The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN MILLBANK

ALLEGED APPBEHENSION OF JONATHAN GETDON
Yesterday morning great sensation was created in the
metropolis in consequence of the apprehension of a man,
answering the description of Jonathan Geydon, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Mary White, at Chingford
Hatch, Essex. It appears ttat Sergeant Smith, of the
fifth City division of police, took a man into custody
near Tower-hill, answering the description of the sus-
pected murderer, who refused
.to give any account of
himself. ile appeared to be in a most destitute eon.
dition.

PRISON.

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to be out of it. Unfortunately, owing to the melan-
choly death of the Brigade Adjutant Watson and
Capt. Pearson, he was unable to call those officers
as witnesses. He would, however, humbly submit
for the consideration of the Court that he did em-
bark on the first opportunity after the order was
given him—namely, on the Bth March, in the same
vessel he was ordered to, leaving behind his bag-
gage and all his property, which had been entirely
lost. He had spent nearly the whole of a long life
in the service of her Majesty and her pre,dece-sore,
and be left his case with confidence in the hands of
the Court. On the conclusion of the prisoner's ad-
dress the Court adjourned until Monday, at twelve
o'clock, when the examination of the numerous
witnesses for the defence, among whom is Major-
General Sir G. A. Wetherell, K.C.8., Adjutant-
General, who will be one of the first witnesses
called, will be commenced. The trial excites the
greatest interest through Chatham Garrison, and
the court-martial room has been crowded, chiefly
with officers on each day.
Yesterday Capt. C. T. Du Plat's (the G) battery
of Royal Artillery, numbering 170 horses and men,
with six guns, and battery complAe, left Chatham
for Shorncliffe, where they are to be stationed.
The following officers left with the battery:—Capt.
G. A. Wilkinson, Lieut. W. Carey, Lieut. J. C.
Elton, and Lieut. Dodson.
The troops who have been formed intc a corps
for the purpose of proceeding t 3 the Falkland
Islands have been fully organised at Chatham Gar-
rison, and are daily expecting the order for their
embarkation. The corps is under the command
of Lieutenant C. C. Abbott, 75th Regiment, and
each man takes ;his wife and children with him,
for the purpose of assisting him in the cultivation
of the land which will be allotted him in the
colony. None but married men are allowed
to join the corps. During their stay in this
coup, ry the troops receive an allowance in lieu of
free rations for themselves and families.
The following officers have joined their Indian
depots at the Provisional Battalion, Chatham :
Capt. G. B. Macqueen, 60th Royal Rifles ; and
Lieut. S. T. Sargent, 43d Light Infantry.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw-frigate, Commodore
R. B. Watson, C.l , fitting for the East Indies,
having completed her repairs at Chatham, was
hauled out of dock, and yesterday proceeded as far
as Folly Point, whet* she lies at anchor, for the
purpose of taking in her powder and shell. She
has nearly completed her complement of seamen,
numbering 500 men.
The A troop of the Royal Horse Artillery,
under orders for India, quitted the Ipswich Bar-
racks on Thursday morning in the presence of a
considerable concourse of people for Woolwich,
where they will probably be detained for a month
for refitment, and then proceed to the seat of in-
surrection under the command of Major Ward,
who has superseded Col. Henry, now connected
with the Riding School at Woolwich.
500 men of the King's Dragoon Guards will em-
bark this afternoon (Saturday) at Gravesend for
Calcutta in the screw steamer City of Manchester.
The following officers also embark :—Col. Faster,
Major Sayer, Captains Paynter, Bridge, Bradbury,
and. Mitchell ; Limits. Crewe, Marten, Wingfield,
Sidney, and Cunningham ; Cornets Marsland,
Hubback, and Lovett ; Dr. Jephson, Dr. David-
son and Assistant-Surgeon M‘Sheehy, Paymaster
Smith, Adjutant Wale and Quartermaster Brad-
bury. -
The undermentioned additional steam transports -
have been surveyed and chartered by the East India
Mullen,
Board for the conveyance of troops from England The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has licon_seodrfet.he Rev-
-namely, the Queen of the South, 300-horse Augustus Kdemp,
RM.A.itho the curacy of C
power, in the Victoria Docks. This vessel has un-
to D
otrhseetca; racy ofth Wilvechunronh-Cawnonicorro, with Stanton-
dergone a course of effective alterations and repairs
St.in the tY
Gabriel Chapel,
A morning last
of engines and boilers, and is expected to sail A,.,
SHOT HOYETMOOL—On Bion.
to embark at
to-day (Saturday) for Portsmouth. The Kherso-the detachment of Royal Marines about
oer paid a month's
Edward Colville Ilushand
nese at Liverpool has been closely surveyed and
pronounced "allright." The Scotia, at Greenock, Plymouth for service in;
wages in advance. A Prd.vap-erlission to marry before
of 120-horse power, is ordered to proceed to Ports- calving his money, China
nwed M.‘Koone, on
neatre-
"ka- was granted, and going under
mouth. The Bombay Castle, at Newcastle-upon- embarking. This r q ecoiled officer he was allowed to
Tyne, has been rejected, as too small: Her Majesty's escort of a noni-v
Tl:vith his bride. The ceremony hav-
screw steam vessel Snake, 4, is ordered to be sup- proceed to
been ocorltided, the happy pair were permitted ten
plied with new boilers from the factory at Wool- leg ie, to spend the honeymoon, at the expiration of
with. The paddlewheel steam frigate Firebrand has
Inhilcuh time he returned to the barracks, made an allot-
been ordered down from Woolwich to Deptford to
net of
favour of his wife, and then embarked with the
have her shafts and paddlewheels removed to en- not of the detachment on board the Imperador screw
able her to enter the Deptford dock, where she is steamer.
to undergo shipwright's repair;. The suspension was announced yesterday of the Isle
of Royal Horse of ;Van Bank, conducted by the firm of Dumbell, Son, and
Lieut.-Col. Strange's C troop astletown.
Artillery commenced their march yesterday from' Soward, with establishments at Douglas and C
It has a note circulation believed to amount at present
the encampment at Aldershot for Irelandrt.
went at only to about 12,000/. to 13,0001., the whole of which
The officers of the Civil Service DePaor
the pur- may be assumed to be safe, as according to the laws of
Woolwich are about to hold a meetinagnftthe Isle of Man all persons issuing notes are obliged to
pose of adopting a resolution to in appro. give security for them. In the present case the guaran-
pr?pas,a suitable
memorial to the Right Hon. Lord Naby bis lord- tee is understood to be real estate. With regard to the
ciation of the signal services renderedamount of the general liabilities of the bank or the pros-
claim. Peas of liquidation nothing positive has transpired.
sbip to the civil service body during the .r.ecent con-t
in Parliament on the superannuatiOnt. h_ The existing difficulties are believed to have been brought
Various proposals have been introduced on the about by imprudent advances, but in some quarters an
ject of the individual amount of subscription 1: ece, s' impression is entertained that the creditors majtaetselpaes
nary for carrying out the intention with the dign..`ty without any ultimate loss. The bank wit
becoming the establishment affected ; one of whicl.l
is to hand over the first quarterly sum formerly de. . of the Isle of Man Bank of Messrs. No recently as 1853, theyear in which the failurenmnestaoloakur
Co.
deducted as " superannuation money" by Grogan; _ .With liabilities f9E 100,001.
...

