The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

tobacco, and some pipes. All my relatives and a
fiddler partook of the beer, tobacco, and oranges.
He then wanted Mike to have supper ; and he
asked Mike if his friend Pat, meaning me, would
like to come and have supper, and .I went with him
and Mike to Long-lane, and had supper, and all
sat down at table together. •
Mr. Yardley—What did you have for supper ?
• Witness—Well, we had pork and 'taties and all
the nice rich gravy over the same (laughter)—and
the old gentleman said, " You shall have whatever
you like, my boys, but I should not like to see you
drunk." He gave me is. 6d., and he gave an old
woman, who was delicate in the house in Cock-
court, sugar and tea, and coffee and bread, and he
gave the ould fiddler in the house 6d., and we had
a dance, I and Mike and two young women, and,
the ould fiddler played a tune, and for that same
tune the gentleman gave him 6d. (Laughter.)
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—The prisoner
made great inquiries as to whether Collins was a
deserving young man.
Mr. Yardley—This evidence, as far as it goes, is
favourable to the prisoner, although it is very
eccentric.
John Tobin said—l am father of the•last witness.
I saw the prisoner one night. He was good, gene-
rous, and gentlemanly, and treated the destitute of
the place with bread, sugar, tea, and coffee, and I
had some.
George James Pearce, a tailor and outfitter, in
the city, said, I know the prisoner. Yesterday week
he came •to my shop with Michael Collins and
bought him a new reefing jacket and a waistcoat.
I thought it rather strange that the old gentleman
should be buying things for the young man. Col-
lins wanted the prisoner to buy him a new pair of
white moleskin trousers. The prisoner refused to
do so,•and said, " I will buy you a pair next week ;
they are white, and no use to you. ' Collins said
they would wash, and whispered in the prisoner's
ear. The prisoner said, " No, I won't ; don't aggra-
vate me ;" upon which the prisoner left the shop.
I askedeollins what he was, and he replied, "Why,
he is an,old , and is always wanting to handle
me about." He then left the shop.
Thomas Frederick Galloway, hosier and shirt-
"maker, 9, Poultry, said—The prisoner and Collins
came to my .shop last Saturday night. The prisoner
bought a shirt, for which he.gave me 6s. 6d. I be-
lieve he bought it for Collins.
Henry Heming, clothes salesman—l know the
prisoner. Between eight and nine o'clock on Satur-
day night he was along with Collins, and selected
a pair of trousers for him. Collins said they were
not good enough, and he selected another pair and
paid for them. Collins then asked the old gentle-
man to treat him to a pair of drawers, and he did
so. The prosecutor also wanted the old gentleman
to buy a pair of Wellington boots to wear on Sun-
days, and the old gentleman said he would not buy
them.
Mr. Sleigh—What was the conduct of the pri-
soner to the young man ?
Witness—lt was like the conduct of a father to
his son.• The prosecutor, said, "I wish for a pair of
drawers, sir, if you please," in a respectful way.
Thomas Hooper, waiter at the St. Katharine
Dock Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, said—l at-
tend on the gentlemen who use the hotel. I
attended on the prisoner and Collins last Satur-
day night. They had two steaks, five stouts, two
breads, two pickles, and two I;ray_dies. .(Laugh-
ter.) The old gentleman paid for all. They
. came in about half-past eight and remained until
twenty minutes to twelve o'clock. They were both
sober.
_ _

In cross-examination the witness said he saw
nothing improper going on between the parties.
The Irishman was telling the old gentleman a very
long tale, and all that the prisoner said was " Yes"
and " No." I never saw either of them before
Saturday night.
Mr. William Holt, son of the landlord of the St.
Katharine Dock Hotel, said—The man Collins was
brought back to my house on Saturday night last,
between twelve and one o'clock, by a policeman.
The constable went into a cottage where his waiter
was to speak to him, and while he was gone I asked
Collins where his ship was, and he pointed towards
the dock. I said, " The St. Katharine Dock ?" and
he said, " Yes."
Bridget Collins, mother of the prosecutor, said
she had received 9s. of her son since he had known
the prisoner. In cross-examination by Mr. Sleigh,
the witness said she was in very distressed circum-
stances, and lived in St. Helena-court, Lower
Whitecross-street. Her son was a working man,
and all he had was his character ; but he had been
tempted by the old gentleman Pechell. 'Her sou
had work every day, and some days he earned ss.
Her son was a steady man, and was only put into
prison for defending his rights. Her son had been
in prison for the drop taken, but he had not been
in prison twelve times, as she knew of.
James Scarborough, City police constable, 541,
said that after the'charge was booked at the station
house, he examined the prisoner's dress. The waist-
band flap of his trousers were unfastened, except
by one button. He found in the prisoner's trousers

