The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

JUBBTJL PORE.
The followiog is from Jubbulpore, datad oQtcber

" We are still at Jubbulpore, you sos, and I do
not 830 much f roapec t of our being able toget away
in a hurry, ai it is rather dangerous to go along the
rJad without an escort, and I am not likely t') get
'axe at present. My last would tell you of the
mutiny of the 52d—how one detachment of the
regiment allowed two officers to escape, while an-
other had made a prisoner of poor M'Gregor ; and
how the two companieß, with the Kamptee column,
bad been quietly disarmed, that Dumoh had been
abandoned, and the column was on its march back
t o Jubbulpore. On the 26th the column was at
Singrampore. The next morning the
column was
to march to Ruttingee (10 miles) at daylight, but'

2 o'clock a.m. the Grenadier company of the 33d,
under Lieutenant Watson, started with the inten-,
tion of securing the boats on the Heron River.
Major Jenkins, Quartermaster-General, went with
Watson. After riding about three miles they had
got about 200 yards in front of the company. Sud-
denly a bugle in front ofth em sounded the fire, 'snick,
snick' went some muskets, then a regular volley.
Efolloa,' said Jenkins, here we are in the midst of
them.' Dark though it was, they could see they were
surrounded by Sepoys ;theywere the 52d advancing
to attack the Kamptee column. One Sepoy stepped
close up to Watson and fired in his face ; the ball
only gave him a gash under the eye. He rode the
man down, but he himself fell in doing so. He
regained his seat, bat fell again and again. Some-
how he managed to catch hold of Jenkins's stirrup,
and ran on ; his horse trotted up to him, and he
contrived to mount. Both then cantered on, but
immediately came on the rear-guard. Halt, who
comes there ?' called out the leading file. They
gave no reply, but Bashed through unhurt, though
exposed to the fire of the whole guard. Was it not
a wonderful escape ? Jenkins's horse had two balls
in him, and Watson's boy, carrying his rifle, was
shot dead ; they hid in the jungle till the column
came up in the forenoon ; they were received with
shoats and cheers, for every one thought them
killed. The mutineers had no bayonets fixed. The
Grenadier Company fell back on the column in good
order, which, being warned of the state of affairs,
advanced at daylight, and soon came in sight of the
mutineer; advancing steadily along the road in
columns of sections ; when within 300 yards of
them our guns were unmasked, but just as they
opened fire the mutineers wheeled backwards right
and left, and got into the jungle, which was very
thick, and came quite close to the road. It is be-
lieved that in the course of the morning the muti-
neers lost about 120 men ; there were many hun-
dred Bundelaha with them. Our loss was trifling ;
a few men wounded and a trumpeter killed. On
coming near Kuttingee the body of poor M'Gregor
was found, pierced with eight or nine bayonet
wounds, a shot in the neck, his arm gashed and
broken ; we were all grieved to hear of his sad
fate ; his body was brought in here and buried
the next day at noon. A wounded havildar and
sepoy were taken prisoners at Kuttingee and hung
on the spot. After the column moved on the
mutineers returned, cut down the bodies, and buried
them with military honours ! The column came
in here on the Ist, and Colonel Millar assumed com-
mand of the station. We intended to have left this
on the 7th, but on the sth the road was allowed to
be unsafe ; it has been unsafe any day for the last
three months ! Bergee, 15 miles from this on the
high road to Katuptee, was burnt by rebels. On
the 27th or 28th a large kafila was plundered at the
Silwa Ghent, five miles further on. Sixteen mu-
tineers of the 52d were at Bargee on the 4th ; they
cut off the noses of some Bunyahs who had gone to
buy ghee, and one of them, known to be the urin-
cipal in the murder of poor M'Gregor, sent a mes-
sage to Captain Moxon, 52d ; they hoped to serve
him the same way ; he had offered 200 rupees for
the colours ; they bad intended to collect a party
and attack Jubbulpore ' • that they would bring the
colours with them, and he might then take them if
be could! Yesterday morning a party from this were
sent to clear the road of the villains ; and as Cam-
berlege, with the 4th Cavalry, en route here, was only
three miles beyond Benree it was hoped that the rebels
might be captured or done for. I hear to-day that
the expedii i n was unsuccessful ; it is said that the
rebels have retired to a hill like a natural fortress.
I imagine some effort will be made to dislodge
them, as the infantry have not returned and the
cavalry are still on the other side of the river.
Gunnesgunge, another place on the road, is also
occupied by rebels—Goads, I believe. The main
body of the mutinous 52d are gone up the
Mirzapore-road • we heard of them at Sehora
(25 miles from this) two days ago. Our Calcutta
dak has been interrupted for two or three days,
but is now open. so I dare say the mutineers have
left the high road. The officers of the 50th, 8.N.1.,
with 250 stanch men, have arrived at Allahabad in
safety. Three Sepoys of the 52d have been cap-
tured, brought in here, and hanged, and five Bun-
delahs were turned off two days ago. These affairs
are taken as a matter of course. The capture of
Delhi you would hear of by the last mail, but our
communications are so interrupted that up to this
time we have no details. Lucknow has been re-
lieved ; our loss was great, and all Madras officers
will, lam sure, lament the death of General Neill
in the attack. Barely half the garrison survive, but
all this you will get better detailed in the papers."