One of the sub-warders of this prison narrowly
escaped assassination yesterday, at the hands of a
penal class convict named James Gorman, who
has already, in other prisons, made two attempts
to murder officers under whose charge he has been
placed.
The convicts at Millbank attend divine service
in classes, at the prison chapel ev, ry morning.
Only a limited number of penal class prisoners are
permitted to be present at one time, owing to the
known desperate character of these individuals.
Yesterday four men of this class—out of the total
of some twenty prisoners—were conducted to the
chapel in charge of Warder Wilkie and Assistant-
warder Bevington. On leaving the chapel, and
while passing down an angle of the pentagon stair-
case, one of their number, James Gorman, made
a desperate attack on Bevington with an open
metal weapon, felling him to the ground, and in-
flicting injuries which, in all probability, if they do
not prove fatal, will seriously injure the unfor-
tunate man for life.
Gorman was third in the rank, and just as he was
turning the angle of the staircase leading from the
chspel he rushed forward and dealt a desperate blow
at the upper part of Bevington's person. The mis-
creant had a sharp weapon in his hand, which tit-
tered the warder's face over the cheek bone, and,
traversing the fleshy part of the face, came out
through the mouth, under the upper lip.
The convict was seized by Wilkie and other offi-
cers while the weapon was still in his hand, and
having been secured was presently placed in a strong
cell.
The resident surgeon of the prison, Mr. Savory,
was immediately summoned to the wounded man,
and the most approved means were adopted to
stanch the bleeding arteries. The poor fellow suf-
fered agonising pain from the severity of his wound,
and is still lying in a precarious state.
There seems to have been an absence of all rea-
sonable motive for the attack, inasmuch as Beving-
ton had only taken charge of the penal class since
Tuesday last. It is generally supposed the attack
was intended for his co-warder, Wilkie, who, al-
though an excellent officer, has obtained the ill-will
of the convicts by a determination to carry out the
discipline of the prison.
The weapon used by the assassin was a piece of
iron hoop, worked into something like the blade of
a knife, and strongly bound by waxen thread into
a wooden handle.
The penal class convicts are the worst description
of prisoners, and are received at Millbank as incor-
rigibles from all parts of the country. Gorman is
one of the worst of this degraded body. He was
originally convicted in a midland county, and sen-
tenced to some light punishment, while undergoing
which he attempted to stab an officer of the prison,
and on trial for this offence was sentenced to four-
teen years' transportation. In due course he came
to the Model Prison at Pentonville, where he again
attacked and brutally assaulted one of the officers.
For this offence he was transferred to the penal
class of prisoners, and sent to Milbank about four
months ago. His conduct has been desperately
bad since his admission, and it is understood that
his latest crime has not excited much surprise
among the authorities of the prison, the wretched
man having only a few days since assured the re
verend chaplain that "he would do for some of
them before long."