The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-02 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

George Hall, a person connected with sporting
affairs, was charged before Mr. Arnold with having
attempted to jump into a railway carriage attached
to a train, while it was in motion, by which he was
liable to a penalty of 40s.
It appeared from the evidence, that abDut six
o'clock that (yesterday) morning, just as the down
train to Newmarket, by the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, was starting from Shoreditch station, the defen-
dant arrived on the platform, stating that he wanted
to go by the train. It had started at the time, when
he was informed by Mr. Gardner, the inspector, that
he must stop. He observed that it would be a loss
to him of 1001. if he did not go down by that train.
He then gave a leap into a third-class carriage, just as
the train had reached the turn table. The defendant
was in the most imminent danger. He was balancing
on the door, and by the least jerk he would have been
thrown off. Mr. Gardner called upon the driver of
the engine to stop the train, which was promptly
done, upon which the defendant was given into
custody.

Mr.Aartom observed that the question was, had
the officers of the company the power to give any one
in custody under such circumstances?
Mr. Gardner said that many persons who had
caused obstructions and, committed offences like the
present, had given wrong directions in consequence of
which be had received instructions to give offenders
into custody. He subsequently produced the com-
pany's Act, and read the 1031 section, which was
" for securing offenders whose names and residences
are unknown.' It recited " that it shall be lawful
for any collector, servant, or other officer of the said
company to seize or detain any person whose name or
residence shall be unknown to such collector, &c., who
shall have committed any offence against the provi-
sions of the Act, and to convey him with all conveni-
ent dispatch before some justices of the peace within
whose jurisdiction such offence shall have been com-
mitted, and such justices are ordered immediately to
convict or acquit such offender."
The defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty
of 10s.

LAMBETH.
Ann Bird, the wife of a coffee-shop-keeper, in the
Lower Marsh, Lambeth, was fully examined before
Mr. Elliott, on a charge of attempting to strangle her
husband.

From the statement of Mr. Games, who attended on
behalf of the husband and the testimony of the wit-
nesses, it appeared that, owing to the dissipated con-
duct of the prisoner, her husband was compelled to
turn her out of his house, on an allowance of ss. a
week. This sum the husband paid her until latterly,
and until information had reached him of various acts
of adultery on her part, such as would exonerate him
from all legal responsibility for her support. Having
been refused her allowance, the prisoner made appli-
cation to the parish of Lambeth for a maintenance,
when the beadle took her borne to the house of her
husband. The husband denied his right to be called
on to support such a woman, but the beadle left her
in the house, and having availed herself of an opportu-
nity of her husband being alone, she with great dex-
terity slipped a handkerchief round his throat, and
drew and tied it so tightly, that had assistance been
delayed but a moment or two longer, no human skill
could have restored him to animation. As it was, it
was with the utmost difficulty that the medical man
called in restored him to consciousness, and as a proof
of the narrowness of his escape he still remains in an
exceedingly weak and feeble state. The prisoner had
been remanned, in order to have the testimony of the
medical gentleman and other witnesses taken prepa-
ratory to her committal fur trial, but one or two of
those witnesses being still absent the prisoner was
again remanded.