The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

CHESTER.

THURSDAY MORNING.—The Special Commissions
for the trial of parties connected with the late dis-
turbances were opened yesterday afternoon. About
half-past three o'clock a special train arrived at the
Chester end of the Crewe railway, which contained
two of the Judges, namely, Sir E. H. Alderson and
Sir C. Creswell. The Lord Chief Baron (Lord Abin-
ger) arrived in a carriage and four, at the Judges'
lodgings, a few minutes previously. At four o'clock
their Lordships took their seat in the Crown Court,
attended by Mr. E. D. Davenport, the High Sheriff,
when Mr. E. Watson Lloyd read the Commissions,
and the Court was adjourned to half-past ten o'clock
this morning. There are two Commissions issued for
this county—one of oyer and terminer, and the other
a gaol delivery, but not a general gaol delivery. The
calendar, therefore, only contains a list of those who
are connected with the recent outbreak in the manu-
facturing districts. There are 67 prisoners for trial,
of which number no less than .25 are charged with
riot, breaking into the Stockport union workhouse,
and stealing provisions therefrom. The rest are
charged with riot, of which the most serious case is
the attack •on Mr. Shepley's mill, at Brookfield, near
Glossop, the prisoners being committed to this gaol,
although the offence was committed in the county of
Derby, it being within 200 yards of the boundary of
the county. A report of this case has already ap-
peared in The Sun. The Learned Judges will, if it be
found necessary, hold three courts, as they intend to
get through the business in the course of the present
week.

