The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-01 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Matthew Carter, who for many years has been
one of the substitute constables of Bread-street
ward, and who keeps a small fishmonger's shop in
Little Carter-lane, was brought before Mr. Alder-
man WINCHESTER yesterday, charged with stabbing
his wife in the abdomen, with a sharp-pointed
table-knife.

John Haslam, a young man, who cried while
giving evidence, stated that the prisoner had mar-
ried his mother ; and on Friday night, about eleven
o'clock, he was fetched to the house in Carter-lane,
where he found his mother sitting down and weep-
ing with a hand over a wound below her star,
which did not bleed much then, but flom which
there was a great effusion during the night. Mr.
Holmes, the surgeon who attended her, stated that
the depth of the wound appeared to be an inch and
a half, and that he did not consider her out of
danger. He had questioned his mother about the
cause of this sad affair, and learnt that the prisoner
had been out on some particular business that day,
and came home drunk, upon which his wife told him
to go to bed, and that he was not fit to be trusted
with business. He threatened to stab her with the
knife, if she did not instantly leave the room ; but,
not expecting that he would be so violent, she re-
mained, and he inflicted the wound upon her.
The prisoner did not make any defence, and
The Alderman remanded him, remarking that his
being drunk would not excuse him in the eye of
the law.

Joseph Der Wattine, a Swiss valet in the service
of Mr. Rothschild, attended before Aldermen
ANsi.Ev and WINCHESTER, to show cause why an
order of filiation should not be made upon him in
respect to a female child which Anstice Keogh, a
married woman, had given birth to, and which had
become chargeable to the parish of St. Ann and
Agnes, Aldersgate.
Anstice Keogh, a decent-looking young woman,
had lived in Dyer's-court, Noble-street, about two
months before the child was born. She passed by
the defendent's name there, and he visited her fre-
quently till the last week or two before the birth of
the child on the 31st of August. She had not seen
her husband for the last eleven or twelve years.—
She lived about two months at Mrs. Long's, in
Gutter-lane, prior to her removal to Dyer's•court.
She was visited here also by the defendant, who
used to inquire for her as Mrs. Der Wattine. About
Michaelmas, 1826, she went to lodge at No. 7,
Cripplegate-building, where she remained till a week
before Christmas, 1828, when she removed to
No. 16, Doggett's-court, Elden-street, Finsbury,
and from thence to Gutter-lane. She passed by the
name of Miss Whitchurch in Ciipplegate-buildings
and Doggett's-court, and the defendant visited her
all the time. . .

Cross-examined by Mr. Alley—Was married on
the 10th of May, 1817, and her huslond is a sol-
dier in the 9th Lancers. Never had any children
before the girl in question.
Re-examined--Went to live with her husband in
Hounslow Barracks when first married, but they se-
parated after living together only six weeks.
By the COURT—Had seen her husband but
twice since; in March and May, 1818.
Maria Long deposed that Miss Whitchurch, as
she called herself, lodged with her about a twelve-
month, and left her about a fortnight before Christ-
mas, 1828. Mrs. Keogh went to Oxford, as she
understood, in the July of that year, and returned
just Wore Bartholomew fair, in the beginning of
September, from which time she slept in the same
bed with her every night till she removed.
By the COURT—Was positive she was not ab-
sent a single night during that term.
By Mr Alley—Could not tell where Miss Whit-
church slept on that day. Mr. Der Wattine used
to visit her, and take her out for a walk, or so.
Mr. Alley—Or so ?—(A laugh.)
Witness—No other gentleman used to walk with
her; but gentlemen, by whom she was employed as
a stock-maker, used to bring her work.
Peter Ratnage,a serjeant in the 9th Lancers, de-
Posed that Corporal Keogh, who had been in the
regiment 13 years, was not absent from the roll-
calls at six in the morning and nine in the evening,
from the latter end of October till the 23d of Dec.
On that day he set off with a deserter from Leeds
(where the regiment had been stationed some time)
for Hull, and he returned on the 28th. The dis-
tance was 60 miles, and he went an foot. Their
quarters were afterwards shifted to Nottingham ;
but the corporal had never been absent from roll-call
at any time since the 28th of December. Never
saw Mr:. Keogh either at Leeds or Nottingham.
Mr. Alley rested his case on the well•known prin-
ciple that the law inferred the access of the husband
where the absolute impossibility of access was not
proved, and this had not been done in the present case.
Mr. Adolphus said the matter was allowed to be
decided by common sense and facts, and the maxim,
that a child born during coverture must be the hus-
band's, unless he be beyond the four seas at the
time it was begotten, was now quite exploded. He
had proved that at the particular time which would
be looked at in this case, the last week of November
the husband was never absent from Leeds, nor the
wife from London, for twelve hours at a time; and
unless the Magistrates could suppose the husband
' had flown from Leeds to London, to steal a kiss