The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

MURDEROUS OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY AT THE JUNIOR
UNITED SERVICE CLUE-HOUSE.—OD Mr. DYER, the presi-
ding Magistrate, taking his seat yesterday morning, consider-
able delay took place in bringing forward the night charges,
in consequence of Inspector Mason of the C division (the
officer on duty at the station-house during the night), not
being in attendance. He, however, shortly afterwards
made his appearance, and accounted to Mr. DYER for his
absence, by stating that he had been detained in conse-
quence of information having been given at half-past eight
o'clock in the morning, at the station-house of the C division
in Vine-street, Piccadilly, of a most desperate and mur-
derous attack that had been made during the night
on the steward of the Junior United Service Club-
house, in Charles-street, Regent• street, in his bed-room,
by some person or persons, who afterwards succeeded in
decamping with the cash bags of the establishment. It
had not yet been ascertained whether the Club house had
been broken into during the night, or that any party had
been secreted on the premises. 'I he steward was disco-
vered in the morning lying on the door of his bed-room wel-
tering in his blood, and in an aprarently dying state, hav-
ing been beaten about the bead and face with some heavy
weapon in a most brutal and inhuman manner. The wire
of the Lel! to his room had been cut to prevent bis giving
any alarm. The steward was at present unable to give any
connected account of the manner in which he had been
attacked.

Mr. DYER hoped that the life of the unfortunate man
was not in danger.
Inspector Mason said he had been informed that he was
considered to be in the most imminent danger, so much so
that his professional attendant had ordered that no person
should be allowed to speak to him.
The reporter applied to the Inspector for further parti-
culars, but he declined giving them, as the real facts of
the case had not yet been ascertained. The cash-box was
supposed to contain notes, gold, and silver to the amount
of between 2001. and 3001.

AN IRISH ASSAULT. —A couple of Irishmen were
brought into the office, having been found fighting to-
gether in the public streets. As it frequently happens
in Irish assault cases, the defendant appeared to have re-
ceived a severe thrashing, while the complainant was
without a mark.

" Sarah Thompson I" said Mr. DIER, looking at the
names on the police-sheet, and then at the defendant,
" why, your name can't be Sarah ?"—" No, your River-
ince," said the defendant, " me name's Samuel, bekase I
was christened afther me father and mother."

Complainant—Your Wurtchip, I gets me living wid me
pennorths and haporths of walnuts, which I sell before the
Reform Club, bekase there's me best cushtomers, by
which manes up comes Thompson, who lodged wid me,
and was always a kicking up a drunk and disorderly dis-
turbance, and I widn't let him lodge wid me, though he
paid me five shillings a week, and I only charged him
tbreepince a night and gave him Sunday in. Up 11,1
comes, and me wid me shallow, and hits me bang on me
bead, on which I hoult up me arm and wouldn't let him.
" hould your basket, Pat," said a frind, but " No,"
says I, me living is not by fighting. I'll police him, and
take it out in him that way."
Mr. DYER —And all this took place without any pro-
vocation on your side ? Complainant—The only privica-
tion he had was that he firaht called me and me wife
everything but a lady.
Mr. DYER—What have you, Samuel Thompson, to say
to the complaint? Defendant—Yer Hanner, I attind on
Colonel Rowan, the head pollis, whose down at Birming-
ham at the prisent time, and thin I take care of a horse
which belongs to Mr.• Mayne, and sometimes does a jGb of
work for a jintlemin that lives away to Chelsea.
. . . . .

Mr. DYER Well, what has all this to do with the as-
sault? Defendant—lt's not an assault, yer Hanner ; it's a
case of charakter. Ax Colonel Rowan, the head pollis,
whose down at Birmingham, and ax Mr. Mayne, the other
head poll's, whose horse I'm taking care of, and the jintle-
min at Chelsea.

Mr. DYER—Why did you strike this man ? Defendant
—He struck me wid the corner of his shallow, and in coorse
I was bound to stand in me own defince. I can call all the
bricklayer's labourers in London to prove he shoved me wid
his shallow firsht.
The police having told Mr. DYER that the defendant,
when on his way to the office, had made use of strong
threats against the complainant, the Magistrate held the
defendant to bail.

THE Naw APPOINTMENT TO THIS OFFICE.--Mr. Dyer
has been doing the whole of the business at this office for
the last fortnight. It is not known when Mr. Long, the
newly. appointed Magistrate, takes his seat here for the
purpose of business.

BOW.sTi—ii----
Yesterday, a shopkeeper, named Joseph White, carry-
ing on business in the parish of St. Clement Danes, was
Act, summoned under the Lord's Day
by the Church-
wardens of the parish, for having kept open his shop and
pursued his ordinary calling on Sunday, teheSth inst.
Mr. Mason, the senior Churchwarden, said
in the
stituting the present proceedings he did not entertain the
in_
vindictive feeling towars the defendant o:rirotthiation of
e other
t-cleamen he was Compelled to complainoffomr
meeting
ng of the
the law. Some time since a very respectable
parishioners was held for the purpose of taking some steps
to put down Sunday trading, particularly in Clare Market i
1.0 other localities where it had been carried on in the most
an oanner, aLd a communication bad been made with other
noshes to co-opera:e
with the objects of the meeting, and
o carry the measure into tifect as
ii
otice had been issued announcu;; the resolutions which
e meeting had come to,
and it w afasrtbas,;77ssible. A public
mooted by some
radespeople, particularly butchers, that they wuZlld suspend
1119sitsiimes on the Sabbath, provided a similar course ii".
as
...
Pursil,edrUy others; but as there seemed to be a difference 1
a,t binain'4 %coon the subject, it was considered necessary to 1 The titi:v on foreign
!sane a second notice,
I=o.eutaner, n w
b
1
i next week, ant mill no doubt continue so for seve-
Mr ' cal
On Sunday last a and his colleague, .weeps to come. Th
went mood the parish to asoertaiu if any person six weeks has risen t
rhadrstillperaisted in b. law,and he ''. dpence is necessary
.._,L__i _ , reAking the
ht • aggrei;:te average for the last
o 71s. iicl—and a rise ..3° only four-
to bring the duty down to .tii;oi sii'lli g.-
41,772,
waitus4Wo.lll4eal. ri and a tobacconist carrying on their and cig petce. Of even so truing a rise, however,l theren
..
.and as the defendant's shutters were down is no immediate prospect. On
the contrary,tits misfit
b• was led to thin.% that business was going cm, aLthough he of damaged wheat that will be brought into the quantity
. . Y
'tad no proof of the
circumstance. , market will be more likely d
to -iepress than raisee provincial
The defendant said that If door ~ the
ave-
is was certainly open, but rages.
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