The Sun. — 1845-11-25 (London, England)

NOVEMBER 25, MIS.  Mr. Alderman HOOPER thought such a proceeding perfectly unnecessary, and he considered that it ought to be discontinued. Was the defendant suspected of opening his house on a Sunday morning for the sale of exciseable liquors ? Surely there ought to be some reason I. hy policemen went in disguise to licensed victuallers in the way the defendant had been visited. The constable said he had never detected anything wrong in the way the defendant conducted his house. There was a side-door up a court to the premises, however, which excited their suspicions, as frequently several persons had been lurking about. Mr. Alderman WILSON did not see that a number of persons strolling about a publican's door would show that it was opened for Sunday trading ; in fact, it was quite the reverse. It showed that they wouk not be admitted, and were waiting until after divine service, when it would be opened.  Mr. Child did not deny the charge that bad been laid against the defendant. but he would contend that his client was perfectly justifiable in the course he had pursued. His door was knock( d at by a man in private clothes, who said that he was a policeman ; but what proof had the defendant of such being the fact ? Even if he had been in uniform, and had not his band round his arm, which alone showed that he was on duty, his admittanee could not have been legally demanded ; at least, if it had been complied with, and a policeman w is found on his premises by constables who were on duty, the defendant would be liable to be brought to that Court for a similar offence as he was now charged with. Would the Bench countenance such a system as the police prowling about as spies, dressed in disguise, for the express purpose of entrapping licensed victuallers? What security had the defendant that the policeman was not an impostor, and that he mentioned his being of the police to get into the house to obtain refreshments; and suppose that he really was an impostor, and the defendant had incautiously admitted him; his client, in the event of being visited in reality by the police, would be summoned to that Court for a like offence he was then charged with. He trusted. therefore, that the Bench would dismiss the case; for, view the evidence in any way that was most likely to press against the defendant, it could not be denied that the defendant had acted in the most proper manner. He had his house locked up, and he took the most secure step in not opening it. Mr. Alderman WILSON having had a short consultation with Mr. Alderman Ilooper, said he did not approve of the plan of policemen going to licensed vie• tuallers in private clothes, and seeking admission ; and he had not heard any reason why they had adopted such a system of detection. The Bench believed that the defendant did not think that the party knocking was a policeman, and therefore the case was dismissed. As regarded the objections made by Mr. Child, at the commencement of the inquiry, the Bench did not give an opinion.  Mr. Alderman HOOPER entirely coincided with his brother Alderman's remarks, and he begged to state that a publican had no right to open his house to any persons but those attired in the police uniform. The summons was accordingly discharged.  in the employ of Mr. Smith, in Cambridge-street. He is now in Bangor, where this ill-fated woman formerly belonged. The wash-bowl in the room contained a quantity of bloody water, from which it is evident that the murderer washed his hands after his bloedy work. A letter was found in the room addressed A. J. T. to M. A. B. , also a pair of men's chewers, cane, and stocking, and a bunch of keys. Dr. Moriarty, who was present at the examination, said it was impossible for her to move after she received tilt death wound, and he must have dragged her from the bed. In the straw bed under which she slept, a bunch of matches were found nearly burnt up. Suspicion, amounting almost to certainty, is fixed upon Albert J. Tirrell as the murderer, though he has not yet been arrested. Tirrell was arrested some time since, at New Bedford, on a charge of adultery, and was lately discharged, having compromised the matter. He is said to be a native of Weymouth, in this State.—Bostert Mail, Oct. 27.  A