The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

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HOMICIDE BY A BRITISH. OFFICER IN
MOICPREAL.

The murdered woman is proved to have been a
woman of about 30 years of age, whose history for
a few years Fast has thus been timed. She for-
merly lived as cook in the family of the Hon. Mrs.
Hutchinson, at Dorset-house, Clifton, and upon
the breaking up of her establishment by that lady
with a view to her removal to Iceland, she went to
live in the service of a lady named Cave, at Down-
enti, Gloucestershire. Subsequently she was in the
wervice of Mrs. Weston, of River-street, Bath, and
'upon the death of that lady and the breaking of
her establishment she went to reside as head cook
in the family of the Rev. Mr. Bythesea, of Fresh-
ford, near Bath, where she lived till within a com-
paratively few hours of her murder. She had given
Bythesea notice of her intention to leave for
Ole purpose of getting married to a young man who
-had kept her company, and she had informed her
fellow-servants that the name of that young man was
Beale. Beale, who was a Bath man, had been also
living in service, and there is reason for believing
that the deceased remitted him a sum of money to
Borne where in the neighbourhood of Northampton,
for the purpose of paying his expenses down to
Ball,. At about 4 o'clock on Wednesday, the 9th
ir.st. (the body was discovered murdered on Friday,
the 11th inst.), Beale arrived at the house of the
Rev. Mr. Bythesea, where he remained for about
three hours, taking tea with the servants, and as-
sisting the deceased to pack her boxes, which were
fetched away by a porter of the Wilts and Somerset
Itailwv.y. There were three boxes—one covered
with block leather with some nails, acid two covered
Witt, paper of different patterns. They wore all
Mkel in some coarse wrappers and corded, and
'W ere, it is believed, all directed. One was noticed
to have a card upon it addressed, "Mr. Beale,
passenger to Bristol." At 7, deceased and Beale
tr7k leave of the domestics of Mr. Bythesea's esta-
,o/ement and loft, stating that their ultimate in-
1, Con was to go to America. At the time when
Yl-ft, Charlotte Pugsley wore a speckled straw
Lea esnt with
,n,eof the ribbon
ribbons, the curtain, which was
wore a large black being edged with lace. She
with black
of Orleans, with black
braid, and lined
she had a silk mantl. !ick, but it was known that
u.nd some shawls in her boxes.
ski, had money with her, but her fellow-servants
+,:hink that it was nut more than 6/. or Si.
but on
this point nothing certainbee yet been ascertained.
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After leaving Mr. Bythesea's they did
proceed to the Freshford but to the Stoke t
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station of
the vailway, whence it is believed they went on to
Bristol. The dreadful sequence as regard, the
been already publishen-
d.
1)-aPPY young woman has
That affecting the man has not yet been traced out,
but it is feared that he way have sailed (ur at any
rate is about to sail) for America.
A young woman,
a fellow-servant of
her every
of deceased
lit Mr. Bythesea's, and who slept In
night, was yesterday brought over by Inspector
Norris to inspect the deceased's clot Les, which have
tteenleft in the charge of Superintendent Handcock.
She identified nearly all the articles, some of
thf.m in the most indubitable 'manner. The frill
.r ,)und the dress she herself fetched home from the
wash, the black undersleeves she saw the deceased
make and tank into her dress the day before she left,
she stating that she did it as she thought that her
dress sleeve was too short. Her stockings the young
Woman had mended for her ou the Tuesday, and
she recognises some peculiarities in her own work.
Her description of Charlette'Pugsley likewise cor-
responds precisely with the deceased. Inspector
Bel) has succeeded in finding a laundress who worked
fclr Charlotte Pugsley, and she also recognises the
traarke on the linen!

The Montreal Argus publis,'les the following ac-
count of an event which has bee: more briefly re-

