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      Another Fatal Confla6bati0s.—Two ^ More ...

      ANOTHER FATAL CONFLA 6 BATI 0 S . —TWO _^ MORE LIVES LOST . Itis our painful duty to record the occurrence of a de structive fire -within the boundary of the City , tf _} uch broke out at half-past one o ' clock on Sunday _jn _-jrmng , and has , _m-fortwuttely , been attended by _hjg-. of fife to the wife and child of one ofthe occupiers . Tlienreori g iiiaf _^ mthebtt _'ddingin-aieoccu - _jpiiou of Messrs . Sitehell and Robertson , hatters and _Snbt ella makers , No . 158 , Fenchureh-street , City . The premises extend a great distance backward , and are adjoined on the western side by Fenchurch-cham _jjera , and on the eastern by Mitre-chambers . Not less than fifteen persons held the apartments forming the first named chambers , the majority of which , as

      well as contiguous buildings fronting Lime-street , are more or less damaged . The house in whieh the outbreak took place had no means of egress at the rear , the back terminating in a wall of solid masonry The -fire was first perceived by Mrs . Satchell , who rising in bed half smothered exclaimed to her hus band , "Good God ! the bouse is on fire . " They were then on the third floor . He immediately roused _jumself , butwas not so collected as Mrs . _SatcheD , who instantly urged bin to escape by the flight of steps leading to the roof . For this purpose they jumped out of bed , and , without staying a moment to put on their clothes , the poor man seized the little girl , their daughter , a fine child about four years old , while bis wife snatched up the infant which

      was sleeping beside her . In the midst of the dense smoke which filled the room , Mr . Satchell conceived that his wife had ascended the staircase leading to the leads , upon reaching which he saw a woman I _*^ at _* ffie to _pof- _- -heffightperfec % He hurriedly caught her up in his arms , and the wicket of the adjoining trapdoor being open , fled with his load precipitatel y down stairs , * umost exhausted , Where he was received by Mr . Teague , ihe acting -police inspector , who took them over the way to the house of Messrs . Harris , Duplex , and Harris , surgeons , by whom they were most humanel y taken in . When Mr . Satchell was taken in he was quite frantic , and apparently unconscious , but shortly afterwards discovered his mistake , in having rescned his

      servant girl , his wife and child being left in the burning building . Upon becoming fully conscious of this _ciriainistanceitwas-withthegreatest'iiiHcdtytto _ivasin the anallest degree pacified . Mr . Isaacs , housekeeper of the _Fench-orch-chambera , was awakened by hearing a loud crackling , as of fire . He _instantiy arose , and upon looking out of the window supposed that Mr . Satchell ' s sleeping room , on the same level as dm own , * _wasm flames . He immediately hallooed " Poh ' oeman , where is the fire ? " Hearing no answer he took his wife , who had been ill for some time , oat of bed , and also his child , and having deposited them npon the landing , gave them strict injunctions " not to stir an inch , until he had ascertained the seat of the fire , lest they should die upon the spot . " Di

      rectly after this , perceiving the rapidity with which the flames were progressing , he -seized both his wife and child , and having carried them down stairs , took them to the front door , where they were received , and afterwards conveyed to Mr . Cape ' s , another surgeon , opposite . Isaacs then returned through the house to the floor he occupied , for the purpose of ¦ reseuiiig tame property . _Ilaying secured one drawer the flames burst into the room through the partition , and before he could seize another tie fire laid hold -apon him , severely "burning off much , of his hair He then made his escape as quickly as possible , but without being able to save even the most -billing article of wearing apparel , except a pair of trousers , which he clutched as he passed down tbe stairs . The

      first _mbmationof the fire to the persons outside the building was given by the volumes of smoke which ascended from the roof , and from the strong glare of light which appeared over the fanlight of the door , wmeh discovery appears to have been made by police constable Heading ( 5 * 79 City ) , who was coming up Rood-lane at the time , and who gave an instant alarm to tiie acting inspector . This officer , with the most praiseworth y foresight , arranged that one constable should call the turncock , another the fire en-K * es , anil others give tbe alarm to the neighbour id by springing their rattles . The result of this was , that by the time water was obtained from the mainsof the New River Company , whieh was quickly and rapidly supplied , and the fire engines arrived , available assistance to almost any necessary extent was at hand . Four engines from the surrounding

      parishes were soon on the spot , and in as short a time as possible Mr . Braidwood , superintendent of the London Fire-engine Establishment , with-the Watiingstreet and five other engines and a corps of engineers andfiremen had arrived , closely-followed by Mr . Connorton _, with the Westof England engine ,-the men belo ** tgbg-to- ' - ' na & co-o _^ the direction of Mr . Garwood , the foreman . Other engines from the more distant stations subsequently arrived . Thehosebeingattached , andled through the adjoming premises of Mr . Chilcot , tailor , Mr . "Varley shoemaker , and in Lime-street through a small court over the roof ofthe counting-house occupied by Mr . Seymour and Sons , copious streams were poured upon the building , -tiie fire in tiie lower part of which

      was raging with the intensity of a furnace , and rapidly extending on every hand . "While the firemen were thus most actively employed , and cheered on by their respective leaders to continue unabated their arduous labour , notwithstanding the great danger arising from the _fil _^ _ug timbers , a rumour became universally prevalent that Mrs . Satchell and her infant son had perished in the flames . For some considerable time the most melancholy interest was oianifested "by "the assembled throng to ascertain the troth , but aH that _eoold be gleaned up to four o ' clock was that both were missing . "Nothing satisfactory could be obtained until after the ruins were cooled before which it was found necessary to stay the progress of the fire in t iie neighbourhood of Lime-street ,

      m whieh vicinity it appeared to be raging most fiercely . By promptmeasures , however , the fire here yielded ; and most fortunately , for in tiie cellars of the building large vats containing several hundred gallons of turpentine were stored , the ignition of which must have led to consequences most fearful to contemplate ; added to which , not more than fifteen feet from this side of Lime-street stands St . Dionis Baekchurch , one of the most ancient metropolitan churches , which then would have been in great danger of injury , if not of total destruction . By dint of great perseverance the flames were eventually subdued , but not before the houses of Messrs . Satchell and Robertson were gutted , and the property contained therein totally consumed . "With this , and the

      extensive damage by fire and water to the adjoining houses and the valuable stock in them , the property lost must amount to several thousand pounds . Mr . Braidwood gave orders that as soon as it vras possible the ruins should be searched . Shortly afterwards , wliile the men were employed in turning over the " rubbish in the several floors , Piercy , one of tiie brigade firemen , found the body of the unfortunate woman on tiie portion ofthe floor which was left standing . The -remains exhibited a most frightful spectacle , the head being partially destroyed , t iie arms burnt off , the intestines protruding , and but a port ion ofthe lower members remaining ! The poor creature -was discovered in a sitting position , near to the jamb by the side of-tiie fireplace , not far from the front window , so

