The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

inft, 'cted the wound. To have obtai. oed that knife
Ca p 'lin Williams must have passed ti 4e prisoner,
NI, any witnesses were called Witc proved the
openi ug statement, after which
Air. Bullen addressed the jury for pris, oner, main. r
tainirq that the deceased was the a;g7 pressor
througi 'lout, and that the fatal occurrence / Nas an
accident • for which prisoner was not account able.
Tile ] a arned judge summed up at some • longth,
1 pointing out the difference between mure er and
1 manslaugt ter, and remarking that no on(, knew
w hat occur rred in the pantry, the captait i being
gone.
It vs as for them to judge if prisoner' s state.
nsistent with facts proved.
meTnht
e was
jury Co.
rs Aired, and after about half an hour's
absence rani 'ned, when they found pi isouer not
guilty.
Isik

SERIOUS t..

ISSAULT ON A MAI?BIED
TVOMAN.

'lts) Petty Sessions,
Lev ,w, nth At the Westbury (WF
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intent, Tu s
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pig dealer named Butch.
n
Sainsbury, was
st.m-
moned for assaulting Sara. rY7 wife of Jam es
Sainsbury, dealer, of Westbury Leigh,
3d of June.—Mr. Bartrum a131311:4' ed for tho complainant,
and Mr. W. Illessiter, of Fronle, for thy s defendant.—
The complainant said : My husbe and i a e ,ealer, of West-
bury Leigh; I have been married to him eight years, and
have had seven children, al; born in wedlo ck ; on the even
ing of Tuesday, the 3d of June,—
the &den dant came to our
house respecting a horse he had .bought f husband the
previous day, and which he said he had' lost from the field
in which he had put it ; I had never I t een defendant before;
my husband was not at home, and I sent z ny little boy after
him, but he could not find him ; defendant said he had been
walking about all the forenoon in search of the horse, but
could not find it, and was sure it was about; the place some-
where; fearing we should not get our mei le, Y for the horse
I said I would not mind going as far as T it ford myself to
look for tbe horse; defendant said he shouli. I..be very glad if
I would go ; the distance from our house is t tree miles, and
on the road I called at Mrs. Jones's, a friend, to ask if they
had seen the horse, but they had not ; defeno \ant asked me
which was the nearest way to Frome, and w. hich was the
nearest way for me to return—by the way we . had come or
round by Dilton's Mill; I said it was a little bit ',farther by
Dilton's Mill, and he said he should be very mu .ch obliged
to me if I would come his way, if it was not tali ing me out
of the way ; I did so ; it was about half-past eig ht, and not
dark; when we arrived nearly at the top of tl so lane the
defendant put his arm across my shoulder; I : stopped im-
mediately, and told him I would not have that, aztd that I
would not go a step further with him, as, if I r Lad come out
with him, it was not for any other purpose than out of
kindness to him to show him the way; he staid he did not
mean any harm, and took his hand off my shoulder ; I said,
I should think you did not, you are marriei 1, and so am I,
and it is very hard if I cannot go on without your insulting
me ;' he said he was very sorry, and would not attempt it
again; we then walked on towards Dillon, as I was as
near to that place as I was to Titford ; wl ten we got into
Church-lane, a little beyond the Pou.nd, I was walking by
the side of him, when he said, 'Look, here's a nice place,'
and immediately took hold of me rownd my shoulders; I
said, ' If you don't let go immediately I will tell Sainsbury,
and you shall hear further of it ;' he said, 4 1 don't mean to
hurt you,' and kept pushing me as hard as he was able
against the bank at the side of the road. I struggled with
him as hard as ever I could, and kept thi :•eatening him;
when he found he could not throw me dos' 'n he lifted me
off my feet, and threw me back against th e bank. I told
him if he did not let me go I would cry as loud as I could ;
he still repeated his attempts, and I told hi in I would tell
Sainsbury. He said he didn't care for Saint ;bury, or any
one else. (The complainant then proceeded to describe the
assault which was attempted, but she strugg, led with him
violently, and prevented him from accomplish, ing his pur-
pose.) The Beneh inflicted a fine of £lO upont the defen-
dant, or, in default, six months' imprisonment.