The Sun. — 1858-03-19 (London, England)

WESTIVLINSTER....--SEDUCTION AND ATTE3IPTED SUICLDE.—EIizj. Martin, a wretched looking girl, apparently about 20 years of age, was charged with attempted suicide by taking laudanum. Edward Morsman, 'lO3 B, said that late on the previous night he was passing thrOugh Minerva, street, Chelsea, when he was attract.ed by gr..aus, and oh proeeeding to a.secluded .epot flout which they proceeded, found the defendant Sitting ne irly double in a doorway. He spoke to her and found: she was insensible;and upon partially lifting her up found au empty bottle in her lap, Marked" num." Be procured assistance and conveyed her first to a surgeon in the neighbourhood and subsequently to the hospital, where, wit h pr,,per treatment she slowly recovered. She admitted she had tik, n laudanum, and assigned as a reason for attempting to put an shd to her existence, that she h'td .been seduced, and had been living with a man win) rept esented himself to be single, but whom she aftcrZirldtedui,scosvhed,:studettoblii,en aolanathrie•iep%mviaauly,,, t,laufeoi Owng in very distressed circumstances solicited assistance, when he brutally struck her, anti upriu her again soliciting aid fr,m him he gave her twopence, with .which she purchast d laudanum. 61Fe was remanded for a week.  SOUTHWARK —A TICKET or LEAVE CONVICT AND HIS PUPlLS.—Jeremiah Trutter, 24, a ticketof-leave convict, John Hall, 21, who has just had four years' penal servitude, and James Thompson,alias Murray, 14, a smart-looking lad, were charged with loitering about the streets for the purpose of committing robberies. Ticherier,•lBs L, said that about 12 o'clock on the previous night he was on duty near the circus in the Blackfriars-road, just after the people had come out of the Surrey Theatre, when a female came up to him and said a lad had been robbed of his watch in the London road. He crossed over and saw the younger prisoner, who told him he had been robbed of his watch. Witness asked him who stole it ? when he replied " That's him," pointing to the prisoner Trotter, who was running away. He caught hold of the latter, when he told the lad he had seen them both together a few minutes pre• vious, and knowing them to be both thieves, he took Trotter into custody, and handed the lad to another officer. On the way to the station-house Trotter struggled very hard to get away, and Hall came up and struck witness a heavy blow on the right eye. He was eventually secured, and all the prisoners were taken to the station-house. Witne had no doubt that the younger prisoner raised the alarm for the purpose of collectiuga mob, and then his companions would have commenced plundering the people. The, Magistrate asked what was known of the prisoner ?  - Sergeant Broad, 23 L, said that Trotter was tried and sentenced to seven years' transportation in 1850. He received a ticket of leave in 1855, and had since then been several times convicted before the magistrates. Hall had not long been out of prison, after undergoing seven years' penal servitude, and the younger prisoner was one of Trotter's He frequented the railway stations and  public places-with older thieves, whom he assisted in picking pockets. The Magistiate told them they were all wellknown thieves. Trotter was a ticket-of-leave convict and Hall had four years' nemal ervitu le, bur. that seemed to have no effect upim them, as I,hey resumed their former practices, and of content with that, they were bringing up the younger prisoner to the same fate. He bad no doubt they tutored the lad to raise the alarm, so that they might rob the public, therefore he should sentence each to three months hard labour in the House of Oorrootion.