The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

It appears that for the last three weeks a series of highway
robberies have been perpetrated on persons passing through
the fields in and near the Hornsey-wood-house by a footpad,
said to have been heavily armed, and a description of whose
person a few days since was forwarded to the station-house of
the N division, Islington-green, since which period Superin-
tendent Johnston has caused additional men to be placed near
the spot mentioned. Shortly before four o'clock yesterday
afternoon police-constable Charles Moss, 162 N, was on
duty near Hornsey-wood-house, when he observed a gen-
tleman going along the path which leads from it towards
town, and a man following him in such a manner as led
him to suppose ho intended to rob him, and who also
answered the description of the man suspected to have
committed the previous robberies. He pursued him, and
on approaching within a few yards, the villain turned
round and fired a pistol at him, the ball lodging in constable
Moss's right arm. Moss called loudly for help, and police-
constable Mallett, N 341, who was standing on a hill about a
quarter of a mile from the spot, and a journeyman baker,
named Charles Mott, in the employ of Mrs. Woodward, of
Upper-street, Islington, but who resides at Hornsey, and who
was also near, joined in pursuit of the suspected robber. The
man Mott had got within a few yards of him when he drew
another pistol from his breast, and agaic fired, wounding his
pursuer frightiully in the shoulder. Mr. Howard, a baker
of Hornsey, who was in his chaise-cart at the time, and
saw the occurrence, gave chase to the assassin, whom he kept
in sight along the main road in the direction of Highbury
Barn, on arriving near which he jumped over a ditch
into some fields, in the direction of Highbury Cottage. Mr.
Howard followed him, and whilst doing so, observed the
murderer reloading his pistols. He called to two gardeners
in the employ of Mr. Wilson, the magistrate, who had joined
in the pursuit, to be careful, for the man had loaded fire-arms.
He got into a lane which ran up to the house of a gentleman,
named Warren, and at the end of which there was no through-
fare, and in which he was met by police-constable Timothy
Daley, N 65, who was about to seize him, when the villain
drew from his breast the pistol he had reloaded, and fired at
Daley, who instantly fell on the ground lifeless, the ball having
penetrated his heart. By this time Mr. Howard and his other
pursuers came up, and the murderer was seized. He exclaimed,
" I'm done, now I give myself up," and he was then asked to
give up his pistols, which he did. No police had come up by
this time, and the people assembled bound the assassin's hands
with cords, and in that way conveyed him to the Islington
station, Islington-green.
On the arrival of the murderer at Islington station-house
—followed by several hundred people—he gave his name
as '1 homas Cooper, No. 1, Rawstorne-street, Clerkenwell,
said he was 23 years of age, and a bricklayer by trade. He is
about five feet four inches high, and of fair complexion, but has
very cadaverous sharp features. His attire was a blue coat
very ragged, an old red valencia figured waistcoat, and fustian
trousers.

Shortly after eight o'clock last night, Mr. Wilson, a county
Magistrate, near whose house the catastrophe took place,
visited the Islington station-house, to make inquiries into the
matter, the who e of which relating to the death of the mur-
dered man had been seen by some of his servants. The pri-
soner, who was handcuffed and divested of everything which
would enable him to lay violent hands on himself, was then
brought out for the purpose of hearing the charge-sheet read
over to him. On coming to that part which charged him with
the murder of Timothy Daley, he exclaimed, " What, is he
dead ?" and his countenance became deadly pale. On being
asked by Inspector Thatcher if he wished to say anything, at
the same time cautioning him, if he did, it would be taken
down, Cooper, who appeared 'covered with perspiration, and
whose previous fortitude seemed completely to have left him,
replied, " No, I have nothing to say now."
It appears that the baker (Mott) and the deceased were in
the same lane together, and that when the prisoner found there
was no thoroughfare, he drew the two pistols, and declared
" the first man that attempted to molest him he would shoot."
A man in a cottage close by came out with a gun, and the
prisoner fired both the pistols simultaneously at the deceased
(Daley) and Mott, the baker.

EXAMINATION OF THE MUR-
DERER.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Cooper, a bricklayer, apparently about 23 or 24
years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Greenwood,
charged wish the wilful murder of Timothy Daley, a police con-
stable of the N division. The Court was crowded, as was the
street outside.
On the prisoner being placed at the bar,
Mr. GasEszwoon said—Prisoner, what is your name?
Prioner—Thomas Cooper.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Where do you live? Prisoner—Raw-
storne-street, Clerkenweil.
Mr. GREENWOOD—What arc you? Prisoner—A brick-
layer. _ . .

