The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-09 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

An elderly woman cleanly dressed, named Eliza Morris,
was placed at the bar, charged with having unlawfully
pledged certain bed-curtains, the property of her employer,
Mrs. Jennings, residing at 2, Dufour-place, Broad-street.
The MAGISTRATE ordered her to be imprisoned for a
month.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday Lea, the officer, communicated to the Magis-
trates the circumstance of a determined attempt at suicide
made by a female in the vicinity of the office on the pre-
ceding evening. Lea stated that, on the day before a
young female, named Johanna Dove, had applied at this
office for a warrant against a person for unlawfully pawning
some articles of property belonging to her, but in conse-
quence of her appearing to be in liquor at the time, she
was told by one of the Magistrates to come again, when
she was sober. In the evening, about seven o'clock, while
he (Lea) was at the office-door, he observed her sitting on
the steps of a door opposite, apparently very ill, and vo-
mitting violently. He in consequence walked towards her,
and finding in her hand a paper on which the words " sugar
of lead—poison," were legibly written, he instantly sent for
a hackney-coach to convey her to the hospital ; but be-
fore he had done so, she exclaimed that it was useless,
for that she would be dead in less than ten minutes, as
she had swallowed the contents of another paper of the
same sort of stuff. On her way to the London Hospital
she continued very ill, and said she was sure she should
die, but hoped God would forgive her. The stomach
pump was with some difficulty applied, as she persisted
in denying that she had taken any thing, notwith-
standing her previous acknowledgment to him (Lea), and
much of the poisonous matter was ejected ; but she still
remained in a very precarious state. On making subse-
quent inquiries he had ascertained that she had been to a
cook-shop in Church-lane, Whitechapel, and that while
there she had been to the yard. He (Lea) in consequence
examined the premises, and in the water-closet he found
the second paper he then produced on the ground, with the
words, " sugar of lead—poison," written on it, in the same
manner as the other. On their way to the hospital, Dove
told him the cause of her taking the poison was, that 13
young man, a sailor, with whom she had lived for seven
years, had returned on Sunday last from the West Indies,
and being told that during his absence she had shamefully
misconducted herself,. he had made up his mind to have
nothing more to do with her. She had met him two or three
times in the course of the day, but he passed her by without

taking the slightest notice of or speaking to her, and she
had, therefore, made up her mind to terminate her existence.

TH.-IME S- OFFICE.

Yesterday a black man, in the garb of a seaman, who
gave the name of Nicholas Aadrews, was brought before
Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRODERIP, charged with com-
mitting an assault of a very savage and outrageous descrip-
tion on a girl named Emma Wilcox, WllO was brought into
the office by her parents, with her face disfigured and one
of her eyes .closed, swollen and cut in a manner which ex-
cited the greatest sympathy and indignation among the
people in the office.
The prisoner, a ferocious-looking fellow, could not say
whether he struck the child or not, as he was drunk.
Mr. BALLANTINE sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine
of 51. to the King, which they knew he was unable to raise,
and therefore ordered him to be imprisoned, in default, for
two months in the House of Correction.