The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-01 00:00:00

THAMES.

WILD SPORTS IN THE EAST.—Elizabeth Macarthy, a
strapping Irish woman, of the class called unfortunate, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with biting off and
swallowing a portion of the index finger or the left hand• of
her countrywoman, Ann Donnelly, the wife of Michael
Donnelly, a labourer.

The parties live in a very notorious den called Palmer's-
Folly, itatcliff-highway, where numerous robberies and
outrages on sailors hive been committed. The two women
quarrelled last night, and from words they got to blows,
and pummeled each other unmercifully. All Palmer's-
folly and Perseverance-place sent forth their degraded and
criminal inmates to witness this revolting sight. The
women fought like furies, and the prisoner—the strongest
of the two—got the other down, scracthed her face with her
nails, pulled the hair from her head, and bit off the end of
her finger.
The complainant appeared in a mutilated condition, hex
face was torn, her eyes blackened, and her left hand was
bandaged.

Mr. John Brown Ross, physician and surgeon, stat,d
that he dressed the wounds of the prosecutrix. The upper
part of one of her fingers was bitten off. He had been
trying to get the flesh to unite over the bone for the pur-
pose of avoiding the necessity of amputation of the finger
lower down, and he hoped to succeed. The woman was
not out or danger.
Mr. Woolry eh said this was a very shocking cam. He
committed the prisoner for trial.
MORE CANNIBALISM.—Edward Rich, a black man, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
stabbing Edward Dixon on the head, at the Eastern Hall
publie-house, at theipncrion of the East and West India
Dock roads, Limehouse, and with afterwards assaulting
John Jackson in the Poplar station-house, and biting off a
portion of his nose.
The prisoner, a perfect savage, had dropped some half.
pence he received in change at the bar of the Eastern Hall,
and, believing that the people there assembled were about
picking up his haltpence, he struck out at the man Dixon,
who was next to him, and struck him three times on the
head. Dixon's hat fell off, and while he was stooping to
pick it up, the prisoner struck him on the head with a large
jack knife." The fellow was secured, and conveyed to
the station-house. Jackson accompanied Dixon to the
station house, and while there the prisoner suddenly at-
tacked him. and bit off a portion of his nose.
Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, stated that he at-
tended the wounded man. There was a wound on Dixon's
scalp an inch and a half long, and penetrating to the bone.
The wound divided a branch of the temporal artery, and
the hemorrhage was excessive. The blow was given with
great force. After attending to Dixon he waited on Jack-
son, a portion of whose nose on the left aide was gone. It
was bitten off _ _ _

William Sorrell, 410 K, a police constable, produced the
portion of the man's nose, which he found on the floor of
the station house. He also produced a large clasp knite,
which he found on the prisoner.
Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial,
The wounded triPn belong to the Naval Reserve, and were
at drill on Saturday, They have necessarily been alasent
ever since.