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The rioters in St. George's-in-the-East have recommenced the cam- paign; the assigned cause being the absence of Mr. Bryan King and the inability of the curate to control or conciliate the mob. A meeting has censured Mr. Churchwarden Thompson, for insulting the parishioners by "closing the church gates and placing the entrance under surveillance," and for refusing to call a parish meeting. Yesterday Mr. Selfe had to hear a case of brawling in church.
Two brothers, John and Daniel Sullivan, both young men, were convicted at the Middlesex Sessions on Monday, of theft. John who had not been convicted before, to three months' imprisonment, and Daniel, an old thief, to three years penal servitude. Then occurred a strange scene. John exclaimed, " Why not snake us both alike ? " The Judge, Mr. Payne- " No. that would be unjust. You are net so bad as your brother." Daniel Sullivan. "You may give me six years if you like!' Mr. Payne—"No, I shall not alter the sentence." Daniel Sullivan—" Then take that" (at the same moment throwing a heavy shoe at the learned judge, whichfortunately missed him, and fell beside him on the bench). Upon this the prison officer, Mertickovho was in the dock, seized hold of Daniel Sullivan, when the other prisoner rushed upon him, striking him a violent blow in the mouth, while the mother and sister of the prisoners, who were in the gallery of the court, stamped, screamed, clapped their hands, and cried out, " Bravo ! give it him : murder him?" and the utmost excitement ensued. Several police- men then jumped over into the dock, when a general fight ensued, and it was with difficulty that the two prisoeers were removed to the cells.
Farther evidence has been taken in the case of the Stepney murder, be- fore the Thames Police Magistrate, and the tendency of it is to implicate Mains still further. Apiece of wood, cut from the floor of the room where the.hody was found, and bearing on its surface the mark of a footprint in blood, was exhibited in court, and the nailmarks were found to correspond exactly with the nails in the sole of an old boot found in a dusthole at lodgings occupied by Mullins. A woman saw the old boot thrown out of Mullins's window into a back yard. A silver pencil-case, having spots of blood upon it, delivered to the police by a barman who had boughtit of Mrs. Mullins, was identified as the property of Mrs. Easley by her niece. Two lenses found in the parcel, whose whereabouts was pointed out by Mullins; were identified. Michael Gaffney said Mullins had promised to come to hie house to do some plastering work; on the 14th, the morning after the mur- der. "He expected Mullins early on-the following morning; but he never came until one-o'clock in the afternoon.. On that day, Mullins put up some paper-hangings,- and appeared in a very excited state, and put some of the paper up topsyturry. Mullins did not go on with his work as he might to have done. A man named Rowland came to assist Mullins. On the following Friday, while they were at work, Rowland said he had heard of' a murder of an old lady in the Grove Road, and he wondered whether it was old Mrsx Emsley. !dulling said, have- heard something about it myself.' Rowland finished Mullins's work and went out. Upon his return, Rowland said, I'm blowed if it is not true about the old. lady.' Rowland and the prisoner then went out together, and proceeded to the Vicar of Wakefield publichouse, where some women were talking about the murder."
Rowland collected rent fir Mrs. Emsley. He said he saw Mullins on the Friday, the 16th, when they had some conversation about the murder. When witness spoke of it, he saw that the prisoner's countenance changed. Mr. Wontner—" In what way ? "
Rowland—" He seemed very much alarmed and terrified. A pallid hue came over his face. Witness went to Mr. Gaffney's, nnd found that the work had been very carelessly done. When he spoke of the murder, he (witness) did not know then that it was Mrs. Emsley who was murdered. He went out when he heard who it was. On his return, he stated to Mul- ling who it was, when he appeared extremely, excited, and said, Let us have something fo drink.' They went into the Queen's Head, in the Cam- bridge Road, where they had some rum. His hand trembled very much, and he shook violently. Witness saw him on the Wednesday before he was apprehended."
Mr. Wontner—". Did you say anything to him about the murder ? " Rowland—" I said to him, I have heard nothing about the murderer of
Mrs. Emsley,' and observed, (looking at him fell inthe face), I have strong suspicions of the man, and I have him in my eve now. I will never lose sight of him till the perpetrator of this diabolical murder is dis- covered."
Mr. Wontner—" Did be make any remark ?"
Rowland—" He said, I also suspect a man, and am watching him now." He then became anxious to leave me, and wanted to go away."
The inquiry was again adjourned until Tuesday.
Emma Padfield, a young woman, is in custody on a charge of slaying her illegitimate child. Sho had been confined in June at the house of a la- bourer at Hammond's Cottages, Lea Bridge. A month last Monday, she left the house with the child, saying she was about to take it to her sister-in- law ; she returned late without the child, and went the next morning to a situation. Oue day last week the body of a child was found in a cesspool, near the house, floated to the surface by the rising of the Lea. One arm was missing ; but the labourer's wife identified the body by a mark. An inspector discovered the girl at Notting Hill, and in her boxes found a cflild's petticoat which the labourer's wife also identified. The girl is re- mended.
Samuel Owen, " professor of music," and a Sunday stump orator, who makes collections in Hyde Park after delivering political discourses, was arrested on Sunday on a charge of soliciting alms. The case was proved by the evidence of a policeman, and Owen admitted that evidence to be cor- rect. After his preachment,. he invited his hearers to give him moneyt. The constable told him that if he took money he must be arrested. He did not heed the advice, and spent a night in the station-house. The Marl- borough Street Magistrate, however, unwilling to be hard upon a first of- fence, let him go, telling him that, if brought up again, the law would enforced.
William Rose has been committed for trial on a charge of robbing Mrs. Annie Wood, a widow, of watches and jewellery.. Rose gained the widow's confidence by telling her he was a son of Alderman Rose, and that he was ill-treated by a stepmother- He went to her house, dined with her, rode out with her, was l'enfant dole maison. One day he was lett alone, and he carried off the property. Pursued by the widow and a constable, he eluded search for six months, but was finally caught in a billiard room in the Strand. He is accused of other-robberies.
Elizabeth Marriott, a young woman of twenty, was charged before the Greenwich Magistrate with damaging an oil painting aid other property belonging. to one Thomas ,Henry Gardiner,. many years her senior. It appeared that the poor girl, nominally his housekeeper, really living with him as his wife, the mother of his two children,. had been turned out by this inhuman person under most painful circumstances. As, howeder, the girl, in her iudignation, tore up the prosecutor's portrait and, broke other property, the Magistrate was compelled to order that she should pay the damage or go to prison for a month. She was taken to prison.
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