The Sun. — 1844-01-10 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.  iCt, ha arlseismjarvis, were charged, conSHARPERS Ot;Xtv errEn.—Tvre well-dressed men, named ple-looking countryman, with having been concerned in an attempt to rob Mr. Thomas Wiltl son, a builder, residing at Upminstur, in Essex. jGoienotrlyge withA haHenrylf°rand /.oe .The prosecutor stated that he had come to London to transmit some business, and, on the preceding afternoon, was passjog through Norton Folgate, near the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway, where he was accosted by the prisoner Mumford, who asked him if he was going down by the railway, as he himself was about to engage a place by the four o'clock train. Witness replied that he intended to go by the tire o'clock train ; upon which the prisoner said that, as he had plenty of time to spare, he should protract his stay for an hour, that lie might have the pleasure of his company. After some further conversation, the prisoner proposed an adjournment to a publichouse, when the stale trick of inducing ererylme in the room to exhibit his money was resorted to. The prosecutor was asked to exhibit what he had, to show his respectability. He apparently agreed to the preposition, bat said he had some urgent business to transact in the neighbourhood, and would return in a few minutes. He then left them and proceeded at once to the station-house, where he obtained the assistance of a policeman, with whom he returned back to the public house and gave the prisoners, toge• ther with Lovett, whom he found in their company, into custody. The policeman produced a roll of flash notes which the prisoner Mumford had thrown from him on their way to the sta. tion-house, and also a purse containing 19 sham sovereigns, which was found concealed underneath the sleeve of his coat. Sergeant Coleman stated that the prisoner Lovitt had been ascertained to be a highly respectable man, who had accidentally fallen into the prisoners company. He therefore wished to withdraw the charge against him. _Mr. William Shurey, cashier at the establishment of Sir H. Meux and Co., the extensive brewers, stated that the prisoner Lovitt held the situation of bailiff to Sir H. Meux, and was a person of unimpeachable integrity. He had come to town to settle his annual accounts, and had 6.3/. in his pocket, of which he would no doubt have been speedily dispossessed, had lie remained much longer in company with the prisoners. The Mao ISTRATE instantly ordered Lovitt to be discharged, and on asking him how he got into the prisoners' company, lie said that he entered the public-house to procure some refresh.• nsent, and found the prisoners in the parlour, who were in the act of relating a story, when the recital was cut short by the arrival of the policeman, who conveyed them' all to the station-house. Sergeant Coleman applied to the Magistrate to remand the prisoners, as he expected to be able to establish other charges against them.—The prisoners were accordingly remanded.  SUlClDE.—Yesterday a young man, apparently not more than twenty years of age, committed suicide in a part of Chalk Farm-fields, adjoining the carpet-ground. A son of Mr. Jones, the proprietor, observed him entering the ground, but thinking that he was going to have a shot at some birds, took no particular notice. Ile was horrified, however, to observe the young man place a pistol to his chin, and commit the act of self-destruction; his head being literally blown to atoms. The alarm was immediately given, and the remains of the unfortunate suicide were conveyed to the workhouse. There was found upon his person 4s, 6d. in silver, a couple of pistols, with several bullets, and a flask of powder. lie had no card, and the only piece of paper found upon him contained the words, " suffer," and. " accounts." Ile was dressed in a brown frock coat, tweed trousers, and undress military cap. Notice was immediately given to the Coroner. WESTMINsTER-