The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

THAMES,

"ELEANOR'S VICTORY."—A withered old Irishwoman,
named Eleanor M'Cormack, who has been very trouble-
some to the shopkeepers in and near Whitechapel, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a
pound and a half of bacon from the shop of Mr. John Crew,
a cheesemonger, No. 1, Cemmercial-road East.
It appeared from the evidence of Henry Phipps, the pro-
secutor's shopman, that he saw the prisoner loitering about
his master's shop and watched her. She managed, how-
ever, unperceived to snatch a piece of bacon from the shop
board, and put it under her shawl. A few seconds after-
wards Mr. Phipps missed the bacon, and went after the
prisoner. He took the piece of meat from her, and gave
her into the custody of police-constable Chandler, 117 H,
to whom she said 'hat she took the bacon for a lark, but
the proprietor of the shop and his servants were not at all
disposed to treat the matter as a joke, because they had lost
pieces of cheese and lumps of bacon when Eleanor had
visited them before, and insisted on her being locked up.
Chandler said the prisoner had been in custody fifty times
for pilfering from the shops, and that bread, meat, vege-
tables, or anything. that came iu her way, had been
stolen by her. She had been repeatedly punished for theft.
The prisoner, who growled incessantly, called all the
saints in the calendar to bear witness she was a lone widdy
woman, and that she was as innocent as the blessed babies
that were niver born.
Mr. Woolrvch—You make a business of this. You go
from shop to shop pilfering. I sentence you to three months
imprisonment and hard labour.
Eleanor anathematised Chandler as she was leaving the
dock, and said, "Ye murthering villain, ye would trans-
port me if ye dared. Only three months, ye villain—this
is ray Victory, and be hanged to you 1"
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL.
Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dissipated woman, who
has been repeatedly in custody, was brought before Mr.
Woolryeb,
attempting self-destruction.
charged with being drunk and disorderly, and
The prisoner has made repeated unsuccessful attempts
to commit suicide. She has plunged into
the docks on
several occasions and been rescued. She has hung herself
in the police cells, and in the cells attached to the Thames
Police Court, being cut down before life was extinct. Mr.
Woolry en
has in the kindest manner endeavoured to re-
claim her, and often spoken to her on the folly and wretched-
ness of her course of life, when she was last remanded to
the House
of Detention for a week, that she might receive
the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain.
Roche, the
gaoler of the Court, said ho could not be
answerable for her life,
if she was left alone for a minute ;
and she was sent away in a cab direct to the House of De-
tention. Last night the
prisoner was in King David-lane,
Sbadwell, making a disturbance in front of the station
house there. She was intoxicated and very much excited.
She was taken into the station and locked up. A few
minutes afterwards Charles Witt, a police-constable, went
alongside of her, she had contrived to
into the cell where the prisoner was confined, and, although
another woman was
gside
fasten a piece of tape round her neck, and her face was
The constable said
swollen and discoloured. ~ What do
you mean by this,'' and
cut the tape. He sprinkled water
on her face, revived
her, and left her. Half-an-hour after
this a second alarm was given. She had twisted a hand-
kerchief round her neck and was black in the face. A sur-
geon was called in, who
revived her. This morning at
half-past eight o'clock, although closely watched, she
twisted her apron round her throat. Charles Whisson,
896 K, with difficulty saved
her, and took away her apron.
William Bloom, 458 K, said the
prisoner was before Mr.
Partridge five weeks ago for attempting to commit suicide,
and she was then sent to prison
for a month in default of
finding a surety.

Mr: Woolrych said the prisoner had made so many
attempts on her life that he was now under the painful
necessity of committing her for trial.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.
Thy supply of English wheat received fresh up to this
morning's market was very. moderate, and the trade ruled
firm, both for red and white qualities, at fully Monday's
advance in prices of is to 2s per quarter.
In foreign wheat a moderate business was transacted,
and Monday's quotations were well supported. There was
a full average supply on the stands.

Floating cargoes of grain were in steady request, at full
currencies.

--kalting barley was very firm, and
prices had an upward
tendency. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off steadily,
at extreme rates.

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Malt was in average request at quite previous rates.
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