvocoressi is anxious; to
know if you can do anything in the matter for which we
called on you last week. The sample we left with you. As
he has had another communication from abroad respecting
it we shall be glad to hear from you.—Yours respectfully,
per pro. Otho Hamson and Co.,

"THOMAS Moss.'

Messrs. Wood, in reply, said :
" Gentlemen,—ln reply to yours of the 10th we have met
with a party who will make the article you require and
shall be glad to introduce you to him; but as you know
there is some doubt as to the legality of producing them, we
would rather not run any risk in the matter, but leave you
to arrange with the party themselves. The party in ques-
tion is quite willing to make any quantity on advantageous
terms."

Mr. Otho Hamson was called to prove that he
had no knowledge of the transaction named in the
letter, having left Manchester for Constantinople
in June, 1857, and only returned in May last. Pri-
soner, he said, had been, in his employ for five years,
and conducted the business of the firm in his ab-
sence. Witness was first made aware that Cal-
vocoressi had been doing business with Messrs.
Wood by receiving, at the latter end of June, an
invoice for the copper used. He at once handed the
invoice to Calvocoressi, and told Messrs Wood that
the copper had not been ordered on the account of
his (Mr. Hamson's) firm. On being asked by Mr.
Motteram (counsel for the prosecution) whether the
letter of March 10 was in prisoner's handwriting,
the witness hesitated a good deal. It looked like it,
but he had seen the same handwriting imitated
very much; it was more like Moss's handwriting
than anybody else's, but ultimately he said he be-
lievedi it was his.
• Mr. Motteram asked whether he authorised the
letter of the 10th March to be written or not?
Mr. Hamson—l was away when this note was
written. I could not give authority when I was
away.

Mr. Motteram—Didy-ou give authority generally-
for the ordering of copper for Turkish piastres ? A
good deal depends upon the answer,
- Mr. Harding (Moss's solicitor)—You may decline
to answer that, if you like.
Witness—Then I do decline.
Mr. Motteram—Then you may stand down ; I
have no other questions to ask you.
Subsequently, on the nature of the position in
Which his answer placed him had been explained,
Mr. Hamson said that, being a foreigner, he had
not properly understood the question put. The pri-
soner had a general authority to write letters on
witness's business by procuration, but witness had
no knowledge of the matter referred to in the letter
of March 20 either before or at the time it was
written. Moss had no instructions from him in such
a matter, and the first he knew of it was when the
copper invoice was sent by Messrs. Wood at the end
of June. He said that he scolded Moss for perilling
the,credit of the firm in this way, bUt believed it
had been done out of friendship for Calvocoressi,
Mr. Moss not knowing the consequences.
Mr. M'Neil, managing clerk for Messrs, Wood,
then deposed, in continuation of the evidence pre-
viously given, that a few days after the letter of
March 12 had been sent to -Manchester Calvoco-
ressi and another person (not Moss) called on them
in Birmingham. Witness accompanied these two
to Dipple's,!introduced them, and stoodby while the
order was given, but. made Calvocoressi, his friend,
and Dipple understand that the transaction was
not with Messrs. Wood, but between themselves,
In reply to Mr. Harding witness said that when,
Calvocoressi and Mr. Moss went to Mr. Heaton's
and Mr. Dowler's Calvocoressi took the lead in the
conversation. Witne4S regarded. Mr. Moss simply
as the clerk or buyer of Hamson and Co., having
done business with him in that cacity for several
years. When witness left Heaton his
impression
was that the making of coins would be illegal.
Went to Bowler's afterwards because it was near,
and because he was not exactly satisfied.
Mr. Wood, on being called by Mr. Harding, ad-
mitted that in going from Mr. Dowler's to the
hotel Moss said to Calvocoressi, " You see you must
get an authority ; I would advise you to get it."
Witness regarded Mr. Moss simply as introducing
a foreigner who wanted to do business in firming-
ham, as he had often previously done,llo
George Glossop, superiotenuen,.t, the
ham detective police, deposed that when he appre-
hended the prisoner on the charge of being con-
cerned with Calvocoressi in.getting the coins made,
Moss said, " You must be mistaken ; I hq4 bathing
to do with it." On being told that he had been
identified as having accompanied Calvocoressi to
Mr. Heaton's he said, " No such thing ; I never
was at Heaton's I don't know him; who is he ?"
Witness explained that Heaton was the gentleman
to whom they went to get the coitus made. Moss
then said, " I went 1101,01 w
h cannot be me ; it
inipt be Mr, ii.Aselt Hamm); who is now in con-

stantineple." Afterwards, on witness describing
Heaton and Dowler, Moss said, " I might possibly
have called with Mr. Calvocoressi on other business,
but I took no part in the proceedings whatever."
This being the case for the prosecution,
Mr. Harding submitted that there was nothing
to prove a guilty knowledge on the part of Mr.
Moss, but that he had simply acted in his capacity
as clerk to Messrs. Hamson.

