The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER' 14, 1.85

St. Ilarnabas, having, as was alleged, incited his
choristers to pelt with eggs a man who was carry-
ing a placard asking the parishioners to secure the
return of Mr. Westertnn, as churchwarden.
The police took two boys into custody, and at the
station they were charged with using insulting lan-
guage, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.
They were, lowever, liberated on bail, and will be
brought up at the Thames police-court this morning.
In, the afternoon the scene was disgraceful in the
extreme. Such an outrage was perpetrated as baffles
all description. Mr. Lowder again officiated, and
was hissed, and hooted—and mobbed, in fact—on
his way to the altar, before which he and his cho-
risters knelt, two abreast, the choristers' seats hav-
ing been previously taken up by parishioners. The
effect of the " saying" of the responses by the people,
while the choir chanted them was most painful in
the Litany, as may be readily supposed.
There was one incident of a very novel and
startling nature. At one of the most solemn pas-
sages, a sudden howling was heard, which excited
loud laughter and produced confusion. It arose from
a large black dog which had been treated very
freely to some intoxicating beverage, and was rush-
ing madly about the edifice whining most piteously.
Presently the animal dashed right into the very
midst of the priests-and choristers, upsetting some
of the more diminutive, and producing a scene of
the most extraordinary character. Mr. Lowder
kept on with the service in spite of all these noises,
and the profanity of the scene was such as to shock
the feelings of every right-minded individual who
was present. Presently another dog was introduced
and set up a protracted howl which made most
of those laugh who were not afraid that the
poor creature was mad. The " effect" was most
painful, and the noise of these wretched
creatures was so continuous, that almost
any one but . Mr. Lowder would have abstained
from going on with the service. This " dog scene,"
which was obviously preconcerted, can never be for
gotten by those who witnessed it. The infuriated
animals went yelling over every part of the edifice,
end-although-kicked out more than once they re-
turned to the charge with redoubled vigour. One
of these canine protesters was eventually so " over-
taken" that he dropped' off to sleep and was found
ix the gallery in a state of helpless intoxication.
Mr. Lowder, after the service, was hissed and
hooted all the way to Calvert-street, by a mob of
several hundred persons, smne of whom eventualiv
came into collision with the police, and the atten-
tion of the mob being thus diverted, Mr. Lowder
escaped in safety.
In the evening there was again a large congre-
gation, and the same disgraceful scexes. In fact,
the people seem determined to " say" the responses,
while the choir persists in chanting them; and while
this state of things is kept up, the peace of the
parish cannot possibly be- preserved. Mr. Maccono-
chie preached, and the hisses and interruptions at-
tained such a de:ree of intensity that the rev. gen-
tleman stopped short and inquired what the people
meant. He said be would not inflict a sermon
upon them against their will. Should he go on or
not. To which some of the people shouted, " No,
no, no," while others said, " Go on," and laughter
then ensued. After this somewhat "startling
novelty," the sermon was permitted to be concluded
in peace, but at the invocation of the Trinity the
preacher turned his back to the people, which called
forth a terrible shout of disapprobation, in the
midst of which the benediction was pronounced, and
the affair terminated in the usual way.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 12.

CLERKENWELL.—A PERFECT CANNIBAL.—
VIOLENT ASSAULT UPON TIIE POLICE.—Jacob
Hull, aged 31, a rough, powerful, brutal-looking
fellow, described as a labourer, residing at 41, Col-
lege-grove, Camden-town, was charged with being
drunk, creating a disturbance, and assaulting police-
constable James Mannering, at Bayham-street,
Camden-town.

Mr. Wakeling appeared for the prisoner.
Inspector Stokes, S division, when the case was
called on, handed in the following certificate :
" Nov. 12, certify that police-constable
Mannering, 442 S, is on the sick list from injuries
received to his hands, inflicted in the execution of
his duty.—George Bermingham, divisional sur-
gioa." The prisoner was fined £6 only three weeks
ago for assaulting two policemen, he having been
remanded for more than a month, and one of the con-
stables is now unable to go on street duty. Before
that he was fined £4 for biting off part of a man's
ear, and he had been fined for illusing a horse on
the Great Northern Railway.
Police-constable Mannering, 442 S, said that on
Friday afternoon he was on:duty in Bayham-street,
Camden-town, when he saw the prisoner, who was
very drunk, turned out of a public-house. The pri-
soner no sooner saw him (witness) than, before a
word could be uttered, he struck him (the constable)
a violent blow in the chest, and nearly knocked
him down. When he recovered himself the prisoner
again struck and knocked him down, ran into a
sweep's house, and hid himself in a quantity of
soot. (A laugh.) Witness got him out, and con-
veyed him part of the way to tie station, when the
prisoner became exceedingly violent, put his legs
between the constable's legs, threw him down, bit
one of the knuckles of his left hand, as well as biting
the fingers of his right hand, and kicking him se-
verely. It was not until the arrival of assistance
that the prisoner could be conveyed to the police-
station. When the prisoner first struck the con-
stable he said, "Take that, you you are one
of the gang that got me fined th© other day."
Witnesses were -called, who confirmed the con-
stable's statement, and said the violent conduct of
the prisoner was disgraceful.

