The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

BREAKING AN OMNIBUS WlNDOW.—Charles Stevens,
described as a horsekteper at a cab yard in thb Dover Road,
was charged with breaking a window of one of the General
Omnibus Company's carriages, and Mr.. Hudson, the ma-
nager of the company, attended to prosecute.
Henry William Holmes said that last night, about half-
past ten, the omnibus of which he was conductor was
standing near the clock tower at London-bridge, and he
noticed the prisoner and a woman, who were quarrelling
in the road. The latter said something to the prisoner, on
which he took up a stone and deliberately flung it at one of
the side windows, through which it passed. The stone,
which he produced, was afterwards found inside the om-
nibus.

The prisoner, in reply to the magistrate, denied the
charge.

Witness said that immediately the prisoner flung th e
stone the woman remarked, " You have done it now."
The wife of the prisoner, who was the woman with whom
he had beet quarrelling the previous night, denied that her
husband threw the stone.

33 M proved to having taken the prisoner into custody,
and the woman merely said he had been very quarrelsome.
Mr. Hudson said the company had to pay as much as
£3OO a-year for damage done to the windows of their
carriages.

The prisoner was sentenced to pay 20s. damages, and is.
fine, or be imprisoned for one month, and not being able to
pay the money, he was removed to the cell.

THAMES.

A REGULAR WIFE BEATER.—Charles Lane, a labourer,
of 34i Stracey •street, Stepney, was brought before Mr.
Selfe, charged with assaulting his wife, Ann Lane, who
presented herself in the witness-box with one eye blackened
and swollen, and her face bruised.

The complainant said she had been married to the pri-
soner two years, and he had ill-used her at intervals ever
since. Three weeks after her wedding he knocked her
down and beat her. He implored her forgiveness, and she
did look over his brutality, on promise of better behaviour.
Two months ago he beat her and gave her a black eye.
Last night she went out on a visit to a lady, and expected
her husband to meet her and take her home, but he did not
do so, and when she got home she merely asked him why
he had not met her, on which he abused her and applied ill
epithets towards her, and when she remonstrated with him,
he commenced kicking and ill using her. In trying to es-
cape from him, he got her arm between her room door and
the door post, and kept it there some time. She was obliged
to cal for the police to prevent further violence.
Henry Wilmot, police-constable, No. 495 K, said he was
called upon to take the prisoner into custcdy, and that he
behaved with great violence. The prisoner put out his leg
and threw him, and made his escape. He captured the
prisoner a second time, and, atter a good deal of struggling,
secured him. The prisoner said he would be his wife's
butcher, and that if she caused him to be punished he
would take her life directly he came out of prison. The
prosecutrix was bleeding very much last night and was
greatly agitated.

The prisoner, in defence, said be did beat his wife and
was greatly provoked by her. Both were possessed of very
bad tempers, and it would never do for a man and his wife
to have the same infirmity. The young ladies in the house
told his wife, but her tongue would not be quiet.
Mr. Selfe was satisfied the prisoner had beaten his wife
in a very savage manner. He sentenced him to six weeks'
imprisonment and hard labour, and at the expiration of
that time to find good sureties to keep the peace and be of
good behaviour towards his wife and all her Majesty's
subjects for six months,

A LEGEND OF FALKENSTElNe—Falkenstein is
not without its own share of romantic tales. A knight of
Sayn, as the story goes, once loved a young lady of the
Falkenstein family. The father would not consent to the
match excepting on the condition that the knight should
make by the next day a convenient road to the castle
which was only to be approached by a stiff climb before.t
While the hopeless lover was wandering about at twilight,
a mountain spirit appeared to him, and offered to
road in question on condition that he would putt stop to
certain mining operations in a country
bited by the Gnomes. The knight consenwtehd,icanhnelisethp
with-
night there was a vast bustle on the hill, andand
pickaxes.
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newly-formed
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on.
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