The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-07 00:00:00

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.—win.
George Morris, aged 19 years, and Henry Pickford,
20, were brought up on remand and for final ex-
amination before Mr. Lushington, charged with
assaulting Jane Jones, an aged woman, and robbing
her of two pictures on the 21st of December last.
The prosecutrix is an inmate of the Alms-house,
No. 3, Maritime-cottages, Devons-road, Bromley,
and the prisoners are carpenters, and sons of re-
spectable tradesmen in the vicinity. Both had been
employed effecting some repairs in the old woman's
cottage, and had behaved well while there. At
half-past one o'clock on the 21st of December both
prisoners rushed into the cottage. Pickford was
disguised, and wore a large moustache, whiskers
and black beard over his face. She put her arms
out and said what do you want. Pickford pre-
sented a pistol close to her face, and said, If you
scream I'll shoot you. She did scream, however,
and made great resistance. Pickford ordered Moris
to take down the pictures from the wall, and on
Morris declaring his difficulty in doing so, Richford
said pull them down. Morris took down two pic-
tures while the struggle was going on between Mrs.
Jones and Richford. The old woman bit Rich-
ford's finger, she knocked off a percussion-cap from
the pistol, and discovered it was not loaded. Rich-
ford then put his arm round her neck, and used her
very roughly. She said the pistol is not loaded,
got away from him, and rushed into a small garden
behind the house. Her screams and cries of mur-
der brought several persons to her assistance. The
prisoners ran out of the house, and the gate of the
Tower Hamlets Cemetery being open at the time
both attempted to conceal themselves there. They
were closely pursued, and Richford threw away his
mask and his pistol, which were recovered by one
of the grave-diggers and delivered to the police.
Richford was secured at once. Morris made his
escape. He was closely looked after by Furze, a
detective constable of the K division, and when
taken into custody said, " 1 know what it is all for.
This comes of my keeping Richford's company."
Mrs. Jones swore positively to Morris as being one
of the men who entered her cottage. A man saw
them together in the Burdett-road, five minutes'
walk from the cottage on the morning of the out-
rage, -and three men employed in the cemetery
swore to the best of their belief Morris entered the
cemetery with Pickford.
Inspector Kerressey said the witness had been
intimidated, and that Pickford was paying his ad-
dresses to the sister of Morris. He produced the
false moustache and beard and pistol used by Pick-
ford. Two percussion caps were found by Mrs.
Jones on the floor of the room where the outrage
and robbery took place.
Detective Furze produced a flask of gunpowder,
some percussion caps, and a bullet mould found
in the apartment occupied by Pickford at 4, Burdett-
road.

Mr. Downing, a solicitor, set up an alibi for
Morris, and called his father and four other wit-
nesses, who swore the primer was at work in
Spitalflelds the whole of the day of the 21st of
December.

Mr. Lushington committed the prisoners for
trial.

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