The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

NARROW ESCAPE OF A DRUNKEN MAN AT A RAIL-
WAY STATION.---James Swan, a tall respectable-looking
man, described as an engineer, residing at Deptford, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Burcham, charged with being
drunk and incapable on the line of the North Kent Rail-
way, London-bridge station.

Mr. Burlock, one of the company's inspectors, said that
last evening the prisoner came to the Greenwich termini
and wanted to proceed by that line, but he was in that
drunken state that he was ejected from the office and
ordered away. A little while after that witness was at the
end of the Mid. Kent platform, adjoining the Greenwich
line, when he saw the prisoner rushing across the line, roll-
ing about, just as a train was approaching. His toe caught
one of the rails and he fell heavily across, and had not wit-
ness and a ticket collector rushed to his assistance, he
must have been cut to pieces by the approaching train, as
they had hardly time to pull him away. Finding that
he was drunk, they dragged him on the platform, and
examined him, but fortunately he was not much hurt. The
station •master, however, ordered him into custody, con-
sidering that he ought to receive some punishment as a
caution to him for the future.

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he was an
engineer, and resided with his wife and family at Deptford.
Yesterday he had been to the Great Exhibition, and after
they came out he unfortunately had too much to drink. He
had no recollection of what took place at the railway station,
but he regretted it very much, and expressed his thanks to
the company's officers for saving his life.
Mr. Burlock here said that the company had no wish to
press for any heavy punishment. All they required was
that he should receive such as to caution him and others
for the future.

Mr. Burcham accordingly fined the prisoner 55., telling
him he had had a very narrow escape of his life.

THAMES.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—CONVICTION OF TWO DESPE-
RATE THIEVES.—Wm. Tizzard, caLing himself a lighter-
man, aged 22, and Michael Dacey, labourer, 26, were
brought before Mr. Selfe on remand, charged with stealing
a silver watch and gold chain from the person of a seaman
in Ratcliff-highway.

The robbery was committed on the evening of the 21st of
October. A foreigner, named Frederick Ains, a ship's
carpenter, who has lately been paid off from her Majesty's
service, saw the prisoners and two other men attack a sea-
man, who was intoxicated. They hustled him and threw
him down, and while he was on the ground quite helpless
they robbed him of his watch and chain and fled. The four
thieves stopped at the corner of Angel-gardens, Shadwell,..
and were handing the watch to each other and examining
it when Ains raised an alarm and called out " Stop them. '
The thieves ran away and three of them
escaped. Dacey
was stopped while running by James Stroud, a police-
constable, No. 147, H, and he had .a
desperate struggle
with him before he secured him. Tizzard was taken a few
nights afterwards. Both prisoners had been remanded to
give an opportunity for the man who had lost his watch
to attend. It was now stated that he had gone to sea, and
would not return for several months.
William Walker, a police constable, No. 488 K, stated
that Tizzard was tried and committed at the Clerkenwell
Sessions in September, 1857, of a serious felony, and
sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude. Since the prisoner had
been at large he had been summarily convicted and sen-
tenced to 6 months'iimprisonment and hard labour, for steal-
ing a watch, and had also been tried and acquitted on a
charge of stealing another watch.
Robert Disley, a policeman, said Dacey had been con-
victed for stealing a basket of linen, and sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment and hard labour,
and had been also
summarily convicted and sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.

Robert Smith, a detective constable of the K division,
said both prisoners were defperate and active thieves, and
belonged to a notorious gang of highway robbers.
The prisoners said they were as innocent as babes
unborn.

Mr. Selfe said that was the common cant of professional
thieves, which he knew the prisoners to be. He had no
doubt whatever the prisoners had committed one of those
highway robberies which had been so numerous in the
district. Many thieves concerned in them had been sen•.
tenced to four, five, and ten years' penal servitude, and he
should have committed the prisoners for trial if the prose-
cutor had not gone to sea. He should act on the evidence
before him, and sentence the prisoners to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for three calendar months as
rogues and vagabonds, going about with intent to commit
felony.

AN ESTIMATE OF GARIBALDI.—There have been
evidences of Garibaldi's defect of reason from month to
month since he enabled the kingdom of Italy to be. Of his
moral quality there is no doubt whatever among men
capable of an opinion. Of his utter unsusceptibility of rea-
son there is also no doubt. The homage of human hearts
may naturally seem to him to invest him with authority over
human minds; or at least it may prevent his suspecting
his weakness of judgment in affairs which interest him
supremely through his highest virtues. Untrained as we
are in reason, moral and political, because the one involves
theological and the other historical controversies, some of
us have been drawn into serious mistakes by our enthusiasm
for Garibaldi : and these mistakes are exactly such as might
warrant the inquiry, whether we have really improved since
the days when men flew at one another's throats, or cele-
brated senseless triumphs about some political controversy
which, in the eyes of sensible people, admitted of no contro-
versy' in opposition to the
at all. Whatever may have been the inducement,
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So far good. But enthusiasm has led too many of us fur-
ther. It has led us to make light of the crime, because
the adventurer himself has not reason enough to see that he
has dot' .e ill and not well.—Once a Week.
HORRIBLE DEATH BY MAciiiNEßT.—Yesterday
a fatal accident happened to Henry Grealey, aged 18, who
resided in the Southwark Bridge-road. The deceased was
at work at some steam mills in the neighbourhood, and
whilst in the act of putting down a plank to a circular saw
he slipped, and his head coming in contact with it was
completely divided. The machinery was stopped as soon
as possible, and the sufferer extricated. He was conveyed
to fauy's Hospital, but be was dead before his adrailsion,