The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIN3, SEPFEMBER 21, 1867

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A WORKMAN AT THE REVOLVING
SHUTTER WORKS.—George Moore, a carpenter, in
the employ of Messrs. Clark and Co., of the self-
coiling revolving shutter works, Rathbone-place,
was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some
thumb-screw locks and other articles, the property
of his employers.

Mr. Froggatt, of Argyle-street, appeared for the
prosecution, and in opening the case stated that
there had been so many robberies at the works that
the prosecutors felt bound to press the case with
the utmost severity of the law. lie (Mr. Froggatt)
would produce some evidence, and then ask for a
remand.

Mr. F. Grafton, the manager of the works, said
that on the 12th September the prisoner obtained
an order for two lever locks, and he had the locks
for the business of the firm. The prisoner had no
authority to sell the locks. He had ascertained that
the prisoner had sold other articles belonging to
the firm to different persons. The thumb-screws
and other articles produced he identified as belong-
ing to the firm.

In answer to the prisoner, Mr. Grafton said that
he could positively identify some of the articles pro-
duced, as they were manufactured expressly for the
firm by a Birmingham house.

John Freeman, a spring maker in the employ of
the prosecutors, identified some articles as their
property.

Mr. Russell, a baker, of Elgin-road, Maida-hill,
proved purchasing two till locks of the prisoner for
4s. 6d. The prisoner was at work at his house, and
said that the locks that the prosecutors were going
to send him were of no use, and that he had two
by him for sale which he had had by him ever since
he was in business, and that they would suit him
(witness) better.

Police-constable Carter, 117 E, said that he
apprehended the prisoner at No. 52, Exmouth-
street, Clerkenwell, and on .telling him the charge
he said that the articles he was charged with stealing
were his own property, and that the thumb-screws
he picked up at a job. On searching the prisoner's
place be found screws, pullies, and two models (pro-
duced), which the prisoner said were his own pro-
perty, but which had been identified by the witnesses
as prosecutors' property. The prisoner admitted
some small articles belonged to the prosecutors.

The prisoner entered into a long statement, with
a view of showing that the prosecution was one of a
vindictive character.

Mr. Knox remanded him.

WESTMINSTER.

A BENEFIT SOCIETY IN A PRISON.—A very
respectable-looking young woman applied to Mr.
Selfe for advice under the following circumstances.
She had been a warder for 14 or 15 months at the
House of Correction, Westminster. She had left
through ill-health, and belonging to a benefit society
in the prison she claimed £5, which she was en.
titled to in sickness or old age. The committee
refused to pay her, hence her application to the
magistrate. On au officer being sent to the House
of Correction, one of the warders said that two
committee meetings had been held, and they had
decided that she was not entitled to it, because she
had not assigned ill-health as the cause of her
resignation, and Dr. Lavies refused to certify that
she was incapacitated for work, because he had
recommended her as attendant to an invalid lady.
Mr. Selfe said that in that case he could not assist
her further.

The Fenian Outrage in M 'Kloster.

FURTHER ARRESTS.-THE CORONER'S INQUEST

The excitement caused by this outrage has begun
to abate, and the prevailing questions now are as
to who is to blame, and whether the sending of 11
unarmed policemen with the van was a sufficient
precaution. Unfortunately the most reliable in-
formation that a rescue was to be attempted did not
reach the authorities till it was too late.

