The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-18 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

WITENT ROGUES ram.. OUT, &c.—Yesterday three persons,
named Wm. Shaw, John Couter, and Win. Pitchford, were
brought before Alderman Lucas, charged with having a num_
her of racks belonging to Messrs. Truerean, Hanbury? and
Co., the brewers, part of a number which had been stolen
from the Eastern Counties Railway.
The case excited some interest, from the fact that the par-
ties were all connected together in an illicit still, in conjunc-
tion with other persons, and that some quarrel having taken
place amongst them, a general split was the result.
A few days since, from information received, police.consta-
ble 357 proceeded to a house in Playhouse-yard, for the pur-
pose of making a seizure of a still, but on searching he found
that everything had been lately removed except three sacks,
with Trueman, Hanbury, and Co.'s name on. There were
two men (Shaw and Cower) in the house at the time, whom
the officer took irto custody for not being able to give an
account of the sacks. They were brought up to the Court
and remanded for a few days. In the mean time the pri-
soner Pitchford gave into custody two men named Johnson
and Shaw, who were taken before the magistrate of 'Worship.
street on a charge of felony, and remanded until Saturday.
next. Johnson was allowed out on bail, when he immedi-
ately gave Pitchford in charge for having had the sacks
found at Playhouse-yard. The charge was heard here on
Wednes:!ay, and a remand was granted, but Pitchford was
allowed Out on bail. He no sooner got his liberty than he
returned the compliment by handing Johnson over to
the care of the police, and thus the matter stood when the
case was proceeded with yesterday.
Johnsun's evidence was to the effect that at variouq periods
he had seen sacks at Piteliford's house, and that he offered
them fur sale at Is. each, and that on one occasion he
wished him (Johnson) to erase the names, for which he
would give him 6d. per sack, but the offer was, declined.
Pitchford went under various names, such as Poole, Smith,
Pitch, &c., and belonged to the house in Playhouse yard,
where he kept a private still at work. He himself went with
the prisoner Pitchford, and took the house from the landlord
in the name of Poole, which he believed to be the prisoner's
right name.

William Johnson, the son, deposed to having been em-
ployed by the prisoner to work the still in Playhouse-yard.
The house was taken in the name of Poole, which he believed
to be the prisoner's real! name. Sacks came at various times
with different articles in them, and they all had the name of
Truman, Hanbury, and Co. on them.
The prisoner's (Pitchford'O counsel contended that he
never went by the name of Poole, nor did he take the house;
and called the landlord, who at once said that the prisoner
was not the Mr. Poole who took the house. The person who
did so referred to the elder Johnson, who gave Mr. Poole
an excellent character.
A clerk from the Eastern Counties Railway, stated that he
belonged to the Brick lane station, and that in the month of
May one parcel of sacks, out of eight, directed to Thetford,

was missing. and was never heard oraftrrwards. They mud
have been placed in some cart, and thus carried away from

the premises.
The sacks were identified by a gentleman from Messrs.
Truman's as belonging to that co:npany.
The two first prisoners declared that they knew nothing
of the sacks; they were ouly employed on the premises as
labouring men.
Alderman Luc.ts decided on discharging them.
They were then placed in the witness box, and stated, that
they were employed by a person named Poole, but the pri-
soner Pitchford was rot him. The prisoner often called at
the premises in Rayhouse-yard, as well as Johnson, while the
still iv.,s at work, but he never interfered in any way, nor did
ho ever pay them.
' After some more evidence of a conflicting character, Alder-
man Lucas decided or. sending Pitchford in the custody of a
constable to Worship. street, on a charge of offering sacks for
sale knowing whose property they were, the case turning out
not to be within the district of this Court.
In the course of the afternoon the prisoner was taken
before the magistrate at Worship-stree*, and was committed
for trial.

SOUTIirVARK.
DESPERATE SUICIDAL ATrEMPTS.—Yesterday, E iizabeth
Holmes, a respectable looking young female, was brought
before Mr. Seeker under the following circumstances:—
A policeman of the 31 division stated that while on duty
in the Kent-road he went behind some new building-, and
saw the defendant standing on the brink of a deep well,
which was uncovered at the time. Suspecting that her in •
tention was to precipitate herself into it, he went up, and
with some difficulty brought her away. When they were
walking. tog ther in the Kent-road she I •fc
e..id ,acid run-
fin!: into the centre o,e the read threw herself aowt, at the
i
tnoonent a he,vilv-laden dray Wa ,'
woul!! inevita,si% have been ran 4lvcr. stl wi4l
her aIMO-4 from be neath the wheels.io aaied he
thencesuhs' subsequently uteonst t
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wo
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The prospects of the wheat harvests are everywhere
most promising, and reaping has commenckd in somee dis-
tricts of this county. American flour is now t ff.!red In this
market at about ss. per ssck below the current price of Eng.
lish, and is consideted.equal iu quality to our OWII growth.—
TrvrcattrAmnial. . .