The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTAELE.—
Thomas Gillham, a tall and powerful young man, a costar-
monger, was brought before Mr. Knox, charged with as-
saulting and wounding Thomas Cox, a police-constable, No.
18 K.

Last night the landlady of the Salisbury Arms, public-
house in Eastfield-street, Limehouse fields, called upon Cox
and Police-sergeant Briden, No. 4 K, to remove the pri-
soner, who was intoxicated and making a disturbance. The
officers had some trouble in getting him out, and when he
was removed into the street he made use of very foul lan-
guage and threats. He was allowed to go at large, and the
officers were walking away when the prisoner returned with
a brick in his hand, and flung it full into the constable's
face. Cox reeiod from the effeect of the blow, and fell. He
was severely wounded, and lost a good deal of blood, It
was shown that the prisoner had been convicted by Mr,
Selfe, at this court, for throwing stones at a police-constable
named Venables, No. 141 K.
Mr. James Horton, surgeon, of High-street, Stepney,
said the constable's face was much swollen. There was
a contusion on his lip, and his nose was much injured.

Mr. Knox said he should adopt the course he generally
followed at his own court in cases of this description. He
could not summarily punish the prisoner in an adequate
manner for the serious offence he had committed. He
should send the case before a jury for trial.
ROBBERIES BY BASKET-WOMEN.—CAUTION TO CAP-
TAINS, NA.TES, AND :EAMEN.--Honora Lynch, an Irish-
woman, aged 22, who carried an infant in her arms, was
brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing a purs
containing £l7 in gold from the person of Captain George
Love, master of a smack called the Rifleman, lying in the
West India Dock.

Mr. Stoddart defeaded the prisoner, a well-dressed young
woman.

The prosecutor stated that on Saturday last he was pass-
beg over Tower-hill and was invited by the prisoner, who
some of her. He selected a few
from her basket and paid for them. She then asked him
was selling oranges, to buy
if he would treat her with something to drink. He consented
toPublic-house and were joined
by doanother so , an
wd
o theyman
. wentA After
tteor
they
had partaken of some drink
prisoner put her arms round his neck, and asked him to go
upstairs. There was no chance to do so in that house, and
they proceeded to another public-house, the White Hart,
in Pennington-street, Ratcliff-highway,
drink. He could not say how much he had. Ho
y_, where they had
drank some rum and several bottles of lemonade. He changed
a £lll note in the house. He went upstairs with the pri-
soner.uinnder his pillow. He fell asleep,
g with her some time. He went
t bed bed, iained put rememberedhi bee
s purs
but how long he slept he could not tell. He was aroused
by the landlady of the house, who said that a man had ran
through the lower part of the house after he went upstairs.
His purse and money were gone. He did not see the pri-
soner when the landlady woke him. There was at least
£l7 in gold in the purse, if not £l9 or £2O. He gave a de-
scription of the prisoner. He saw her this morning at the
station-house in Leman-street, Whiap
Kea el. He recog-
nised her directly.
In cross-examination by Mr. Stoddart, the prosecutor
said there were two soldiers in the publichouse. He knew
one to be a Freemason by the signs he made and shaking
hands. He had no fight with soldiers, He did not recol-
lect the police coming up and parting him and a soldier
while fighting. He received the money in his possession,of
Weston and Co., St. Andrew's Wharf, Blackfriars. He
did not recollect one of the soldiers remarking, "I am a
brother mason, and you shall not keep cempany with that
woman."
Francis Kelly, a police-constable, 130 H, said he knew
the prisoner well. She was a basketwoman, and her hus-
band was a labourer. He met the prisoner yesterday in
Rosemary-lane, aluts Royal Mint-street, and took her into
custody. She belonged to a gang of basketwomen, who,
under pretence of selling oranges and fruit, on Tower-hill,
Ratcliff-highway, and houses of public entertainment, in-
veigled sailors into places and robbed them. The basket-
women in the district were a great pest, They had robbed
a great many captains, mates, and seamen, and were much
worse than the ordinary women of the town.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, who appeared for the pro-
secution, asked for a remand.
Mr. Partridge acceded to the request. Ho remanded the
prisoner for a week.

respectable farmer,
THREATENING TO 111IJRDER.—Yesterday a young I
was charged before the Cambridge rtian named Charles Traylen, aged 24, the son of a
ma-
gistrates with threatening the life of Harriet Leeds, his
cousin. The case was one of " unrequited love," and it
appeared that Traylen had been following the young lady
about, threatening to shoot her if she did not receive his
addresses. The prisoner seemed to be a very foolish, but
at the same time rather a dangerous young man, and the
magistrate ordered him to find two peace sureties in £2OO
each, and himself in £4OO. Several of defendant's friends
present were well able to furnish the required sureties,
but declined doing so at the time, in consequence of the
mental state of Traylen. He was therefore removed to the
county gaol.