Between Thursday afternoon, when the magis-
trates examined 30 prisoners at the City Pulice
Court, and yesterday morning four more persons
were apprehended. They gave the names of Hugh
Foley, of the Royal *Marines, in Manchester on
furlough, 28 years of age; Patrick Coffey,
Bor.-
sall-street, Hulme, 26 ; Patrick Toole, 'labourer,
Stockport, 28 (apprehen led at Preston, on Thurs-
day) ; and Michael Kennedy, cane dresser, Cla-
rendon-street, fluhne, 28,
im,y2rf ectly educated,
in employ. They were locked up on Thursday
night at. the Albert-street police station. Their
removal in the van yesterday afternotn to the Police
Court, and thence to the City . Gaol, under the
escort of a troop of the Bth Hussars, though wit-
nessed by a large number of persons, did not pro-
duce anythinglike the excitement that was witnessed
on Thursday. At the City Police Court, Mr.
Fowler, the stipendiary magistrate, presided ; and
there were several other magistrates present. A
short time before the case was called cn, Mr.
Fowler ordered that the galleries of the court,
which were crowded with men of the lower class,
should be cleared. When the prisoners were placed
in the dock, Mr. Fowler asked Mr. Superintendent
Gee if he had brought the prisoners up on the
charge of taking part in the attack on the police.—
Mr. Gee said he had. Mr. Fowler—Have you
reasonable ground to expect that you can bring the
charge home to them? Mr. Gee said that as re-
garded Foley, Coffey, and Kennedy he had no
doubt , but the other prisoner, Toole, might be dis-
charged. Mr. Fowler said that upon that evidence
he should remand three of the prisoners to Thurs-
day, the same day as the others. Toole was dis-
charged.

The Coroner's inquest touching the death of
Sergeant Brett was also opened yesterday, before
Mr. E. Herford, at his offices in St. John-street.
After the Jury had been sworn, the Coroner said
that Brett's death ha I arisen out of the outrage near
the City Gaol. He might state for the convenience
of persons present that he did not intend to pro-
ceed with the examination of witnesses till the
magistrates' inquiry, which was going on, was con-
cluded. That was a new arrangement, as to the ad-
vantages of which he would not speak. It was
obviously better not to have anything like clashing
or interference, and it was better also for the ac-
cused that they should not be prejudiced by any-
thing that might take place in their absence. At
the close of the evidence which he proposed to take
he thought it would be advisable to adjourn for
three weeks, by which time the other tribunal would
have completed its inquiry. The following witnesses
were then examined :—Edward Brett said that the
deceased was his brother. He lived in Wilson-
' street, Oldham Road ; he was in his 52d year, and
has left a wife and three children.

