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The Sun. — 1845-03-29 (London, England)

MURDER.—Susannah Jarvis, an interesting-looking girl, of the age of 13, was placed at the bar, charged with the murder of Emma Golsby, at Coventry, on the 22d of April last. Mr. Mellor and Mr. Adams were for the prosecution; Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., conducted the defence. This case was tried at the last summer assizes for this division of the county, and lasted a whole day, but the jury, after being locked up through the night, not being able to agree, were discharged. At the winter assizes the trial was postponed, on the prisoner's application, on account of her not being able to obtain the assistance of Mr. Humfrey, who defended her on the previous occasion, but who does not attend the winter assizes.  The trial now came on, and lasted the greater portion of the day, but the main facts are shortly these :—The and had been acting as a prisoner nurse cionm frome ser Kenilworth,vice of lair. a n Airs. Golsby, who kept an inn called the Canal Tavern, Leicester-row, just entering the town from Leicester. Mrs. Golsby had three children, of whom the deceased, a child in arms, was the youngest. The prisoner had been in their service three or four months, and but a short time before the murder had been scolded for bringing the child home with its throat scratched. Her mistress asked her what it, was, to which she replied, "Nothing." It was suppOsed she did not treat the child well, as it was never willing to go to her. There was a woman-servant kept in the house, and happening to be going to Kenilworth, she told the prisoner she would call and tell her parents of her conduct, and that if she did not behave better, she should be sent home. On the night of the murder, Mrs. Gulaby had proceeded up stairs to put one of the children in bed, leaving another, about nine years old, in the bar, and the baby In the cradle in the kitchen. There is a short passage leading from the kitchen into the yard, and the little girl in the bar saw the prisoner come from the kitchen into the passage, saying, she was going to the " petty." She saw her at the kitchen door, and then returned into the bar. The mother was up stairs, and was struck by hearing a curious moaning noise, and shortly after a sharp cry. The distance -where she was from the kitchen was but short. She ran down in a moment, and met the prisoner just coming out of the kitchen, who said, " Oh, ma'am, man has just come in and murdered baby, and has gone away down the yard." The poor mother rushed in, and saw the child murdered in the cradle, the instrument used being a carving knife that lay on the dresser, and was within the reach of any person standing at the head of the cradle. The death was caused by a thrust in the neck above the collar-bone, extending into the chest. Several witnesses for the defence Rroved that a man had been seen much about the time in question on the premises and to go away, and it was that circumstance that had induced the doubt in the minds of the former jury. These were the principal features of the case. The Learned JUDGE summed up with great minutejury, after deliberating a short time, found thenes minuteness,prisonerandthe Not Guilty.
The Sun. — 1845-12-01 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT KENNINGTON THE INQUEST.  On Saturday, at half-past three o'clock, Mr. Carter, one of the coroners for Surrey, and a respectable jury, assembled at the Peacock Inn, High-street, Newington, to inq'iire into the circumstances attendant on the lamentable death of Daniel Fitzgerald. The witnesses who were examined at the Lambeth police-office repeated their evidence, which has already appeared in The Sun.  Mr. %V. Papham, surgeon. 01 3, Queen's Head-row, Newington, deposed that on Thursday evening as he was walking along High-street, Newington, he heard the loud report of a gun or pistol. It appeared to be louder than the ordinary report of a pistol, and immediately after he saw a person run out from the end of the street from where the i eport proceeded. He did not take any particular notice of the man, but immediately after another man, dressed in a flannel-jacket, ran out, and said, " Stop him, he has shot a man." He then came to the end of Peacock-street, from whence the man ran out, and seeing a policeman enter the house they were then in, he was induced to follow, and saw a man lying on a table. There was a slight pulsation at the time, but he died immediately after. He examined the head, and not observing any injury, he opened his chest and observed some blood. He also observed a circular wound on bhe left side of the breast, apparently caused by a gun-shot. He removed the dross of the deceased, and was enabled to see that the bullet had passed out behind. Mr. Smith and myself probed the wound, but the probe not being sufficiently lung did not pass through. The wound he had was such as would be caused by the mark of a bullet. I was then of opinion that his death must have been immediate, from the nature of the wound. On making a post •mo, tem examination, he found on the chest a large quantity of serum and blood. The bullet entered the chest by the pericardium, passed through the heart and lower edge of the left lung, and ultimately made its exit, after passing through the eleventh rib, through the back on the left side. The wound is of such a nature as to produce instant death. There were no injuries on the body, and the wound he described was, therefore, undoubtedly, the cause of death. From the nature and position of the wound, I am of opinion that the person receiving it must have been either standing or sitting when he repeived it, and the ball must have been discharged at the front of his person. The bullet produced was such a one as would have inflicted a wound such as that he had described.  Mr. CARTER here asked Mr. Inspector Carter whether, if the case was adjourned until Wednesday next, he could produce any witness to show the animus ? Mr. Carter said he could produce the brother or stepbrother of Quennell, and also another witness, who had been examined before the magistrate, but who was not present. The CORONER thought it was but right the jury should have the best evidence to be procured and accordingly adjourned the inquiry till Wednesday next.
