The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER IN SCOTLAND,

William Cargill; fisherman, Auchmithie, has been
apprehended, charged with Perpetrating an atrocious
murder. During the herring-fishing stason Cargill had
been living in Arbroath, and he lodged in a room in Lady
bridge-street, adjoining a small public-house occupied by
Mrs. Vannet. He had been drinking for some days ; but
it is stated that when taken into custody, although he
was in an excited state, he was not drunk. The victim
is a girl named Ann Swankie, 9 years of age,
daughter of David Swankie, fisherman, Union-street
East, and it is supposed that Cargill had decoyed the girl
into the house in which he lodged, and in which there was
nobody but himself at the time. About four o'clock some
persons passing along the street were alarmed by hearing
an unusual noise, and looking in at the open street door of
Cargill's room, it is stated that they saw him in
the passage smashing the head of the child with a poker.
They at once rushed in upon him, and laid hold of him.
The child was lying on the floor quite dead, and its blood
and brains bespattered the wall. Cargill was taken to the
police office. The police remain in possession of the body
and the premises till the arrival of the Fiscal from Dundee.
It is many years since a case of murder or homicide oc-
curred at Arbroath, and the affair on Thursday has created
a great sensation in the community. No motive for the
murder is known.—Scotsman.

FURTHEP EXAMINATION OF THE

SUPPOSED FENIAN.

Augustine Byrne, 32, New Union-street, Little Moor-
fields, was yesterday placed at the bar at Guildhall, on
remand, before Alderman Hale, charged with being in
possession of a quantity of firearms, supposed to be for
an unlawful purpose, and also with having in his possession
three spirit measures, supposed to have been stolen.

Mr. Raven appeared for Byrne.
The evidence previously taken was read over to the wit-
ness Fawke.

Cross-examined by Mr. Raven : I ordered him to be
taken into cnstody because I believed that he had them for
an unlawful purpose.
Mr. Raven : Well, I submit that he is unlawfully In
custody, and has no right to be here.

Alderman Hale : Well, I think otherwise.
Cross-examination continued : I found no money at his
lodgings. I took all his papers that I thought were
necessary. I have the key of his room.

Mr. Frederick Williamson said : I have been instructed
to attend here by the authorities at Scotland-yard to
watch this case. I am chief inspector of the detective
police of Scotland-yard. I have examined the seven
rifle barrels found by Fawke at the prisoner's lodgings, and
they bear the marks of the 28th Middlesex Rifles ;
they are the London Irish Volunteers, and are therefore
Government arms. I have known prisoner from repu•
taion and by name as a prominent member of the Fenian
co piracy. I have known him since October. I wish for
a remand that I may make further inquiries. There is no
mark on the pike-bead.

Cross-examined by Mr. Raven : I know that he is a
member of the Fenian conspiracy by reputation, and from
the fact that he resorts to places where Fenians frequ-nt.
I have no positive proof of it.
Martin, Lynch, the landlord of the public-house, 414,
Oxford•street, said he knew the prisoner from coming to
his bar. The three measures produced had evidently
come from his house, but before he took possession of it.
He had examined his stock with his inventory, and it was
quite correct.

Inspector Williamson : I wish for a remand, ,air, to
make inquiries.

The prisoner was then remanded.

LAW AND POLICE.

THE ALLEGED MURDER BY A LIFE GUARDSMAN.-At
Northampton Police-court Richard Robins, the Life
Guardsman suspected to be the murderer of Elizabeth
Shields, was again brought up. Evidence similar to that
produced before the coroner was given ; and in addition a
woman was called to show that the prisoner had said a
week before that he should be the death of Shields before
he left the town. Upon cross-examination, however, this
woman gave three different versions of the words the
prisoner used, although she said she was positive as to the
exact expression. The counsel for the prisoner said that,
as the inquiry proceeded, it would appear that no murder
had been committed at all, and, further, that even if there
had been, the prisoner was innocent of it. After a length-
ened sitting the case was again adjourned.

A BANKING INCIDENT.—At the Bow-street Police-
court a Mr. Sharpe was brought up on remand, charged
with having by false pretences obtained £445 by cheque
en Messrs. Drummond's bank. The prosecution was, how-
ever, withdrawn, as it had been ascertained that the
defendant had on several occasions drawn cheques on the
bank, although he had no funds there to meet them. He
seemed to possess " some unknown influence," which
induced the cashier to receive the cheques, and although
there were no funds when they were presented, the money
was always provided within a short time. Under such
circumstances, it was of course impossible to maintain the
charge. •

AN OLD CASE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—At Manchester,
Joseph Taylor has been charged with embezzling various
sums, amounting to nearly £l5O, the money of Messrs.
M`Naughton, Tfiom, and Co., merchants. The prisoner
was a collector and invoice clerk in the employ of that
firm in 1865, and absconded, after signing receipts for
three amounts, which he failed to account for. Inspector
Shandley said he remembered hearing of the robbery at
the time, and went in pursuit of the prisoner, who took a
cab to Oldham, and thence went by train to London,
where he embarked for Melbourne. He returned a short
time since, and was arrested in Liverpool. Ho was corn':
mitted for trial.

