The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-09-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MONK MURDERER.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, the alleged Monk Carrick, whose revolting cruelties to some children in Dublin have recently created much sensation, was bronghtup at the Police-office, having been apprehended and detained on the verdict of the coroner's jury at Dublin. The prisoner, John Joseph, alias Jerome Carrick, a meeklooking, or as he has been describei "saintly" looking individual, attired in a long black coat of clerical cut, was placed at the bar, and Mr. Commissioner Dowling addressing the bench, said the prisoner was on Sunday, charged by a monk named Kelly, and another man, who is the clerk of the Catholic Chapel at Copperas-hill, as the person who had caused , the death of the child, John Touche, in Dublin, over whom a coroner's inquest had been held, and the prisoner found guilty of murder. He held a newspaper in his band, which detailed the evidence given before the coroner's jury, attributing most revolting barbarities to the prisoner, who, it appeared, called himself a Carmelite Monk, residing in Key-street, Dublin, where he was in the habit of receiving children for a small sum of money, for the purpose of educating them. When the prisoner had been brought to hint (Mr. Dowling) he had read the statements given in the Ilicreury to him, and asked him if he was the person alluded to? He said he was, but that his name was Jerome Carrick, and not • John Joseph, as stated in the paper. He (Mr. Dowling) had written to Dublin respecting the prisoner,.and applied to Mr. Hall to remand him until he heard respecting him. The prisoner was accordingly remanded. - On the-person of the pri•soner were found several pieces of coloured :leather and satin, sewed together as little bags, and a-number of small pieces of w ite substance, apparently wax, which he was in the habit aselling as charms to keep the devil. away; the bags were O put then) in to bang round the neck. This is another evidence of the degrading superstition of his dupes. ABSENCE OF MlND.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a dirty-looking individual, named Smith, was charged with having been found fast asleep, quite naked, its a gutter, in the neighbourhood of the ducks. The prisoner, notwithstanding what Dr. Young has said to the contrary, that " Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, He. like the world, his ready visits pays Where fortune smiles," insisted that he was one of the most unfortunate of men; for, by some witchcraft which he could nut divine, his bed, usually so warm and comfortable, had been changed into the bed of a kennel ; his downy pillow. into a pillow of slutch ; his dear kind hearted Molly into a hard hearted cobble stone, and to complete his misfortunes, he hail not a rag of blanket, and every stitch of his clothing had miraculously disappeared. From the statement of the policeman who took him into custody, it appeared, that the prisoner had been wandering homewards from some friend's house, Bacchi pleni ; when having made several circuitous tours, he imagined, very naturally, that he bad walked long enough to be at home, and, therefore, concluded, very erroneously, that he was at home. Acting on this conclusion, he proceeded forthwith to pull off his clothes, as he would have done in his own proper bedroom; of which, having totally disencumbered himself, he proceeded to step into what he supposed was the bed, by stepping into the bed of the kennel, in which, having comfortably deposited his length, he threw his arms round a cobble stone, to which he addressed several very endearing epithets, calling it his " dear Molly," and dropped soundiy asleep. Whilst he was snoring with his cheek against the cobble, some one had taken the opportunity to walk off with his clothes. In this state he was found by the policeman, who roused him from his dreams, and safely lodged him in Bridewell. He appealed at the bar in a " shocking" bad suit of clothes, which had been lent to him. Mr. Hall, after severely :eprimanding him, told him to take care and not make such a beast of himself again, which being promised, he was fined ss. for being drunk, and liberated to tell his " dear Molly" his adventures.