The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION MOUSE. —Daniel Wilson, a man of
about 40 years of age, appeared before Mr. Alderman
Rose on a summons, at the instance of Mrs. Elizabeth
Tonson, landlady of the Prince Arthur Tavern, Lead-
enhall-street, charging him with assault.

The complainant said—The defendant has lately been
managing my business. On the 25th nit. he got very
much intoxicated, and abused me because I did not
take supper. On my remonstrating with him, he gave
me rather a violent blow on the eye. He then knocked
me down, and kicked me two or three times. He also
knocked one of my teeth out. On escaping to the bar
parlour he gave me another blow. I sent for a surgeon,
thinking my ribs were broken. I was confined to my
bed for a week. I have over and over again desired
him to leave my house, and he has always refused. He
has had his name painted over my door contrary to my
wishes. I have tried to take it down, but have been
prevented from doing so by reason of his violence. I
left my house in consequence of his treatment, and am
afraid to go back. lam in bodily fear of him.
Cross-examined by the attorney for the defendant—l
have known the defendant 12 or 14 years. He never
was in any kind of partnership with me. Several times
before the day on which he assaulted me he has given
me a gentle slap on the cheek, but not in kindness. The
blow of which I have spoken discoloured my eye.
Mr. W. G. Bennett, surgeon, of Leadenhs,ll-street,
said—l was called in to attend the complainant last Wed-
nesday week. I found her in bed, very tremulous and
very agitated, and complaining of great pain in her side,
which she told me was produced by a violent blow. I
at first thought one of her ribs was fractured. The pain
she was suffering was so acute that had she not sustained
a very serious injury of the knee during the last twelve
months I should have bled her. I applied leeches, and
she has gradually improved in health.
T. Morgan, a lodger in the house of the complainant,
partially corroborated her evidence.

The 'defendant's solicitor said that the quarrel had
originated is an attempt on the part of the complainant
to get rid of his client, who had been mixel up in pecu-
niary transactions with her. He then called as a witness
for the defendant, Jernima Hoy, barmaid, who corrobo-
rated most minutely the evidence of her mistress.
Alderman Rose said it was quite evident that an as-
sault had been committed, and that the complainant
went in bodily fear. He should therefore order the
defendant to enter into his recognisance's in 1001., and
find two substantial sureties for 501. each, to keep the
peace for six months, with twenty-four hours' notice of

"The defendant did not procure the necessary bail,
and was eventually conveyed to Holloway Prison in
the van.

Margaret July was broight up, charged with attempt-
ing to commit suicide.
William Nearey said he was one of the piermen at
Blackfriars-bridge, and while in his boat near the pier
on Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock, he heard re-
peated calls for a boat, and then saw something floating
rapidly up tke river with the tide. He immediately
rowed to the spot and found it was a woman in the
water ; but before he could reach her she sank twice,
aid he then succeeded in catching hold of her shawl and
drew her into the boat. She was perfectly insensible,
and he thought she was dead ; but he took her to the
receiving-house as soon as he got ashore, and the usual
restoratives having been applied she was ultimately
recovered.

Thomas Deadman said he saw the woman run down
the steps and throw herself into the water, and if the
piorman had not been in his boat at the time she must
hare been lost.

The prisoner, who said her husband had deserted her,
was then remanded, and ordered to be placed in the in.
firmary of the prison.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mr. Charles Henry Oar.
diner, the landlord of the British Lion Tavern, in
Cavendish-street, Hoxton, was charged before Mr. Ham-
mill with having violently assaulted William Hasbutt, a
barman, at a public-house in the same neighbourhood,
and also with having resisted and seriously injured seve-
ral police-constables who had taken him into custody.
It appeared from the evidence that shortly 43efore ten
o'clock on the previous night the defendant entered a
public-house in Crossley-street, Hoxton, and ordered
some liquor ; but while he was partaking of it in front of
the bar he addressed the landlady in such obscene and
offensive language that he was ordered to quit the house.
Instead of complying with the request the defendan;
made his way into the tap-room, and seized hold of a
poker, which he commenced brandishing in a menacing
manner, and defied any one to interfere with him. After
considerable difficulty he was at length forcibly ejected,
but he strenuously endeavoured to re-enter the house,
and in the course of the struggle that ensued he struck
the first complainant, William Hasbutt, a violent blow
in the face, which felled him to the ground. While they
were struggling together the attention of several police-
men was attracted to the disturbance, one of whom at
once interfered for the protection of the barman, but he
was instantly knocked down by the prisoner, who after-
wards kicked him repeatedly about the lower part of his
person until he was almost inserfeible. Two other con-
stables who attempted to secure him were also assailed
in a similar manner, and the prisoner continued his re-
sistance until it was found necessary to bind his legs to-
gether with a leathern belt, and it required the united
efforts of six policemen to convey him by main force to
the station-house.
Mr. Hammill severely animadverted upon the outra-
geous conduct of the prisoner, and ordered him to pay
three separate
penalties of 51. for each assault, or to be
committed, in default, for six months to the House of
Correction.

