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The Sun. — 1854-01-04 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Stone, an athletic fellow, described as a journeyman tailor, was charged before Mr. Hammill with having violently assaulted, and seriously injured a young married woman, named Maria Bayley, residing in Flour and Dean-street, Spitalfields.  The complainant, a delicate looking woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy, who gave her evidence with manifest pain and difficulty, state that she lived opposite to the house occupied by the prisoner, and that she had repeatedly had occasion to interfere for the protection of his wife from his brutal treatment. At a late hour on the previous night she was disturbed by a terrible uproar, accompanied by the cries of murder, in the prisoner's apartment, and on proceeding there to ascerVan the cause of the disturbance, shefound him stooping over his wife, who was lying on the floor, and beating her unmercifully about the head and face with a heavy iron candlestick. The father of witness, who had accompanied her into the house, instantly seized the prisoner, and was attempting to wrest the candlestick from him, when he knocked her down by a violent blow on the forehead, and at the same time commenced a similar attack upon witness, whom he also knocked down and kicked her in a savage manner about the lower part of hex. person. The prisoner then made a rush towards his veife,wko,vreut crouching down 111 a corner of the room ; and after mounting upon a wooden bench, so as to place his feet on a level with her head, dealt her a brutal kick in the face, which dashed her back against the wall in a state of insensibility. The prisoner was then in the act of renewing his attack upon witness and her father when a policeman fortunately made his appearance, and, after a desperate resistance, he was overpowered and taken into custody. The witness added that she had been ever since in a state of extreme suffering and debility from the maltreatment she had received, and which was likely to result in very serious consequences, as she was in the last stage of pregnancy. Police-constable Jackson, H 59, stated that upon entering the room the prisoner commenced a furious attack upon him, in the course of which he grasped hold of his throat, until he was nearly strangled, and he was compelled to draw his truncheon in self-defence ; but it was instantly forced from his hand by the prisoner, who repeatedly struck him with it about the bead, until he obtained further assistance, when the prisoner was at length secured, and conveyed to the station-house. In answer to a question from the magistrate, it was intimated by Sergeant Suggs that although the prisoner's wife had been so dreaufully bruised about the face that her features were scarcely discernible, she positively refused to prefer any charge against her husband, and was not now in attendance.  Mr. Hammil said—that it was a most brutal outrage, and sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for assaulting the witness Bayley, and also an additional term of one month for the attack upon the officer.  SO
The Sun. — 1854-01-06 (London, England)

POISONING AT BERMONDSEY.  Yesterday morning, Mr. W. Carter and a highly respectable jury re-assembled, for the third time, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Bermondsey, to investigate the extraordinary circumstances connected with the death of James George Trump, aged six years, the son of James Trump, a plasterer, residing at 9, Princes-road. It will, no doubt, be recollected that on the 21st of December last the deceased child died, after partaking of a paste prepared by its mother, in some hashed mutton, and that the whole family were afterwards seized with very violent sickness, and from several suspicious circumstances the inquiry was twice adjourned for the purpose of an analysis of the stomach being made. It may be as well to state that an infant, aged 17 months, did not partake of any of the paste, and was not taken  ill. Yesterday it was proved by a medical gentleman, that the stomach of the deceased contained arsenic. The same poison was also found on the remains of a pudding, of which the deceased had partaken. It also appeared by the same evidence that both father and mother had partaken of the poison. The Coroner, in summing up said—Since I have bees in office, have never had such a case before me. There is no doubt that a great wrong has been committed, but where to attach the criminality I am at a loss to say. You, gentlemen, must consider where the suspicion lays. The father buys the flour, and the dumpling is made by the mother. The flour has no doubt been tampered with by some person. The mystery is not the death of the deceased, but the fact of the mother being taken ill, and arsenic being discovered into their vomit. By order of the Coroner, the court was cleared of all except the jury, and, after about an hour's consultaton, the public were re-admitted, and the father and mother were called into the room. The Coroner, addressing the father and mother, said —lt has been found by the jury that your son has died from poison, but by whom administered there is no evidence to prove ; but I hope it will not be long before the matter is brought 0 light, for whoeier has adminisVred it has been guilty of a most heinous murder. From the evidence there is no charge against either of you ; but I can only repeat that the case is fraught with the greatest suspicion, and that a moat foul wrong has been done. The jury have also requested me to read their verdict to you, and it is this— " That the deceased child died from poison, arsenic being found in the food of which he partook ; but we have no satisfactory proof how it became mixed therewith." At the conclusion of the inquiry the Coroner said he hoped the police would not lose sight of the case, but endeavour to bring to justice those who had committed go foul a crime. •  ~ --.