      that it ismost probable thatwhen shefound it was impossible to get up the stairs leading te the trapdoor , which her husband had ascended , from the heat of tiie flames and the _ina-easing fury of the fire , she attempted to reach the window in front , but being overpowered had fallen backwards , and thus perished This supposition is corroborated by some persons , who state that they saw her attempting to raise the sash . Upon searching a little further the mutilated -remains ofthe infant , burnt almost to a cinder , were found . Both of them were deposited in shells without delay , and conveyed to the bonehouse of St . Dionis Baekchurch , in Lime-street , to await the inquisition of tiie coroner . Mr . Robertson , one of the sufferers , makes the foUowing statement : —I was

      suddenly awoke by hearing a violent Knocking at tne sbeet-door , _ai * ompanied % ihe springing of rattles I instantiy got out of bed , and on opening the door of my room , smoke and flames were ascending the staircase . Seeing that not a moment was to be lost , I shouted " Fire I" as loud as I possibly could , and knocked at tiieservanf s door . Some time , however , elapsed before I heard Mr . Satchell answer to the call . "When he did , Imade the best of my way towards fte trap-door on the top of the house . Whilst ascending the steps the smoke and heat were so intense that I tiiought I should be obliged to let go my hold , and drop back on to the stairs . After a deal of t-ronhle , I at last reached the leads on the top of the louse , where I was soon joined by Mr . SatchelL I oni to

      passed on first and got through tiie sm _^ door the roof , and escaped solely by the facihtieB afibrded at the adjoming house . Seeing a woman , whom 1 took for Mrs . Satchell , I have no doubt that her huslandiinagined she had escaped in safely . I am perfectly at a loss to account for the origin of the disaster . When the shop was closed last night , we left _CTo-ything apparently safe and the lights property _atinguished---Mr . SatchelL who was in a dreadful state of - "offering , said that he could not form the -east ilea as to the origin of the disaster . He added _iat he was awoke by his wife shaking hun violently hy the shoulder , when his attention was arrested by hearing the breaking _ofj-lass and the _sprmgingol _tte pohceman ' s ratfle . Upon lifting up his head he

      « mad -the place filled with smoKe , ana weneax , m wc _*&** of a second or so was quite overpowermg . On _• _Jniaig the loek ofthe door the dense masseslofsmoSe " ¦ at wer e _aseendine the staircase burst the door completely open . His , wife , he added , said , " Oh let us " ate for the top of the house without delay . ' She _fl-en appeared much more cool and collected than he _P ° * dd have _-jxpected under the circumstances . Havm left the room together , bethoughtshe _^ ouldhave followed "him , tatonreaching thelandinghe suddenly ¦ _* - _•***•* her , and on looking up the ladder he saw a woman at the top , who he imagined was his wife , ana _fsbed up toovertakeher , whenhe saw her drop on the _^ insensible . Having aroused her . they escaped « ' » ugh the adjoininghouse , and thence oyer to _* _' _*»« . Harris , Duplex , and Harris's , when he for

      Another Fatal Confla6bati0s.—Two ^ More ...

      - the first -fame . _Ascoreredttathis " wifewas _nrassing . His farm opinion is that on finding that the smoke was so dense , she retarned to ono of the rooms in the _K e 8 Ca P 8 _•*•* and that she afterwards rushed _mtotoeroom where her body waafound , expecting to if It _? , i ° L ' ? e wladow _' but ** " _£ overcome by the heat fell backwards , and perished with the child in her arms . Daring the whole period the fire was purnmg no escape was brought to the snot . Subjoined ai copy of the official report of the damage , supplied by Mr . Braidwood , the superintendent of the London Brigade : — " June 1 st , half-past oneo _' clock a . m . —A firebroke outatNo . 158 , Fenchureh-street , City , in the occupation of Messrs . SatchellandRobinson , umbrella manufacturers and hatters . The cause of fire unknown . About three parts of the interior of premises consumed . Part of front floors left standbi ? . and also

      _theiront and back walls . The whole of the stock in trade , fixtures , < fcc ., destroyed . Two lives lost . Insurance unknown at present . "No . 159 , Fenchureh-street ( termed Fenchurchchambers ) . —The _third-floor . Mr . Henry Isaacs , housekeeper . Two rooms on third-floor burnt out , the furniture consumed , and the window-frames , with roof , partly destroyed . The stairs seriously burnt , and fiont rooms extensively -damaged by fire . The bmlding was insured in the West of England office for £ 2 , 000 , and Mr . Isaacs was also insured in the same office . Messrs . Champion and Co ., a similar damage . * No . 159 , Hyamaud AnseH , merchants . A considerable damage by fire and water . Insurance unknown . Mr . W . D . Kiss , solicitor r contents severely damaged . Insured in the West of England office .

      "No . 139 , Fenchureh-street . —Messrs . Picknell , Brothers , shipowners ; building and stock severely injured by water . Messrs . Duncan , wine-merchants ; a similar damage to premises-and contents . Unknown if insured . Mr . J . W . Gordon , countinghouse burnt out , and the contents with the windowfiames destroyed . Not known if insured . Mr . S . "Varlev , bootmaker ; stock in trade extensively damaged by water . Uninsured . _^ No . 157 , Fenchureh-street ( the Mitre Chambers ) . —Mr . J . 5 . Bell , barrister ; side windows burnt out , and contents damaged in back room , ground floor . The side wall greatly injured by heat . Unknown whether or not insured . "No . 21 , Lime-street ( under 159 ) , Mr . W . Willis , greengrocer and coal-merchant . —Great damage to contents by water . Insured in the Union office .

      "No . 22 , Lime-street , Mr . J . Bnckmore , trunk and bedstead maker . —Contents severely injured by water , & c . Insured in the Phoenix office . " No . 23 and 25 , Lime-street , Messrs . Heating and Co ., provision shipping merchants . —Roof of houses damaged , and also the back front . Insured in the _Fhmnix Fire office . / 'No . 24 , Lime-street , let out in offices . —Roof slightly damaged , skylights and window-glass broken Stock insured in the Kent Fire office . " The fire was extinguished by four parish engines , with six belonging to the London establishment , and the West of England one , with their firemen and * 79 auxiliaries . ''

      INQUEST ON IHE BODIES . On Tuesday afternoon , at two o ' clock , an inquest was held before Mr . Payne , the City coroner , and a respectable jury of tiie inhabitants of Langbourn Ward , on view of the bodies of Mrs . Sarah Satchell , aged 28 , and her _infantson , Timothy , aged 18 months , whose lives were _sacrifii _^ in thefire in Fenchureh street on Sunday last . Several witnesses , policemen and others , were examined , but their evidence coffered in no respect from the statement given above . The parish engines were the first to arrive , but they were not effective ; the brigade engines came up in about twenty minutes . One ofthe policemen said , in reply to questions by a juror , that he knew where the fire-escape in Fen chureh-street was kept , but did not know where the keys were to be had . Did not know that there were scaling ladders in tiie neighbouring church . It was proved that Mrs . Satchell made her appearance at the window with her child in her arms , and that the bodies were found near that window .

