The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDOIC, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 6, 1867.

peri shed. We would suggest that a copy of these
instructions might advantageously be placed in the
hands of every policeman in the United Kingdom.

Reports were read from Capt. J. R. Ward, KN.,
the inspector, and Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., the
assistant-inspector of lifeboats to the society, on
their recent visits to the coast.

A very able report of a special committee, of which
Admiral Ryder was the chairman, on the state of
the lifeboats of the institution, was read and ap-
proved. Payments amounting to nearly £2,300
were ordered to be made on various lifeboat esta-
blishments, making a total of £29,650 expended by
the institution on its 186 lifeboat stations during
the eleven months of the present year. It had also,
during the same period, contributed to the rescue
of 1,027 lives from various wrecks, nearly 200 of
which had been saved by its lifeboats during the
recent heavy gales. Altogether this noble society
had contributed from its establishment to the saving
of 16,928 lives from shipwreck. It was stated that
the pressure on the funds of the society in carrying
on its great and national work was very heavy at
the present time, and that during the past few days
£2,700 of its funded property had been ordered to
be sold out. It therefore hoped that the British
public will strengthen the bands of the lifeboat
society at this stormy period, when its lifeboats are
engaged night and day in battling with the storms
and in snatching our fellow-creatures from ship-
wreck. Sir Thomas Tobin, of Cork, sent the insti-
tution the first instalment of £lOO, being a contribu-
tion from the 24,000 persons whom he solicited to
contribute towards the penny subscription lifeboat
which Sir Thomas is now so zealously promoting.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor. (Alderman
Allen) presided.

THE NEW DEAD-MEAT MARKET AT SMITHFIELD.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, the chairman of the Markets
Improvement Committee, brought up a report from
that committee, which embodied a report made by
Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect, having re-
ference to the progress of the works of the proposed
meat and poultry market, which is in course of
erection upon the site of the ancient market at
Smithfield. This report detailed the proceedings
that had taken place at the building during the
year, and the result appeared to be of a very satis-
factory character as to the progress of the works.
Mr. Taylor said he was sure it would be most
gratifying to the court to hear the report that was
made by the architect, and he believed he might
state that within 12 months of the present time the
market would be in full operation. (Hear, hear.)
He could also inform the court that applications
bad already been made for more shops in the mar-
ket than they had to dispose of, and before the
market was completed they should have a tenant
for every shop that could be built. (Hear, hear.)
The report was then formally agreed to.
TIIE PROPOSED NEW CATTLE MARKET IN LONDON.

The LORD MAYOR then said that the Remem-
brancer had a communication to make to the court,
which was of considerable importance, and which it
was considered advisable should be received with
closed doors.

Strangers were accordingly ordered to withdraw,
and the court sat in deliberation with closed doors
for nearly three hours. It was understood that the
subject brought before it was the negotiations that
had taken place between the officers of the corporation
and the Government in reference to the bill pro-
posed to be brought in by the latter for the
erection of a new market at the waterside
for the slaughtering of foreign cattle. The
Government, in the first instance, expressed their
intention to place the building of the new market
under the control of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, but this course met with strenuous opposi-
tion at the hands of the corporation, who regarded
it in the light of an unfair attack upon their ancient
rights and privileges in reference to the question of
markets in the metropolis. Various communica-
tions have taken place between the Markets Com-
mittee and the Lords of the Privy Council upon the
subject, and it appears that the result is that the
Government has col,sented to leave the erection of
the new market entirely in the hands of the corpora-
tion, who very naturally feel somewhat elated at
the triumph they have thus achieved.

FENIAN MOVEMENTS.

