THE ITALIAN Bor.—On Saturday, a strict search in the garden
be- longing to the cottage occupied by Bishop, at Nova Scotia Gardens, and also the cellar of the cottage, was made. The search was for some time unsuccessful : at length the officers were attracted to a part of the gar- den-path which had the appearance of being newly dug ; and on turning up. the earth for a couple of feet, they found a bundle of boys' clothes. consisting of a pair of small blue trousers, a small blue jacket, and a shirt torn down in front. • Witness also found a coarse blue jacket and a pair of coarse speckled trousers, and a waistcoat, which was too large for a boy, but had been taken in in the back. On the back part of the collar of the waistcoat was a mark of blood. In a subsequent examination of the house next to that of Bishop—which, it seems, has been for some time empty—a quantity of female apparel, very old and worn, was found. The whole exhibited evident proofs of having been violently torn off the body of the person who had worn it. A portion of a scalp covered with long brown hair was also found in Bishop's house,—supposed to be part of a subject which had been sold in parts to students who were unable to purchase the whole ; a form of sale which is said to be very common, and which renders the identification of a body, or the investigation of the causes that led to its death, almost impossible. On Monday, when the, clothes first found were produced at Bow Street, a boy named King, and his mother, who had formerly been examined, gave evidence, that a boy, similar in description to the deceased, had been seen near Bishop's house; they particularly spoke to a fur cap which he had worn. A fur cap, the fur of which is said to be English, while the shade is French, has been found in Bishop's house. Augustin° Bruno, an Italian, who had seen the body of the boy (which had been disinterred for the purpose of examination), as far as the process of decomposition enabled him to judge, thought it belonged to a boy named Carlo Ferrari, a Savoyard, whom Bruno had brought from Piedmont two years ago, and who about ten months since had been bound over by Bruno to another person. Pe- rigalli, the Italian witness formerly examined, was also of opinion that the body was that of Ferrari.
On Thursday, some more children's apparel was found in the horse ; and in the neighbourhood, a cap and bonnet, supposed to belong to the female whose clothes had been previously found, have been picked up. The four prisoners were brought up to Bow Street yesterday ; not on a new charge, as was expected, but on the same one. The evidence tendered went to prove that the prisoners Bishop and Williams occupied jointly the two houses where the boy's clothes and the clothes of a female were found. A witness also swore to the occurrence of a violent dis- turbance, in which three men were concerned, on Thursday or Friday night, the 3d or 4th of the present month. Shields was discharged, as far as the charge of murder was concerned, and put into the box as a witness ; but the fellow gave his evidence in so unsatisfactory a way, that it was thought useless to detain him in that capacity : he was ulti- mately detained to answer another charge. The two females were dis- charged. Williams was asked if he had any thing to say, and declined making any observation. Bishop observed the same prudent course. On May being called on, he said—" I have nothing to add to what I said already at the Coroner's Inquest. This man, Bishop, can clear me of every thing, if he likes to speak the truth. He knows I am innocent of the charge. He says he got the body from the ground, but that he don't like to say where, because he is loth to injure the two watchmen left to guard it. Things, however, have come to such a pass now, that he ought to speak the truth, and I wish him to speak the truth." He added, looking full in Bishop's face—" I defy him to say any thing to implicate me. I knew nothing of the body until I went to take it from Bishop's house." Bishop, in a low tone, said—" I have said nothing against you. It is true what you say; you knew nothing of it till then."
Mr. Minshull—" Prisoners, you will all be committed to Newgate, to take your trial at the ensuing Sessions, Old Bailey, commencing on the 1st of December next, for the wilful murder of Carlo Ferrari ; and there will be another count in the indictment, charging you with the wilful murder of a person unknown. You are now committed accordingly." The three men were then removed. There was an immense crowd of people, both in the office and the street ; and the prisoners were most ovciferously yelled at on their departure.
