The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 29.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Johnson, 45, who
had been previously convicted, and who refused his
address, was charged before the Lord Mayor with
stealing a quantity of gas fittings.
The evidence went to show that on the previous
day the prisoner stole unobserved into the entrance
of the Agra Bank, and also up the stairs leading to
several merchants' offices in Cannon-street, and
wrenched off all the gas-fittings he could find. The
result was that the adjacent rooms were speedily
filled with gas, to the great danger of the occupants,
who were obliged to open their windows to allow
it to escape. He was taken and given into custody,
with the proofs of his guilt secreted beneath his
clothes, and remanded for further evidence until
Friday.
Jane Little, 17, a domestic servant to a house-
keeper having the care of the offices of Mr. Rither-
don, a merchant, at 31, Easteheap, underwent a
preliminary examination on a charge of stealing
between £3 and S 4 from a cashbox belonging to
him.

She pleaded guilty, and electing to be dealt with
by the court in preference to being sent for trial by
a jury, she was remanded until Friday in order to
obtain the attendance of an additional magistrate.

GUILDHALL—WiIIiam Martin, aged 17, Fran-
cis James Burton, 16, George. Gabriel, 15, and Mat-
thew John Cooper, 14, were charged with man-
slaughter.

Henry Bryant, potboy at the Three Colts public-
house in London-wall, said—Last night, about half-
past 9 o'clock, I was close to the Albion-hall, in
London-wall, in front of which I saw a number of
boys fighting with a man. I know the prisoner
by sight, and saw him among them. I saw them
striking the man very much on the breast. Martin
then picked up a stone in the road and give it to one
of the others, I cannot say which, and said, "Here's
a stone, cut his head open." The boy to whom he
gave the stone then threw it violently at the man.
It struck him, for he called out immediately and
fell, upon which all the boys ran away.
Mr. Quentin Dalrymple said,—l am a bookseller,
and carry on business in Great Queen-street, Lin-
coln's-inn-fields. I was at a meeting last night in
Albion-hall, and when I came out, about half-past
9 o'clock, I found there was some disturbance in the
passage. My attention was directed to the two
boys who were fighting, and while I was remon-
strating with some of the boys I saw John Silver-
side, the hall-keeper, staggering and about to fall,
and I caught him in my arms and placed him on
the ground, keeping his head raised, for I thought
he was in a fit. His wife, however, said he was not
subject to fits. I called for some cold water and
bathed his face and opened his necktie and collar,
but could perceive not the slightest animation for a
minute or two, and then I noticed a slight convul-
sive shudder, which proved to be the poor man's
death struggle. I saw blood on his mouth when
he fell. I did not see the stone thrown. The pri-
soner:Gabriel was one of the boys I saw fighting.
Some other witnesses were examined, and the
case was then adjourned, in order to ascertain the
result of the coroner's inquest.
Edward Gandell and Henry John Todd, who
carried on business as general merchants at 1, Size-
lane, and, covertly, at the premises of Thomas
Gandell and Co., packers, of Greenwich-street and
Joiners'-hall-buildings, Upper Thames-street, in
which firm the bankrupt Gandell held the position
of manager at a salary of £250 a year,were brought
up on remand, charged with unlawfully obtaining
goods on credit within three months of their bank-
ruptcy, under the false colour and pretence of
carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary
course of trade, with intent to cheat and defraud
their creditors.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Anne Williams,
a young woman who has been several times at this
court for drunken and disorderly conduct, was
charged with robbery.
Mr. Thomas Stuart, a chemist in Cropley-street,
iloxton, had been to a party in the city, from which
he was :eturning, perfectly sober, at a quarter past
two that mon:ing' when on reaching the Eastern
was accosted by the prisoner,
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rsation and asked him to
wbo engaged him in con.,—.
refused, but on her
see her home., This he positiveL;
:n.asking him
pleading the coldness of the night,
her that,
for a cup of coffee, he consented to giv..-"
and paid for it at an adjoining coffeehouse, an, 11(1
one himself. He now thought himself rid of tint,
prisoner's importunities altogether, as on leaving
the house ho left her near there, but on getting
some distance further he was disagreeably surprised
to find she had again got up with hini, and wished
to renew her conversation. He tried again to get
rid of her, and while doing so the prisoner suddenly
said that she had to go to Hackney, and quickly
moved away. This seemed suspicious, and on put-
ting his hand to his waistcoat pocket he found that
his gold watch, worth £2O, and which was safe
just before, had been stolen. The prisoner was then
running, and he pursued her, but she was too rapid
for him, and would most probably have escaped
altogether had not a constable who was ahead of
him heard his calls to stop her, and after a sharp
chase he did so; but on getting her to the station
no watch could be found.

he prisoner protested her innocence, but Mr.
Knox remanded her, that the watch might, if pos-
sible, be traced.

