The Sun. — 1865-03-11 (London, England)

FINSBURY DIVISION.  " I beg to report having made careful inquiry in reference to the statements affecting the police, mentioned in the attached extracts from the Daily Telegraph of the 6th and the Times of the 7th inst. :  "1. That a constable named Flash Charley was in the taproom at the time—l have seen persons who were in the Golden Anchor all the evening of the 20th of December last, and they positively assert that no. constable was there until the disturbance took place. There is a police-constable named Richard Fawell, known to the thieves as " Flash Charley," and he was on duty in the neighbourhood that evening in plain clothes.  "2. That the police were told by Mr. Worms on the evening of the fatal occurrence that they had got hold of the wrong man—Mr. Worms knew nothing of the occurrence with the exception of hearsay, having been at Kingsland at the time it took place, and he now informs me that he has no recollection of speaking to the police on that evening.  " 3. That the police received Gregorio's knife on the morning after the occurrence.—One knife was brought to Clerkenwell police station and given to Inspector Potter on the evening after the murder, which was found close to the Golden Anchor public-house ; and another knife was given on the same evening to Inspector Potter by a potman at the Three Tuns public-house, Cross-street, Saffron-hill, which he stated he found in the urinal. Both these knives were produced at the examination of Pelizzoni before the magistrates, also at his trial. Neither of these knives had been identified, and Inspector Potter could not trace the owners.  "4. That the police were told that Gregorio had slapped the landlord's face, which had originated all the mischief. —At the first examination of Pelizzoni Mr. Shaw, the landlord of the Golden Anchor, statsd in his evidence and at the trial that an Italian named Gregorio struck him in the face, which no doubt was the origin of the affray.  "5. That the police were told that Gregorio and Harrington had had a scuffle in the taproom not 10 minutes before the stabbing.—This statement is untrue; the police had no knowledge that any scuffle took place between Gregorio and the deceased Harringion.  "6. That the police knew that Gregorio and his brother John (the latter bleeding at the neck) came back after the fight and asked for their hats out of the bagatelle-room, and that their hats were given to them by Mrs. Shaw.—It was not known to the police that any hats were found in the bagatelle-room. Inspector Potter knew that the deceased Harrington, and Rebbeck who was stabbed, had lost their hats, and which have never been recovered. " Mrs. Shaw was present at the trial of Pelizzoni, but the counsel for the prosecution did not think it necessary to call her.  47. That the police never seriously attempted to find Gregorio.—After the prisoner Pelizzoni was charged and identified by Harrington and Rebbeck as the man who had stabbed them, Inspector Potter and Police-constable Fawell, 425 A, were specially employed to find Gregorio and two others, evidence having been given at the examination before A. A. Knox, Esq., the magistrate, that they were concerned in the affray, and the inspector used every exertion to trace Gregorio, but the Italians would give no information.  I beg to state that the names and addresses of 15 witnesses who were examined on the trial of Pelizzoni were sent to Mr. Negretti, so that they might also be examinedat the trial of GI egorio, but none of these, except Mrs. King and Alfred Rebbeck, were called, although four eye-witnesses could have sworn that Gregorio was not in the room at the time Harrington was stabbed.  "A. GERNON, Superintendent. " Clerkenwell Police-station, G Division Metropolitan Police, 10 o'clock a.m., March 8, 1865."  'EXTRACT OF A LETTER IN Tics Times OF