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The Sun. — 1868-04-08 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT FOREST-HILL.  Richard Bishop was indicted for the wilful Murder of Alfred Cartwright at Forest-hill. It will be recollected, from the report of the case which has already appeared in 2he Sun, that the prisoner was .with others drinking at. the Swiss Cottage public-house on Thursday last, the deceased and his father being then present. After a short time had elapsed the prisoner said he was quite ready to fight any one for a shilling, and then he struck the deceased twice with his fist. Cartwright said he should give the prisoner into custody, because if he did not know better he must be taught. He then left the place with the intention of looking for a policeman ; but not finding one he returned to the public-house, by which time a constable had arrived there. He gave the prisoner into custody, and on their way to the policestation, after they had gone about 300 yards, the prisoner said to Cartwright, " Are you going to lock me up for the trumpery affair ?" Cartwright told him that be intended , to so, and they continued on the road to the station. Having gone some distance further, Cartwright went up to the constable who had the prisoner in custody, with the intention of speaking to him, when the prisoner repeated the question he had already put to him, and receiving the same answer, he fumbled about with his right hand until he got a large clasp knife from his pocket, with which he made a thrust at Cartwright and stabbed him in the abdomen, and before the wounded man could be conveyed to the hospital he expired: Evidence was produced on the part of the prosecution to prove that the prisoner was not drunk as was alleged. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Clerk of the Arraigns asked the prisoner, in the usual form, whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed. The Prisoner replied—Yes, I have. I had been drinking hard that day a great quantity of rum. Eight witnesses could be found to speak to that, but the case had not been inquired into as it ought to have been.  Proclamation of silence having been made, • Mr. Justice Keating said the jury had ,corac, to the conclusion that he was guilty of the indictment preferred against him, and he did not see how any body of men, under the obligation of an oath, could have done otherwise. It was the most wilful, premeditated, and deliberate murder he had ever known, and he hoped the prisoner would make the best use of the time that was left him on earth. The law was more merciful to him than he had been to the unfortunate man, the father of a family, -whom he hurried out of the world without one minute's preparation, as it gave him time to prepare to meet the sentence he would have to undergo ; and he also implored the prisoner to use that time in the consideration of the position he would occupy hereafter. The sentence of the law was that he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that his body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison.  The Sheriff of Kent was ordered to see the sentence of the law carried into effect.  The prisoner left the dock quite unmoved. ,;
The Sun. — 1868-04-08 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT FOREST-HILL.  Richard Bishop was indicted for the wilful murder of Alfred Cartwright at Forest-hill. It will be recollected, from the report of the case which has already appeared in The Sun, that the prisoner was with others drinking at the Swiss Cottage public-house on Thursday last, the deceased and his father being then present. After a short time had elapsed the prisoner said he was quite ready to fight any one for a shilling, and then he struck the deceased twice with his fist. Cartwright said he should give the prisoner into custody, because if he did not know better he must be taught. He then left the place with the intention of looking for a policeman ; but not finding one he returned to the public-house, by which time a constable had arrived there. He gave the prisoner into custody, and on their way to the policestation, after they had gone about 300 yards, the prisoner said to Cartwright, " Are you going to lock me up for the trumpery affair ?" Cartwright told him that be intended to so, and they continued on the road to the station. Having gone some distance further, Cartwright went up to the constable who had the prisoner in custody, with the intention of speaking to him, when the prisoner repeated the question he had already put to him, and receiving the same answer, he fumbled about with his right hand until he got a large clasp ktife from his pocket, with which he made a thrust at Cartwright and stabbed him in the abdomen, and before the wounded man could be conveyed to the hospital he expired. Evidence was produced on the part of the prosecution to prove that the prisoner was not drunk as was alleged.  The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Clerk of the Arraigns asked the prisoner, in the usual form, whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed. The Prisoner replied—Yes, I have. I had been drinking hard that day a great quantity of rum. Eight witnesses could be found to speak to that, but the case had not been inquired into as it ought to have been.  Proclamation of silence having been made, Mr. Justice Keating said the jury had come to the concltision that he was guilty of the indictment preferred against him, and he did not see how any body of men, under the obligation of an oath, could have done otherwise. It was the most wilful, premeditate 3, and deliberate murder he had ever known, and he hop 3d the prisoner would make the best use of the time that was left him on earth. The law was more merciful to him than he had been to the unfortunate man, the father of a family, whom he hurried out of the world without one minute's preparation, as it gave him time to prepare to meet the sentence he would have to undergo; and he also implored the prisoner to use that time in the consideration of the position he would occupy hereafter. The sentence of the law was that he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that his body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison.  The Sheriff of Kent was ordered to see the sentence of the law carried into effect. The prisoner left the dock quite unmoved.