      Mr . Satchell was called . —He evinced great distress of mind . He described his own escape and that ofthe servant . The smoke was suffocating . TiU too late he tiiought his wife and child were escaping with them . Mr . J . Braidwood , the superintendent ofthe London Fire Brigade , wasnextcalled . —Hearrivedatthe fire with the _Watiing-street station engine about twenty minutes after the discovery . He was called by tiie police on duly in Cheapside perceiving the light Had inspected the ruins , and should say the fire originated in the back workshop , probably from the stove _heatins the adiacent timber . Did not hear

      of any person being supposed to have perished until an hour or so afterwards . All his engines carry two lengths of scaling ladders as afire-escape , and several of them also carry escape-sheets . A very animated discussion arose respecting the police not attempting to procure the fire-escape in the vicinity , bat it afterwards turned out that they were so cumbersome and difficult to be got at that they were useless . Mr . Inspector Hodgson , the acting superintendent ofthe City police , remarked that the keys of all fireescapes ought to be left at the several police stations , under the command ofthe police , as was the case in FarringdonWard .

      At length , after much conversation as to the best means to prevent tiie loss of life that so frequently happens at the fires in the metropolis , The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death . Thejury accompanied the verdict by the Mowing special recommendation : — "Langbourn"Ward , 3 rd June , 1815 . "The undersigned jurors at the inquest held on Mrs . Satchell anil her child , who were burnt at the recent fire in Fenchnrch-street , beg very strongly to draw the attention ofthe Police Committee to the subject of fire-escapes to be placed under the superintendence of the police , and furnished at every station , and other convenient distances thronghont the City of Loudon , which the jurors are of opinion would tend to save many lives , and would probably have saved those ofthe individuals now under thennotice .

      ( Signed ) ' Thomas _Snelling , Foreman , 30 , Fen . church-street . J . S . Cuthbert , 155 , Fenchureh-street . 6 . P . Bailey , 146 , Fenchureh-street . H . J . _Steners , 8 , _Philpot-lane . J . BuUwinkle , Culium-street . W . B . Hills , 24 , _Rood-lane . 6 . _Bussell , 72 , Fenchureh-street . J . W . Wilmott , Fenchureh-street . jtt . K . Simpson , , Fenchureh-street , U . " Wild , Three King-court . H . Faster , 135 , Penchurch-street . 6 . D . Beckett-, 41 , Fenchureh-street . S . P . Irish , 156 , Fenchureh-street . "W . Keene , 25 , Fenchureh-street . J . Finlay , 29 , Fenchureh-street . "

      The Recekt _Fkb ih Dovee-siskbt . —We are enabled to state that the extent of the loss of life at the late calamitous fire at Raggett ' s Hotel , Dover-street , Piccadilly , has now been _aswrtamed to be five individuals , and not seven , as was for the first two or three days supposed , viz ., Mr . Raggett , Miss Raggett , Mrs . Round , Mrs . Jones , and Lord Huntingdon ' s nurse ; all the other persons known to have been on the pr emises at tiie time of the outbreak being still alive . During Saturday a crowd as numerous as on any ofthe previous days congregated in Dover-street , anxious to ascertain if any other bodies were discovered . The searehofthe ruins was proceeded with during the day , but nothing of much importance was foundthe only articles of value being two gold

      , watches , the owners of which have not yet been ascertained . The search , in consequence ofthe seizure put in by Mr . Abbot , the original landlord , to -whom large arrears of rent are owing , was to have ceased at six o ' clock on Friday evening ; but we anderstand that an arrangement has been entered into between the parties , under which the search will be made today ( Monday ) , and continued until the whole of the nuns have been examined . In consequence of the doubt existing as to whether the body found on Tuesday or that discovered on Friday was the body of Mrs . Round , it was determined by the relations of that lamented lady that both bodies should be buned in tiie family vault , but that course is now no longer n « ¥ _** arv . since bv a wit mortem examination it has

      been ascertained that one has been a mother and tbe other has not . The identification is therefore clear . On Saturday afternoon the fragments of several jewels were found in the rains . Among them were two ear-rings , which Lord Huntingdon identified as belonging to his lady . There was also a diamond Sid ring , which is supposed to be the property of rs . Round , and a brooch , which it is understood she intended to have worn at the Queen's drawingroom . The total insurance upon the building and the contents amounted to only £ 2000 . This was effected in the Globe Office , the dir ectors of which had agreed to pay that sum , and , in addition , to go totheexpense of shoring up the budding and having the ruins searched , which will entail £ 150 above the loss su stained by them by the fire . Raggett _s Hotel is a cruciform _stracture of great breadth of Ware , and of considerable depth both _m flank and

      base It contained about forty rooms , attics , _cc . ; in fact , each floor vras so fitted as to furnish a complete suite for a family . The principal defec _^ howlvet , in the structure was , that there was no escape from the upper rooms to the front door except by the _Urease _lSding to it nor was it _possi blei _tetany one could have got out from the - _^ "f _*® J _? S had the usual communication bythe _"gojjjg cut off , except by a door in the roof . Unfortunately that difficulty was felt in the present instance , and it is owing to this cause that so n- _^ Pef _^^ their livef . The house consisted _principallynoTtimber and lath and plaster ; it wasatt old house-modernised , and was faced with stucco _^^^ _xt combustibility of its materials was but too clearly proved by the shortness of the tune in which the whole of the upper floors were reduced to a heap ot ruins . The ground-floor apartments have almost wholly escaped .

      Another Fatal Confla6bati0s.—Two ^ More ...

      _Asrau , to the _Benevoienx _Df Behalf or ? the Widow ami _Familt of the use Mr . Raggett . — ihe following appeal has appeared in the daily papers ; we trust it will be responded to by those who have it in their power to help the unfortunate and succour the distressed : — " Mr . Raggett , who perished in the calamitous fire , 45 , Dover-street , on the night of the 26 th of May , was burnt to death by returning into the house to endeavour to save _"tuera ; nis eldest daughter also lost her life on this awful occasion . Mrs . Raggett ( the widow ) had by an accident broken her leg a few days before the fire took place , and was with difficulty _sared , and is now lying in a state of great bodily and mental suffering at the house of a lady in Dover-street , who kindly took her in . The late Mr . Raggett has left three

      sons and three unmarried daughters : he had through a long and laborious life been struggling against ailverse circumstances , and for many years rented this furnished hotel in Dover-street . The little property he possessed in the house was not insured . Thus his aged widow and family are left in a state of utter destitution , and have not a farthing for food , clothing , lodging , or even for the interment of their unfortunate relatives . The smallest donation will be most thankfully received by the Hon . Wm . Ashley at Marlborough House , Pall Mall ; and bv the following bankers , viz .: —Messrs . Coutts and Co ., Strand ; Messrs . Lubbocks and Co ., Mansion-house street Messrs . Drummonds , Charing Cross , * Messrs . Herries and Farquhar _, St . James ' s-street ; and also Messrs . Hatchard and Son , booksellers , 187 , Piccadilly .

      Fire Esca ** es . —The two following letters appeared in the Morning Herald of Tuesday : — Sir , —Having , during the last twenty-five years , been an eye-witness to many such awful calamities as lately happened in Borer-street—viz ., human beings forced by fire from a three-story window to a stone pavement , induces me to invent a machine for my own safety , by means of which I can let myself down from a sleeping-room ( a fifth story ) without assistance . I also attach to the machine a canvas bag , which will contain invalids , females , children , or any valuable property that can be passed through a window , so long as time will permit . 1 can theu lower myself without assistance . The above may be seen at the shop of Mr . Phillips , saddler , Sic , No . 26 , Sherrard-street , Golden-square ( near the County Fire-office , Regent-circus ) , by any gentleman wishing to copy it for his own private or for public use . J . "Read .