Shortly after noon on Thursday, Detective inspector
Manton, of the Birmingham police force, in company
with two other officers, one from London and one from
Manchester, apprehended William Hogan, 38, residing at
19, Bradford-street, secretary to the United St. Patrick's
Insurance Society, on a charge of conspiring against the
Government of her Majesty, and also of purchasing a
number of pistols for the attack upon the prison van at
Manchester on the 18th of September. The prisoner was
taken before Mr. C. R. Cope.—Mr. Glossop, chief of
the Birmingham police, said the prisoner, in company
with a man named Pherson, who is now in custody
in Manchester, went to Mr. Hill's, in St. Mary's-
row, and bought a number of pistols, for which the
prisoner paid. Those pistols were sent to Manchester.
He asked that the prisoner might be remanded to Man-
chester.—The prisoner said the man told him that he was
a hawker, and wanted the pistols to sell to sailors in Liver-
pool who were going to Abyssinia. He considered it very
hard that he should be detained.—The prisoner was re-
manded, and conveyed in the afternoon to Manchester in
charge of the officers.
In the Dublin Fenian Commission Court, on Wednes-
day, four men who were lately found by the police in a
public-house in Marlborough-street, armed with revolvers,
and one of whom expressed regret that the promptitude
of the constable who arrested him had prevented him from
using his, pleaded guilty to an indictment for having arms
in a proclaimed district, and were sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment.
The robberies of arms in Cork are the subject of magis-
terial inquiry, but no clue has been found to lead to the
discovery of the guilty parties. The Austrian bark Medea,
from which six stand of arms were taken on Monday
night, has been for some time undergoing repairs in the
docks at Passage, after discharging a cargo of corn at
Cork. The arms were stored in a small apartment, to
which access could easily be obtained, at the stern of the
ship. So stealthily was the robbery effected that a large
mastiff, which was chained close to the deck-house door
by which the parties had to pass, gave no alarm. The
Passage police usually take charge of the arms in foreign
ships, but in this instance they were not so well informed
as the persons were who knew where to lay hands upon
the muskets. Some uneasiness was at first excited by the
robberies, but it appears to have since subsided.
A young man named Molony, who had been " on tne
run " for nine months to escape arrest under the Lord-
Lieutenant's warrant on a charge of Fenianism, was cap-
tured on Wednesday at the railway terminus in Limerick,
as he was about to start for Cork en route to America.
He is a native of Corofin, county of Clare, and is sus-
pected of having been engaged in the rising of the sth of
March last. He has been lodged in Ennis Gaol,

211 E ALTON MURDER.

WINCHESTER, THURSDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice MELLOR.)

