The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-30 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

As the office was about being dosed on Monday,
a respectable-)ooking man, named Brockbridge,
entered in great agitation and affliction, accompanied
by his daughter, whose countenance was bathed in
tears, to exhibit a complaint against , an
athletic young man, with pleasing features, who was
in custody.
The prisoner was confronted with the accuser,
who was so overcome by his wounded feelings, that
for a short time he was incapable of making himself
understood. When be had in some degree recovered
his faculties he entered into a statement, in dis-
jointed sentences, like a man who has suffered great
agony of mind, and who attempts accounting for it,
respecting an evil which had befallen him in the loss
of a beloved daughter, who had committed suicide
that day, " in consequence of that villain's base
treatment," he said (glancing- at the prisoner),
" who is now before your Worship. My happiness
is gone for ever," sobbed the accuser, " to-day I
have been robbed of my daughter. I never knew
that she had an acquaintance with such a wretch !
She has this morning swallowed poison. I got home
in time only to see her close her eyes for ever."
The young woman who accompanied him now
proceeded to state some circumstances, but her nar-
rative was presently interrupted by tears.
[The particulars of the suicide will be found, as
collected from her own lips in the course of yester-
day, in another part of our paper.)
Mr. SWABEY, the Magistrate before whom the
parties appeared, having collected sufficient facts to
shew that in a legal sense the prisoner had not been
instrumental either in procuring the poison or wish-
ing the deceased to take it, whatever moral guilt
might attach to him, expressed an opinion that he
could not detain him. His Worship, however,
seemed desirous of assisting the afflicted relatives;
and having cautioned the prisoner, lest he should say
any thing which might possibly criminate him, he
told him that he was at liberty to offer what he
pleased.
The prisoner denied having acted in the base man-
ner attributed to him, and said that he was a mar-
ried man. This latter assertion he used, as if, be-
cause he had a wife, he could not have been guilty
of the shocking outrage.
The Magistrate told him that his own conscience
best instructed him whether or not he had maltreat-
ed the unfortunate deceased.

The prisoner again declared that he had not.
After some further remarks, it was arranged that
he should remain' in the custody of the constable,
who had brought him to the office, until the inquest,
(which will be held to-day), as it s% as by no means
improbable that the Coroner or Jury would wish
him to undergo an examination.
The heart-broken father and (laughter then retired.
Charles &mart Jthe young man who has been a
week in custody, charged with stealing a silk pocket
handkerchief from the person of a Mr. Casey, a
fruiterer, when at Astley's Amphitheatre, on the 21st
instant, was yesterday fully committed to take his
trial for the offence.

In Consequence of the publicity given to the case,
a Journeyman printer, named Abel, who likewise
lest two pocket. books the same night at:that place of
amusement, now came forward, and, having inspect-
ed the books taken from the prisoner, be recognized
his own.
A detainer will be lodged against the prisoner on
the second charge.