The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

LEVYING BLACK MAIL ON OMNIBUS PASSENGERS.—
Caroline Ward and Mary Marshall, two fashionably-
dressed women, were brought up for final examination,
charged wi:h stealing a purse containing £l6 from a female
named Martha Mason, on the 25th of April, while they
were travelling in a Kingsland omnibus.
Mr. Edwin, jun., attended on behalf of the prisoners.

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The prosecutrix, a young woman of respectable appear-
ance, and who gave her evidence with great clearness,
stated that she was a domestic servant in a family at Hex.
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police constable 482 A, and were searched at the station,
but without the property being found on them. The
following day they were brought before the sitting magis-
trate, who remanded them for a week, but consented to
accept bail on two persons offering to become sureties for
their appearance. The day of trial arrived, but not the
prisoners, who were non est, and hal contrived to elude the
vigilance of the police until Tuesday last, when they were
apprehended. In the interim the bail had been taken into
custody, and sentenced t) a month's imprisonment in default
of payment of the amount of their security.
Mr. Edwin contended that the evidence did not justify a
conviction, particularly after the length of time that elapsed
since the commission of the alleged offence.

Mr. Combe was of a different opinion, as he considered
that it was a clear case, and unless they pleaded guilty he
would commit them for trial.

After some conversation with their professional adviser,
both prisoners pleaded guilty, and were severaly sentenced
to six months' hard labour.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY.—EarIy on Wednesday
morning the trunk of a man was discovered in the " grip,"
and the head on the other side of the rail of the down ine
of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on Eamont viaduct,
Yanworth, near Penrith. The arms of the deceased were
folded, and his body lay in such a position as to favour the
conclusion that death by decapitation was premeditated,
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discoveredwas Joseph Richardson, late a railway servant on the Lan-
caster and Carlisle Railway, a steady man, aged 40, but who
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unfortunately made so serious a mistake in signalling a
ballast train that it was found necessary to dismiss him.
It is believed that this occurrence
has preyed upon his
mind, and that he sought suicide in the manner detailed ;
this opinion appears to be supported by the fact that the
deceased answered the description of a man who a few
weeks back was found lying
across the down line, on the
same railway, at Penrith, when he was
Snatched off the
rails a few moments before the mail train passed over the
spot where his neck was lying. The man found on the oc-
casion just referred to was apparently in a state of stupor ;
but when the person who found him came to the spot to
which he had dragged him, while he looked after the mail-
bags for Penrith, he had walked off across the fields with-
out thanking his deliverer or glYkug any account of himself.