The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

BUTLIN V. BARRY.

In this extremely long testamentary case concerning the
will of P. B. Barry, Esq., late of Tollerton Hall, in the
county of Nottingham, the objections to the evidence were
taken to-day (Thursday).
Dr. LUSHINGTON, on the part of Mr. Barry, the son of
the deceased, in the first place objected to certain parts of
the evidence of Mr. John Gough, the clerk of Mr. Percy,
the attorney who drew up the will in question, and who is
benefitted by it to the amout of 3,000/.
The KING's ADVOCATE, on the other side, did not mean
to contend that every part of the testimony was unob-
jectionable, but he should leave the point entirely in the
hands of the Court.

Dr. LUSIIINGTON then objected to several witnesses who
had been examined on a plea exceptive to the testimony of
Richard Evelyn Falkner.
The COURT decided that such evidence could not be re-
ceived ; and in accordance with that decision, a great body
of testimony was ordered to be expunged.
The KING'S ADVOCATE was heard on the other side in
objection to certain of the interrogatories ; upon which the
Learned Judge decided seriatim.

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The CouRT was occupied the whole day with this case,
which is, perhaps, the longest that has ever been before it.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

80117-STREET.

At a late hour on Wednesday evening a very powerful
athletic man, named Thomas Weekes, was brought up from
Norwood, in the custody of Keys the officer, on the fol-
lowing charge of burglary and robbery :
In the night between the 21st. and 22d of November, the
house of the Rev. J. E. Wright, son-in-law of the Arch-
bishop. of Canterbury, at PCnd's Hill, Bletchingly, near
Gladstone, Surrey, was entered by the pantry window, and
rokhed of a valuable gold watch, with the crest of the
Archbishop upon the case (it having been a present from
his Grace), and a great number of seals, chains, jewellery,
and other valuable property. Mrs. Wright was awoke in
the course of the night by a noise, and distinctly heard
some one moving in the drawing-room, but forbore to call
her husband, he being very ill at the time, and she feared
the consequences of a sudden alarm. The property men-
tioned, together with two pocket pistols (loaded), was
missed in the morning ; and it was observed as a remark-
able fact, that a fowling-piece, which was always kept
loaded, and was furnished with a percussion cap, had had
the cal► removed, xvhich of course rendered the piece
harmless. This must have been done by the burglar, as
the piece was in its proper state on the previous evening.
Information having been given at this office, Keys was di-'
rected to undertake the affair, and he obtained such infor-
mation as led him to Norwood, where he found the prisoner
keeping a fishmonger's shop, which he had very recently
taken, in a small street near the Horn's public-house. He
went in with a warrant, and having made the nature of his
visit known, he proceeded to make a search. When he
came to a particular box, the prisoner took from it some-
thing which he held tightly in his liand, and when the officer
attempted to take it from him he made a desperate resist-
ance, and a scuffle took place which lasted nearly ten mi-
nutes, and at length Keys succeeded in throwing him on the
' bed, and wrenching the article from his hand, which proved
to be a very small pistol-case, in which were contained six
gold seals, a bunch of small keys, a gold knife, a gold pen-
cii-cae, and a small ivory card-case filled with seeds, care-
fully wrapped up and addressed to Mrs. Wright by a female
friend. All these articles formed part of the property stolen
from Mr. Wright's house. Keys immediately brought the
prisoner to town in a post-chaise, and he underwent an exa-
mination on Wednesday night, and was remanded until
some further evidence could be brought forward.
The prisoner had formerly been butler in Mr. Wright's
establishment at Pena's Hill, and at the time he was ap-
prehended was paying his addresses to a young woman who
was also a servant at the Rev. Gentleman's, and it was
understood that he was to be married in a few clays. When
called upon to account for the possession of the articles
found upon him he said he found them in the road, and
knowing them to be Mr.. Wright's he intended to return
them ; and, in fact, had put his hand upon them several
times for that purpose, but had delayed it, thinking it of no
immediate consequence.