The prisoner said he was very sorry, and if he
was forgiven this time he would never drink any
more. Had it not been for the liquor it never would
have occurred. If he was sent to prison he should
lose his work.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a brutal,
violent, beastly fellow, and the only doubt he had
was whether he should not send the prisoner to the
sessions for trial. lie could not allow the excuse of
drunkenness as a plea for knocking the constables
about. To mark his sense of the prisoner's conduct
he should send him to the House of Correction, with
hard labour, for one month.

Mr. Wakeling applied that a fine might be in•
flicted, but the magistrate would not alter his deci
sion.

ivIA R LBOROUTI-STREET.—BRUTAL ASSAULT
BY SOLDIERS.—John Davis and Richard Prev,
ivates in the Ist battalion of Coldstream Guards,
stationed at St. John's-wood Barracks, were charged
with the following brutal assaults :

Mr. Theodore il'riesler, a German, of 25, George-
street, Portman-square, cabinetmaker, said he was
passing through South Audley-street at half-past 11
over night, and saw the prisoners—one leaning on
a post, and the other standing by bim. As he passed,
the one said to the other, who was leasing, " Keep
up, my boy, and don't be a fool ;" upon which the
ons addressed, jumping up, asked him (complainant)
why he had called him a fool. He told him he was
mistaken, for he had not insulted him or even
spoken. Fearing the prisoner meant mischief, he
ran away as fast as he could, and finding he was
pursued by the prisoners, he appealed to a constable
he met, who recommended him to pass on, and he
did so, but on reaching Orchard-street, was over-
taken by them and knocked down, and then kicked
in the ribs and eye. The prisoners, he considered,
were the worse for liquor. He himself was quite
sober, having taken nothing in the way of liquor
all day.—(The complainant's eye was frightfully
swollen and discoloured.)
Mr. John Cutting, 1, Vere-street, Oxford-street,
draper, was passing, and saw Davis knock the com-
plainant down by a powerful blow, and when on
the ground he kicked him in the most brutal man-
ner about the body, in the ribs, and in the eye.
The complainant succeeded in getting up, was
knocked down again, and while being so ill-treated,
Prew called out, " Give it him, let him have it."
Sergeant Greaves, 31 D, being informed of the
assault, followed the prisoners to Portman-square,
where Davis, who was about 20 yards from him,
seeing him (witness) took off his belt, doubled it,
and twisted it, round his wrist. He went quietly
up to him, and got it suddenly from him, telling
him he was charged with assaulting a foreigner.
He replied " All right," and then the comple.inant,
whose face was covered with blood, coming 'ap with
another officer, he laid hold of Davis to tele him
into custody ; upon which, falling a pace. or two
back, he ran at and butted him in the stomach with
his head, which knocked him down. Sc.rttmbling
up in the best way he could, ho was again. knocked
down in a similar way. With difficulty he reco-
vered his standing and closed with him, and then
was struck in the eye by Davis, and after some
struggling both fell down together. At length,
with assistance, they were got to the, %teflon.
Davis had nothing to say.
Prew said the complainant called. him a d---d
fool, and abused him, and taunted, him about fo-
reigners beating them in the Crimea. They had all
been drinking gether just before.
Complainant recalled.
Mr. Bingham—l,4 there a word of truth in this
statement ?

