The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

GUIL.IIIIALL.

A poor creature, named Williams, was charged with
stealing a leg of pork in Shoe-lane.
. In reply to flirt worthy Alderman, the prisoner said he
was forced by hunger to take the meat, and it was quite
a matter of indifference to him whether he was seen or
not, as any fate would be better than wandering the
streets night after-night, with nothing sate the flag of a
hall door to sit on.—Committed for trial.

The number of unfortunate beings who were brought
before the Bench in a state of destitution was appalling.
The greater number of them broke windows or lamp;
for the purpose of being sent to gaol to get shelter and a
morsel of bread.

CROYDON POLICE, Jan. 3.
Enoch Clarke, tuitt Thoraas Clark, two boys, the first
13 and the other 11, were,brought before Mr. SUTHER-
LAND, charged with felony; under very aggravated cir-
cumstances:— •

%Villain Field, a boy nine years old, stated thathe was
engaged in minding his master's sheep, on Ramsey-
green, near Croydon, when the prisoner:: came up to him
and asked him .if he hail got a knife, and when he
told them he had not, they said they must have his
comforter and his smock frock. • Ile was about to call
for assistance, when they both attacked him and threw
him down, and one of the prisoners held his hand over
his mouth while the other took his shoes off, and was
proceeding to strip him, hut hearing some one approach-
ing, they desisted, and ran away, •taking his shoes with
them. A person soon afterwards came up, and he gave •
him information of what had taken place, and he rode
after the prisoners, and they were taken into custudv.
John Glover stated that hearing the boy Field cry
out, he went to him and found him very much frightened
and his face, was bleeding. lie told him he had been
assaulted and robbed by two railway boys, and witness
having ascertained in what direction they had gone,
went after them, and he found the prisoners walking in
the road towards Croydon, and he stopped and
questioned them. They at first denied • having com-
mitted any robbery, but at length the prisoner Enoch
admitted that he took the shoes from the boy Field, and
he said he did so because they were better than his own.
The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and the
Magristrate, having ascertained that they bore a very bad
character, directed that they should be committed to the
county gaol to take their trial.

A short time siuce, as some labourers were ex-
cavating gravel in a field at Groat Conard, near Sudbury,
they dug up a human skeleton, which was lying about
two feet below the surface, and from the position in
which it was found, it appeared to have been hastily
thrown, uncoffined, into the earth. A week or two after,
a second was discovered, in a field about a stone's-throw
from the first, and the village gossips hastily ransacked
their memories for all who had been "missing without
leave," in order to account for this mystetious circum-
stance, and connected it with tales of

"Bloody ineu,
Whose deeds tradition saves ;
Of lonely folk cut off unseen,
And hid in sudden graves ! ".
In all human probability, these skeletons were the re-
mains of some stragglers from one of the battles which

have been fought in this neighbourhood, between the
Saxons and the Danes, who probably died of their
wounds on their retreat from the fatal field, and were
hastily buried by their comrades where they fell.—Essex
Standard.