The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1864.

WESTMINSTER.

UNLAWFULLY ENTERING A HOUSE.—Charles Danby,
a middle-aged man, was charged with unlawfully entering
a house at No. 7, Lower Grosvenor-place, and further at-
tempting to steal a lead pipe, the property of the Marquis
of Westminster.

John Drew, assistant to Mr. Haines, auctioneer to the
Marquis's estate, said that at 6 o'clock on the previous
evening his attention was called to the door of the house,
No. 7, Lower Grosvenor-place, being open. The house
was empty, and witness went in. Some boys ran out of a
back door from the leads. He found the prisoner, There
was a pick near him, and some lead pipe had been removed
from the wall and hacked in two, The prisoner was then
given into custody.
Richard Mallon, porter to Mr. Harms, said that he lived
at No. 8, and heard a noise at the time, and caught the
leads. He was very much confused, and ran away.
Witness followed and captured him, There was a pickaxe
near him, and some lead pipe had been removed. He said
he knew nothing about the pickaxe, and had not touched
the lead.

Ambrose Juttan, 303 B, said that at a quarter past six
he took the prisoner into custody. He said he wanted to
look after the wall that was near falling. The marks on
the wall and pipe corresponded with the pickaxe.
James Dixon, a contractor, proved that the prisoner was
at work for him near the spot. He did not know what
business he had there, and knew nothing about the pick.
Prisoner said the pick did not belong to him. He was
looking after a wall that was falling, and had not got into
the house for an unlawful purpose.

Mr, Arnold remanded him, taking bail for his reappear-
ance.

THAMES.

A MOST INCORRIGIBLE THIEF.--Margaret
most wretched looking woman, 52 years of age, who ap-
peared to be 80, was charged with stealing a waistcoat, the
property of Henry Hopkins, of 68, Churoh•lane, White-
chapel.

The prisoner entered the prosecutor's house, the street
door of which was open, and went into the yard behind. A
waistcoat, which had been recently washed, was* hanging
on a line to dry. The prisoner removed it, and was leaving
the house with it, when the prosecutor's wife and another
woman saw her and gave her into custody,
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had been
a great many times in custody, and he was afraid to say
how many times she had been convicted. She had for many
years been in the practice of sneaking into the houses of
poor persons and stealing anything she could lay her
hands on. She was no sooner out of prison than she was
in custody. He believed nothing would ever stop her from
picking and stealing when she was out of prison.
An officer said the prisoner had been found in singular
positions in the houses of the poor. At one time she was
discovered at daybreak by a poor woman, seated on the top
of a copper in the wash-house, She had been in this poi-

tion, and nothing could induce her to move until she was
taken down and removed by the police.
The magistrate said the prisoner was a dangerous old
woman, and committed her to the House of Correction for
three months, and to be kept to hard labour.

The Suspected Murder by a Wife in Lambeth,

Last evening Mr W. Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an
inquiry at the Spanish Patriot Tavern, Lower Marsh,
Lambeth, touching the death of Stephen Weston, aged 34,
who was alleged to have been murdered by his wife on
Sunday last.
Mr Edwin appeared for Mrs Weston; and Inspector
Edmonds had charge of the case for the police authorities.
Elizabeth Sweetman was the first witness called—She
said that she was the mother of the deceased's wife, and she
lived with the Westons. Deceasedwas a tripe dresser and
dog's-meat seller. He occupied the house, 1, iohanna -
street, Lambeth. His wife, Sarah Weston, and four chil-
dren, the eldest nine years of age, lived with him. Witness
had lived with them three or four years.
Samuel Samuels, a cooper, was called, and he gave the
same evidence he had already given before a police-court.
He said that on Sunday morning he was in the street looking
on at a fight between two women, when he heard a cry of
"Murder," proceeding frora 1, Johanna-street. He climbed
up on the ledge of the Spanish Patriot, and thus got on
the top of Mr Weston's shop
window. A girl opened the
window and he put his head in. He saw by the light of
a candle Mrs Weston holding deceased's head and knock-
ing it against the handles of the chest of drawers. He was
partly on the floor and partly on the bed. He was trembling,
but not struggling. She knocked his head twice. Witness
"If you don't leave go, you coward, I'll knock you
down with this flower pot." She let go, and deceased's
head fell. 'Witness said he is dead. She said to witness

You have got up there to rob the place." She left the
room, and witness got down. She came to the door with
side-spring boots on, and said, " I have get his - boots
on now." She said she would lock witness up, and that he
had no business to interfere between her and her husband.
Witness had known them both to be of drinking habits.
She said one night last week that she would do for her
husband one of these days. She was drunk then. Witness
had heard her threaten him, and show him a knite at other

times when drunk. Deceased had only a shirt on as he la 3
on the floor when his wife was beating him.
Mrs. Sweetman, re-called, said that she was at home on

the morning of the occurrence. The front room was the
sitting-room, but witness and three of the children slept in
it. Deceased and his wife occupied the back room. De-
ceased had been in and out of bed all day on the Saturday.
He had not been to business, for, witness thought, he was
out of his mind. Witness asked a policeman to come up on
the Sunday morning, but the officer would not. Witness
did not see him struck. She saw some one come to the
window. She had not called any one. She went to the
door, but it was only to get some one to put deceased into
bed, as he was out of his mind. Witness went upstairs,
and saw the poor man lying on the floor on his face. She
did not know whether he was then dead. He had jumped
out of his own bed, and come into the front room. Witness
did not call out " murder," nor did any one else. When a
person was in a deranged state, it would be natural to wish
some one to assist. She only wanted the police to keep
him in bed, Deceased had drunk two half quarterns of
sherry that day.

