The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-08 00:00:00

AUGUST 8, 1850.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
John Binmore was charged before Alderman Gibbs
with having as iauled Mr. G. Harden, a solicitor.
The complainant said that he called at the riefendant's
house, No. 31, Newgate,Areet, at the request of e lady.
his client. to ask fa- the amount of a deg e due to her by
the dJoelant. The reception he met with was suc:i as
was not often given to professional men. The defen-
dant not only told him that the money should not he
forthcoming, but seized him by the collar and shoved
him out of the house—a dangerous mode of disposing of
a pecuniary demand, inasmuch as the agent might have
come in contact with some vehicle in that-crowded tho-
roughfare.
Alderman Gisns—Did you use any provoking lan-
guage to the defendant? Complainant—Not at all. I
merely told him the business upon which I called upon
him, and he said he would bundle me out neck and crop,
and he certainly showed me that he was in earnest.
The defendant said he had desired the complainant to
leave his house four times before he proceeded to the
disagreeable task of putting him out, and then the force
used was not greater than would have been necessary to
remove a straw or anything incapable of resistance.
B. Dutton, waiter to the defendant, said—The com-
' plainant came to the bar and master told t im to go oat,
and he would not. Master then said, "If you do not
I'll put you out;" and the gentleman said, " Do it at
your peril." Master then told me to open the door, and
he took the complainant by the collar and just walked
him out, and then master walked back.
R. Quarrel], a lodger in the house, said—l was in the
shop at the time and heard some words at the bar. I
then observed the complainant decidedly obstructing the
business of the house. Mr. Binmore then placed his
hand on the collar of the gentleman, who immediately
walked out as quiet as a ;lamb. No force whatever
was used, for none was necessary. I did not hoar any

words.
Alderman GIBBS said the assault was clearly proved,
not only by the statement of the complainant, but by the
evidence for the defence, and the defendant must pay
the penalty of 20s. and costs, or go to prison for four-
teen days.
The tine was paid.
Samuel Frost and George White were charged under
the following circumstances:—
E. Lambert, Camberwell omnibus proprietor and
driver, said—Yesterday evening, at five o'clock, I was
coming to the City, and on London-bridge Frost, who
was driving a cart, kept crossing my horses, and at last
he caught hold of one of my horses and threw it down.
I told an officer to take him in charge, and he and White,
who was with him, offered violent resistance, bat for
which I would not have come forward against him.
It was proved that the defendants not only resisted
and assaulted the officers, but endeavoured to excite the
mob against them; and a gentleman who was one of the
witnesses stated, that the policemen Monger (564), and
Smith (27), had acted with the most commendable for-
bearance towards the defendants, who in every possible
way endeavoured to rouse the crowd to rescue.
Alderman GIBBS regretted that there appeared in the
multitude assembled on occasions of disagreements on
the streets a strong disposition to cry down, aMd indeed
to knock down, the police, and it was moat gratifying
to sea a gentleman step forward to assist in having jus-
tice done.
Fined 20s. each.

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GUILDHALL.
Thomas DArers, a gentlemanly-looking pereoh; and
who formerly was a law stationer, and carried on a very
respectable and extensive business in Chancery-lane, was
brought up in the custody of police-constable Quarter-
man, 361, charged with stealing a silver tablespoon,
value 125., the property of Mr. Argent, from the coffee-
room of the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet-street.
Alderman HooPea said the charge was quite C3M-
plete, and he would leave it to a jury to take into con-
sideration the question of the prisoner's state of mind at
the time he committed the robbery.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate to take his
trial upon the above charge.
CLERKENWELL.
Charles Ricketts, the driver of a Chelsea omnibus, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged with having
caused the death of Edward Frederick Wallis, weed
eight years, son of respectable parents residing at 17,
Hornseyeroad.
It appeared from the evidence, that yesterday after-
noon the prisoner was driving his omnibus at a slow pace
in the Holloway-road, when another omnibus was driving
in an opposite direction, and a dray was passing near
them. The deceased chili was returning from school
on his way home, and in crossing the road from behind
the omnibus going in the opposite direction the horse of
the omnibus which the prisoner was driving knocked
the child down, and the wheels passed over his heed,
smashed it flat, and killed him on the spot.
Sergeant Martin, 48 N, proved having found the child
quite dead and taking the prisoner into custody.
The witnesses concurred that there was no blame at-
tached to the prisoner, and that the occurrence was per-
fect ly accidental.
Mr. CoMaE ordered the prisoner to put in bail for his
appearance at this court on a future day, when the result
of the coroner's inquest will be made known.
He put in the required recognizances and was libe-
rated.

