The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Jeffs, a brickmaker,
remarkably powerfurman, was brought before Mr. Paget
charged with assaulting and wounding H. Roper, a police
constable, No. 426 K.
The complainant's head was cut open, and there was a
large surgical plaister on his crown. There was also a
bruise on his face, and another under his right ear. He
stated that at 8 o'clock last night the prisoner was drunk
and disorderly, in High-street, Bow, and had his coat and
waistcoat off. The prisoner first assaulted his own brother
and then beat a boy and knocked him down. He inter-
posed, and told the prisoner to put his clothes on and go
home. The prisoner gave utterance to a foul oath and
bad language, seized him and threw him on the kerb-stone.
He fell on his head and received a severe wound.
He was partially stunned, and before he
could rise the prisoner kicked him under the
ear. He was much hurt and the skin was cut with the
kick. He seized the prisoner, who struggled with him
and struck him many severe blows. The muscles of his
arms were stiff that morning, and his head was very bad.
The prisoner said he was very drunk, and fell with the
constable. That was all he knew of the affair.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner had committed threo assaults.
The only one he had to do with was the assault on the
police constable. It was a cowardly and brutal act to
throw the constable and kick him. He always committed
persons for trial, or sent them to prison for two months for
violent assaults on the police. He doubted whether he
ought not to send this case before a jury. He sentenced
the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months and kept to
hard labour. . _

The prisoner—Will you take a fine, sir ?
Mr. Paget—Certainly not.

The Case of Manslaughter in the
Commercial Road•

Yesterday evening Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor for the
prosecution against Mr. Robert Debenham, surgeon, who
is charged with shooting Thomas Solomon, a ship's
painter in the garden at the back of Heath House, Com-
mercial-road, Stepney, accompanied by a military surgeon
and his assistant, Mr. Thompson, a surgeon, in the Mile-
end-road, the brother of the deceased, and Inspector
Hayes, of the K division, proceeded to Ilford Cemetery,
in Essex, where the body of the deceased was exhumed by
order of Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and carried to a large workshop on
the ground. The body was in an advanced state of decom-
position. Tho post mortem examination was immediately
proceeded with, and conducted in amost careful manner by
themilitary surgeon appointed by tho Home Secretary. The
head of the deceased was opened and the brains removed.
It was ascertained that the ball fired by the accused had
entered the left temple, passed through the brain, and was
embedded in the back of the skull. The ball was removed,
the body replaced in a shell, and again buried in the Bravo
from which it had been taken. The theory propounded by
the prisoner's advocate that the deceased was hit by a spent
ball after it had struck the corner of a brick wall, from
which it rebounded, is entirely dissolved by the post-mor-
tem examination of yesterday evening, which ought to
have taken place before the inquest. The opinion
of the three medical gentlemen present is that
the shot passed direct from the pistol fired by
Dr. Debenham into the head of the deceased, tra-
versed the brain, and lodged in the thick part of the skull.
The case will terminate, as far as the magisterial investi-
gation is concerned, on Tuesday next, when Mr. Paget
will commit the accused for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.

The brother and other relations of the deceased expressed
in earnest terms their satisfaction with the course pursued
by Mr. Paget, and also requested Mr. Joseph Smith to re-
turn their grateful acknowledgments to Sir George Grey
for his desiro to see justice done, and a post mortem exa-
mination properly conducted by qualified men after the
examination.

Mr. Thompson was appointed by Mr. Lewis, sen., with
the approval of Mr. Debenham,

The Fire and Loss of Life in Leadenhall

Market.

DISCOVERY OF ONE OF THE BODIES.

Yesterday (Tuesday), Mr. Bryne, tho well known poul-
terer, and several other influential tradesmen, waited upon
the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of urging upon his lord-
ship the absolute necessity of measures being taken to
search the remains of the houses destroyed by fire in
Leadenhall-market last week, and the result of that appli-
cation has led to putting in force the modus operandi, and
this morning, at a quarter past 8 o'clock, one of the bodies
—or, more correctly speaking, part of a body—was disco-
vered in the debris of the Poulterers' Arms, near tho bar
door. The remains were so shrivelled as not to be more than
three feet in length, the skull was destroyed by the action
of the fire. There was present at the time of the discovery
Mr. Young and Mr. Crook, surveyors ; Mr Rawston, the
coroner's officer, and beadle of Langbourne Ward ; his son,
the ward beadle of St. Peter's, Cornhill ; Mr. B. Langham,
of the North British and Mercantile Fire-office ; Mr.
Engineer Purdue, and other officials of the ward, who
suggested to the workmen the propriety of having a sheet
placed undo' the body, so that it might be removed from
the ruins as decently, and without public observation, as
possible. The workmen, however, with a sneer, said
that if they wanted that done they might do it themselves
or bo They then, in a most disgraceful manner,
pulled the remains about, dragged off one of the legs and
part of an arm. The remains were, however, collected
together and placed in a shell, and 'removed to the dead
house of St. Dionis Backchurch, and Mr. Rawston has
forwarded the necessary information to Mr. Payne, the
coroner, so that that learned gentleman may hold an
inquest forthwith. Judging from the position this body
was found in, there is strong reason for supposing that the
unfortunate creature had ran from the top of the house to
the bar door, when she was struck down by the flames
and perished on the spot.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, Dr.
Goss, opened a new church at Skelmersdale on
Sunday.