The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

SCANDALOUS ROBBERY OF A SAILOR.—Sarah Williams,
who carried a child in her arms, and Sarah Downey, two
notorious thieves, who have often been in custody, were
brought before Mr Paget charged with stealing a £lO Bank
of England note, 30s. in gold, and 17s. or 18s. in silver,
from the person of Henry Young, a very smart homeward
seaman, who has been recently paid off.
The prosecutor said he met with Williams yesterday
evening, and went home with her to a house in Downshire-
street, Commercial-road. After being with her some time
she was cuddling him up to fondly, and calling him her
dear Jack, that he knew she was then getting over
him, as it was the way the girls got over chaps.
Soon after that he found her taking the guard
off his silver watch. He then began to suspect her, and
missed ell his money. There was a £lO note in a piece of
paper, his gold in a purse, and his silver loose. He left
the house when ho missed his money and thought ho would
go home. He met Williams again coming out of a public-
house. She tried to get his watch again, but the guard
was too strong. He gave her into custody, and Downey
then interfered and tried to pull her away. In answer to
questions by the magistrate, the sailor said he had never
been robbed before; but he know the ways of the girls,
when they robbed a sailor they pretended to be very fend
of him. He had a good deal of drink last night. He met
Williams on Tuesday for the first time. He did not go
home with her then, because he was not paid
off. He was certain he had his money in his pockets when
he went home with her. He felt her hands in his pocket.
Williams here said she never saw the sailor until he gave
her into cust.2.4.
James Buckley, a police constable, No. 140 H, said the
prisoners were given 12,t0 custody by Young, who said that
Downey fondled him, ant thiew her petticoats over his
head when he went home with Williams. The woman
calling herself Sarah Williams ha,:l given a false name and
address. Her real name was Margaret Pease, or Pea.
Young was recalled, and said he did not know whether
Downey was in the house or not when he entered it with
Williams, He then made some contradictory statements.
Mr Paget could not rely on the sailor's evidence, and
discharged the prisoners.

CHLoßoronm.—lf, in experiments with chloro-
form on dogs, rabbits, &c., poisoned on purpose, we
almost immediately find (as we do) that the most marked,
indeed only marked pest-mortem appearance, is cardiac
syncope,that is, this gorging of the right cavity of the
heart with healthy blood, the lungs passive: if in post-
mortem examinations ofti p
patients ia hositals that have suc-
cumbed to chloroform, we find the same thing, the statistical
inference appeared to Snow very clear, though it is au error,
that the deaths were from paralysis of the heart. So it is
considered in nearly all our standard books on surgery,
and electricity is still tried in the hospitals to the heart I
in many cases, without any good effect whatever. One is
very desirous that the true manner of applying elec-
tricity to the phrenie nerve and respiratory muscles in
deep anwethesia with a magneto-electro current were better
known, as in this form this agent is most effectual in re-
storing life; while, applied to the heart directly, as is
usual, it only extinguishes what life there is left in that
organ, and coagulates this blood in the right cavities, in
cases of apparent death from drowning, it is even more
valuable, but a "terra incognita" to our "humane
Society." Reasoning, indeed, from a large experience of
ten or a dozen years, watching chloroform administration
in London hospitals; in more than ten thousand cases, he
author believes that the heart is never attacked by this
paralysis, which appears from a mere " post hoe" statisti-
cal induetion.—Dr Kidd's Ircatise on chloroform.