This morning Frederick Baker, 29 years of age, described
as a clerk, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful
murder of Fanny Adams, at Alton, on the 24th of August
last. The interest was intense, and the court was besieged
with a crowd from an early hour. Mr. Bere and Mr.
Bullen were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Carter de-
fended the prisoner. The prisoner looks younger than he
is. He is a young man of middle height, and was mode-
rately well dressed. His head, borne erectly, and with a
certain show of defiance, is not of an ordinary type. His
face is pale and beardless ; but there was no particular
expression of care or anxiety on his countenance. During
the trial Baker was allowed to sit on a chair. He pleaded,
in a faint voice, " Not guilty."
Mr. Bere opened the case as one of the most horrible de-
scription. He went into a minute detail of the evidence
he should produce. About one o'clock on Saturday, the
24th of ! igust, three little girls, Fanny Adams being one,
were plaj dig in a field. The prisoner came up :Lo them,
and talked to them, and then gave them some half-
pence. To Fanny Adams he gave a halfpenny, and he
then took her up and carried he; away from the
other two children, telling them to go home, and that
was the last time Fanny Adams was seen alive. The
prisoner had admitted that he was the person who gave
the children the money. The two children went home,
but Fanny Adams did not return. About half-past 5
o'clock inquiries were made about her, and the prisoner
was asked ,what had become of the child, but he said he
did not know. Suspicions at length became excited,
and search was made in the place where the child
was last seen with the prisoner, and about that spot parts
of her body—her lungs, her legs, her heart, and other por-
tions—were found. The body was completely dismembered.
That the child was murdered there could be no doubt, and
then came the real question whether the prisoner was the
Man who had committed that murder. No direct evidence
of that fact could be given, but that part of the case
would depend upon circumstantial evidence, and there
would be such a chain of evidence surrounding him that
it would be impossible for him to escape. At two o'clock
he was seen with the child. He was seen afterwards
leaning over a gate looking into the field. At that time
the murder must have been completed. He was seen in
Alton between two and three. About four o'clock the
prisoner went into his master's kitchen, and had a conver-
sation with the cook, who gave him a letter for the post.
Between five and six o'clock he was seen leaning over a
gate, and a boy named Vince saw the prisoner doing
something at the water, apparently washing his hands.
Mrs. Adams then saw him and called him back, and he
returned to her. She asked him what had become of her
little girl ; he denied all knowledge of her, but said he
had given her a halfpenny. He gave her his address and
where he was to be found. There was nothing then
suspicious in his conduct ; his hands were in his
pockets. He then walked away. Near that spot two
human eyes were found. The prisoner was in his
master's office about six o'clock that evening, and a con-
versation then took place between him and his fellow
clerk, Morris Biddle ; they went out together and did
not return till eight o'clock. The prisoner was then very
much excited, and said he had been accused of taking
away a child, but he knew nothing about it. About eight
o'clock that evening the murder was discovered, ansus-
picion fell upon the prisoner, and he was accused ofd t by
some '
people, and he said " Never • it is a bad job for me
then." He was taken into custody. Portions of his
clothes were wet. Two knives were found upon him.
After this his diary was looked at. It contained a state-
ment of the.work he had done in the office, and then, in
his own handwriting, on the 24th of August, was this
remarkable entry, Killed a young girl—it is fine and
hot." He (Mr. Bere) thought he had detailed all the cir-
cumstances as they were connected with the prisoner, and
if lie
_proved them it would be clear to all reasonable men
that he must have been the murderer. As to the motive
of the prisoner, there could be no doubt what was the
purpose of his taking the little child away, and that
having efiected his purpose he had killed the child, as a
stone covered with blood was found near the spot where
some portions of the body were discovered, and he had a
knife in his pocket by which he might have dismembered
the body, which it was supposed he had done with a view
of concealing the offence he had committed.
The plan of the country was produced and proved.
Minnie Warner, a child, 8 years of age, said : I knew
little Fanny Adams. I went out walking with her on
Saturday, after dinner. Lizzie Adams was with us. Fanny
Adams was 9 years old. While we were at play, the pri-
soner came to us and said, " Ah, my little children, here
you come again !" He played with us in the meadow, and
gave me three halfpence. We went down towards the Hollow
lane. He gave Fanny a halfpenny. He picked some black-
berries for us. He then told me and Lizzie to go home,
and spend our halfpence ; he went down the Hollow with
us. He lifted Fanny up in his arms and carried her up
the Hollow. He said, " Come with me, and I will give
you twopence more." Fanny cried, and wanted to go
home. I saw him and Fanny go into the hop-ground.
Lizzie and I went home and told mother. 1 saw the
prisoner again that afternoon with Mrs. Gardiner. I had
seen the prisoner on the Saturday before in the same
meadow. Emma White was with me then, but not Fanny
Adams. He talked to us then ;he told me to go round
the Hollow with him, and then he told me to go home.
Eliza White : My husband is a sawyer. I came home
irom my work about two o'clock that day by the path
through the hop-field. I saw a man with the three
children, who were companions of my, little girl. He
was loitering about. The children were at play. The
prisoner is that man. I saw them between ten and fifteen
minutes. I watched them. The man was smoking all
the time. I saw the children run into the Hollow. The
man looked about and followed them, and I lost sight of
them. I heard one of the children cry out, but not as if
in pain. It came from the Hollow. I then went home.
Confirmatory evidence was given by William Awlwork
and Elizabeth Warner, sister to the previous witness.
George Noyce said : lam a shepherd. On the 24th 02
August I was in a field called Twelve Acres. About two
minutes par' three I saw a man coming along the field
near the hop-field.• When he saw me he put his hands
under his jacket and walked away. The prisoner was that
moan. He afterwards went towards the hop-ground. He
bad on a black jacket and light trousers.
Sarah Norris : I am cook to Mr. Clements, by whom
the prisoner was employed as clerk. Shortly after four in
the afternoon of the 24th of August I gave the prisoner a
letter to post. There was nothing extrordinary in his
appearance at that time. I saw him again at half-past six
in the office. There was no one else in the office. I saw
no marks of blood upon him.
Alfred Vince (a very little boy)_: I remember the day
Fanny Adams was killed. I saw rs. Gardiner talking to
a man who was where people bathe. I had seen that man
come out of the hollow and go to the water and wash his
bands. He then saw me and ran after me, and I ran away.
There was a gate between us.
Harriet' Adams, the mother of Fanny Adams, deposes
that she went with Mrs. Gardiner to look for the child.
Saw a man come out of the Hollow-gate. Minnie
Warner followed behind us. Mrs. Gardiner got up to the
man first. She called him twice and asked kim to stop.
He then came and met us. He was dressed in light
trousers and dark coat and a tall hat. Mrs. Gardiner
spoke to him, and asked him, " What have you done with
the child you took away ?" He said he had not taken
any child away. She said, " Did you not give some
children some halfpence ? " He said, " Yes." Mrs.
Gardiner said, " Here comes Minnie Warner." She came
up, and Mrs. Gardiner asked her if that was the gentleman
who gave her the halfpence. She said, " Yes." Mrs.
Gardiner asked her how much he gave her. She said,
" Three pennies." The prisoner said, " No, three half-
pence ;" and to the other two he had given a halfpenny
each/ Mrs. Gardiner asked him his name. He said,
" Never mind my name ;. you will find me at Clements's,
at Alton." Mrs. Gardiner begged his pardon, and he
went away towards the meadows, over a bridge, and the
path comes out by the toll-gate kept by Mrs. Porter.
Mrs. Gardiner corroborated this evidence.
Morris Biddle, junior clerk with Mr. Clements, said :
On Saturday, the 24th of August, I was at the office, and
so was the prisoner in the morning. He seemed as if he
had been drinking. At the office, in the evening, tlee
prisoner said some women had accused him of taking away
a child. He said he did not know anything about it,
or he would have given them information. He said
if the child was murdered be supposed he should
be blamed for it. He said he thought he should
go away on -Monday, and asked me if I would go
with him. He said there was a case something like that
at Guildford, but there the girl came back again. When
the " boots " came in he said he was going away on Mon-
day, and the prisoner said they might as well go together.
1309 ts said he would not do for him, for lie could put his
hand to anything. Ba'zer said he could go as a butcher.
I went back to the (Bee. I heard something at the office,
and I went and fetched Baker. I said, " Baker, they say
you have murdered a child." He said, " Never, Morris ;
it's a bad job for me -then." I said, We'll go to the
office and see whether there's any truth in it." We then
went to the office. A baker named Doggrell came. He
said, " Where's Baker? They say be has been and mur-
dered a child." Baker said he was innocent, but it was a
bad job for him. Soon after he was taken into custody by
Chen y. I knew the prisoner kept a diary. The last
entry is the 24th of August, in his writing. I was not out
of the prisoner's company two minutes after we had been
at the chemist's. I had gone out to see the place of the
murder when I met Cheney. Trimming, the other clerk,
was there. The prisoner was smoking in the office. I did
not see him make an entry in the diary that evening.
Mr. Trimming, the senior clerk, confirmed Biddle's
statement. He added : I observed in the morning that he
had been drinking. He had been excited all the evening.
, T considered he was muddled with drink.

