The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

ping the vehicle, and on bringing the prisoner back
to the spot where the woman was run over, he found
that she was carried into a surgeon's house adjacent,
where she expired.
An inspector of the L division stated, that when
the prisoner was brought to the station-house, he
said that the accident was occasioned in consequence
of a collision with an omnibus, the driver of which
attempted to strike him with his whip,
and that in his endeavour to avoid the blow, he
pulled the reins of his horse a little on one side, and
the deceased happening to be in the act of crossing
the road at the moment, she was knocked down and
run over. The Inspector added, that the prisoner
admitted he was aware of the accident, but that he
was so alarmed, instead of stopping he drove forward,
until he was stopped.
One of the prisoner's employers said that he was a
solver and careful driver, and that they had no cause
of complaint against him since he had been in their
service, and that on the day in question he had driven
two of his children home from Norwood, and that it
was afterwards the accident unfortunately happened.
Mr. SECKEk said that the prisoner must be re-
manded. Bail was then put in for his appearance.
It was stated that the deceased was an aged woman,
and that she had been 40 years in the service of the
gentleman with whom she had been living up to the
period of her untimely death.
LAMBETH.

James Ludlan, alias The Saint, a member of the
swell mob, was again placed at the bar, before Mr.
Norton, for further examination, on a charge of bur-
g! sry and robbery, at the Coach and Horses beer-
house, in Brandon-street, Lock's-fields, and stealing
therefrom 3151.55., in bank-notes, gold, and silver;
and also on a fresh charge of stealing from 601. to
701. in silver from the Old Justice public house, in
B. rmondsey-wall.
Mr. Games appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Roberts for the defence.
In addition to the evidence given on the preceding
examination, and which appeared in The Sun of
Thursday,
Mary Ann Sharp, a little girl of 16 years of age,
v.as called, and stated that on Saturday morning last,
at about nine o'clock, she went to the Coach and
Horses beer shop for some beer, and on leaving the
house she saw a man on the pavement who said,
"Make haste," and instantly a man jumped out of the
Best floor window, and both ran away. She (wit-
ness) returned to the house, and told Mrs. Butler
that a man had just jatnped out of the window. In
reply to the questions of the magistrate, the witness
said she could not-say the prisoner was the person she
ipni seen jump from the window, as she had not an
opportunity of seeing his face, but she recognised the
pi isoner from having frequently seen him at Mrs.
Butler's house.
Mrs. Eliza Butler, the wife of tha prosecutor, was
xt sworn, and said the last witness had made a
mistake as to the time when she saw the man jump
from the window, for instead of nine, it must have
been between the hours of seven and eight, as the po-
lice bad been acquainted with the robbery before
the latter hour. The witness also said that she had
been into the bedroom from which the property had
been stolen at a quarter to seven o'clock on the same
evening, and locked it on leaving, when all the pro-
p-rty was safe. The fastening to the room was very
imperfect, and the thief must have entered from the
outside.
Mrs. White, who bad been examined on Wednes-
day, was recalled, and swore positively to the prisoner
h• ing the person she had just seen at, and then jump
from, the window of the prosecutor.
Sergeant Smith, of the P division of police, deposed
that from the information given to him on the night
of the robbery by .Mrs. Butler, his suspicions were at
once directed to the prisoner, and he had, in conse-
quence, with other constables, watched his house
until Wednesday morning, when he was taken into
custody. On the Sunday morning he saw a person
named Hicks, but who was better known as "Black
Jack," and also a person named Hinton, call at the
prisoner's house, and after stopping there some little
time, they left and returned to the house of Mr.
Butler, whom he saw then in conversation with the
prosecutor. lie (Smith) was subsequently informed
that shortly after these persons had called, the priso-
nar left his house, and did not return until the Tues-
day night following. Upon being apprehended on
Wednesday morning, the prisoner asked him (Smith)
and Davis, his fellow-officer, if they really had the
sanction of Mr. Butler for doing so, and resisted going
to the station-house, saying they had no right to take
him there without a warrant.
Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P division
of police, said he was prepared to show that the pri-
soner had been before in custody, and that he and the
man "Black Jack" spoken of had been committed to
prison for three months each for having a quantity of
skeleton-keys in their possession. He (Mr. Robin-
son) also understood that there was another charge
against the prisoner.
Mrs. Mary Wrikins was then sworn, and deposed
that for a month or five weeks past the prisoner had
been in the habit of frequenting her house, the Old
Justice, in Bermondsey-wall, and represented himself
as Mr. Wright, and said he was a coal merchant.
On one occasion he asked her to give him gold or
notes for silver, and on another a 51. note for gold,
and this she had no doubt was done with the view of
ascertaining where she kept her cash. On Friday
evening last he came to her house and called for a
glass of half-and-half at the bar, and while drinking
it he went out backwards, and on returning she no-
ticed that he kept tapping with the heel or toe of his
boot on the floor, and soon after left the house. He
was not gone ten minutes when it was discovered that
her (witness's) bedroom door had been opened by a
skeleton key, a drawer found open, and a bag, con-
taining from 601. to TO/. in silver, carried away. The
witness added that she had no doubt that the prisoner,
when he went into the yard, let a confederate in by
the back gate, and that this person committed the
robbery.
Mary Ann Camplin, the niece of the last witness,
corroborated a great portion of her evidence, and
said she had been to the bedroom of her aunt about
twenty minutes before the discovery of the robbery,
when she locked the door and left all safe. She was
quite positive as to the prisoner's identity.
On the application of Mr. Games and Mr. Robin
son, the prisoner was remanded for a week.