The Sun. — 1845-12-01 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT KENNINGTON. THE INQUEST. On Saturday, at half-past three o'clock, Mr. Carter, one of the coroners for Surrey, and a respectable jury, assembled at the Peacock Inn, High-street, Newington, to impire into the circumstances attendant on the lamentable death of Daniel Fitzgerald. The witnesses who were examined at the Lambeth police-office repeated their evidence, which has already appeared in The Sun. •  Mr. W. Papham, surgeon, of 3, Queen's Head-row, Newington, deposed that on Thursday evening as he was walking along High-street, Newington, he heard the loud report of a gun or pistol. It appeared to be louder than the ordinary report of a pistol, and immediately aftt r he saw a person run out from the end of the street from where the z eport proceeded. He did not take any particular notice of the man, but immediately after another man, dressed in a flannel-jacket, ran out, and said, " Stop him, he has shot a man." He then came to the end of Peacock-street, from whence the man ran out, and seeing a policeman enter the house they were then in, he was induced to follow, and saw a man lying on a table. There was a slight pulsation at the time, but he died immediately after. He examined the head, and not observing any injury, he opened his chest and observed some blood. He also observed a circular wound on the left side of the breast, apparently caused by a gun-shot. He removed the dress of the deceased, and was enabled to see that the bullet had passed out behind. Mr. Smith and myself probed the wound, but the probe not being sufficiently long did not pass through. The wound he had was such as would be caused by the mark of a bullet. I was then of opinion that his death must have been immediate, from the nature of the wound.' On making a post•lno'tem examination, he found on the chest a large quantity of serum and blood. The bullet entered the chest by the pericardium, passed through the heart and lower edge of the left lung, and ultimately made its exit, after passing through the eleventh rib, through• the back on the left side. The wound is of such a nature as to produce instant death. There were no injuries on the body, and the wound he described was, therefore, undoubtedly, the cause of death. From the nature and position of the wound, I am of opinion that the person receiving it must have been either standing or sitting when he received it, and the ball musthave been discharged at the front of his person. The bullet produced was such a one as would have inflicted a wound such as that he had described.  Mr. CARTER here asked Mr. Inspector Carter whether, if the case was adjourned until Wednesday next, he could produce any witness to show the animus? Mr. Carter said he could produce the brother or stepbrother of Quennell, and also another witness, who had been examined before the magistrate, but who was not present. The CORONER thought it was but right the jury should have the best evidence to be procured and accordingly adjourned the inquiry till Wednesday next.
The Sun. — 1845-03-25 (London, England)

THE EXECUTION OF JAMES TAPPING.  The unfortunate criminal who yesterday expiated in front of the prison of Newgate the crime of which he had been convicted, namely, the murder of Emma Whiter, at Bethnal-green, had all along, we are happy to say,paid the utmost attention to the admonitions of the reverend chaplain, Mr. Davis; but up to the last moment he strenuously denied that he was guilty of tho deadimputed to him, and insisted, with every appearance of sincerity, that the unfortunate girl had herself, in a passion of jealousy, put a termination to her existesee. Nor did the visits of his relatives elicit anything like a confession from him; for, though subdued to a childlike weakness, he still maintained his innocence. To the clergyman who unceasingly attended him he acknowledged that his career had been a vicious one, but trusted that God would forgive him, as he himself freely forgave all men. His relations attribute the melancholy catastrophe to the pernicious libels contained in the anonymous letters which were sent both to the prisoner and the deceased by some cowardly and malicious scoundrels ; but the unfortunate man himself traces his first error to the circumstance of his frequenting what are popularly called "night concert-rooms." It will be remembered by our readers that it was in returning from one of these places that the quarrel occurred which resulted in the death of the girl. The prisoner was fully aware that his sentence was not likely to be in any degree commuted, and had in consequence made up his mind to meet his fate with firmness.  On this the last morning of his life, he rose about five o'clock, and, having dressed, passed the hours till seven in earnest devotion. He then took breakfast with, as he himself said, " a good appetite," eating a buttered roll and a slice of toast, and drinking two cups of tea, and an equal number of cups of coffee. He was then waited as by Mr. Sheriff Sidney and the Under-Sheriffs, in the condemned cell, where he gave a letter of thanks into the hands of the Under-Sheriffs, and another letter, unsealed, into the hands of the Chaplain, to be given to his relations. We subjoin both of these:— . . . . .  " James Tapping returns his grateful thanks to the Governor, the Chaplain, and Sheriffs, to his friends, and the officers of the gaol, for their very kind attention, and, if it meets with the Governor's approbation, he should like his sisters Betsy and Mary to receive his clothes. " JAMES TAPPING, March 23, 1845." The request conveyed in this note will, of course, be at once complied with by Mr. Cope. The other letter is as follows:  " My dear Brothers and Sisters,—Receive the last wishes of your unfortunate brother, and God grant yoni may proeper in all your undertakings. Do not think him neglectful, and forgive him as he hopes to be forgiven. I feel greatly f,,r your situation, but I hope and trust that Almighty God will give you all sufficient strength to bear it, is the sincere wish of your unfortunate brother, "
The Sun. — 1845-03-12 (London, England)

THAMES POLICE.  DEFRAUDING A GAS COMPANY.—Yesterday, Henry Nicks, the landlord of the Cricketers public-house in London-street, Ratcliffe, was charged on a summons with committing a fraud on the British Gaslight Company, who sued for a penalty of 101. It appeared that the defendant was a gas consumer, and that his bill for the first quarter, commencing in :Ikeptember, 1844, was a very large one, but in the succeeding quarter the register, as denoted by the meter, exhibited a very great dionution, and a suspicion arose in the mind of Mr. Grumwood, the Company's inspector, that a fraud was being practised. On the lit of March, i❑ company with another man, named Coote, he examined the meter in the defendant's cellar, and found the inlet pipe disconnected from the service pipe, and the outlet pipe belonging to the meter disconnected from the fittings or pipe leading to the burners• in the bar, parlour, and tap-room, consequently the meter was out of action, and no gas passed through it. Another pipe was connected with the service pipe which led to the burners, and no register was kept. Any quantity of gas could be consumed without the Company knowing anything about it. It was also proved that oa a former occasion Coote wished to examine the meter, and was told their was a fierce dog in the cellar, which turned out to be false.  Mr. Bucomury sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of Si. and the costs of the prosecution. The penalty was paid. MURDEROUS AssAm..T.—Yesterday two young men, named Thomas Wilmott, a currier, and John White, a cigar manufacturer, were brought before Mr. Broderip on remand, charged with wounding William bridges, a painter and glazier, with intent to do him bodily harm. The prisoners have been in custody since the 10th of February, and the prosecutor, who became an inmate of the hospital on that day, could not attend till yesterday. It appeared from his evidence that early on the morning of the 10th of February he was in the Globe and Friends publichouse, in Morgan-street, St. George-in-the-East, when a quarrel took place between him and the prisoners. Wilmott struck him under the ear, and he returned the blow. A row ensued, and the prisoners, who struck the potboy with some hard substance, which one of them had tied up in a handkerchief, were turned out of the house. A few minutes afterwards Bridges left the house, and found the prisoners waiting for him. White struck him with some instrument, which appeared to be about ten or twelve inches long, on the forehead, and inflicted a dangerous wound. He fell to the ground, and when he rose he laid hold of his assailant, on which the other prisoner, Wilmott, struck him with something he had in his hand, supposed to be a stone. He was removed to the London Hospital, and Mr. Ward, the housesurgeon, stated that when he was brought there he was bleeding profusely from an irregular wound on the scalp, a little above the left brow. The man was for some time in danger.—The prisoners were committed for trial,
The Sun. — 1845-07-03 (London, England)

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE.  The present number is the commencement of the second volume of the Magazine, and we are rejoiced to find the editor acknowledging " the success that has firmly established the Shilling Magazine as a public ()Tan.' We rejoice at this, because it shows that notwithstanding the oceans of " Balaam" with which the reading world has of late been inundated, there is still extant among us a good sound taste, which can appreciate and reward vigorous, nervous, and manly writing such as constitutes the staple of Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. We have two new chapters of "St. Giles and St. James." Poor St. Giles is aroused from his sleep in the barn of the Lamb and Star, and arrested on a charge of having murdered and robbed St. James. Some smugglers have had their attention attracted by booing a saddled horse grazing by the road-side, and on proceeding a short distance