The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE OOURTS.

WESTMINSTER.
Nary IFOins, a wooma about 30 years of age, was
placed at tU bar, cbarged with feloniously amaulling
and wounding her husband by stabbing him in the back
with a table knife.

4e:i;hoe said that the injured man was lying in the I
• in a pro:annul date.
Mans Page, police-constable 101 8. said—l wee on
duty at Chaise& last night, and at about 11 o'clock I was
told that a man had been stabbed near the back of the
White Hone, in Church-street. I went there, and saw
the prisoner, her husband, and another man in a cab
going to toe hospital. The prisoner's husband was
wounded. I asked who hod dabbed him, and was told
by persons in the crowd that his wife had done it. I got
on the spring of the cab and rode with them to the hue-
petal, and I there learutthe wife had dabbed him.
Mr. Arnold—Who told you!'
Witncee—The husband in her presence.
Mr. Arnold—Did she mete any reply ?
Witte's—She said she gave him a slight blow. Atter
the man's wound Lad been dressed I told the prisoner she
would l:avc to accompany me to the police-station. She
raid it would not have happened if he had not first taken a
knife to ter. While she was being charged at the station
the inspector inquired if I had get the knife, and she
said I should find it on the table in her room. I went to
the first th or front at 20, Lawrence-street, Chelsea. and I
found the knife I now produce upon the table there.
Mr. Arnold—Did the husband give you an account of
the transaction
Witness—He could not, he was so seriously injured the
deduce would not allow him. It was believed tl.at his
lungs welt penetrated by the knife.
William budding, 19, Lawn nee-street, Chelsea. said—
Last night I was returning from work, and was at my own
house, when I saw the prisoner standing at her door nu-
(bested. I saw her husband running away. He eilled
out, .'She has stabbed me." I followed him. Ile was
bleeding from the left side. He would have fallen. but I
caught him. I got a cab, and took him to the ho+p
Mr. Arnold—Prieener, have you anything' tii say
Priumier— My husband came home drunk last night and
I went down to let him in. He followed me in. and when
we got upstairs took up the knife and said be would kill
me. I wrenched the knife out of his hand, and in the
draggle he fell on one side, and I fell with the knife.
Mr. Litchi—Had the husband been drinking?
Page—He had been drinking.
Prisoner was remanded.

On Mr. Elliott taking his scat, the Rev. O. M. Murphy,
minister of the Borough-road Chapel, said ho wished to
lay a matter before his worship which was causing •
deal of anxiety. A eircular similar to one be then held
had been rent round to many persons, in which help was
asked for " on behalf of the houseleas, penniless. hungry
men and women who are nightly fed and sheltered
in the South London Refuge; also for the tens of
thousands of the resident starving poor of the south of
London." He (Mr. Murphy), being so constantly amongst
the poorest of South London, was anxious to know, as
well as the parishioners of Southwark, Walworth, and
Bermondsey, whether his worship was aware of such
a fearful state of things as " tens of thou-ands
of starving poor " in Snntli London, or whether the
records of the court would give such an idea. Further
than that, acromranying the eirculisr was a printeil paper
containing the names of • committee of gentlem,n, wine
of where appeared to reside either in Walworth, Ber-
mondsey, or Southwark, while the destitute poor are sail
to be. If such a condition of things existed, he would ask
his worship to further the formation of a local committee
to re/ t upon it.
Mr. Elliott. after looking at the circular alliided t said
that he could say nethin4 personally a, to the existence
or not of such dreadful destitution as alleged ; hat. as far
as the court was concerned. there waAnothing whatever to
show any particular digress within the district. Ho be-
lieved if such a statement were entirely correct this court
would have known something of it.
Mr. Murphy raid he was pleased to hear his worship's
opin;on, for be felt satisfied it would relieve many anxious
persona who had been startled by the statement.