The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON.--John Adams, a
dock labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged
with assaulting and wounding Joel Simpson; a carman.

The complainant had charge of a horse and cart, which
he was drawing over Tower-hill yesterday afternoon.
The cart was laden with tea. He saw the prisoner on the
foot board behind, partly in and partly out of the cart. He
suspected the prisoner's object was plunder, and ordered
him to get down. The prisoner did so, and ran to wards
him in a great rage with a long iron hook with a wooden
handle, used by porters and others, with which a blow was
aimed at his head. He put up his hand and received the
blow on his knuckles, which were torn by the hook. The
complainant then struck the prisoner, who said, " I'll
stab you," and made a blow at his arm with
the hook. The arm was severely lacerated on the
fleshy part. A constable named Saunders saw the parties
struggling and separated them. He took the prisoner into
custody. The complainant's arm was then torn and
bleeding.

The prisoner said he was a labourer in the St. Katherine
Dock, and an honest man. He put in certificates of good
character and conduct, and detailed that he got upon the
complainant's van for a ride over London-bridge, and not
for the purposes of plunder. The complainant pulled
him :down, seized him by the throat, and attempted to
choke him, and in the struggle the complainant was hurt
with the hook.

Mr. Partridge believed the prisoner was an honest man,
and did not go upon the van for any dishonest purpose
but to have a ride. He had no doubt, however, that the
prisoner had used the sack hook produced, and it was a
most dangerous instrument. He sentenced the prisoner
to pay a fine of £3, or be imprisoned for six weeks for
the cowardly act he had committed.
SAYE ME FROM MY FniEmes.--John Flinn, aged 36, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with
stealing a purse, containing £6 10s. in gold from Johanna
Taylor, the wife of the mate of a coasting ship.
The parties were dwelling, until a few days Eince, in
the dockyard, Shadwell. On the afternoon of the 25th
inst. the prosecutor left home with a purse containing four
sovereigns and five half sovereigns, which she had received
of her husband the week before for the purpose of invest-
ing the same in a savings-bank. The manager and clerk
of the bank were (unfortunately for her) both at dinner,
and she took a walk. She met with her neighbours, the
prisoner and his wife. She had known them 10 years, and
put confidence in them. The prisoner said he was very
badly off, that his five young children were laid
down with the whooping-cough, and that he had
a very bad hand which prevented him from working.
Mrs. Taylor said she would treat him, and she did so, and
treated his wife also. They went to several public houses
and drank pretty freely, everything being paid for by Mrs.
Taylor, who was " troubled all over with rhuematics,"
and, being helpless, sat down for ten minutes. The pri-
soner put his hand in Mrs. Taylor's bosom in the presence
of his wife, and took her purse containing her gold away.
Mrs. Taylor said " You have robbed me—you have got my
gold," but was too ill to do anything more. Two days
afterwards the prisoner was given into custody, and he said
to Mrs. Taylor, "I am your friend, and so is my wife. I
was not in your company at all on Wednesday, and you
are a very wicked woman." Ample evidence was given of
the prisoner and his wife being in Mrs. Taylor's company.
Henry Davids, a police-constable, saw the prosecutrix
Flinn and his wife in the middle of a street in Shad-
well on the Wednesday night in question. Mrs. Taylor
was seated on the ground. The prisoner's wife said to
the policeman, " Just lift this woman up for me." Davids
put Mrs. Taylor on her feet. She complained of rheu-
matism, and was the worse for liquor, but knew what
she was about. The prisoner and his wife led her away.
Evidence was also given that the prisoner, who was so
poor on the evening of the 18th, was changing gold at
public-houses next morning.
Mr. Partridge committed the priboner for trial.

COPPER ORE SALE.—At the Swansea ticketing
on Tuesday tha following sales were effected :—Knock-
mahon, 426 tons ; Bearhaven, 342 tons ; Genoa, 68 tons ;
Var. C.C., 76 tons; Casili, 22 tons ; Victor Emmanuel, 64
tons; Italian ore, 12 tons; Sweepings, 7 tons; burnt ore,
223 tons ; Australian ore, 76 tons ; Moonta, 65 tons ; Bri-
tish regulus, 7 tons ; Cape ore, 12 tons; Stag, 6 tons ;
Cape ore, 47 tons, making a total of 1,453 tons. The ave-
rages were as follow :—Produce, 10k ; price, £8 3s. 11d. ;
standard, £lOl 18s. Id.

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