The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

MAEYLEBONE.

THE CALAMITY IN THE PARS.-A bricklayer's labourer,
named John O'Donnell, attended before Mr. D'Eyncourt
and made the following statement :
He said—On the occasion of the accident he brought
out eight persons alive. The first six when ho got them
to the bank NI ere hurried away, and he saw no more of
them, as they were hurried away by the icemen and others.
The last two ho got out were brothers, residing in Rodolph-
street, Camden Town, and they had presented him with
half a sovereign, When ho got them out one was almost
dead.

public-house,
Mr. D'Eyncourt asked what he did under such circum-
stances ?...
Applirnt said ho ran them along and ran them into a
whore ho got half-a-pint of brandy, and for
which ono of them had to leave his scarf-pin in payment.
He rubbed the ears of the insensible one and shook him,
and then took them home in a cab. He hoped if this was
published the other six would come forward and recognise
him.

Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if he could swim.
Applicant said he could well, but there was no chance.
t what made him shako so ?
Ile seized a rope from one of the icemen and tied it round
his body and went in.
Mr. D'Eynceurinquired
Applicant (who seemed very weak and shook in every
said -1
limb) 1
e was upon the occasion in his wet clothes for
an hour and a half, and ho had felt numbed and shaken
like that ever since.

would recognise his services.
Applicant said ho had their paper to fill up on which
Mr. D'EYnemirt•—No doubt the Royal Humane Society
were the names of the brothers. They would give him a
bronze medal, and that was no use, as it would not give
his children victuals. IL had been froze out by the weathor.
Ho had work to go to directly after the frost had gone.
Ile had left morning after morning with only a bit of dry
bread and a drop of coffee to seek for a job at anything.
My children have had to fare the same. When at Liver-
pool he saved 11 lives, and then did not ask for a medal.
Mr. Young, the secretary of the Royal Humane Society,
said every attention would be paid to his claim.
Maybank, 270 S, said ho baw him in the water.
It may bo mentioned, in addition to the above, that the
applicant has partly lost the use of his right side through
his efforts.

Mr. D'Eyneourt granted him two guineas from the
poor-box.

ANOTHER CASE. —ln this case applicant said he threw
off Lis coat, hat, and boots, and left them on the bank.
Ile went in and brought out two boys belonging to a poor
man named Danton. When Le got on shore some one had
stolen his things. lie had been to the society. They had
given him nothing to compensate him. The poor man had
given him

Mr. IYEyncourt said he could do nothing kir him. lie
must lay his claim before the society, and they would see
to it.

WESTMINSTER.
EXTENSIVE AND SYSTEMATIC ROBBEDX.—John Clarke, a
baker, was placed at the bar charged with robbery.
Mr. Stephen Bescoe, a baker, living at 9, Queen's-row,
Piinlico, said that prisoner was ono of his men. Tor some
weeks past he had been missing a great quantity of flour,
and the losses so increased that he applied to the police-
station for the aid of a detective, as ho did not know out of
the number of hands whom he employed who to suspect.
This morning the prisoner was detected with a bag of flour
in his possession, which had been previously marked by
direction of the police.
prisoner said George Epsom, a detective of the B division, said he
watched prisoner this morning from his master's premiss
into a publiohouse. lie then told him that his master
o
id ho would come directly
after wantedul h
N bins
fetc
to iedhlsbarrow. Witness told him ho
d noto
hadhim,al l
0y and
fetch his barrow ; ho must accom-
panyc
him to his master at once, as he was suspected of
robbing him. On searching prisoner witness found the
bag of flour concealed in his trouseis.
Mr. Arnold—llow long has he boon in en your service ?
Prosecutor-15 months.
Mr. Arnold—What were his wages

Preseeutor—l gave him a guinea week, and nearly all
his food. This has been going ou for a long time, and it
is very bad where a man has many people employed about
him.
Mr. Arnold remanded the prisoner.