The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

A WIIITECHAPEL PICKPOCKET SECURED.-11nnry Moran,
alias Warner, a lad of 15, was brought beforo Mr. Paget,
charged with attempting to pick the pockot of Mr. George
Snow, a gentleman dwelling in Tredegar-square, Bow-
road.

Mr. Snow was passing along the Whitechapel-road at a
quarter past six o'clock last evening, and saw the prisoner
following close behind him with three other boys in the
rear to cover his operations. The prisoner thrust his
hand iato Mr. Snow's coat pocket, and the prosecutor
turned round and caught the hand as it was being s ith-
drawn. Mr. Snow seized the prisoner immediately, and
the rascal kicked and plunged, and took hold of the area
grating of a house and clung to it. A lot of roughs and

blackguards endeavoured to rescue the prisoner, but Mr
Snow, who is a courageous and determined gentleman
kept fast hold of him, and a bystander loosened his hand
from the grating. The prisoner was then given into the
custody of a police-constable.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to bo imprisoned for
three months and kept to hard labour.
A WOMAN'S WRONGS.—A fine young woman, who said
she had been married seven months, came before Mr.
Paget and said that her husband had become inattentive
to her and stopped out late at night.
Mr. Paget —I cannot help you. That is a matter over.
which I hair() no jurisdiction.
Applicant—l have seen him many evenings with another
• young woman.

Mr. Paget--I am sorry to hear it. You must try to win
back his affections. I cannot assist you.

The young woman thanked the magistrate, and slowly
retired from the court.

WESTMINSTER.

CONFESSION OF ROBBERY.—henry Phillips, about 17,
was charged, on his own confession, in feloniously receiv-
ing a piece of gold chain, value £2, well knowing it to
have been stolen.

Mr. William James Holden, inspector of the B
on duty at Walton-street station, Brompton, said that two
men, named Reardon and Abbett, were yesterday tried at
Clerkenwell Sessions, and sentenced to 18 months' hard
labour for stealing a chain from the person of Alexander
M'Pherson. Directly the men had been sentenced, the
prisoner came to Walton-street station and said he wished
to make a statement with reference to the robbery,as he was
implicated, and then his statement was reduced to writing
and signed by him. It was to the effectthat three men,whoso
names he mentioned, hustled and robbed the prosecutor,
that Abbott was one of the men, and that Reardon was
not there. He mentioned the names of the men, and made
the statement because he did not wish to see an innocent
man suffer. The chain was given to him after it was
stolen, and he sold it for lls. to a watchmaker.

John Woodward, 3, Exeter-street, Chelsea, proved buy-
ing the piece of chain for 11s. He melted it last Saturday.
He bought it the day after the robbery (Nov. 23). Pri-
soner sold it to him.

The prosecutor said he did not see the prisoner at the
time. Abbott was apprehended on the spot, but Reardon
wscaped and was afterwards taken.
Prisoner was remanded till Friday.

Frightful Accident on the Metropolitan
Railway—This Day.

A terrible accident happened to-day on the
Metropolitan Railway, which has, we regret to say,
been accompanied by loss of life. The excitement
caused in the neighbourhood of the Farringdon and
Alderagate-street Station is very great, and a col-
lection of the facts relative to the accident is, at the
time we write, exceedingly difficult ; but as far as we
have been able to gather the following may be relied
upon :—For some time now the construction of the
dead meat market has been in rapid progress in
Smithfield, and at a spot near Charter House-lane
the meat market will cover a portion of the Metro-
politan Railway. The works at this place have been
going on with the greatest rapidity, the Thames
Iron Company (Limited) supplying the massive
iron girders necessary to cover in the railway. A
great number of these immense pillars of iron have
already been placed in position by means of iron
cables running from a kind of crane. The girders
are being laid transversely, between 20 and 30 feet
above the lines of the Metropolitan Railway, and
everything had gone on satisfactorily until about
20 minutes to one. At this moment one of the
girders wits in suspension at the spot above men-
tioned, when the train from Moorgate for Kensing-
ton, consisting of Great Western Railway car-
riages and tender, due at Farringdon at
12.45, was passing beneath the works in progress,
when, by some unfortunate accident, the buckling
gave way, and the ponderous beam fell upon the
last carriage, crushing it to pieces. The scene in a
few seconds after was alarming; the passengers
were screaming and the men shouting for assist-
ance. In a few minutes after the accident Mr.
Moore and Mr. Humphrey, two of the surgeons at
Bartholomew's Hospital, ran to the scene, and
there a most appalling sight was to be seen. The
girder had broken the carriage to atoms, and one of
the unfortunate passengers, a respectable, elderly
female, was found quite dead, her skull having been
frightfully fractured. Another passenger, a male,
had received the most terrible injuries to the lower
part of his person, which was completely ripped
open. There was another male passenger dread-
fully hurt about the head, an I the unfor-
tunate gu.trd of the train has sustained such
extensive injury that his life seems at present
doubtful. The two medical gentlemen at once
acted in the most energetic manner, and gave direc-
tions for the persons who were still alive to be
conveyed to the hospital, which was done by litters
being formed out of the broken partitions of the
carriage which had been destroyed. The body of
the unfortunate lady and the three men were
then taken to the hospital where Mr. Cuddiford
and others at once examined their wounds, but such
was the extensive nature of those sustained by one
of the men that he expired ten minutes after his ad-
mission into the institution. The guard has both
his legs broken ; and the fourth sufferer has received
such great injury about the head that his recovery is
nearly hopeless. The line for some time was, of
course, blocked, but the front portion of the train
proceeded on to its destination, and a large body of
men were at once collected, and after great exer-
tion the girder and remnants of the carriage were
removed and the traffic went on as usual. The
superintendent of the Dead Meat Market Works
suspended the operations at the spot were the acci-
dent had happened in order that the closest investi-
gation might be made to ascertain the cause of the
accident.