The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-22 00:00:00

IN RE THOMAS BURROUGHS.

This bankrupt was described as of Angel-court and of
Montpelier-villas, South Lambeth-road, stockbroker, and
this was a meeting for choice of assignees. It will no doubt
be remembered that the bankrupt was charged a few days
since of improperly obtaining possession of certain stock.
Mr Grantham, of Porchester-street, Edgware-road, was
chosen assignee; and Messrs Lewis and Lewis are the soli-
citors to the estate.

The debts are stated at £1,147, and it is estimated that
the assets will pay the creditors in full.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SUICIDE or A PRISONER UNDE R REMAND ON A CHARGE
OP ATTEMPTED MURDER.—•A few days ago a man named
Wm. Jessemer, an engineer living in Wardour-street,
Soho, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with stabbing, with
a clasp knife, a man named Leonard Arthur Blackburn, in
the City of London publichouse, Berwick-street, Sobo, and
remanded until to-day, the injured man being unable to
leave the MiddLsex tf ospital.
This morning Sergeant Freeman, in charge of the pri-
soners' van, handed to Mr Tyrwhitt a certificate from the
House of Detention, to the effect that Jessemer had com-
mitted suicide that morning, being found hanging and
quite dead in his cell about 6 o'clock, on being visited by
one of the warders,

It appears that Jessuner was visited ty one of his shop-
mates yesterday, and seemed in a desponding state, saying
that he should not live two months of his punishment,
and wishing his shopmate an expressive "Good bye."
The injured man is stated to be recovering from the effects
of the wound.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A WIFE BY a PENSIONER.—
John Stephens, a tall, strongly-built man, receiving a pen-
sion for his services as a soldier in the Crimea, was
charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, with violently assaulting his
wife, and breaking her nose with an iron candlestick, and
also with assaulting his son, a boy about 14 years of age.

Tke wife said she had been married to the prisoner for 20
years. Yesterday she was out at work, and on coming
home found the prisoner at a beer shop. She went to him
to ask him for a key, which he gave her. On going home
she found that the
,prisoner had sold the bedstead to a
" dolly" shopkeeper, The prisoner shortly afterwards
came home, and she then asked him why he had sold the
bedstead and left the children to lie on the floor. The pri-
soner then began knocking her about, and gave her a vio-
lent blow on the nose with a candlestick. He then went
out, but returned and knocked her down. She was
smothered with blood from her nose, and afterwards went to
the Middlesex Hospital and had it dressed.

Mr Tyrwhitt asked the poor woman whether her hus•
band had ever done such a thing before, and she replied,
"Many times. lie draws his pensi' n fur the Crimea and
spends it, and never pays any of the rent, All I wish him
to do is to let me keep a home for my children."
John Gray Stephens, the son, said that on going with a
constable to the beer shop to point his father out to the con-
stable, his father struck him a severe blow on the head.
In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, the boy said his mother
worked and kept the home.
Police-constable Appleby, 47 E, said the surgeon at the
hospital said the complainant's nose was broken.
The prisoner said he did not wish to say anything,

Mr Tyrwhitt remarked, in severe terms, on the prisoner's
conduct, and said he had always observed that the man who
did nothing for his wife and family generally ill-used them
into the bargain. Ho should commit the prisoner for three
calendar months for the assault on his wife, and fine him
40s or another month for the assault on his son.

The prisoner, as ho was leaving the duck, said "Thank

you,"