The magistrates, however, decided on sending the
case before a jury, and the prisoner •Nvas then com-
mitted for trial at the borough sessions, which are
to be held during the present week. Bail was
taken for his appearance.
We may mention that at the close of the hearing
Mr. Motteram acquitted the Messrs. Wood of hav-
ing been guilty of any intentional impropriety in
this serious matter.

THE TRAGEDY NEAR PRESTON.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

An inquest upon the bodies of Mary Hannah
Wainman, who was shot by her lover at Forton,
near Garstang, on Wednesday afternoon, and
Robert Bond, the murderer, who immediately after
tho perpetration of the dreadful deed committed
suicide, was held by Mr. L. Holden, coroner, of
Lancaster, on Thursday afternoon, at the house of
Mr. Nathaniel Calverley Bond, the father of the
suicide and murderer.

The scene of the dreadful occurrence is on the
highway in Forton, at the junction of three roads,
one leading to Cockerham, another to Scorton, and
the third to Winmarleigh and Preston. Mr. N.
C. Bond was formerly a spirit merchant in Liver-
pool, of the firm of Bond and Procter, and now
resides at a mansion named Richmond Grove,
as described. His household consisted of
his wife, the young man Robert, their only son,
and a -woman servant. The son has for some time
past led a dissipated life, and has been much ad-
dicted to drinking. He is said to have been a per-
son of considerable educational attainments, and
during his short career (he was only. 25 years of
age) he has visited Australia, America, and other
countries. His victim, the young woman Wain-
man, was 19 years of age ; she lived at a house
adjoining that of Mr. bond, with three brothers,
their father and mother being dead. This family
rented the house and land they occupied from the
father of the deceased. What is certain is that the
murderer had conceived a passion for his victim,
who did not reciprocate his sentiments towards her,
and to the feelings engendered by this fact nay be
attributed the awful tragedy which we are about
to describe. One day last week, Mr. and Mrs.
Bond went to Liverpool, leaving their son and the
servant in the house, and they did not return till
Wednesday afternoon, to behold the blood-stained
corpse of the young woman Wainman, and the
mangled remains of the suicide. During their ab-
sence, the murderer conducted himself in a very
wild and irregular -manner, drinking brandy to ex-
oess, and exciting such alarm by his conduct that
a note was sent to his father requesting him to re-
turn. He was seen with a loaded gun in his hand,
and one of the brothers of Miss Wainman contrived
to obtain possession of it, discovering it under a
sofa in the house of Mr. Bond, in the absence of its
owner. The murderer, missing the weapon some
time afterwards, went and demanded that if should
be returned to him ; but the persons then in Wain•
man's house (Miss Wainman, and a housekeeper)
refused to comply with his request. He uttered a
sort of half menace, and went away, saying that he
had another gun.
A little before 10 o'clock on Wednesday-forenoon
the murderer appeared at the back door of his father s
house, with a single-barrelled gun in his hand, and,
as it proved, loaded. Mr. Bond's woman-servant,
and the housekeeper at Wainman's, immediately ran
away, screaming, from the house towards the gar-
den. He allowed them to pass, but the moment that
Miss Wainman, probably to ascertain the cause of
the alarm, appeared at the door of her own house
(a distance of about eight yards from where he was
standing), he levelled the piece, fired, and dis-
charged the contents into the right side of her head
and neck. The hapless victim fell to the ground
covered with blood, her right eye being shot out,
and one of her jawbones smashed to pieces. One
of her brothers, who was near, hearing the report
of the gun, hastened to the spot, lifted his sister's
head :and then seeing her condition, ran into the
lane, calling out " Police !" " Murder !" Mr. Jas.
Myerscough, a butcher, from Cockerham, who was
passing, attracted by the alarm, came up ; but at
first nobody venturned to enter Mr. Bond's house,
whither the murderer had went. About six minutes
after the first report of the gun a second was heard,
and on the parties looking through the drawing-
room window, they witnessed a most sickening
spectacle—the murderer was seated upon a chair,
with the gun still in his hands, the top part of his
skull blown off, and his brains scattered on the ceil-
ing and in various parts of the room. Hence, it is
obvious, that as soon as he had despatched
his innocent victim, he re-entered the house, and
made preparations for despatching himself. He had
reloaded the gun, and after seating himself, placed
it between his knees, the muzzle in his mouth, and
pulled the trigger with the tongs, which were found
still in his hand. He was, of course, quite dead.
The, poor girl lingered in great agony for nearly an
hour, when death ended her sufferings. Her dress
was covered with blood, and she presented a sorry
sight. The author of this crime was, however, far
worse disfigured, and his appearance made the
,jurymen turn sick and pale, as the corpse had not
been disturbed, and was still sitting in the chair
when they viewed it.
The above facts having been substantially given
in evidence, the coroner briefly addressed the jury,
who returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
The occurrence has caused the most painful feel-
ings throughout the whole district. The conduct
of the murderer is in some measure unaccountable,
but he appears to have primed himself with drink
prior to committing the double crime. Both
corpses, we understand, will be interred on Sunday
next, the murderer in Coekerham churchyard, and
the young woman, (who was a Roman Catholic), in
the burial ground belonging to the chapel in Win-
marleigh.