The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Ju!y 21.
(Before Mr. Sergeset ADAMS Assistant-Jedge.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE. --- niOnag 117kiicher, a
builder, in Gilbert's-buildings, Westminster-read, was
indicted for having assaulted and inflicted biedi;y harm
on George Thomas Minor. •
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted; Mr. Parry appeared for the
defendant.
The Learned Counsel, havirg shortly stated the case
to the jury, called—
The prosecutor, who deposed—l am a linendraper in
Somers town. I lived in Chapel-street. I had a resi-
dence, No. 2, Shrubland-grove, Dalaton. Formerly I
occupied apartments in the defendant's house. That
was about three months before this traessetion. I lived
there with my wife, but we we: e obliged to leave in
consequence of the pertinacity with which he paid his
attentions to my wife, He thought proper to pay her
particular attentions, as I thought. If ever I and my
wife had a few words, he was always ready to interfere.
He would take her by the hand stroke her chip, and
say, " Peor dear Mrs. Minor, what a pity it is that
Minor should get so angry." He would ,put his
arm round her waist, pat her cheek, and squeeze her,
and do all this right before my face.—(Laughter.) I
considered him an intruder, and I should rather
think such doings were an intrusion. I had not used to
go home to Dalaton every night on accorint of the dis-
tance. I used to go home twice a week. I Went. home
on the night of the 25th of May by accident. Thar was
a night I was not expected borne. The night for my
being at home that week would have been Wednesday.
Welt, when I got there on the Tuesday night it was
about ten o'clock. My wife was not at home. She came
home at a little after ono o'clock on the Morning of the
26th of May. She came home in a cab. Directly I
heard the cab I thought it was her, and I rushed out.
and I found that the defendant had comb home with her.
When the cab drove up, the defendant opened the door,
got out, and began to arrange his dress,; which was dis-
ordered. I had not seen my wife in the cab then, but
suspecting she was there, I was going to the cab,
when ho interposed, offered me his hand, and said,
" Ah, Minor, my
boy, how do you do?" I said,
How's this! this is not a fit hour for yon to be
out with my wife," I went to the cab, and there
I saw my wife on the seat with her clothes disar-
ranged in a peculiar manner. Her bonnet was broken
back and front, her hair was hanging about her face,
the comb were out, and she was drunk. One of her
ear-rings was missing. I got her inside of the house.
She waa in an excited state of intoxication. Whitcher
was by no means sober. In fact, he was drunk too I
took her hand and helped her up the steps. When I
got her in. he rushed up the step to the door, and said
he would come in too. I said, " No, yon shall not." Ho
caught me by the collar to push in, and I caught him by
the collar to push him out. I gave him a push, end as I
was sober and he was not, ho slipped down two or three
steps—ho did not fall, as he held by the railings, When
he recovered himself, he came up to me and struck me a
blow on the mouth, with his clenched fist. Is was a
violent blow. My lip was cut and my gums inflamed,
and blood was drawn. lie afterwards struck me a blow
on the chest, which caused me to spit blood for more
than an hour afterwards. I called for the police. A
constable came up in about six minutes, and I gave him
into custody.
Cross-examined—I paid rent for the house in Shrub-
! land-grove indirectly. I and my wife were not separated.
A deed of separation was drawn up but not executed.
Such a thing was never dreamed of until after we knew
Witcher. The deed was not executed because my wife
said she could not live without me.—(Great laughter.)
The house was not taken in any name. I have been
married about four years. My wife had a child before
marriage—a son, now fourteen years of age. He has
sera? property under a deed or Filfeefrom his father. The
house was tr.:ken in his name.
rent was 261. a year.
the rest was in
I allowed 63. per week towards
the 2.
respect of the boy. Some of the furniturevr belongs to me,
the remainder I have made over)to
haovetrusteea for the
(.1
avneow a Ware-
comfort ot my with.—(A laugh.
house at N. , Crown-street, Hexsen.,....o
at No. 1, Denton'e-huildings, Somers-town, 'YilVildenl livei'
occurred I carried on business in Chapel-street. I this
not here last cession; I was in Whitecross-street, for they
got up a conspiracy, and said I was about Co leave they
country, and by that means got me locked up on a
capias. I sot aside that capias by proving that I was
not going to leave the country. I swear that I did not
strike prisoner on the chest before ho struck me. When
he struck me I was on the step. I had not been spar-
ring with him. When he had struck me be ran to the
cab, and called out to the cabman to drive on. I was
calling out "police" at the time. I got him from the
cab, sad then he struck at me a blow over the cabman's
shoulder. The cabman wished me not to give him in
charge.

Face constable 326 N proved having taken the de-
fendant into custody by direction of the prosecutor, who
at the time he deposed waa bleeding from the mouth.
The defendant was drunk.

