The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

WIFE BEATERS.—Thomas Hawkes, a tall, strong, and
powerful man, about 50 years of age, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with beating his wife, Ann, who com-
menced her evidence by requesting the magistrate to send
her out of the country beyond the reach of her husband,
whose brutality and general tyranny had exhausted her
pat'ence and forbearance.
Mr. Paget said ho had no power to comply with the
woman's request.
The complainant said her husband boat her last night.
lie kicked her and struck her on the head. He used very
disgusting language before their children, and contami-
nated their morals. She was a pew-opener at St. Peter's
Church, St. Peter's-road, Mile. end, and could obtain a
good character from the late and present incumbent. She
would rather be sent abroad in the most menial capacity
than live with her husband any longer.
Police-sergeant Wissen, No. 1 K, stated that the com-
plainant was much ill used. Her pocket and dress were
both cut, and her money had been taken away. The pri-
soner said he would be hung at Newgate for her, and at-
tempted to strike her in his presence.
The prisoner said his wife was a person with great in-
firmity of temper, and would not give him money when
he wanted it. She stopped out the whole of last Saturday
night.
The Wife—l did. 1 was afraid of my life. Ho was
drunk.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner was a brutal husband, and
sentenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

Frederick Tabb, a cutter-out to a tailor, of No. 8, Bed-
ford-street, Stepney, was brought up on a warrant before
Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting his wife Eliza, a little
careworn, sickly woman, with bruises on her face, neck,
and arms.

The prisoner was a perfect sample of a domestic tyrant,
neglecting his wife and family, spending the greater part
of his earnings at houses of public entertainment in the in-
dulgence of his own sensual gratifications, frequently beat-
ing his wife, and on many occasions literally knocking her
into the street and closing his door upon her. There had
been "scores of summonses" taken out against him for
beating his wife, and she has as often forgiven him. On
one occasion only she prosecuted him, and he was sen-
tenced to seven days' imprisonment. On another occasion
he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for assaulting
a police-constable and rescuing a prisoner from his custody.
On Friday night last, after the prisoner and his wife had
partaken of a pint of beer with a young man, a visitor, she
went to bed. The prisoner, who affected to be jealous of
the young man, for which there was not the least pretence,
dragged his wife from her bed, and beat her with his fists
over the face and bosom, leaving the marks of his brutality
on her person.

Howland, 89 H, said he was an officer of the court. He
arrested the prisoner, who said to his wife, " Eliza, do for-
give me, I will never do so again," to which his wife said,
"No, I will not." There were grown-up children of the
parties living.

Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for
two months, and kept to hard labour.

WESTMINSTER.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITII VIOLBSCE.—Thomas Rush, a
low-looking fellow, was charged with highway robbery
and violence.

Mr. Henry Jeffetey, a gentleman residing at 52, Glou-
cester-street, proved that at about half -past four on TU3B-
- afternoon he was in Patrick-street, when a man sud-
denly seized his Albert chain from behind with great
violence. The man was on the right side of him, and held
him back to the fence. After a smart struggle he got the
chain in his right hand and held it up, so that witness could
not get hold-of it... He then shitted the chain from the
right hand to the left, and tried to get the watch, worth
twenty guineas, but it was secured in the pocket, and
only broke the swivel away. Witness then caught
him by the collar and held him at arm's length. The
man then struck him violently; which caused his
face to bleed. Witness then shifted his umbrella to
effectually secure the man, but he effected his escape from
towards Stratton-ground, witness pursuing and calling
" Stop thief," to which no one paid attention. The man
then turned to go down a low court called Pear-street,
leading to Duck-lane, but as he turned he slipped up and
fell on the kerb-stone ; he then got up again, and ran down
the court. A man got out of his way to let him pass, and
then barred the entrance, so that prosecutor could not go
down. Information was given, and prisoner was taken.
Prosecutor was sure he was the man.

Alfred Newton, a lad, proved that to the best of his be-
lief, prisoner was the man who fell down, as he saw him
fall at his feet.

Sergeant Buckley, 17 B, proved apprehending prisoner
in Pye-street, Westminster, when he said nothing to the
charge. He had suffered penal servitude, and been con-
victed for a month for an assault.

Prisoner denied the charge, and made a very able de-
fence for a man of his class, but
He was remanded till Saturday.

THE MURDERER KlNG.—Laurence King will, it
appears, bo hung on the 6th of September for the murder
of Lieut. Clutterbuck, of the sth Fusiliers. The Attorney-
General has refused to sanction the application for the writ
of error, on the ground of the challenge to the array of
jurors.—Sanders' News Letter.

THE SUSPECTED MURDER IN EDINBURGH.—The
authorities aro busy making investigations into the cause
of tho death of James Kelly, who was supposed to have
been murdered in Edinburgh on Saturday. The post-
mortem examination of the deceased took place on Satur-
day by Dr. Littlejohn, and though the result has not been
made known, it is stated that death resulted from suffo-
cation ; and considering he had of late been drinking
heavily, and the posture in which he had been found, it is
not improbable that may have been the cause.