Complainant—Not a word, upon my honour. I
never gaw them before. •

Mr. Bingham—l must say that the defence of
Prew is, if possible, the -worst feature in this case.
You thought, by this impudent falsehood, to mislead
me, but you shall find yotb-self disappo'nted. I do
not stop to inquire what your characters are. If you
were the best men in the regiment, which
you by such conduct disgrace, you should be
severely punished.' To Enoch an niVfrending man

down in the streets is most monstrous, and your as- '
sault on the police most brutal. For the assault on
the policeman you, Davis, are committed for one
month, and fined £5 or two months for the previous
assault, to commence at the expiration of the first
term; and you, Prew, are fined £3, or six weeks,
for encouraging your comrade in his barbarity.
ROBBERY BY A BARMAID.—Emma King, bar-
maid, in the :service of Mr. L. llammond, licensed
victualler, and proprietor of the Gloucester Hotel,
Park-street, Oxford-street, underwent a re-exami-
nation on the charge of robbing her master's bar
of various sums of money at various times.

The prisoner entered prosecutor's service in June,
and in consequence of suspicion money was marked
and given to Roy, the detective officer, and to a
private person, who sent in customers with the same
to test the honesty of the prisoner. When accused
after this she denied taking the money, but finding
the officer was sent for, fell on her knees, begged
forgiveness of her master, and admitted stealing
about £4 10s. In her purse, required of her by Roy,
was found, among £l6 10s. in gold, a marked sove-
reign, stolen from a slab in the bar the over night.
Mr. Child, of the firm of Wire and Child, atten-
ded for the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-
place, for the defence.
Mr. llammond said be had lost a very great deal
of money at various times since the prisoner entered
his service, to the extent of full £l4 or £l5 a-week,

Mr. Child said the case had assumed a far more
serious aspect than before, from the fact that a num-
ber of letters, amounting to nearly 300, addressed
to'the prisoner, had been found—letters of such a
character that they defied all description—and that
any one calling himself a man could have ventured
to address them to a female was a perfect marvel.
The letters spoke of the writer being engaged in a
burglary that did not come off, and altogether their
contents weresuch as to stamp him as a villain of the
deepest dye. Ile had no doubt this fellow had in-
cited her to rob her master. In one of his letters
he boasted that he hail gone home drunk, sold off
the whole of his furniture—for he was a married
man, with a family—and that he had got blind
drunk with the money so raised ; this was the
fellow who made love to the prisoner. As a further
specimen of what sort of a man he was, he would
mention that he signed his letters to the prisoner,
" Albert Pearl, alias the Villain." During the whole
of the time the prisoner had been in the prosecutor's
employ he had los: upwards of £lO a-week.
Mr. Lewis said the prisoner was at the mercy of
the prosecutor. lie was afraid that what was stated
was too true, ant that she had been in the hands of
an infamous maa.

The prosecutor said he would listen to nothing in
the shape of a compromise, but was willing to leave
the ease in the wands of the magistrate.

Mr. Child sad his only regret was that the great
offender was mt in custody.

Mr. Binghan (the prisoner pleadinr, guilty) com-
mitted her for dx months, with harelabour.

The prisonerit appears was discharged from a
former situation, in the employ of Mr. Amos, for
encouraging th 3 fellow Pearl, who is stated to be a
notorious skittle sharper, and to have once been
convicted, Mr. Amos having been informed of the
character of the 'man.

Some of the letters, which were produced byßoy,
338 A, the dete3tivo having charge of the case, were
of a most singuar nature. Mixed up with protes-
tations of love were such expressions as the fol-
lowing :
" The
.job of burglary did not come off—we were
disturbed, and•, it was spoilt." " I have sold off
everything, turned my wife out of doors, and got
blind drunk with the money." I feel as if I could
murder any one, and hang upon the scaffold." " I
care not what lecomes of me if the world is going
to use me lile this. Let that deceiving God
above curse me how he likes, for he always was
a wretch to ne, but never Mind." The letter
containing the last remark was signed.—
"Albert Pearl,alias the Villain." In another, al-
luding to an oil friend, he styles him " a true lago,
-- him." Others of the letters were interlarded
with grossly olscene language, perfect abomina-
tions, and provng that the fellow Pearl must be,
as Mr. Child appropriately- termed him, a villain of
the deepest dye.

GREENWICH.—ALLEGED ASSAULT IN A RAIL-
WAY CARRIAGE—Mr. J. French, a gentleman re-
siding near Levisham, appeared before Mr. Traill
in discharge of its bail, on a charge of assaulting
Maria Astell, a young woman residing in Rother-
hithe ; and Mr. G. Henderson, a surgeon, of Dept-
ford, appeared to a summons charging him with en.
deavouring to cissuade the complainant from giv-
ing evidence in the case.
Mr. Ribton appeared for French, and Mr. Doyle
for the other defendant.