The Sun. — 1868-05-21 (London, England)

DANL. CO )PER, Sec. 85, Queen-street, Cheapaide.  A decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Index condemns two German works—" Christianity and Modern Natural Science," by Frohschatnmer, and " Fifty Theses on the Church in the Present Age,', by Michelis ; also the Italian ones—" The Middle Age," by Paganetti, and " A Hundred Biographies of Illustrious Children of. Italy," by Borelli. The same body announces that the author of " Letters from Sophronius on the Liturgical Question" has retracted and publicly asked pardon. The Bishop of Exeter, with that disposition to do prompt justice and repress a real grievance which has ever characterised him, has suspended from duty the Rev. George Henry Parminter, rector of St. John and St. George, Exeter, whose disgraceful conduct while intoxicated was the subject of a protest by his parishioners at a vestry meeting last week. The church was re-opened yesterday (Sunday), and. services conducted,' both morning and evening, by a clergyman temporarily appointed.— Western News.  At the fetes of Orleans General Fleury presented to the Emperor a young officer, a descendant of the brother of Jeanne D'Arc. It is computed that there are at least seven persons in France who are related to the same notable personage—Madame Albertine Grauthier D'Arc, widow of the late Edouard De Julienne, formerly advocate at Aix, and their three children, M. Edgard De Julienne D'Arc, lieutenant in the 9th Regiment of the line (he who, according to the condescending compliment of the Empress, " well supports an illustrious name") ; Madame 'Japery D'Arc, and Madame Bouchet RiviereD'Arc, born of Julienne ; then MM. C. Renaudeau D'Arc, engineer ; Ernest Renauden D'Arc, under superintendent on the Northern Railway ; and the widow of M. Edouard Renaudeau D'Arc, advocate and judge at Rouen.  In the 2lfoniteur de l'Algerie of the 6th of May, Nlarshal M'Mahon writes :—" There is no country in Europe in which life is more respected and safer than it now is in Algeria." To support this assertion the Marshal adduces certain statistics which go to show that among the civil European population of Algeria—about 100,000 in number—there have during the last seven. months been only seventeen murders and only five persons eaten. A critic in the 14 igaro computes that, as there are in France 38,000,000 s)nls, a similar proportion. of crime would show 11,400 twarltrs a year, a state of thin 44 which, 111 olv.erves, " goas ferait regretter l'ancionne Foret dc wh !re a3st3sination nscd to be the rule, and escape from it the exception. " The fortifications of Civita Vecchia," says the 7 oulonnais, " are n ter.ninatel an 1 arm !d. Thos of Rome arc expected to be artne 1 before long."  We hear that the wife of a Bristol cldrgyman of very lligh Church views, whose pl►ce of worship has been remarkable for its very elaborate ritualistic services, has just seceded to the Roman Catholic Church. This is the second person in Oa cmgregation will has recently joined the Church of Rome. —Bristol Times.  The Emperor of the French, it is said, knew of the taking of Magdala 24 hours before her Majesty's Government did so.
