The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-16 00:00:00

THAMES.

A DISIIONEST STEWARD.—John Evans, the
steward of the ship Ellen, in the West India
Dock, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with
stealing two bottles of port wine.

Adolphus Clarke, constable of the East and
West India Dock, stated that at twenty minutes to
seven o'clock last evening he stopped the prisoner as
he was leaving the West India Dock at the Blackwall
gateway, and noticing something bulky under his
left arm, asked him what he had there. The pri-
soner replied, "Nothing, nothing," and made an effort
to pass on. He said, "Oh yes, there is something
there ; let me look at it." The prisoner produced
a bottle of wine, and said, " Take it ; let me go."
He said, " No, I cannot do that ; you must come
in here ;" and, after some slight resistance, he
forced the prisoner into his box, and took
from him a second bottle of port wine, from
under his right arm. The prisoner said, " For
God's sake let me go, or lam a ruined man." He
told the prisoner he could not do that, and detained
him. The prisoner then said that the two bottles
of port were left in the ship Ellen as old stores last
voyage.
Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if he had any
account to give of his possession of the wine; and
it was not until the magistrate had repeated the
question three times that the prisoner said, " I stole
the wine from the ship."

Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to be impri-
soned for two months and kept to hard labour, for
the unlawful possession of the wine.

THE LIMEROTJSE TRAGEDY.

Yesterday Mr. Paget attended the Thames
Police Court specially to hear a report from Mr.
James Horton, surgeon, of High-street, Stepney,
relative to the condition of a man named Conrad

Long, who it was stated on the previous day would
give important evidence against John Wiggins, a
lighterman, charged with the wilful murder of
Agnes Oakes, a young woman with whom he coha-
bited at No. 1, Temperance Cottages, Lower North-

street, Limehouse, on the morning of Wednesday,
the 24th of July last.
Mr. Horton said that Long could not be removed,
and that he was in the last stage of consumption,
and was also labouring under sciatica.
Mr. Paget said he would proceed to the dwelling
of the man Long in company with Mr. Nairn, the
second clerk, and Mr. Livingston, the chief usher,
and receive his deposition.
The prisoner, who was brought from the Clerken-
well House of Detention, was driven to Lower
North-street, Limehouse, in the police van. It
would have been unsafe to have escorted him to the

place on foot, owing to the ill-feeling of the popu-
lace, and particularly of the female portion of it,

against him.

There was a vast multitude of excitable people
assembled when the van reached Lower North-

street, and a tremendous yell. of execration burst
forth when the prisoner alighted from the van at
the door of No. 83, in which Long is dwelling. Mr.

Charles Young, the prisoner's solicitor, appeared on
his behalf. The oath having been administered to
Long in his bed, he said—" I remember the morn-
ing of the 24th of July. At two o'clock my wife
gave me some medicine. I afterwards fell asleep,
and was awoke by a hallooing and cries of murder.
It was then between the lights. I looked out of the
window, which is close to my bed. I saw the pri-
soner's mother, who was hallooing out murder. She
came out of her house into the street and called mur-
der two or three times, and went in again. She had
a knife in her hand. It looked a longish knife. I
am sure it was a knife. I observed nothing about
her hands or the knife, as it was too dark. It was
light enough to see it was a knife, but not to see
if anything was upon it. The prisoner's father
then came out of the same house, clapped his
hands, and said, " Well, this is a sight." The old
man then returned to his dwelling. After a little
while the prisoner came out of the house. I did not
see him come out of the house, but I saw him sitting
opposite my window on a chair. At first he was
standing up, and then they fetched the chair. A
man named Williams fetched the chair, and I saw
the prisoner sit down. My wife was in bed with
me at first, and then she got up and went out. The
prisoner's mother had her gown on when she came
out. She was not in her night clothes.
Cross-examined by Mr. Charles Young.—lt
might be ten or fifteen minutes from the time the
old woman came out. My wife was awake when
the prisoner came out. The clock was going. I
did not look at it. Ido not know why I did not
look at the clock. The prisoner's mother had a
gown on, not a white night dress. It was not light
enough to see what colour the gown was. I re-
member Inspector Turner coming to me on Thurs-
day last. lie asked me if I knew anything about
this case. I said I knew very little about it. I did
not say my attention was first attracted after five
o'clock. Ido not know that I said so. 1 might
have said that the time he was sitting over the way
on a chair was about five o'clock. I cannot exactly
say what I said to Inspector Turner. I told him
there was a noise in the street very often. I said I
heard nothing unusual. I did not say anything to
Mr. Turner about having seen the prisoner's mother
come out with a knife in her hand. Ido not re-
member mentioning half-past five or six to Mr.
Turner. I told him that a young woman's throat
was cut. I did not say what time I heard this. I
do not recollect saying so. I told him that when 1
heard the cry I looked out and saw the prisoner
sitting in the street. I said Williams and several
others were with the prisoner. Mr. Turner asked
me to tell him all I saw or heard. The reason why
I did not tell him that I saw the prisoner's mother
with a knife is that I am on my sick bed, and did
not want to have anything to do with it.
This finished the testimony of the witness. The
prisoner was sent back to the Thames Police-court,
and in the afternoon he was brought before Mr.
Paget.
The Prisoner said he should like to hear his
father and mother.
Mr. Charles Young said his client's parents had
been heard before the coroner, and in the discretion
vested in him he did not intend to call them at
present.
Inspector Brady, of the K division, who con-
ducted the prosecution, also declined to put the
prisoner's father and mother in the witness-box at
present, and finally, after some discussion,
The prisoner was again remanded for a week.