The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-12-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXANONATION OF THE PRISONERS.  At half-past three o'clock on Saturday a prison van was taken to the House of Detention, and the three prisoners having been lodged therein, police-constables, armed with cutlasses and revolver+' took their places inside and ilit, and the van escorted, by about forty mounted police armed to the teeth, proceeded to Bow-street. As the van entered that well-known thoroughfare the street was comparatively empty, as It was generally believed that the examination would have been conducted at the House of Detention; but in a very few seconds a great crowd had assembled, and before the prisoners were taken out it had become necessary that a lane should lie kept by the police, who hurried across from the station-house for the purpose. As the two men and the woman left the van the crowd groaned end hissed most vehemently, to the no small apparent discomfiture of the accused. They were conduct.% by armed policemen straight to the dock, and at half-post four o'clock they were placed at the bar before Sir Thomas Henry, and gave the names of Timothy Desmond, Jeremiah Allen, and Anne Justice. The charge, which was to the effect that the priseuers had committed wilful murder, in association with some other persons, by means of gunpowder or other destructive composition, had been read to the accused by Mr. Superintendent (lemon, who hail entered it, before they left the House of Detention, where on hearing it the w,,.... Justice—a conimon Irish name—cried bitterly. In the court, however, they all heard it comparatively unmoved, and the evidence MIN then proceeded with.  John Moore, chief warder of the House of Detention, said —Between 2. and 3 o'clock on Friday my attention was called by • police-constable to the fact of a mail loitering about the outside of the prison and refusing to go away, and that he was Joined by a woman named Anne Justice. I hound the name out by referring to the visitors' book, as she bad been to see the prisoner Casey. They were reconnoit Ting the building, and piloting along the thoroughfares approaching the prison. I saw Allen loitering about, and also In a room at the top of one of the houses. While I was informing the governor of these suspicious circumstances we heard a great explosion. In passing that way afterwards I saw a large breach In the well of the exercise ground. The breach was fifty to sixty yards wide. There was a great heap of rubbish ill the yard formed by the wall falling in I thick Desmond is one of the men I saw there. I arts quite sure about Allen. I had recommended that he should be taken into custody for loitering for unlawful purposes. The prisoners being asked II they wished to cross-exaniine the witness, Allen observed, " What he has said is nearly all Into."  Justice said she went out to get Casey some dinner, not knowing him herself, but having been asked to do so by his mother. She was about to enter into some further particw tars when Sir Thomas Henry observed that she had better reserve her defence till she had heard the evidence. Desmond asked how long he was there. The witness said not above one or two minutes.  After some other evidence was given, Mr (lemon applied for a remand, which the chief magistrate at once granted. The prisoners were not removed back to the House of Detention. It is not deemed prudent to state In what prison they are now lodged ; bat the public may rest assured that they, with Burke and Casey, are safe for the present at any rate.  The three prisoners were brought up on remand on Monday al tenioon at Bow street, before Sir Thomas Henry, for further examination. The prisoners gave the names of It 310111 -1( DESMOND, JEREMIAH ALLEN, and