The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING, AND UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.—George
Clarke,. who was attired in a very seedy suit of clothes, and
who was described as a seaman, aged 25, no home, and a
native of New York, was brought before Mr. Woolrych,
charged with stealing a large and heavy overcoat, the pro-
perty of John Davis, a waggoner and labourer, in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Vickers and Co., the distillers.
Tho prosecutor was delivering a load of gin yes4erday
evening at the house of a publican in Shadwell, and his
coat was thrown over one of the horses attached to the
waggon. The prisoner watched an opportunity while the
prosecutor was on his way from the cart to the public-
house with a can, which contained four gallons of gin, to
remove the coat, and ran away with it. The prosecutor
was compelled to deliver the can of gin before he could pur-
sue the prisoner, who was, however, stopped by others with
the coat in his possession. Davis valued it at £l.
The prisoner said be picked up the coat, and that he was
in distress.

Mr. Woolrych—You are an American ; sailors and sol-
diers are wanted in the States. You might have obtained
a berth on board a Federal merchant ship if you had been
so disposed ; but ycu prefer thieving, going about and
stealing whatever you can lay your hands on. You are
sentenced to 21days' imprisonment and hard labour for the
unlawful possession of the coat.

STEALING AND UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.—MaItheW
Jackson, aged 43, described as a wheelwright, of No. 5
Boundary-street, Shoreditch, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with stealing an iron lathe wheel, value
from the premises of Mr, David Hart, in the White-
chapel-road.

The prisoner was seen to enter upon the premises of the,
prosecutor and steal the lathe wheel. He walked off with
it, and was immediately afterwards stopped with the
wheel in his possession. He offered no explanation or
excuse for his conduct. It was stated that another lathe
wheel of similar value was stolen from Mr. Hart's pre-
mises on Saturday last.

The prisoner said a man asked him to carry the lathe
wheel a short distance, and promised him 4d. for the job.
Mr. Woolrych said there was no doubt the prisoner had
concocted that very stale and flimsy defence when he was
locked up last night, for he made no defence of the kind
when given into custody. The prisoner most probably
smelt blood on Saturday, and non-detection made him bold,
and caused him to remove the second lathe wheel. He
convicted the prisoner of being unlawfully possessed of the
lathe wheel, and sentenced him to 21 days' imprisonment
and bard labour.

APOPLEXY MISTAKEN FOR
.D.I?UNKENIVESS.

Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner for West Middle-
sex, prosecuted an investigation at Paddington yes-
terday into the circumstances attending the death
of llrs. Susanna Bayford, aged 50, wife of William
Bayford, a cabman, residing at 2, Stanley-street,
Paddington. The husband said he last saw the
deceased on Saturday morning. She was then
rather unwell, being subject to fits. She had occa-
sion to pay a visit to relations in Holborn in the
evening, and left him getting into an omnibus to
return home the same evening. Stephen Thorough-
good, a conductor of an omnibus plying from Not-
ting-hill Gate to Whitechapel, deposed to having
taken up the deceased at the corner of Fetter-lane,
Holborn. On arriving at the Royal Oak the pas-
sengers complained that deceased was offensive
from intoxication and vomiting. He found her lying
along the seat, to his mind evidently drunk, and at
the request of his passengers he took her out of the
omnibus and placed her on a door step in West-
bourne-grove, at the corner of Monmouth-road.
Police-constable 366 A stated that he found deceased,
apparently drunk and incapable, on the pavement
in Westbourne-grove, a short distance above the
Royal Oak. A man was trying to get her up. He
took her to the station-house with the assistance of
another constable, she walking there staggeringly
with their help. Sergeant Rouse, 15 D, deposed
that at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening deceased was
brought to the station and charged with being
drunk and incapable. She exhibited the strongest
symptoms of drunkenness, and was unable to give
her name and address. He saw her put into one of
the cells, and he himself placed a pillow under her
head, and had a fire lit to warm the cell. He gave
instructions to the constables that it was a drunken
case, and she must be carefully looked to. She was
visited throughout the night every half or three
quarters of an hour. He saw her himself but three
quarters of an hour before she was discovered dying.
Medical assistance was obtained within 25 minutes
after her condition became known, but by that
time she had expired. Mr. Brown, divisional
police surgeon of Kensal-green, made a post mor-
tem examination of the body. The condition of
the brain showed that the deceased had been sub-
ject to fits. He could not detect any spirits. Death
apoplexy.
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spoken of by the several-witnesses were just as much
signs of apoplexy as drunkenness. It was a very
difficult thing even for a medical man to distinguish
intoxication from apoplexy. Bayford, the husband,
assured the deputy coroner and jury that he had
been credibly informed that she had drunk but a
glass of stout during the whole of Saturday. The
deputy coroner, in summing up, said it was a most
unfortunate mistake of the police, but just such a
mistake as was likely
was very difficult, indeed, as the medical gentleman
to happen in such a case. It
had stated, to determine drunkenness from apoplexy
and therefore he did not see that any blame could be
attached to the police. After a protracted inquiry
a verdict was recorded to the effect that the deceased
was found insensible in the public road, and died in
a certain police cell from a natural cause.

"Jack," said a man to a lad just entering his
teens, " your father is drowned." " Darn it, ho's got my
knife in his pocket 1" said the young hopeful.
Mrs. Partington wants to know if the Pope sent
any of his bulls to the cattle show?