The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

SOUTHWA.RK

William Lipsham was brought before Mr. Seeker
charged with stealing two Asc.a)t Race Sweep tickets,
amounting to 121. 75., the pr D,perty of Mr. William
Harris, landlord of the Equesti ian Coffee-house in the
Blackfriars-road, and Thomas 11Vorster and John Miles
were charged with being concern ex] in the offence.
The complainant stated that r acing sweeps were held
at his house, and that in conform its with the usual prac-
tices on these occasions, he ism id tickets for sweeps of
the late Ascot and New Stakes. Monday last was the
day appointed for the payment of prizes won on these
two races, previous to which he 'had employed Lipsham
as clerk, to attend to that partici filar part of his business,
in the course of which the latter i ndividual was entrusted
with various letters enclosing s's reep tickets to persons
who had written for them from the country. On Friday
last he (the complainant) gave '2,74ipshain several letters
to post for country subscribers, a id much to his surprise
he did not return afterwards. 0 a Monday, however, he
called to make some inquiries rdating to the sweeps,
and made some frivolous exciis e to account for his
absence, but complainant rejecte i his further services,
ignorant at the time that he had kept back tickets be-
longing to other subscribers. Lip ;ham then went away,
but on the following day Worster called at the Eques-
trian Coffee-house, and presented, a ticket, the number
of which was drawn a prize, and h a (complainant), with-
out suspicion, paid him the money, :amounting to 61. 13s.
When he was gone, the waiter of a tavern in the neigh-
bourhood, entered the house, an, I presented another
ticket, drawn a prize. This circ ui nstance led to some
inquiries, when the waiter said tb.a t he had been sent to
receive the money by the owner,, who was waiting at
the tavern for it. The complains .nt, however, refused
to pay the money without the own er of the ticket came
himself, and then Miles came fox, yard, and at first as-
sumed to be the holder of the ticket, but upon being
pressed on the subject, he admitt ed that he was merely
engaged by the other two perso as, to represent him-
self as the owner of the prize, a ad that for his person-
ation in the affair he was to I itive had a sovereign
for his trouble. The complai,a:int then went on to
describe that he had since ascertained that the ticket
presented by Worster belonged to a subscriber at Win-
chester, to whom it was enclose 3 in a letter, which
must have been opened by Lipsham , and taken possession
of when he was sent with it and c .thers to put in the
Post-office on Friday. That it vs,: as also observed that
Worster ivas the brother-in-law c f Lipsham. and when
the former was taken into custody, he exclaimed that it
was his brother who got him jaw the difficulty, The
complainant added that a ticket sot ich turned out a 100/.
prize on the horse Garrick was ala ) taken from his desk
and presented by the sameman Woe ster, and that if it had
not been for the circumstance of re ceiving a letter from
one of the subscribers to the Sweej ), announcing that he
had not received his ticket, he (complainant) would
have paid the .money to the ma 11 who presented the
ticket.
would be necessary to have
Mr. SECKER having heard the t! tatement against the
accused parties, said that it
Imo up a prize, and
was paid over to Worster on
genwaheinichant.ltromd Winchester, to
whom t
ts production, after
the attehnedatiicickeet
of
belonged,thetter in which it was
having been abstracted from the . -
inclosed.

Mr. Games, on behalf of the priaoner, said that at the
present stage of the investigation he should decline
giving any answer to the charge, '3l it as the offence was
a bailable one, he trusted the Nl•sg istrate would accept
of such sureties as they could proc w .e to appear on a fu-
ture day.

Mr. SECKER said that he should adjudge the prisoners
to enter into their own recognizan ,as of 401. each, and
find two sureties of 201. each, to appear again on
Thursday next, and to give tweak frfour hours notice of
bail.

LAMBETH-
As Mr. Norton was about to leas e the bench, Thomas
Phillip Davis, a wretched-looking man with a Wooden
leg, was brought into court and placi .d at the bar before
him, on a charge of having attera, oed an act of self-
.destruction, by throwing himself ink the river Thames.
From the evidence, it appeared that between three and
.four o'clock yesterday afternoon the. ,orisoner flung him-
self from off the steps of the pier at Westminster-bridge
into deep water, and had it not been for the promptitude
:of a young man who happened to be cm the pier, ho must
ave been drowned.
The unfortunate man who seemed eireacifully affected
asked--wrahshenttiact,
what had caused him to h, lve attempted so
replied sheer want and I tarration. The
:poor man then entered into a history of his complicated ,