The Sun. — 1857-11-16 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO INDISCRIMINATE ALMS GIVER.—Jane Rodgers, a dirty, dissipated, middle-aged woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Beadon, charged with being drunk and begging. It appeared from the evidence of police-constable 175 C, that on the previous night he was on 6nty in plain clothes, in the Haymarket, when he saw the prisoner, who was much intoxicated, go up to several ladies and gentleman, and solicit aims. In some instances she succeeded, in others she did not, and at last she came up to him, and after telling him a pitiful tale, requested him to give her a penny, with which to buy bread, as she was literally starving. He told her to be off, when she went up to a gentleman, who pitying her distress gave her sixpence. She no sooner received the money, than she entered a pubha house. She spent the money in gin, then returned to the streets. He then took her into cus• toddy.  She was sent to prison for a mouth with hard labour.  EXECUTION OF DAVIS (THIS DA r.  At eight o'clock this morning, Ti 101112.9 Robert Davis, a fancy carpenter, was executed in front of Newgate for the murder of his wife, by cutting her throat at their lodgings, Dorset.street, Balls Pond, Islington. The crowd in front of the jail was less numerous than on many former occasions, but still there were before the scaffold some 5,000 or 6,000 of the worst sort of people London can produce. At half-past seven o'clock this morning Mr. Sheriff Allen and Mr. Under Sheriff Parker arrived at the jail and were soon afterwards followed by Mr. Sheriff Lawrence. At a quarter to eight o'clock they, with the governor (Mr. Wetherhead), the Rev. Mr. Plaire, and Mr. Under Sheriff Millard proceeded to the prisoner's cell, where he was found standing with his hands clasped in the same manner as he stood at the trial, muttering, " Lord have mercy on my soul. I am in. nocent of all knowledge of the crime. I die a dreadful death, but innocent of any intention." Mr. Under Sheriff Parker asked him, now that he was so near death, whether he persisted in his statement, to which he replied earnestly, " I do, Ido ; before God and man I mu innocent of any knowledge of the act ;" and in reply to repeated questions he said that it had been his only consolation in all his troubles to know that he was innocent of any knowledge of committing the act until some hours afterwards ; that he loved his wife dearly, and that the day on which it was done was the happiest day he had spent, but how mournfully had it turned out. He added that, as far as any man could, he died innocent. Mr. Under-Sheriff Parker and the reverend ordinary repeatedly asked him if he felt that he was truly penitent. His replies were reiterations of his innocence, and the expression of a hope that God would be merciful to him. He desired that one of the warders should deliver some little books to his child, who he hoped would be taken care of now that she had lost both father and mother.  Cali...raft was here introduced, and proceeded to adjust the new leather apparatus, during which Davis asked the ordinary to request the executioner, whoever he was, to be as quick as he could, as he did not want to be kept standing to be gazed at by the mob. Having been assured upon that point, he said he would not have minded being shot by some of her Majesty's Foot Guards, as he should then have died the death of a Christian, but now he was going to die the death of a dog.  As the last moments which he was to spend on earth arrived, the convict appeared to nerve himself to the utmost, still protesting his innocence. At length the bell tolled and the procession moved on to the scaffold, the rev. ordinary beading the burial service. The coil. vict waled firmly and steadily at the side of Calcraft, shook hands with the warder, bowed to the crowd, and in a few 'moments had suffered the full penalty for his crime. His sufferings did not appear to be severe. Davis was a skilful workman, and frequently earned from 6/. to 7/. a-weeg. He was formerly in the employ went of Sir Joseph Tobin, of Liverpool, as a ship-Wright He was one of the volunteers who offered to go to the Baltic with Sir Charles Napier.