The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-28 00:00:00

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On Thursday last, a lad named Alfred Pegg, was
brought up on a charge of obtaining four pairs of
ladies' boots from the shop of Mr. Tanner, in Little
Russell-street, Covent-garden, by fraudulent means.
A lad named John Arthur, errand-boy to Mr. Tan-
ner, was on that occasion called upon to give evidence,
the prisoner having given the order to him ; but on
the New Testament being presented to him he re-
fused to be sworn, alleging, in answer to a question
of Mr. Minshull, that he had no belief in any religion,
and on being questioned, persisted in his refusal.
Mr. MINSHULL then remanded the prisoner till
Saturday, in order that the witness, Arthur, might
reflect upon his conduct. On his attendance on that
day, and the oath being again tendered to him, he
readily submitted to the usual course, saying he had
reflected on the good advice of the worthy magistrate,
and was conscious of his former misconduct.

Mr. MINSHULL said he was glad the boy had come
to a right sense of his duty. He then ordered that
his evidence should be taken in the usual way, and that
he should, on the prisoner's committal, be bound over
for his appearance at the Sessions.
William Childs was brought up on a Bench-war-
rant issued in January last, charging him with having
administered poison to Mary Jane Woolf for the pur-
pose of procuring abortion.
The prosecutrix, a servant at the Chaise and Horses,
Hammersmith, identified the prisoner as the party
named in the warrant, and stated, that while she was
pregnant by the prisoner he gave her the poison for
the purpose above stated, but that she was delivered
of a child about a month ago, but it died on Friday.
The prisoner, who did not say anything in answer
to the charge, was committed to Newgate for trial.

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It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses,
that the prisoner and Hammond had been for some
time acquainted with each other, and one day in
February last they had been drinking at several public
houses, and at a late hour on the same night, they
were seen going down New Gravel-lane towards the
swivel-bridge, over the London Dock. They were
quarrelling, and Elrington made use of some threats
towards Hammond, and gave her a dreadful blow with
his fist, which felled her to the ground. Some females
who observed his violence, remonstrated with him, and
he went on. As soon as Hammond recovered herself,
she got up and followed Elrington, and very soon af-
terwards the screams of a female were heard, and on
persons going to the bridge, Elrington was found
standing at the end of it, while the poor girl was seen
below on the quay, in a recess in which the bridge re-
volves when swinging. She appeared in a most dread-
ful state; her clothes were over her head, she was
bleeding profusely, and her left leg was broken and
shattered in a very shocking manner. She had fallen
upon a portion of the iron-works of the bridge, and
was severely bruised. Hammond uttered, in a faint
tone, " Oh God ! my leg is broken ; take this man
away, he is going to heave me overboard." One of
the witnesses, a girl named Foster, who had pre-
viously seen Elrington knock down the young woman,
asked him what he meant by the ill usage ? On which
he exclaimed, " I'll chuck you there too, if you say
anything !" and he afterwards threatened to throw an-
other female into the water, because she called for the
police. The prisoner got under the bar by which the
bridge is swung, and dropped into the recess where
the woman was lying • and, according to the evidence
of a policeman named Mitchell, No. 161 K, whose
testimony, however, was not borne out by any other
person present, the prisoner was actually dragging her
towards the water, with the intention, no doubt, of
drowning her, when witness arrived, but he imme-
diately jumped down and released her, hastily seized
the prisoner, and, after a good deal of struggling,
which was rendered extremely dangerous by the situa-
tion of the place, he was secured.
The prisoner, in defence, said that Eliza Hammond
said she would drown herself, and ran before him un-
til she reached the bar, when she threw herself over
with an intention of plunging into the water, but she
fell short among the works of the bridge. He jumped
after her, and nearly killed himself, and that was all
he recollected of the matter.

The witnesses said the prisoner was uninjured.
Mr. Young, an inspector of the K division, pro-
duced a certificate from the surgeons of the Londoti
Hospital, stating that the young woman could not be
removed.

The prisoner was remanded for another fortnight.

The two men in custody at our New Bailey
on the charge of having been principals in the preme-
ditated and atrocious murder of Mr. Thomas Ashton,
three years ago, whilst on his way from his father's
house at Pole Bank to the Apethorn Mill, have several
times during the week been privately examined before
Captain Clarke, R. N., and remanded. Much of the
mystery natural in such a disclosure as that of Garside,
the other confederate, has been divested, we are happy
to state, of its difficulty by the clues which have since
been discovered through the scrutinizing search which
has bee; made under the direction of Captain Clarke,
and we feel confident now, that in a little time most
of the material features necessary to the confirmation
of Garside's confession will be so fully established by
the testimony of others, that the real authors of the
murder can no longer remain undiscovered. It is no
less certain also, that the assassins were hired for the
purpose, as not one of the murderers was at the time
employed in any cotton manufactory whatever. The
man in Derby gaol is expected here in a day or two,
under an order from the Secretary of State, when he
will be confronted with the other prisoners. Their
names are Mosely, and are well-known desperadoes in
the neighbourhood of Marple, where they have resided
for some time.— Stockport Advertiser.

DIED. IDiug' slO. ID'
On the 18th inst., at Biel, in East Lothian, *
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milton Nisbet.
On the 21st inst., at Arthur Seat, Arthur pc,
Fordyce, of Culsh, Esq., LL.D., aged 89. , Caff OW
On the 25th inst., at Eltham, aged 37, Jatliiter
wife of Henry S. Reid, Esq., and second tlau,e'rey. i. ;nits;
1 ite Thomas Blair, Esq., of Walton-grove, Su" of 'Jr.-
On the 24th inst., Henry Dewdney, B. A'' ias
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College, Cambridge. Von .
On the 25th inst., in Weymouth-street, in. i nets
ssio
Roe, Esq., of Withdean, Sussex, one of the Coni
of his Majesty's Customs. tre, Grw
On the 24th inst., at her house in Parl''se
venor-square, Mrs. Adey. es, gr. Mill
On the 23d inst., at East Bourne, Su'.." ~
Noakes, in his 86th year.
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.On the 26th inst., at the liouse c. - o
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Canonbury-placeEleanor Anne, aged ' -'--
On the 26th inst.., at Addi
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aged 11 months, .Susannah Gay Parle' ffico Tower. id.
of the late Peter Watson,W Esq. of Calcui,ittca-e ' dambernrel;
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