The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-S MEET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF CLOTIT.,--Edward Johnson, of
48, Tiverton-street, Borough; Jas. Dickinson, of 28, Webb's
County-terrace, New Kent-road; and John Hasham, of
95, Elm-street, Gray's-inn-road, were charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being concerned, with others not in custody,
in stealing 400 yards of cloth, of the value of £lOO, the
property of Mr. W. Fisher, of 13 and 14, King-street, Hol-
born, cloth worker.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, prose-
cuted, and Mr. L. Lewis defended.
Mr. L. Lewis having opened the case, called
Mr. Albert Fisher, of 20, Kingsgate-street, Holborn, who
said he assisted his father, who worked for Messrs. Landon
and Holland, woollen merchants, of Bond-street. At the
beginning of the month he had 28 pieces of cloth, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Landon and Holland, and sent it home in
the cart by his brother, telling his brother, after he had
seen it packed, to deliver it. Had since ascertained from
those gentlemen that only 18 pieces had been delivered.
The pieces stolen contained about 40 yards, and 400 yards
of the value of XlOO, had not been delivered. Last Saturday
he accompanied his brother and Haslam to the Elephant
and Castle, and after waiting a short time he (witness)
saw Johnson and Dickens, who were fetched by
his brother and Haslam, and he followed them.
Heard Haslam ask the two other prisoners whether
there was any chance of getting the cloth back, as
there was a row about it, and they said " No." He heard
his brother ask them for money, and after his brother came
out of a public-hcuse he showed him £2, which he had re-
ceived from Johnson. His (witness's) father being absent
he did not like to take any steps then.
By Mr. J. Lewis —I do not know where my brother is. I
heard him say that he wished to go to sea. I have not
heard from him. My brother confessed to me that the goods
had been stolen, and said it was all through Haslam, or he
should not have done it. I heard brother say he wanted
money to get off to sea with.
Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said he went in company with last
witness to Haslam's house, 5 Elm-street, Gray's-inn-lane,
and he said on seeing him (Joy), " I know what you have
come for. I've had no rest since I was concerned with
others in stealing cloths from Mr. Fisher, and if you will,
allow me to go with you I will point out the men concerned
in it," and he accompanied him
,(Juy) to Johnson's house
and then to Dickinson's residence. Subsequently the whole
of the prisoners were taken into custody, when Haslam
said Johnson and Dickinson were the men who assisted in
stealing the cloth and selling it, but they denied it.

The prisoners were then remanded for a week, bail being
refused.

WESTMINSTER.

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Ann Billingham, a
young woman of prepossessing appearance, 22 years of age,
described as a servant, of 11, Northumberland-place, Com-
mercial-road East, Whitechapel, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Ingham, charged with attempting to commit
suicide, by throwing herself into the Thames, at Chelsea.
Richard Shaw, a waterman, Lawrence-court, Lawrence-
street, Chelsea, said that at about eight o'clock last night
he was standing on the raft at Mr.Coates', the boat builder,
Cheyne-row, Chelsea, waiting for a boat to come in that
had been let out, when he saw the prisoner come down the
steps. He asked her what she wanted, and as she made
him no answer, ho thought she was a bargeman's wife
going off to a barge. and took no more notice of her. On
turning round again presently, however, he saw her up to
her waist in the water, and ran up the steps for assistance.
When he came down again she was out of the water, but
as he made towards her she jumped in, and was floating
down the river, but he caught hold of her clothes and
dragged her ashore. He asked her what she had done it
for, but she made him no reply, and he fetched a constable
who took her into custody.

Police-constable 319 V said that he was called to take
the prisoner into custody. She gave no account of herself,
but at the station said she was very low-spirited, and was
very sorry for what she had done.

Mr. Ingham asked prisoner what she had to say in
answer to the charge.
Prisoner said she had nothing to say.

Mr. Ingham remanded her for a week, and directed her
friends, who were present, to attend on that day.

SOUTHWARK.

A YORKSHIREMA.N VICTIMISED.—A young man, who
gave the name of John White, who is well-known to the
police under the alias of Barker, was charged with stealing
a silver watch from the person of Mr. Joseph Strickland, a
manufacturer in business at Farabury, near Leeds, in
Yorkshire.

It appeared that the prosecutor had come to London for
the purpose of seeing the Foresters' fete at the Crystal
Palace, last Monday, and on his return was proceeding
from the station at London-bridge up the Borough, accom-
panied by a friend, with the intention of taking an
omnibus to Kingsland, where he was lodging. When
he came to the corner of Union-street, he and
his friend stopped in order to allow a pro-
cession of teetotallers' to pass, and while ho was
standing there he felt some person press against his
side, and he perceived the prisoner running away. He ira.,
mediately missed his watch, which had been broken off the
chain. His friend informed him that he had seen the pri-
soner in the most deliberate manner place himself against
him, and snatch his watch out of his waistcoat pocket, and
then he caught hold of the prisoner. A struggle ensued,
but he succeeded in detaining him until a police constable
came up, to whom he gave him into custody, notwithstand-
ing that some of the prisoner's companions attempted to
rescue him. The watch was not found, as the prisoner in
all probability passed it to one of his associates, who are
well known thieves in the neighbourhood.
Some amusement was caused by the energetic manner in
which the prosecutor gave his testimony, and his evident,
mortification, as a Yorkshireman, at being robbed, even by
a London thief.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was committed for
trial.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN HOLBORN.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex
coroner, opened an inquest at the Queen's Arms,
Red Lion-passage, Holborn, upon the body of Eliza
Chandler, aged thirty years, the wife of an assis-
tant at Prosser's oyster shop, in Holborn, and re-
siding at 13, Red Lion-street. _

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It appeared from the report of the police and
from the evidence adduced that the deceased was
discovered last Tuesday night by a Mrs. Perkins
lying in the passage of No. 12, Hand-court, Red
Lion-street, apparently drunk and incapable. With
the assistance of some lodgers in the house, who
were friends of the deceased, Mrs. Perkins conveyed
her to a room where she was laid on a sofa, and,
being supposed to be drunk, she was suffered to re-
main there unnoticed until the following morning,
when, on an attempt being made to arouse her, she
was found quite dead.
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siness. The following morning he received a mes-
sage from 12, Hand-court stating
there ill. His first question
she was lying
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throat or poisoned :hgerselfir
viously attempted suicide He because she had pre-
Hand-court, and at one; found her lying dead in
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head. He performed a post mortena examination of
the body, and discovered a severe fracture of the
skull over the back of the head and great bruises
and depression on the bone. Internally it was as-
certained that the occipital bone was fractured
nearly under the seat of the bruises extending from
the upper part of the back of the head to the base
of the skull, with considerable effusion of blood.
He examined the brain, and found clots correspond-
ing
with the depressed surface of the bone, and con-
siderable
- effusion. All the other organs of the
body were quite healthy. The cause of death was
from fracture of the skull. _

By the Coroner—He could ot conceive that it
was caused but by a very severe blow. It teas not,
in his opinion, such a fracture as nit he produced
from falling downstairs,
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further witnesses at present, as the case assumed
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such injuries.
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