The Sun. — 1868-11-17 (London, England)

ICTORSA. - . The prosecutor said that he was walking down dinary poisoning case I mentioned yesterday. Yet the Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. Wardour-street, last night, in company of a chief facts of this second Brinvilliers affair aro well worth Tho interest received during the year is £117,584 7s. , enough. Perhaps among all our well known 3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised le, - . friend, when he noticed the prisoner leaning against recounting. The murderess, Mdlle. Jeanneret, belongs MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report. 1 ' aruamentary men of the second class there AT length the eventful day is come for which more the wall, apparently in a swoon. His friend having to an honourable family of one of the Swiss cantonS, FA. are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there- is no one who mere quickly loses his Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 fora be considered as having improved at the rate of rather than a thousand political athletes have been training taken a little notice of the prisoner, he (prosecutor) possesses some little money, and has been well educated. o'clock. moro than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070 i temper than the member for Nineveh, as Punch long these three or four months past. Yesterday's su tdth 't h• f • d should get a little brandy, gges e a is nen She first spent some thne at Lausanne, in a 13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be iu- 0. training-school for nurses, and then removed to tto very happily dubbed him. Anl once irritated, MOSES and SON, Ready-made aud Bespoke eluded, at upwards of £5 12s. per cent. shew of hands was but the marching past, except and she (prisoner) thinking perhaps he was jesting en establishment conducted by an eminent oculist E• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, The p emiums on new assurances aro £14,1:93 ls. 9d., Mr. LAYARD shows himself to be implacable to his indeed in arenas where the combatants had no one with her, clawed at him. Directly afterwards he • l'here h • er more remarkable history commences. On Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters and of t.l"is sum .£3,270 15s. ld. has been expended in refer all Classes. antagonist. It was thus with him in regard to Dr. to wrestle with them. The real fighting begins missed his pin, and having got a constable, gave assurances. account of weak eyes she wore green spectacles, but she The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly idon- I BEKE, the African Traveller. lt has thus proved, to-day in most of the borough constituencies, and in the prisoner into custody, and then, at the station, now gave out that she was blind of one eye. No appreSON:- ,tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
The Sun. — 1868-08-28 (London, England)

ORIENTAL MURDER.  The Levant Herald of the 19th instant, says : "On Wednesday evening last a murder was committed in a house in the Impasse Babylone, in Pera—just below the French post-office —which has created a great public sensation on account of the horrible circumstances attending it, and the respectable social position occupied by the parties concerned. A room in this house was tenanted by two brothers of the name of Dimo, both men under thirty years of age. They are sons of a certain Yanco Dimo, once a well-known Greek merchant at Havair Khan, who died a few years ago, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. The family, however, were litigious ; the property left them was in various manners frittered away ; and the brothers Dimo, against whose character nothing otherwise has hitherto been advanced, became involved in debt. Amongst their debts was one of 1,000 liras, upon which a certain Turk had recovered judgment, and which he had transferred to one Nicholas Anthonocopoulos, resident at Beshiktash, formerly a Greek merchant, but of late practising as a quasi-advocate and ltomme d'affaires in the local Greek Consular Court. Anthonocopoulos had pursued the elder brother Stephano Dimo for the debt, and had him arrested on account of it, though he was momentarily at liberty on the ground of ill-health. On Wednesday evening last the two brothers Dimo were seen issuing from the house in which they lodged, carrying between them a large box ; the landlord, suspecting that they were furtively removing their effects, stopped them. Resistance was offered, the ziptiehs were called, and the box was opened, when, to the consternation of those who gazed into it, the corpse of the unfortunate Anthonocopoulos was found dcubled up in it, with a piAol-shot through neck, and the head near'y severed from the body. Stephano Dimo, who feigned madness, was seized upon the spot ; the younger brother escaped in the confusion of the moment, but has since been captured. Conveyed in tl.e firstlinstance to the Turkish Zaptieh, they were afterwards consigned to the Greek Consular authorities,by whom full inquiry has been instituted. It transpires that the Dimos had invited Anthonocopoulos to their lodgings to draw up an arrangement for the settlement of the debt, and when there Stephano shot him from behind with a pistol, and they afterwards both mutilated the body in order to force it into the box. The murdered man leaves a wife and children. There is some belief that a third person was engaged in this butchery, who has, up to the present, eluded discovery. The brothers do not attempt to avoid the facts, but pretend that they were attacked by the advocate, and that what ensued was done by them, in the first instance, in self-defence, and afterwards to conceal the catastrophe. Stephano also simulates insanity ; and there seems no doubt that there has been mental derangement in the family on the father's side. The depositions will be completed in a few days, when the prisoners will be conveyed for trial to Syra, the Greek court here not being a criminal tribunal."
