The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

I peeping out,, and told him he did not think it wan
' corn so he must examine the contents of the bag.
then di scov ered two fat geese and two fat ducks
warm. Their necks had recently been cut, and
b: ood was flowing from them. Prisoner then said it
" a mat, had given them to him to
cwaarsi:yalalsrZ'at,'
George-street; Witness took him
SuL
into custody, h
, and afterwards found from whence
they
tolen.
Wm,
a saddler, carrying on business in
Porsepheicst. oa
Hed, awße.
rmondsey, said the ducks and geese
lni dl vbeeae
r been
them safe on Saturday night, and
missed
day morning. They were fat,
wre-rs2ost!
and
dieil oth
prisonerpleaded guilty.
Mr. Burcham sentenced him to three months'
hard labour E, t Wandswort;i•
A LUCKY E SCAPE.—Mary Taylor and Catherine
Green, fashionably dressed woolen, were brought up
for final examination, charged with frequenting the
terminus of the South-Eastern Railway at London-
bridge, for the purpose of committing a felony.
Scannell, 177 M, a detective officer specially em-
ployed by the railway company, said that on Mon-
day -nigh t, the 16th, he saw the prisoners on the
South-Eaa tern platform, just as the mail train was
getting ready to start. He saw that they were very
busy amon,?, the ladies, and he watched them.
Taylor lifteol up a lady's dress, but whether she stole
anything or not he could not say, as the train left.
They vemaintd. loitering about from one station to
the other,. and suspecting them to be railway thieves
he took them into custody.
Mr. Burt.
Thom asked if he actually saw either of
their hands lea
ve a lady's pocket.
He replied th,,'
t he did not.
Mr. W. Edwin,
who appeared for the prisoners,
contended that then" was no evidence for a convic-
tion, as they were not
seen to do anything improper,
neither were they knot&
vn as thieves. He therefore
asked for their discharge.
Scannell informed his worship that he had in-
quired ab nit them since the last examination, but
could not ascertain whether they had been convicted.
They were howeve.r known as associates with rail-
way thieves.
Mr. Burcham telt.' the prisoners he had no doubt
in his own mind wh at they were doing at the rail-
way terminus, but th ere was not sufficient evidence
to convict them. H.e therefore discharged them,.
with a caution that, should they be brought before
him again on a similar .charge they would not get
•
off so easily.
The prisoners, who seen:led rather surprised at
the decision, hastily left the court.

THE BRUTAL MURDER NEAR

CARLISLE.

CARLISLE, MONDAY.

A man named William Charlton, an engine-
driver on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, was
apprehended on Sunday night by the police, on the
charge of murdering the old woman, Jane Emmer-
son, at Durran-hill crossing of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway, and then robbing her house. On
the morning after the murder the prisoner had to,
go to Newcastle in charge of a mineral train at
4.30 a.m. According to the rules of the company
he went to the engine-shed about an hour before
that time to prepare his engine. He soon left,
However, telling the fire-lighter that he was going
for his breakfast—a very unusual thing to do.
When he was away his mate, the stoker, came and
oiled the engine. The prisoner, on returning, told
his =ate, not that he had been for his breakfast, but
that he had been for a knife. They started with
their train in about half an hour, and when ap-
proaehiog the s.,:ene of the murder, about a mile
from Carlisle, Charlton directed the attention of the
stoker to A nursery garden on the opposite side of
line from where the dead body of the murdered
woman wag lying, and as they were going through
the gates and past the cottage he ordered the
stoker to plg m ore coke on the fire—a most unusual
and needless thing so early on the journey. The
stoker thus did not observe anything peculiar
about the gates or the cottage as he passed through.
They arrived at Newcastle about 10 o'clock, and
and on being told kv the driver of the neat train
from Carlisle that a murder had been committed,
and asked what he halal seen, Charlton said he had
seen a light in the cotta, ge, and he appealed to the
stoker. The stoker, hole-ever, remembered that he
had been firing at the time they passed. Charlton
afterwards said he might be mistaken about the
light. He also made other ;conflicting statements,
and has appeared latterly to, be in a despondent
state. Upon one occasion he directed the attention
of the stoker to a man working -e,ith a pickaxe on
the sloping banks of the railway When there was
really no such man there. The polio 0 are in pos-
session of other evidence against the prisoner which
they do not wish to be divulged at present, as
they expect it will lead to a conviction.

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