The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW 13TBENC.

THI CLIMB of iTTS ;MAIL DIVRT.
Luta. —Daniel Donovan was examined on the charge
arising from the c eminence alluded to below.
Mary Ann Burke, a single woman, deposed that she lived
at No. 19. Short's-gardens, in the same room the accused
occupied. Witness frond them in the room about a quarter to
lon Sunday morning when she returned home. The pri-
suer and his wits were dressed. They were qua rel-
ief!, and both appeared in liquor. They c )n-
-tinned abusing each other, and slum penua4ed them
to discontinue quarrelling, and the Injured woman did so.
The prisoner tensioned talking to her, and she then
mule him a very indecent answer. He then imme-
diately left his Asir, and struck her several times
upon the side of her head with his clenched fist. She
tell upon the ground sideways, and he kicked her violently
with hie foot. She called out to witness, Oh, save nu."
On the witness requesting him to desist, he rushed at her
(witness), and pushed her violently 'pleat the window,
and exclaimed he would serve her the same. Witness
task her bonnet and shawl and left the ro on. Witness
steed at the street-door for nearly ten minutes, when witness
was alarmed by hearing Mr.. Donovan screaming out mur-
der. Witness then left the house for a short time, as she
thought they would leave off quarreling when she re. orned.
She bad been absent some time, and on reaching Short's-
gardens, she saw a crowd of persons round Donovan's house,
and policemen ninnirg in all directions. Witness then
heard that the sussed had thrown his wihi out of window.
Mr. John Wood, house surgeon to King's College Hot.
rite, said: When Mrs. Donovan was admitted one was
insensible, and suffering from a fracture of the forehead on
the right aide, end there was also a wound in the akin of the
forehead on the left si le. Her eyes were closed, and
her feu wu much swollen and bruised. He ordered
her to be be bled, when he found she had also re-
ceived a frames of the left knee. She afterwards reco-
vered and vomited blood. She complained of pains in her
stomach and her aide. Witness wee of opinion it woe caused
by a kick and not by a blow. She now lies in a very pre-
carious state, and he hes very small hopes of her recovery.
Mr. Hall remanded the prisoner un:il this day week.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRINCL—On yesterday morning,
about half.past one o'clock, loud urea= which proceeded
from the house, No. 17, Short's-garden's, Drury-lane,
attracted the atteatloa of the policeman on the beat, who,
cos entering the premiere, dissoverul In a back yard the
almost liteless body of a woman named Ann Donovan, the
wife of a person who eremites' the callings of blacksmith
and pugilist. The police were informed that she had been
thrown out of the secondloor window by her husband, and
u it was found that she had received extensive injuries,
she was removed to King's College Hospital. Donovan, who
asserted that rive had barbell jumped from the window, was
arrested immediately and lodged in Bow-street station. how.
Two children, a little girl and an intuit, who were found
in the r om, were conveyed to the workhouse. When the
unfortunate woman was removed to the hospital her skull
was found to be fractured. Her ribs were all broken and
her left olds terribly Wand. At two o'clock yesterday
anemias Professor Ferguson, the physician to the hospital,
found the poor woman in such a precarious state that he at
once proceeded to Bowetnet, and r, quested the maghtrata
to some and take her deposition, as he Had no doubt she was
dying. Mr. Hall was soon in attendance, and the
prime was brought up in custody of two policemen.
The woman said she was thirty.five years of age,
and her husband had frequently beaten her in an saunter-
eifil manner, sometimes with a poker. Latterly he bad been
mask more affectionate and kind to her. Oa Saturday
night they had been out drinking togethor. They got home
shout kalf-put 12. la a short rime afterwards she said or
did something whisk displeased him, whoa he struck liar
over the fees and head. The last blow knocked some of her
teeth out. She then heard him call for a poker, and she, to
sumps, pushed the window for the purpose of calling mist-
snot, when she fell or threw herself out. She knew she was
dying, and prayed for forgiveness. Ths little girl, who said
her acme was Martha Donovan, confirmed what her mother
had storied about the quarrelling, and added that she ran to
the window, rhea her father followed, and lifting her up
threw her out of window Wails. betty ard, and she fell first
on her face, and then on the back of her seek. She had
frequently teen Der father beat her mother. The mimosa,'
then took a farewell of his wife, awl wee removed to his tell
at Bow-strut.

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