The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

ceived from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood,
stating that a fair was about to be holden on a piece
of ground, on which Vauxhall-gardens stood, which
used to be called .the Royal Property, and hoped
that steps would be taken by the magistrate and
police to avert so serious a nuisance.
Mr. Mould (the inspector addressed by the magis-
trate) said that information of the intended fair
had reached his superintendent, and he had sent to
the parties engaged in getting it up, to caution them
of the consequences. At a later hour of the day the
inspector informed Mr. Elliott he had discovered
the landlord of the property and gave him the ne
cessary caution, and that everything should be done
by Mr. Bickers, or his 'Superintendent, to prevent
the fair being holden.

SOUTHWARK.—SERIOUS CHARGE OF STAB-
BING.—Ann Ulman, a middle-aged woman, the wife
of a shoemaker, residing in Queen-street, was
brought before Mr. Burcham, charged with mali-
ciously stabbing Eliza Aldridge, thereby inflicting
grievous bodily harm.
The complainant, whose head was bandaged up,
and who appeared to be suffering from loss of blood,
said that she had known the prisoner some years
as a fellow lodger, but had not recently lived with
her. Witness and her husband, who worked at
Deane and Dray's, lived in Angel-court, Blackman.
street. On Saturday night last, about 11 o'clock,
witness went up to bed, leaving her husband and a
friend below. About a quarter of an hour afterwards
she heard the prisoner making use of foul language
at the door, when her husband called her down.
She descended in her night-dress and asked what the
prisoner wanted, She said she wanted her daughter.
Witness told her that she did not know where her
daughter was, as she had not seen her for eight. or
nine months. The prisoner then made use of foul
language, rushed at her and struck her on the left
eye with something sharp, which nearly stunned
her and she was blinded with blood. She fell down
exhausted, but a constable fortunately came up and
procured a surgeon, who attended upon her and
strapped up the wound.
Mr. Burcham asked her if she saw any knife or
other instrument in the prisoner's hand before she
struck her.
She replied that she did not, and the violence was
so sudden that she had not time to put her hands up
to protect her face. She never gave the prisoner
any provocation, or spoke an angry word to her, as
she perceived she was under the influence of liquor.
The prisoner here said that her daughter had
been inveigled from home, and Mrs. Aldridge knew
where she was. She was told so, and that was the
reason she went there, but she had no knife.
Mr. Burcham asked the prosecutrix whether she
knew anything of the prisoner's daughter.
She replied that she did not.
Philip Yates said that on Saturday, about half-
past 11, he was with Mr. Aldridge after his wife
went upstairs to bed. The prisoner then came up to
the door and said she wanted her daughter. Mr.
Aldridge told her he knew nothing about her, and
called his wife down. As soon as the latter came
to the door the prisoner rushed at her and struck
her on the face, and blood immediately flowed from
a wound near the left eye. Witness seized hold of
the prisoner and secured her until a constable came
up, when she was taken into custody.
Mr. Jas. Henderson, surgeon, of Trinity-square,
said that on Saturday night, a little before 12
o'clock, he was called to the station-house, and saw
the prosecutrix bleeding from a wound on the side
of the left temple. He examined it, and found an
incised cut two inches deep, and down to the bone.
It was in a slanting direction, and had it been a
quarter of an inch lower down, must have proved
fatal. It was inflicted with a sharp instrument,
and not with the key found in the prisoner's pos-
session.

Josiah Welsh, 185 M, said that when he was
called he found a mob of nearly 100 persons about
the door. He secured the prisoner, and had the
prosecutrix conveyed to the station-house, where
last witness attended upon her. The prisoner ad-
mitted striking the complainant, but she said it
was not with a knife, but a key.
Mr. Burcham asked whether any knife had been
found.
Witness replied in the negative. He found a
large key in the prisoner's hand, but there was no
blood on it.
In defence the prisoner said she had been told by
a woman that the prosecutrix had inveigled her
daughter away from her home for an improper pur-
pose. She accordingly went to her house, and
asked for her, when complainant struck her in a
passion, and she struck her again with the key.
She had no knife.
Mr. Burcham told her that the evidence of the
surgeon proved that the wound was inflicted with
a sharp instrument, therefore, under all the circum-
stances, he should commit her for trial.