The Sun. — 1854-01-06 (London, England)

POISONING AT BERMONDSEY.  Yesterday morning, Mr. W. Carter and a highly respectable jury re-assembled, for the third time, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Bermondsey, to investigate the extraordinary circumstances connected with the death of James George Trump, aged six years, the son of James Trump, a plasterer, residing at 9, Princes-road. It will, no doubt, be recollected that on the 21st of December last the deceased child died, after partaking of a paste prepared by its mother, in some hashed mutton, and that the whole family were afterwards seized with very violent sickness, and from several suspicious circumstances the inquiry was twice adjourned for the purpose of an analysis of the stomach being made. It may be as well to state that an infant, aged 17 months, did not partake of any of the paste, and was not taken ill.  Yesterday it was proved by s medical gentleman, that the stomach of the deceased contained arsenic. The same poison was also found on the remains of a pudding, of which the deceased had partaken. It also appeared by the same evidence that both father and mother had partaken of the poison. The Coroner, in summing up, said—Since I have been in office, have never had such a case before me. There is no doubt that a great wrong has been committed, but where to attach the criminality I am at a loss to say. You, gentlemen, must consider where the suspicion lays. The father buys the flour, and the dumpling is made by the mother. The flour has no doubt been tampered with by some person. The mystery is not the death of the deceased, but the fact of the mother being taken ill, and arsenic being discovered into their vomit. By order of the Coroner, the court was cleared of all except the jury, and, after about an hour's consultation, the public were re-admitted, and the father and mother were called into the room. The Coroner, addressing the father and mother, said —lt has been found by the jury that your son has died from poison, but by whom administered there is no evidence to prove ; but I hope it will not be long before the matter is brought to light, for whoever has administered it has been guilty of a most heinous murder. From the evidence there is no charge against either of you ; but I can only repeat that the case is fraught with the greatest suspicion, and that a most foul wrong has been I done. The jury have also requested me to read their verdict to you, and it is this—" That the deceased child died from poison, arsenic being found in the food of which he partook ; but we have no satisfactory proof how it became mixed therewith." At the conclusion of the inquiry the Coroner said he hoped the police would not lose sight of the case, but endeavour to bring to justice those who had committed so foul a crime.
