The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

PELTING A MAN WITH sus OWN BACON —Bridget Tighe,
alias Carthy, a dissipated and turbulent woman, who has
given much trouble to the police, was brought before ➢lr
Paget charged with stealing bacon from the shop of Mr
Hunt, cheesemonger in High-street, Poplar, and assaulting
a boy named Thomas Lemon. _ _

The boy detected the prisoner stealing some rashers of
"real Wiltshire,' and called his master's attention to the
fact. The prisoner immediately struck the boy and knocked
him down. She then took up all the bacon within reach
and pelted Mr Hunt with it as fast as she was able. She
also broke a great many eggs and created such a scene of
confusion that about 100 persons assembled, and the cheese-
monger had much trouble in saving his property. The
prisoner was given into the custody of a police-
constable, named Edward Chance, who stated that the pri-
soner stood up and fought him like a man. She was a much
better pugilist than himself, and declared she would not go
to the station house with him. He obtained assistance,
overpowered her, and strapped her on a stretcher. She was
then carried to the station house, swearing, roaring, and
cursing like a mad woman. It was proved by police ser-
geant Watson, No. 34 K, that the prisoner had been twice
convicted of felony, and once sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, and on the second occasion to nine months
imprisonment and hard labour,
The prisoner, whose clothes were a mass of rags, said
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the police, They took advantage
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Mr Paget convicted the prisoner of the assault on the
a month's imprisonment and hard
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A DISGRACE TO THE BLUE JACKET.--Michael White,
a seaman, aged 47, was brought before Mr Paget on a charge
of felony.

The prisoner was lodging yesterday in a seamen's board-
ing house in Ann•street
' St. George-in-the-East. He had
been kept there se reral
days out of charity. He was ob-
served by two mariners lodging in the house to go up and
down stairs several times. lie was also extremely restless.
After he left the house a sailor named Andrew Brown went
to his room and missed a pair of trousers and a singlet. He
immediately started in pursuit of the prisoner, and met him
going into a house and wearing the stolen trousers. He
was given into the custody of Robert Smith, 253 li, who
found the singlet in the shop of a Jew named Marks, who
bought it of the prisoner for a shilling.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr Paget—Have you anything to say for yourself ?
The Prisoner—It is nine years since I was in England.
I have been in the American service. I was last in a
Yankee ship called the sabine.
Mr Paget—And have you come back to England to com-
mit robberies ?
The Prisoner was hard up.
Mr Paget
hale, sound man like you could olitain
if you have been so many years at sea. You
poverty
will always be in you are not honest. I sentence
you for this robbery to be imprisoned for four months, and
kept to hard labour.
employment

gglIKETS—This Day,

HAY MARIC2,T S.

rfiTl• Aroadow hay, £2 108 to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 par load.
Trade firm.
CurdazaLAND.•—a4aw laaY, £2 103 to £4 10s; clover,
£l4„ to £1 10s per toad.
end straw;
dow hay, £2 lOs to £4los; clover,
£4 Os to £5 103 ; and straw, 43 to £1 103 per load.
Trade steady.
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