GREENWICH_..---EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
OBTAINING BILLS OF EXCHANGE BY FRAUD.-

Philip Litoun, 22, a German, described as a general
dealer, of 4, Gloucester-terrace, Gloucester-road,
Upper Grange-road, Bermondsey, was placed in
the dock, before Mr. Trail!, charged with lraudu-
lently obtaining two £5O bills of exchange and two
similar bills for £75 each, from Messrs. Maugham
Brothers, scrap ironworks, Greenwich.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the prisoner.
Henry Maugham said—l am in partnership with
my brother Wm. Alfred Maugham, as manufacturers
of scrap iron. The prisoner has been in the habit
of purchasing old iron for us, and about a fortnight
since he came to our works and said he had had a
cheap lot of scrap iron offered him, at £3 per ton,
which he was willing to let us have at an advance
of ss. per ton as his profit. We agreed to make the
purchase, and on Mendel last he again called upon
us at our works, and, saying he had paid a deposit
of £4O on the iron, asked us to give two bills of
£5O, at one month's date, we promising to let him
have the balance in cash in a few days. We gave
him those two bills on that day. The bills were
drawn by the prisoner and accepted by me. He
came again on Friday last, and produced a receipt
for £l4O, which went to show that amount had
been paid on account of the iron, the descriptions
of iron being set forth, and that the £4O deposit
would be forfeited unless the balance was'paid in
10 or 12 days, lam not sure which. I told him he
had better look up on Monday for £lOO, but ulti-
mately he said that two bills for £75 each at short
dates would settle the matter at once, and the iron
would be commenced to be delivered on Monday at
the rate of 20 tons per day. We gave him those bills
on Friday, he undertaking to bring a receipt in full
on the evening of that day. The receipt he produced
for £l4O had the signature of " Myth" as a sur-
name, but I do not recollect what Christian name
it bore. There was no address, but he said the
person of whom he bought the iron lived in East-
street, Walworth,`,,and was his schoolfellow—they
came to England in the same ship from Germany
together. After we had parted with the bills I
feared we had not acted altogether regularly, and
sent my clerk in the evening to make inquiries at
East-street, Walworth. I saw the clerk on the
following morning, and he told me no such person
as Blyth was known at the address given. The
prisoner did not bring the promised receipt in full
on the Friday evening nor on the Saturday morn-
ing, but my brother met him in London on Satur-
day, and threatened to give him into custody unless
he took him to the person to whom he had paid the
£l4O, or returned their bills. My brother took him
to the Jerusalem Coffee-house, City, where I met
them, and the prisoner said he would satisfy us all
was right, and induced me to go with him a few
yards, where he had left a pony and chaise, promis-
ing us;we should; have the last two £75 bills back,
saying: some one in the Mile-end-road held them,
and that he would take me to his own wharf and
let me have goods to the value of the first two bills
of £5O each. The prisoner met some acquaintance
on the way, and they walked together a few yards
before me, when I met a person who I thought
knew something of the prisoner, and while making
some inquiries of this person in Cannon-street,
City, the prisoner and his acquaintance suddenly
dived down through some doorway, and I lost sight
of them, remaining nearly two hours, but neither
of them returned.
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and 40 tons of horse shoes and stubs (nails), about
25 tons being horse shoes, and more valuable than
the nails. He also gave us the name of " Blyth"
as the person of whom he was to obtain the iron,
but did not give us his place of residence, saying he
did not live very far off, and he did not wish to in-
troduce us direct to his connexion.
By Mr. Lewis—We have not had more than half-
a-dozen transactions with the prisoner. Perhaps
three or four of these have been bill transactions.
The prisoner has been the drawer of those bills, but
he is not liable to pay more than one, and that not
of a greater amount than £5O. The purchase of
iron which forms the subject of the present charge
was not to have been a ready-money transaction.
We gave him the two £5O bills to get discounted,
and to pay for the iron. When ho produced the re-
ceipts for the £l4O, he told us he had made better
use of the two £5O bills than discounting them, as
had
he had paid them away to a Mr. Bowles for lead,
and had sold the lead, the proceeds of which
paid away in cash on account of the scrap iron. He
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