      Mr . Editor , — "Will you introduce into your columns , in your usual powerful and efficacious manner , a recommendation to all parishes to provide the " Safety Jumping Sheets « " Say half a dozen—in accessible placestwenty or more feet square , of strong canvas aud rope _, bound , with plenty of handles , as there nerercan be wanting persons to hold them whenever a fire takes place . They would be far more useful than all the ladders , Sic , though the latter may still be used simultaneously ; and the sheets would he out of the way of ignition . They may surely be cheaply provided ; and , therefore , the expense can be no hindrance or objection to any parish . A hint from you might effect this very desirable public good . Your obedient servant . Lookeb-on .

      Fibe on Board the Steam-ship Lomos ov Dundee . —On Friday night ( week ) , at nine o ' clock , the Dundee , Perth , and London Shipping Company's steam-ship London , 405 tons register , Captain Thomas Ewinir , arrived at Hore'a steam-packet wharf , Wapping , after a miraculous escape from destruction by fire . On Wednesday afternoon the London left the port of Dundee with about thirty first and second cabin pasengers , and an extensive cargo , consisting of 116 live oxen , 165 live sheep , and upwards of 200 boxes of salmon . She had , besides , a valuable cargo of Dundee manufactured goods , worth at least £ 10 , 000 . The London , the newest of the company ' s ships ( built and completed by Mr . Robert Napier , in 1837 ) , proceeded uninterruptedly on her passage to London , until Friday morning , about one o ' clock , when crossing the Boston Deeps the watch and others upon deck were not a little alarmed on discovering that the ship was on fire . Captain Ewing observing

      that smoke and flames were issuing from the coal bunkers , ordered all hands upon deck , a mandate which was speedily obeyed , without disturbing the passengers , all of whom were in their berths and evidently _soundasleep , as , although the ' _saloon contiguous to them was filled with smoke , not one appeared to be conscious of danger . Captain Ewing was heard to say , " My lads , it's all up now , I suppose we must bear for the land , " or words of similar purport . Accordingly , the course of the London was altered ; but by great exertion the flames were got under , and the London resumed her regular course for London . The fire was occasioned by placing the fuel against the furnaces , which being , through inattention , red hot , the coals ignited . The destruction of this vessel and her cargo would have entailed a loss of - £ 60 , 000 . Some of her beams are partly burned through , and the inside ofher deck planking has suffered from the action of the flames .

      Inquests at Liveepool . — -On Monday three inquests were held before the borough coroner . The first was on view of the body of Mra . Mary Thompson , of Prospect-street , who went to St . Augustine ' s Church on Sunday evening , with a female acquaintance from Knowsley , and during the sermon exclaimed that "her heart was very bad . " She was immediately taken out of the church , and died in about ten minutes after . The second was on Anthony Sumner , a farmer , from Sandy-lane , West Derby , who was accidentally thrown out of his shandry in Lime-street , on Saturday evening , and died shortly after . The third was on Thomas Smith , a child three months old , who died from suffocation in consequence of having been overlain . Verdicts in accordance with the evidence were returned in the several cases .

      The Mysterious Death at Hampstead . —The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Caroline Hillman and her male infant , who recently died at Hampstead under suspicious circumstances , was resumed on Tuesday , before Mr . Wakley , and was again adjourned . The principal witnesses examined were Mr . Gower , the surgeon , who attended the deceased ; Mr . Lord , who performed the post mortem examination ; and Mr . Taylor and Mr . Johnstone , of Guy ' s Hospital , who analyzed the contents of deceased's stomach . From the evidence of the two latter

      witnesses , it appeared that the green matter on the stomach consisted ofthe tops of the savin plant , which it was stated is frequently given by ignorant persons to procure abortion , but is attended with very great danger to the mother , whom it generally kills if it effect the purpose intended , and is often fatal without doing so . The object of the further adjournment was to obtain evidence as to the person by whom the savin had been administered , and for the presence of Mr . Gains , who is alleged to be the lather ofthe deceased child .

      Dreadful Murdeb in Gibraltar . —A most atrocious murder was committed at Gibraltar on the 21 st May , 1845 . About one o'clock , while a party of convicts were at work in the house that is now building for Sir John Sinclair at the south , one of them , named Thomas Anson , was reprimanded by the overseer , Mr . Samual Walter , for neglect of duty , and told that if he was not more attentive he should be reported to the chief superintendent , Mr Armstrong . On hearingthistheconvictfollowedhis victim some yards , with a knife in his hand , and seized a small crow-bar , with which he struck the overseer a severe blow on the back part of the head , which extensively fractured the skull , and produced instant death . The -villain then rushed out in an excited state , saying to

      his fellow prisoners , " I have killed Mr . Walter , and would serve any other fellow in the same manner that would dare to scold and collar me like Walter did , " at the same time holding up a glazier _' sputty knife covered with blood . He was immediately secured and conveyed to the convict-yard , where he was placed in safe custody to await the coroner ' s inquest , wMch took place at four p . u ., and then adjourned to one o'clock the next day , and terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Anson . The prisoner is a short , square-built young man , about twenty-two _yrars of age , and is at present undergoing a second _transportation for burglary , and firing at a _policeman while endeavouring to apprehend him . The unfortunate deceased has left a widow and

      ten young children , in Devenport , to deplore his melancholy fate . Alleged Murder on the High Seas . —Liverpool , Tuesday . —This afternoon Capt . George Hill , master ofthe brig Challenge , of Liverpool , was taken into cus tody by that very active officer , Constable Halsall , on a charge of having barbarously murdered a kroo-boy of the name of Benjamin Johnson , on the homeward voyage from the coast of Africa to Liverpool . We understand the circumstances connected with this cold-blooded and barbarous deed are of tbe most horrifying description . The kroo-boy , it appears , had been shipped on the African coast as one of the regular hands on board the vessel ; and the high crime ind misdemeanour for which his life has paid the forfeit was that of being found asleep on his

      watch , most probably from the effects _ofoverexhaustion on the morning of the 2 nd of May . At an early hour that morning the captain came on deck , and finding him asleep lashed him in a most cruel manner with a rope ' _send . Not considering , however , that the punishment was sufficiently severe , he sei _** a canoe paddle , almost as sharp as a knife at both edges , and with tins dreadful weapon struck him several blows , or rather inflicted several cuts on his head and face . The first cut severed his nose from his face . The second caused a deep gash on his Up ; and the third opened a wound in the side of his cheekwhich extended down to the neck . This

      , dreadful butchery was perpetrated in presence ofthe second mate and some ofthe hands . The unfortunate kroo-boy only survived the injuries until about eleven o'clock the next day , and his body was then thrown overboard . The Challenge arrived in the Mersey on Monday , and was docked that night . Yesterday morning one of the hands proceeded to the policeoffice , and informed Mr . Dowling ofthe circumstances of the case ; and that gentleman , with his accustomed promptness , lost no time in issuing orders for the apprehension of the prisoner . On Thursday the prisoner George Hill was brought before the magistrates nd committed to the assizes for trial .