THAMES.
John Barley, a coal porter and carman, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Green, a coal merchant in the City-road,
was brought up on remand, charged with the wilful
murder of Lewis Caustatt, a dock labourer, better
known by the name of Lewis Lewis.
The occurrence which led to the death of the un-
fortunate man took place in Nightingale-lane, a
narrow street, bounded on each side by the walls of
the St. Katherine's and London Dock, and leading
from Upper East Smithfield to Wapping. The west
side of this lane is rendered nearly impassable every
morning by the number of labourers who congregate
there, waiting for employment in the St. Katherine's
Dock.

Robert Welch, a labourer, said that on Sunday
morning last, between the hours of seven or eight
o'clock, as he was in Nightingale-lane, advancing to-
wards letter D warehouse of the St. Katherine Dock,
he saw the prisoner, who was driving a waggon laden
with coals, and drawn by three horses, on its way
from Wapping to East Smithfield. The team was
close on the body of men waiting for employment
outside F warehouse, and the prisoner shouted after
them, and told them to get out of the way. An al-
tercation took place between the prisoner and the
dockmen, and the prisoner threatened to knock down
some of them, and threw his whip and coat on the
ground, and challenged one of them to fight. Pre-
vious to doing so, the prisoner stopped his waggon
and horses. A fight took place between the prisoner
and one or two of the dockmen. The prisoner was
twice knocked down, and when he recovered from
his second fall he took up his whip and coat, said he
had had enough of it, and drove on towards the ware-
house, where another body of labourers were assem-
bled. Witness was on the footpath outside the ware-
house on the near side of the waggon, and as the team
approached close to the body of men, he distinctly
saw the prisoner throw his whip across the neck of
the wheel horse, which immediately moved inwards
towards the men. He feared that some one would be
killed, and rushed forward, when he saw the de-
ceased lying in the road, about six or seven feet from
the footpath, with his head crushed, and the blood
oozing from his person. He was quite sure the team
would have cleared the body of labourers with several
feet to spare, if the
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prisoner,
towards it. He was about a yard behind the
and beard him say, " I will give it to the --s
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Witness told him be deserved all he met with. He
went in advance of the prisoner to the dock-gate, and
WAS standing about two yards from the deceased, who
was on tiptoe, looking Mr. Hunter, who was calling
the names over, in the face. He had not been at the
d)ck-gate more than a minute when the horses and

waggon were driven close up to the body of labourers,
out of its proper course, and the deceased was struck
by the fore part; of the waggon and thrown down.
I he near fore wheel went over his head and body.
He was so horrorstruck, that he turned his head aside,
and did not see the SE cond wheel go over the deceased,
who was immediately afterwards pi( ked up in a dying
state, and conveyed to the hospital.
Other witnesses gave similar evidence relating to
t' e threat used by the prisoner, and to his throwing