The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-11 00:00:00

SHOOTING WITH INTENT, &C.

Wm. Corderoy was indicted with shooting at his wife,
Mary Corderoy, with intent to do her grievoup bodily
harm.

The prisoner, it appeared, came home one night in a
state of intoxication, and when he entered his room he
called out to his wife to look round, and he then discharged
a pistol in her face. She was conveyed to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, and her injuries wore dressed.
A police-constable took prisoner into custody. When he
asked him for the pistol he said he had not used one, but
that the injury had been done with an old bone.
Mr. Peerless, the house-surgeon of the hospital, said the
injuries were slight, the forehead of the prosecutor was
blistered, and gunpowder was under the skin. He should
not, however, consider the injury could, in surgical lan-
guage, be called a wound.
Baron Bramwell, in summing up, told the jury they
could either find the prisoner guilty of the offence for
which he was indicted, or of a common assault.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of the latter offence.
Baron Bramwell sentenced him to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Two men, named Semple and. Dinan, were indicted for
stealing a portmanteau from one of the stations of the
South Eastern Railway.
The jury acquitted Semple, but found Dinan guilty.
The learned Judge sentenced him to eight months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
The trial of the three young men, Thompson, Weston,
and Bishop, on a charge of setting firo to certain premises
in Commercial-street, Whitechapel, in the occupation of
the Messrs. Defries, was postponed until next session.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

The Court was occupied the whole of the day with the
hearing of evidence relative to other indictments against
the prisoners standing charged with stealing a largo quan-
tity of sugar sweepings, the property of Mr. Hunt, from
Brewer's Quay.

POLICE INTELLIGENCES—This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM THE POLICE COURT.—This
morning a man named Robert Lewis, an upholsterer re-
siding in King-street, Soho, and who was charged with
outraging two or three little girls, succeeded in effecting
his.escapo from custody. It appears that the fellow was
in charge of a police constable in the prisoners' waiting-
room, preparatory to going before the magistrate, and the
constable having left him for a moment he made his way
through a passage at the rear adjoining the stables, and
leading to the Marlborough-mews, the passage being kept
open for the workmen to bring materials, through some
building operations going on in the yard attached to the
police-court.
DESERTING A CHlLD.—Christopher Lewis was brought
before Mr. Yardley on a warrant charging him with leav-
ing his child Ann, about 12 years of age, chargeable to the
parish of St. George, Hanover-square.
The evidence of Lires, the task-master of the house,
showed that the prisoner absconded from the workhouse,
taking a suit of clothes away with him, and leaving his
child chargeable to the parish.
Mr. Yardley said he considered it a bad case, and com-
mitted the prisoner for two months with hard labour.