The prisoner spoke in a very low tone of voice, so as to be
almost inaudible. He is not at all an ill-looking man, but has
an expression of wildness in his countenance. He has very long,
flowing light hair, and light eyes. He appeared, when placed
in the dock, as though he was intoxicated, or in a state of half
stupefaction. By order of the Magistrate he was accommo-
dated with a chair.
John William Howard was the first witness called, and said,
I am a baker at Ilornsey ; I was calling on my customers yes-
terday, at half-past tissue, when I saw a man running across the
fields, and a policeman pursuing him. I was in my cart
at the time. 'I hey were running towards the Hornsey-
road. I was about 100 yards from them. When I
came into the Hornsey-road, I stopped till one of the
persons came up, who was pursuing the prisoner. I
saw the prisoner running towards Ilighbury Cottage. The
person I saw told me that a person had shot a man, and had
escaped. I drove on towards Islington. I then saw the pri-
soner in a field about a quarter of a mile from me. He was
without a hat, and running in the direction from me. I got
out of my cart and pursusd him, as I was afraid he would be
lost in the shrubs. When I got to within 200 yards of him I
saw him got over a fence, and 1 heard him ramming
something in his breast as though he was ramming a pistol. I
got over the fence, which had spikes at the top, as well as 1
could, and kept calling out for assistance. Several people came
up ; saw the prisor.er present two pistols at me ; he had one in
each hand. He presented the pistols at the people round. I
dont't think he pulled the trigger. I then went round past
Highbury-barn and I saw the prisoner fire at the police-
man. This was close to Highbury- barn. That was
a good distance from the fence ; it must have been about
a quarter of an hour after he was at the fence to the time he
shot the man. There was a number of people at the spot at
the time the prisoner shot the policeman. I saw the police-
man with a man named Mott, a baker, who made a rush at the
prisoner, and while he was doing se the prisoner fired at him.
and Mutt was wounded in the shoulder. The policeman then
made a rush at the prisoner, and he was immediately shot by.
the prisoner, and he fell. I was then about 50 yards from
them. I then saw the policeman lying on the ground. I saw
the prisoner seized and secured. His hands were tied. At
that time there were as many as a hundred people present. I
heard the prisoner say when he was seized, " I'm done for."
Mr. GaNENWOOD—Prisoner, have you any legal adviser here?
Prisoner (in a very lost tone of voice)—No, Sir.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Do you wish to ask any question of this
witness ?

The prisoner replied "No, Sir," in a scarcely audible voice.
John William Young, the next witness, said—l live at
Hornsey Wood-house, lam a waiter there. The first I heard
of this transaction was from a boy who came into our house
and cried out for help, as he said a policeman had been shot.
I went out, andl saw the policeman lying bleeding on the
ground. He rointed to the direction of the Hornsey-road, and
I saw a man running as across the fields. I and another
policeman went across the fields, and the first person I saw was
Mr. Howard, the baker, in his cart. I said, have you seen a
person without a hat, running away ? and he said he had. We
tolluwed in pursuit of the man. We came up to Tooley-
gardens, and I saw the prisoner present the pistols. I saw
Daley, the deceased, and I called him to assist us. The prisoner
was then standing with a pistol in each hand. When we re-
turned there were several people around him, at a distance.
The prisoner said he would shoot again. I saw a baker make
a rush at the prisoner, and the policeman followed him. The
prisoner immediately fired one pistol at the baker and the other
at the deceased, eho fell to the ground. I ran off to a doctcs.
I had to go about 150 yards. The doctor was at home, and he
came to the place directly. The prisoner was seized, and I
went to the station-house with him. I saw him searched,
and one or two bullets were taken taken from him. He made
no statement in my presence.

Mr. GREEN WOOD—Pray do you wish to ask this witness any
question?
The prisoner, leaning on the box, with his face in his hands
replied faintly "No, Sir." ,
. _

Wm. Hensom said—l live at Garsard's-mews, near to
Hornsey-wood. Yesterday I heard the report of a
pistol in the Hornsey Wood. I went in that direction,
and I saw a hat and pair of gloves lying on the ground. Before
that I heard a man cry out " I am murdered." I met the man
who said this, and he was staggering, he was a policeman. He
was holding his hand to his arm. The blood was running
through his hand. Another policeman came up, and he told
me to go to Hornsey Wood-house and get assistance. I did
so, and the last witness came with me and we went in pursuit.
A woman told us that a man had gone across the field. I was
not present when the policeman who was killed was shot. I
know no more than this.
The prisonor declined asking any question.
Stephen Turnbull said I was working at Mr. Paul's myrtle
gardens at Highbury. I saw the prisoner running across
College-road at the back of the garden. I saw him afterwards
walking up and down a field with two pistols. I went round
up College-road, and I saw the prisoner standing in the road
against the paling. This was at Highbury Park South. A
number of people were round. Upwards of a hundred, I
should think. I heard Daly the deceased say, " I don't be-
lieve those pistols are loaded." The prisoner replied, " I will
fire them at you." I saw Mott, the baker, make a rush
at the prisoner, and also the policeman Daly, and the prisoner
immediately fired both pistols ; the left hand at Mott, and the
right at the policeman, When he fired he looked at the baker,
and then looked at the policeman and fired again. Daly fell
dead. I laid hold of the prisoner, and he felt for something in
his pocket. I took a knife out of his trowsers pocket. ( The
knife was here produced : it was a butcher's knife, about ten
inches long.) When I got the knife, he said, I am done ; you

