The Sun. — 1852-10-19 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiam Miles, a tall powerfullooking man, was charged with travelling in a thirdclass carriage on the Croydon Railway without a ticket, and refusing to pay the fare. He was also charged with being drunk and acting in a disgusting manner towards the passengers in the carriage. Thomas Jordan, a ticket collector in the employ of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, said the prisoner came up on Sunday night from Croydon in a third•class carriage. As he was not provided with a ticket witness demanded tenpence, the fare, which defendant refused to pay, and conducted himselt in a very disgusting manner. On the arrival of the train inside the terminus witness gave him into custody, and some of the passengers also charged him with annoying them in the carriage. Michael Weedon, a tradesman, said that he and his wife got in! o the train at Annerly, and at New-cross the prisoner entered the same carriage. He was very drunk, and all the way up he acted very disgustingly to his wifo and himself by tailing upon them and using bad language. He pointed out the prisoner to the ticket collector, and atter that he became more furious, and threatened to throw him out of the train. Another person who was in the carriage said that the prisoner also acted disgustingly towards him, and tried all he could to pick up a quarrel. He was not so drunk as not to know what he was doing. The prisoner said he took his ticket at New-cross, and must have lost it from his pocket. As for the other part of the charge, nll he could say was that he did not know what he was about.  Mr. A'Beckett said the railway officer ought to have taken care of the prisoner at the ticket-collector's sta. tion, and not to have allowed him to insult tha passengers after what Mr Weedon had told him. Ile should fine prisoner 405., or 14 days' imprisonment. Stephen Winter, a❑ ill-looking fellow, and Mary Jones and Ann Riordan, were placed at the bar before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr. James Mead of a watch. The complainant stated that en Saturday night he met with the three prisoners at a public•house in Bermondsey, where there was a concert, and remained there  until 12 o'clock, at which hour they left together, and proceeded to another house, where, at their invitation, ho drank a glass of gin. He. however, had scarcely swallowed the liquor before he was seised with giddiness, and suspecting something of a deleterious nature was mixed in it, he became alarmed and quitted the place. He was followed by the three prisoners, and while he was conversing with one of the women (Jones) in walking along, he received a severe blow from some person behind under the ear, which knocked him down, and while he was on the ground he felt a tug at his watchguard, and the watch was dragged from his pocket. The prisoner Winter, he bad noticed a moment or two before, was walking close behind him. Before he' had time to rise from the ground the prisoners ran away, bat he pursued them. and they were taken into custody soon afterwards. The complainant here identified the watch produced as the one of which he had been robbed. Policeman 76 M, stated that, hearing a noise, he hastened to the spot, and saw the prisoners running away from the place where complainant was knocked down. He succeeded, however, with the assistance of another man, in taking the prisoners into custody, and the watch was found on the ground, not far distant from where they were secured. The prisoners, who asserted their innocence, were committed.  THE ALLEGED MURDER AIVD SUICIDE AT sTEPNEY.