The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1862.

fendant and his friends laboured under the effects
of drink.

In c;oss-examination he said he refused the bail
of the defendant's friends, because he did not know
them ; but the defendant was subsequently ad-
mitted to bail. When the charge had been taken
the defendant was recognised by the gaoler at the
station to whom he was known as a respectable
man ; yet he (Sergeant Thompson) thought proper
to lock him up.
Mr, Lewis, in his address to the magistrate, com-
plained of the act of locking up a respectable trades-
man under the circumstances as an improper and
arbitrary act, and said he should have been liberated
on his own recognisances.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Bowles, respectable witnesses,
who were in the company of the defendant at the
time, contradicted the constable's statement in many
essentials. They declared that they, as well as
the defendant, were perfectly sober ; that they
had not touched the constable ; that for merely
asking him what was the matter between
him and their friend, he threatened to take
them into custody, and acted altogether in a most
extraordinary manner.
Mr. John Barnard, a musician, who was a
stranger to all the parties, said that on his remons-
trating with the constable on what he conceived to
be extraordinary conduct on his part, he had
threatened to take him into custody.
This concluded the evidence, and Mr, Elliott
having expressed it to be his opinion that the con-
stable was not justified under the circumstances,
nd had no grounds for taking the defendant into
custody, dismissed the complaint.

HAMMERSMITH.—THE INJURED WIFE.—
Mrs. Emma Duncombe, an elderly lady, residing
at No. 102, Gloucester crescent, Westbourne-park,
appeared before Mr. Ingham, to answer a summons,
charging her with threatening to shoot Miss Louisa
Weldon.

A professional gentleman attended on each side.
The complainant, a well-dressed young woman,
stated that she resided at No. 12, Park Cottages,
Hammersmith. The defendant had been in the
habit of annoying her at her house, and had threat-
ened and also struck her with a whip. On the 15th
of September she drove up with a pony and chaise,
accompanied by her servant and a woman. Witness's
house is about seven yards from the road. The de-
fendant threw about a dozen stones at the house.
Witness was in the garden, when the defendant
abused her, and she went with her baby into the
front parlour. Defendant commenced pulling up the
plants and evergreens. She next took up some stones
and threw them at the windows, one of which was
smashed. She threatened witness with a whip, which
she carried in her hand, and she also said she had a
pistol and would blow her brains out. The annoyance
continued from half-past six o'clock till half. past ten
o'clock at night. The defendant and the same two
females were at her house at half-past seven o'clock
the next morning. The defendant then said she
would murder her before she had done with her.
Witness sent for a constable and gave her into cus-
tody, but she managed to escape. The witness also
said she went in bodily fear of the defendant.
In cross-examination the complainant said she had
gone by the name of Mrs. Edwards while living in
the Ledbury-road. Mr. Duncombe was living with
her. She became acquainted with him casually at
the Marylebone Theatre. She did not meet him at
a dancing place, She had accompanied Mr. Dun-
combe to a dancing-room. It was not a sixpenny
dance, but a shilling one. It was frequented by a
respectable company. She never walked Padding.
ton streets. She lived with her mother, and was a
respectable girl until she knew Mr. Duncombe.
She had lived in Stanley-street under the name of
Mrs. Williams at Mr. Duncombe's request. Mr.
Duncombe was the father of the child. She had
never insulted the defendant, nor had she ever held
up her baby before her to annoy her. She had said
to defendant, " Look at the baby." She once put a
broom in the ground and told the defendant to talk
to it. She had been:living with Mr. Buncombe
for three years.
For the defence it was stated that defendant had
been married 14 years, and a year and a half ago
her husband commenced absenting himself from her
home. She watched him, and traced him from place
to place living with the complainant. She had oc-
casion to seek her husband for maintenance, andthe
complainant insulted her. The defendant had not
the slightest intention of injuring the complainant.
A settlement had been prepared, but not in com-
pliance with the wishes of the defendant, and the
complainant had threatened to make her go into a
court for a divorce.

The defendant's servant was called to prove that
a pistol was never mentioned. The words the de-
fendant used were, " I've got a pop-gun."
Mr. Ingham called upon her to find one surety in
£2O to keep the peace for three months.
The necessary bail was forthwith produced, and
the defendant then left the court with her friends.