The depositions-were taken at great length, but
the facts may he briefly stated. The complainant,'
it appeared, started by an excursion train from
Brighton on the evening-of Sunday, the 30th ult.,
having been give% in care of the first-named defend-
ant by her uncle, to see her safe to New-cross. When
near the Three Bridges station (according to the
statement made by complainant), she was attempted
to be kissed by tLe first-named defendant, no (Alva
person being in the carriage but themselves. On
the train being stopped at the first station she com-
plained of being assaulted, and was put into another
carriageand proceeded to New-cross, where a charge
of assault was preferred. On hearing which the
defendant offered a money compensation, rather
than such a derogatory charge should be made.
This charge was, however, persisted in; but on the
case being called on for hearing the following morn-
ing the complainant did not make her appearance.
A remand then took place, but the complainant was
still not forthcoming, anda warrant was granted for
her apprehension. She bad proceeded to Warwick-
shire, and was brorght up from there by au officer.
She hen stated that as a gross assault had not been
committed, after signing the charge-sheet, she
considered the night's lock-up was a sufficient punish-
ment. In reply to questions by the magistrate,
complainant said that on the Monday morning the
defendant Henderson called upon her at the resi-
dence of a person with whom she was then staying,
having attended her professionally previously, and
said he had come from the gentleman whom she
had given in charge; but she then told him 'she did
not intend to at peat in the case, and upon his ask-
ing the nature of the case, and being informed, he
said as: some kind of insult had been offered, he
thought she was entitled to compensation, and gave
her £8 The same evening she receiveda summons,
requiring her attendance at the court, and upon
Mr. Henerson calling upon her the following
morning she showed him the summons, when be
took it from her, saying it was nothing, and told
her to call at his house in the evening with her
aunt. They did so, and he then told her that he
thought it would be better for her to attend the
court on the followingday. Instead of doing which,
however, she proceeded to her grandfather's in War-
wickshire.

Mr. Traill said the attempt at interference with
the complainant, left him no alternative but to send
both cases before another tribunal, though, but for
the interference, the case, so tar as the assault was
concerned, might have been disposed of in a sum-
mary manner.
Mr. Jtibton, for the first defendant, said that,
having heard the determination of his worship, he
should not trouble the court with any other remark
than by simply observing that when the case came
before the jury, the facts would be found to have
been grossly exaggerated.
Mr. Doyle, on the part of the second defendant,
observed that all that had been done by his client
was from motives of kindness and sympathy to both
parties, and altogether in ignorance of the law as
applying to persons to give evidence, under the cir-
cumstances stated, in a court of justice, and ho be-
lieved that‘no jury would be found to convict in
such a case.
Mr. Traill said he felt bound to send both cases
for trial, as the one was bearing upon the other.
He would, however, accept bail for their appearance
at the sessions in two sureties of £lOO each.

The required bail was immediately put in, and the
defendants left the court with their friends.

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BE6I3ITE OF THE CONDEMNED MUR-

DEERE.

