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London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1868.

FURTHER, .EXAMINATION OF TILE

lENIAN COL. BURKE.

BOW-STREET-THIS DAY.

This morning the examination of Colonel Burke,
Theobald Casey, and Henry Shaw, alias Malady,
on a charge of treason-felony, was resumed before
Sir T. Henry.
Mr. Giffard, and Mr. Poland appeared on
the part of the Crown. Mr. Torr and Mr. M'Donald
defended Burke, and Mr. Lewis attended for Casey.

The first witness called this morning was

Benjamin Fordhani, police constable C 33, who
said---On the 20th of Nov. last I was on duty in
Tavistock-square in uniform. In the evening In-
spector Thomson spoke to me, and afterwards I
slw Burke and Casey in Woburn-square. 1 and
Mr. Thomson went after them. Mr. Thomson went
up to Burke, touched him on the shoulder, and told
him he held a warrant for the arrest of Richard
Burke. "You I know to be that person,
and I shall consequently take you into cus-
tody. You must consider yourself my prisoner,"
and come to the nearest police-station. Burke
said, " You've made a mistake, I'm not the person
at all ; I'm a medical student, my name is George
Berry, and I've just arrived from Hamburg.
Thompson said, " Whether you are Berry or Burke
you must go along with us." We both took hold of
him, one on each side. Casey at this time was at
the side of Burke. Burke made a resistance until
we got to the end of Woburn-square. Casey
interfered to prevent us arresting Burke, and struck
Thomson and myself several blows, and tried to
get our prisoner away. Casey said, " What do
you mean by taking my friend like that ?" When
we got to the end of Woburn-square Burke struck
Thomson with his umbrella. Thomson then drew
his revolver, and told Burke if he attempted to run
away he would fire on him. Berke said, " Don't do
anything desperate." I had hold of Burke's cuff
with my left hand. I drew my truncheon, and
then Casey interfered again, and said we should
not take his friend. I told him if he did not keep
away I would strike him. Casey called upon the
bystanders, as we were in Russell-square, to rescue
Burke. He shouted that we were arresting his
friend without any right. Thomson called a cab in
Upper Montagu-street, into which Burke was
placed, notwithstanding the attempts of Casey to
prevent it. After we had got Burke into the cab
Casey tried to prevent us shutting the door. Inspec-
tor Thomson, however, succeeded in shutting the door,
and as we approached Bow-street we obtained
assistance, and Burke was locked up in the police-
station. After Burke was locked up 1 saw Casey
inside the station. He was then detained, and
eventually locked up. I was in uniform, and the
inspector was in plain clothes.

Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—l suppose Thom-
son had the warrant to arrest Burke iu his pocket.
I did not see it.

By Mr. Lewis—l don't remember exactly the
words. They might have been, "This is a mistake,
it is an illegal warrant," but I think the words used
were, " This is wrong ; it is illegal to arrest a gen-
tleman in this way."

Mr. Torr (addressing the magistrate)—Burke's
sister, sir, is in attendance outside, and I have to
ask that she may be admitted to court.
Mr. Lewis made a similar application for the sister
of Casey. _ _

Sir Thomas Henry—Let them be admitted.
Mr. Giffard—Before they take the trouble of
corning into court, I have to apply for another re-
mand. I had expected an important witness from
Birmingham, but as he has not arrived I cannot
proceed further to-day.
_ _

- Sir Thomas Henry remanded the prisoners until
Thursday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—this Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS AND DRIVERS.
Samuel Trigg, a cab-driver, charged by the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals with cruelty to a horse, by working it in
an unfit state, appeared before Mr. Knox on re-
mand, and Martin Eatwell, cab proprietor, of No.
1, Charlwood-street, appeared on a summons for
causing the horse to be ill-treated by allowing it
to be worked.

Simeon Seth, officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, having deposed
to finding the horse in a very low condition with its
knees distressingly cut and quite unfit for work,

Mr. Chevy, the Government veterinary surgeon,
said that the cuts on the horse's knees were recent
injuries on other ones. lie had advised the owner
of the horse to have it destroyed, and he had done
so. lie considered the driver culpable in driving a
horse in such a state.

Mr. Brond, a veterinary surgeon, said that, in his
opinion, the horse had had a knee which bad been
broken a few weeks previously, but which had not
healed over, and the new granulation had given
way. The horse had been put to work too early.
Mr. Knox said that to an unprofessional eye the
wound on the knee was a ghastly one. As the horse
had been destroyed he should discharge the defen-
dants, and he wished the officer of the society to
understand that in doing so it was simply on the
testimony of the gentlemen who had been called,
and who stated that the horse had been sent out
too early.

WESTMINSTER.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS WORKING AT CASE.—
Henry Harding, 15, and Frank Pearse, 14, asso-
ciates of thieves, were charged before Mr. Arnold
with unlawfully possessing five pairs of braces, five
pairs of gloves, two ladies' vests, and a towel, and
not giving a satisfactory account of the possession
of the same.

Police-sergeant Squire White, 11 B, deposed
that Pearse's father said he should not trouble
coming to the court about him, and the other had
no fixed home. At 7.30 last evening he was with
P. C. Taylor, 200 B, in Sloane-street. He watched
the prisoners half-an-hour outside a fancy jeweller's
shop : they were " working at a case." Witness
went up and asked them what they were doing, and
Harding said he did not know Pearce. As the
latter appeared bulky witness asked him what he
had. He replied Nothing,' and witness unbuttoned
his coat, in doing which two ladies' vests fell out on
the pavement. He was further searched inside the
shop, and then at the police-station a pair of gloves
were found upon him. He said he had worn them
three months, but they were quite new. The glass
they were watching at the jeweller's had been
broken a week ago, and Harding was seen about the
place.
Constable Taylor, 200 B, said he watched them
with Sergeant White, and heard Harding say,
" Here come two slopes."
Mr. Arnold asked what " slopes" meant ?

Taylor said it was a thieves' term for police.
Mr. Arnold thought they were always called
" bobbies."

Taylor continued—He found a pair of braces
and gloves on Harding, and he said he bought the
braces for Gd. at a shop in King's-road, Chelsea,
and the gloves belonged to his father. They were
new, and had been ordered for the purpose. The
braces found on both were of the same make and
pattern.
Harding, in an impudent tone, said that he
bought the braces from a man in the street for Gd.,
and Pearce said he picked up the things found on
him in Knightsbridge.
They were remanded for a week.

" THAMES.

TIIE CUSHION OF BACON.—JUVENILE CRIME.
—Robert Clark, a boy aged 12 years, and Jane
Quarreil, the widow of a lighterrnan, aged 44
years, of No. 5, London-street, Ratcliff, were
charged, the former with stealing, and the other
with feloniously receiving, known to be stolen a
cushion of bacon, weighing 121b5., and valued 95.,
the property of Mrs. Rhoda Hill, a shopkeeper of
No. 10, Bull-lane, Stepney. A boy, named Patrick
Sullivan, is in custody, charged with being con-
cerned in the robbery, and has been remanded.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, defended Mrs. Quarrel.
On Wednesday night last Mrs. Hill left her shop
to warm her fingers by the parlour fire, and in her