Elizabeth Frances Weston, an intelligent little girl, was
then sworn. She said she lived with her father and mother
at No. 1, Johanna-street. On Sunday morning all the
family were in the front room. Deceased had come in out
of the othet room. Ho fell across the bed. Witness did
not see what caused him to fall. He was noisy, and he had
been out of his mind all day. Nothing was done to him as
he lay on the floor. Some one came to the window. Wit-
ness did not know why. Witness's mother was trying to
pick him up then. She did not strike him. She did not
beat his head against anything, His head was not near the
chest of drawers, but was right away from it, It was not
true that she struck his head against the drawers. No one
told her what to say,
The coroner said that great difficulties were caused in
this case by the arrest of the wife. This court had the
power to examine any one as to the cause of a death, but
by the wife's being'taken into custody no statement could
be obtained from her. It was possible that she might be
able to explain how the matter really stood.

Dr, J. Wilcocks Wakens said that on Monday he made a
careful examination of the body of the deceased. There were
35 marks of violence. There were bruises such as a blunt
insrrument—a poker for instance—would have made, There
were other marks of injuries inflicted some days previous,
The injuries were principally on the limbs. The head
was puffy externally. The post-mortem examination
showed that the bruises on the limbs were superficial, and
not sufficient to affect vitality. There were the marks of
five or six blows on the head, and blood was effused under
the scalp. The blows had been inflicted with a blunt,
instrument of small superfices. Blood was effused on the
brain. Witness was decidedly of opinion that death was
attributable to violence inflicted on the head by a blunt
instrument; buyhe deceased was so diseased that very
little violence would have been sufficient to produce death.

In answer to the Coroner,

Dr. Wakem said that a person struggling violently in
delirium tremens might, if forcibly held down, sink back
and die of exhaustion. The two blows seen by the witness
Samuels were not in themselves sufficient to cause death.
There had been general violence. Witness considered it
impossible that the injuries could have been self-inflicted
in knocking about under the influence of delirium tremens.
After some further evidence, the court was cleared, and
the jury having deliberated for nearly two hours, it was
decided to adjourn the inquiry until Monday next.

A fatal accident occurred two days back on the
Lyons Railway, at Saint-Romain-la-Motte. A
goods train, consisting of 80 trucks, ran off the line, and
about 24 of them were thrown on to each other by the shock,
ithe guard received serious injuries and died a few hours
ter, but the breaksman
jumped from his seat and was only
slightly bruised. Eight other persons were in the train,
but all escaped unhurt. The accident is supposed to have
occurred from a horse having broken through his box and
fallen on to the lino. The poor animal was almost ground
to shreds, as traces of its blood were found between the
rails for a distance of nearly a mile and a half. Two other
horses were killed.

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francs), and has only been.. able to obtain 23,500,000
thalers (a little more
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lasted for about 30 seconds. was at the time
clear and brilliant, and the atmosphere
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So frightful was the commotionthe quick and awful
rockings as to make it a moment
of
whether the beholder would be buried with
suspense as to
with the log shanty,
which cracked, rolled, and tottered around him,
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from Australia state that the hopes accounts
which had been
entertained of the naturalisation of th
£15,000, the whole
have been disappointed, 300 introduced by Mr.
Ledger from Peru, five years ago, and
have diedpineeTrffiah,oedsainngdlethdeaiyr at Copenhagen
numbering
Government of New South Wales for iichased by the
and others con-
are in
an unhealthy condition. Some Persons throw 330,
on Mr, Ledger for inefficient management, the blame
alder that the mistake was in their
together at one locality under Government having been kept all
care, instead of
their having been distributed among individual
ividual settlers,
some of whom would probably havediscovered the precise
districts most suitable to them. Darin
discussion on
the subject in the Colonial Legislature nearlyga
every
speaker
was in favour of the Government immediately getting rid
of the cost of keeping them, and of having
staff of officers to ‘ttend to them, and a resolutiontomaintain a
was ac-
cordingly adopted that they should be disposed of as soon as
possible, either by auction or in any other way that might
seem expedient,
THE MINERS' STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

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—Yesterday an open-air meeting of miners was
held at Bilston, to receive a report from a deputation of
men who had been appointed to wait upon the masters
who had given notice to about 1,000 or 1,500 men
in the Bradley district for a reduction in their wages of 3d.
a day. Between 1,000 and 1,500 men were present; and
theymasters
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so they would blow out their furnaces. Several speeches
were then delivered, the burden of the whole being that
the masters were trying to oppress the men, but that the
men were determined that to the uttermost they would
resist the effort. Aid, it was stated, would be forthcoming
from every. other mining district in the kingdom ; and
other trades' unions, it was added, had offered assistance.
The struggle would be the stronger because it was felt
that if the masters succeeded with this notice they would
give One all through South Staffordshire for a reduction to
3d a day. Similar views were expressed at three other
meetings.