The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-18 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT BY A GENTLEMAN.-Mr. Arthur
Charles Davis, of 52, Albert-street, Mornington-crescent,
gentleman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assault-
ing Mr. Charles Mills, a medical student, residing at 55,
Guildford-street, Russell-square.
The complainant said he was in the Flying Horse
Tavern, Oxford-street, last night, taking some refresh-
ment, when, without the least provocation, the defendant
knocked him down and struck him several times while he
was on the ground. Ho then sent for the police, and gave
the defendant into custody.
The defendant asked the complainant whether he had
not made remarks about him, and he said he had not.

Mr. Frederick Buswell, of IG, Stamford-street, said he
was in the tavern taking a glass, and he saw the defendant
strike tho complainant without any provocation. Both
persons were strangers to him, and he had attended at some
trouble.

A police-constable said that hearing last night a noise in
tho public-house he looked in and saw the defendant
striking somebody who was lying down.
The defendant said the complainant was making re-
marks over the bar. He asked the complainant if they
were meant for him, and he replied " Yes, if you like.'
He then invited the complainant to put up his hands, and,
on his doing so he struck him.
Mr. Anthony Hart Davis, brother of the defendant, said
he heard the complainant making offensive remarks, say-
ing that persons came to the house and pretended to be
gentlemen, giving themselves airs. The complainant put
up his hands, and then there wore blows exchanged be-
tween the complainant and his brother.

Mr. Buswell said ho did not believe tho last witness was
present.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he considered it an unprovoked
assault altogether by a person who, from his dress, one
would think would know better.

Tho defendant was fined 40s. or a month's imprison.
ment.

SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.—Sarah Thompson, a
young woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a war-
rant with violently assaulting a young man named Edward
Cainling, of 23, New Church-court, Strand.
The 'complainant, whose head was bandaged, said that
on the night of Saturday week he was having a fight with
another man in a ginger-beer and ice shop near the Tot-
tenham-court-road, when the prisoner seized up a ginger-
beer glass and struck him a violent blow on the head with
it. The glass broke and he was frightfully cut. The pri-
soner then stabbed at his head with the broken glass, in-
flicting another severe wound. He fainted, and was taken,
smothered with blood, to the North London Hospital, where
he had had to attend ever since. [The complainant hero
exhibited tho shirt he was wearing at the time, and it was
saturated with blood.]
Sergeant Head, 2 E, said ho found the complainant
bleeding from wounds on his head, and while he was as-
certaining how he came by his injuries, tho prisoner, who
was present, ran away. He took the injured man to the
hospital, where the doctor said the wounds were very bad,
two veins being cut through. The prisoner was yesterday
taken on a warrant.

The prisoner said that the complainant was at the time
fighting a young man she lived with.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that striking a man with a glass was
a very serious affair. lie should fine the prisoner 40s. or a
month.