The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mrs. Mary Ann Robbins, residing in the same house,
said her daughter informed her that Mrs. Reed was hang-
ing in the room, and on going down she found it to be the
ease. She then gave an alarm, and Summers out her
down.

William Moorcroft, 165 E, said the prisoner told him that
her husband had threatened to cut her throat, and she did
it because she would not give him the chance.
The husband of the prisoner said the fact was his wife
had made the attempt on her life through jealousy. He
went into a public-house with a friend to have a glass, and
two women were there, and some kind person went and told
his wife he was drinking with women. He believed that a
feeling of jealousy and a little drink had induced his wife
to aot as she had done.
Mr. Knox said it was a serious matter, for if the prisoner
had not been seen, as she fortunately was, she would have
been a dead woman. He did not think the prisoner's mind
could be in a right state if she did such a thing for such a
trivial cause. He should remand her for a week that she
might be seen by the physician and the chaplain of the
House of Detention,

WESTMINSTER.
summonsN E a uR
befores'
Mr.
Qus t;
—Arnold, Geehoarrggee
charged with
making appeared u
use
a
of abusive language towards a female named Ogilvie, who
was subsequently charged with throwing a pail of water
over an infant. Mr. Drew, solicitor, of New Basinghall-
street, was engaged for the complainant.
It appeared that the complainant and the defendant were
neighbours, living in George-street, Chelsea, and that they
were not on friendly terms, On the 27th of May, com-
plainant was at her door, when the defendant, who hap-
pened to see her, made use of some filthy expressions, and
called her an old washerwoman, complainant not being of
that occupation. Upon this summons being issued, a
counter-summons was taken out against the complainant,
who was accused of throwing a pail of water over an infant
belonging to the defendant,
Numerous witnesses were examined:on each side, and it
was stated by one of thorn that the infant was nearly
drowned.
Complainant denied that she flung the water as alleged,
and said that she intended the water for the defendant's
son, who was annoying her, and that accidentally some of
the water went over the child. She was sorry that any of
it went over the infant.
Mr Arnold observed that such was most likely to be the
case, and that he thought the best course to take was to
hold each to bail to keep the peace towards the other for
six months.
This was done, and the parties left the court.

THAMES.
DANGEROUS SPORT.—A. mechanic named Hemming,
of Glanen's-street, Bow- common, came before Mr Partridge,
and complained of the dangerous nature of the pigeon
shooting, Practised in the grounds of the Prince of Wales
tavern, on Bow-common. The shot from a rifle aimed at
a tamed pigeon struck his back window, broke five panes
of glass, and were scattered about the room. Two shots
entered his breast and put
hint to great pain and incon-

venience.

Mr Partridge—Row far is the shooting ground from your
house ?

Mr Part
id
far la the house from any public
Applicant—About 50 yards
police of the district ought to take
thoroughfare ?
whonhao Bo
lusAeatil:a:nial`rmdmciPceaolsni3N:ie4TudiilthEtj Wilson and
Connelly,i"
Applicant—l can't say. / b
y,tand summon the owner of
thoroughfare.
hmiE a t rty believe it is close to a public
proceed to the Poplar Station-
Mr Partridge said the
with batwhiansg
action in this matter directly,
the ground. He recommended the applicant, and a man
police
r
anethe subject.
—Two young men,
last night. were brought
before Hr. Partridge charged
tazetnheoßotegofenthees
Wilson
h blackguard, after going into the
water.C'tn al
Canal, stood on the bank in 4 State Of nudity. He was
drunk.
Smith, 345 S. said there were many in the canal last
and Linaehouse intersected by the
night and this morning, and the inhabitants of the houses
at Stepney
a rough
complained of the nuisance.
districtTinhe
canal was densely populated—in fact, bathing there was as
public ..a °Fon an it would be if a canal
passed through
Ludgate-hill and Piccadilly. Large
Stepney
of Stepney
printed broadsides
containing the following words were posted on the banks
seteapcnheybank
of the canal :—" The police have strict orders to take into
custody all persons bathing in the Regent's Canal. Penalty,
40s or one month, in the House of Correction with hard
labour. Regent's Canal•office, City-road-basin, June,
1864."
An officer of the Regent's Canal Company said that a
place was set apart for bathers in the Victoria Dock, and
the Regent's Canal CompanY had provided a large piece of
water with half an acre of ground in Cambridge-heath,
Bethnal-green, Tho admission to the place was one half-
penny only.
Mr Partridge said there was no excuse whatever for
public bathing and indecent exhibitions in populous
districts bordering on the canal. He fined Wilson ss, and
ordered that Conolly should find one surety to keep
,the
peace for a month.
[EpatATA—ln our report yesterday the substitution of
the word "smashed" for "insinuated" altered the meaning
of the magistrate's observations. It should have been
thus :—Most likely the complainant Airs Lawrence in-
sinuate something against the defendants after the attack
upon her. The rest of the sentence was correctly given.]

