The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

go home with her. She took me to a house in Blue-
gate-fields. I had £4 10s. in my pocket in gold,
three halt•crowns, and ss. likewise. I had just put
on a new suit of clothes, which cost me £3, and had
a new pair of black trousers in a bundle. I promised
to give her ss. forthe night. Next morning, when
I asked for my clothes and my new pair of
trousers, to my surprise they were gone,
and the woman then knocked me about
my face, and said she had pawned everything
and left them in a pawn shop. I began to
make a noise, and five or six other women came
up and ill-used me, and this woman dragged me
by the collar ond pushed me about. I then
struggled and tried to get away from them. I went
and searched for a police -constable, and found one
who went in search of the things that were lost and
my money, and could not find anything. I met
Police-sergeant Dillon, who told me to go home and
get clothes to put on, and come back and he would
see what he could do for me. I went to the nearest
place and got a shipmate's trousers and put them
on. I found a knife there, that one in the police-
sergeant's hand. I was coming along. I saw no
policeman. The same woman, as I was coming
back, I saw with a mob, who came round me, and
she spat in my face and called me names and began
scratching me, so that, with the vexation of being
robbed of my money and clothes, I struck her with
my knife.
Mr. Selfe recalled the prosecutrix and asked her
how many times she had been in custody for rob-
bing seamen in the vile dens in Bluegate-fields.
Witness—l don't know how many times.
Mr. Selfe— Twenty times to my knowledge.
Will you undertake to say how many times.
Witness—l don't know how many times.

Mr. Selfe—Twenty times before me is a most
moderate allowance. (Laughter.) Really this is
no laughing matter. See what it leads to—murder
and suicide a few weeks ago, and almost to murder
again. Now, I tell you what, you are one of the
most infamous women in the district. You have
never taken home a seaman without robbing him.
Is not that so, Roche'

Roche (the gaoler of the court)—Yes, your wor-
ship. She has been here over and over again for
robberies, assaults, and disorderly conduct.
Dillon—She is a most audacious and incorrigible
thief. 'The woman who keeps the house No. 2, Vic-
toria place, is a thief, and has had four years' penal
servitude. Two women named Annie Hall and
Black Sall, who assisted in robbing the prisoner,
have absconded"
Mr. Selfe—Bluegate-fields is a most vile place.
Many sailors have been plundered there. The case
against the prisoner is made out, and I must com-
mit him for trial at the Old Bailey Sessions for
cutting and wounding, with intent to murder or do
grievous bodily harm.

ANOTHER DREADFUL MURDER IN 7HE

NORTH.

NEWCASTLE ORTYNE, SATURDAY NIGHT,

The greatest consternation has been caused in
Newcastle this evening by a diabolical murder
which has been committed on the Quay side, close
beside Old Tyne Bridge, and in the very busiest
thoroughfare. The victim is a little old man, a kind
of town character, called Patrick Rogers, but better
known as " Needle Jack," and his murderers are
Thomas Miller and John Dixon, two men well-
known to the police. Rogers, who sold needles on
Tyne Bridge on the Saturdays. had been drink-
ing in a tavern kept by Mr. Temperly, at the
Bridge-end, and had come out of that public-house
about two o'clock in the afternoon. He had pro-
ceeded into a convenience at the High Crane, when
he encountered the two men alluded to and several
other persons. Rogers being a little man, and
somewhat eccentric in his habits, had long been a
butt for the blackguards who frequent that part of
the quay ; and having recently come out of gaol,
where he had been confined for drunkenness,
the two men commenced to chaff him. They
afterwards began to knock him about, and one of
them lighted a match and set fire to his hair. The
poor creature then attempted to get away from
them and to escape on to the quay, when one of the
ruffians said to him, "If you stir I'll kill you." The
poor man still continued to struggle with them,
when they deliberately took him up and pitched
him head foremost down one of the holes of the
privy into the river. He had evidently been
stunned by his head striking against a projection ;
for though when he was washed out into the river
his hands could be observed above the water, and
he shouted for help, he only made a feeble struggle.
Two vessels were moored alongside the quay a little
below the place, and he was sucked under the stern
of one of them and drowned. As soon as the villains
threw the old man into the hole they ran off. The
detective force having ascertained who the fellows
were made after them. Miller had taken across
Tyne Bridge into the county of Durham, but was
run down and captured by the Clateahead police
within an hour after the murder had been com-
mitted. Dixon was captured in a house in the
Castlegate. Both prisoners were removed to the
Manors police-station, and were charged with the
crime and locked up. The body of the poor man
has not been recovered.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN KENT.