IRELAND,
TUB 'MURDER OF MR. ROBERT FIRE.

DUBLIN, AUG. 7.—The Newsletter of this morning
give-, the following ample particulars of this last dreadful
murder:— _ .

Btaß, TUESDAY, AUG. 6.—ln
_yesterday's publication
an aseiseeseesset we., m v.i.s the' rLr. Robert Pikes L..,.;e-lt
f,r Mr. Pssisert Cassidy, of Moeastereven, bait been
snurde,.ei on Saturday last, near Parsonstown (or Lire),
the pate of resisleece of Lori Resse. The statement
was, unhappily, too iceurate, and since the assassina-
tion of the late Lord Norbury, there has not been a
murder so deliberate, audacious, and revolting. Mr.
Pile had been acting as agent for Mr. Cassidy for more
than two years, and thocause ofhis beingssent to the King's
County particularly was that the tenants of Mr. Cassidy
had for several years past entered into a combination
against paying him any rent. Mr. Pike, as Mr. Cassidy's •
agent, was compelled to bring ejecta:lents against several
of the tenants. and evict them from their holdings, in
consequence of which ho became obnoxious to the
people, his only fault being his zeal and activity in
carrying out the wishes of his employer. On last
Monday morning seven or eight families were to be
evicted off the lands of Killyon• and the assassins
by whom the valuable life of Mr. Pike has
been taken, of course, conceived that the evictions
would be prevented if he were destroyed. Mr. Pike
had beers, fir some time past, apprehensive of being
assassinated. Some months ago he was fired at, and had
a very narrow escape from death; he was sAting in his
room taking tea, when a shot was fired at him through
the window, and several slugs lodged at a short distance
from his heal. He had been frequently advised by
members of his family to give up the agency, as he was
marked out for destructien, but he was a brave and re-
solute man in the discharge of his duty, and would not
be prevailed upon to abandon his post. From the time
he perceived that he had excited the of the pea-
santry he generally carried a brace of pistols and a cane
sword for his protection, and when travelling along the
road was in the habit of getting into conversation and
company with any person connected with the tenantry
whom he happened to meet, conceiving that he would
be to him more or less a security against the cowardly
and sudden attack of the hidden assassin. On Saturday
morning a man named John Holligan, a farmer, came
into the market, which was held in the town of Birr,
and when he arrived at the residence of Mr. Pike, he
saw him in the hawse outside the door. Mr. Pike
asked him if he was going to Birr. He replied in the
affirmative. " Well, then," said Mr. Pike, " wait a
moment and I will be with you," Holligan waited for
and accompanied him along the road to Birr, and when
they had reached within two miles or so of the town a
man passed them by. Mr. Pike was then on the right
hand side of Holligan. Immediately after the man