THE GREAT WATCH ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.—At
the City Police-court, Manchester, the four men and
three women were again brought up on a charge of being
concerned in the robbery of £1,500 worth of gold watches
from a luggage-van at the Victoria Railway Station. It
was stated in the opening of the case that on the evening
of the 26th of August the detectives engaged in the case
saw William Keat and James Renshaw in a cab at the
end of Great Ancoats-street. The officers stopped the
cab and took the occupants into custody. Renshaw had
forty-seven of the stolen watches in his possession, and
Keat also had a considerable number. As to Elizabeth
Renshaw, the evidence connecting her with the robbery
or the receiving was equally simple. The officers visited
her husband's house, .Jones's-terrace, Salford, and, finding
her at home, asked if she had any watches on the
premises. They searched the rooms, and found in the
pocket of a woman's dress one of the gold watches since
identified ; and in a drawer in the bedroom they found a
silver one. As to Benjamin Kent and his wife, the officers,
on visiting William Keat's house, found two gold
watches in a portmanteau. Elizabeth Kent said that
Benjamin Kent had brought them to the house and
given them to her husband. As to Yates and Dakin, the
officers found in a tea-caddy in the house they lived in a
silver watch-case, numbered 12,149, and identified as part
of the stolen property. After several witnesses had been
examined, the case was sent for trial.

ALLEGED MURDER IN THE BOROUGH.-At the South-
wark Police-court, Robert Hall was charged with causing
the death of William Johnson by stabbing. The dying
depositions of the deceased were put in as evidence, and
they stated that the prisoner and Johnson met and had a
scuffle, during which the accused stabbed him in the side.
The prisoner, who declined to put any questions to the
witnesses, was remanded. _

THE NEW LAW COURTS.—The designs for the
New Law Courts, which were deposited at the old Insolvent
Debtors' Court, have been removed by order of the
Government to South KenAington Museum, for exhibi-
tion and for the purpose of study.
THE PERILS OF THE DISSECTING-ROOM.—A medi-
cal student of the Hospital Lariboisire, named Curtois,
23 years of age, has just met an untimely death. He
was engaged in dissecting a corpse when he incautiously
touched his lip, on which there was a small pimple.
On his return home he suddenly remembered what he
had done, but too late, as he died the next day in great
suffering.

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN ITALY. -- Co-
operative societies for furnishing articles of consumption
to their members are now becoming general all over Italy.
Such associations have lately been established,at Bologna,
Ferrara, Verona, and Legnano, and have produced the
most satisfactory results, and among others that of com-
polling the bakers to reduce their prices and improve the
quality of their bread.

FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—Mr. W. Burden,
coachman to the Earl of Abingdon, whilst driving.from
St. Giles's Fair, Oxford, to Wytham Abbey, the seat of his
lordship, met with a serious accident, from the effects of
which he died on Thursday. It appears that Burden was
driving, accompanied by the earl's butler and keeper, and
when near Botley the horse halted and ran into the last
gate in the fields leading from Botley into Sparrow-lane,
and within a short distance of the village of Wytham.
The unfortunate deceased was pitched out on his head,
and lingered in an insensible state till Thursday, when he
died. His companions escaped with a few slight bruises.
Burden had been in the service of the Abingdon family
upwards of thirty years, and was highly esteemed by his
lord hlp and litis,:ll,4ld, w SIC. O.E: sympathise with his
wife and children in their ar4t bereayep•ent.

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His Excellency Reverdy Johnson is to present
his credentials to her Majesty at Windsor on Mon-
day. He will be introduced by Lord Stanley, with
whom Mr. Johnson had his first interview on
Thursday. Mr. Johnson has received from his Go-
vernment the fullest powers for the settlement of
outstanding questions between the United States
and Great Britain. His own knowledge of Inter-
national and Constitutional law commands entire
confidence at Washington, and the Minister lately
announced at Sheffield that he desires to secure for
his country nothing but what is fair to receive and
honourable for Great Britain to grant. As he
knows be will be met with the same open, frank
desire on the part of the English Foreign Office for
the final settlement of all claims, we believe that
he will prove to be right in predicting that the
whole will be satisfactorily arranged in a couple of
months. The Embassy has removed from Fenton's
Hotel to No. 4, Portland-place.
The Chinese Ambassadors, with Mr. Burlingame
at their head, have left Bosto❑ for England. A
public dinner was give❑ them in Boston, at which
speeches were made by Charles Sumner, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and Caleb Cushing, to which Mr.
Burlingame replied, declaring that the treaty with
the United. States hail struck down the injurious
practice of concessions of territory to foreign-rs
within the empire of China where Chinese were
taxed, expelled, or protected as if the place
I 1 i d not belong to the Chinese Government.
The Treaty pu's her subjects on terms of equa-
liry—standing with those of the most favoured
nations, British, French, Russian, and Prussian,
and by the consular clause they are given a diplo-
matic status, by which those privileges can be de-
fended. Mr. Burlingame anticipates hostility from
_ the oldindigo planter of India and the opium ernOker

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