The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-06 00:00:00

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—John Lovell, better known as the
Gip,y, a morose looking fellow, who called himself a boiler
maker, cf 2, Dunstan's-place, Itatcliff, was brought beton
Mr Partridge charg, d with violently assaulting Mr JAI,
Will, the landlold of the Silver Trumpet, ale and wine
house, at the corner of Stepney Uaueeway, Commercial
road Ea cliff.

Mr Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the proseculidn.
The prisoner has given much trouble to the complainant,
who is an influential man in the beer trade, and is the land
lord of two respectable houses. The prisoner was tune,
out of the Silver Trumpet three years ago. in c nist quenc.
of his violent and bad conduct. Since then he had otter
disturb.d Mr Hall, and was held to bait to keep the peact
towards him List night. the prisoner came t .'the Silver
Trumpet again, and Mr Hall said he did not w int his com-
pany, and turned him out, The prisoner came again a few
minutes afterwards and grossly inAulted Mr Hall. He wife
turned out a second time, and as tie was leaving be time..
round on the comtlainant and struck him sevetal times ot.
the face with his flat. The cowardly fellow then ran away
He was pursued and overtaken. Mr Hall's face wrir
marked and his eye contused.
Mr Partridge said the prisoner had committed a vary
brutal assault, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for one month.

Determined Suicide of a Detective Police.
Sergeant.

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CORONER'S INQUEST (THIS DAY).

This :corning at. 11 o'clock ar Linghera, depu y •coronet
for the ciiy ot Westminster, held an itiques, at the Port-
man Arms. Millbank-street. Westminster, touching thi
death ot Mr Creasy Robinson, fur many ye.‘rs one of tht
most active and effective constables hdlunging to the chief
Detective Force, Scotland-yard, who committed a wort de
terminecl suicide by cutting his throat, on Monday morning,
shortly betore 10 o'clock, at, his residence, No. 61, Milrbank•
street.

The jury having bean sworn, and viewed the body,'
Mr It. Gowing, b 7, Millbauk-street, builder, identified
the body of the deceased, who was 42 years of age, and said'
about 12 mouths back the "deceased had a very severe
-attack of rheumatic gout, and latterly he bad become very
much depressed in spirits from an an apprehension of a
return or the complaint. He had a wife add two c ildren
living with him. On Monday morning about half• past
vine, Mrs Robinson called to witness in a state of great
excitement and said there was something the matter with
her hus .and, and asked him o break open the door of the
hick parlour, which he did, and then bound the deceased
lying on his bed with his head to th., partition. Mrs
Rubinson called out, " On, he has cut his bead, whatever
shall I do." They turned his head over and called in two
plice-constables, and sent for Dr Whitney, of College-
street, who promptly attended. The deceased was partly
dressed, and appeared to have been in the act of waving
previous to committing the rash act. The deceased hau
locked himself into the room.

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Police•constable Stenson, 227 B, proved being called in
and finding the deceased lying on the bed with his throat
cut. He ran for Dr INt bitney, who returned with him, but
his servicee wore of no avail. On the drawers he found
the razor pi oduced, which was i:overed with blood.
Mr Richard Tanner, Inspector of the Detective Force,
deposen that the deceased bad been in the Police Force 20
year?. lle was acting eergeant of the detectives. The last
little he saw him was on Sunday night, in Westminster
Abbey. Witness asked him why he was there, as the place
was so draughty. lie replied that he had such pains in his
limbs and all over his betty that he could not stop at home.
In 1863 the deceased had a very severe attack of rheumatic
fever. aud was absent from illness 133 days. The deceased
bad latterly been unfit for service, and only last week Mr
Inspector Williainsor, his brother officer, had laid the
matter before Sir Richard Mayne, and he wes to have
gone betore the chief surgeon of the force with a view
to his being zu?craLnuated, as ho was fetind to be
from continuous illness unfit tor the service, as his memory
fatted hive, Beim e his illness in 1863, which was not con-
tinuous. he was a strong hearty man.
Dr. Whitney, of 38, College-street, M.R.C.S., gated that
when he was called in he bound the deceased in the act of
expiring. There was a large incised wound separating all
the main arteries and vessels of the throat, causing death,
tes wound having been it,fiteted by the right hand. The+
disease under which the deceased labutued, might have
pre:, ed en his mini.
The Cuioi,ei having summed up,
The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed
j himself while in a state of temporary insanity.