The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK.—Mary Urnbert, a woman advanced
in life, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with
attempting to commit suicide.
Jeremiah Kennedy, a labouring man, stated that on
the previous night, as he was passing the river steps on
the south side of London-bridge, he observed a woman
descend towards the water. Suspecting that she medi-
tated self-destruction he ran down after her. When he
got to the bottom of the steps, it being very dark at the
time, finding that there was no person there, he con-
cluded that the woman he had previously seen must
have thrown herself into the river. He then listened,
and hearing a noise in the water at some distance from
the steps, he pulled off some of his upper garments and
jumped into the river, and being an expert swimmer he
succeeeded in bringing the defendant to the shore, and
rescuing her from certain death.
In reply to the magistrate, the defendant said that she
was either robbed of or had lost a sum of money with
which she was to have paid her rent, and that the cir-
cumstance caused her such anxiety of mind that she de-
termined on destroying herself. She added that she
now heartily regretted that she had made such an at-
tempt upon her life, and would promise not to repeat it.
Mr. Combo pointed out to the defendant the folly of
her conduct, and said that, had it not been for the ex-
cellent conduct of the man Kennedy, in venturing his
owithfe-at-night itt-the-river4e-save hers, she would, in
all probability, have been drowned. The magistrate
then adjudged the defendant's husband to enter into his
recognisances for her not repeating the attempt ; and,
having eulogised the conduct of Kennedy, ordered him
a small sum of money out of the poor-box, to recompense
him in some measure for his activity and zeal in saving
a fellow-creature's life, and at the same time said he was
of opinion that such a man was well entitled to the con-
sideration of the Royal Humane Society when they
distributed their rewards for the preservation of human
life.

WESTMINSTER.—George Reid, a young man, was
charged with the following brutal assault :
Bridget Griffiths, a poor woman, who gets her living
by selling things in the street, appeared with her head
enveloped in a surgical bandage, and exhibited a number
of frightful bruises. She stated that, on the previous
night, she was going through Blue Anchor-court, West-
minster, where the defendant lives, and on passing his
house heard her name repeatedly mentioned most
abusively by a woman with whom ho cohabits. Com-
plainant knocked, and asked what she was abusing her
for, when defendant rushed upon her with a broom in
his hand, and beat her most unmercifully all over the
body. He afterwards took up a poker, and following
her, struck her on the head, arm, and several parts of
the body, in the presence of a policeman. He gave her
a wound in the head, from which she bled very much,
and she was taken to the hospital.
Cramp, 47 B, proved that the attack was made so
suddenly, and with such fury, that the blows were struck
with the poker before he could secure the prisoner.
Accused entered into a long rambling story about his
intimacy formerly with the complainant, and alleged that
she struck him first with the broom.

Mr. Broderip observed that the case was of by far
too serious a nature for him to deal with summarily ;
and sent the case for trial at the sessions.

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