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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. —This Day.

OLD COURT.
(13cforo the Recorder.)
ALLEGED ASSAULT BY A POLICEMAN.

Win. Gutley, a police constable, 96 H, surrendered to
take his trial on an indictment charging him with assault-
ing Sarah Gompertz, a married woman, of the Jewish per-
suasion, and causing her bodily harm ; there was also a
count charging a common assault.

The case has already been fully before the public on the
occasion of the trial which took place at the Middlesex
Sessions, when, after a lengthened trial, the jury beiag
unable to agree, the assistant judge discharged thew, and
the indictiuent was then removed by certiorari into this
Court.

From the evidence of the prvccutrix, it appeared that
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the defendant's beat was in Thli-lane, Spitalfi,lds, and
that on the 19th August she was passing
along that place,
and met the defendant face to facs on his turning out of the

street into the lane. He htd a carrot in his hand at the
time, which it a, pared he hAd taken from one c,f the staLs
:n the lane, and was in the act of eating some cf it, when
he spat it in prosecutrix's f Ace. She remonstrated with him,
and asked him what he did it for, upon which he commenced
abusing her and calling her very disgusting naives. The
prosecutrix again asked him why he assaulted her, when
he told htr to go away or he would take her to
the station. Ile began to pull her along in a very violent
manner, and she then again asked why he was illusing her
after insulting her. She then asked him to put her bonnet
on, which he had knocked off, but he refused to do so, and
continued pulling her along in a very violent manner. Her
dress was torn off her back, in spite of her remonstrances to
allow her to fasten her clothes and go along decently, and
the prisoner eventually took her to the station, where Mrs
Gompertz asked what charge he had to make against
her. He said there was a row, and that he
had told her to move on. and that she re-
fused. The inspector said there was no charge, and
discharged the prosecutrix, who was at the time iu a state
of pregnancy, and very much distressed at being taken into
custody, and discharged. She s ffered so much from the
defendant's ill-usage that she was obliged to have medical
assistance for s,Neral days. A. summons was taken out
against the defendant in the meanthas, and the case was
sent to the Middlesex Sessions, when it resulted as we have
above mentioned. -

The prokeeutrix to-day was examined at considerable

length by Mr Metcalfe as to her former statement before the
magittrate, and also on the occasion of the trial at the Mid-
dlesex Session. She adhered to the statement she had
made on the Ist instant.

David Cohcn, a confeetion,r in Spitalfields, said he saw

the prisoner commit the assault in a most violent manner,
and that he also dragged Mrs Gorapertz along the lane iu
a very savage manner, her dress being all torn to:ribbons,
and her bosom exposed.

Mrs Aaron said she also witnessed the assault, that it was
most unjustifiable, and that the prisoner altogether acted
in a most unmanly manner.

A domestic servant named Casey, residing in Bell-lane,
said she also saw the assault, and that the constable acted
in a very cruel manner to Mrs Grompet tz-
Abraham Fiston said he witnessed a policeman taking
Mrs Gompertz to the station-house in a most disgraceful
manner. Her breast was exposed and her dress torn. Her
bonnet was hanging at her back.
Cross-examined by Mr Metcalfe—He did not attend at
Clerkenwell because the Jewish holiday commenced on that
day. He did not hear Mrs Gumper!z give her evidence in
the former trial. He was not in the court at all during the
trial. He would swear he was not in court whilst the
trial was going on. He was at Clerkenwell on the Friday,
but the trial was put off until the Wednesday. He did not
hear Mrs Compertz give her evidence. He was not asked
to come and give evidence. He went to Mrs Gompertz of
his own accord.

Re-examined.—Ho heard some remark made by some
person in the shop that induced him to go to Mrs (Joni-

pertz.

Alfred Harrison, in the employ of the North Western
Railway, said he partly saw the assault committed. He
heard the prosecuti ix accuse the prisoner of spitting the
Garret in her face. He called her a liar, and then said,
" Which way are you going ?" He afterwards
seized her by the collar and put his knee to
the back of her person, and pulled her violently
up. Her dress was torn off and her bonnet was hanging at
her back by the strings. The Constable used the prose-
cutrix in a very rough manner on the way to the station.
When they were in the station house, he heard the
prisoner admit having the carrot in his hand.
The defendant also had made use of insulting
expressions towards him (witness). Prisoner told him he
thought he was in want of a shilling, and that was the
reason that he had taken part in the matter. Ho denied the
assertion with the greatest indignation. Ho attended simply
from a sense of justice.

2,1 r Metcalfe addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that he was a constable of the highest character,
and entirely incapable of acting in the way imputed to him.
(rho jury had not returned their verdict when we went
to preen.)

