The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,-April 1

MANSION-HOUSE.—William Homewood, the
conductor of an omnibus, who had been liberated
on bail, attended before Mr. Alderman Hale a day
or two ago' n remand, charged with an aggravated

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The prOSecubj,tg was one Wiiiion Spong, thel
driver of a Peckham omnibus. For nearly a month
he had been unable to attend the court to depcise to
the injuries he had received. On the afternoon of
Tuesday, the 4th of March, he said he was in
Gracechurch-street with his omnibus. The time-
keeper had called his time, and he went behind his
omnibus to get on the box, but the pole of the de-
fendant's omnibus was so close to the door that he
could not pass. He asked him to put his horses
back, but this the defendant refused to do, saying
his time was up, and he ought to be gone, upon
which witness put them back. A lady was about
to get into the omnibus, and witness was opening
the door, when the defendant whipped his horses up
and drove him against the stepboard. Witness had
still hold of the horses' heads, and put them back a
second time. The defendant lashed him several
times with his whip across the hands, and getting
down from his seat, took him by the collar,
" banged" him against the wheel of the omnibus,
and, after shaking him there, ran him up a passage,
where he threw him down on his head on the
stone pavement. The witness became insensible,
and bled tery much from the nose and left ear,
while his arm was much bruised. When he came
round he found himself sitting, 131,!:::eding, on an
empty fish-stall in Billingsgate-market. He had
been troubled with pains and ringing in the head
ever since. He had a black eye and a cut nose tw-.1
days afterwards, but he did not know how he got
them. _ _ _

In cross-examination, he said a cart in front of
him, which had backed close up to his horses' heads,
prevented him going that way to get on to his box.
He denied striking the defendant on the latter
pushing him away. He had since been unable to
drive. He had no previous quarrel with the de-
fendant, but the latter had annoyed him very much
on the,road.
Mr. Deane, a surgeon in Southampton-street,
Camberwell, said he was called to attend the com-
plainant Spong on the 4th of March at his house.
He appeared to be snaring from pains in his head
and a cat in the scalp over the left ear, which was
not particularly dangerous. The concussion would
be more dangerous than the wound. His hat must
have saved the head. He was under witness's care
about 10 days. He did not perceive any blood from
the left ear, and saw the complainant a few hours
after the assault.
The prisoner, on being cautioned, said he would
reserve his defence.
He was committed for trial, and was allowed to
give bail to appear and answer the charge, himself
in £BO and two sureties in £BO each. _

Henry Hales, a man about 30, who has been some
years a porter to Mr. George Curling, a wholesale
druggist in Cullum-street, was convicted in petty
sessions of stealing a quantity of tartaric and opium,
worth £l2 or £l4, the property of his master, and
sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

