The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

THAMES, THIS DAY.

ROBTiEIIY BY WORKMEN.—George Patten, a labourer in
the service of Messrs. Mare and co., iron ship-builders,
Millwall, Poplar, was brought before Mr.Woolrych, charged
with stealing a pint and a half of oil and eight pieces of
wood, value in all 9d., the property of his employers.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, who conducted the prosecu-
tion, and was instructed by Mr. Henry Cox, superintendent
of Messrs. Mare's establishment, said the value of the
property with which the prisoner was charged with steal-
ing was insignificant, but the robberies committed in the
prosecutors' yard, where 1,500 men were employed, were in
the aggregate very large. It was the determination of
Messrs. Mare and Co. to prosecute in every case of pilfer-
ing, and he was sorry to say that in several of Messrs.
Mare's workmen had been convicted by Jones, or sum-
marily convicted by the magistrates of the Thames Police
Court for stealing property. Examples were absolutely
necessary, for if the pilfering was not stopped the works
could not be oarried on. The prisoner was detected leaving
his employer's premises, by Mr. Thomas Thomas, night in-
spector of the night watchmen, in Messrs. Mare's yard,
with a tin bottle in his possession. It contained a pint and
a half of oil. The inspector also found eight small pieces
of wood, used in shipbuilding, concealed about the person
of the prisoner. The story told by the prisoner that he
brought the oil into the yard with him in the morning
when he came to work was quite preposterous, and could
not be credited for a moment.
Mr. Thomas then confirmed the statement of the solicitor,
and Mr. William Galdin, deputy foreman to Charles John
Mare and Company, said he had occasion to send the pri-
soner to the stores yesterday morning for some oil, and he
then had an opportuity of filling the tin bottle produced.
The prisoner had been employed on the establishment be-
tween two and three years.
Mr. Thomas was recalled, and said—The prisoner had
the can of oil concealed behind him.

Mr. Cox said there had been property to a considerable
amount taken from Messrs. Mare's yard, which in such an
extensive establishment necessitated the establishmont of
gatekeepers, day watchmen, night watchmen, and
inspectors.
Mr. Woolrych said the workmen and labourers ought to
be a police on each other.
Tho prisoner said ho did steal the oil and the wood. It
was quite true, and he was very sorry for it.
Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner's conduct was very dis-
graceful and dishonest, and he would very properly be die.
missed from the prosecutor's yard, and not be allowed to
work there again. It was a serious thing for a man to rob
his employers, whose property he was bound to protect,
and it also brought discredit on the honest and respectable
workmen in the yard. Ho was asked to dispose of this case
summarily, and should do so. He sentenced the prisoner
to be imprisoned for twenty-ono days in the House of Cor-
rection, and to be kept to hard labour.

SUDDEN DEATH IN THE NOTTINGHAM COUNTY I
COURT.—Yesterday morning an awful instance of the
uncertainty of life occurred in the Nottingham County
Court. The judge, Mr. R.Wildman, was engaged hearing
a case, when a man named Samuel Wilson, a pensioner
aged 56 years, suddenly fell on to the floor as if in a fainting
fit. Assistance was promptly obtained, a surgeon being
immediately on the spot, but all efforts to restore the deceased
to consciousness were unavailing, and he died before he
I could be carried out of the County-hall. A inquest will be
held this day.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—HOW GOVERNESSES
ARE PAlD.—Yesterday morning Mr. W. J. Payne, the
deputy-coroner, held an inquest on the body of Elise Jahreis,
a fine young German woman, only 21 years of age, which
was found floating in the Thames. On examining the
et
dress of the deceased a bill belonging to the Royal
one
Mint
Hotel, Paddington, was feund in the pock, and
farthing in money. It was ascertained that the deceased
had been staying at the hotel from the 15th to.the 17th of
the present month, when she went away, having paid the
bill found in her possession. She left a bag,
stating that
she would call again for it, but had never done so. This
bag was found to contain her wearing apparel and some
letters addressed to Mr. Daman, surgeon, of Leman-street,
Whitechapel. The summoning officer at once proceeded
there, when Mr. Daman informed him that the deceased
was a young woman of highly respectable connections in
Germany, and that she was staying with him for ten
months, when sho obtained a situation as governess with a
family in Cornwall, at a salary of £lO a-year. She went
there on the 21st of March, but a few days ago she wrete
to him stating that she did not like the situation, her
that
money was all gone, and that she should return to London,
but he never heard anything of her until ho was informed
that she had been found in the water. Had she written to
her friends a fresh supply of money could have been ob-
tained. Tho jury icturned as their verdict, " That the de-
ceased was found drowned, but how she came into the water
there was no evidence to show."
The Bank of Manchester, which was one of the
first that had the courage to adopt the
from
orprineiple of limited
liability, has derived the advantage omt of an increase
of business as well as an improvement of i
the proprietary ;
and an augmentation of the Board has just taken place by
the addition of Messrs. Thomas Fairbairn, Edward Ryley
Langworthy, Ivie Mackie, John Ponder, and James MP-
' uall Wurner, M,P.