The Sun. — 1854-08-26 (London, England)

THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—fir. J. F. Campbell, barrister, late secretary to the Duke of Argyll, is appointed assistant secretary to the hoard, at 6001. per perititending annum.; Mr. H. Austin, C E., consulting engineer, at 1,0001. ; Mr. Ranger. C E., uperintending inspector, One at 8001. Mr. Raminell and Mr. R. Rawlinson, late suinspectors, were offered appointments, and have declined. There are to be two superintendiii, inspectors. by a appointment remains to be made. 'The appointment ~f Mr. Toni Taylor, as secretary with salary of 1.0001. per annum, was announced earlier.—The Builder. SHOCKING MURDER IN THE 87TH REGIMENT —Lettersgal Presidency, menfrom the 87th Regimeet, at present stationed in had a brother in the regiment' India, at Rawul pi I in the Ben tion the • n' ee' particulars of a very shocking murder, perpetratedwoman from the Butts, in Dublin, named Mary Walsh, private, named Cestelloe, on his wife, a young aged twenty-two years. It appears that the deceased Wide the regiment in Lydia, a man of very excellent character, and through him became acquainted with Costelloe, whilst at the depot in Chatham, where she mar rind him. When Walsh and Costello° were going out the young woman was net permitted to accompany the draft. bit she was sent out to her husband along with the la,t draft, and joined the regiment at Rawul Pindee last February. Several of the soldiers who are natives of Kilkenny frequently accompanied her brother to see her ; and although there was no blemish whatever upon her character, her husband exhibited much jealousy of any man who spoke to her, and they became very unhappy. In the beginning of May a detachment was sent from the regiment to Murree-hills. to remain for the summer, and Costelloe and his wife being of the number he there continued his unjust suspicions of the woman, and in the paroxysms of jealousy frequently beat and ill-treated her, On May 24, he made a murderous attack upon her, but she got away, and reported his conduct to the commanding officer, who -placed him under confinement. However, in the evening the officer commanding (Major French, 53d Regiment), ordered his release, and upon 'caviller the guard-room he proceeded to drink, and, maddened by ar- j dent spirits, he went home and beat his wife in the most dreadful manner. As soon as he freed her she ran out of the bungalo vv, with the intention of again reporting him, but he pursued and overtook her. She cried out that he was choking her, and although there were about twenty of the soldiers within a few yards of the scene, they did not interfere, supposing lie only meant to stop her from going to make the report ; but almost instantaneously they saw her fall to the ground with her throat cut from ear to ear, and her head nearly severed from her body. The murderer was at once seized by his comrades, and it was found- that he had committed the dreadful deed with a razor which the spectators had not previously perceived in his hands, as it was dark-at the Alton. The wretched murderer, who .is a Centiaught IftalNcas expooted to be tried by ootirixtrial. -....
The Sun. — 1854-10-05 (London, England)

ICES. n a , sq., , rth d ht f Thomas Crn dll E u auger o • three 'cl k i. co oc yesterday morning he was on duty at the . Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.-" Fifty years' indesc . LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PR of Bermondsey. The first division of the Cambrid la' • and there was, lastly, the testimony of the police con- t ______ ges ire Militia, n po ic -station, Bermondsey, when o. person came and (Denman) 2 agony from dyspepsia nervousness asthma, cough, consta- Dividend Amount Lord Wilton' 0 - Paid. Price. - . of sisting of about 320 men, arrived in Dublin on W e" stables from the , dockyard. Now the charge aeainst e informed him that a man was murdering his wife at 25, s rson, 3 yrs, Bat 31b (40/.)