T Sijlsr, LONDON, TrfeRSDAY EV EN NO'.

THE STEVENAGE MURDER.

STEVENAGE, Nov. 18.
This morning Jeremiah Carpenter, who stands
charged on the coroner's inquest with the murder
of John Staking, of tho Hertfordshire County po-
lice, was brought before the bench of magistrates
at Stevenage. The magistrates presort were the
Rev. Mr Prodgers, the Rev. Mr. Harding, the
Rer. Mr. Knapp, and Mr. Morris Pryor.
Mr. J. W. Fitjohn, solicitor, appeared to watch
the case on the part of the prisoner.
On the prisoner being brought in Captain Ro-
bertson, chief constable of Hertfordshire, stated
that, although he was himself quite prepared to
conduct the examination of the prisoner to a close,
he thought that at the present stage it would be
more respectful to the bench and more satisfactory
to the county if he placed the matter in the hands
of a professional gentleman, and he had therefore
directed Mr. Hawkins, of the Home Circuit, who
had a perfect knowledge of the locality of the mur-
der, to- be retained on the part of the police.
Mr. Hawkins said that he thought it would be
better if he were to state to the magistrates all that
as yet had come out with respect to this most brutal
murder. The learned counsel then proceeded to
give the following narrative of the circumstances
that have come to light in this intricate case :—The
deceased, he observed, lived in the town of Steven.
age, and having received instructions from Inspec-
tor Hawkes which would carry him to the neigh-
bourhood in which the crime was committed, he
left the station at 5 o'clock, .and was seen on the
railway bridge about 25 minutes after by a fly-
driver, who had been examined. He bad been seen
also by two parsons named Pottrel and Rowe
standing on a gate which led from the ' railway
bridge ite the direction of Cooper's Braches. He
was observed to move hastily from the spot, and
nothing more was seen of him until 11 o'clock on
Monday morning following, when his body was dis-
covered by a fellow-constable. The body was in a
pond in the field, one foot being out of the water
and his hand just covered. On taking the body
out of the water it was discovered that the throat
was cut from ear to ear. There was no doubt that
the man had come by his death by the most cruel
violence, and, in point of fact, had been brutally
murdered. The body was taken to the Chequers
public-house in Stevenage, where the post mortem
examination took place. On the discovery of the
body a search was very properly made to ascertain
the state of the field, and it was discovered that
somewhere about 20 yards from where the body
was foand there was a large mass of blood ; one of
the witnesses described it as a patch as large as the
top of a bushel, and another said that the ground
had the appearance of an animal having been
slaughtered there. There were marks of a violent
struggle having taken place, and at a
short distance in another part of the field
was found a quantify of wheat, with a few kernels
of barley of a peculiar character. With regard to
the prisoner, he would state the circumstances
which tended to fix him as being the perpe'rator of
the crime. He was at work on Friday, the day of
the murder, and also on the previous day, in a
field which formed a portion of the farm of Mr.
Horn, of Norton-green. He was engaged in sowing
wheat, and had occasion to go from the field to
Norton-green to fetch some wheat, and that wheat
was of precisely the same description as the wheat
foand in Cooper's Braches, where this unhappy
man was murdered. The prisoner was not seea on
Friday, but his usual time of leaving work was from
5 to half-past. The distance from the railway seld
to the prisoner's cottage on the high road between
Stevenage and Six-hills was a mile and one or two
yards, and making a very liberal allowance for that
journey, it could not be supposed that it would
occupy him more than 20 or 25 minutes. If, there-
fore, he left his field. at 5 o'clock, which he might
have done if he thought fit, he would have arrived
home at half-past 5. The first point in the case was
what time didhe arrive home ? Not till past six, so
that there was half-an-hour to be accounted for
from the time he left the railway field until he
reached his own cottage, even supposing him to",
have walked at the slowest pace. After his arrest
on the Monday he himself described the route which
he took, stating that he had gone along a sort of
cartway into the road that led across Norton-green,
and, having crossed that road by two cottages, had
reached his cottage at half-past 5. Now, that state-
ment, it could be shown, was untrue in two particu-
lars - first, he was not at home until more than half-
