The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-16 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A SAILOR ASSAULTING THE POLICE AT THE EXIII-
BITIONs—AIexander Fraser, a sailor, was charged before
Mr Arnold with violently assaulting several police-con-
stables at the International Exhibition.

It appeared from the evidence of 438, that between four
and five o'clock the previous afternoon he was at the Inter-
national Exhibition, when he was called to the French
smoking• room by a French waiter, who told him to take
the prisoner into custody. The constable found the prisoner
who was very drunk, fighting with some men. He asked
the prisoner to be quiet and to leave the Exhibition. He
refused to go away and struck the constable on the chest.
He was obliged to take the prisoner into custody. When
he did so, he was pulled down by the prisoner. Chambers,
112 X., came up to the officer's assistanee, when the prisoner
gave him a violent blow on his eye. The prisoner kicked him
in a most ruffianly manner. Stevens, 245 X, and other con-
stables came up, seeing the determined resistance that was
made by the prisoner, and it required the united efforts of
seven policemen to seize him. He was eventually placed
in a cab, and in that was conveyed to the station-house.

Chambers said that the blow on his eye was so severe
that he was then suffering from the effects of it.
The prisoner observed that he was so drunk that he did
not know what happened.

Mr. Arnold observed that the conduct of the prisoner was
most violent and ruffianly.

The prisoner was fined £5, or in default, ono month, and
he was required to find one surety in £lO to keep the peace
for six months,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEmerEn SUICIDE—No young woman
named Catherine Keefe was brought before Mr. Knoz
charged with attempting to commit suicide in the Serpen-
tine, from which she was fortunately rescued by a park
constable named Robertson, by means of the life buoy.
Mr. Knox, finding that she had no home to go to, and
with the view of taking care of her till it could be seen what
could be done for her, sent her to the Houso of Detention.

On being again brought before the magistrate, a letter
was handed to him from the chaplain of the House of De-
tention (Mr. Jepson), stating that it she was sent back for
a few days, a female officer should be sent to the court on
the next occasion to take her before a committee of ladies,
who would probably take her under their care.
_ _

Mr. Knox sent her back to the House of Detention, for
which she seemed very grateful.

A COWARDLY RUFFIAN.—Henry Lucas, a general
dealer, was charged as follows :—Sergeant Lambert, 12 E,
was passing along Oxford-street this morning when he saw
the prisoner in company of two females. On coming close
up to them, Lambert saw the prisoner strike one of the fe-
males, who had a child in her arms, a violent blow, and
then turn round and strike the other. Lambert then asked
him how he could act in such a cowardly manner, when
the prisoner replied, "You —can't I do what I like with
my own wife." He then told the prisoner he was a police-
officer, upon which the prisoner said, " Then you—l'll give
you the same," and struck him a severe blow on the eye,
blackening it very badly, and then knocked him down and
either struck or kicked him in the stomach, the effect of
which had been to cause him to spit blood. Sergeant
Ed ward Nightingale, of the G division, having assisted
him, they got the prisoner, who had been drinking, to the
station.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner, to see whether any
serious effects might result to the officer from the prisoner's
violence.