The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

inflicted the wound. To 1 ,ave obtained that knife
Captain Ham s must ha ye passed the prisoner.
i called who proved the
Zany
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werr
opening statement, after r which
Mr. Bullen addi'esseil the jury for prisoner, main-
taining that the e.eceased was the aggressor
throughout, and t h'at the fatal occurrence was an
accident for which f ifisoner was not accountable.
Lae learned jud; ge summed up at some longth,
pointing out the C dfference between murder and
manslaughter, and remarking that no one knew
what occurred
n. the pantry, the captain being
ii,
gone. It was for
them to judge if prisoner's state-
ment was consistent with teats proved.
The jury retired,
a, =id after about half an hour's
absence returned,
wh en they found prisoner not
guilty.

SERIOUS ASSAUL2 ON A MARRIED
WO:M.IN.

At the Westbury (Wilts) petty Sessions, on Tuesday, a
pig dealer named nutcher, of Clinic, Frome, was sum-
moned for assaulting Sarah Sainsbl try, wife of James
Sainsbury, dealer, of Westbury Leigh, with intent, on the
3d of June.—Mr. Bartrum appeared far the complainant,
and Mr. W. Messiter, of Frome, for the defendant.—
The complainant said : My husband is a dealer, of West-
bury Leigh; I have been married to. him eight years, and
have had seven children, all born in wedlock ; on the even-
ing of Tuesday, the 3d of June, the defendant came to our
house respecting a horse he had bought of my husband the
previous day, and which he Bait? he had lost from the field
in which he had put it ; I had never soen defendant before ;
my husband was not at home, and I pert my little boy after
him, but he could not find him ; defendant said he had been
walking about all the forenoon in search of the horse, but
could not find it, and was sure it was about the place some-
where; fearing we should not get our money for the horse
I said I would not mind going as far as Titford myself to
look for the horse; defendant said he shc.uld be very glad if
I would go ; the distance from our house is three miles, and
on the road I called at Mrs. Jones's, a friend, to ask if they
had seen the horse, but they had not ; defendant asked me
which was the nearest way to Frome, and which was the
nearest way for me to return—by the way we had come or
round by Dilton's Mill ; I said it was a little bit farther by
I Dilton's Mill, and he said he should be very much obliged
1 to me if I would come his way, if it was not taking me out
of the way ; I did so ; it was about .half-past eight, and not
dark; when we arrived nearly at the top of the lane the
defendant put his arm across my shoulder; I stopped im-
mediately, and told him I would not have that, and that I
would not go a step further with him, as, if I had come out
with him, it was not for any other purpose than out of
kindness to him to show him the way; he said he did not
mean any harm, and took his hand off my shotilder ; I said,
I should think you did not, you are married, and so am I,
and it is very hard if I cannot go on without your insulting
me ;' he said he was very sorry, and would not attempt it
again ; WA then walked on towards Dilton, as I was as
near to that place as I was to Titford ; when we got into
Church-lane, a little beyond the Pound, I was walking by
the side of him, when he said, 'Look, here's a nice place,'
and immediately took hold of me round my shoulders ; L
said, If you don't let go immediately I will tell Sainsbury,
and you shall hear further of it ;' he said, ' I don't mean to
hurt you,' and kept pushing me as hard as he was able
~,gainst the bank at the side of the road. I struggled with
hi as hard as ever I could, and kept threatening him;
when he found he could not throw me down he lifted me
off raj" feet, and threw me back against the bank. I told
him if iie did not, let me go I would cry as loud as I could ;
he still repeated his attempts, and I told him I would tell
Sainsbury_ He said he didn't care for Sainsbury, or any -
one else. (The complainant then proceeded to describe the
assault whit h was attempted, but she struggled with hint
violently, ant I presented him from accomplishing his pur-
pose.) The Deneh inflicted a fine of £lO upon the defen-
dant, or, in del 'suit, six months' imprisonment.