ATTEMP7ED JIU_RDER EY AN OFFICER

IN 711 E ARMY.

Yesterday Lieut. Wm. M'Rae, a lieutenant in the
46th Regiment of Foot, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych, at the Thames Police court, charged
with attempting to murder George Pavey, cook and
steward of the ship Northumberland, now lying in
the St. Katharine Dock.

The prosecutor, a respectable and steady man,
exhibited a scar on his forehead and a bruised hand
and is suffering from the dreadful attack made upon
him by the prisoner. He was struck hith a heavy
iron instrument called a mall, to which was attached
a wooden handle two feet in length. This ponder-
ous weapon was produced by Rowcroft, a Thames
police-constable, No. 43 ; it was stained with blood.
The prisoner struck the complainant a "swinging
blow" with the mall on the head, and if he had not
partially broken the force of the blow with his hand
he would have been killed. As it was a severe
wound was inflicted on his forehead, his hand was
disabled, he lost a large quantity of blood, and for
several days his life was despaired of.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner was a
passenger in the ship Northumberland, from Madras.
On Friday, the 19th instant, at half-past nine in
the morning, the prisoner followed him from the
cabin to the galley, or cook-house, on deck ; and as
he was leaving the galley the prisoner struck at him
with the mall with great force. He broke the blow
with his hand, which he raised, and closed on the
prisoner, who let fall the hammer. They fell on the
deck, and the prisoner was on the top of him. He
called for assistance, and the prisoner was seized
and secured. The captain and mate dressed the
wound on his head, and bound up his hand. The
blood spirted from his head all over the deck.

Mr. Woolrych—What led to this strange and
murderous attack upon you ?

Witness—On the same morning, when the break-
fast was ready, I called out to Lieutenant M'Rae in
his cabin, " Breakfast ready, sir." He said, " All
right," but did not come to breakfast. I called out
again, and he said, "I don't want any." I
cleared away the breakfast things. I took some
down into the chief cabin, and he followed me
down and said, " You must do something for me. I
shall cut myself in the side." I said, "I can do
nothing for you." He kept following me about the
ship, and I could not get on with my work. I
went on the poop and made a complaint to the cap-
tain, and said, "He is following me about decks., '
Then the lieutenant came down, and the captain said,
" Mr. M'Rae, you are very wrong in interfering
with the steward," and then he deliberately fol-
lowed me to the galley, and aimed a tremendous
blow at me with the mall.
Mr. Woolrych—Did you observe anything sin-
gular in her conduct before this P
Before this question was answered, Rowcroft, the
constable, produced several daggers, scimiters, aad
other weapons of offence and defence, belonging to
the prisoner, and taken from his cabin. He also put
in the ship's log-book, in which there were entries
of strange and violent conduct on the part of Lieut.
M'Rae.

Rowcroft, in answer to a question by the magis-
trate, said—The Northumberland only arrived yes-
terday, sir. There is no one here from the ship.
Mr.Woolrych repeated the question he had before
asked, and added—Had Lieu t.M‘Rae been drinking P
Pavey—He had not tasted strong drinks for a
month before.

Mr. Woolrych—Was he considered eccentric on
board ?

Witness—No, sir. We sailed from Madras. The
prisoner was then in a weakly condition and in bad
health. One day I saw him in his cabin (the ter-
mination of the sentence is too repulsive for publi-
cation). He afterwards tried to get me turned out
of the cabin, and wanted the master of the ship to
flog me. He wanted me to receive money, and
this
complained I had talked about him. He made out
two papers or cheques on a bank or £5OO sterling,
not to bring an action against him for defamation
of character. I did not have the papers. I was
never offensive or insolent towards him. I am sure I
saw him doing what I have stated.
Mr. Woolry ch-1 shall not proceed further with
inquiry to-day. I shall remand the prisoner.
the captain and chief mate must be here at the
next examination.
The
prisoner
of age, did ) who was stated to be only 21 years
He was evidently in bad health.
not speak a word during the investiga-
tion.

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