MARYLEBONE.—A gentlemanly-looking man,
who at the station-house gave the name and address
of Charles Fergusson 2, Burton crescent, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with an inde-
cent assault upon police constable White, 91 D.
Complainant deposed that on that morning, at 5
o'clock, while on duty in Weymouth-street, he was
accosted by the prisoner, who said that he wanted
to speak to him. He walked with him to the cor-
ner of the mews, which was only a few yards off,
when the prisoner pushed him against the wall,
exposed his person, and otherwise acted improperly.
Witness told him that he must take him into cus-
tody. He seemed ready to faint, and exclaimed—
" Oh! pray don't ; have mercy on me ; it nearly
broke my father's heart when a charge was made
against me on a former occasion. I'm sure it will
be the death of him now." Acting-Sergeant Dib•
bin, 314 D, at this time came up, when the prisoner
said he would give them £2O each and his watch
and chain if they would go with him to his father's
at 35, Wimpole-street. He was then taken to the
stationhouse.
Dibbin corroborated the latter portion of the
above evidence, and added that on the way to the
station the prisoner repeated the offer of money.
Ho had been drinking.
Inspector Combe stated that the address given by
the prisoner in Burton-crescent was false.
In reply to Mr. Yardley the prisoner said—l am
ashamed to say it, but I never was more drunk in
all my life. I have no recollection of anything that
passed.
The evidence having been read over by Mr. Tate,
the clerk, Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for
trial.
In the course of the afternoon it transpired that
the real name of the prisoner is Edward Park.
Shortly before the closing of the court his father
and another gentleman residing in the same street
offered themselves as bail, and were accepted, the
prisoner in £3OO and his sureties in £l5O each.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas M'Carthy, a
decent-looking man of 36, was charged with break-
ing and entering a house.
Mr. Thomas Howell, of White's-row, White-
chapel, left home with his wife and brother at three
o'clock on Monday, after carefully securing the
doors and windows of their apartments, and re-
turned again at a quarter to five. The wife pre-
ceded the husband, and on gettnig indoors she was
apprised by a widow living in the house that she
had just before seen a strange man look in at one
of the windows and then enter the passage. This
much alarmed her, and while hesitating *hat to do
she saw her bedroom door open, and the prisoner
thrust out his head, with the evident intention of
escaping. She exclaimed, " You scoundrel, what
are you doing in my bedroom ?" and grasped him
by the collar, but the prisoner tried to force his
way past her, and a violent struggle took place be-
tween them, the woman retaining her hold of the
prisoner till they got into the street, and screaming
Stop thief!" as loud as she could. Mr. Howell
came up at the moment, and, seeing his wife en-
gaged in such a contest, ran up to secure her as-
sailant. The prisoner, however, shook off
Mrs. Howell, and darted down the street,
pursued by her husband and his brother, who
secured him, brought him back again, and handed,
him over to Sergeant Copping ; the prisoner assert-
ing that he was innocent, and declaring he did not
know what he was taken for. Mrs. Howell, on
examining her bedroom, found the door, which was
locked at three o'clock, prised open, the lock
broken, and part of the woodwork torn away, and
two locks in a chest of drawers broken ; one of the
drawers was on the floor, while its contents were
thrown about the apartment, and the other drawer
was partially drawn out, and its contents, consist-
ing of her husband's and her own wearing apparel,
were lifted out and left hanging from it, ready for
removal.

Mr. Leigh committed the prisoner for trial.

TILE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED
iSUICIDE AT HENDON.

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Yesterday afternoon an investigation was opened
by Mr. G. Brent, the Deputy-Coroner for West
Middlesex, at the Adam and Eve, Mill-hill, Hen-
don, into the circumstances attending the death of
Anne Cox. Various witnesses spoke to the facts
mentioned in a paragraph which appeared in The
Sun of Saturday. Mrs. Sarah Barnes, the wife of
a labourer who lived next door to the deceased, said
that James Lawrence, who shot the deceased, had
been sleeping in the house of her mother, as a pro-
tection to the two women, in consequence of their
lodger having gone to bury his mother. She be-
lieved that Lawrence was jealous of James Mann, a
young man who had formerly been a lodger in the
house, but who was now a policeman in London.
Charles Ede, a labourer, said that he worked with
Lawrence at Highwood-hill. Last Friday he heard
him continually saying, " Nancy is in the Strand
buying a bun," and asked him what he meant. He
said, " I know Anne Cox is going to London to be
married." About midday Lawrence asked what
o'clock it was, and when told it was 10 minutes
after 12, he said, " She's married now." Mr. Bar-
tholomew, incumbent at Mill-hill, produced a letter
which he wished if possible not:to make public. The
Deputy-Coroner said it would be necessary to read
it. It was signed by Lawrence, was dated the 21st
ult., and appeared to have been intended by Law -
rence as an explanation of the act he was about to
commit. It asserted that the deceased was in the
family-way by James Mann, and contained these
words This is the cause of my doing what I
have. Now, do tell Mr. J, Mann he is disap-
pointed as well as me, so let your daughter
with me. So good bye to
Anne be buried along
all and bless you." The Deputy-Coroner made
some remarks on the necessity for a post mortent
examination, after which the investigation wus
adjourned in order that it might be made.

AN IRISH REGISTRY.—In the Registry of Deeds
Office, Dublin, there was at the beginning of this year an
arrear of 10,018 memorials untranscribed, and of thoe
which had been transcribed 31,711 had not yet been com-
pared or examined with the originals.