SOUTHWARK.—Wm. Dearmer, an ex-police-
man of the M division, and recently a carman em-
ployed at Pickford's, the carriers, was brought up
for final examination charged with cruelly beating
with a heavy cart whip and ptherwise torturing
his two children, Edward Dearmer, aged 14, and
Sarah Dearmer, 11 years of age.
It appeared that the prisoner was discharged from
the police force about two years ago, and some
little time afterwards he obtained a situation as a
carter in Messrs. Pickford's employ. His first wife,
the mother of these children, died in 1851, and he
married another woman, by whom he has no chil-
dren, and they lodged at 24, Great Union-street,
Borough-road. On Monday, the 21st instant,
information reached the police that the children
had been brutally used by him, and in conse-
quence of that, a cor,s!able piocecdcd t 3 the
house, and found the children locked in a room,
and, on gaining an entrance, lie found them in a
dreadful condition. They were extremely dirty,

and had nothing on them but scanty filthy rags. •
He removed them to the station house, and finding
their bodies covered with wounds and cuts, pro-
ceeded to Pickford's yard and took the prisoner into
custody. When the children were shown to the 1
magistrate on the following day, the miserable rags I,
were partially removed, and a scene was exhibited
that is rarely seen in a court of justice. Both children
were covered from head to foot with wounds, some
of them recent and others of long standing.
Mr. Combo then remanded the prisoner, to give
the parish authorities an opportunity of prosecuting.
Yesterday afternoon the children were again
brought into court, but they presented a very dif-
ferent appearance, being decently clad, and having
been taken care of in the workhouse. The boy, in
addition to his former evidence, stated that he was
14 years old last September, and his sister was 11,
and they resided with their father and mother in
law at 24, Great Union-street. The father and
mother in law were out nearly all day, and they
were locked up in a back room without food. On
Saturday, the 19th, they had a little bread and
water in the morning, and were locked up as usual.
He got a nail and put the lock back, and went
below to a lodger's, who gave them bread and butter.
Their father came home at the time, and, finding
them below, he ordered them up stairs, and he
followed then, and after stripping them stood at a
little distance from them and beat them severely
with his heavy cart whip. The blood came from
his back so that his trousers stuck to his legs.
Their food was breed soaked in water, and some-
times
they had a little rice boiled in water. Their
clothes were nothing but rags, and they always
slept in the passage on an old piece of carpet, and
their covering was a sat.
and an old sheet. They
were washed only twice ;luring last month, and he
could not recollect the taste of meat. A fortnight
ago their father whipped them, and then their
mother in law was in the roklm, but she did not
interfere.
Mr. Thomas Evans, surgeon of the M division,
residing in High-street, Borough, hiaid that on the
evening of the 21st inst. he was called to the station
house at Stone's-end, where he saw the ckildren in
presence of the prisoner, who was charged with ill-
using them. They were covered in very scant. V rags,
and on removing them he discovered marks on their
bodies and limbs, which appear to have been ca used
by severe punishment.
Mr. Combe consented to take bail, but as the
prisoner could not procure it, he was removed li‘;
the gaoler amid the yells and execrations of the,
mob who crowded in and about the court. It
was with some difficulty that they were prevented
from attacking the prisoner, who was compelled to
have the protection of the officers of the court.

LAMBET El.—A well•dressed person, 30 years of
age, was charged with breaking into the dwelling
house of Mr. Jos, Henry Bills, and stealing there-
from a silver watch of the value of £2 10s., his
property.
From the testimony of the prosecutor it appeared
that on the evening before, at about 7 o'clock, he
returned home, and, on opening his front door with
his latch key, he heard a rustling noise at his back
kitchen door, and missed his watch from where it
had been hanging, and where he saw it safe two
hours before. Soon after the prisoner was brought
to his house in the custody of a constable, and his
watch was also produced to him.
From other testimony it appeared that the pri-
soner in his flight had knocked over two or three
persons, and when secured by the constable thrust
his hand into a heap of mud, in which the stolen
watch was afterwards found.
The prisoner,' who gave the name of Thos. James
Edwards, but who refused his address, was corn-
mitted on the charge, but was ordered to be
brought up again after he had been seen by the
detectives.