In addressing the jury, Mr. PARRY said they must
bear in mind that they were not trying an action for
criminal conversation, and he was quite sure that neither
the jury nor the presiding Judge would at al! deviate
from the ordinary coarse of proceeding edepted in cases
involving a question of simple assault. because in the
present case the prosecutor had introduced an element
quite independent of, and foreign to, the real point in
issue. The defendant instructed him to deny, in the
most solemn manner, that any criminal intercourse bad
ever taken place between him and Mrs. Minor, and the
prosecutor, if be thought there had, would bavo a remedy
in another court; but, as far as the present inquiry was
concerned, the jury had nothing to do with that sub-
ject. The simple issue was, had the defendant assaulted
the prosecUtor? The Learned Counsel then prcceeded
to urge that, under the circumstances in which he found
his wife, it was natural that the prosecutor should
suspect that something improper had occurred, and that,
therefore, there was every probability in favour of the
presumption that the prosecutor first struck the de-
fendant—that such was the fact he was prepared with
evidence to prove.
Thomas Warne deposed that he was a cabman, and
on the night in question drove the lady and the defen-
dant to Shrubland-grove. He went on to give a version
of the affair directly at variance with that given by the
prosecutor. lie made out that the prosecutor was the
aggressor, andy:tbat he had given a grossly untrue ac-
count of the transaction.
The jury did not trouble the Counsel to reply. They
found the defendant guilty of a common assault.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in an indignant manner, said
it was a most atrocious case of assault, under aggravated
circumstances. The defendant had instructed his
counsel to throw all sorts of dirt at the prosecutor, but
the counsel had acted well in not carrying out his in-
structions, further than simply putting the questions. He
had besides suborned perjury, for no one could doubt
that the cabman had been put into the box to tell the
most audacious falsehoods, and tell a monstrously and
preposterously absurd story.
Mr. PARRY thought these observations of an excited
and extraordinary character. lae would implore of the
Learned Judge to adjourn the case until he was more
cool, as he was under excited feelings, and probably was
about to inflict a severe punishment on a man for trim.
con., an offence which this Court bad no jurisdiction
to try.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said he was quite cool, and
not at all excited; but he should not be doing his
.oitty
CO the office he held if he did not express his opinion
i ot
when the oath was so far disregarded h
witness was unblushingly hrought forward.tata perjured
witness
He was
not going to punish the defendant for erica. con., bat for
this ussault, and he thought it would have been better
and acquiesced in
had the Learned Counsel sat, quiet,

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what he said.
Mr. PARRY said he could not concur in any one thing
that had fallen from the Court. Why was not the cab-
man committed for perjury?
The AssIsTANT-.Tuvas did not care a brass button
whether Mr. Parry concurred in what he said or not.
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Lie then went over the facts, and said it was cleartra
case for in3prisonment. The sentence was that the de-
fendant be imp
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THE TEMPEST OF FRIDAY NI GET.
DAMAGE TO WINDMILLS.
Op Friday
night last, about eleven o'clock, this town
visited with a tremendous hurricane from the N.W.,
of lightning,
by laud peals of thunder and continuous flashes
with a heavy fall of rain and hail, which
lawatsattegen.ddeabo'nt an hour. The lightning commenced about
nine, and continued till after one o'clock on Saturday
morning, during which a number of windmills in the
twinned surrounding neighbourhood sustained great
dainage. In Colchester, Butt Mill, the property of Mr:
Byam HeWel; was rendered a complete wreck, the sails.
being blown off by the wind, and the interior of the
mill completely shattered by the electric fluid entering
at the cap, and descending through the centre into the
round house, when it made its el:tape thitigh the -16 R .I''
forcing an aperture in the tiling uf about five feet squertt:
The corn and flour bins are shattered to 'Pieces, and a
ngs.eat portion of the machinery dislodged from its bear
darnege is computed at about 5002 This Is
not the only instance in which Mr. Hewes is a sufferer
by the storm; for the Distillery Mill, which is also bo
property, did not escape, the sails of which were blow!a
off and &meshed to pieces, and the machinery m
doargOL
to an extent altogether amounting to upwards of a amt.
Mr. Warren's mill, on the Military-road,
by the
the machinery, much damaged,
it
is feared,
had its
lar fate, the sails being blown off, and the interior, er,
lightning. Mr. Abbott's mill, at Greci
injured. Mr.
sails tftlitn off and otherwise seri_on
Sustained- similar
Angier's mill, on the Harwieh•rzascitroctihad its sails
datmge. Mr. Clubb's mill,
North
dislocated by the
bl3wu off and the whole sitruFe_ea _
d Heath, near Col-
with
wind. A small windmill, canerialble darauge;
also a
wind_
mill rk,ceived very
bad
have not heard of any other
in-
terior much shattered. j'a'w
The crops of corn are
considerable
Baits taken off and the in-
this neighbourhood being de-
mill at Great -Bentley
species of prePerts
01.1, tempest.
siroyed by the wind knocked down by the force of the heavy storm of rain
end hail, but
it
ist bwq/Pch Expreis. they are nc't inj ttred to any
great ex:ent.-43--
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