The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

ROBBERY AT A. RAILWAY,---A young man, apparently
about 16, and respectably dressed, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Bircham, charged with stealing a handkerchief
and purse from the person of Sarah Oldridge, at the book-
ing office of the London and Brighton Railway, London-
bridge.

From the evidence, it appeared that the prosecutrix yes-
terday was about proceeding to Croydon, and was in the
to i
escape n
h her for
booking office for the purpose of getting a ticket. She put
her handthe
prisoner removing his hand from her dress, and he endea-
voured handkerchief
and the e
purse,found but
dropped the latter. She pursued and overtook him in
Wellington •street, where he was stopped b
by a police-con-
stable, to whom she gave him into custody.
William William Bircher, 236 M, stated that he
was on duty in
High-street, Borough, yesterday, and he perceived the de-
fendant running from the railway station followed by the
prosecutrix, who called " Stop thief." He stopped him
and she gave him into his charge. He searched him at the
station and found the silk handkerchief, which the prose-
cutrix identified as her property. The defendant had a
peculiar description of Scotch cap, which was reversible,
one side being a brown colour and the other black, with a
white stripe, which effected a considerable alteration in his
appearance when it was turned inside out.
Dennis Scannell, a detective officer, who was employed
' at the South-Western Railway station, stated that the de-
fendant was one of a numerous gang of thieves who infest
the railway stations in the neighbourhood of London-
bridge, and he had frequently desired him to leave the
station.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six
months' hard labour.

THAMES.

THREE ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.—LAMENTABLE CASES.
—John Kerry, a labourer, of No. 18, Henry-street, Brom-
ley, apparently about'4s or 46 years of age, Ellen Santry,
a drunken woman, of No. 6, Plough-street, Whitechapel
and Arabella Ingram, were severally charged with attempt-
ing to commit suicide.

Mr. D. H. Wyte, surgeon of the London Hospital,
said that he had received a letter bearing upon each case
at-
tended to give evidence, but Mr. Woolrych, the magistrate,
from the chaplain of the prison, in which he set forth that,
the three prisoners were penitent and appeared to regret
scissorsbla by
the rash acts they had made to hurrythemselves into eternity
One of them had a contused wound on the head, and a
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had gone to six different chemists' shops and bought as
many pennyworths of laudanum,which she drank, and
then squatted herself upon a heap of bricks, where she was
pair
throat.of
Arabella
found by police-constable 131encowe, 255 K, and she was
removed to the Poplar Union-house. Ellen Santry, it ap-
peared, attempted to drown herself in the water near the
swing bridge of the docks.
The magistrate having severely lectured the three pri-
soners upon their folly, and they
having promised never to
repeat the same again, they were discharged.

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