Ia hat. [The witness produced it. It was one of those
hats worn by many frequenters of the Opera, which
oan be made flat or folded out into the usual hat
shapft at pleasure.]
Mr. a!eigh cross-examined the policeman very
sharply as to his not mentioning the last piece of
evidence last Monday, and he said he was ordered to
stand. down and another witness to get into the box.
He could assign no reason for not having said on
Monday, " I wish to add something to my evi-
dence."- Mr. Sleigh. said that. Mr. Pechell was
afflicted with a tumour, and could only fasten his
clothes on one side. He directed. the prisoner to
. unfasten his waistcoat, and, after he had thine so,
asked the policeman if the prisoner's trousers were
not in the same state now as they were last Satur-
day night.
The witness----,Yes, in the same state as they are
now.
Mr. Sleigh said he wag about to ask the magi-
strate, when the last witness got into the witness-
.box, whether it was necessary to address him at
all. It was manifest that the magistrate ought, as
he hoped he would, discharge the prisoner without
a stain upon his character. Mr. Pechell was a
gentleman. of respectability, of , wealth, and of a
liberall-profeSsion for he was called to the bar forty-
one years ago, and was now in his 70th year. Mr.
Pechell was a gentleman of secluded habits, but
exceedingly benevolent. He would admit the
accused gentleman was guilty of extraordinary
e,7centricity and foolishness in his benevolence; but
it inzlst be recollected he was old and weak, and
that was the reason of his acting with so much
want of caNion, and with so much eccentricity. He
hoped'the accused would be discharged without.any
imputation on his' morality. If the accused was
committed for trial, it would be on tho evidence of
a man who by his own ajmission had been in pri-
son several times, and told lid' upon lie,
Mr. Yardley said the question was, could the
prisoner be convicted on the evidence .qs it
.stood ?
He should never have thought of committing the
prisoner for trial on the unconfirmed. evidencd of
Collins, both as regarded his own inconsistency and
the many times he had been in prison. The last
bit of evidence did not add the least additional
weight to the case. If he was to send this case for
trial on the unconfirmed evidence of such a person
as Collins, no jury would entertain it. Thera was
no confirmation of the main fact, but there was a
full confirmation of all that had preceded the alleged
revolting act of the prisoner. He meant there was
a confirmation of the intimacy that existed between
the parties, the purchase of clothes, and visits to
hotels and eating-houses. How could he (Mr.
Yardley) account for the extraordinary intimacy
which existed between the parties ? _ _

Mr. Sleigh said the accused had been exercising
his philanthropy in a loose and lavish manner,
and upon hearing that an old woman was in want,
gave her bread, sugar; tea, and coffee. There was
no doubt of Mr. Pechell's eccentricity and folly,
and there was no doubt he was innocent of this
most foul charge. The man Collins had sworn that
upon all occasions before Saturday night, the pri-
soner behaved most properly, but what did he say
to Mr. Pearce on Thursday last week ? " Why,
he is an old , and always wanting to handle
me about." The prosecutor was pledged, upon his
oath, to propriety of conduct on the part of the
accused up to Saturday night, and yet he made use
of such remarkable language to Mr. Pearce two
days before. The prosecutor was a filthy-minded
scoundrel, who had it in his mind to charge
a most philanthropic, but eccentric old gin-
tleman, with an odious crime some days before.
The prosecutor had. trumped up this revolting
charge against an innocent man because he could
not obtain all the money he wanted, and he did
hope Mr. Pechell would be restored to society and
to his anxious relatives and friends without the
least stigma on Isis character as a moral and bene-
volent man.
'Mr. Yardley—Without saying much upon this
case, the question is, if this evidence is presented
to a jury they will have simply to say, can they
believe the main charge is made out, when the evi-
dence of a tainted witness upon that fact is entirely
uncorroborated ? I will not make any remarks on
the case. lam not satisfied any jury will ever con-
vict the prisoner. That being so, I should show a
very weak disposition if I evaded the responsibility
of discharging the prisoner, and I do discharge him,
A burst of applause and clapping of hands fol-
lowed the decision of the magistrate from the
friends of the prisoner in court.

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