San Francisco Mail News.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 17 September 1888, Page 5

San Francisco Mail News.

I,! IMPEACHES H'ii , f ,, rft of the dis- & ■%ss%%£ — t * s$ f affhltebe- Z in a' toweringa"} ;■ e*-Sftet sa£Ca? U? "w a m for his ex"sKli »"*";,S- to put me mKm^t£a» forward to do fSßpH*m^i« Sraid-to do ..himselfafter he became a /^■taA.PJ 0?1^ m ost anxious to bam MeI, KS-andto endeavour WmfS lorn colleagues and with them, to unIMW"** I™, „'ind their plans in SUd H thfc inquiry > S d . »f \j thti raattera>nd,l ace no m&t*P I «W not I shall be aole *!»jV , word 'by documentary |p^Se^(Lo^Honie ilillKf^,. sceno and what followed, mm&ffiZ /So pltfywfr leadingpart Cr5 3 five minutes to 12 when ?BSla»dib looked as if he were ack,, pPs* I™*1™*'1" a f ew common-place *Wmt L M rf orepanng for a division or MlKf tie But the Irish leader l#ffpS^imosities than. HlW*'"' in in fci.e House of Comff^if,' the fierce scenea in which $mm , wPronunent a part, there ?»M i ice of his having made a forbearing and WB*fii wthaps O'Connor Power OP- Etoteated as considerately as he fi^ilrVjiiicll really hates, and that is .I Hweaaiidmeanness; and as iEBB!4W>3 iIR CHAMBERLAIN I tf-'B-i- AS IGNOBLE) ' ' ;'Biiui>'and mean beyond all other men for Kr Chamberlain a (U rtmost amounts to 4 loathing; "^"■KtottKy "treat of Mr Cbarpberlain «of Kyjjfenceon the second rending of )a^W»ib-b«»ht MrPirneU'si'disgust to a up and m a bare five mf^K.' Epeccli managed to crush the Bfa™? and iDB indictment ever ' li''i<'^ Home of .Commons. ;extent i: ;i,of bllt ifc is im Pos' EfiiI*^^'Hfea of its effect from J' Rtsi^rJig^.^teld have beon pros°Jg r^ifliko: scorn . -'c lr. a-;V, ,iji one of Mr JParnelFs •' aDl^ tnji; 'jbo';ii'3iiM-';bavo .watched the !•' |r- -'I i ent re-ponsiVb to the • 1n.,.', .i. iii -.-.MhU t,t,iil as death, K;the r.at fewiSl iSith tempestuous cheers ; ■t™ fcisicdfliiivjifssn tho great white foredaai. Biiduidwbite-faoe of Mr Gladstone as he ;elical : tbaditraightat Mr Chamberlain with a pwfefiliitejoet'aiid'inquir)-. aa though to ' 2*"l ItffKtiHr, Afteridl, ifcould-be true that Ii I -■' *'''■'vu" sitting in council to- i sg^HH^Jßf'Chiiiiiiberlaiff. was playint; the js^wt jwt attributed to him by Mr Purljti '■ lii JW.I all you ftoold have •■ , ~],,!, IrJjuib IHB FACE" OF MR iurt^l ", CHAMBERLAIN ' "i. 3 grew uglier and more livid woi^ W comonfi Under this terrible ipdictP^fc^intd. accentuated, exalted by the f, ,»J«!hus)md tho wild tumult of the "to « c' l"e(1 to au^'l "ie husinesa k^n* ■ V'srnne, buf. the emile was deadly jfclj|Wß9 at tempted to cn.rry on conver■'»rt Ue Marquig of Hnrtington,1 but 51 cmtd t stick in hi 3 throat.: ' c' I mfi fy midnight hour had come. Al r JLi t? 6y^ n!( to 3t°P Mr ['arnell by flus-l.^V OK «'ORD3R, ORDER," ■iog J'-ft.' 1:' ell to sit down. Bat the ■tl' '^.■^.^a, especially the Irish members, ' tOi i I.V liDtJer tliei CKcitoment; thera c y E.? 8'' aDd Mr afraid ,W*ten the House in front of the solid 'ftJiiHs 81.' °. s. trisli_ enemies, who rem,-, P?Btl|ngand cheering, lingered iD liilfj'»' at. t"JC' !il. eonvursation with tho ■W*,s. -^rtiDgton. It was in tho wKuesecheera that the words "Judas iCLfli r I , w,ere hcani- They came from I ■' OConuor. ,\h Chamberlain, jjrtrtVkdl—?* iWtmt 1110 words were. ■. 1 If F cnty of people ea^er to tell 1S '^Wi*u -m dy'uJlldas W>atnberlain," wemeaftlj,. rih|c, Jj'ft«r.'.viflH\«leiitanjoy. n,n trWk-,^» \ "Call llim Jlldas Chamm m B? ;! |r^ ffouae was without a pre* clß', Vl!i; K1 fMr left the to I £w pcakerhadUlkei'it- There )rBI aD« M'o(iamult.;Atla 6 ttho ice !J gllll ESTEIIBD. i* ft?"1 r 7 lO and disturbed, go fc SW 53 aitied- Uov^ ""usually r **"* 14 l!i v enounce the terrible or' iitt«r p eenapplialtohim- Bllt i»^j "jfi Chamberhin » ('d a"rti^ fa°ttf ir ho shu"kl. "ot bave