Police-constable Shaw said he was on duty on
the prison van on its way to the City Gaol on
Wednesday afternoon. He sat•near the driver,
by the side of an officer named Yarwood. As
they approached the bridge
which crosses Hyde
Road, witness observed a number of men. The
name of the person who
was supposed to have
shot the deceased was Allen. Witness had already
identified him at the Police Court. He first ob-
served Allen before the van was stopped; in fact,
he was the first man that witness saw, before the
van got through the arch of the bridge. He had a
revolver in his hand, and was upon the footpath.
The van was stopped about 12 or 14 yards beyond
the arch. Witness did not know that Brett was
inside the vehicle ; he thought he was on the step
behind. While the attack was being made, he first
saw Brett upon the floor', after this door had been
opened. While the door was being attacked a num-
ber of men got upon the roof of the vehicle, and
others stood by with revolvers', defending those who
were breaking in. Allen was one of the number ;he
discharged his revolver more than once at the.police
and the bystanders who showed any disposition to
charge the mob._ He fired at wituess several
times, when witness tried to induce people to inter-
fere. In firing at witness, Allen shot a man, named
Sprosson in the foot.—The Coroner : Did you see
him fire any shot against the door of the van which
you suppose went through ?—Witness : I saw him
put the pistol deliberately to the van ; I think it
was the keyhole, but I cannot say positively
whether
it was that or the ventilator, which is about 6 or 8
inches above the lock.—The Coroner: Did he dis-
charge his revolver at the time?—Witness : Yes ; I
heard the shot fired, and directly afterwards some
one cried out, " He's killed."—Tie Coroner : Who
was that ?—Witness : It appeared
to be a voice from
the inside of the vehicle. Soon afterwards witness
saw the door open and Brett on the fleas. After the
mob leftthe vehicle Brett was found to be shot through
the head, and unconscious. He was taken in a cab to
the Royal Infirmary. The hatoduced was Brett's.
The hole through the back was caused by the
bullet.—[The production of the hat seemed to un-
nerve the witness very considerably.]—A Jury-
man : Is it probable Allen knew that Brett was
inside the vehicle ?—witness : I think he did,
because some one cried out
"lie is inside the van."
It was not usual to place an officer inside, except
to hear occasionally what the prisoners said.—The
Coroner : It would be better to leave that matter
till afterwards. It would not affect the legal aspect
of the case, because firing a bullet under such cir-
cumstances, and killing
anybody, would be murder.
There is no doubt of that.-91r. J. R. Woodcock
said he was the house surgeon at the Royal Infir-
mary. The deceased was admitted to that institu-
tion at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Witness saw
him shortly afterwards ; he was unconscious, and
remained so. He died at twenty-five minutes past
five p.m. By the Coroner's order witness had
made a post-nzortem examination of the body.
He found a fracture in the roof of the right orbit,
where the ball had entered the cavity of the skull,
and a second fracture on the right side of the crown
of the head, where the ball had passed out of the
skull. There was extensive laceration of the brain
between the two apertures., In witness's opinion
death was caused by
injury to the brain through
the passage of the bullet.
The other half of the
brain was perfectly healthy,
and the organs were
generally healthy. The ball appeared to have been
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The van upon which the attack was made is at
the Albert .street police station, and it shows fewer
marks of violence than current report has hitherto
stated. On the left side of the vehicle, which
would correspond to the left side of the road
going in the direction of the City Gaol, there
is a bullet hole, not far from the driver's seat,
and indicating that the shot had been fired
at the policemen in front of the van.
There are two other indentations on the same side
of the vehicle, which may or may not have been
caused by bullets. The roof has been beaten in to
the extent of about a yard, and in places the hole
is four or six inches wile, but nowhere is it large
enough to admit a person through. The most vio-
lence has been used towards the door. The panel
has been beaten in, but there are no signs of bullet
marks about the lock. Within the vehicle, on the
under side of the roof, and in the direct lino of fire
had anyone discharged a pistol through the venti-
lator, is a bullet mark, caused no doubt by the
very ball that passed through Brett's head. The
appearance of the van within is that of a long
narrow corridor, with small wooden cells on each
side. It has been ascertained that Brett was
standing in this corridor with three or four
female prisoners when the outrage took place.
A small section of the ventilator was opened by
the mob, who, seeing the officer inside, demanded
the keys. It is said that Brett replied that he would
not give them up, whatever might be the conse-
quences. A shot was then fired, and the poor fellow
dropped upon the floor. The mob then demanded
the kepi Amu the women in the corridor, and

threatened them that if they did not give them up
the women should be shot also. One of them then
handed the keys to a man outside, the door was
opened, and Brett rolled out.

