The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-31 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH •STREET, THIS DAY.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—MichaII Zumpf, a German
tailor, living in West. street, Golden.squarc, was charged
with stabbing a Pole, named Johann Rochell, a carver, of
Silver-street, with a knife; an Charles Iredall, a tailor
living in Carnaby-street, was also charged with assaulting
the prosecutor.
Mr. Chalres Albert interpreted the evidence, which was
given in German.
The prosecut©r said ho was passing Zumpf's house a
little after 32 last night, when he knocked at the door
wanting to speak to Zumpf's wife, and when he had one
foot in the doorway, Zumpf rushed upon him with a knife
in his hand, the knife ly,ing about a foot long. He
(Rochell) seized Zumpf's hand, but could not hold him, and
Zumpf then struck him in the cheek with the knife, and
retreated into the house. Prosecutor fell, but afterwards
got up and ran into a court, where he received a severe blow
on the head, and while on the ground he was kicked several
times by five or six persons, among them being Iredall. He
afterwards met an officer and gave the prisoners in charge.
He went to Dr. Duncan's, in Cambridge-street, having
lost a large quantity of blood, and had his wounds dressed.
He knew no cause for the attack, not knowing the prisoner,
In answer to the magistrate, the prosecutor said he was
acquainted with Zumpf's wife, and used to visit her two or
three times a week, but never saw Zumpf there.
Zumpf asked the prosecutor whether he had not forbid-
den him the house, as he (Zumpf) was a marzied man and
had a daughter, but prosecutor denied it.
Louisa Zumpf, daughter of prisoner, said her father did
not live with her mother, He had been abroad, and her
mother had got a protection order. He came to the house
yesterday evening and most evenings.
The witness corrobrated the prosecutor's statement.
Weeks, C division, proved taking prisoner into custody.
Prosecutor first gave Iredall into custody and afterwards
Zumpf, wbo denied doing it. There was a great quantity
of bl hod outside Mrs. Zumpf's door, but he could find no
instrument. He heard Mrs, Zumpf say Rochell should
come when he liked.
Remanded.

THAMES, THIS DAY.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION or TEN SOVEREIGNS. THE
Two GERMANS.—Heinrich Meyer was brought up on
remand before Mr. Woolzych, charged with stealing 10
sovereigns, the moneys of Freidenbach Hassenbuttel.
The parties are German sugar-bakers, and the very anti-
podes of each other. They were both living in the same
house at No. 1, Neptune-street, Wellclose-square, up to the
21st of May. The prosecutor, an industrious, frugal, and
sober man, had saved upwards of £2O, and a few days
before the robbery had paid £9, half the passage-money to
New Zealand. The remainder of his hard earned savings
were in his trunk in his bed-room. On Wednesday
evening, the 21st of May, the prisoner absconded from
his lodgings, and under particularly suspicious cir-
cumstances. On the same night Hassenbuttel missed
his gold from his box. SuspiciOn fell on the prisoner im-
mediately, and information was given to the police. In-
spector Graham, of the Thames division, traced the prisoner
to the Howe, a foreign steamship, trading between Bremen
and London, and lying off Horsleydown• The vessel was
searched, but the prisoner could not be discovered. On the
following
overhauledmorn morning
Inspector Graham and his boat's crew
againe Howe, and found the prisoner doubled
up and
secreted under the bowspit. The inspector could
obtain no tidings of the ten sovereigns until yesterday,
when the chief mate of the Howe, a German, admitted that
the prisoner came on board the Howe on the evening of
the 21st instant, and gave ten sovereigns,
which he requested him to take care of. He
consented to do so. He afterwards returned to the pri-
soner one sovereign. The other nine sovereigns were pro-
duced by Inspector Graham, and the chief mate of the
vessel said they were given to him by the prisoner. It also
appeared that the prisoner took up and left in Hessen-
brittle's chest a Bank of England note, and that he told
the officer he should have taken thit if he had known the
value of it. Early on the morning of May 21 he let fall a
bundle of his own wearing apparel from the staircase win-
dow of the house, 1, Neptune-street, The bundle fell close
to the feet of a Spanish boy, named Carlos Bitango,
The prisoner's object was to lead the people in the house to
very believe that he had also been robbed as well as his country-
man, clumsily indeed, and he
left
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Mr. Woolrych was very glad the money was recovered,
and ordered it to be given up to the prosecutor. The pri-
soner was a very bad fellow, and he should order him to be
imprisoned for two months, and kept to hard labour, for
the unlawful possession of ten sovereigns.