an-our after that time, which would have allowed
ample time to commit the crime, having been seen
by a lad named Sheppard to come in at the back-
door through the garden at 6 o'clock ; and it would
be proved also that he did not pass the cottages on
his way home, as stated by him. He (Mr. Hawkins)
believed that before this inquiry terminated they
should be able to show the exact route taken by
Carpenter. The next point to which he would call
their attention was the dress of the prisoner. His
usual dress was an old smockfrock and an old
wide-awalw, and it would be shown that he had
gone to work in his ordinary dress that
morning. He had complained of no accident dur-
ing the day, and there was nothing to account
fora remarkable lam mess which wss apparent when
he got home at 6 o'clock. When observed by the
boy he was dressed in his old smock, and was no-
ticed to be lame. He went into his cottage, and
after a period of about 20 minutes an alarm was
given by Mrs. Carpenter to Sheppard, the father,
that ber husband had met with a serious accident;
that on going to get some clumps of wood lying by
the side of the road, one of them had fallen on his
leg, and he could not extricate it. When they went
to him it was perfectly true that he was found lying
on the ground, with his face to it, but in a most
peculiar position, and what was still more suspi-
cious, it WAS found that between the time he was
seen coming in and the time of the alleged acci-
dent he had changed his dress, and gave as his
reason for doing so that he was going down to Ste-
venage for some pigs' victuals. The clumps of wood
refereed to had been inspected, and the witness
who had examined them would tell them that they
had never been removed at all. The man was un-
doubtedly lame before be arrived at his cottage,
and of course, if it was true that he had been en-
gaged in a struggle with the policeman, and had
received an injury either by a fall or a kick, it would
become a matter of first-rate consequence to frame
some tde to account for the injury as speedily as
possible. The next morning he went to work still
wearing his best smock, but was obliged to return
home from his lameness, and he remained at home
until he was taken into custody on the Monday.
Ou being taken into custody he was asked for his
knife. That knife was afterwards taken from his
son by the police, and had been examined, and a
spot of blood found upon it, and it was a strong
circumstance as against the prisoner that not only
was his basket discovered to be spotted with blood,
but in the interstices of the wicker work was dis-
covered some red wheat mixed with barley of pre-
cisely the same description as that found in the
field. On examining the clothes of the prisoner
it was found that some of the buttons were wrenched
off, as well as from the gaiters, and the thread
that was left was stained with blood. Without
wishing to press the case unduly against the pri-
soner, he was bound to mention that the policemen
in investigating the matter had sifted the surface of
the ground at the spot at which the corn was found,
and they had found a pearl button, which might or
might not have been on the prisoner's gaiters.
Those that remained were all odd buttons, and one
of the buttons on the trousers was found to be
tinged with blood. It was quite evident that from
the time between the murder and the apprehension
(Attie prisoner there must have been abundant op-
portunity to have got rid of the olil smockfrock, and
it was not surprising that all the efforts of the police
to find it had been unyucce qiful. The prisoner's
cottage bad been severel timos searched, but in
valn. At length, after an interval of three or four
days had elapseil, and probably when the inmates
thought that there would be no further searching.
Inspector Ha,wkes discovered in a cupboard two
pieces of an old smock stained with blood, and
which it must be presumed, in the absence of any
evidence on the subject, belonged to the prisoner.
Those facts, lie thought, would, when proved, be
quite sufficient to justify au immediate committal ;
but if the Bench thought it would be better to re-
mand the prisoner from time to time, in order that
the police might obtain additional evidence, he had
no objec.ion to such a course, and there would be
no injustice in ir, inasmuch as the prsoner was al-
ready detained under the coroner's warrant.

place where the roots of some trees were said to
have Men down and hurt the prisoner's leg, but,
with the exception of two small ones, which had
evidently been removed from the further end, they
did not seem to have been disturbed.