A labourer named Gates deposed as to the finding u,
the several parts of the body. The manner in which the
body of the poor girl had been hacked to pieces was de-
tailed.

W. Cheney, superintendent of police, said : I asked the
prisoner if he had heard of the murder. He sal 1, "They
say it's me, don't they ?" I said, "Yes, you are suspected."
He said, " I am innocent, and I am willing to go where you
like." He produced two knives, on one of which was a
little blood. I said. " I must leave a constable with you."
I went away and made further inquiries, and then I
returned and took the prisoner into custody. He said he
I was innocent, and that the halfpence pr.,ved nothing,
as he was in the habit of giving children money when he
was out for a walk. He had £1 Cs. I.ld. in his pocket.
His left boot and sock and leg of the trousers were quite
wet. I asked him how he accounted for that, and he
said he was in the habit of stepping into the water when
lie was out for a walk. There were spots on the trouser
leg, which appeared to have been washed. There were
stains of blood, on the wristbands of his shirt. He said
he could not account for it. On the Monday I went to
Mr. Clements's office, and with one of the keys found on
the prisoner I opened his desk, and found the diary that
was shown to the prisoner in his cell. He was asked if
that was his handwriting, and he said it was : he did
it after he saw the women, but he was intoxicated at
the time.
George Watkins, policeman, deposed that after Baker's
clothes were taken off he said they had found some blood
on his sleeve which he couldn't account for. The doctor
seemed to think it was he, but as for his boots being wet
that was nothing, as he was in the habit of walking in the
dew and washing his boots even before going to the office.
If the case were gone on with, he should be defended ,•
and if he did not get off he must be hanged. That was all
he intended to say about it.
It.being now nearly six o'clock, and it being stated that
Dr. Taylor was to be examined,
Mr. Justice Mellor said that the better way would now
,1 De to adjourn the trial to the morning.