The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-07 00:00:00

THAMES- OFFICE.

Yesterday William lVarford, a shoemaker was brought be-
fore Mr. Greenwood. On Monday evening the prisoner en-
tered the Bell public-house, kept by Mr. John Fenwick, in
Ratcliffe-highway, and called for a pint of beer, over which he
sat for nearly an hour, and then called for a quartern of gin.
After partaking of the gin with some strumpets in the room
without paying for what he had, he endeavoured to bilk the
landlord by climbing over some premises in the rear; but, in
doing so, he fell upon a skylight over the taproom, and broke
it in, and was only saved from falling through by cringing to
part of the framework, by which he remained suspended for
some time. On extricating himself he (limbered over the
roof of the building, and dislodged the tiles, which fell
down one after the other, and created a g eat noise. Ho
succeeded at last in clearing this dlfficalty, and, after hav-
ing knocked down the top of the wall in the rear of Mr.
Fenwick's premises, he -dropped into the yard of an adjoin-
ing .house. Here he supposed all his difficulties were et an
end, but, to his dismay, he was seized by the landlord of the
house, who detained him, and gave him into the custody of a
policeman, on suspicion of getting into the yard with intent
to break open the house. His real intention, that of cheat-
ing Mr. Fenwick of his reckoning, was soon ascertained, and
he was locked up.
The prisoner, in defence, said while he was in the Bell he
purchased a pair of braces, and, on putting his hands into his
pockets to pay the reckoning, he found all his money was
gone, a fact of which he was not before aware, and he thought
the best thing he could do was to " bolt the moon."
Mr. GREENWOOD held that the prisoner had committed a
wilful breaking of the publican's skylight, and sentenced him
to pay the sum of 505., the value thereof. In default he coin-
mittcd the cobler to the House of Correction for 14 days.

At the Marquis of Chandos' late disti►►guished
party at Wooton the shooting was excellent and the game
abundant. The return of game killed during the three days'
hattue amounted to 556 hares, 218 pheasants, 122 rabbits, and
15 partridges, making a grand total of 911 head.

. „
IVIURDER.—We regret to state, that, on the night
of Tuesday last, a most barbarous murder was committed in a
hut, near Bolton, on the body of a poor man named James
Finney, a brickmakcr by trade, but who, being in bad health
end unable to work, has for the lost twelve months or so gone
about the country, subsisting chiefly on the charity of persons
belonging to his own business. It would appear, that he had
entered this hut for shelter ; and whilst tllixe, had been at-
tacked by some one, and murdered with a collier's pick. The
bodya
m e wasdrr discoveredhogas I,
ada
i l
jeary, ,al y Ndnntei
wanting ashovel sdi y morn
tothrow
i n g, b y a man
some
coals under the steam-boiler, went into the cabin to look for
it, and there discovered the deceased lying on his back in a
large pool of blood, dead,• with his head and face frightfully
disfigured, and the pick under his legs. Circumstances soon
caused suspicions to be entertained of a young man named
Sherrington, who worked at. the colliery in qu-Ftion. and
lie was taken into custody the same morning. --Illancht:stet
Guardian.