have got all my weapons." I went with the prisoner to the
station-house, and I asked him going along how he could do
such a thing, and he replied that he would have served me the
same. I asked him if he was married, and he said he was not,
but he had a mother. I saw him searched, and saw the ball
taken from his pocket.
The prisoner, still leaning on his face on the bar, faintly said
he had no qttesnott to put.
Thomas Grover said he sees coming past Highbury-barn
yesterday afternoon about f=ive minutes past four, and saw
the p'tiaoner standing with his bac); against the fence.
with a pisfol in each hand. Several persons were round him.
I heard the prisona say the pistols were loaded, and any one
who dared to attack him he would fire the contents at them.
Daly, the policeman, was there, end he said he did not believe
they were loaded, and the prisoner replied " they are loaded."
I then saw Charles Mott, a baker, make a rush at the prisoner,
and the prisoner fired the left hand pistol, and soon as he had
done that, Daly approached, and was immediately shot dead.
The last witness, Turnbull, seized the prisoner, and I wrenched
one of the pistols, the left, from the hands of the prisoner.
(The pistols were here produced. They were a couple of
horse-pistols, with flint-locks.

The prisoner declined asking any question.
James Wheeler said—l am waiter at Highbury Barn Tavern.
A man came in yesterday afternoon, and said a man had been
murdered. I went out, and I saw the prisoner against the
fence. What has been stated by the other witness is correct.
The prisoner appeared extremely faint, and his countenance
had changed to a ghastly hue.
Henry Haines Walton said—l art house-surgeon at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. The man Mott was brought into the
hospital last night about six o'clock, and afterwards the
wounded policeman. I examined the man Mutt, and I found
him in a state of collapse. I found that a ball had passed
through the shoulder. He is very feeble and low, and it is
impossible to say what the probable result of the wound will
be. I examined the policeman who was wounded, and I found
the arm to be fractured: I can't say how long it will be before he
will be able to be produced. think there is danger in the case
of Mott. I can say that the wound is a gun-shot wound with-
out looking at the ball. Ido not think there is any bone
injured in Mott. The ball passed through the muscle and
the skin.

George Beckley, police-officer, 12 N division, said--I picked
up a bullet on the opposite side of the road to where the man
was shot. It was on the curb of the foot-path. It is now
precisely as I found it. It exactly corresponds with one found
on the prisoner. It fits the bore of both pistols.
Edward Drewry, of e, Park.terrace, Highbury, surgeon,
said I was called upon yesterday afternoon, about half-past
four, by a man who said that two men had been shot. In three
minutes afterwards I proceeded to the spot, and I found the
policeman dead. There was a slight muscular action about the
jaw, but there was no pulsation of the heart. I saw that the
man-was dead, and I went to the other man and extracted the
ball from his ribs. The ball had passed from the shoulder-
blade to the ribs. I extracted the ball in a moment : it was un-
der the lower portion of the shoulder-blade. He was
immediately taken to the hospital. The pistol must have been
close upon him, as there is a quantity of powder driven into
the skin. I think there is a small bone running across the
shoulder blade broken. I have made a post mortem examina-
tion of the deceased policeman, who is now lying at Highbury
Tavern. The ball entered and fractured the seventh and
eighth rib, and then passed transversely through the stomach,
and out at the other side below the floating rib, which is frac-
tured. The ball did not enter the cavity of the chest, so that
it must have passed considerably below the heart.
The prisoner, who appeared to be growing weaker and
weaker, here fainted into the arms of the gaoler, and was taken
out of the Court immediately. Mr. Drewry ordered some brandy
to he administered to the prisoner, which order was promptly
attended to.

Soon after the prisoner's removal, Inspector Penny informed
the Bench that the prisoner declared he had taken poison, and
that he was evidently in a very dangerous state.
Mr. GREENWOOD requested Dr. Drewry, who yet remained
in Court, to hasten to his assistance. Meantime the people
who thronged the body of the Court were in a state of in-
describable excitement.

