The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-13 00:00:00

Smith's room he found a number of duplicates, and
he observed evidences of poverty. In Howell's ledg•
ings he found some keys.
While the last witnEss was giving his testimony,
Smith and Howell declared the police were prompt-
ing Florry.
The LORD Mlyon desired that no one should
communicate with any person giving evidence.
Nothing could be more prejudicial to the ends of
justice.
Mr. Filix Gatter was next examined. He is a
French gentleman, and his evidence was translated
by an interpreter. He stated that he occupied the
bed-room, No. 6, in the George and Vulture Hotel
during the last two months. He had double-locked
his bed-room door at half-past five on Friday evening,
and taken the key into the har. Upon going into the
room after the apprehension of Howell and Smith,
he ascertained that he had lost two rings, which he
placed on his toilet. One of them represented a
serpent, and the other was a small topaz, but neither
was of much value.

The LORD MAYOR—Have you any knowledge of
any of the prisoners? The witness said he knew
nothing of any of them, hut it struck him that
Franklin was the son of a man who made clothes for
him.

Henry Taylor, a cab-driver, stated that three gen-
tlemen, of whom Franklin was one, called him off the
St. Paul's rank, in Cheapside, at nine o'clock, and got
into his cab, telling him to drive to the neighbourhood
of the India House, when two of them got out, leaving
Franklin in the cab. Witness was then desired to
wait near George•yard. Franklin, about twenty
minutes afterwards, got out, and about ten minutes
subsequently returned and got into the cab again, ob-
serving that his friends were staying a long time, but
he would see witness paid. At about ten o'clock wit-
ness saw Franklin go up George-yard, but never saw
him afterwards until he went to the station-house.
Witness could positively swear to the identity of
Franklin, but he could not swear that the other pri-
soners were the persons who were Franklin's com-
panions.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoners, what have
you to say in answer to this very serious charge?
Howell—l don't know anything of these two men
(the other prisoners).
The LORD MAYOR—What took you into the room
in the hotel ? Howell—l merely just walked into the
hall, and I heard a scream, and I went upstairs to see
what was the matter. I thought the police ought to
be sent for, and I wished to know if that was the case,
when the gentleman thought proper to collar me.—
(A laugh.) I said ti him I knowed nothing of any-
thing. lam quite sure the servant girl can't swear to
me. I wasn't in no room at all.

Smith—Please, your Lordship, I was so very tipsy
that I didn't know what I was about at all. 1 havn't
got the least recollection of what passed.
The LORD MAYOR—You were so far gone in drink
that you don't recollect how you got into the house
at all ? Smith—Just the case, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR—What does the servant girl
say to that ? Eliza Ann Hughes—He seemed as if
he was tipsy after he was apprehended.
The LORD MAYOR—How did he appear to be when
he spoke to you in the bed-room ? Eliza Ann Hughes
—Not at all tipsy.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Franklin, what have
you to say ? Franklin—l was so very tipsy last
night that I have not the least recollection of any-
thing at all ; but I knew nothing at all of these two
gentlemen next to me.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I shall remand the prisoners
till Thursday.
Here a person, who said his name was John Field,
and that he resided in King-street, begged that the
Lord Mayor would allow him to make a statement,
as he had been robbed of all he possessed on the
evening of the same day on which the burglary had
been committed. He kept, he stated, a coffee-shop,
which he had let to the father of Franklin, a foreman
to a tailor. Another son of the old man had been
backwards and forwards to applicant's house, and on
Friday morning his bed-room had been entered and
plundered of coats, waistcoats, trousers, and silk
dresses.

The applicant was then directed to attend at the
next examination of the prisoners on Thursday next.

HORRIBLE CASE of FRATRICIDE,
AND COMMITTAL OF THE BROTHER
FOR TRIAL.

The county of Stafford has become the scene of a
shocking murder, and there is too much reason to
fear that the diabolical crime was perpetrated by a
brother. The condition of the unfortunate parties
was that of small farmers. Thomas Brough, the de-
ceased, lived at the New Brent Farm, in the parish
of Biddulph. It would appear that he was a man
who, by parsimonious habits, had succeeded in accu-
mulating some little property, and was the owner of
Whitefield Farm, which is situate near his own house.
Whitefield Farm had been in the occupation of his
widowed mother and his brother, John Brough, for a
little more than twelve months. The mother was the
recognised tenant, though it would seem that the
brother John managed the farm, and was applied to
for the rent when due. On Friday, the 3d inst.,
about dusk, a distress was put in by the direc-
tion of Thomas Brough, at Whitefield Farm,
for rent, amounting to 291. 12s. In conse-
quence of some conversation which one of the
bailiffs had with the mother and John Brough, the
bailiff sent for Thomas Brough, in order to an ami-
cable settlement, if possible, without enforcing the
distress. The deceased Thomas Brough shortly after-
wards came to Whitefield. There does not appear to
have been any quarrel between the two brothers in
the house, but the deceased complained very much
about his rent not being paid, and intimated that he
must have it; he also refused to return two boxes,
which had been removed by the bailiffs to his house,
until the following morning. The two bailiffs left the
house, and the brothers remained in conversation.
Shortly afterwards Thomas Brough went into the
fold, were some further conversation ensued. He was
about to leave, when his brother John said, " Stop a
hit, I will go and kin (kindle) my lantern, and will
go with you as far as the barn, and sweep two or three
oats up." John Brough then returned to the house,
lighted the candle in the lantern, and went towards
the barn ; and his brother Thomas walked down the
meadow towards his own house. Thomas Brough
was not afterwards wen alive, and nothing was heard
of him until Saturday, about noon, when his body
was accidentally found in a sand-pit on Biddulph
Moor.