....A5hma11) 3 pation, flatulency, sp;sms sickness' at the stomach ancl voName of Company. • per ednesda one of manslaughter, and that char e The followin Annum. Share. .D I E .D. from Liverpool. The second division, of about th y Mr. Knight is _ . _ g Parish-street. Witness at once proceeded to the house, Laur ' g also ran :-Epinician, Bridekirk, and mitings, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. ___-__ _ e same must have a certain amount of evidence for a jury to d a Selma. -Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Cure X s. d. X s. d. strength, was to arrive the next day. The regiment d 'lt of it, and it should have a cer- an on entering the passage saw marks of blood on the Bettin E f-F On the 3d inst., at his residence at Camberwell, Thomas ur- convict a person gui y stairs. He went up-stairs, and in the back attic saw a g- ven on Orson 3tolast E • ' ' 4tNo 3 900 -Thirteen years' cough indigestion, and gene, g pinician, o • , • ' B ' 11 t Rank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 181/10 ' ing its stay in Dublin will be quartered ia the P 1 ' t b de f • 1 agst Lou' u arry s exce en ien Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 a 0 203/ 0 Ruston E fth Corn Exchange, aged. 67.. g , sq., o e a atme. tam amount of evidence to warren a enc o inagis- . v. oman covered with blood, in bed with a little boy i Ise. Won in a canter by two lengths. A ral debility have been removed by D cure British L n t at Eltham-terrace Levenshulme Mr 10 0 0 210 0 3'. 18s vn the let ins ~ _ _ e , . , . square Royal Barracks. trates in committing upon it. But the only violence Witness asked her wh t th * a was e matter, when she re- ength between the second and third. Food.-James Potter, Athol-street, Perth. . with Caledonian Bank - ... 8/. per cent. t. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10/ 15 Robert Wri le of the tirm•or uwen, Marriott, and Wrigthat has been proved to have been inflicted on deceased plied that her husband, who was in bed on the second
The Sun. — 1854-03-14 (London, England)

ITALY.  A telegraphic despatch, dated Naples, 4th inst., says, several earthquakes have just taken place in Calabria, and have excited great alarm. The damage done is immense. The number of persons killed exceeds 2,000. In the sitting of the 9th of the Piedmontese Chamber, M. Tecchio, the reporter on the bill for certain modifications in the Penal Code, defended it against the clerical members, showing that a perfect separation between the civil and ecclesiasatical powers of tile state had been preached by the most eminent Catholic divines. The general discussion being then closed, Art. 1, which enacts that minor offences against the State are punishable by arrest and by a fie not exceeding 500 f., was adopted without discussion. Art. 2is as follows :  " The ministers of worship, who, in the exercise of their functions, shall, in any public meeting, deliver a speech containing censures, on the institutions and laws of the State, are liable to imprisonment for a period of from three months to two years. The punishment shall be from six months to three years' imprisonment, if the censures shall have been uttered by means of writing, instructions, or other documents of any form whatever, read at public places. In all the above-mentioned cases, the punishment of imprisonment shall be accompanied with a fine not exceeding 2,000 f." The discussion of this article was adjourned to the following day. _ . . _  The U. S. steam-frigate Sarranac, Capt. Long, john, arrived at Genoa on the Bth. "At the commencement of the winter a very serious emeutc broke out in the town of Faenza. The cause or pretext of it was the dearness of bread. The gonfalonier of the place was murdered ; there were also other victims. Order, however, was re-established, and numerous arrets were effected. Three of the prisoners accused of being the ringleaders were brought to trial, and were recently condemned to death. Thereupon a deputation consisting of three of the principal inhabitants of Faenza left for Rome, and arrived here three days ago. They solicited on audience of the Pope, in order to obtain the pardon or a commutation of the punishment of two out of three of the condemned— only one of them being in the opinion of the deputation really guilty. The Pope has not yet admitted the deputation to the Vatican, and it is not known whether he will do so. In the meantime the presence of this deputation at Rome has produced great sensation and embarrasses tke Government. On the one hand, the numerous murders committed in the legations call for an energetic repression ; on the other, if the deputation returns.to Fsenza without the pardon of those whom it alleges to be innocent, the discontent will be very great. If, however, it should obtain that support, the tribunals, terrified in their turn at the little support they will receive from the superior Government, will remain without energy and without vigilance. The question is then very grave.