The local police have got the assistance of several
inspectors from Scotland-yard, London, and a large
number of supernumeraries are in plain clothes.
The outskirts of Manchester and many houses in
the city have been searched, and though these pro-
ceedings have not yet led to the capture of the two
principal persons who are wanted, they have re-
realed the existence of more Fenians in the dis-
trict than was ever before suspected. The police
arrangements are now as well as could be
desired; and last evening three large cases of
revolvers and ammunition arrrived at the Town
Hall from Chester Castle. In the course of the
night the welpons were issued to the police who are
specially engaged in the Fenian search. Should
any of the fugitives hereafter show any disposition
to they may experience disagrecable treatment.
On inquiry at the Royal Infirmary, last evening,
we are informed that Sprossou, and the injured
police officer, Bromley, were progressing very
favourably. The other officer, Trueman, who re-
ceived some slight injury on the left side is also
going on well. The funeral of Sergeant Brett will
take place at the Harpurhey Cemetery, at three
o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The police band and
a large number of the force will be present.
The following is a copy of a report which the
Mayor will present to a special meeting of the City
Council, to be held on Wednesday next : I regret
having to report to the Council that on the after-
noon of 11'eduesday, the 18th inst., about 4 o'clock,
a most daring and unprecedented outrage was per-
petrated in this city, by an attack upon the police
van, whereby two Fenian prisoners, Kelly and
Deasey, were rescued from the charge of the police,
an old and valued officer, Sergeant Brett, was mur-
dered, and another policeman and a civilian were
seriously wounded. The first intimation I received
of the occurrence was a message from Superintendent
Gee, in consequence of which I at once proceeded to
the Town Hall. Up to this time I was quite unaware
that the custody of the prisoners was attended with
any unusual risk or danger, or that any attempt at
rescue was to be apprehended. A telegram from
the Home Office reached me at ten minutes past five
p.m., containing suggestions for the safe custody of
the prisoners, and had this warning been received
by me in sufficient time, effective measures of
precaution would, I feel sure, have been adopted.
A telegram to a like effect from the authorities in
Dublin was also received at the Town Hall about
three hours after the outrage. The most prompt
and energetic measures were at once taken by the
police for the capture of the two Fenian prisoners
and the persons concerned in the attack upon the
police van ; and, although at present I am unable
to report the recapture of Kelly and Deasy, yet I
have satisfaction in informing the Council that no
less than 32 persons supposed to have been con-
cerned in the outrage are now in the hands of the
police. The Home Office, in reply to a telegram
sent by me, authorised the offer of a reward of
£3OO for the recapture of the two Fenian prisoners.
On behalf of the Corporation I offered a reward of
£2OO for the apprehension of the parties concerned
in the murder of the police constable and riot.
Under the circumstances, I had no hesitation in
requesting the assistance of the military for the
purpose of escorting and guarding the prisoners
now in custody. I have also considered it my duty
to apply to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department for permission to arm any police en-
gaged on service of danger, and the council will
learn with satisfaction that such permission, to-
gether with a supply of arms and ammunition, has
been promptly granted.—R. NEILL, Mayor." It
will be seen from the above report that there is no
truth whatever in the rumours that the local autho-
rities had timely intimation of an intended attempt
to rescue Kelly and Deasey.
This (Saturday) morning, the city magistrates
arc to meet at 10 o'clock for the purpose of adopting
measures for a more permanent defence of the City
Gaol. The building is at present occupied by a
strong guard of infantry.
Up to midnight there had been no further arrests.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Yesterday a general court-martial, of which (Jul.
R. 11. Crofton, R.A., was president, assembled at
Chatham for the trial of two prisoners, b 3 order of
Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge. Col. Lay c,
deputy judge-advocate for the district, officiated at
both trials. The first prisoner was Sapper William
Thompson, Royal Engineers, charged with grossly
insubordinate conduct on the sentence of a court-
martial, which had previously tried him, being read
out in his presence before the troops on the parade-
ground, the prisoner on that occasion having as-
sailed Capt. and Adjt. F. A. Marindiu in the most
violent terms. The Court found the prisoner
" Guilty," but the sentence will not be known until
it has been submitted to her Majesty for approval.
The Court then proceeded with the trial of Private
Michael Nash, Ist battalion Bth Regiment, charged
with having written and forwarded a letter to
Lieut.-Col. W. Rickman, commanding the second
depot battalion at Chatham Garrison, complaining
that while a patient in Fort Pitt hospital from
chronic rheumatism in one of his feet Staff-Surg.
P. A. M‘Dermott accused him of malingering, and
ordered his removal to Fort Clarence Military Pri-
son, there to undergo the term of imprisonment
awarded him by a battalion court-martial. He also
accused the staff surgeon of shaking his fist in his
face while in bed in the hospital, and directing his
removal on an ambulance waggon to Fort Clarence
Prison, to which he was sent. The only witness
examined yesterday in support of the prosecution
was Lieut.-Col. Rickman, who produced the pri-
soner's letter, and also Surg. M'Dermott's letter,
denying most of the prisoner's statements. Lieut.-
Col. Rickman was cross-examined at great length
by the prisoner, and at 4 o'clock the Court ad-
journed till to-day.

