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

SOUTH WARK.

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 lino, 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 be 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 ho 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.

➢Tr. Burcham accordingly fined the primer 55., telling
him he had,had a very narrow escape of his life.

THAMES.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—CONVICTION or Two DESPE-
RATE THIEVES.—Wm. Tizzard, calling 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 throw
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, 11, 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 monthslimprisonment 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 desperate 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 at all. Whatever may have been the inducement,
Garibaldi has attempted civil war. He has attempted to
take the direction of national affairs, in opposition to the
King and the Constitution. Under the circumstances of
his failure, it was permissible to console him, to minister
to his wants, to take for granted his personal safety in a way
which would go far to secure it from his own Government.
So far good. But enthusiasm has led too inane 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 done ill and not well.—Once a Week.
HORRIBLE DEATH BY MAClllNERT.—.yeaterday
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
choemaphlpeped; andhis head
e comingmhi in contact with it was
tel divided. Th
e machinery was stopped as soon
as possible, and the sufferer extricated. He was conveyed
to Guy's hospital, blitt he was dead.before his admission.

CRIMINAL COURT-THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
THE CITY MURDER.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)

The Court adjourned last night on the close of the case
for the prosecution. A report of the proceedings in the latter
part of the day appears in another column.
Mr. Ribton this morning opened the case for the defence
in one of the most brilliant and effective speeches which has
for many years past been heard within the walls of the Old
Bailey since the days of Adolphus, Phillips, and Wilkins.
He said he never, since the Road murder, remembered a
case surrounded. by so many intricacies. He could not say
he was entirely divested of some confidence in himself in the
matter, for through the indulgence of the Lord Chief Baron
he had had an opporttunity of carefully reading through the
evidence during the night, and he felt he should be able to
put the matter before the jury in a more condensed form than
would otherwise have been the case. The learned counsel
said he would indicate to the jury the course he intended to
take. First, he would ask them whether they thought the
possibility of this being a suicide could be completely ex-
eluded. If in their judgments they answered that question
in the affirmative, then no doubt they must come to the con-
elusion that a murder had been committed. In that ease
ho should direct their attention to the evidence laid before
them on the part of the prosecution as it affects the man,
and when he hod done that he should take the liberty of
directing their attention to the facts as proved in the case,
and ask them how they affected the woman. The learned
gentleman then proceeded, steadily adhering to his plan,
carefully and rigidly to examine the evidence in all its
bearings. . _

The learned Judge having summed up, the jury found a
verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, and
sentence of death was passed in the usual form,

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

TILE MANSLAUGHTER OF A WIFE BY A BLIND MUSICIAN

IN THE CITY.

Stephen Keife, a blind itinerant musician, was charged
with killing and slaying his wife, Ann Keife, at their resi-
dence in Rose-court, Bishopsgate-street. Mr. Sleigh and
Mr. Bealey, instructed by the Corporation of the City, pro-
secuted, and the prisoner elected to defend himself.
The circumstances of this case have been very fully before
the public in the proceedings before the Deputy Coroner,
Mr. Payne, jun., and the examination of the prisoner at
the Mansion House. The prisoner was in the habit of
going about the streets performing on the bagpipes and fre-
quenting publichouses, and when in drink was of a most
violent and brutal temper, frequently striking his wife with
the stick which he used in walking the streets, and kicking
her ; and at the time of the assault upon the deceased which
led to her death, he had knocked her down and kicked her,
when she prematurely gave birth to a dead child, and her-
self expired the following day. On a post mortem examina-
tion of the body, internal ruptures were found which, in
the opinion of the medical gentlemen, were caused by blows
or kicks.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The learned Recorder, in very severe terms, commented
on the prisoner's brutality, and sentenced him to penal ser-
vitude for 15 years.

YHE 4CCIDEN7 AND LOSS OF LIVES

IN 7 OOLEY-STREET.

INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
This (Friday) forenoon, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Sergeant
Payne, coroner for London and Southwark, and a highly
respectable jury, assembled in the Vestry Hall of St. John's
Church, Fair-street, Horslydown, for the purpose of in-
quiring into the circumstances attending the respective
deaths of Henry Harton and Thomas Howard, who were
killed on Wednesday night by the fall of the arches of some
vaults at Cotton's, and depot wharf, the site of the late fire
in Tooley-street, where Mr. Braidwood, the late superin-
tendent of the fire brigade, lost his life on the 2d of June last
year.
The enquiry, as might be expected, created a painful de-
gree of interest, and a great many persons connected with
the building trade attended and watched the proceedings.
The jury having;been sworn, they proceeded to view the
bodies and also the ruins, and when they returned to the
court the following evidence was adduced :
Mr. W. Snooke, architect and surveyor to Messrs. Sco-
vell, and also Mr. Henry Stock, his partner, of 6, Duke-
street, London-bridge, before the proceedings commenced,
stated that they attended professionally to watch the case.
Wm. Luke, jun.,'John-street, St. Olive's, said—He knew
Thos. Howard, one of the deceased. He was 27 years old,
and had been lodging in Curtain-road. He knew that he
had been working at the wharf, and so had witness. He
knew that the arches had fallen.

Mary Harton, of 36, Snow-fields, said— One of the de-
ceased was her husband, and aged 29. He was working at
the wharf. He was a carpenter. The other man was an
excavator.

By the Coroner—She had heard her husband say before
the accident that be thought it would have taken place be-
fore, as the arches had given way.
The Coroner—Did he say why ?

Witness—Yes, because the arches had been struck too
soon, and before they had got the work sufficiently set. By
order of his employers he had stopped away two or three
days, and was sent for to go to work on the arches on Tues-
day last, and when he came home at night he said that he
thought the arch would have given way that day.
By the Coroner—Mr. Oliver gave him instructions to
strike the arches.

By Mr. Snooke—She never heard her husband say any-
thing about the driving of the piles having endangered the
arches. Ho told her the other persons had said that the
materials were not fit for the work.
By a Juror—He said that one part of the arch had given
way a fortnight before.
Mr. Charles White, of Tooky-street, surgeon, said that
he was called to the scene of the accident, and was there
some time before the bodies were found—when extricated
both persons were dead, and they died from suffocation,
and although the weight upon them was immense they
were not much bruised.

Jeremiah Sullivan said that he had been employed at
Scovel's wharf in making mortar- and carrying bricks to
the bricklayers. he was at work under the arches when
the accident occurred. Several arches had been made
underground. _

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The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press.

BIPORTANI TO PRINTERS.

A. case of considerable interest was tried on Mon
day last, at the Westminster County Court, before
Francis Bayley, Esq., judge. Plaintiffs, Messrs.
Tomlinson and Bunting, stationers, 60, High-street,
Bloomsbury. Defendants, Messrs. Diprose and
Bateman, printers, Clement's-court and Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn. Mr. Tindal Atkinson, in-
structed by Mr. Jonas Wal pole, of Bury St. Edmunds,
appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. H. T. Cole,
instructed by Mr. James Price, of 12, Sergeant's
Inn, Fleet-street, for the defendants, This action
was brought to recover £5O damages for an alleged
breach of contract in not putting up, in " good
working order," a second-hand printing machine,
which had been sold by the defendants to the plain-
tiffs. I‘Ar. Bunting produced the defendants' in-
voice, of which the following is a copy :—" A double
super royal machine, by Donaldson, of Newcastle,
with fly-wheel, laying-on board, and 13 rollers, &c.,
complete, to be delivered for £49 in good working
order ;" and swore to the whole of it being on the
invoice when they received it from the defendants.
This was denied by one of the defendants (Mr.
Diprose) and another witness, who distinctly swore
that the words " in good working order," were not
on the invoice at the time they handed it over to
the plaintiffs. Mr. Cole made a very able speech to
the learned judge, and called a great many wit-
nesses on behalf of the defendants. After which
Mr. Tindal Atkinson made a powerful appeal to the
Court on behalf of the plaintiffs, and directed the at-
tention of his Honour to the serious position his
clients would be in if a verdict was given against
them ; at the conclusion of which his Honour im-
mediately gave his judgment in favour of the defen-
dants, and said he was of opinion that the addition
"in good working order" had been made to the
invoice after it was signed and handed over by the
defendant. He further said that if he believed the
words " in good working order " were there at the
time (which he did not) he was of opinion that the
defendants had performed their part of the con-
tract. Full costs were awarded to the defendants.
The case occupied the Court nearly six hours, and
there was a large number of the trade present.