SITTINGBOURNE, SATURDAY EVENING.

This morning William Johnson and Edward
Johnson, father and son, carrying on business as
coal, corn, and potato dealers at Sheerness, were
brought before the sitting magistrates. After some
additional evidence had been taken, the Bench de-
liberated for some time, and Mr. Twopenny, the
chairman, said that though there were some most
suspicious and extraordinary circumstances con-
nected with the case, the evidence was not sufficient
to justify them in keeping the accused any longer
in custody, and they would, therefore, be discharged.

It has been stated that the Government will offer
a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the perpetra-
tors of the fearful crime.

THE POACHING AFFRAY NEAR
NOI INGHAM.

On Saturday morning last three men, named
William Lenton, Edward Oldbury, and Joseph
Williamson (all colliers), were taken before 1 ord
Belper and the sitting magistrates at the Shire Hall,
Nottingham, charged with being armed with guns,
&c., on the preserves of Lord Middleton at Wol-
laton, about two miles from the town, for the pur-
pose of taking game.
It appeared from the evidence that about five
o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 13th inst., a
gamekeeper named Charles Cross, on Lord Mid-
dleten's estate, was out watching, and saw the three
prisoners in a clover field, with guns, beating for
game. Before attempting to capture them he
obtained the assistance of a man named Thomas
Keeling. When the watchers went up to the
poachers the prisoner Oldbury said, " If they were
not off he would knock their brains out with his
gun." Oldbury then struck Cross a violent blow
on the side of the head. Upon this a struggle en-
sued between Keeling and Oldbury, and the fight
lasted some time, and eventually the former suc-
ceeded in getting hold of the gun, The poachers
then retreated, and soon returned to renew the
attack, throwing stones, &c. Keeling was knocked
down by one of the gang, and Oldbury kicked him
until he became insensible. When he became
sensible he saw the three poachers standing a few
yards off, and Williamson came up and kicked him,
adding, " I will murder you." The keeper Cross
was severely beaten, and then the poachers made
off. Information was given to the police, and the
three prisoners were apprehended.
The Bench committed them all for trial.

SCCTCH DEGREES.—When the University of St
Andrews sold her honours—a proceeding which provoked
Dr. Johnson to tell the heads of the college that they would
get rich by degrees, and which has long since been aban-
doned—a certain minister, who deemed that his ministra-
tions would be more acceptable and more useful if he pos-
sessed what the Germans call the doctor hat, put £l5 in his
purse, went to St. Andrews "to purchase for himself a
good degree." His man-servant accompanied him, and
was present when his master was formally admitted to the
long-desired honour. On his return " the doctor" sent for
his servant, and addressed him somewhat as follows :
" Noo, Saunders, ye'll aye be sure to ca' me the doctor, and
gin ony body spiers at ye about me, ye'll be aye sure to say
the doctor's in his study, or the doctor's engaged, or the
doctor shall see ye in a crack." " That a' depends," was
the reply, "upon whether ye'll ca' me doctor too." The
reverend doctor stared, " Ay, it's just so," continued the
other, "for when I fand that it cost sae little,
I e'en got a
diploma myself; sac ye'll just be good enough tosay--
doctor,doctor, put on some coals ;or doctor, bring B°lmesay--
doctor,and hot water ; and gin ony body spiers at ye about whisky
ye'll be aye sure to say the doctor's in the stable, or the
or the doctor's in the pantry, or the doctor's digging po-
tatoes, as the case may
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