Additional Particulars of the Accident on
the South-Western Railway,

Five persons were killed by this -accident last night.
Mr. Edwin Hall, corn merchant, Duke-street Manchester-
square, had his legs cut clean off above the knees, and his
body was fearfully mangled. A man named Corbett, but
known in racing circles as " Padwick's Mouse,"
and who
lived in the same house as Mr. Hall, died fron concussion
and fractures. Mr. Willey, landlord of the Globe Inn,King's-road, Chelsea, died from concussion. Mr. Clegg
landlord of the Harp publichouse, Jermyn-street, was also
killed; and Mr. William Winfield, farm bailiff and gar-
dener to C. Bracebridge, Esq., of Sherborne, died from
concussion. An apprentice to the chief cook of the Prince
of Wales was so severely injured that both his feet had to
be amputated ; and Mr., Esau Trigg, publican, Brighton,
was taken to the Charing-cross Hospital, having sustained
a fractured leg and two broken ribs. The inquest will pro •
bably ba held to-morrow.

- -
A TRADESMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS
WIFE.-Mr Jas. William Dexter, milliner, of No. 1, Cran-
bourn-street, was charged before Mr Knox with assaulting
his wife, Jane.
The complainant, who gave her evidence in a very pe-
culiar manner, said—I have only been confined three
weeks. My husband last night caught hold of my throat
and nearly choked me, and then told a policeman what he
had done, and the policeman refused to take my husband
because I had no marks on me, We then went indoors,
and my husband gave me a blow on the nose and tore my
clothes. He was drunk, and always is drunk.
Defendant—How many half-quarterns of brandy did
you have yesterday ?
Complainant—Oh, fifty.
Defendant—Were you notput to bed yesterday at dinner
time insensibly drunk ?
Complainant—Oh, yes.
Inspector Walker—The complainant has been drinking
this morning.
Police-constable, 51 C—About half-past 12 last night
the complainant asked me to take the defendant into cue-
tody, but as she had no marks about her I refused, telling
her she could come this morning to the court.
Mr Knox—You were perfectly right in doing so.
Constable—The defendant said he had not. illused his
wife. The defendant had been drinking a little, but his
wife was very excited. On going round my beat again I
found the complainants nose bleeding, and on her charging
her husband with having again assaulted her I took him
into custody. The defendant said his wife had fallen in the
passage.

Defendant—Did I not try to avoid my wife ?
Constable—You did.
Defendant—Look at
my hands your worship. She is
always clawing me. Yesterday she had five half quarterns
of brandy before dinner, and was then put to bed. Later
in the day she threw several things at me, and I went out
till night to avoid her. On returning she again clawed me,
being intoxicated at the time. We have been married
seven years, and I attend to buqiness and keep the books.
A 3 oung woman was called, and said that Mrs Dexter
broken her neck.
had been drinking and fell, and but for her would have
Mr Knox—lt is quite clear to me that Mrs Dexter, who
was said not to be sober yesterday, is not sober to-day, and
had her husband attempted to strangle her she would have
some marks on her throat. It is pretty evident what sort
of a woman she is by the answer as to the 50 half quarterns
•of brandy. It is not a case for a magistrate's interference,
and I am sorry the defendant has such a drunken wife.
The defendant was then discharged, and as he was leav-
ing• the court his wife attempted to assault him, but was
prevented..
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGH JEALOUSY. Jane
Reed, a respectably attired married woman, living in
Chapel-mews,erself
Knox, with the following determined attempt to destroy
herself:
From the evidence of a young man named Wm. Summers,
residing in Charlton
ar Portland-place, was charged before Mr.
unn street, Fitzroy-
square, it appeared that
on the previous afternoon he heard screams proceeding from
the house where the prisoner resided, and on going to see
the cause, he was informed that a female was hanging in a
back room. He immediately went to the room and saw the
prisoner being held from the floor by two or three women,
a cord attached to a beam being tied round her neck. The
prisoner was quite insensible at the time.
In answer to Mr. Knox witness said the prisoner was the
wife of the foreman of a yard.