      Another Fatal Confla6bati0s.—Two ^ More ...

      Execctiok of Coraoii . —The day after Connor ' s _wnviction he made a full confession of his guilt , which was forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Department . He states that his object was revenge for the injury he had received . It was represented to the Sheriffs that Connor was of a weak and imbecile state of mind . An enquirv was immediately instituted by those officers , and the result laid before the Home Secretary . It appeared that when Connor was in a passion he would throw any dangerous weapon that he could lay his hand upon at those near him—that on one occasion he killed his mother ' s cat and a favourite bird , and other instances of savage conduct , but Sir James Graham was of opinion that the statement laid before him was not sufficient to warrant his recommending her Majesty to commute the capital punishment .

      Everything which humanity could _suggeat has been done by the Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs , but it was considered a case to which the Royal mercy ought not to be extended . Immediately after the trial , Connor informed tho Governor of Newgate that he had made up his mind , previously to being placed at the bar , to plead guilty , and he should have done so had not the Sherifls kindly engaged counsel to conduct his defence . On being asked if he wished that a Roman Catholic priest should visit him ( he being a Catholic ) he replied that , although he hoped to die in that faith , he had no desire fbr a priest to attend him ; but subsequently , at tlio request of his father and mother , he assented , and the Rev . Mr . Rolfe , of _Mooi-fields Chapel , has visited him daily . He has long been very resigned and penitent . The following is a copy of a letter which Connor addressed to his aunt on Friday : —

      Mrs . Lennart , Tindal-bnildings , Gray ' _s-inn-lane . From your unfortunat e nephew Dennis J . Connor . My dear Aunt , —I write this letter to you , hoping , my dear aunt , you are in good health ; and , my dear , it is my wish of you to come and take a farewell of your unfortunate nephew—a farewell , my dear aunt , for ever in this world , and I hope we shall meet In the next in evorlasting happiness . My dear aunt _^ I should wish to see my dare cousin Margaret , for her to take a farewell of her unfortunate cousin . I should wish to see my dear cousin Ellen , but , unfortunately , 1 understand sh « is in the country—may God bless and protect her , wherever she may be . My dear aunt , I did not think I should be in tliis situation on the morning I was a visitor at the execution of James Tapping , that unfortunate young man who was executed on Easter Monday , and I , as a visitor , but

      little did I give it a thought it would come , my dear aunt , to my turn to die on the scaffold a public gaze . I was , my dear aunt , affected in my head at the time , or I would never have committed that dreadful crime of murder ; I had , my dear aunt , been very much affected in my head , or I would never , if I had been in my senses took a fellow creature ' s life away , and entailed so much trouble on my parents , and all that belonged to me . I would rather be gibbeted than commit such an awful crime as to murder a fellow-creature . I had , my dear aunt , a petition sent to Sir James Graham , but it was of no avail , but never mind , my dear aunt , I am prepared to meet death whenever it comes . I must bid farewell to my younger cousin Daniel . God bless you all , and the children . Farewell , God bless you all , Friends and neighbours , farewell , God bless yon all .

      In pursuance ofthe above , the culprit ' s aunt had an interview with him on Saturday , and he was afterwards visited by the Roman Catholic priest in attendance upon hhn , to whom he exhibited much penitence . The prisoner ' s friends ( for the last time ) had an interview with him the same day . The following is a copy of the confession written by Connor on Sunday night , and signed by him in the presence of the Rev . Mr . Rolfe on Monday morning about half an hour before the execution . Newgate , June 2 , 1815 .

      I fully acknowledge that I was guilty of the murder with which I was charged , and I beg pardon of God and man for the horrid crime I thereby committed , I beg the prayers of all good Christians for my poor soul , and I hope that all Catholic young men will take warning from my sad fate , and not neglect the duties of their holy religion . "While I adhered to its pure principles and practices I was virtuous and happy . When I neglected them I fell into bad company , plunged into vice , stained my soul with murder , and am now about to forfeit my life on the scaffold . I resign myself to so shameful a penalty , which I have justly deserved by my crimes , and hope that Almighty God will in His boundless mercy , and through the merits of Christ , accept me and my repentance , however late , as a small atonement for my many offences .

      Signed , Joseph Coknoh . The wretched culprit being a Roman Catholic , there was no ( what is called ) "Condemned" sermon preached on Sunday , neither was Connor required to attend service in the chapel . The Rev . Mr . Rolfe was with him a great portion of the day . At the several Roman Catholic chapels in the metropolis prayers were on Sunday offered up on behalf of the wretched convict . Execution . —On Monday morning the last sentence of the law was carried into effect on the unfortunate culprit Joseph Connor , in front of Newgate . The crowd was not so great as is usual on such occasions , although a great number of persons had assembled before seven o ' clock . The culprit on Sunday night was attended by the Rev . Mr . Rolfe , until near ten o'clock . When that

      gentleman left he laid down on his bed , and fell into a sound sleep , from which he did not awake until halfpast five o clock on Monday morning . Shortly after , the Rev . Mr . Rolfe arrived at the prison , and remained some time in religious conversation , during which he administered the sacrament to the wretched man . ( The Catholic clergy do not now administer extreme unction in such cases , unless the convict is unwell , and not-likely to survive till the time of execution . " ) He was afterwards supplied with break fast , of which he partook heartily , eating one roll and a half , and drinking three cups of coffee . Shortly before eight o ' clock the executioner arrived . When he entered the room where Connor was sitting conversing with Mr . * Rolfe . the culprit did not lose the

      firmness wliich he has all along manifested . At the time Caleraft was tying his hands and pinioning him , he repeated , after the rev . gent ., some short prayers . One beginning , " O Lorn , I resign myself , " Sic Exactly at eight o ' clock the prison bell commenced tolling , and the melancholy procession moved through the dreary passages to the scaffold , the Rev . Mr . Rolfe walking by the side of the culprit reading a prayer . The Rev . Mr . Davis , ordinary of Newgate , was present , but did not take any part in the proceedings . The culprit ascended tiie steps leading to the scaffold without assistance , indeed nis firmness never for one moment appeared to forsake him . The rope having been adjusted , he repeated several prayers after the priest . At their conclusion the drop

      fell ; a few convulsive _struggles ensued , and life was extinct . After hanging one hour , the body was cut down , and was buried within the walls of the prison in tiie evening . Application was made bythe proprietor of a celebrated wax exhibition to purchase the coat in which Connor was tried , but it was very properly refused by the sherifls , and ordered after a time to be given up to his friends . The crowd was very orderly , and soon after the body was cut down quietly dispersed . It is said that Connor had latel y , and only lately , associated with bad women , for , till within a few weeks of his apprehension , he had lived continually with and under the eye of his parents . He had invariably kept early hours , and had regularly brought home to his parents his earnings .

