The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

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DUBLIN, OCT. 29.

At the commission yesterday George Dixon, an
ex• policeman, was convicted of stealing a gold watch
and chain from a gentleman whom he found sleep-
ing on the step of a door in the neighbourhood of
Granby-row, in this city. The gentleman stated in
his evidence that he was roused by a policeman,
and when he had proceeded about 100 yards from
the place he missed his watch, which, being pro-
duced, he identified. Mr. Green, a watchmaker,
deposed that the prisoner brought it to hiro to get
it cleaned and repaired, and he wiebed.him to Alter
the number and the initials, that it might look
" younger or newer." A pawnbroker at Belturbet,
County Cavan, proved that the prisoner left the
watch with him, and borrowed £6 on it. Acting
Inspector Keegan and Sergeant O'Neill gave evi-
dence which left no doubt of the prisoner's guilt.
The jury found him guilty of receiving the pro-
perty, knowing it to be stolen. Baron Deasy sen-
tenced him to four years' penal servitude.
Martin Hough, alias O'Leary, a servant, was in-
dicted for attempting to murder Mary Meteham,
also a servant, by cutting her throat with a razor,
on the 15th of July last. There had been some
courtship between the parties, but the girl at last,
following her mother's advice, refused to marry him.
On the morning after she dismissed him he went
to a house where she was visiting a sick child,
and there made a most murderous attack on her,
cutting her throat almost from ear to ear and fright-
fully mangling her hands. The charge was proved
by the girl herself and other witnesses, and the pri-
soner was found guilty of an attempt to wound and
do grievous bodily harm. Before sentence was
passed he made a rambling statement. He was
extremely sorry that one of the Queen's men (he
had been a soldier) should have committed such a
crime, as he had been granted a pension when leav-
ing the service in 1857_ He said, " I place myself
in her Majesty's hands, to do what she pleases with
me, and I remain her humble and unfortunate (in-
vent, my Lord." An attempt had been made to
show that he was insane, but the plea was not ad-
mitted, and Baron Fitzgerald sentenced him to
penal servitude for life.

The Rev. J. Jebb Sargent has published a letter
in the Cork Constitution, giving an interesting
account of the death of the Rev. Mr. Harman at
the reading-desk, while officiating with him in his
church on Sunday last. He says :
Mr. Harman came unexpectedly to my vestry room, just
before service to-day, and offered to preach for me,which offer
I thankfully accepted. We had proceeded in the service as
far as the first lesson, which he was reading. Having made
a slight mistake, he corrected himself and appeared to falter,
which made me look up, when I perceived him apparently
confused and stooping. I had scarcely time to catch him in
my arms and lay him gently down. Though every effort was
made to relieve him, and the members of the congregation
hastened to his assistance, in less than five minutes he lay a
lifeless corpse, in face of the congregation to which he had
been ministering. Calmly his spirit passed away from the
midst of the congregation on earth to enter the general
assembly and church of the first-born. His lifeless body lay
still invested with the garb of the officiating minister while
the immortal spirit which lately tenanted it had been wafted
by angels into Abraham's bosom. So solemn and impressive
a scene it never before was my lot to witness—so awful an
illustration of the truth, "in the midst of life we are in
death." For that death his whole life was a preparation.
Some idea of the state of the County Tipperary
may be formed from the fact that during the recent
sitting of the Quarter Sessions Court a gentleman
who was attending as a witness was guarded during
the day by two polictraen, who sat near him, with
their muskets loaded and capped, all day. Hayes
is still at large.