This morning their Lordships went to the cathe-
dral to attend Divine service, and will proceed from
thence to the Court, where the charge will be deli-
vered to the Grand Jury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.
A young man, named William Joseph Darling,
was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having
plucked the feathers from a living fowl in Leaden-
hall-market. Mr. Howard and Mr. Brooks, sales-
men in the market, of excellent character, attended
upon the occasion.
Thomas B. Gibbins, Inspector of the " Animals'
Friend Society," said that having seen in the Times
newspaper paragraphs complaining that persons had
been seen in Leadenhall-market plucking living birds,
he walked round the market to make his observations,
and he saw the defendant pluck three fowls, which
were to all appearance alive ; one of them raised its
head and fluttered.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you examine any of them ?
Witness—No. He took care that I should not.
Mr. Howard—My Lord, you will be good enough
to allow me to question this man. We are particu-
larly interested in this subject.
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly.
fair play.
Mr. Howard—Do you know whether their necks
were broken at the time the young man was plucking
them ? Witness—l do not know ; but I knew that
I saw one of them draw up its legs and wings during
the process of the plucking.
A policeman stated that the inspector of the Ani-
mals' Friend Society requested him to go and witness
the plucking of the fowls, and he accordingly went to
the market and saw the defendant with the fowl in
his hand, three parts plucked. The bird drew up its
legs and fluttered.
Mr. Howard—Was the neck of the fowl broken ?
Policeman—lt was. I examined it after it was
plucked, and saw that the neck was broken.
Mr. Howard—l am the employer of the defendant,
and I saw the fowl killed. We always have their
necks broken before a feather is taken from them, and
after the spine is injured, according to the opinion of
medical men, pain is out of the question, although
there may be a muscular movement.
The inspector of the Animals' Friend Society said
that scarcely a moment elapsed between the taking of
the fowls out of the basket and the plucking of them,
so that the natural inference to be drawn was, that
they were plucked alive.
The policeman—The necks were certainly broken.
Mr. Brooks said it was evident that the correspon-
dent of the Times was in error, and he trusted that
as the effect of any paragraph in that paper was very
great, the positive assurance made by the most respect-
able butchers, that there was no real foundation for the
report, would he attended to. They had already been
called monsters and brutes, in consequence of the
paragraphs which had appeared ; and the statement of
a clergyman, who laboured under misapprehension on
this subject, was calculated -to aggravate the public
feeling against them.
The LORD MAYOR said he was convined the Times
would most willingly insert the explanation. He (the
Lord Mayor) was sure, from the respectability of Mr.
Howard and Mr. Brooks, who voluntarily appeared
to vindicate the practice of the market, that the case
was exactly as they represented.
Mr. Brooks—The practice has existed for ages, I
dare say as long as fowls have been brought to mar-
ket, We have long ascertained that with the break-
ing of the neck all pain is at an end.
The defendant was then discharged.
Mr. Hobler said the noise that had been made about
the plucking would do no harm at all. He knew
perfectly well that the respectable butchers would not
countenance such a practice as that which was sus-
pected to be in existence, but he believed thee were
some who would pluck without taking the trouble to
break the neck at all.
A Mr. Smith, who resides in the neighbourhood of
King William-street, was summoned fbr having re-
fused to pay the firemen who attended for the purpose
of extingishing a fire, which was said to have taken
place in the chimney of his house.
The parish firemen stated most distinctly that, upon
arriving at the house, they saw smoke and fire issue
from the chimney, and they pulled down some soot
which was on fire.
Mr. Smith—There was nothing at all of the kind.
I can prove satisfactorily to your Lordship's mind that
there was no fire at all.
The Lori) MAYOR—What ! Was there no soot on
fire ? Mr. Smith—None at all. There was no reason
whatever, for supposing there was a fire.
Mr. Cowton, a parochial officer of the district, was
then called by the firemen. He said that he went into
the house, and, upon looking up the chimney, saw
the soot on fire. He then took a broom and brought
down the soot, which was burning.
The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say to this
evidence, Mr. Smith? Mr. Smith—l say I can con-
vince your Lordship that there was no fire at all, nor
anything like a fire.—(Laughter.) Why these men
offered to compromise the matter by taking less than
they said they had a right to claim.
The firemen said that rather than be at the
trouble of attending before a Magistrate they had
offered to take less than they were entitled to, and
they were always disposed to do so.
Mr. Hobler informed the Lord Mayor that such
was very often the case.
Mr. Smith—l say there was no fire. There was
only some smoke.
The Loup MAYOR—NOW here is Mr. Cowton, a
disinterested witness, and a man we have long known
as a respectable person, and he says he actually swept
down the soot on fire.
Mr. Smith—They are all perjured.—(Great laugh-
ter.) Why should not my word be taken as well as
theirs ?
The LORD MAYOR—They are all sworn, and
amongst them is a man who has no interest in the
business.
Mr. Smith—There, were other persons there who
said their demand was a common robbery.
The firemen declared that Mr. Smith had paid the
men he alluded to.
Mr. Smith—Oh, I can explain all that.
The LORD MAYOR—I adjudge you to pay these
men their full demand, and I will not hear of a com-
promise. To refuse to pay men under such circum-
stances is by no means creditable.
BO W -STREET.
Yesterday a young man who gave the name of
Robt. Fletcher, and was described as :a collector of debts,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with
being concerned with two other persons, not in custody,
with assaulting and robbing James Stedrhan of a'
valuable gold watch, and about 4s. or ss. in silver,
under the following circumstances :
The prisoner, it appears, is one of the gang who
have for some time past infested the parks, for the pur-
pose of -committing robberies, and extorting money,
&c., by threats and accusations.
The prosecutor stated, that he was at present resid-
ing at the King's Head public-house, King-street,
Park-lane; he was lately in the service of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, but was at present out of a situ-
ation. On the evening of the 14th of August last, he
was walking through the Green Park, about ten
o'clock, and when near the end towards Hyde Park-
corner, he was suddenly attacked by three men, who
ran up behind him and knocked him down ; when on
the ground they attempted to throttle him, and at
the same time took from his waistcoat-pocket a gold
watch, and the sum of 4s. or ss. in silver • from his
trowsers- pocket. They used considerable violence,
and tore his trowsers.
Mr. HALL—Can you recognise the prisoner as
being one of the persons who attacked you? Wit-
ness—l am quite sure of it. Although 1 never saw
him before, I had quite sufficient opportunity of no-
ticing him so as to be able to identity him. Witness
then stated that a short time after the robbery he met
the prisoner in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, but
upon seeing him he immediately ran away, and he
(witness)
,was unable to catch him. Yesterday, as
he was walking through Bond-street, he again met
the prisoner, who attempted a second time to make
his escape ; he however gave an alarm, and after run-