(Police-constable legate was recalled, and pro-
duced a memorandum book, the key of the hand-
cuffs found in the field, and 7s. 6d. in silver, which
he had taken from the pocket of the deceased.
David Carpenter, the son of the accused, was
examined with reference to what had become of the
working smockfrock of the prisoner. He stated that
he saw it in the house on the Saturday, after the
policeman was killed, but did not know what had
since become of it. He did not know whether he
saw it upstairs or down. On Sunday it was lying
on the table in the front room. Nobody was doing
anything to it ; it was not folded up, but lying
loose on the table. Did not see either his mother
or his father touch it. Never saw it again. His
father was sitting in the house, and had his new
frock on then. Witness went to church in the after-
soon, and when he came home the frock had been
removed. His father had two smockfrocks, but he
could not tell what sort of frock he usually wore ;
thought it was whiter than the pieces shown him.
William Red said that the frock produced in a
sound condition was not the frock ordinarily worn
by the prisoner at his work, which was much worn,
especially at the sleeves and wristbands. He could
not creak to the pieces shown him, as the sleeves and
wristbands had been torn a way .; all that he could
say was, that the smockfrock generally worn by the
prisoner at his work was a very bad one.
William Sheppard denied all knowledge of the
kind of smockfrock worn by the prisoner. He did
net notice what he had on when he was called on to
render prisoner assistance in getting the log of wood
off his leg.l It was dark then, and dark next morn-
ing when he saw the prisoner going to his work.
Knew than Mrs. Parker called him in as he was
passing on Saturday morning, but did not recollect
making any statement to her. Did not recollect
that he knew what she wanted him for, that he bad
seen enough at Carpenter's. Did say that if the
boy did not go home and mind his plait he would
pay him. Never took the least mortal notice of Car-
penter that night. He did not whisper to him to
send the boy away. Did not notice his hands or
his face. Did not tell Mrs. Parker that he noticed
that Carpenter was all of a tremble, or that his lips
' moved. He untied his shoes, but did not notice
that there was blood on them. Saw that his gaiters
were loose, but whether they were unbuttoned or
some of the buttons bad been lost he could not say.
Never said he was afraid to go to Mrs. Parker.
Could not tell whether he said he knew his boy
saw more than he ought to have seen. Did not
believe that he mentioned anything about it. He
did not say he knew the boy to be a chattering
young reseal, and he was afraid that he had told the
gentlemen a lot of lies ; did say that he saw enough
at Carpenter's that night—he meant by that that
he saw his foot bad. He thought the boy being
there would bring him into trouble. He never said
thathe knew the boy saw more than he ought. He
sent the boy away because he was always pushing
his nose into everything.
A great deal more evidence was given by the
different witnesses, and the examination of the
prisoner lasted from 11 in the morning till half-
past 5 in tha evening, but no new facts were given,
and, at the conclusion of the evidence the Rev.
Mr. Prodgers, the chairman of the bench, asked
the prisoner if he had anything to say. Carpen-
ter, who looked paler than on the previous occasion
and who had watched the various witnesses while
giving their evidence with the closest attention,
replies( that he should reserve his defence for the
tile'. He was then frilly committed to take his trial
for the murder of John Starkins, at the next Hert-
fordshire assizes.

At Vie coact ti,iou of the lea. nel counsel's address
a great number of witnesses were examined, but
few additiouol facts came out. A very strong sus-
picion exits in the minds of the police that the man
Sheppat d knows a great do • 1 more about the matter
than he chooses to tell ; he was accordingly con-
fronted with a woman to whom he had made a
statement respecting the pri.,oner's condition on the
night of the murder, and sujeeted to a severe exa-
mination by Mr. Hawkins. He said that when he
was called to the prisoner's assistance ho was rest-
ing on the ground on his hand and one knee, and
his right foot was cax;r,t between two of the st a hla: d
up roots, and when he moved the root the prisoner
fell down on his back. The root upon which the
leg - was resting might have been between three
and four feet high. He must have got ou the top
of the heap of roots for suck an accident to have
taken place. When his boot was taken off, which
might have been about 10 minutes after he was gut
out of the heap of roots, Sheppard said, "D;ar me,
Jerry, it's swelled already." tie was taken into the
house as soon as they could get him up.
By Mr. Vesey—The skin was not broken, nor
did .1 see any blood upon his boot.
Inspector Evans stated that he had examinad the

After the committal of the prisoner, he was con-
veyed to Hertford Gaol in a close carriage. A large
crowd of persons assembled in front of the school-
house to see him enter the vehicle.