WESTMINSTER.—Two poor women, named .Tones
and O'Brien, each with an infant in her arms, were
charged with wilfully breaking a lamp at the Westminster
Chapel.
Upon the case being partially represented, Mr. Arnal
sent for Mr. Elliot, the master of St. Margaret's Work-
house, in order that he might hear the proceedings.
Margaret Long stated that the defendants, at twelve
o'clock on the previous night, clime from the direction of
the workhouse in York-street, and broke the lamp in
question. _ _

Edward Buckley, 131 B, said that, observing the de-
fendants with some other women at ten o'clock at night
at the workhouse door, he inquired of the porter whether
something could not be done for the women with chil-
dren ik their arms ; to which he replied that the house
was
full, and added at subsequent period that the
master had kindly heretoforea taken persons into the
lodgew, bhuotn7se,:now forbidden by the board. One poor
boy,
him neas thought would die, was so cold that
he took
straw, for it blownaita I.7i..ttat ewesoldanndighwtr.apped him in some
T. Eaggs, porter ot:etthteworkhouse, who had attended
with the master, was into the witness-box, and stated
that the women w:hel:hteetdolor at half-past four o'clock
in the afternoon,
hem they would not be
admitted, which he repeated at minutes past five,
because that would enable them ttengo elsewhere and see
Defendants in-
whether they could not get a lode'
y would smash the
cited the other women to get tip lodging. Defendants the bell, and
said if they were nut admitted the
windows.
In answer to inquiries from the magistrate
said he did not send them to the relieving officer' witness
said be "7
they were only in attendance frem nine till eleven in the
morning. If a case were very urgent, such as a Woman
being taken in labour, or extreme illness, the master
would do the duty of a relieving officer.
Jones, in reply to the charge, said that at the time she
broke the lamp she did not care what became of her, as
she aid her child were starved with cold and hunger.
O'Brien said that her poor child turned black in the
face with the severity of the weather.
In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Arnold, Mr. Elliot
said the case was as stated by the porter.
Mr. Arnold observed that the defendants were
charged with committing an offence of which they had
• been guilty really to get shelter from tho inclemency of
the weather. It was truly a horrible state of things that
:-persons should be driven by cold and hunger to outrage
the law in this way. It was clear that they had been
there from five o'clock till twelve at night, and were not
referred to the relieving officers because they were only
in attendance at certain times, and if the master under-

took their duties he should discharge them whenever
the necessity of the case required: Whenever persons
came destitute wanting relief, it was the du y of the
parish authorities to give it. If the house was iull, and
Parties who required food and shelter could not be ad-
mitted, the authorities were bound to administer that
relief of which they stood in need, and to which they were
entitled elsewhere. It was a very deplorable state of 1
things that persons, particularly with infants in their
arms, should be exposed for hours to the inclemency of
the weather, in the way these poor creatures had been ;
they bad been told to go further, but it was evident
they could not have fared much worse. They were
destitute at the door of the workhouse, and he could not
see that they had a right to be told to go elsewhere for
that relief to which they were entitled at St. Margaret's.
He was, however, bound to administer the law, and
must, he admitted unwillingly, commit the defendants
for seven days each, in default of their paying the
amount of damage, 7s.
Committed accordingly.