      Immediately after the trial he stated to Sheriff Sidney that all the witnesses had deposed was nearly correct , that the evidence of the little girl was particularly accurate , and that he had at the time he purchased the knife a pimple at the side of "his nose , as she had described . He also said that he must have committed the murder under a delusion , caused by the accident before alluded to . A few days previous to the murder of Marv Brothers , a member of tho Missionary Society had procured her admission to a Magdalen asylum , and arrangements were made for her to be taken in , but the ill-fated woman omitted attending at the asylum on the appointed day ; and even within half an hour ofher being murdered , the said missionary had a conversation with her upon her wretched life .

      Another Destructive Fibe . —On Tuesday night , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , a fire , attended with a considerable destruction of property , broke out in No . 11 , Mount-street , Westminster-road , a few doors from the National Baths . Mr . Todd , with his wife and child , and a female servant , were in their beds at the upper part of the buildiug . There were likewise upon the premises Mr . Brooks , a lodger , with his wife and mother , and all had a narrow escape . The brigade , the West of England , and otner engines were soon on the spot , and an abundant supply of water was furnished by the Lambeth Water Works . The result was the destruction of the building , with the greater part of the furniture , stock in trade , & c . ; but no injury was done to the surrounding property . Thc house was insured in the Sun Fireoffice .

      Fatal _AccmsxT . _—Newfouitoland . — Yesterday week ( 25 th April ) , at about 3 p . m ., a boat loaded with seals and lumber , sailed from the harbour of Trinity for St . John's , having on board the skipper , his son , and Denis Cashman , being the crew , and , as passengers , Mr . Cashman , Mr . John Pilgrim , Mr . Henry Burrell , constable of Trinity , and a young man his son , together with a poor fellow ef the name of John Hill , who , being insane , was being sent to our hospital under charge of the constable . All our readers will remember the fearful gale of Friday night It struck the fated boat with all its fury at about 9 pm

      It was from the north , and so high ran the sea m a short tune that the frail boat was obliged to scud under bare poles , steering direct for St . John ' s . About midnight they had reached to about a league to the southward of Cape St . Francis , when they fell _wto a string of ice ; so fierce , however , was . " the gale , that they could not succeed in coasting around it , but were driven madly into it , and in a few minutes she struckapan of ice , and almost immediately foundered , engulphing the master and the master's son . Mr . Pilgrim , the constable , the constable's son , and tne unhappy maniac , making in all a loss of six individuals , were hurried in an instant into eternity . As for W . Stoneman and Denis Cashman , they suc-

      Another Fatal Confla6bati0s.—Two ^ More ...

      ceeded m ' gettihg upon apari ' of ice , where they remained from twelve o ' cloek on Friday night until 7 a . m . on last Monday . Ou Sunday , towards nightfall , the Orion , Captain Murphy , owned by the captain and Mr . Moores or Bay Vera , fell in with them , but owing to the badness ofthe ice , and the approaching darkness , they were obliged that night to give up all idea of assisting them although every effort hud been made to reach them ; _butinotwithstandiug tliis failure , Captain Murphy was determined not to be defeated in liis benevolent intentions , and lay by the ice until daylight , when he and all his crew renewed their efforts , and , as we said above , at about seven o'clock on Monday morning they were released from tlieir perilous position and brought on board the Orion , where everything that humanity could suggest and

      the means at their disposal supply , were promptly put in requisition by every one on board to assuage their suffering . Indeed the forethought of Captain Murphy , in keeping a light all Sunday night at his masthead , had gone far to revive them , for they felt that heaven had senf them aid , and that there was no danger of their being abandoned . Ii * . conclusion , we are requested here to express the unfeigned thankfulness of both survivors to Captain Murphy and his crew for the benevolence and kindness lavished upon them—services which they never can forget . _—lYcw / _oufliWand _nidicator _^ May 3 rd . The Late Duel . — Portsmouth , June 1 . — Mr . Seton yet survives , after a painful and most dangerous operation . His brother-in-law , who is in London , having expressed a wish that the most eminent

      surfe on in London should join in the consultations of is medical attendants , they at once acquiesced , and named Mr . Listen . Accordingly that gentleman , accompanied by Mr . Potter , his demonstrator of anatomy , and Mr . Sampson , surgeon , formerly of Salisbury , and a friend ofthe family , arrived on Friday night , when a consultation between the whole of the medical gentlemen took place , and which resulted in a determination to take up the external iliac artery . Yesterday morning , after a further consultation had been held , this very difficult operation was performed by Mr . Liston with his usual great skill and dexterity , in spite of the great obstacles presented to its performance by the patient ' s obesity ; in fact , so serious was the obstacle from tliis cause that Mr . Liston . at onc momentdoubted

      , whether he would succeed . It is understood the ball ired by Mr . Seton's antagonist , Lieutenant Hawkey , entered at the top of the right thigh , passing over the large vessels , not entering' the abdomen , but glancing round it to the opposite quarter , wliere it effected its exit , in its progress wounding either the trunk of the femoral artery or a large branch near its origin , causing a hemorrhage * veiy profuse aud nearly fatal . On examination by Mr . Liston the wounds had healed up and they were stated to have done so a day or two afterthe duel , and that to all appearance the patient was progressing favourably . On Tuesday last , however , dangerous svmptoms set in owing to the formation of a kind of tumour in the groin , arising from extravasation . These symptoms were aeompanied by a severe fevered pulse , and terminating in a circumscribed aneurism , which was found to be increasing rapidly . To prevent this it was deemed necessaiy that the external iliac artery should be tied , and this Dr . Liston was sent for from

      London to perform . Immediately after the operation , which is described as an exceedingly painful one , and which Mr . Seton bore with astonishing fortitude , the results exhibited in his condition were a subsidence of the pulsation in the tumour and an abatement of all the unfavourable symptoms . Mr . Seton is described as exhibiting not only ever since this most painful occurrence the greatest cheerfulness and nigh flow of spirits , but even did so during Mr . Liston ' _s operation , and which is considered gr eatly in favour of his ultimate recovery , although considerable doubts are even now entertained with respect to that point . At the conclusion of the operation Mr . Seton shook hands with Mr . Liston , and expressed himself in the following terms : — "Doctor , the moment I get well I will come to London and see you ; if , however , on the contrary , it shall be my misfortune to die , I am quite preuared , but , by — , lam ignorant of the cause of my being called out and shot at in the way I have been . "

      Death of Mr . Seton . —Since the above was in type we have received the following account of the death of Mr . Seton : — Portsmouth , Tuesoat / . —Mr . Seton , the unfortunate gentleman wounded in the sad affair with Lieut , Hawkey , ofthe Royal Marines , has terminated his earthly career . He died last evening at thirty-five minutes past seven . Early in the day it was ascertained by his surgical attendants that he was gradually sinking , and that his wound exhibited the very worst _an-oeaxanee . It _wsiscommunicatedto Mr . Seton that there was no longer hope , and he bore it with resignation . He had some days previously settled his worldly affaire , and made his will . The sacrament had also been administered to him by the Rev . Mr . M'Gbie . In the afternoon of yesterday he took an affectionate

      and eternal iarewell of his near relatives—viz , his mother , his sisters , and his wife , whose deep grief and affliction it was painful to witness . For an hour and upwards before his decease he was free from pain , and talked tranquilly and resignedly to his attendants , Dr . Stewart was with him in his last moments ; and Mrs . Seton has been indefatigable in her attentions to her husband ever since he has been lying wounded at the Quebec Hotel . Mr . Seton has frequently talked over thc sad affair with his medical attendants and had to the last persisted that he gave Lieut . Hawkey no real cause for his very violent conduct , and tliat he was innocent of any cause for the dud . He ( Mr .

