The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

BROMLEY.

A ease of a novel character, arising out of the Po-
lice Act, was brought before the Bromley magistrates
on Monday. The bench was composed of Lord
Sydney, Mr. Ward, and Mr. Berens ; and Robert
Sutton, the officer of the Bromley Court of Requests,
was summoned before them to show cause why he
unlawfully detained a certain pony, the property of
William Akehurst. The defendant did not appear, and
upon proof of the service of the summons upon him,
the case was proceeded with in his absence. The
nephew of the complainant deposed that he had
borrowed the pony in question of his uncle, and as he
was driving it in a cart through Bromley town, the
defendant came up to him and took the pony by force
out of the cart, and went away with it and the har-
ness. The witness, in answer to questions put to him
by the uncle, said that an execution had been served
upon his goods by the Court of Requests, and he sup-
posed the defendant was acting under that authority,
but he told him distinctly at the time that the pony
was not his property, hut belonged to his uncle.
Mr. Latter, the clerk to the bench, said there was
no doubt that the defendant considered he was jus-
tified in :seizing the property under the execution,
believing that the pony was the property of the
party against whom the execution was issued. He
then referred the bench to the section of the Police
Act under which the summons was granted, and the
expression used in it of property detained " without
any just cause."
The MaatsTßATzs, after perusing the Act of Par-
liament, expressed their opinion that they had juris-
diction in the case, and if the defendant thought he
had any legal justification, he should have appeared
and pleaded it, and then the matter would have been
properly argued. At present it was positively sworn
that the pony belonged to the complainant, and as it
appeared to be unlawfully detained, they should make
an order for its restitution.

The defendant soon afterwards entered the court,
and he was informed of the decision of the magis-
trates, when he stated that he had refrained from
attending to answer the summons in accordance with
the instructions he had received from the authorities
of the Court of Requests, and if the order was made
he would not obey it. He added that he had no
desire to treat the bench with any disrespect, but
he must express his opinion that the magistrates had
no jurisdiction in the case.
The BENCH said they should certainly sign the
order, and Mr. Latter received instructions to draw
it up in the usual form.

HORRIBLE MURDER AT YAR-
MOUTH.

One of the most brutal and unprovoked sacrifices
of human life which it has ever fallen to the task of
public journalists to record, took place yesterday at
Yarmouth, under the following circumstances :—The
deceased, named Harriet Candler, was a widow
woman, very quiet and respectable, was a member of
the Wesleyan Society, and managed a kind of chan-
dlery shop, selling flour, oatmeal, pollard, &c. The
night policeman on duty found her street-door par-
tially open ; he called to her, but receiving no answer,
proceeded to examine the till, suspecting some
robbery had been committed. 'Lying down by the
side of the till, with her head forced under the
counter, he found the deceased, literally deluged in
her own blood. Her skull had no less than five wounds
inflicted upon it ; one of them in the left side so severe
as to throw the upper portion of the bone so as to
overlap another broken part of the skull. On the
right side of the neck a wound had been inflicted suffi-
ciently severe to sever a portion of the vertebrce of the
neck, and one of her fingers was cut off, probably
whilst uplifted in defence. The following is the pro-
bable history, as gathered from the evidence at the
coroner's inquest (proceeding when this report left):—
Deceased lived quite alone in the house, and went to
a public-house opposite to purchase her supper beer,
leaving the street door closed, but unlocked, whilst
she was gone. During an absence of ten minutes,
the murderer or murderers (probably two) secreted
themselves in a bin where peas or bran was kept. The
deceased sat for a time reading a religious work, and
drank a portion of the porter; she then went into a
shop to take the money out of the till, when
she was felled to the ground by the murderer's
hammer. The first blow rendered her insensible ;
the remainder were given lest the " intent
and not the deed" should confound them. A
knife covered with blood lay by the side
of the deceased, but the surgeon was of opinion
that the wound in the neck was inflicted with the
cheese• cutter (a kind of short axe) which contained
a portion of blood upon it. Last Saturday deceased
had taken A division of property amounting to 1501.,
left by her husband's mother and uncle. Several of
her relatives live in Yarmouth and neighbourhood,
and received similar sums ; it became common talk
amongst them, and the deceased was incautious
enough to say that as the 150/. was for her son, she
should put it under her bed until she could hear from
his trustee, as she expected a much larger sure, This
got noised abroad, and parties doubtless sedulously
watched her movements on the night in question,
in order to plunder her, and as they were recog-
nised and known by her, to murder her rather than
be detected. The 150/. was taken without disturb-
ing the bed; 1001. was in a cheque on Messrs.
()limey and Co.'s bank. During the inquest a
portion ofmoney, consisting of gold, silver, and
about Si. or 101. in coppers, were found near the Bat-
tery, In a bag which was taken from the deceased's
premises the night of the murder—the contents of the
till, doubtless. It had, wrapped up in it, a man's
purse, containing a token, enveloped in four papers,
and written upon, in a man's writing, " The Lord
iAlti tint() my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I
make thy enemies my footstool." No clue has been
at present found. A reward will, we believe, be of-
fered; but at this moment no tidings of any noise in
the next house, or anything likely to lead to the de-
tection, has been discovered. There were several
places where the murderer had wiped his hands upon,
and the till was found thrown up in one corner of the
shy, empty.—Yarmouth Chronicle of Tuesday.

DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—NINE LIVES LOST.
..-On Thursday, the 7th instant, a boat belonging to the
Island of Eday left Kirkwall for home, about three
o'clock, P.M., with Dille persons on board, viz., three
brothers, named Garrioch ; two brothers and a sister.
named Tulloch ; a young man, John Fotheringham ; a
gift, bathed Elizabeth Garroch ; and a girl, named
Hercus—all belongitig to the same island. It is thought
that, finding the Storesay firth rough, the boat may lotto
have returned, and that she was upset in Kirkwall Bay, DIED. char
or near the mouth of the String, off Shapinsi;ay, as the On the 19th inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, Ilfre:
out
boat was found next morning near Saverock, driven Milner, relict of the late General Milner, ageciru....4, Lo
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ashore, with the body of one of the sufferers in i:. The On the 7th inst., at sea, on board the_Oorriud' step 's
Eliza Lomer, youngest daughtor of R. Macd w
watch found on the body had stopped at half-psu.l five, of tbe
when the accident had likely happened. The three Gar- son, Esq. beth widow
riochs were the principal support of a feeble father .and On the 14th inst., at Ramsgate, Eliza ,
late Captain G. W. ourn. R.N. Dif 600
mother.—Scotch paper. On the 14th inst., Sarah, the wife of Mr.
ALLEGED BURNING OP ITADDINGTON CHURCH. of Landsdowne Cottage, Old Kent-road.
We are happy to contradict the paragraph that i On the
,15th inst., George Harry, son of Frederick
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appeared in our last, as to the attempted burn- Esq., of Down, near Guildford. ce, Fran
ing of Haddington Church. from every inns.. On the 15th inst., at Turnham-green-terro 0 •
tigation that has taken place, nothing can be Belli., Esq., aged 32.
Harrison, of Beading, relict °f
brought out that would lead even to rho suspicion John 9 nilie !6t
_aqt" 3)firlis'o. I g rove, Bray, Berks. solos,
of such a diabolical act. It would apl;ear, how- On the Harrison,lioth, insst ' (Richaxrde3l3.-rarLe, son of B. (4'
of
ever, that it has been the practice for some time Lack, for Esq., of Albion-street,'
boys to climb over the church-yard wall, and enter' the On the 18th inst., Frederick Charles Rail' _,.t
Robert
eastern ruin of the cathedral, and amuse themselves Zt Fri3rn-Viace, Peckham-common. tershire,
several kinds of games; but amongst the more dangerous On tt e 18th inst., at Lechlade, Glouces
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amusements is that of kindling a fire, and roasting apples ' 1-37.`thet, Esq., aged 74. Williara
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Hyde-Park'
and potatoes. It is surmised that this was done by some 06 tile
juveniles in the case referred to, but unfortunately had Inkersole, aged 35. USG' of
19th inst., at Cambridge-street, i
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it; but on returning, finding the door had ignited, took lowion : p,t Ited and Published Tyr DlU_Rl)off:,.,, Is t',.. of
fright and ran off withopt Attempting to put it out.— f Strand: in th."
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