The Express. — 1863-09-10 (London, England)

THAMES.  A withered old Trish woman, named Eleanor M'Corstark. was charged with stealiog • pound and a half of bacon from the shop of Kr. John Crew. a cheemenooger, Commercial•rced East. It &neared from the evidence ci Henry Pbippe, the prosecutor's shopman, that he now the primmer loitering about his master's shop ad watched bee. She mugged. however, usperceived to switch a piece of keen from the shopbeard, sod put it under her shawl. A few monde afterwards Mr. Phipre missed the hams, and west after the primmer. He took the piece of meat from her mad weber into custody of Polloncoastable Chandler, 117 H, to whom she mid that she took the boom for a lark ; but the proprietor of the shop sad his servants were mot at all damped to treat the matter as a joke, because they bed lost pieces of cheese and lump of bacon when Eleanor bed visited them before, sod insisted oa bees being looked np. Chandler said the primmer bad been i■ etudody fifty times for pilfering from the shops, and that head, meat, vegetables, or any that came in her war bed bees Maim by her. She bad bees repeatedly punished for theft. The primmer who groaned incessantly. called epos all the Wage is the esiamisr to bear Wiser she "was a lose widely  women, and itlist she was ss innocent ad the bleated bablis that were Diver born.° Mr. Woolrych—Yott make a business of this. You go from shop to shop pilfering. I sentence yoe to three months' imprieooment end hard labour. Eleanor anathematised Chandler as she was leaving the dock, and said, " Ye zonnbering villain, ye would transport me if ye dared—ontily three months, ye villain. This is my victory, and be hanged to you." Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dhaipated woman, who has been repeatedly in custody, was cheesed with being drunk and disorder y, and attempting self-destruction. The prisoner bas mode repeated uosnccessful attempts to commit suicide. She has plunged into the docks on several occasions and been rescued. She has Lung herself in the polio. cells, and io the cells attached to the Thames Police Court, being cut down before life was extinct. Mr. Wool. rych has in the kindest manner endeavoured to reclaim her, sod spoke to her on the folly and wretchedness of her course of life when she was last remanded to the House of Detention for a week, that .he might receive the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain. The previous night the prisoner was in Kies David-lane, Shadwell, making a disturbance in front of the stationhouse there. She was intoxicated and very much excited. She ,was tams into the station and locked op. A few ou. iota afterwards Charles Witt, a police-constable, went Into the cell where the prisoner was walked, and, although another woman was alongside of her, she had contrived to fasten a piece of tape round her neck, and her face was swollen and discoloured. The constable said, " What do you mean by this r and cut the tape. He sprinkled water on her face revived her, and left her. Half an-hour after this a second alarm was given. She had twisted a handkerchief round her neck and was black in the face. A surgeon was called in, who revived her. Next morning, at haihput eight o'clock, although closely watched, she twisted her apron round her throat. Charles Wbiseon, 396 K, with difficulty saved her, and took away her apron. William Bloom, 458 K, said the prisoner was before Mr. Partridge five weeks ago for attempting to commit suicide, and she was then sent to prison for a month in default of boding a surety. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner bad made so many attempts on her life that he was now under the painful necessity of committing her for trial.