ported by telegraph :
" On Thursday evening an affair tc`ok
St. Ann's Suburbs, which terminated in the death
~c© in the
of a man named Dempsey. It seems th at,
time, a picquet of two or three officers .has for some
s nightly
gone the rounds of that ward with police,
in search
of soldiers absent from roll-call in the ea-tailing. On
Thursday evening Lieut. Tryan was desp atched on
that duty, and applied to the chief of police, Capt.
Hays, to supply him with a few men to enable him
to search such houses as he might believe har-
boured deserters from the regiment. This Capt.
Hays did not feel authorised to grant, and Lieut.
Tryan then wished him good night, and said he
would go by himself. While in Griffintown he saw
come out of a tavern two men, each carrying a bun-
dle, whom he overheard speaking of going to the
United States. Lieut. Tryan accosted them, and
charged them with being deserters. This brought
on disturbance. The men struck Lieut. Tryan,
who declared himself an officer on duty, and armed,
threatening that if attacked he would fire in self-
defence. To show himself in earnest, he fired one
barrel of a revolver in the air, declaring that the
piece was loaded. Being attacked and down, he
fired twice, and the balls passed through the body
of Dempsey, one of his assailants, a man aged about
24 years, who died in a very short time after re-
ceiving e wound. The police came up to the
scene of conflict, and saved Lieut. Tryan from in-
evitable destruction, as the crowd was both nume-
rous and furious. He surrendered himself to the
police, by whom he was taken into custody, and is
so retained awaiting the verdict of the coroner's jury,
which assembled yesterday afternoon at the New
Court-house. Such, so far as we have been able to
gather them, the particulars of an affray, which has
created much regret throughout the city. In the
pretent state of the inquiry we forbear all comment
on the case."
An inquest on the body of Dempsey was pro-
cceeding at the date of the steamer's departure.
From the evidence already taken, we take that
of two of the most important witnesses :
" Mary Parkyn, wife of Robert Bishop, sworn
—I reside in Murray-street, Griffintown. I have
resided in Montreal about 28 years. On Thursday
night 1 heard some people talking loudly about two
streets from where I live. It appeared. to come from
the far end of Gabriel-street. I thought that
the cause of the loud talking was that a man who
keeps a tavern there had put out a person who was
unwilling to go. When I heard the noise, I was
standing on the gallery at the back of my house.
I saw the flash of a pistol and heard the report.
Immediately after I heard a great hallooing, talk-
ing loudly, and a great rushing at the end of Mr.
Larkin'swood-yard, as if persons were running after
the report of the pistol. I heard a person say, 'Go
away,' three times. He spoke louder every time,
and I thought the person who spoke was an edu-
cated one. I said so to my daughter at the time.
I shut my back door and went to the front
door, and I looked up towards Mr. Larkin's corner.
I saw three or four men running. I never saw any
run so fast. They were coming towards ray
house. One man, and he was the first, was three
or four yards in front of another. I closed my
door just as he passed, and I did not recognise how
he was dressed. I went to the window and saw the
rest of the men peas. I did not recognise any of
them. Did not hear one word from them as they
passed. Remained at the window for some time.
After they passed my house, I heard some of them
say 'Kill him ! kill him.' Did not see any weapons
in their hands, or see them throw any stones. I
then heard two shots fired immediately after each
other. The man that was shot just walked past
the step of my door. He had laid down there on
his side. I opened the door a little, and beard
him say ' I'm done' several times. Saw a number
of persons gather round him, raise him up, and take
him to the next lot to me, and lay him there.
The party I first saw running down the street ap-
peared as if running for his life. This occurrence
took place between 11 and 12 o'clock at night.
"John Bailey—Am foreman on the Victoria-
bridge. Reside in Murray-street, Griffintown ;
have resided there for the last sixteen years. I was
at home on Thursday night, the 3d inst. About
half-past 12 o'clock that night I heard a noise ; I
thought about the corner of Eleanor and Gabriel-
streets. I heard a person in a commanding voice
demand his cap. He appeared to be an educated
person, above the common persons of that neigh-
bourhood. I heard the other party say, 'Go on
about your own business ; that will do—that will
do.' After that I beard a noise as of persons run-
ning towards Murray-street. I heard very loud
talking, and Loalled to my wife to throw me my
trousers, as I thought there was going to be a row
in the street. While I was putting my
trousers on, the door being partly open, I heard a
st one strike against my fence. Immediately after I
heard two pistol shots, and on looking out then I
saw a man rise and fall three times on the side
walk as he was advancing. I saw a man who I
thought had fired the shots run across the street
under a gallery, and continue back again to Gabriel-
street. The person I saw fall I recognised to be
John Dempsey, the deceased. The person who ran
across the road I heard say to the party who was
pressing on him. ' Don't make an attack on me.'
This was before the stone was thrown. There were
four or five persons pressing him, crying out, ' Go
into him,' Pin him,' as I understood it. I could
not recognise the party who fired the shots, as I did
not look at him particularly. I went up to deceased
and opened his clothes to see if he was bleeding—
finding no blood I turned him over to see if the ball
had passed out behind. I did not hear the deceased
speak, and did not follow him after the arrival of
the doctor. I knew Dempsey about 12 months ago
as a teamster in the employ of the Grand Trunk
Railway contractors. He appeared to be a quiet
man.
" By a Juror—The person shot was among the
parties who were pursuing the man who fired. They
were all near to the man who fired the pistol. The
person pursued told them ' not to attack him, as he
had the means of defending himself, and would use
them.' The cause of the firing was on account of
the stone being thrown at. him. Were it done to
me I would have acted in the same manner. I was
standing on my gallery when the two shots were
fired, about three or four yards from the person
firing. The two shots I heard fired were in the di-
rection of the assailants."