The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

DRUNKENNESS AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--A respectably
dressed married woman, named Elizabeth Haye, was
charged with being drunk and incapable, and further
charged with attempting to commit suicide.
Police-constablo 221 D deposed that on the previous even-
ing ho saw the prisoner in a very drunken state outside a
public-house and a large crowd assembled around her.
She had two baskets in her possession ; one contained a
bottle of port wine and a bottle of gin, the other a sheep's
had and 17 large apples. He took her to the station-house.
She had a .raturn ticket to Charlton.

Thomas Campran, 381 A, said he placed her in the cell,
and shortly after, hearing a very strange noise, ho called
the inspector, who unfastened the door. They found the
prisoner on the floor with a long piece of narrow linen
tightly wound round her throat. They at once cut this
off, and the prisoner being unconscious, the divisional sur-
geon was sent for, and it took him a considerable time
before he could restore her. Sho had to be watched for
the remainder of the night.

Prisoner, in reply to the charges, said she was extremely
sorry for what she had done. As to attempting hor life
she did not recollect that.

Mr. Yui tts.tritu ner.
Prisoner hoped he would allow her to go home to
Charlton to her children.

Mr. Yardley said she had disgraced herself in the eyes.of
her children. •
Prisoner said she was ashamed of herself.
Mr. Yardley asked her if he allowed her to go would she
promise him not to draw the corks from the bottle.

Prisoner gave the required promise, and was discharged,

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—THE CAREFUL LAND-
LADY.-Wm. Mooro, a man of somewhat respectable ap-
pearance and manners, was brought up on remand before
Mr. Paget charged with stealing a watch, an Albert chain,
skirt, and other property, and £ll in money, belonging to
Thomas Spaul, a carpenter, of 16, Devonshire-street,
Globe-fields, Stepney.
The prosecutor said he lodged in the house of Mrs. Ann
Jones, of 16, Devonshire-street. The prisoner took a
lodging in the same house, and slept in tho same bed with
him on Mondaynight. The prisoner went out before him
yesterday morning. He received information in the course
of the day which induced him to go home, and he then
missed from a box in his room his watch, worth £7, his
purse, containing 11 sovereigns, and other property.
Mrs. Jones said the prisoner stated that he came from the
country on Monday night, when he hired a lodging, and
that he went away early yesterday morning and returned
in the course of the day and said he intended to lie down
on his bed. She suspected him, and when he had gone into
the room and closed the door she returned and heard him
breaking open a box. At last she heard a click, which was
followed by the ransacking of the box, and she at once sent
for the police.

Nicholas Johns, a police-constable, No. 108 K, said he
found all the money and property taken from the prosecu-
tor's box on the prisoner when he took him into custody.
There was a gold ring in the house and another in the
prisoner's pocket. Both were the property of Spaul.
Inspector Roberts, of the K division, believed other cases
of a similar description would be brought against the pri-
soner if he was remanded.

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner until this morning,
and there being no other cases against him, the deposi-
tions were read, but the prisoner declined saying anything,
and he was committed for trial.
HORRIELB CRUELLY.—William Singer, a labourer and
ostler, was brought before Mr. Paget, on a warrant, charged
with torturing a horse.

Mr. William Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Crueltyto Animals, saidthat in February last
the prisoner was in the employ of a cowkeeper in the dis-
trict, and he forced a red hot iron into the body of the
animal in the rear, and the animal, which was suffering
excruciating tortures, was killed two days afterwards by
the advice of a veterinary surgeon. A warrant was applied
for and granted. The prisoner absconded, and was taken
this morning by Charles Abbott, No. 322 K, and he (Mr.
Love) now applied for a remand and summonses for
witnesses.

Mr. Paget, after consulting several Acts of Parliament
and authorities, said he had no power to determine this case
summarily, because more than six months had elapsed since
the commission of the offence. lie discharged the prisoner.
The magistrate gave a hint to Mr. Love, who immedi-
ately requested Abbott to take the prisoner into custody
again. This was done, and the charge of malicious injury
to cattle entered on a police sheet at the adjoining station-
house. The prisoner will be brought up again this after-
noon.

BURNT TO DlATlL—Yesterday afternoon Mr. W.
Payne, coroner for the borough of Southwark, held
an inquiry at Guy's Hospital relative to the death by fire
of Mrs. Henrietta Newton, aged 39 years. Mr. George
Newton, 80, James-street, Borough, a master cooper, said
that the deceased was his wife. On Friday last ho gave her
a sum of money to lay out at a linendraper's, and she went
out for that purpose, wearing a large crinoline. At night,
between 10 and 11 o'clock, upon witness going through the
shop into the kitchen, he saw her in flames. She was
crouching in a corner next the cupboard door, which was
also burning. He had the presence of mind to take off his
coat and fling it over her, and he then threw a quantity of
water on his coat. She was dreadfully burnt, and was so
exhausted that she could not tell how the fire originated.
But the witness had no doubt that she had been trying to
reach a vase on the mantleshelf, in which she kept money,
after her return home from shopping, and that her large •
crinoline caught fire at the grate. Mrs. Caroline Coleman,
a neighbour, said that she was called in to deceased by Mr.
Newton, and found her dreadfully burnt. There was a
large fire in the kitchen grate, and the crinoline had evi-
dently thrust her dress between the bars. -The deceased
refused to see a doctor, but the next morning she was taken
to the hospital. Mr. G. East, house-surgeon, said that the
deceased was brought into the Hospital on Saturday morn-
ing dreadfully burnt over the legs, arms, and lower part
of the body. She died at midnight from the effect of her
injuries. Tho coroner having summed up; tho jury re-
turned a verdict of accidental death.