The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

I with other transactions of a similar kind to the present
than to better the cue against him.
The evidene fir the pro-, eq ret .{.,
had not LuAL.Lha
when the Court adjourned for refresuncnt,:.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Aldermen CARDEN and
FINNIS.)
STEALING TOBACCO FROM THE LONDON DOCKS,"
Charles John Precce, 33, Thomas Lye, 42, and Johs,
Thomas Evans, 28, thi ee Custom-house officers employed
in the London Docks, were convicted of stealing 15110
of cigars and tobacco, the property of her Majesty.
Sentence deferred.
The Court then proceeded with the trials of
Clark, a gardener, William Hunt, a lab,,urer, Jolis
Hubbard, a customs' officer, and John King, also
customhouse officer, who were all charged with stoat'
betwcen the months of October and February WI
largo quantities of tobacco, the property of her Abijestli
from the London Docks.
'These latter trials occupied the Court the whole morn'
ing, and had not concluded when our report left.
91.

I'llE EXECUTION OF MALIIA
REEI)ER AND ELIAS LUCAS.
(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CAMBRIDGE, TWELVE o'cLocs.
Maria Reeder and Elias Lucas, who Were found A nilif
at the last assizes for the murder of Susan Lucas, th®
wife of the male culprit and sister of the female, Play°
just expiated their offence on the gallows in this tows 1.
The place of execution was in front of the door of the
county gaol. The fatal beam was erected on a platfo.l3l
about 15 feet from the ground, and was enclosed in 11
sort of half-circle boarding. In front of the gallows 16
a spacious park, in the centre of which there is an in
mense mound, from the summit of which the aountr.l
can be seen for miles round, this afforded ample oppor
tunity for every person to obtain a view of the gallows"
At the time of the execution there wore not less than
30,000 persons present.

The prisoners retired to rest at about ten o'clock last
Light; the Rev. Mr. Roberts and another clergyman
having been with them nearly the whole of the &IP
reacling the Scriptures and praying. The female e%'
pressed herself perfectly resigned to her fate, an d thS,
male acknowledged the justness of his sentence, bat W.
pressed his fears as to his fitness to meet his Mal :er.
At six o'clock this morning, the Rev. Mr. Bober is e°ll
his colleague arrived at the prison. Both the pri: loner°
were up, and joined prayer with the Rev. Gentl email:
At seven o'clock they had some coffee, but neither of (13"
prisoners ate anything,
At a little before twelve o'clock the two prist
were brought into the press-room. The executioner hal:
ing pinioned the culprits, the mournful proces. I i°'"
formed, headed by the Under-Sheriff, the Rev. Mr.. r'°..
berts, and Mr. Orridge, the governor of the gaol.
The male prisoner was brought up first. He was pi 11..
fectly calm, but appeared to tremble slightly. Havii tg
been placed under the fatal beam, the female, who ws
assisted to the gallows by two turnkeys, was placed b,
the side of her fellow-culprit. She appeared quite fire
and resigned.
The usual preliminaries having been adjusted, the fats
bolt was drawn, and the unhappy wretches were launcher
into eternity-.
They both appeared to die without much pain.
The female prisoner was in her twenty-first year, aE
the male was in his twenty-fourth.