You shall have

ning some distance the prisoner was stopped at the
end of Burlington-arcade, in Piccadilly. Upon wit-
ness going up to him, he said, " You are the person
who stole my watch," to which he replied, that he
was going to get 101. which had been left for him at
an hotel in Bond-street, and he would
.give him that
if he would let him go. He also said that he had not
got the watch, but that a person of the name of
Stringer, who had been lately transported, had it,
and that he (Stringer) was one of the persons who
robbed him.
Mr. HALL—What was the value of the watch?
Witness—l purchased it a short time previous of gr'
Grayhurst, in the Strand, and paid him 251. for it.
Mr. HALL Was the blow you received in the first
instance, or the treatment you subsequently exile"
rienced, of a severe nature ? Witness—l was ren-
dered perfectly insensible, and. remained in that state
from ten o'clock till nearly one the following morn-
ing. Was quite sober at the time. At the time the
prisoner offered to give me the 10/. he said that he
thought he could get the watch back.
Mr. HALL—Can you undertake to say that the Kr
soner was the person .who took your watch ?
ness—No ; I cannot say which of them took r.
llneither do I know by whom the blow was struck'
but I am quite certain that the prisoner was one °
the three men.
Mr. HALL (to prisoner)—What are you?
Prisoner—l am a chymist and druggist bitrAcr'
but have lately been obtaining my living by colieLlP
ing debts.
The witness stated, that when the prisoner W
given into custody he said that when Stringer Iv!
apprehended three or four duplicates for gold watches
were found upon him, and he had no doubt that one
of them related to his watch. He further said, that
he would endeavour to get it for him, and would als°
give him 101. to let him go.
When asked what he had to say to the charge, the
prisoner positively declared that he never saw the Pre,i
at secutor before ; that he knew nothing whatever
the robbery, neither did he know anything of Stringt.
Police-constable A 22 received charge of the
soner from the prosecutor. Heard him say 111111
Stringer was one of the persons who robbed him, an
that he would endeavour to get the watch bn,,k'i
Upon searching him there were found in his Pei"'
three documents.
Mr. HALE, onperusing the letters, said there YllO
nothing in them which related to the,particular trl'llA•
action then under inquiry, but -still they were of ,
portance with respect to other matters.
The witness stated that he heard the prisoner stY
that Stringer and Fitzgerald had committed the 1.6
-,c,:.
berg, and when asked how he knew that fact, gave
evasive answer.
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Mr. HALL inquired whether any persons of the ?
of Stringer and Fitzgerald had been lately convict:Lit
—The witness replied in the affirmative, and LoCar
that one had been transported fur life, and the °th,„' r
for fifteen years, within the last two months. "Viet I
robbery of a similar description had been coanit_,
in Hyde-park, by three men only a few days I,;;ci
two of those persons were already in custody, and ,
nt-
been examined at Marlborough-street, but he er
ness) had not had an opportunity at present of vise
taining whether the prisoner was one of the party' in
Mr. HALL said, he would remand the prisoner toe
order to see whether he had any connection with
parties already in custody. He should like to ha'. e
the information possible on the subject..
`peel',
The prisoner was accordingly remanded for a vif
WORSHIP-STREET.
Lewis Jennings, landlord of the Skinner's 05
public-house, in Skinner-street, Bishopsgtite, 3f 0,
charged with insulting two respectable young feu'`
It appeared from the evidence that two yOting4;ere
named Mary Ann Fryfold and Sarah Vickers, 1 eet,
engaged in nursing some children in Charles-stn the
City-road, when the prisoner crossed over froln;;seif
opposite side of the street, and having placed hi reoce
before them, he deliberately committed the
with which he stood charged. The lady of the en
in front of which the outrage took place, har ['via
to be at her window at the time, and on obsoloi,
the prisoner's abominable behaviour, she comn"lvai-
cated the circumstance to her husband, who tbe
ately went out and detained the prisoner ,until
arrival of a policeman, when he gave him into cusytio,
In his defence, the prisoner said that he Nva-5 lboa
cent of the charge, and that the witnesses Thus"
mistaken him for some other person.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that a clearer case had nebliejer
been established in a Court of Justice, and the Pilacti,
was very much indebted to the lady who had %jog
ficed her own feelings to; a sense of duty, in e3ll,tia,
it to be brought forward. To spare her thetPolo
however, of appearing in another Court, hem 14 the
deal summarily with the case, and should col-014 to
prisoner to the House of Correction, to be ker
hart
he
for three calendar month's. the sc'n'
The prisoner, who appeared astounded at
tence, was then locked up. nu'
Frederick Hawkes Nonage, the author of an th;
published work, entitled " An Address to irctivisig