THE BISCA COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

RISCA, TUESDAY.

The inquiry los continued yesterday, after the
despatch of our pare,7l, and was resumed this morn-
ing ; Mr. Llewellyn stj.2 t appearing for the Itisca
Kr. Owen for friends of
Coal and Iron Company ;
.
some of the deceased; and Illr Brough and Mr.
Evans, government inspectors, to watch proceed-
ings and assist the coroner.
Edmund Davis deposed that he formeflY worked
in the Black Vein Pit, and was discharged with his
brother because the latter refused to work where
gas (on fire) was accumulated; or, as it was put bj
Mr. Thompson, chief viewer of the colliery, because
he refused to conform to the practice of putting up
trellice to drive the gas out. This witness made
the almost incredible statement that when he com-
plained of the fire, English, the fireman (killed in
the explosion, and to -whuesv care and strict catcD-
tion almost every previous witness had testified),
told him that men in that pit often worked in 80
yards of fire.
William Derrick, night fireman, who at the
commencement of the inquiry had sworn that he
regularly visited the stalls in his district up to the
time of the explosion, and found no gas there, was
recalled in consequence of statements made by dif-
ferent colliers that there was gas in their stalls, and
that if he had inspected them, as it wag his duty to
do, he must-have discovered the gasp
, and ought to
have put up a danger mark to kee the men out.
He, however, repeated his previous declaraticii as
to the regularity of his visits, and was positive
he found the stalls free from fire. More particu-
larly, he swore that no place in his dis-
trict was left unexamined for a longer interval than
three hours; but upon cross-examination it became
apparent that an interval of six hours occasionally
elapsed between the visits, which Mr. Brough said
was doubly as long as it should be for so fiery a pit.
. The witness was informed that a man named
Phillips had sworn that he (Derrick) once fired a
shot (or blast of powder) in a fiery state, the effect
of which was to extinguish his lamp ; and the
witness said positively that if Phillips had sworn
so he had sworn a lie. _ _

Among other witnesses examined was
Ellen Rosser, who deposed that before the explo-
siou Richard Jenkins lodged with her, and that
whenever he went with her little son to his work
in the Black Vein. Pit he used to say "Good bye,
perhaps you will never see me again." When he
was asked why he said so, he replied that he worked
in a dangerous place, and that if anybody was killed
it would be sure to be he. On the morning of the
explosion she followed them to the gate of her
garden, saying to herself " Perhaps I shall never
see them any more," and she never did, for both
Jenkins and her own little boy were killed that day.
Jenkins, the man referted to, is asserted to have
been courting the daughter of this witness; and a
neighbour named Coker asserted that two days after
the explosion Mrs. Rosser told her that the night
before the explosion her lodger sat up writing a
letter, which was subsequently found in his coat
pocket, and which turned out to be addressed to her
daughter. (She denied all knowledge of the court-
ship) That letter, she said, her daughter opened,
and found in it directions that she was to have his
clothes and sufficient money to buy herself mourn-
ing. Mrs. Rosser also told her neighbour that as
Jenkins was leaving on the morning of the explo-
sion he bade her bood-bye for ever; but the witness
now denied that he did so, and said there was
nothing in the letter at all connected with the in-
quiry. She admitted, however, that Jenkins had
been in the habit of carrying a lamp key (strictly
forbidden by the rules) tied to the string of his
drawers ; but she said she herself threw it away
some time before the explosion occurred. By a
singular coincidence it had happened that a lamp
was found in the part of the pit where the gas was
first fired, with a hold in the gauze as if made by
the point of a pickaxe or mandril, and it was sup-
posed that the gas got access to the flame of the lamp
ihr:ugli this aperture, and that thus the explosion
i
occurrek.... When the lamp was first discovered it
was con dun,:
d that the hole had been made acci-
dentally, but co,"nling the existence of that hole
with the words alleged to have been used by Jen-
kins and the alleged cont
b-Ints of the letter, a suspi-
cion arose that Jenkins had curposely fired the gas
for the purpose of committing ~cuicide, and that
thus he had sacrificed 142 lives in „„ddtion to his
at the
own. It was therefore held important tt.'
ed_to
truth of the matter, and as Mrs. Rosser decii:l
give any definite information, her daughter, Tabit:la
Rossier, a young woman of 19, was sent for, and pro-
duced the letter, which turned out to be a mere com-
monplace love letter, so the hypothesis of suicide
fell to the ground, but, notwithstanding, the fact
remained that Jenkins had somehow possessed him-
self of a lamp-key, and could therefore have opened
his lamp at pleasure, but from a statement made by
the younger woman, it was apparent that Jenkins
anticipated danger from a fall rather than from an
explosion of gas.
William Williams, a subsequent witness, men-
tioned the name of a man besides Jenkins in whose
possession he had seen a lamp-key, and the name of
another man who, he had been told, also possessed
one.
Some other but unimportant evidence was given
before the despatch of our parcel.