passed Holligan heard a shot, and upon turning
round he saw the smoke from the pistol, and when the
smoke c!eared away be saw the ruffian who bad pre-
viously passed them letting the pistol fall out of his
hand to the ground, and then run in the direction of
Dilly on. Holligan afterwards saw a pistol in the hand
of each of the parties—the murderer and his victim—
and observed each present it at the other. He next heard
a shot, but he could not tell from whose pistol it came—
believed it was from the pistol of Mr. Pike. Tho man
then left the road and went into the bog. Mr. Pike again
presented a pistol at him, but it missed fire. Mr. Pike
then returned and passed Holligan along the road; he
had, not got more than 25 or 30 yards when Holligan,
who, had in the mean time kept his eye upon the second
assailant who had gone into the bog, heard another shot,
turned round and saw Mr. Pike and that man in con-
flict. Holligan went up and separated them, and took
from the villain the cane-sword which he had snatched
from Mr. Pike. By this time the other man had re-
turned from the bog, and he presented a pistol at Holli-
gan, telling him to be off, or he would sheet him. Hol-
ligan then ran along the read, and had gone a stunt
distance only when he turned round, and saw the man
by whom Mr. Pike had been first attacked beating
him on the head while on the ground. Holligan es-
caped in terror and dismay to Birr, and commu-
nicated the facts to the police, who proceeded to the
scene of the murder, and found Mr. Pike lying dead
upon the road, his pistols upon his person, and the pistol
of one of the assassins near him. The police made every
searce in their power to apprehend the miscreants, but
without effect, and as yet neither of the mea nor one of
their accomplices has been discovered. The body of the
deceased gentleman was reeeoved into the hoeaitsl of
Birr, rind on Saturday evening an inquest was held by
Mr. Benjamin Toy Mida„ley, coroner for the district.
He was assiatel by Mr. John Jullien, Crown solicitor,
and Captain Pollock, resident magistrate. A jury was
sworn to investigate the facts of the transaction. One
witness only was examined as to the manner in which
the occurrence took place, and that witness was Halli-
gan. The,fearful transaction occurred in the broad day-
light, upon an open public road, where travellers and
vehicles daily pass—in no glen, no lane, no mountain
fastness, no ravine, no jungle, but on the common
thoroughfare, with the full sunshine of heaven beaming
upon it, numbers of the peasantry going to market, se-
veral inhabited houses within a short distance of the
spot, and nearly 50 people working in the bog—men they
cannot be called, for they saw Mr. Pike murdered;
they beheld the assassins run away after they had com-
mitted the diabolical mime, and nut one person followed
to arrest them, not one came forward to give evidence
be'ore the coroner. The witness who deposed to the
nature of the wounds inflicted upon the deceased was
Dr. Baker. That gentleman stated that the deceased
had several gun-shot wounds in the back, chest, and
abdomen; the frontal hOOO cf his skull was fractured;
the fra'qures were both compound and comminuted. The
body presented a ghastly appearance. The inquiry was
bricf. The jury, after a short consultation, found a ver-
dict of ' Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown.' This is a plain, unvarnished tale. A Pro-
testant Irish agent is shot in the open day upon a public
road because he dares to discharge bis duty to his em-
ploy er in endeavouring to enforce the payment of rent
from a defaulting tenantry. It has been stated, and is
believed, that the late Mr. Pike was denounced by the
priests of the neighbourhood, and has been for a long
time a doomed man. One circumstance connected with
this murder adds an item to the many which prove the
absurdity, inconvenience, and inhumanity of the recent
postal alterations—namely, that the brother of the de-
erased, Mr. W. Pike, of Gardiner-lane, Dublin, did not
know till 3 o'clock on Monday that his brother had been
shot, and was totally ignorant that an inquest had been
bald and a verdict found."

INCREASE OF THE MORNING

MAILS.

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can be forwarded by the morning mail trains, as well as
the evening (Sundays excepted):—Abergavenny, Abing-
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dover-road, Arundel, Ashford, A therstone, Attle-
borough, Aylesbury, Banbury, Barnsley, Basingstoke,
Bath, Battle, Bedford, Belford, Belper, Berkhewpstead,
Berwick. Bewdley, Bicever, Billericay, Bilston, Birken-
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at the receiving-houses will he open till 7 saw. for
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hraach offices, CLaring-cross, o,d Cavendish-street, end
the Borough, for newspapers until 7.30 A M., and for
letters until 8 a.m. At the General Post-office, St.
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