was finally placed at the bar, charged with 11,,
fraudulently obtained possession of an immense :eat
ber of books belonging to the proprietors of Clu'e
circulating libraries, Ste. rod
The particulars of the case have already sl)Pe`
in the columns of The Sun.
sit °tile
The policeman Cross, now stated .that is tine
cases had come to his knowledge in whiel'ticies
prisoner had unlawfully disposed of various arrtv of
of wearing apparel and jewellery, the proPLe 'de
gentlemen with whom he had lodged, but 'NO
dined to prosecute him. been
The depositions in three distinct cases having,
completed, the prisoner was committed for trial.
In a village not very remote from Saffron ' '1,44
where the church stands upon a hill, an arn, d far
occurrence recently took place. The church ha or
several weeks been under repair, so that public On
ship had not been held within the sacred wals' aCir
a certain day, and at a certain hour of that Yeriliet,
(it was not, we understand, at a certain time of l
baVe
the witching hour, when both gentle and sineeceptir
some misgivings in moving among the church veil ied
Iles for the departed), the clergyman took it late
within the walls, doubtless to muse as they conteol r ,t, to
the monuments of the honoured dead who are lor butt
repose beneath the soil. It appeared inexplio,h,t„,'
there seemed to them something of an unearth* '7oo'
about the building which they could not comPre:bedli
It was not apparently the wind, enjoying undistur bet
the hallowed spot—for Nature had its misgiving%iter
they subsided, and the friends pursued, without d the
ruption, their further musings. Having survee,liao
surface and its monuments, their reverential 113 i:
de-
led them to seek the cold remains of bygone (100'1
posited in silent dignity below. When lo ! toiseg
descended the funeral vault, those unearthifd
seemed to revive—agitated, they listened—an tbej
we say they listened with flattering hope th 3 d tbe
would not be renewed ; many who had visite,of
church well know that there is a considerable 0•540 e
blage of the ancient dead in one of the vaults,
in lead to fit the remains, and others in the custcait..3°
attire of modern fashion ; among them is the 11,2 tor'
science renowned in the learned schools, and tuc,ol,o4°
of various battles, as well as many others,
names are neither borne-upon their recent hahitt3v
nor live in any of the marbles which now' fe 5'
./
walls. " Their loves—their hopes —theira3.ll
—were probably hastily scanned by the vicar 'wg
friend, when the spirit of exploration led them eej,
and
daunt soiti
and inward. In a moment, appalled and
mightier spirits have been before them, the vire.o` gi
his companion were most painfully drawn i,l_tietice
their pleasing thoughts by a rushing and des' 00'
noise, which in these gloomy shades awakened;3oilig
sand ideas, tumbling over each other in alootilif
confusion. Happily the sounds departed
~.tioUd
as they rose, till the calm and sober imagn`jr, sr
(I
the good vicar resumed its healthy equilibria weal
he began to search into the cause ; yet Nvllo burst:
not have been alarmed as well as he at such e' fsc"
The are
appeared from the calm and quiet mausoleum. „tocl
appeared to be that two boys, by whom instig„- et fc'
do not aver, availing themselves of the season ice)}'
pair and consequent relaxation, entered intl.' rid
.n-
-and hearing footsteps from the common wesecreCT.
treated farther and farther, and then sought„sturhrb
and quiet among the dead; but the vicar 'Pa
there
them in their deceitful slumber of security, to tb
without counting the cost or the consequenced wee:
priest or his companion, they, like affright e nearly
bolted out, and in their hurrying impetuositY. ,frnsfor'
upset both the living and the dead.—Oe
Chronicle.
L.: nes--
one
SWIFT, THE AMERICAN DIVER..—TII.6 r vied n
at Scarborough on Saturday last, and Petra ft Sti.j.l2
of his daring feats by leaping from the yard d, iv";
in the harbour. He was very much exhaTo ,5 of
had it not been for the praiseworthy exer,'l.i', 11e':
young man called Robert INPl3ean, of the o_ikb,f tr_
chant, of this port, who leaped from the
vessel to the assistance of the diver, he would
been drowned.—York Courant. ertl in
At the sale of the late Miss Gosling's P,,rop eSt
4 „erch
Swindon, a piece of land, containing only
was sold for 2451.—Wiltshire Independence

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On the 6th inst , in CBIRTHS
aroline-place,
lenburgh-sclu:
Mrs. Henry Alanist y, of a daughter. Esq.'
of
On the 7th inst., the lady of Richard Davis,
Helen's- so
n• and Skeynes, Kent, of a .
Meck

MARRIED. , . 9(11
On the 4th inst., at Hanwell, Thomas Baffenden,P:i'dovf
to Mary Anderton Skaife, of Lawn Mouse, Howell, .
the late Daniel Skaife, Esq.
as E` 0
on the sth inst., at Swallowfield, Berks, John Sirion, rive,
jun., of Hurst, Berke, to Emma, second daughter o'
Terry, Esq., of Swallowfield. prifie'i'
DIED. Taros
On the 3d inst., at Bath, Lieutenant-General 0
_„
of the Bengal Army, aged 84. Clerk ifjgP
On the 4th inst., C. S. Edison, Esq., late Chief
Lord Chamberlain's office. ''

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