A court-martial was held yesterday on board the
flag-ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of
Mr. J. Rogers, supernumerary engineer on board
her Majesty's troopship Urgent, on a charge of
drunkenness. The prisoner pleaded " Guilty," and,
having been previously convicted for a similar
offence, the Court sentenced him to be dismissed her
Majesty's service. The Court was composed of Capt.
F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., of the Victory, president ;
Capt. G. Hancock, of the Duke of Wellington; Capt.
M. S. Nolloth,• of the St. George ; Capt. Henry
Boys, of the Warrior; Capt. John C. Soady, of the
Serapis ; and Capt. Henry Phelps, of the Orontes.
The men who came from China in her Majesty's
troopship Urgent were paid off at Portsmouth. They
were the crews of the Adventure, the Bustard, the
Banterer, the Grasshopper, the Haughty, the
Slaney, the Havoc, and the Vigilant. The ships
having been recommissioned, remained on the sta-
tion. The men were granted six weeks' leave.
The Urgent troopship, Capt. S. Henderson, was
taken into dock at Portsmouth yesterday for neces-
sary survey and repairs previous to further troop
service.
Quartermaster Woon, of the Woolwich division
Royal Marines Light Infantry, recently promoted,
was on Thursday evening entertained by the com-
mandant and officers of the division to dinner.
Quartermaster Woon's service in the corps extends
over a period of upwards of 23 years, including the
Arctic expedition, in which he volunteered, in search
of Sir J. Franklin, and also the expedition in China
under Sir James Hope.
The last of the Abyssinian stores were yesterday
despatched from Woolwich Arsenal, with the ex-
ception of the pack saddles and the two mountain
batteries in progress of completion. The stores,
consisting of 400 Maltese carts, wheels, and cases
of harness (13 bargeloads), are now lying alongside
the huge steamships Queen of the South, Mauritius,
and the Golden Fleece in the Victoria Docks, await-
ing the opportunity for being hoisted on board. The
three hospital ships now being fitted out at Dept-
ford are also receiving the last of their stores.
The steam storeship Lord Paumure, Master Com-
mander Spriddel, has taken her departure from
Woolwich ArSenal, laden with 4 14-ton guns, 18
wrought-iron carriages, and slides,
450 300-pounder
shell boxes, and various other stores for Portsmouth.
The following prouletionfi and appointments in the

Royal Marines were yesterday announced at Wool-
wich :—Lieut. and Adjt. W. H. Poyntz to be Second
Capt., vice Conner, resigned ; Lieut. William Henry
M'Cheane to increased pay of 6s. 6d. per day (ac-
cording to the new standard), vice Poyntz..
Major Ellis, of the Chatham division, is under
orders to take his departure on the Ist proximo on
recruiting service in London, to relieve Capt. H. G.
Elliot.

HOUSES OF PARLI.IIIIEA7.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMMS

Sir,--As Itlr. Pugin has challenged me in the
Times to answer a question he has twice put to me,
you will, no doubt, allow me to observe that the
controversy has long since assumed a shape and
dimensions that render it utterly unfit to be carried
on in newspapers. But if Mr. Pugin will bring his
case before any impartial tribunal, competent to
hear and determine it, he shall have from me, who
alone can give it, the whole history of Sir Charles
Barry's designs, from their conception to. their com-
pletion, and he may. then cross-examine me at his
pleasure.
As my statement might not be thought conclusive
unless given entire, and it would then, in readable
type, occupy at least one page of your journal, I
must,- for the- present, decline to answer any ques-
tions ➢lr. Pugin may wish to put to me. But he
must forgive me for saying that his enthusiastic
attempts, laudable if founded on facts, to exalt the
fame of his father, remind me of those marvellous
" restorations" which, iu my student days, were in
vogue among young French architects—imaginative
youths, who, from a few scattered stones, would
restore an Acropolis.--I am, Sir, your obedient
servant, JOHN L. WOLFE.

Sept. 20.