The Sun. — 1833-11-14 (London, England)

UEEN- S Q UA R E.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS. Yesterday a young female, named Susan Morris, was brought up in custody by a police constable of the L division before Mr. WHITE, charged with attempting► to drown herself in the Thames. A gentleman passing along \Vatetloo Bridge ought the unfortunate woman by the clothes just as she was in the act of precipitating herself into the river on the previous evening. Finding that she was in a state of great excitement he gave her into the charge of a police constable, who took her to the station-house in the Waterloo-road. The inspector on duty wished to send her home, but she declared that she was in such a state of misery that she would destroy herself immediately. The account she gave of herself was as follows:—She statel that she was married to a man who for a length of time had been out of work. They had been reduced to a ..tate of the greatest distress, and she had supported him by her own prostitution in the streets. Latterly lie had got work at Messrs. Cubirt's, the builders in Gray's Inn-lane, and he was earning from 25:. to 30s. per week. He had now, when he was well off, deserted her and left her destitute. She had applied to the parochial officers of St. George's, Southwark, for relief, and stated her case, but they would not take the trouble to interfere and cause her husband to contribute towards her support. Under these circumstances her life was a burden to her, arid she had determined to destroy herself. Prom the circumstances which ttan•pired, there was little doubt but that the unfortunate woman's statement was perfectly correct, and Mr. WHITE gave her some relief from his own pocket, and also a letter to the parochial officers of St. George's; at the same time directing a constable to go with her, and, if they did not relieve her, he directed that she should make an application immediately to the Magistrates at Ili Police Office. CAPTURE OF A NOTED THlEF.—Robert Ward, one of the most notorious thieves that infest the Survey side of the water, was charged with picking the pocket of Mrs. Windsor, of No. 13, Granbyplace, New•cut, Lambeth, and robbing her of two half-crowns, in the following impudent manner : George Smith, a police constable of the L division, No. 106, was on duty, about half past ten o'clock in ithe evening, in the New-cut, near the Victoria Theatre, when he observed the prisoner, and another man whom he knew to be a reputed thief, loitering abuut the footpath. Suspecting:that they were after no good intention, he kept a strict watch upon their movements. In a short time he saw the prisoner follow the prosecurrix, and from his mariner he suspected that it was his intention to rob her. lie got behind him, and seized his arm, just as he had pulled it out of the pocket of the prosecutrix, and found two half-crowns in his hand. He called to Mrs. Windsor, and implied if some person had not picked her pocket, when she replied that she had lost nothing that she knew of. He desired her to examine her pockets, when she said that she had lost two Wf-crowns. Witness showed her the money, and took the prisoner to the station-house.  The Magistrate gave the constable great credit for the vigilance he had displayed, and fully committed the prisoner for trial.