CIVIL WAR.--Col. Charles Russell Lowell, jun.,
was wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek, on Wed-
nesday, and died the next day. Of the fparticulars of his
death nothing is as yet known; but he fell, we may be sure,
at the head of his men—the post of honour and of duty that
he never yet left in battle. Hitherto he has seemed to bear
almost a charmed life, for 12 times before has his horse fallen
beneath him pierced by bullets. But a life so carried, always
in the very thickest of the fight, could hardly fail to meet,
at length, with certain death, It is the death of the true
soldier, and one which he, though with more to live for than
falls to the lot of most men, has never shrunk from for a
moment. 'Col. Lowell sought service at the outbreak of the
war. Though not bred to the profession cf arms, his mill..
tary genius, and his great mental resources attracted notice
at Washington the first summer of the rebellion, and a
commission as captain in the regular army was given him.
He served with the 6th
R
officer till April, 1863, when he was appointed to the com-
then he has been for most,ifegnueltar Call ov
fa Cavalry andtime a
ins a
com-
mend s ta
mend of the 2d Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry. Since
of the cavalry in and about Washington, the War
Departmentconfiding implicitly in*his vigilance and activity
a faith he has justified in
many an encounter with Moseby
and his guerilla bands, protecting the city and the adjacent
country from their bold and dashing raids. For some time
he has been in command of a brigade, and when Sheridan
took command in the valley Lowell gladly accepted the
opportunity of serving in a regular campaign, and of
being released from the guard duty to which the depart
ment had for some time restricted him. In every battle in
the valley_he had WWI such distinction and done such
service that a brigadier-general's commission would before
long have been bestowed upon him. Had he lived he must,
should the war continue, have taken high rank. He did
not know what fear was. Among his men he inspired con-
fidence and love; his mind and character possessed all those
qualities which make the successful soldier and fitted him
to be a leader. Ile had great physical endurance, was
young—not yet 30 --and hia whole soul was absorbed in the
suppression of the rebellion and in serving the true inte-
rest of his country. His death is that country's great. loss.
Col. Lowell was the only surviving son of Mr C. R.
Lowell, of Boston, and grandson of the late Rev. Dr Lowell,
of Cambridge, His brother, James Russell Lowell, a lieu-
tenant in tho brave 20th Massachusetts Regiment, was
wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill, was left upon the
field, fell into the hands of tho rebels, and died in four days.
Another grandson of Dr Lowell and first cousin of these
young moll Wm. Lowell Putnam, then an only surviving
son, was killed, a lieutenant in the 20th Massachusetts, at
Ball's Bluff. Colonel Lowell married about a year since a
daughter of Francis Geo. Shaws of Staten Island, and sister
of Col. Robert G. Shaw, the only son of his parents, who
fell regiment, the Massachusetts 54th, in
the u
a st
s the l
t ea
upon F
Theodore Parkruan, the
only son of the Rev. John Parkrnan, whose wife and the
mother of Colonel Shaw are sisters, fell at the battle of
assault
of hia
ert lvagner.
Newbern, North Carolina. In these four families, connected
by bloods
hando been killed in
ndlong and intimate friendship,
five battle, or died within a short
p ern have
iosdo
of their wounds, four of who, were only sons at the
time of their deaths, and the last is the second and only re-
maining son, meeting death on the field. They were all o"
the best bleed of Massachusetts ; young men of the highest
culture, possessing the first order of intellect ; graceful and
mor worldly vice ; entering upon life with the noblest and
purest
borne, and to whom fathers could transmit their names to be
charminge ii
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;person
eons
whom
andh o presence;
mmothers
might
b e
any youthful
byto have
proud
handed down to another generation without a tarnish and
with new honour. They were born to fortune and to the
highest social station. They were bred to luxury and ease.
Their " lines were oast in pleasant places." Life to them
was full of promise and hope, prosperity and high repute.
privations, and to lay down upon the
An unselfish sense of duty took thorn to the field to endure
altarits
o f
their hardships and itscountry, if need be, all their youthful hopes,
all their opportunities, all that the most careful education
had fitted them for in peaceful paths, all the promise that
birth and fortune and station gave them, all the expecta-
tions which_loving parents and troops of friends had built
upon their lives. And the thirsty, rebel soil of the South
has drunk up the young blood of every ono of them. It is
such records as these that mark the character of this war.
It is to such sacrifices as those we are called to bow down
the head with a sorrow that has no voice. Are they in vain P
Shall there not come from such deaths a new life to a whole
people, that shall snitch victory fram the grave and the
wing frcri death ? 0, ye who mourn over the whole land,
surely not for naught have ye given these precious lives.—
New York Tribune. •
The anniversary of the demise of the great com-
poser Mendelssohn has been recently celebrated at
the Conservatoire. Several of the detached picech
were executed by the pupils of this establishment.
The same testimony of respect end veneration for
the memory of idendelssohn has been regurarly
observed by the Society der Gewandhans Con
carte at Leipzig
for the last 17 years. The great
master himself once
rendered these concerts famous.
At Berlin the Gesellschaft Stern did a like homage
by the execution of the "Pala" oratorio.

niE suiN, hoiNnoN, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEINIBEII, 22, 1864.