The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-25 00:00:00

Attempted Strangulation of a Boy by
Foreign Housebreakers.

At the Clerkenwell Police. court, yesterday, An-
tonio Galioni, aged 36, a shoemaker, of 36, Charles-
street, Hatton-garden, and Mattau Dacola, aged
36, who refused his address, bath natives of Italy,
were charged before Mr. Cooke with entering the
dwelling-house of Mr. John Votieri, engraver, of
25, Upper Park-street, Islington, and stealin
therein 30 onyx stones, value £2O, a glass bottle
eontaining small pieces of onyx stones, and one
teaspoon (metal), his property. The prisoners
were further charged with stealing a wooden box,
containing 100 onyx stones, value £4O; and also
with feloniously assaulting Joseph Morgan, at the
same time and place.
Inspector Wiseman, N division, watched the case
on behalf of the Commissioners of Police, and Mr.
Morinari acted as interpreter.
The back part of the head of the prisoner Dacola
was covered with surgical battlages.
Police-sergeant Herbert Stammers, 4 N, said—
Last evening, from information I received, I was
instructed by Inspector Wiseman to go to the house
No. 24, Upper Park-street, Barnsbury. I went
there about half-past five in company with police-
constables Newbold, 151 N, Dudley, 47 N, and
Barnett, 316 N. We got over the back wall into
the garden of No. 24, and had some conversation
with Mr. J. Votieri, the proprietor, and after that
he went out taking with him his family, and leaving
the house in charge of a boy of 14. We were at
that time secreted in the back kitchen. After the
family had been out about ten minutes a double
knock came to the door and the boy opened it, and
I heard the voice of two men, and I heard one of
them ask if Mr. J. Votieri was in. I heard them
walk into the parlour; and then one of them went
upstairs. I heard the boy who was in the parlour
say, " Oh, don't hurt me ; I won't make a
noise." Everything was all quiet then, except the
person upstairs, who appeared to be throwing the
things on the floor. He then remained quiet
about ten minutes, and I directed New-
bold and Dudley to go into the parlour, and Bar-
nett and I went upstairs to the backroom on the
first floor. There I saw the prisoner Antonio.
The bag produced was lying en the table, and it
contained a quantity of onyx stones. The prisoner
had a pair of large pincers in his hand which I
thought was a knife. He made a desperate resistance
and I used my truncheon, striking him on the head.
I then searched him, took him downstairs and from
thence to the police station. I produce a bag and a
number of onyx stones which I found in the bag. I
also produce a cash-box, a gold watch and chain,
which I found at the prisoner's lodgings, and which

I believe to have been stolen. There was a skeleton

key in the cash-box. In the pocket of Antonio I
found a chisel. In the bag was a wax candle, and
on the floor were some files, a chisel, and someother
tools. I was compelled to strikethe prisoner in self-
defence.

The prisoner Dacola said that there ought to be
another man in custody, and that was the man who
knocked at the door and then went and fetched the
police. He was a spy.

Police-constable William Newbold, 151 N, said—
I was in the prosecutor's house with the previous
witness and the other constables. I went into the
parlour and saw the prisoner Dacola there, and he
struck at me and tried to rush past me. He said
something which I did not understand. I took him
into custody and searched him, and on him I found
a box containing five onyx stones. I took him to
the police-station. Dacola was very violent, and I
had to throw him on the ground, and his head came
in contact with the table and was cut.

-The prisoner Dacola--I never offered any resist-
ance whatever. I went to the police-station
quietly.

Mr. John Votieri, stone engraver, and importer
of Roman shell, cameos, &c., of 24, Upper Park-
street, Liverpool-road, said—The 130 onyx stones
produced are my property. They were taken from my
workroom on the first-floor, and from the parlour.
The tools produced are mine, and were in the back
room. Last evening about half-past six I went out
with my family, leaving my apprentice in charge of
the house. Before I left the house I had a con-
versation with the police. 1 returned about half-
past seven, and then the prisoners were at the
police-station. The bag produced is not my pro-
perty. Ido not know the prisoners, nor have I
ever seen them at my house or elsewhere. The
value of the onyx stones produced is £65. The
house is my dwelling-house.
Joseph Morgan said—l am an out-door appren-
tice to Mr. Votieri, and reside at 10, Pleasant-
place, Essex-road, Islington. Last night about six
o'clock, I was left in charge of the house, my master
and his wife having gone out. At half-past six 1
heard a doable knock and I opened the door. The
prisoner Dacola and a person who is not here,
asked me if Mr. Votieri was at home, and also if
anybody else was in the house, and I said, "No."
He asked me for pen and ink, as he said ho wanted
to write a message, I went upstairs to fetch
it. I brought the ink into the parlour, and lit the
gas. Dacola then went into the parlour and took
from the table a small box of onyx stones, and put
them into his pocket. Then I saw the prisoner
Galioni pass along the passage with something in
his hand like the large black bag produced, and go
upstairs. The prisoner Dacola then lowered the
gas, caught hold of me in a violent manner and
threw me into a chair, shook his fist at me menac-
ingly, and told me not to call out. I then said I
would not call out. He had a pocket-handkerchief
in his hand which he tied over my mouth and nose
pulled it
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handkerchief from his pocket and tied my hands
behind me. Then he put his hands into his pockets
and looked hard at me. Just at that moment the
police officers came into the room. He rushed at the
officers and a struggle took place, and the police
constable struck him. I told Police-constable Dudley
to untie my hands, and he did so with his teeth.
My hands were very tightly tied. I was afraid of
the prisoner.
Police-constable Dudley, 47 N, said—l was in

the house with the other constables. I went into
the parlour with constable Newbold. The prisoner
llacola was very violent. I secured him by the right
hand. I found the boy secured by a handkerchief,
and his hands were tied behind, and there was a
handkerchief tied over his mouth. The handker-
chief was tied so tightly that I had to undo it with
my teeth:

Mr. Cooke asked if anything was known of either
of the prisoners.

Inspector Wiseman said he understood that the
prisoner aacola had before been in custody on a
charge of felony. He had to ask for a remand, to
enable him to make further inquiries and to appre-
hend the man who had escaped.
The prisoners said that they should like to say
something to exculpate themselves from this charge.
Mr. Cooke said that the prisoners would be com-
mitted to the Central Criminal Court for trial, but
they would be brought up again to give time for the
police to make further inquiries and to apprehend
the man who had escaped. On that occasion the
prisoners could make their defence.

The case appeared to excite a gool deal of in-
terest in a crowded court.

Some five and twenty to thirty barges were moored
at the end of the Ile Saint-Louis when the night
before last an accumulation of floating ice broke the
iron ring which held one of them, and this drawing
the others with it came with violence against the
piers of the Pont Marie. There they smashed
against each other and those which were loaded with
coal sank immediately ; some were actually cut in
two and all much damaged.. One of the floating
washing establishments also broke in two, and one
half passing under the arch knocked against the
pier of the Pont Louis Philippe, where it went to
pieces. Some of the wreck floated to the Quai des
Ormes, and caused considerable injury to the boats
moored there. No lives were lost.

The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.15 per Zl sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 3
as. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold!.
ADOtt ►,loth dearer In rule um 111 LOAN.