A respite was received by the sheriffs on Satur-
day evening for the prisoner Charles Annois, a
Portuguese seaman, who was convicted of murder
at the last session of the Central Criminal Court, and
left for execution, the day appointed for carrying
out the sentence being this (Monday) morning.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was ship-
ped as cook on board a British vessel called the
Margaret, at Lisbon, and that when she had been a
few days at sea the prisoner cut the throat of the
captain, as he lay asleep in his berth, with a carving
knife, and afterwards made a desperate attack upon
others of the crew with the same weapon, his pro-
ceeding being apparently without any object or
motive, the unfortunate deceased particularly
having treated him with great kindness. The pri-
soner would have been altogether without legal
assistance at his trial if the matter had not been
taken up by the representatives of the Portuguese
Government, who retained counsel on his behalf,
and the defence set up was that the prisoner com-
mitted the act while labouring temporary insanity,
and it was urged that he ought to be acquitted upon
that ground. The jury, however, found the pri-
soner guilty of the crime of wilful murder, and the
14th of November was the day fixed for his execu-
tion. A very general feeling appeared to prevail
among all the parties conneected with the case that
the prisoner ought not to have been convicted of
murder, particularly as, apart from the peculiar cir-
cumstances under which the crime appeared to have
been committed, there was reason to believe that
the prisoner had been confined as a lunatic in Lis-
bon shortly before he joined the Margaret, and that
if more time had been allowed evidence could have
been 'brought forward to establish this fact..
Mr. Sleigh, the counsel who conducted the pro-
secution, it appears had a very strong feeling that
upon the evidence the life of the prisoner ought not
to be taken, and he waited upon Mr. Justice Wil-
liams, who tried the case, and intimated to that
learned judge the views he entertained upon the sub-
ject, and at the same time asked him whether he con-
sidered it would be acting in any way unbecoming
his possition if he. were to wait upon the Home Se-
cretary and have some communication with him in
reference to the fate of the unhappy prisoner. Mr.
Justice Williams stated that it appeared to him
that so far from the interference of the learned
counsel being in anyway unbecoming or improper,
he considered that the interest he took in the fate
of the unfortunate prisoner was highly creditable to
his humanity, and honourable to him in his position
as an advocate, and that if he felt that the prisoner's
life should be spared, it was his duty to put the
Secretary of State in possession of any information
that would justify him in coming to that conclusion.
Mr. Sleigh accordingly, it appears, waited upon the
Home Secretary on Saturday afternoon, and had 'a
conversation of some duration with him in refer-
ence to the case of the prisoner. The particulars,
of course, cannot be made public, but the result was
that Sir G. Lewis consented to respite the execu-
tion for fourteen days, namely, to the 28th of No-
vemberotnd a communication was made to the
sheriffs to that effect ; but they were at the same
time requested to impress distinctly upon the pri-
soner that his life was not positively spared, but
that it would depend entirely upon the further in-
quiries that would be instituted relatini, to the state
of his mind whether the capital sentence would be
carried out or not. The communication of the Se-
cretary of State was received at the gaol of New-
gate about half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, at
which time barriers had been erected in the Old
Bailey, and all the necessary preliminaries for the
dreadful ceremony had been prepared, and all ex-
pectation that the life of the unhappy man would
be spared had left the minds of the officials of the
prison.
The sheriffs, at once proceeded to the cell where
the prisoner ivai confined, and communicated to
him the intelligence they had just received, taking
especial care to explain to him that the reprieve
was only for a certain period, and he appeared,
deeply thankful for the respite, as may be imagined.
It is understood that further inquiries relating
to the prisoner will be made immediately at Lisbon,
and if they should turn out as is anticipated, the
prisoner's sentence will, in all probability, be com-
muted to orb of penal servitude.

FRIGHTFUL MOWER AT COVENTRY.

COViNTRY, SATURDAY.

Much gloom was thrown arm' this city to-day by
a report, which has unhappily pro yed too true, that
a horrible murder had been perpetrau'd in a thickly
populated district called Hil'fields. FrOm the Par-
ticulars which we are able to glean it appC ars that
the murderer is a young man about 22 years Of age,
named._ John Kingston, a weaver by trade, and Mat
the victim is a young woinan to whom heehad- no:
long been married, and by whom he has had one or
two children. For some time past they had lived
very unhappily,. together, the husband being of a
very violent and passionate disposition, and there
doubtless being faults on the other side. A few
weeks since the wife made a complaint before the
ma7istrates of her husband's violence towards her,
end of his having threatened to murder her. The
Bench accordingly bound him over to keep the
peace, his father becoming the requisite surety.
The term expired this morning, and it would seem
that the wretched man had resolved beforehand to
carry his threat into execution this time ; for,
meeting his wife as she was going from her work
between eight and nine o'clock this morning to
breakfast, at the house in which she lodged—has ing
been living apart from her husband—he induced
her to walk with him up a lane and into some fields
near at hand. Here he attacked her in the most
determined manner with a large clasp knife, and,
after inflicting several deep gashes in her face, he
ultimately succeeded in cutting her throat. He
shortly afterwards gave himself up to a policeman,
coolly remarking that " She was dead enough. He
had cut her head off." The body was found lying
in a pool of blood by the passers-by, and on Mr.
Dresser, surgeon, examining it, he found tliat the
main artery of the throat had been divided, so that
death must have been almost instantaneous.

_
The murderer was brought before the magis-
trates this morning, and remanded for furtter exa-
mination. He spoke with the greatest coolness of
the heinous crime with which he stands charged.
He said, " She shouldn't have been ruled by her
father, but by me. Her father is the whole cause
of our disagreements." The prisoner, whose hands
and clothes were besmeared with the blood of his
victim, was remanded for a week.