Mons BURKINO.—On Tuesday evening between eight and nine o'clock, Charles White, about thirteen years of age, was seized by two men in a lonely place called Sutton Street, leading into the York Road. One of the ruffians held him while the other clapped a large plaster over his face and endeavoured to stifle him. The boy struggled violently, got one of his hands loose, and screamed for help ; and the villains finding that they could not accomplish their diabolical purpose, became alarmed. The cries of the lad were fortunately heard ; when one of the villains grasped him by the neck and threw him over a paling into an enclosed piece of ground, and then ran away. A number of persons soon came to his assistance; and Police Constable Edwards, of the L division, No. 71, assisted the lad and conveyed him to the Station-house in the Wa- terloo Road, in a state of the greatest terror. His face was completely covered with pitch and tar. The boy, on being questioned, gave the above account of the transaction ; and said, that one of the men wore a smock frock, and he thought lie should know him again ; but he could not describe the other fellow, he was seized so suddenly, and was so dreadfully terrified at the time.—Daily Paper.
A half-drunken fellow, or who pretended to he such, was laid hold of by the Policemen on Thursday night, on a charge of seizing a boy by the wrist, and detaining him—greatly to the said boy's terror of mind, doubtless. The lad on whose mouth the plaster, as above described, had been placed (as a bad joke, perhaps, rather than any thing else), came for- ward to state that the prisoner was the man who had plastered him. The Magistrate detained him until some inquiry was made touching his general character. The story seems a silly one, and the boy is most likely deceived : the light, he admits, was very imperfect. TIIE MISSING Boys.—Thomas Boulton, the boy who was lately missed from the Docks, has returned home. The body of the other boy, Hart, son of a cabinetmaker in Oxford Street, who disappeared some weeks ago, was discovered the other day floating in the Regent's Canal. MURDER OF MRS. WALSIL—Edward Cook and Elizabeth Cook, alias Ross, have been again at the bar at Lambeth Street Office. Mr. Norton said, that when they were last before him, he stated that in all probability they would have been finally examined, and committed to take their trial at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions. In consequence, however, of some fresh circumstances and evidence having since that time transpired, he was induced to change this intention ; and as the Old Bailey Sessions were so fast approaching, he much doubted whether the case could be completed in time to send them for trial at it. He should, therefore, remand them for a fortnight. The female loudly ac-
cused Button, the granddaughter of the old woman, of havinglampered with the bOy, and induced him to give the evidence he had. An sox.—Mr. Walters, the surgeon charged with setting fire, or rather intending to set fire to his shop, whose case we noticed last week, has been again examined, and committed. The Magistrate expressed, at the same time, his willingness to accept of bail for Walters's appearance, himself in 10001. and two bail in 5001. each.
RECORDER'S REPORT.—On Monday the Recorder made his report to his Majesty of the prisoners in Newgate capitally convicted at the last Sessions, Old Bailey, all of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite during his ioyal pleasure.
SWING.—A number of fires have been reported during the week, which are described, some of them we believe truly, as the work of in- cendiaries; some have no doubt been the result of accidents. On Sun- day morning, six cows, one colt, sixty pigs, three hundred fowls, and fifty turkies were destroyed by a fire at Houghton Regis, near Dunsta- ble; several stacks were also burnt. Two stacks were burnt at Little Alorden, Beds, on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a wheat rick was burnt at Rushton, near Wootton Basset. These are but a few of the cases, but the other cases are of smaller moment.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Sunday, a man named Edward Abbey went to the house of the Honourable Mrs. Wingfield, while the family were at church ; and the cook, a woman of eighty, happening to open the hall- door on some business, he forced his way in, and after using some threats to the old woman, went up stairs to the bed-room of Airs. Wingfield, seized a poker, broke open her wardrobe, and carried off 3001. and a diamond necklace.—Freeman's Journal.
ELECTION RIOT AT LADDER.—A man named Brown was condemned, the other day, at the Supreme Court in Edinburgh, to nine months' im- prisonment, for driving the chaise in which the unlucky Councillor of the burgh was carried away—so unnecessarily as it turned out.
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