The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

Mr. GURNEY told him it was a very brutal case;
and if the woman had died he would have had to
answer the offence with his life. Ile was sentenced
to two years, and hard labour.
This ended the business of the session, and the
courts stands adjourned until Monday, May 10.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—FeIix 'Gee, a furniture-
broker, who hes been in custody since the 12th ult.,
charged with feloniously shooting Michael Collins,
with intent to murder him, under went a lengthened
examination.
The unfortunate victim of the prisoner's deliberate
attack has been ever since an inmate of the West-
minster Hospital, where, in consequence of the severity
of the injuries he had received, but little expectation
existed of his recovery. He was, however, sufficiently
convalescent on Saturday to attend at this court, a
circumstance at which Mr. Broderip, the presiding
magistrate, expressed his gratification, admitting
that, from the perilous position the unfortunate suf-
ferer had been in at one time, he had hardly expected
to have seen him.
Michael Collins said that he resided at Buckingham
Cottages,
yt a,
taken
prisoner acd others in a progressive teetotal
premisesso-
ciety, for holding the meetings of which had
es'Rochester-row, and was associated with
the
been
in York-street, Westminster. Although
c t
the key of the place had been handed to the treasurer
of the society for the body, prisoner set up a claim to
be considered the landlord, objected to a piece called Sir
John Barleycorn, showing the folly of people drinking,
being acted, was frequently called to order at the
and made himself very offensive. At about
seven on the evening of the 12th prosecutor
found that prisoner had taken possession of the pre-
mises, and refused to let his brother members in ;
meetings,h
- pas t
uponw wch
h pistol C
nith a piece of quartering,
The prisoner was stand-
ing with' aoin se partially broke the door in
hand and a drawn sabre in
e(ill
the other, and they repeatedly asked him to come out,
but he refused, and swore he would shoot the first
man who crossed the threshold of the door. He then
hi
on
struck at prosecutor with the sabre, declaring that
unless he removed his arm, which was resting on the
half-shattered door, he would cut it off; but prose-
cutor removed and avoided the blow. Prisoner re-
peated again and again that whoever entered should
pay for his temerity with his life, and prosecutor then
told him that he had no more business in the pre-
mises than the rest of the society, and no right to
have armed himself in the way he had, and while
in conversation prisoner fired the horse-pistol he held
in his hand at him, and the charge entered his abdo-
men. He deliberately raised the pistol and fired it,
and prosecutor was then carried away.
Prisoner and his solicitor both questioned the
prosecutor in a most irregular way—the former re-
peatedly interrupting his advocate—and endeavoured
to elicit that the pistol bad gone off by accident, but
received the reply that be had raised it and fired as
described. They next, in the very face of this, ques-
tioned the prosecutor in order to show that he had
exasperated the prisoner by some offensive epithet,
which prosecutor admitted ha had applied with refer-
ence to a meeting about the wrongs of Ireland, which
prisoner wanted to have held at the hall.
William Sherman proved that some of the shot
with which the pistol was charged also struck him.
Mr. Miran, an inspector of the B division, stated
that having heard what had occurred he went and
found the prisoner armed in the room, and when he
told him his determination of taking him into custody
he put down the pistol and sabre and surrendered.
The inspector found two pistols loaded and a quantity
of shot, ponder, 'c.
Police-constable Saunders, 192, B, proved that he
and two other officers were present while the prisoner
stood for some time in the menacing position described,
when he fired and while he reloaded, and admitted in
reply to Mr. Broderip's question, that they made no
effort to disarm him.
A clerk from the office of Mr. Games, for the prose-
cuticn asked for a remand, owing to the surgeon being
unavoidably absent.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.