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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Registrar-GenePaP s IVeekly Return.)

Notwithstanding the late mildness of the weather,
the effects of the cold that preceded it are still legible
in large characters in the registers of mortality.
The number c‘f deaths in London returned for the
week that endod last Saturday, is 1,783, and exhi-
bits a decrease which is not very considerable, on
that of the previous week, 1,926. The mean tem-
perature of the air at Greenwich, which had been.
below the average .on every day since the Ist inst.,
rose above it on Suoday, the 20th, and, with the
exception of two days, continued above it during
last week. On the last two days the mean tem-
perature was nearly 10 deorees above the average.
The average number of deaths as obtained from
corresponding weeks of ten previous years 1851-60,
and corrected for increase of population, is 1,330.
The 1,783 deaths of last week therefore show an
excess of 453 over the estimated number.
The deaths from diseases of the respiratory
organs, exclusive of phthisis, were 702 in the pre-
ceding week ; they decreased to 545 last week..
Bronchitis was fatal last week in 354 cases ; the
corrected average of corresponding weeks is 161.
Pneumonia numbered 117 against an average of 97 ;
and asthma 46 against 25. The deaths from phthisis
or consumption were 171, the average being 151. •
Half of the deaths from bronchitis occurred at (30
years of age and upwards. Whooping-cough ex-
hibits a considerable increase on the former returns,,
for the deaths from it in the two previous weeks.
having been 72 and 83 they rose last week to 108.
Nine persons, aged 90 years and upwards, aro
recorded,: the two 'oldest of whom, both women,
were aged respectively 96 and 97 years.
Five infants and an adult died of syphilitic dis-
ease ; four persons from intemperance as the direct
cause ; two infants were murdered. Of 21 deaths
from burns and scalds seven were caused by the
clothes taking fire. Of the remaining 14 it is very
probable that many others occurred inconsequence
of clothes taking fire, though the circumstance is
not stated in the returns. A man who died from
this cause received the injury when in a state of
intoxication. No less than 18 children were suffo-
cated, 16 of these in bed.
A carman, aged 18 years, died in St. Mary's
Hospital from frost bite.
Last week the births of 1,034 boys and 944 girls
—in all 1,978 children—were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1851-
60 the average number was 1,749.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
:height of the barometer in the week was above
30.089. On five days the mean reading was 30
iii Ches. The barometrical readings fell fr0m:30.34
inoiies on Monday to 29 77 inches on Friday. The-
mea ti temperature of the air in the week was 41
deg, 'which is 3.5 deg above the average of the same
week ,;11 434 years, as determined by Mr. Welsher.
The thei .mometer in the
,shade rose to 53 deg on
Friday, t,Ne highest point in the week ; it fell to its
lowest poi'Llt, 31.7 deg on the previous day. The
range of 00 week was therefore 21.3 deg. The
.mean daily ra:lge was 9.3 deg. The difference be-
tween the mea:i dew point temperature and air
temperature was only 1.7 deg. The mean degree
of humidity of the air was 94, complete saturation
being represented by 100, which point was nearly
approached on each of the first four days. The
wind blew almost constantly from the south-west.
The rain in the week did not exceed 8-100ths of an
inch. There was magnetic disturbances on Tues-
day and on subsequent days of the week. The
mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
35.5 deg.