      Seton ) is also said to have stated that when the parties met on the field , Mr . Hawkey and his second wished to place the men to fire atavery short distance from each other , to which he and his second , Mr . Rowlcs , objected , and they finally arranged fifteen paces . A post mortem examination of the body took place this day , in presence of a number ofthe medical men of thiB neighbourhood—viz ., Dr a . ' Mortimer Stewart , Jinkins , Rudle , Rolp h , Slade , Ac . Dr . James Allen , deputy medical inspector of _Haslar Hospital , was the operator . It was found that a branch of the femoral artery had been wounded . The report will be read to the coroner and jury .

      Inquest on the _Bont op Mr . Seton . —On Tuesday a jury was impanelled b y John William Cooper , Esq ., Coroner for the borough of Portsmouth , at the Guildhall , for the purpose of inquiring into the death of Mr . Seton . A great number of witnesses were examined j the evidence of the medical witnesses went to show that the primary cause of death was the effect of a ball passing through the body ; the secondary cause was , from peritoneal inflammation , which set in after the operation .

      The Bury Stabbing Case. Adjourned Inques...

      THE BURY STABBING CASE . Adjourned iNquEST . —The coroner ' s jury resumed its sitting to inquire into the death of John Sugden ( who was stabbed on Monday , the 26 th ultimo , by Frederick Harris ) , at two o ' clock on Saturday afternoon , May 31 . The investigation was , as before , with closed doors ; and at a quarter to eight o ' clock the same night was adjourned to the following Monday , June 2 nd , when it was stated that thejury would sit at the Albion , in _consequence of the prisoner being hooted and yelled at by the crowd—and the execration with which he was received by all classes was really awful—in passmg from the lock-up to the British Oak , where thejury had hitherto been

      sitting . At the appointed hour on Monday , the adjourned inquest was held at the Albion ; but as the sitting was , as before , with closed doors , we cannot tell what evidence was g iven . At eight o ' clock the jury brought iri a verdict of Manslaughter against the prisoner , " and he was committed to take his trial accordingly ; and , from information on which we can rely , the undermentioned jurymen gave their verdict as follows . Throughout the proceedings there had been very strong differences of opinion ; several maintained that the verdict ought to be " wilful murder , " but their opinions were overruled by the minority

      FOR _MANSLAUGHTER . Mr . Joseph Ray , stationer , Bury , who supplies Messrs . Walker , Smith , and Co . ( _mastersof the knobsticks ) with stationery ; John Nutall , druggist , of Bury ; John Bridge , provision-dealer , Elton ; Thos . Howard , gentleman , Elton ; Joseph Kay , ironmonger , Bury ; Charles Wahh , Abraham Maiden , and Wm . Ogden , provision-dealers , of Heap ; Robert Roberts , Wm . Howarth , and John Topping , farmers ; and Joseph _Walmesley , potter , Birtle-cum-Bamford .

      POR JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE . Edmund Grundy , Esq ., Park Hills , ( foreman ) , father of Thomas Grundy , Esq ., and who is the attorney employed on every occasion by the masters j James Livesey , of Heap , a _coai master ; William Hutchinson , Bury ; and James Ball , of Eton .

      PROOEEDINOS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES . On Tuesday morning , the prisoner Harris , who is said to be of Hertfordshire , and a prize-fighter , but lately working for Messrs . Walker and Co ., was brought up before the magistrates , Abraham Wood and James Hutchinson , _Esqrs ., for examination . Thomas Grundy , Esq ., appeared as the prisoner ' s solicitor , and W . P . Roberts , Esq ., was present for the prosecution . The superintendent of police , Mr . Henshaw , stated strictly the proceedings before the coroner , and the resultof the inquest , and that , as a verdict of manslaughter bad been returned , the coroner had bound him ( the superintendent ) to prosecute : he was ready , however , to hand over the prosecution to the friends of the deceased , provided they sent him a letter stating their wish that he should do so , and guaranteed a sum against the costs . He ( the superintendent ) now brought the prisoner forward , that the magistrates might decide what was tobe done with him .

      Mr . Roberts then addressed the bench . He was there on the part of the relatives of the deceased , John Sugden . They were not satisfied with the proceedings in the coroner ' s court , nor with the verdict which had been returned by the jury . Those proceedinp had been secret—the doors had been closed , not only against himself and the advocate for the prisoner , but also against the _publis press . No one had been allowed to be present . All check was removed from thejury . Ihey examined such witnesses , and such onlv . as they thought fit , and as far as they

      The Bury Stabbing Case. Adjourned Inques...

      thought advisable , and hoftrther . T . « der such c » cumstances it wasutterly . _im-possibletosupposethat the public Would feeV satisfied . He ( Mr . Roberts ) was prepared to prefer a charge against _^ Jf « _m of wilful murder , and he had no doubt but thathe could satisfy tho bench that the circumstances of this dreadful case were such as to render it proper that the question should be brought _bc-weajmy . Ihat question w ; i <* whether the crime which had oeca , -teed the death of thc deceased was murder ot manslaughter . As the matter now stood , the pri soner must be tried for thc open crime . Now it might happen that the jury at the trial _mignt be convinced by thc evidence that the crime was realW murder ; in that case the prisoner must ba _acou ' itted . as thc evidence would have pioved aa

      offence more criminal than the charge . There would thus be a justice altogether ; but on an indictment for murder , it woukf not be so . In that case the law allowed thejurv to find the prisoner guuty of manslaughter . In all such cases as this , the pro er way was to commit for the highest offence which the evidence would allow of . The jury then had the power , by their verdict , to give a lower character to the charge * , but if , on the contrary , the case proved was greater than the charge laid , the prisoner escaped altogether . Mr . Grundy , in reply , said that the judge , if ho thought the depositions justified a charge of murder , could order an indictment accordingly . To this , Mr . _Kobci-ts observed , that thc only _ileporitions before thc judge would be those taken before the coroner—and the friends of thc deceased

      were not satisfied with these . Avery long argument ensued , but the magistrates at length determined on acceding to Mr . Roberts ' s proposition . During the argument , Mr . itobcrts adverted to , the fact that the foreman of the coroner ' s jury had not signed the inquisition , and to several other informalities which he thought werc fatal to it . The magistrates reminded Mr . Robert ? that the case would be in his own hands , as the superintendent had agreed to give up the prosecution to him . The case then proceeded . Phineas Rothwell , a clogandpatten-niaker , was the first witness . Hc stated : Yesterday week I was in my shop , situate at the corner of Clark-street . The shop looks towards Chanel-street . About half-past

