The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE THIEVES' RAFFLE.—BLITGATE-FIELDS IN AN
UPROAR.—Emma Durrant, a mostdesperate and hardened
prostitute, aged 20, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged
with assaulting and wounding another of her class, named
Margaret`Gibbins, whose head was encircled with a surgi-
cal bandage. Daniel Cronin, an Irish shoemaker, aged 40,
was charged with violently assaulting Margaret Henetta
with a half gallon beer can.
The cases were separately heard, but arose out of one
transaction.

Last night there was a raffle for the purpose of raising
money to defend a well-known thief and burglar, named
Mahoney, who is now wader remand, for a burglary at
Wandsworth and seriously wounding Baker, a police con-
stable of the V division, who has since been under medical
treatment in Guy's Hospital. Three nights before the
affair at Wandsworth Mahoney was engaged with Kelly,
Timothy, Spaddy, and another, in the attempt to break into
the shop of Mr. Carpenter, pawnbroker, in Cannon-street -
road, St. George, when Franklin, a constable of the K divi-
sion, was seriously wounded with a life preserver.

Cox, 45 K, an active police sergeant, who was lately
beaten by three savage ruffians, brothers, named Bryant,
in Ratcliff, said there were one hundred thieves at the
raffle last night. The uproar, obscenity, spouting, and
singing all night were terrific, and several fights took place.
Six extra constables were specially employed, and the orgies
were kept up until five o'clock this morning. The friends
of Mahoney were desirous of holding the raffle at a
public-house. Cox gave warning to all the licensed
victuallers in the neighbourhood, and they would not en-
tertain tho party. Tho raMe was lrehl in the fate uwemnis
or Mahoney, in Blue-gate-fields, Shadwell, a place in-
habited almost solely by thieves, prostitutes, and other bad
characters. A quarrel took place between Durrant and
Gibbins because the latter would not " dub up" and con.-
tribute something towards the defence of Mahoney. After
the exchange of words they came to blows, and the prisoner
struck Gibbins a violent blow on the head with a poker,
leaving her prostrate and bleeding on the ground. The
wound was a severe one, and Mr. Yardley sentenced the
savage woman who had inflicted it to three months' impri-
sonment with hard labour. Cronin lives opposite the house
where the raffle took place, and was engaged
in it. He quarrelled with his wife, and threw
a half-gallon beer can at her. It missed the wife, and
struck the complainant, a huge, bloated, and dissipated
woman, who, it was stated by Cox, kept a brothel full of
girls. Mrs. Henetta received other injuries at the hands of
the prisoner Cronin.
Isaac Pawsey, a police-constable, 485 K, stated that ho
saw the woman Henetta in the house with the blood stream-
ing from a wound on her head. The scene was frightful,
and a great number were drunk. The worst thieves in the
district were present at the raffle.
Mr. Yardley—lf I was to give the people in Blue-gate-
fields and the immediate neighbourhood their deserts, I
should commit the whole of them to gaol. The complain-
ant was as bad as the defendant, but she must not be killed.
He sentenced Cronin to be imprisoned for two months, and
kept to hard labour.

THIS LAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Ibis ERTAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 82s Ild ;
barley, 37s 10d; oats, 27s Od ; rye, 42s 4d ; beaus, 50s
Id ; and peas, 38s 7d.
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 618 Od ;
barley, 34s Sd ; oats, 2704 d ; rye, 41s 6d; beans, 48s ld ;
peas, 42s 2d,
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 49,184;
barley, 1,614 ; oats, 5,453 ; rye, 58 ; beans, 1,376 ; peas,
213 quarters.