The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-19 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITH A QUART MEA.SURE.—
Joseph Bruner, a German, was charged before Mr. Arnold
with striking the complainant on his head with a quart

measure.

James Green, valet to Major Williams, No. 2, Cheyne-
walk, Chelsea, said that, between the hours of 12 and 1
o'clock that morning, he and some friends looked in at the
Lord Nelson, Queen-street. Chelsea, to have something to
drink, He ordered a quartern of gin. While they were
drinking it, the prisoner came up behind him and gave him
a violent blow on his forehead, which stunned him for a
few minutes. (The complainant had on his forehead a
large patch of adhesive plaister.) The wound bled very
much.

Mr. Arnold—What caused the prisoner to assault you in
the manner he did ?

Complainant—l cannot say, sir, I gave him no provoca-
tion. He is .a,complete, stranger to me. He also gave me
a second blow with his fist. I think the prisoner was a
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little in liquor.

The prisoner stated that there were some men fighting.
He thought the complainant was one of them, and that he
was struck by him (complainant).
Complainant denied having done so, and that ho saw no
persons fighting.
Rowland Phillips, a mason, stated that he was with the
complainant. He left him to speak to a friend. When he
returned he was in time to catch complainant, who was
falling. He saw the prisoner strike complainant with a
quart pot.
V 39, Sergeant of Police, corroborated the evidence, and
said the prisoner also struck him on his nose, and made it
bleed.

The prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the
barman at the Lord Nelson.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY CAM—DRUGGED AND ROBBED.—
William George Maund, a young man of respectable con-
nections and good address, was brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged with attempting to commit suicide.
Charles Stanley, a labourer, of 71, Suffolk-street, Poplar,
stated that at a quarter before 5 o'clock this morning he
was on his way to his day's work, and he saw the prisoner
on the banks of the Regent's canal, near the Commercial
Gas-works, in Stepney, and his conduct was so strange that
he was induced to watch him, and a few minutes afterwards
saw him leap into the canal. He was unable to swim, and
called the lockman, and the prisoner was rescued from a
watery grave, and conveyed to the station-house.
Mr. Selfe—How came you to watch him ?

Stanley—l thought he had no business where he was at
that time of the morning, and he looked very dejected and
wild.

The Prisoner—What the man says is quite true as far as
my recollection goes.
Mr. Selfe—What do you mean ?—as far as your recollec-
tion goes.
The Prisoner—l went to Camden. town yesterday after-
noon to receive some money for the company of Pickford
and Co., my employers in Poplar, and coming through the
City was accosted by a female, and was induced to treat
her, and she persuaded me to go home with her. I was
drugged and robbed of all the money I had, and was
ashamed to face my employer again.
Mr. Selfe—What is your age, and where do you live?

The Prisoner—l am 22, and I live at 23, Tomlin-terrace,
Salmon-lane, Limehonse.

Mr. Selfe—Send for this young man's parents. He is
remanded for a week.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST _EVENING.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of any commercial
importance which appeared in the Gazette of last night,
John Bryant, draper, Notting-hill
Moss Hyams, stationer, Whitechapel
James East, poultry salesman, Clerkenwell
Samuel Oldknow, attorney-at-law, Russell-square
Henry Shaw, draper, Notting-hill'
Solomon Wollheim, leather merchant, Lower Thames-
street
James Hadden Balfour, shipping agent, City

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A very
shocking occurrence took place at Norwich on Thursday.
Mr. 11. Stevenson, one of the proprietors of the Norfolk
Chronicle, was driving through the city with his wife, and
in the neighbourhood of All Saints-green the horse became
alarmed and bolted. When passing All Saints-church, both
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson was thrown out, and the unfor-
tunate lady was dashed with frightful violence against the
churchyard wall, which was bespattered with her blood. To
add to the horror of the case, she was far advanced in preg-
nancy, and on being conveyed in an insensible state into the
surgery of
Mr. Cadge, close by, she gave birth to a child,
which only survived a few minutes. The poor woman her-
self died in about an hour. Mr. Stevenson was very much
hurt, but not fatally so, although it is feared that some of
his ribs are fractured, and his whole system is very severely
shaken. Mrs. Stevenson who was a Miss Dangerfiehl, of
London, was quite a young woman, and had only been
married a few years. She leaves tivo
children,