The Sun. — 1831-11-19 (London, England)

THE MURDERED ITALIAN BOY.  The four men, Bishop, May, Wi!limns, and Shields' who stand charged with the murder of the Italian bey, who-e name has not as yet been satisfactorily ascertained, were yesterday brought to the public office, Bow-street, and placed at the bar before Mr. MINSHULL, the presiding Magistrate, who was assi-aepl by DT. ROBINSON arid Mr. MALLARD, County Magistrates, and Mr. SWABEY, late of Union-hall The office was crowded to excess. The bench also was crowded by gentlemen, many of whom were surgeons. Henry Locker, on Friday, the 4th of November instant, was waiter at " The Fortune of War" public-house, in Giltspur-street. He knew the prisoners, who used to frequent that house. Bishop, Ma), :nel Williams, called in between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday morning, and had eornethine to drink. They remained in the taproom about an hour and a half, and then went away. They returned at three o'clock, and remained until dusk, when they went away again, and came back at eight o'clock, or past. They had with them a strange man, who appeared to be a hackney-coachman. They said they had hail a ' tide, and went into the tap-room, and had something to drink. Shortly after the prisoner May came out of the tap-room, and went to the bar. He had a handkerchief in his hand, which seemed to contain something. He poured some hot water on the handkerchief, and began to wipe its contents, which proved to be human teeth. Witness remarked that they appeared to be the teeth of a young person, and that they were worth something. May answered that they were as good to him as 21 The prisoners and the other man soon after went away. On the following morning (Saturday), Bishop, Williams and Shields called again, and had some beer to drink. Bishop asked what they should do for a hamper, and Williams said there was one inside the railings of the hospital (Bartholomew's). The prisoner Shields went and fetched it, and all three went away. James Seagrove, the cabriolet driver, stated that on the Friday evening, about six o'clock, being at tea in a watering-house in the Old Bailey, he was called out to the prisoners Bishop and May. The latter asked him if he wanted a job, and added, " I want you to carry a stiffun ; adding, "We will stand a guinea for it." Witness declined the " job," and left the prisoners apparently making a bargain with a hackney-coachman. George Gissing, a boy, aged about fifteen, was the son of a publican who lived in Birdcage walk, Bethnal-green. ' On Friday evening, between six and seven o'clock, he was standing at his father's door, when be saw a yellow-bodied chariot stop at the corner of Nova Scotia-gardens. The prisoners Bishop, May, and Williams jumped out of it, and the two former went up Nora Scoti i-gardens ; they were dressed in smock-frocks, and May Lad a pipe in his mouth; Williams, who had on a lieht fustian jacket, retnained leaning against the force wheel of the chariot, in conveisation with the coachman ; Bishop and May returned in a short time, carrying a sack containing something heavy; May had the sack on his back, and Bishop was holding it up behind ; the sack was placed in the chariot, and after the prisoners had taken their places, it drove off, through Crab-tree-row, in the direction of Shoreditch church. Thomas Trader, another boy, about the same age as the last witness, gave similar evidence. Ann Cannell corroborated the statement of the last witness, and added that she saw two men jump out of the coach. They both wore dark smock-frocks, and one of them had a pipe in his mouth.—(The witness was here directed to look well at the prisoners May and Bishop, and after doing so she declared that she could not identi'y them as the two men she had seen.) The last witness stood by, and she (witness) said to him, '‘ This looks strange; see where they are going so quick." The lad replied, " I am sure I won't go after them, for it I did they would not mind giving me a topper." The coachman never got off his box until the men returned, and this circumstance excited her suspicion the more. John Chapman was porter at Guy's Hospital. At seven o'clock in the evening of Friday, the 4th instant, the two prisoners, Bishop and May, drove to the hospital in a hackney-coach or chariot. They came to his (witness's) lodge, and he let them in. Toey had a sack with them, which the shorter man (Bishop) carried. Witness did not know what the sack contained. They went towards the dissecting-room. By Dr.