The Sun. — 1842-10-20 (London, England)

WILSON—If any future attempt is made to break into your premises, Mr. Sandwell, by all means put the offenders into the custody of the police. Mr. Montague then retired to the adjoining room, in order to join Mr. Walker in giving bail for the appearance of the four defendants. Two young menjnamed Love and Hawkins, were charged by Mr. Hobler, jun., upon the part of several mercantile firms, with having stolen cart loads of goods, and carts and horses. Mr. Wakeling, a solicitor, attended for the prisoners. Mr. Hobler, jun., stated, that of late a wholesale system of plunder had been carried on by the prisoners, whose practice it was to watch the driver of carts containing merchandise of value, and the moment opportunities occurred, by the absence of those in charge of the goods, drive off, dispose of the goods, and leave the horses to get home with the empty carts as well as they could. John Williams deposed that he had been carman to Messrs. Ryde, Curtis, and Co., wholesale grocers in Upper Thames •street. In the month of September he was sent from his employers' warehouse with a cart load of goods to deliver at various places. As he was going along Cannon-street the prisoner Love came up, and said to him that the bills of delivery were not right, and he must go back to the warehouse, but must not stay many minutes. 'Witness immediately returned, leaving Love with the horse and cart, but was startled upon being told that he had not been sent for. Upon running to Cannonstreet he saw that all was gone. The goods consisted of refined sugar, pepper, molasses, &c. At twelve o'clock at night a policeman brought the horse and cart home, and there was a puncheon of molasses in the cart. Wm. Wignal, warehouseman to Messrs. Ryde, Curtis, and Co., stated that he helped to load the cart, and ptisnl after roae.yws Ht oehtbnehHti eewerLiihwtnina selevvsc.es s, .John Williams, upon his return from Cannon-street, and sent persons in every direction asonseNqVuilelniacme s of occurrence chis V A waggoner who met him after he missed the cart told him that he was going about like a madman inquiring for his cart.(The poor fellow had given his evidence with much simplicity.) Mr. Hobler, jun., with the solicitor to the Blackwall Railway Company, appeared to bring a charge against the prisoner Hawkins. Benjamin Hodgson, porter to the Company, said it was his duty to deliver goods when the foreman was out of the way. The prisoner Hawkins, and another man, came to Crutched-friars on the 6th of August, and delivered an order purporting to be the order of Messrs. Fincham and Co., for a cask of coffee. The man who accompanied Hawkins handed the order to witness; and as the particulars corresponded with the mark, and number, and everything else on the cask in the care of the Company, the coffee was delivered to them, and they took it away in a hand truck. Mr. Major, clerk to Messrs. Fincham and Co., proved that the order was not in the handwriting of the firm, and that a cask of coffee, marked and numbered as described in it, had been expected, but had never reached them.  Mary Willis was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The defendant was observed, on the preceding night, to descend the steps of Southwarkbridge, but being quickly followed, she was prevented from throwing herself into the river. for the circumstance, she said that red miserable, owing to her family her lnl i face cwoausn rendting e being reduced to great indigence ; her husband being thrown out of work by his employers, who did not require so many hands as formerly, in consequence of the stagnation of trade. The MAGISTRATE pointed out to the unfortunate woman the folly of the act she was about to have committed, and said that she must find some one to be responsible that she would not repeat it, otherwise she must go to gaol.—Committed for want of bail.