The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH- STREE r.

ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A DISCHARGED SERVANT.—
John Davis. now a cabman, but formerly in the employ of
Mr. George Himes, laceman, of Sydney-alley, Leicester-
square, was charged with stealing a piece of linen, the pro-
perty of his employer ; and he was further charged, on
suspicion, of stealing a parcel of lace, &c., of the value of
£46, the property of Mr. Himes.
Mr. Himes said that on Tuesday last he went out of
town, and on his return he missed from his shop a parcel of
lace, of the value of £l6—the parcel containing trimmings,
flounces, &c., sent to him on approbation. He called in
Sergeant Joy, and placed the matter in his hands, and
afterwards learned that the prisoner, who had formerly
been in his employ as a porter, had been seen watching
about his premises. He had not traced any of the pro.
perty, but a girl in his employ gave him the duplicate re-
lating to a piece of linen, which duplicate she had bought
of the prisoner. The piece of linen had been taken from
his shop while the prisoner was in his employ, and was his
property.
Sarah Gibb, a young woman in the service of Mr. Himes,
deposed to buying the duplicate relating to the linen of the
prisoner, and said that she saw the prisoner near Mr,
Himes's on Wednesday last.

Mr, Himes said he had been to the pawnbrokers and seen
the linen, and it had his private marks on it.
Sergeant Joy, 9 C, proved apprehending the prisoner out-
side Mr. Himes's shop, the prisoner at the time being en-
gaged in watching the shop. On telling him the charge he
made no reply, and on showing him the duplicate he ad-
mitted selling it to the female servant in Mr. Himes's em•
ploy.

The prisoner was remanded.

THAMES.

ALL FOR LOVE.—Eugene Metcalf, a pale-faced and me-
lancholy looking young man, aged 20, was brought before
Mr. Woolrych, charged with attempting to commit suicide.
A police constable named George Crouch, No. 330
stated that the prisoner, who was a young man of good
character and ability, was porter at a respectable house in
the city, and had become attached to a young woman with
whom he had quarrelled, and the little affair preyed on his
mind. On Saturday night, at a late hour he was found
near Messrs. Garford's oil mills, Limehouse-hill, labouring
under the effects of poison, and apparently in a dying state.
He was called to the prisoner, who was foaming
at the mouth, in great agony, and his eyes
were inflamed. A doctor was sent for who
administered a powerful emetic, which dislodged some of
the poison from his stomach. The prisoner was then taken
to his dwelling at No. 29, Pbabe-street, Limehouse, and
was still in a very low state, and suffering from the effects
of the poison he had taken. _

Mr. Woolrych—What poison did he swallow?
WitneEs—Oxalic acid. The prisoner said he bought it
at No. 23 Ludgate-hill on his way home on Saturday night,
and that he had been in the practice of buying oxalic acid
there to clean leather. The prisoner also said that, having
quarrelled with his sweetheart, he determined to end his
life.

The prisoner, in defence, said he was very much upset
by what had occurred between him and his " young
woman," and that caused him to act as he, had done.

Mr. Woolrych—Why this is an act of madness. You
have acted very foolishly indeed. You ought to have ex-
hibited more firmness than attsmpt to commit such a wicked
act as suicide. You will be confined for a week, under the
care of the excellent chaplain of the House of Detention at
Clerkenwell.

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE LONDON DOGS.
—A young woman named Emily Grant, who has been
leading a wretched life, and was for some time servant to
some of the Rateliff-highway prostitutes, was brought be-
fore Mr. Woolrych, charged with attempting to commit
self-destruction in the waters of the London Dock.

A police-constable, named Brown, No, 51 H, said that
the prisoner deliberately threw herself from the Old Gravel-
lane Bridge into the London Dock basin last night, at a
quarter before 10 o'clock, and went down. A dock watch-
man put off in a boat with grapnels and a long staff and
boat .hook, and brought her out of the water. She said she
was in great distress, and did not know what to do. The
woman was very ill.

Mr. Woolryoh said this was very shocking. He lectured
the prisoner on the folly and wickedness of her conduct in
a very forcible manner, and then remanded her to prison for
a week.

SUICIDE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—Last evening,
about 7 o'clock, one of the housemaids attached to
the castle at Windsor, committed suicide by throwing her-
self out of a top story window on to the parapet beneath, a
distance of about 70 feet. When the body was taken up,
it presented a fearfully mutilated appearance, and life was
wholly extinct. It appears that the deceased had for some
time past been under the medical advice of Dr. Brown, who
had enjoined that she should not be left alone, but she
made some excuse to her attendant for quitting the room,
and immediately proceeded to commit an act of self-destruc-
tion. A coroner's inquest will be held upon the body, but
being within the Royal preoinets, it will be before the
special coroner,