The Sun. — 1868-08-28 (London, England)

ORIENTAL MURDER.  The Levant Herald of the 19th instant, says : "On Wednesday evening last a murder was committed in a house in the Impasse Babylone, in Pera—just below the French post-office—which has created a great public sensation on account of the horrible circumstances attending it, and the respectable social position occupied by the parties concerned. A room in this house was tenanted by two brothers of the name of Dimo, both men under thirty years of age. They are sons of a certain Yanco Dimo, once a well-known Greek merchant at Havair Khan, who died a few years ago, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. The family, however, were litigious ; the property left them was in various manners frittered away ; and the brothers Dimo, against whose character nothing otherwise has hitherto been advanced, became involved in debt. Amongst their debts was one of 1,000 liras, upon which a certain Turk had recovered judgment, and which he had transferred to one Nicholas Anthonocopoulos, resident at Beshiktash, formerly a Greek merchant, but of late practising as a quasi-advocate and homme d'affaires in the local Greek Consular Court. Anthonocopoulos had pursued the elder brother Stephano Dimo for the debt, and had him arrested on account of it, though he was momentarily at liberty on the ground of ill-health. On Wednesday evening last the two brothers Dimo were seen issuing from the house in which they lodged, carrying between them a large box ; the landlord, suspecting that they were furtively removing their effects, stopped them. Resistance was offere 1, the zlptiehs were called, and the box was opened, when, to the consternation of those who gazed into it, the corpse of the unfortunate Anthonocopoulos was found doub'ed up in it, with a pistol-shot through as neck, and the head nearly severed from the body. Stephan° Dimo, who feigned madness, was seised upon the spot ; the younger brother escaped in the confusion of the moment, but has since been captured. Conveyed in the firstlinstance to the Turkish Zaptieh, they were afterwards consigned to the Greek Consular authorities,by whom full inquiry has been instituted. It transpires that the Dimos had invited Anthonocopoulos to their lodgings to draw up an  arrangement for the settlement of the debt, and when there Stephano shot him from behind with a pistol, and they afterwards both mutilated the body in order to force it into the box. The murdered man leaves a wife and children. There is some belief that a third person was engaged in this butchery, who has, up to the present, eluded discovery. The brothers do not attempt to avoid the facts, but pretend that they were attacked by the advocate, and that what ensued was done by them, in the first instance, in self-defence, and afterwards to conceal the catastrophe.  Stephano also simulates insanity ; and there seems no doubt that there has been mental derangement in the family on the father's side. The depositions will be completed in a few days, when the prisoners will be conveyed for trial to Syra, the Greek court here not being a criminal tribunal."
The Sun. — 1868-05-05 (London, England)

THE LATE MURDER NEAR NEWCASTLE.  At the Tynemouth Petty Sessions, on Monday, Stephen Cady, 45, Patrick Barrett, 22, Catherine Barrett, 42, and Bridget Maley, 38, were charged with having, along with another not yet in custody, caused the death of James Lavery, at Willington Quay, on Saturday night. The deceased, who was an Irishman, had a small kitchen garden, and fowls belonging to another Irishman, called Edward Barrett, sometimes got into it and damaged the vegetables that grew there. This naturally annoyed Lavery, and about three weeks ago he summoned the owner of the birds before the county justices at Tynemouth. The case, however, was dismissed, as the magistrates considered that the proper tribunal to try a case of alleged damage was the county court. But Barrett, his relatives, and friends seem to have felt very much aggrieved at Lavery's conluct. They were also further vexed on account of a practice he had of occasionally shooting the trespassing hens. Among those who warmly sympathised with -Barrett in the matter wero two Irishmen who lodged with him, and whose names were James Lynch and Stephen Cady. Their antipathy to Lavery reached a tragical crisis on Saturday night. As he was proceeding to his garden and passed Barrett's door, about five o'clock, they came out and commenced to give evidence of their unfriendly feelings towards him. They were joined with much heartiness by Mrs. Barrett, her son Patrick, and her mother, Mrs. Maley. Although Lavery carried a gun, and had as a companion a man named Case, he took as little notice as possible of the hostility that these persons persisted in shewing. The women shouted, and Mrs. Barrett went even the length of holding a stone close to Lavery's face. Cady challenged Lavery to fight, but the latter wisely refused to do anything of the sort. Case and .he went on towards'the garden, which is not more than a score of yards from Kellman's-row, where the Barretts reside. They entered the garden. Lynch, Cady, and the others followed, shouting and threatening as before. Lynch made forward to Lavery, seized the gun, which was unloaded, and after a severe struggle managed to wrench it from his grasp. Holding the weapon by the stock with both hands, he struck Lavery a fearful blow with the barrel on the hack of the head, felled bim Co the ground, and inflicted a wound whence the brains protruded, and which proved fatal in the course of about twelve hours. The force of the blow was so great that the barrel was severed from the stock. Lynch stood for a moment over his victim and swung the butt of his gun round his head apparently overjoyed with his brutality. His delight was participated in by the women, who are'said to have sent up a shout of triumph and gladness. But they;_soon deemed it advisable to make off from the scene of their cruel wickedness. Lavery was removed to his home, but nothing could save him, and he expired on Sunday morning. The prisoners were remanded, and meantime the police are actively for 1,3-nch.—Northera Daily Express.