The Sun. — 1850-10-05 (London, England)

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT BRISTOL, BY TWO SOLDIERS.  BRISTOL, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—Two private salfliers, of the 15th infantry, named Andrew Daly and John Macfarlane, alias M'Fetten, were brought to this city in custody to day, and committed to gaol to await their trial, upon a charge of murdering a policeman named Pimm, No. 206, of the Bedminster division of Police, while engaged in the discharge of his duty in Thomas-street, in this city. The murder took place as long ago as the 4th of May, 1849, and the circumstances connected with it were these :—On the night of that day the prisoners, another soldier, and some girls of the town, had been drinking together at a public-house in the neighbourhood of Thomas-street, making a noise, so as to disturb the inhabitants. The policeman accosted them, told themreneot't be permitted to create an upror in and upon going into the street they and ordered the prostitutes to go home. tt hhee oy streets, would s-s t The girls obeyed, which irritated the soldiers, one of whom said to the constable, " Who are you ; what right have you to interfere ?" The deceased replied that he was a policeman, whose duty it was to keep 'order in the streets, upon which Macfarlane said there was no harm in killing a policeman and called to his companion, " Let us kill the The deceased, in reply, again urged them to go home to their barracks, upon which they both struck him with sticks they were carrying, and knocked him down, and while be was on the ground they And another soldier beat bim very much, one of the men picking up a stone from the street, and constable was rendered insensible by their violence, but on recovering consciousness, and finding that he striking him several blows on the head with it. The had receivedan extensive wound of the head, he procured assistance, and apprehended Daly and Macfarlane, who were at once taken before the magistrates and charged with the assault. At their examination a sergeant of the regiment attended, and stated that the men were part of a company drafted for Ceylon, of getting confined till the company had sailed— and bad in his belief got into the quarrel for the purposea trick which one of them had tried twice before with success. This Bristol magistrates, upon this representation, and acting in the belief that the wound On the 9th would not prove serious, handed the soldiers over to dispatched to their sergeant, by whom they were ,- • . on, and after linIndia with the rest of their comrades. of May, Pima), who had been progressing favourably, was taken worse. Erysipelas came goring till the 15th, he died. The soldiers had then left England ; but upon a verdict of wilful murder being found against them by the coroner a jury, a representation was made to the Government, which at once ordered their arrest and return to England. They will be tried at the next Gloucester county assize.  Isaac Dale, May Bank, Staffordshire, licensed victualler. John Harris, Kingewood, Warwickshire, innkeeper. Thomas Alcock, Whitnash, Warwickshire, butcher. William Coleman, Coventry, Weaver. Charles Mander, Coventry, tailor. Thomas Cooper, Cuvontry, tobacconist. Thomas Calvert, Rochdale, moulder. Joseph Butte rwortb, Rochdale, porter. Edmund Lord, Rochdale, manager in a cotton factory. Joseph M'Quoay, Milnsbridge, Yorkshire, woollen  te nioll(iir °tetlfi Xooill'  manufacturer. James Baron Lovell, Wells, Somersetehire, tailor. Mary Harper, Talawaine. Monmouthshire, beer retailer. John Jones, Ebbw-vale, Monmouthshire, slitter.