serve, if only for a time, to check the genial exuberance of our bid friend 'Arry (or ferry as he prefers to be called, and his " pals.. You don't know this nuisance in the colonies yet. Melbourne and other large towns can of course boast their "larrikins, buta "larnkin' >isa J TQoble.creature compared with 'Arry. The . brutes who set upon poor young Rumfaoid and his girl last May_ were simply vile c,owards incapable even of being true to one another; The first 'thought of every man, of the eight: alter their; victim was found to be uead was, >' Shall Ibe able to save my bacon by turning Queen's evidence?". They separated vowing solemnly to be secret yet within two hours everyone except the actual murderer had found his way to the Police Office 'oh a telltale mission:' t(, ", *'' ■'"'. , v_\ " The story itself (as a murder story) is, of the simplest, in fact there has been no mystery about the case from first to last. London, as the '* Daily News" explains, contains many organised gangs of roughs, 'and'the.prisoners belonged to one of these gangs. A friend of theirs had. been attacked by another gang; they organised an expedition: to, ayenge ; - the outrage; and meeting two defenceless youths walking with .their- sweethearts an Regent's Park, they took the life of one qf them in cold, blood, on a suspiciora - (which proved, entirely groundless) that he was concerned ,in the original assault. The murder is sickening in ■ its brutality and in its cowardice. There were ei&ht or ten against one; and even at this odds, the knife' thrust that laid the victim low was a thrust in the back, it is, if possible, still more melancholy as an evidence of the degradation i% which numbers of- our population live. Eight prisoners stood in the dock, and their average of individual age; was sixteen and a-half years. Yet these children, for they were little more, were regularly banded together for violence, if not always for murder, and their relations with similar gangs in other districts were chose of warring Indian tribes. .There is a Fitzroy Square gang, for instance, and there is a Marylobone Road gang, and there is a blood feud between MarylebUne Road and Fitzroy Square. There is also a gang of " Seven Dialsmen," or" J)ockers," and it may safely be affirmed that, there are hundreds more. They prey upon each other; arid the greater part of their leisure is devoted to the prosecution of fbloody vendetta which go a long way to account-for the deplorable condition of the London streets. Women and men, or rather, girls and boys, share equally in the perils of the encounter, , v an<i where, there is somebody to be knocked , down ana jumped upon, the chivalry on either side knows no distinction of sex, .*■ : . : ;-,v;|n the present instance the original cause of offence had been given: ,by an attack on one of the prisoners/named Cole, i *Cple arid a young woman w.ere : walking one night in the Marylebone Road when a gang unknown! came up arid knocked both of them down. On this the. vendetta was declared. Cole, attributing the outrage to the *' Marylebone lads," induced his friend Geilatly; to organise an expedition against them. Gellatly was, soon atr the head of a force of ... boyish desperadoes, one of them, armed with a knife. He had iio difficulty in ;;finding'recruits~an invitation to: join a fighting party seems the must natural thing in the world iri these circles... His friends accept or-decline without (surprise. One witness cannot join '' because he, has gotto meet his ybung.'iady.*^ Another, witness is asked :" if he will g6 iip tb Maryleb he Rbad'to have alight—that is aIL When they reach the Regent's Park they see the two pairs of Idvers who are supposed to be members of the obnoxious; gang; v They go;very methodically to work They have come for the vendetta, and they show some care in selecting their victim. Rumbold, the murdered Haan,tand Byrne, his friend, were about twenty yards apart, each accompanied by his sweetheart, and Rumbold Was deliberately singled out for attack as the supposed author of the outrage, of the night before. Both.were examined by the gang, arid when it came to poorß urn hold's turrThe was surrounded and twice stabbed. The girl byhis side gave the alarm, but she was instantly felled,- and she was kicked as she lay on the ground. Nothing could have been \more; deliberate than the crime from first to last. '; " _ Six of the prisoners were acquitted of the capital Charge in the stage of the trial; Lee,-the sailor, boy who had lent the knife -to Gellably,- had a narrow escape of the gullowsl There could be no doubtthat he had a shrewd suspicion of the use to which the .weapon : might be put. < The jury,; however, were unwilling to convict him of either murder or manslaughter, and he ■ pleaded guilty hto a * minor charge. 'Much of the evidence., pointed to Gellatly as the murderer. He was undoubtedly the leader of the group that surrounded the murdered- man-;- he :undoubtedly inflicted one of the wounds, and after the affray ho twice spoke 6t having usedtbe knife. Upon him, therefore, Mr Justice Hawkins pronounced sentence of deaths •■His extreme youth may yet tell in iiia; favour, bat in any case he can hardly escape a severe punishment. The direct evidence against him is no doubt anything but! unexceptionable}. [: The prisoners1; have been convicted mainly on the testimony of informers, and .the informer, Cleary, who was him&elf one of; the gang, has nob a clean "record." He must have been quite ;•■» child when he'was sent to'gaol arid to the reformatory for- theft. He is one of the failures of our reformatory system; as all. his companions are the failures of our social system.