      eight at night I saw the prisoner coming up Rochdaie-road . He had a strong yellow walking stick in his hand , wliich he was swinging about . Witness , and a person named Miles Crossley , went down Chapel-street together . There was a crowd of women aad children , but not a grown person present , except Harris the prisoner , and two others with him Saw the prisoner striking at some lads with his stick in front of his house . He was not on the steps . Witness went and took hold of liim to prevent hini from striking . While doing so witness felt prisoner striko twice or thrice over lm shoulder , and heard something fall that sounded like glass . It could not have been iron , it might be steel . Heard some one say

      thatprisoner had stabbed a man , and left hold ot tha prisoner . When he did so , he saw that the prisoner had a part of the stick in his hand , and saw something glisten . The prisoner ran into bis house , and witness went after the man that was stabbed . Did not see any one strike thepriaoner . Went up Cloughstreet into Chapel-street , and saw a constable . Went with him to the prisoner ' s house , and gave the prisoner into custody . —On cross-examination by Mr . Grundy , witness said there might have been two or three score of women and children , but not a hundred . No one kicked the prisoner . He did not look frightened ; did not struggle to get away from the

      witness . By Mr . Roberts . —The prisoner took thc piece of stick with him into the house that he held . The prisoner said he had left the stick ont of door ? , he waa in such a hurry . George Sharrocks is a smith , and lives in Butcherlane . On Monday night , about half-past tight , saw prisoner leading a crowd of children up the street . He had a walking-stick , beckoning them to Mow . When at his lodgings he threw his stick about , and a part of it flew off into the street . Saw him stab the deceased with the dagger . Picked up two pieces ot the dagger , and gave them to Mr . Henshaw . __ The prisoner would have struck any one . He was striking at another lad when the dagger struck against the

      wall , and broke in pieces . By Mr . Grundy . —There were no rows in Butcher lane , except those made bythe knobsticks . The prisoner gave halfpennies and pennies to the children to shout . Policemen had been home with the men who wero working . Tliere was no occasion for it . There might be ono hundred people present ; but none above eighteen years of ago . The deceased was doing nothing . The prisoner ran at the crowd with the dagger until it was broken , and then went into his house . Mary Ann Meadows proved that she saw the pri soner stab the deceased ; that deceased did not do anything to the prisoner ; that he did not shout . On cross-examination by Mr . Grundy she stated that

      her father ' s house was two doors from the corner of Chapel-street , and that the prisoner ' s lodging waa the corner house in Chapel-street . The prisoner Harris was coming down the street shaking his stick about . The crowd was behind him . Didnot see the prisoner pulled off the steps . The deceased was sixteen years and ten months old . By Mr . Roberts . —Was so flurried at the time of the stabbing , that she could not speak as to numbers . Sarah _Randle gave witness a piece of the dagger just before the police took prisoner into custody . Witness gave it to her father and he gave it to Mr . Henshaw , superintendent of police . _ .

      John Wolstenholme saw the prisoner stab bugden with the dagger . Went with deceased to Dr . Wardle worth's . Took off his jacket and handkerchief there . Saw the wound , and blood running down his breast . Witness afterwards went home with the deceased . By Mr . Grundy . —No onc ill-used the prisoner . ' , __ James Isherwood , who lived next door to the prisoner , saw him stab Sugden . Cross-examined . —Heard the crowd say that the prisoner had a dagger , and that they were to take it from him . Did not see any one get hold of the stick . Saw the prisoner draw the dagger and stab Sugden . Did not see any ono " click" at the stick .

      James _Gregson . —Is a powcrloom weaver . Was in Chapel-street on Monday night , the 26 th , saw the frisoner and three others coming down Chapel-street , ' risoner had a large yellow stick with him . He went up two steps towards his lodgings , and came down again , and struck at the people with the stick . Witness saw the dagger , but docs not know whether the prisoner drew it out , or whether it flew out while he was striking at the crowd . saw him Btab Sugden . Saw him draw out the blade of the . dagger from Sugden ' s body . He struck at two ' after he had stabbed Sugden . I was one . He cut my waistcoat . That is my waistcoat ( here thc waistcoat was produced ; it had a rent on the right side in the form of a half square , about two inches wide . ) That is the place that the _dazeer cut . After this tbe dagger broke in

      p ieces . The prisoner went into his house with the handle of the stick in his hand . He struck at another after he struck at me . I saw the wall struck , and the dagger break in pieces . By Mr . Grundy . —Was coming by the Independent Chapel ; did not say " Ba ! " to him . Prisoner came dovm the steps ; saw him stab the deceased . Cannot say whether the dagger was whole after prisoner had stabbed Sugden . Did not touch prisoner . Did not see any onc else do so . Did not see any one take hold ofhis coat or legs . There was nothing to prevent lum from going into his house . Gave his waistcoat to Mr . Henshaw , inspector of police . George Ellison , George Conct , Richard _Aspinall , and John Tagg corroborated the evidence of the former witnesses .

      Richard Ashworth Ratcliffe . —Is a tailor . Recollects Monday night . Was near Charlson's ( beerhouse ) door , about a quarter past eight on Monday night , 26 th of May . Saw the prisoner Harris at the back door , with a stick in his hand : as prisoner was going from Charlson's , he said he should like to run the b _l-s through . He said he would take some one ' s life before he slept that night . Saw him draw something like a dagger out of the stick at Charlson ' s back door . Followed him to his lodgings . Saw him stab deceased . Saw a piece of the dagger fall . Mary Booth . —Is fourteen years of age . Lives with her parents in Livesay-row . Went an errand on Monday night , 26 th Mav , for her mother . Was in Chapel-street , and saw the prisoner . Ran into Turton ' _s house , where the prisoner lodges . While there the prisoner came in . He had a broken dagger in his hand . Hc said " he had run that in one of the b r ' _s gutsand lost the other part . "

      , Cross-examined . —Prisoner laughed when he saiu he had run the b—r through the guts . He did not appear alarmed . Mr . John Parkes , surgeon , deposed as follows :--Was called in on Monday night last , to attend John Sugden , in North-street ; found him in bed laid on his back , he complained of great pain at the pit of his stomach . On examining the wound found it about one inch long , and nearly as wide ; the wound was much swollen . In the course of several hours , when reaction took place , he began to vomit blood , complaining of great pain during vomiting . Was certain then that the inward wound was serious . As the stomach repeatedly filled with blood he as frequently vomited . He lingered until half-Dast four on

      Wednesday , May 28 th . There was not the least chance ofhis life . Made a post mortem examination of the deceased . The cause of death was a penetrating wound through the stomach , injuring the great blood vessels —deceased died from loss of blood . Found this steel at the post mortem examination in the cartilages beween two ofthe bones ofthe spine —( here the point ofthe dagger was produced , about five inches in length ) . There was no mortification . There was no time for it . There were no witnesses called for the defence ; and after a short consultation , the magistrates "saw nogrounds for preferring a greater charge against the prisoner than Manslaughter ! " The court-room was crowded at the examination , and the greatest interest was manifested

      Deaths. Suddenly, On Sunday Last, The 1s...

      DEATHS . Suddenly , on Sunday last , the 1 st inst ., Mr . David France , publisher , Side , _NewcaBtle-upon-Tyne .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07061845/page/5/