Dr. Drewry returned in a few minutes, awl had a private
communication with the Magistrate. tit e heard it was to the
effect that he (Dr. Drewry) from the symptoms evinced by the
prisoner, believed that he had taken poison.
Inspector Penny announced that the prisoner was getting
worse every moment, and that he was at that moment throwing
up large quantities of blood.
Waddington, the gaoler, said the prisoner had told him he
had purchased, yesterday evening, two pennyworth of white
arsenic and six pennyworth of laudanum.
One of the Police Inspectors subsequently informed us, that
in a few minutes he ceased vomiting, but was in a state of the
greatest debility. Afterwards he appeared somewhat better,
and took brandy and water, and some emetics.
From the extremely debilitated condition of the unfortunate
wretch, and the uncertainty whether or not he will recover the
effects of the poison, it was said, though not from the Bench,
that he would be remanded until Monday next.
When our Reporter left he was lying apparently insensible
on a bench in the gaoler's room.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
( RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT RACES.
WEDNESDAY.
The Lyneham Stakes of 5 soya. each, 2 ft.
and a distance.
Gen. Gilbert's Pulwaun, 4 yrs (Owner) 2 1 1
Sir W. Trelawny's Chartist, aged ... 0 0 2
Mr. Crofton's Muleteer, 5 yrs
Mr. E. Bloxam nd. Great Western 0 0 dr
Handicap Plate of 50/. Mile heats.
Sir S. Spry's The Jewess, 5 yrs (J. Horsley) 1 .1
Mr. Crotton's Muleteer, 5 yrs 2 2
Mr. Downe's Harmodious, 6 yrs
Mr. R. Carlisle's Single Peeper, aged
The Hurdle Stakes of 15 soya. each, with 15 added, were
won, in two heats, by Mr. A. Vivian's The Bride (Owner),
beating Mr. Bray's Maid of the Vale, and two others.
CHESTER RACES.—THURSDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for three yrs old, &c.
Thrice round.
Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing, aged walked over
The Marquis of Westminster's Plate of 100/., added to a Han-
dicap of 2i) soya. each, h ft. Grosvenor Course.
Mr. Heseltine's The Shadow, 6 yrs, 9st 41b ...(Heseltine) 1
Lord Eglinton's Bellona, aged, Bst Sib
Mr. Raworth's Cattonian, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
Eglinton's The Young-'un, 5 yrs ; Mr. Buckley's Gilbert, 4
yrs ; Mr. Skerratt's Lydia, 4 yrs ; Sir R. Bulkeley's Cerito,
4 yrs ; Mr. Price's Croydon.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 200 added. Grosvenor
Course.
Mr. Price's Prince Albert, 5 yrs ...(Cartwright) 1
Alr. MoAyn's Peter the Great, 4 yrs
Mr. Dawson's The Biddy, 3 yrs
The following also started:—:llr. Griffith's Miss Eaton,
3 yrs ; Mr. Walter's Miss Winney, and Mr. Speed's Emperor,
4 yrs.
Free Handicap, of 20 sons. each, 10 ft, and 50 added. Heats
once round and a distance.
Mr. Plummer's Aliee Hawthorn, 4 yrs ....(Bumby) 1 1
Mr. Ferguson's Humming Bird, 5 yr 5........ 0 2
Sir. Skerratt's Hudibras, 4 yrs '2 3
Mr. Thompson's Fenella, 5 yrs
EGLINGTON PARK RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Curraghmore Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added.
Two miles.
Lard Howth's The Augean, aged (Mr. Moore) 1
Mr. Knox nd Roderick Random, 6 yrs ...
Lord Eglinton nd The Gipsy, aged ...
The Winton Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. Mile and
a half.
Mr. Ramsay's Recorder, 6 yrs (Major Richardson) I
Mr. Alexander's Jock, 5 yrs 2
Several others ran.
The Two.years old Stakes of 20 sou. each. Half a mile.
Mr. Ramsay's br fby Inheritor, out of Lady Easby (Noble) 1
Lord Eglinton's Egidia
Mr. Alexander's lienbow 3
Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added. One mile.
Mr. Ramsay's Oswald, aged (Major Richardson)
Mr. Moore's Magic, 4 yrs 2
The Arndilly Stakes of 7 sovs. each, with so added. Heats
once round.
Lord Howth's Aegean, aged
Mr. Merry's Patriot, aged ...

Heats, once round

TATTERSALLS.—YESTERDAY.
A few of the Chester visitors left at Wednesday's races, and
were in attendance at the room yesterday afternoon. The
muster nevertheless was uncommonly thin, and the inclination
to do business so slight, that not a dozen bets were booked
from first to last. IA e have therefore merely to give the quo-
tations, and refer to our report of the proceedings at Chester
on Wednesday evening for a general list of the prices, pre-
mising that Canadian is now the property of Air. Greville (the
price said to be 2,000 guineas, with contingencies), and Chat-
ham of Lord George Bentinek.l