The Sun. — 1854-07-27 (London, England)

EST FO R E IGN NE WS,  THE WAR.  CONSTANTINOPLE.  A letter from Constantinople of July 15, says : The following news has been received by express from Omer Pacha :—" The despatches of Hassan Haki Pacha, commanding the body of troops at Rutschuk, announce that after the victory gained at Kama by the Ottoman troops over the Russians, the latter retreated the night after the battle of Slaposia and Giurgevo. Ali Pacha, brigadiergeneral, was sent with a sufficient force to take possession of those towns. The Turks hoisted the Imperial banner immediately on entering, firing a salute of 21 guns to celebrate the event. The general immediately gave the inhabitants of the towns every assurance of his protection, and ordered fortifications to be thrown up forthwith." The following brief note has been received from a military officer at Silistria  " SILISTRIA, July 4.—Nothing new of importance. lam busy sketching out a plan. The Turks are drawing together. The great camp at Kalarasch is hourly diminishing. General Ludcrs still occupies it with two divisions." July 5. The Russians who were encamped in front of us have for the most part disappeared. There (ally remain there now from 12,000 to 15,000 men. Where are they gone to ? Instead of proceeding to the Pruth, I rather suspect they are going against Austria. Here all is very quiet." Lieutenant Burke, R.E., Captain Meynell, and another English gentleman whose name is not ascertained, were killed in the action near Rutschuk.  The subject which at present most interests all persons taking an interest in politics—and who does not do so now, and especially at Constantinople?— is the position assumed by Austria towards Russia. According to accounts brought here yesterday from Vienna by the Ottoman Secretary of Legation, M. Stella, it would appear that the Emperor Nicholas has given the bearers of the Austrian ultimatum for the evacuation of the principalities an answer well in keeping with his reputation for haughty daring. On receiving them he is stated to have told them, that if their Emperor wanted war he should have it, but that neither he or their young master would, in all probability, see the end of it. In the meanwhile the success of the Turkish arms has thrown a shadow over the exploits of the Rus-, sian generals, which will not be easily wiped out. Their prestige is done for. It will be remembered that some weeks since the disappearance of an English soldier at 6cutari created a great sensation here. Two Montenegrins have been arrested at Uukiar-Skelessi by the Turkish police. In the. house in which they were concealed the complete uniform of a British soldier was found, and there seems to be no doubt that the unfortunate man was murdered by them. These men are in prison, but have as yet obstinately denied the charge. The matter has been referred to Lord Raglan.  The late Captain Parker's ship Firebrand is still here, but will return to the Black Sea to-morrow.
The Sun. — 1854-06-22 (London, England)

LEGALISING RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS.---According to advices from St. Petersburg, received on Monday, the Prussian Consul in London had been appointed to legalise all official documents for Russia. It appears, however, that it is the Danish Consul-General, and not the Prussian Consul, by whom the service is to be undertaken, arrangements to that effect having been made by the Danish Minister at this Court. MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR LEICESTER —A murder of a most deliberate and shocking character was committed on the Hinckley turnpike-road, near Leicester, between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night. As two men, named Mason, were proceeding to Coventry fair, they discovered the body of a man lying by the roadside, near a lonely spot called Braunstown Spinnies. Life was quite extinct, and they hastened to a public-house, kept by Mr. Hitchcock, about half a mile distant. They called the landlord up, told him what they had seen, and then left on their way to Coventry. Mr. Hichcock called up a cottager who lives close by, and they went to the spot pointed out by the Masons, where they found the lifeless body of Mr. Samuel Adcock, farmer, of Ashby Shrubs, Enderby-lane, a place about 5 miles from Leicester. They found a gunshot wound at the base of the skull, at the back of the head, a ball having lodged in the upper part. It was evident that the murderer had fired at his victim when close to him, and the deceased appears to have fallen violently forward, after he received the fatal wound, as his right elbow and knee are injured from coming in . contact with the road ; the body then seems to have been dragged to the road-side and the pockets rifled. Whilst Mr. Hitchcock and the cottager were making an examination the mail cart from Nuneaton drove up, and intelligence was sent on to Leicester, Mr. Chief-Constable Goodyer hastened to the scene, and the body was removed to the school-room at Braunston. The deceased's hat and neckerchief were missing, and during the day the hat has been found by a policeman, about 100 yards from the body, having been thrown over a hedge into a spinny. Mr. Thomas Macaulay and Mr. Moore succeeded in extracting a bullet, which is one of those generally attached to fishing nets for the purpose of sinking them. The deceased, who had been to market, was last seen about seven o'clock. There is a cottage a short distance from the spot where the murder was committed, and one of the inmates states that she heard a report of fire-arms about half-past twelie o'clock. The police are out in all directions making inquiries, but up to the present time nothing has transpired to lead to the detection of the murderer ; and it is supposed that more than one person was concerned, as the deceased was a powerful man, weighing 15 or 16 stone, and about 6 feet high, and one man would have great difficulty in removing the body. The deceased was about 26 years of age, and much respected.