The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN NORTON FOLGATE.

The public will remember that a short time ago a very
rutal murder was committed upon the wife of an eating-
ouse keeper in Norton Folgate by a boy named Andrew
4ackay, 19 years old, who made his escape after cora-
)itting the deed, and it was thought had evaded ju-
ice, either by committing suicide or by making his
/ay to some foreign country, as, notwithstanding the
,ctive inquiries that were made after him by the police,
wt the slightest clue could be obtained likely to lead to
►is apprehension. It is satisfactory, however, to state
hat the culprit has been discovered in rather a singular
canner in Maidstone gaol. It appears that a short time
)ack a prisoner who gave the name of George Jackson
vas taken into custody at Woolwich for stealing a meer-
;chaum pipe, and he was eventually sentenced to three
nonths' imprisonment for that offence. He was
•emoved to the county gaol at Maidstone pursuant to
hat sentence, and no suspicion whatever was enter-
,ained as to his being any other than the person he
Tpresented himself to be. It is now the practice to make
use of the art of photography as a means of detecting
;riminals, and among others the photograph of the
;oy Andrew Mackay was sent to the prison. For some
;line it did not appear to have attracted any attention,
out a thought suddenly seemed to have struck a
warder belonging to the prison that the boy
Jackson, who was under his charge, resembled
pne of the photographs of persons who had absconded
after the commission of a crime. In consequence of this
tw communicated his suspicions to Major Bannister, the
3.overnor, and examined the photograph carefully, and
,his confirmed the suspicion he had entertained pre-
viously-, that the prisoner Jackson was in reality the
murderer Andrew Mackay. He took an opportunity
upon this to enter into conversation with the prisoner,
and in the course of it he asked him if he had ever gone
by any other name than George Jackson, and he at
once replied that his name was Andrew Mackay, and
he admitted that he was the person who was charged
with the murder in Norton Folgate. Major Bannister
at once telegraphed to London to Sergeant Dunnaway, an
officer of the metropolitan police, and he came down to
Maidstone on Wednesday, accompanied by a person who
was acquainted with the lad Mackay, and who at once
identified him as the person against whom the coroner's
jury had returned a verdict of wilful murder. The
prisoner has still two months to serve of his original sen-
tence, but he will, of course, be brought back to London
upon the charge of murder so soon as the necessary forms
are gone through to enable that step to be taken.

TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH

BURGLARS.

Mr. James C. Donelan, merchant, of Dunmore, was
awoke a few mornings since by a slight noise in his shop.
He jumped out of bed and ran downstairs, taking with
him a revolver. On opening a side door leading into
the shop a pistol shot was fired at the direction of
the door. Nothing daunted, he entered the shop,
and was again immediately assailed with heavy
stones (plenty of which were close to hand on ac•
count of the masonry work going on). He observed
a man passing from the direction of his desk across
the shop. Mr. Donelan fired at him, and the man groaned
heavily. Believing that he was badly wounded, Mr. Donelan
called upon him to surrender, and said that he would spare
his life. He walked towards him for the purpose of securing
him; but before he could do so he was struck at with a
short, heavy-pointed bar of iron, which passed between the
arm in which he held his revolver and his side, very slightly
hurting him. He was at the same time fired at with
heavy missiles from other parts of the shop. The object, no
doubt of the robbers was to get away the man that Mr.
Donelan had all but captured. In the confusion Mr.
Donelan missed his man, and on turning to the direction
from which he had been assailed, he observed parties
passing out by a small door, leading into the portion
of the premises that were taken down, and through
which they entered the shop ; he again fired, and
ran round to the back door leading out of the shop,
fur the purpose of intercepting them, but having some
delay in unbarring the door, when he got out he observed
them passing by an angle in the new building ; when he
got to that angle he observed the men passing into a yard;
he again fired at them, and pursued them into another
yard, and again attempted to fire, but found that two
caps had fallen off his revolver. Not wishing to pursue
them further, he returned. The police have not suc-
ceeded in making any arrest. —2'u= Hcralci.