The Sun. — 1858-04-08 (London, England)

THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.  The grand jury entered the court at a quarter past one, and announced they had found, A. true bill against Edward Truelove for rnisdeH  meanour, A true bill against Stanislaus Toher ineanour, and A true bill against Simon Bernard,car, Radio, for Felice Orsini, Pierri, Gomez, and murder a sovereign feloniously attempting " to oval for s e . A .ml I i le od ep , km a j e a t y, Louis Napoleon, prince, to wit, Emperor of the French. °l2,AdnesalNervglailindicted for parker, certain premises situate in with intent to defraud the Westhis Imperial 1,0001. M°"—we Ineuracniilcerimpany of the sum of minster prisonerFirepleaded not guilty. The . appeared fur the prosecution, and Mr. feloniously k etetenitigyeity, otikia Mr. 13r„ry defended the prisoner. Sergeant 11.1 r. Bodkin, in opening the case, entered into a statement of the facts, which have already appeared in The Sun, and said that as there was no person on the premises when this alleged offence was committed, the charge against the prisoner would not effect his life. The fire, it will be recollected, occurred on the 10th of last month; and in a few days after the occurrence, the prisoner sent in a claim to the fire-office for upwards of 500/., for damage done, which turned out to be a very exorbitrnt claim ; one item in the document being 2601. for brown paper patterns, which it was now stated were not worth more than 10(,, and various suspicious circumstances  • had induced the Weetrninsi-er Fire Insurance Compan y to institue,e the preeert proceeding,. eeT aseeeeti E.oßeielis+4 and an engi.peor in the London Fire Brigade. On the 10th of March ,I was inekei at 19 niirutes to 9to a fire in Moi.iw it street, I tell the dour open and entered the LIOLI,ie, but fotnit nep ri .ion on the premises. The principal part of he fire was ueder the cutting board in the centre of the shop, but the fire was burning all round. The patterns and Icontents of the shop were on fire. There wag no gas burning in the shop, neither was there a fire-place or stove, There was a door to the cutting-'board, that covered a bin which received the cultines of the materials used in the prisoner's trade (is mantle-maker). The fire when it reached this spot would communicate with the shop. The fire was burning in the cellar under the cutting-board. I remained in possession of thepremi,le, ~es until the prisoner was taken into custody, but be had free access to the house. George e sub-engineer to the London Brigade—l arrived at the fire sherhtloyleaftieurtihtebrflokaoeronott. the en sehnotperiogi the premises I saw a looked down and saw the gas full on. There was a very large volume of Rime. The height of the fl coring above the burner was ten inches, and the fire came through the shop floor. I found a gas branch in the cellar unscrewed from its place, and the burner turned upwards towards the shop floor. I found three screws on the cellar floor. They fitted the screw holes in the post from which the branch had been removed. The nipple or burner bad been taken out of the branch. The flame would rice at least tan inches from such an opening. By the Judge—l extinguished the flame. John Foulger—l am an inspector of City police. I went to Menkwell.street on the 10. h of March. I found Baylis and other firemen there. I tried the screws found by the last witness, and they exacly fitted the holes in the post I have tried them since, but the holes have been made so large that the screws now fall out.  [We shall give the conclusion in our last edition.]  LORD NOR_lld