The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Richard Wacc, a journeyman butcher, in the em-
ployment of Mr. Woodham, a salesman in Newga!e-
market, and William Farr, the driver of a waggon
belonging to Mr. Kingsley, of Kimpton, carrier,
were yesterday charged before Sir PETER LAURIE,
with causing to be exposed for sale in Newgate-
market the carcase of a cow, which was unfit for
the food of man.
Sir PETER LAURIE should move in the Court of
Aldermen, that an inspector be appointed over the
meat markets. He hoped that the fine on the per-
son who sent this meat to London would not be less
than 1001.

Wace was then held to bail to appear at the next
Sessions, and Farr was admitted a witness, and
bound over with the rest to prosecute.
On Friday, the driver of the hackney-coach,
No. 730, was fined by Alderman FAREBROTIIER.IOs.
to the King, and costs, at the instance of the Hon.
Secretary of the Society against Cruelty, &c. for
severely whipping a horse on a sore place, it being
the custom of some hackney-coachmen to make a
sore place on their horses on purpose to whip on,
which they call " establishing a raw."
HATTON-GARDEN.

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Yesterday Thomas Edwards and William Wil- change of colour in Viall's countenance, accused
hams were charged with stealing from Mr. William him of the crime ; he at first denied the charge,
charge,
Sharpe, a bookseller, No. 16, Queen's row, Penton- but after some hesitation confessed himselfthe
ville, six books, his property. perpetrator of the'horrid deed.
The prisoners pleaded distress. They were fully ,
It would appear that Green was so sound
committed.
asleep at the time he received the cut, that he
Garrott Brinsley Sheridan, a respectable-looking
individual, employed in a solicitor's office in the was insensible of pain, and that his assassin had
City, was yesterday brought before the sitting Ma- an opportunity to return to his bed before he was
gistrates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, aware of his situation.
by the parish officers of St. Pancras, upon an order Viall was placed in the custody of a con-
of removal to Ireland, and upon a warrant, in which stable, to whom he repeated his confession,
he was charged with deserting his wife, and suffer-
stating, that having committed the act, he left
ing her to become chargeable to the parish for her the razor in Green's bed, but took it with him
maintenance.
when he went for the surgeon,i and threw it
n s house, where
,
It was stated that this was the third or fourth
warrant upon which the defendant had been brought into a plantation near Mr. Mart
up to this office, within the last IS months, charged it was found.
with deserting his wife and a child Is mouths old, _. Colonel Mathew, of Pentlow-hall, a very active
refusing to maintain them, and thereby suffering magistrate in the division, with the assistance of
them to become chargeable upon the poor-rates of S. Stevens, Esq., of Clare, promptly investigated
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the parish. Orders of maintenance had been made
upon him on those occasions, and threats of impri-
sonment held out in case he should refuse to comply, We forgot to mention, that when Viall went
but neither orders nor threats were available to the
for the
surgeon, he told him that Green had cut
purpose, for he still persisted in his refusal to con-
his own throat. He has since told Mr. Nunn,
form to the obligation of making good his weekly
payments, and relieving the parish from the burden Y ldl
of Great e )am, who rendered considerable
of supporting his family, and at last, effectually to assistance to Mr. Bridge, that he had no malice
get rid of the dilemma in which he was placed, of against Green, but he (Viall) had made up his
either going to prison or complying with the order, mind to destroy himself; and fearing that Green
he determined upon the expedient of applying to the would hear him and prevent his doing so, he
parish to pass himself and his family, as paupers, to resolved to murder him first.
Ireland, of which country he said he was a native.— On the morning of the dreadful event Viall
This was agreed to by the parish authorities, who
ate a hearty breakfast, and actually drove him-
equally wished to rid themselves of the burden andself
a greater part of the way to gaol. He was
annoyance; and accordingly they made out an order .
not the least affected during his
of removal, which they submitted to the Magistrates examination.
•extraordinary
It is an
~
to sign, and took down the particulars of the de- fact that a paper was
fendant's examination, which as a matter of course found in Viall s box, upon which was, in his
they required him to testify upon oath in the Ma- own hand-writing, an account of the " Execu-
gistrate s presence.. tion of William Vial at five o'clock this morn-
When the oath was tendered to him he refused • "• d the other
mg, an on side was a sketch repre-
to tatlce it, upon the ground that be entertained some maimg himself hanging, with the populace
scruples as to the fact of his youngest child having him.
been born in " lawful wedlock ;" and it was not till around .
Mr. Mallets, the chief clerk, omitted, in reading the The above singular and unaccountable con-
examination over, the word " lawful," that he con- duct of Viall might lead some persons to doubt
sented to be sworn. his sanity, but we are assured that the opinion
Mr. ROGERS asked the defendant in what part of of those in the neighbourhood of Clare is de.
Ireland he was born, to which the defendant replied, ' cidedly contrary.
that though he was of Irish parents, and always con- , The unfortunate victim has been attended by
sidered himself to be an Irishman, yet he was not . •
lus mother, whose anguish may be more readily
born in that country ;he was born on board a vessel • Ithan described.
57 Jec The dreadful nature
in the channel between the Isle of Man and Dublin, i ''".°ll •
of the wound, it being as deep as the fatal in-
which latter place the vessel reached in a few hours
afterwards. This circumstance set the order of re- strument would inflict, at first excited in the
moval aside, and the defendant was then complained I mind of the surgeon the most fearful result, by.