Gregorio Mogai, the man who, weeds that he killed Malaga
Harrington at the Crown and Anchor, Saffron Hill, has been com- mitted for trial. Pelizzioni, the man now under sentence, will therefore of course be respited until the result of the trial is known. The evidence is extraordinarily conflicting, but the general drift, unless the Italians are all lying together, which they have no motive to do, is to show that Gregorio really stabbed four men in the scuffle in the bagatelle-room, that he believes one of these men to be Michael Harrington, that he used his knife to defend himself from sticks—the use of the sticks is proved by the English potman—and that the knife was found just where he said he had thrown it. Mr. Lewis made a great point for Pelizzioni by showing that the principal witness against him, the landlord of the public-house, had cause to be jealous of him, and might be at all events inclined to think him guilty of the murder.
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