BATTON-GARDEN.
Mary Welch was examined on the charge of having
stolen some property belonging to the Marquis of Anglesey•
Mr. LAING remanded the prisoner for a few days.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
A miserable looking object, covered with rags and filth,
and bellowing with great emphasis, was brought to the
Office by a Mendicity constable, and put to the bar before
Mr. Chambers, charged with being a common vagrant and
a notorious imposter.

Mr. CHAMBLS, looking at the man attentively, perfectly
recollected him as being one of the most notorious and
artful impostors that infested the metropolis. The story
which he contrived in support of this statement, and which
was in writing, was, that he had been pressed on board the
Algerine fleet, and, because be refused to work as a sailor,
his tongue had been cut out. He also had an extraordi-
nary faculty of being able to swallow his tongue, and thereby
present in his mouth nothing but the appearance of a
stump. On one occasion his tongue was forced from his
throat with a fork by a surgeon.
The prisoner was committed for three months to the
House of Correction.

FIRE in TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD

THE CORONER'S INQUEST UPON THE UN-
FORTUNATE SUFFERERS.
Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a very lengthened
inquiry took place at the White Hart Inn, Tottenham-
court-road, before Mr. Stirling and a Jury of respectability,
for the purpose of investigating the circumstances attend-
ing the respective deaths of William Davis, aged 37 ;
Louisa Tozey, aged 20 ; Catharine Rogers, aged 23 ; and
Mary Ann Singer, aged 26 ; who perished in the late la-
mentable conflagration in Tottenham-court-road on Tues-
day night last.
Mr. J. G. Hellagar, jeweller, of 212, Tottenham-court..
road, examined—l knew William Davis and Mary Ann
Singer by sight, and saw them alive a few days back. On
Tuesday night, about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, I was
with a friend at a house nearly opposite Mr. Chinnock's,
when I heard the cry of " Fire." On going out I disco-
vered that the lower part of Mr. Chinnock's premises were
on fire. I instantly rushed across the road, and at Mr. '
Chinnock's shop door found that a man was attempting to
burst it open. By myself and others assisting this was
effected, when a body of flame and smoke was apparent
from the direction of the first floor landing, which prevented
any ingress, and I then heard a cry of distress from the first
floor windows, and I left the passage and endeavoured to
reach the balcony by raising myself up by a blind-iron,
which, however, gave way, at which time a body of flame
and smoke rushed out of the private entrance. I ulti-
mately got on the balcony, when I saw Mrs. Chinnock
lowering herself from the second floor window by a sheet.
I called out to her to let herself down, and I would catch
her, which I did. She was in her nightdress, and I observed
some blood on her bosom. At this moment I saw Mr.
Frederick Chinnock alongside of me. He was also un-
dressed, with the exception of his night shirt, which had
some blood on. I assisted Mrs. Chinnock and her son to
get over the balcony into the windows of the adjoining
house. Mr. Chinnock, sen., then made his appearance in
the balcony in his night dress. He appeared in a confused
state of distraction. He made his escape in the same man-
ner as his wife and son had.
Mr. Frederick Chinnoek was next examined—l was at
home on Tuesday evening, at which time the inmates of
the house consisted of my father and mother, four sisters,
Mary Ann Singer, Catherine Rogers and Louisa Tozey
(servants) ; , the lodgers consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Cavall,
Mr. and Mrs. Davis and child, and Mr. Hodgson. My
brother Charles and my sister Mary Anne-were absent at
the time of the catastrophe, having in the early part of the
evening gone to Brompton. Between ten and eleven
o'clock my father and mother and my sisters retired to
rest. A little after eleven o'clock as I was sitting read-
ing on a sofa in the parlour I heard an unusual gust of
wind, and immediately afterwards a violent cracking. On
going into the passage I heard screams in the kitchen, and,
smelling fire, I took up the hearth-rug, thinking that Miss
Singer, or one of the servants who were, below stairs, bad