The Press.
London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

Sato and Vita.

MORE WIFE-BEATING.
THERE have been more brutal assaults by men upon
women this week. The number of these cases on
Monday was above the average, and all occurred on
Saturday night, when the several husbands returned
home drunken and infuriated :

Michael Newman, a thick-set powerful man of forty-five,
was placed at the bar of the Worship-street Police-court,
on Monday, charged with the following outrage.
Margaret Newman, the prisoner's wife, described as a
laundress, beneath whose right eye was a large protrusion
filled with extravasated blood, and whose entire face bore
numerous proofs of some recent ill-usage, stated'—Between
ten and eleven on Saturday night the prisoner came home
the worse for drink, but I gave hint his supper very com-
fortably, and he fell asleep I took home some things 1
had washed and ironed, and on coming back in an hour
found him still asleep. I could not finish my work through
his being asleep on the ironing-board, and I asked him to
get up. He would not, and 1 tried to lift his head, on
which he started up, and exclaiming " I will give it to you
now," dealt me a violent blow on the head with his fist,
knocked me down, dragged me by my hair about the room,
and then kicked me heavily in the eye. 1 got up and ran
from him to the door, but he saw my intention, sprang
there before me, and locked it. He then struck me on the
head again and knocked me down again. I contrived to
get near the window, broke a pane of glass, and screamed
for help, but he got hold of me again, kicked me on the
body twice, and I then became senseless ; but I believe
that some neighbours burst open the door, for I escaped
into the opposite house, where he followed and struck me
again, and violently kicked me.
By Mr D'EyNcouar.—l have been married to him
twenty-five years, have borne him eleven children, and
have three alive, but one is a cripple. The prisoner has
been four times harged with violently assaulting me; in
fact for years he has behaved in this way to me. He
threatens my life continually ; he will go downstairs in the
night, rattle the knife-box, and bring up the carving-knife
to me in bed, and threaten me with it, grating his teeth all
the while. .

This evidence was confirmed, one witness stating that
the prisoner appeared sober at the time, and saying bru-
tally, when reproached with his conduct towards his wife,
" I think I have cooked her goose this time."
Mr. D'Eyscounr sentenced him to six months' impri-
sonment, and hard labour, and then to find sureties for
peaceable behaviour.
The prisoner was removed, blubbering and crying.

Thomas Toome, a powerful•looking fellow, a navvie, of
Stroud's•vale, Islington, was charged at the Clerkenwell
Court, the same morning, by Caroline Thome, his wife, a
delicate•looking woman, with a sickly infant in her arms,
with a series of violent assaults upon her.
The prosecutrix, in a faint tone of voice, said that she
had two children by the prisoner, to whom she had been
married four years. He was in the constant habit of
treating her in a shocking manner without any cause. On
Saturday he returned home and repeated hie ill•usage,
when he dragged her out of bed, seized her by the hair of
her head, and knocked it violently against the floor, and,
on getting up, he beat her head against the wall and kicked
her in a most brutal manner. The cries of " Murder "
and the screams of her children brought the assistance of
her neighbours and the police. She added that she had
been beaten by him before, but forgave him on a promise
to behave better. The child in her arms was in a dying
state inconsequence other not being able to nourish it, her
milk having been affected through the prisoner's extreme
violence towards her. Her person was covered with se-
vere marks of violence, and she was scarcely able to move.
The prisoner had been once before in prison fur heat-
ing her.
The prisoner could say nothing better in his defence
than that his wife was jealous of him. He was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Edward Gellings, a middle aged man, who was described
as a strolling player, was charged ut Lambeth Police.court,
before Mr. Elliott, on the same day, with committing a
brutal assault on his wife.

Mrs. etchings, whose person bore evident proofs of her
husband's brutality, deposed that both herself and her
three children had been shamefully neglected by her hus-
band, and though she used every effort to make a living for
herself and them, and also to assist her husband, lie led
her the most wretched life, so that her existence was a
perfect burden to her. On Saturday, on his return home,
he asked her if she had paid the rent, and she replied that
she had not, for that she had not the means, and asked
him if he had not brought home some money. Upon this
he flew into a violent passion, struck her several blows
with his clenched fist, and knocked her through a window,
the glass of which cut her arm very severely.
The defendant admitted that his wife wan a most indus-
trious woman, and her temper *as the only thing he had
to complain of.
Mr. ELLIOTT fined i..m 3/., or, in default of payment, to
one month's imprisonment.

LOUIS BUCARF.III, an Italian, was charged on
Tuesday before Mr. Jardine with annoying Mr. U.
Way, licensed victualler, of Covent-garden Market,
by playing bis instrument at twelve o'clock at night.
The complainant stated that he had hardly got into
bed and disposed himself comfortably for sleep, when
the defendant stationed himself in front of the house,
and began discoursing the moat frightful music.
Unable to bear tha mental distraction which his