Star.
London, England, 1817-01-13 00:00:00

MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOHNSON.

THAMES POLICE-0/IFICE.—On Saturday the invest.
gation was resumed. The time occupied in taking
the evidence was of considerable length, but all that
occurred important or interesting in the examination
is coittained in the following account:
The ;nisoners Hama and Rainer were put to the bar.
A ltbo-irer, named Part., alter having answered
the usn•ii qw:ssions as to his place of, residence, his
recotlecti,.n of the murder. &c. said, that Hatton
went in his company to cee the body of Lieutenant'
Johnson, scam alt, r the murder.
1-lactrin inietropted the witness, by snLmnly de-
nying that tie hatl ever pone to see so horrid spec-
tacle as it was Described to he.
periiste.i in his a ••!rtion; and asked Hitton
whether he did tint rernern'n•r a publican, sines dead,
who accompanird Own* to the Five Bells, drat,k pot-
ter in their presence, and walked with them to the
place in which they he.ud the body lay ?
Hatton said it was impossible that such a thing
could have occurred ; memory was sharp upon
circumstances of so extraordinary a description.
John Avery's (a basks'-maker) deposition was
also taken, but it did not, in the slightest degree,
affect the prisoners.
Mr.. Hendley, of the Kent Dispensary, was era.
mined upon the subject of the application of Mrs.
Giddons at the Dispensary for some strengthening
plaster for her husband's arm, described in the evi-
dence of Gidsloas, as having been broken by Lieute-
nant Johnson: he did not recollect the circumstance,
in consequence of the length of time, and the unim-
portance of the application.
Mrs. Giddons again stated, that she bad received
the strengthening plaster at the Dispensary, and she
believed from the hands of Mr. Hendley ; a Mrs.
Potter was with her at the dim
• Hatton and Mrs. Giddons here spoke together, the
former denying that he was known to the fatter lung'
before the murder, and the latter asserting the contrary.
Hatton caused some surprise in the Office by sud-
denly saying that he lodged in Giddons's house at
the time of the murder. 64 Curtis," said he, took
the lodgings, and that woman and her husband want
to hang the man to whose child they stood, about
that very time, godfather and godmother."
• Mr. KINNAIEU reminded Hatton, that what he had
just said was in direct contradiction to his former
s:atemer►t.
Hatton said he knew it was ; but as he was an in-
nocent man. he could not be expected to recollect to
a moment the circumstances ut his life at a time
which could supi.ly nothing to his prejudice.
Raines.r.“ Why is not Mrs. ?otter here? Site can
prove that our accuser broke his arm twelve years
ago. She has said so, and is unwilling to come, but
justice must be done."
Hatton-14 What could we expect from a woman,
who swore in a public-house that she would hang us
to save her man Mrs. Giddons has sworn so."

An elderly man, named Smith, whose deposition
was taken at Union-Hall, at the period of the neur-
der. repeated his emidvnee. He was driving a team
from Deptford to London. and passing near the Five
Bells, at about one o'clock, which appeared to be
immediately after the murdei, when he saw a man
by hind him. The stranger crossed the road from a
ditch adjoining Peckham•lane, asked the witness a
few questions, and walked on towards London.—
Theta was something very suspicious in his appear-
. ance, and the witness wished very much to avoid
tim. He was dirtied in a great coat, wore a slouch-
ed hat, and had a large stick in his band. The
stranger had scarcely gone out of sight, when he was
followed by two other men, whose dies: the witness
had not an accurate recollection of. The

moon-light, and the witness could plainly distinguish
that the man who was wrapped up to the great coat
looked about him as if he was alarmed, and dreaded
the arpmach of somebndy.
Mr. lEtzsaatnn desired the witness to look at the

prisoners, and at Giddons.
He did so, bat expresned his conviction, that nei-
ther of the three was the man who addressed him on
the night of the murder.
• It will be remembered, that in the depositions of
Giddons, it is stated, that the four men concerned in
the murder were dressed in jacketr and trowsers.
Mr. Blanchard, the surgeon who was called upon
to examine. the body of Lieut. Johnson, produced a
memorandum. which he read. It stated that he was,
vent for at se% en o'clock on the Saturday morning to
view the body, which lay in the stable of the Five
Bells public-house. When he art ived, all vitality was
gone, and the body was quite cold; it was completely
sodden with water: There was a fracture On each
side of the skull; the left side of she bead was fright-
fully lacerated; seven distinct incisions were amass
the neck, beside several others, which ran into each
other in such a manner as to render it impossible to
enumerate dam ; there might have been about 20.
The face was cut in ten di&ent places • the thumb
of the left hand was completely divided from the
hand, and under the left ear were- two stabs. The
wounds had a triangular shape, as if they were in-
- Shied with a three-eoged instrument. Those wounds
were the immediate and proximate cause of the death
of Lieutenant Johnson. His pockets were all inverted.
Mr. Harvey, under whom Hatton was employed
before and subsequent to the murder, produced a
book, which proved that Hatton had been employed
on board the Heitry Addington, which lay near Dept-
ford for a time, not comprehending the Week in which
the murder was committed.
The prisoners were remanded till Saturday next,
. on which day they are to be finally examined.
Hatton will be tried at the ensuing Old Bailey
Sessions upon the charge of stealing the silk hand-
kerchiefs out of the East India Docks.
Kaimuon•Houss.—On Friday a ppm black MIA;
named Johnson, who had been committed by the
Loan Wilma to Bridewell for seven days, in order ,
so be passed to big parish, was brought up for that
=se, but in so bad a state of health, that even
Eters told the Loa* Murcia they did net think ,
be.conld live long. His Lordship immediately di-
rected that an order should be made out for his admis-
sion into St: Thomas's Hospital, and lee his being
clothed. Allen, the end mph* to remove eau.
pen, was directed Oita!! Johnson over, to the Hos.
pitals but on SnturdaytheLoanMratott was informed
that the man had beep refused admittance; in coase-a

quence of which, Allen brought hint back to Gilt.
spur•street Cornpter, where be died the next morn-
ing ; so putting tt beyond all doubt that he was at
the last extremity when taken to the Hospital. His
Lordship expressed his intention of writing to the
Steward of the Hospital on the gross inattention as
well as inhumanity of this proceeding.
Bow-STREET.-0a Saturday Lieutenant Minton.
who had been taken into custody, in consequence o•
his having appointed a number of Agents to be his
Agents, and drawing money from several, on account
of his p4y, underwent another investigation, when it
appearing that the different transactions he had con-
ducted with the Agents, only amounted :o debts, he
was discharged.
W. Cot and tY. Ilyriine were brought before Gitoftoe
Hicks, Esq. charged with Laving stolen a quant.ty
of forks, knives, dessert iyoons, &c. the property ui
Mr. Slade, proprietor of the Argyle Rooms. •I'he
prisoners were fully committed, and ZachAriali Phii•
lips, to whose house the property was conveyed, or•
der.•d to find hail.

aut.& Downie was charged with having stolen two
silver spoons at the house of Mr. Pratt, James-street,
Pimlico, where he had called, on pretence of in-
quiring about lodgings. Upon his petsOn And at his
lodgings, in the neighbourhood of Blackfriars'-road,
upwards of 40 duplicates were found, 30 of which
applied to silver tea-spoons, salt :dorms, and sugar
tongs. The prisoner was remanded.