The Sun. — 1844-02-05 (London, England)

STANDARD.—A foolish motion of Mr. Sharman accessory to the fact. Before T. Bell, Esq., M.P., of Thirsk, and Edmund Turton, Esq., of Kildale Cleveland, two of her Majesty's Crawford, to the effect that the House should abstain Jtistices of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire.—William from offering any opinion upon the inviolability of the Moffat deposed—l am a gamekeeper to Lord Normanby, and pro. union with Ireland, and thus leave the question of the ceded, as is my custom, to watch, accompanied by six other men. integrity of the empire an open question, gave occasion to About two o'clock, I heard some shots fired in the direction Mr. Roebuck to allude to the late correspondence between of South-lodge, and we went thither. After concealing ourselves the Attorney-General for Ireland and Mr. Fitzgibbon, for some time, the prisoner and another man came up, and I the counsel for one of the traversers, Doctor Gray. went forward and said to him, " Halloo." He immediately Now, we do not pretend to know or to guess stepped back and fired at me, the shot entering my abdomen. the motives which, . urged Mr. Roebuck to dis(4t this stage of the evidence the prisoner kept crying out, tin Dish himself from the other 658 Members of the 51 0 Lord accept 'my soul ;" " 0 Christ, save him.") I imme. (Reidy fell, and cried out, " I am murdered." One of the House to whom the subject was open, by coming forwatchers then limbed forward, and he knocked him down with ward upon this occasion. Perhaps it was a burnin.e. zeal , the butt' end of his gun. Two others then succeeded in captining for the Constitution and the integrity of the British him. The others escaped. By Mr. Turton—Were You armed empire that has " grown with his growth, and strengthwith guns I.—No, we had only sticks. Did you say anything but ened with his strength ;" perhaps it was an exee halloo r—No. No words of intimidation P—No ; when I was cessive devotion to the interests of the profession lying on the bank ho said, "0, forgive me, and shake hands." of the law—such as is apt to grow ' upon men I laid, " I will, if you Will tell me who was the other man ;" and in the case of a profession in which they are very he said " Matthew Pierson, of Eskdaleside." This witness gave -, .• eminently distinguished ; perhaps it was an inhis evidence in great agony, and lingered on till Tuesday evening, tense horror of the possible resort to personal when he died in excruciating pain. Three watchers then substantoted this evidence. Matthew Pierson said he would give vo. encounters, such as we may expect to find in a man luntary evidence :—He was a farmer's servant in Eskdaleside; that who has through life studiously avoided them, and Charles Lowther had taken him out poaching twice before ; that eschewed all occasions of offering personal offence. this night they had shot four pheasants when the sad catastrophe We will suppose any good motive rather than imagine happened. They were both committed to York Castle for their that he was imitating the party journals in an trial at the Lent Assizes. The murderer is the KM of respectable attempt to obstruct the course of stice by ""abusing parents, large farmers in Cleveland, but has long been a notoriously the prosecutor." But whatever the Learned Gentleman's bad character, and has repeatedly been convicted of poaching, and motive, we must think that his zeal carried him a little was taken up on suspicion when Mrs. Robinson was murdered, too far, in his reprehension' of the Irish Attorney near here, two years ago. ' Generals conduct—carried him the length of proPARLIAMENTARY