they find St. James lying in the road, senseless, and bleeding from a terrific wound in the skull. On examining him they find that he still breathes, and, as one of them phrases it, that he has been altogether robbed and well-nigh murdered. They carry him to Dovesnest, the residence of Mr. Ebenezer Snipeton, the husband of the lovely Clarissa, and in spite of the opposition of Dorothy Vale, the servant, leave him there. Snipeton is from home, Clarissa enters the room, sees St. James, who has just recovered his consciousness, and the lovers (fur they are lovers) recognise each other. Snipeton is an old usurer to whom poor Clarissa has been sacrificed :  " It was here, at Dovesnest, that the thrifty money-seller kept his young wife close—far away, and safe, as he thought, from the bold compliments, the reckless gallantry of the rich young men who, in their frequent time of need, paid visits to the friend who, the security certain as the hour, never failed to assist them. Mr. Snipeton was not, in the ordinary matters of life, a man who underrated his own advantages, moral and physical. Sooth to say, he was, at times, not unapt to set what detraction might have thought an Interested value on them. And yet, what a touchstone for true humility in man, is woman ! Ebenezer Snipeton, in all worldly dealings, held himself a match for any of the money-coining sons of Adam. He could lance with a guinea —and sure we are guinea-fencing is a far more delicate art ; is an exercise demanding a finer touch, a readier sleight, than the mere twisting of steel foils :—he could fence, nay, with even the smallest current coin of the realm, and—no matter who stood against him—come off conqueror. Gold,' say FAelley, is the old man's sword.' And most wickedly at times, wilt hoary.-hearded men, with blood as cold and thin as water in their veins, hack and 41141:i with it l They know —the grim, palsied warriors ! how the weapon will cut heart-strings ; they know what wounds it will inflict but UM? t 44 WQ44cl# 1;)40 inwardly ; there is no outward and
The Sun. — 1845-07-03 (London, England)

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. The present number is the commencement of the second volume of the Magazine, and we are rejoiced to find the editor acknowledging " the success that has firmly established the Shilling Magazine as a public o-gan." We rejoice at this, because it shows that notwithstanding the oceans of " Balaam" with which the reading world has of late been inundated, there is still extant among us a good sound taste, which can appreciate and reward vigorous, nervous, and manly writing such as constitutes the staple of Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. We have two new chapters of "St. Giles and St. James." Poor St. Giles is aroused from his sleep in the barn of the Lamb and' Star, and arrested on a charge of having murdered and robbed St. James. Some smugglers have had their attention attracted by seeing a saddled horse grazing by the road-side, and on proceeding a short distance they find St. James lying in the road, senseless, and bleeding from a terrific wound in the skull. On examining him they find that he still breathes, and, as one of them phrases it, that he has been altogether robbed and well-nigh murdered. They carry him to Dovesnest, the residence of Mr. Ebenezer Snipeton, the husband of the lovely Clarissa, and in spite of the opposition of Dorothy Vale, the servant, leave him there. Snipeton is from home, Clarissa enters the room, sees St. James, who has just recovered his consciousness, and the lovers (for they are lovers) recognise each other. Snipeton is an old usurer to whom poor Clarissa has been sacrificed : " It was here, at Dovesnest, that the thrifty money-seller kept his young wife close—far away, and safe, as he thought, from the bold compliments, the reckless gallantry of the rich young men who, in their frequent time of need, paid visits to the friend who, the security certain as the hour, never failed to assist them. Mr. Snipeton was not, in the ordinary matters of life, a man who underrated his own advantages, moral and physical. Sooth to say, he was, at times, not unapt to set what detraction might have thought aninterested value on them. - And yet, what a touchstone for true humility in man, is woman I Ebenezer Snipeton, in all worldly dealings, held himself a match for any of the money-coining sons of Adam. lle could fence with a guicea —and sure we are guinea-fencing is a far more delicate art ; is an exercise demanding a finer touch, a readier sleight, :Ilan the mere twisting of steel foils :—he could fence, nay, with even the smallest current coin of the realm, and—no matter who stood against him—come off conqueror. ` Gold,' says Shelley, is the old man's sword.' And most wickedly at times, will hoary-bearded men, with blood as cold and thin as water in theligyeina, hack and slash-with-R.l. Iheykreow —the grim, palsied warriors I how the weapon .will cut . heart-strings ; they know what wounds will inflict ; but then, the wounds bleed inwardly ; there is no outward and