The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STRELIT. —lsaac Rich, a
Mr.,Henry, charged with
at the bar before
was placed
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H middle aged man,
killing his wife, A.T.argaret Rich.
ustod y on Friday week,
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The prisoner was taken into
until yesterday upon
and was remanded from that
..e in a dangerous
who had been removed
the charge of assaulting his wife,
and cense-
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form
of
qnently the charge assumed the more. de:' iC..
or
manslaughter. Owing to. some misun ers tannin'
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by a magistrate, and the only witnesses of the amen.,
negligence, the woman's dying statement was nob taken
are evidently anxious to screen the prisoner from injury.
Charles Macarthy stated that he was a tailor, and
lived at 8, Clark's-buildings, Broad-street, St. Giles's.
The prisoner, his wife, and four children, used to
occupy the second-floor back of the same house. In the
afternoon of Thursday week he heard the prisoner and
his wife quarrelling on the landing. They appeared to
be wrestling together, and desiring each other to let go.
Presently he saw the womaa fall backwards down the
stairs, but the prisoner did not push or kick her down.
Two women, named Sullivan and Small, came to her
laoistance, and they took her to the workhouse. He did
not lclow what the quarrel was about.
Elizah,.• th num, head nurse of St. Giles's Workhouse,
stated that
I time of her adn:
:
y.
ehe attended upon the deceased from the
ission to the infirmary, and had frequent
conversations whit
her. Deceased told witness that
she and her husbant
had some words—that he com-
menced beating her vermuch, and that while she was
trying to get up and escape 1
he kicked her in
(.""ct him,
the throat. She said it was th: eighth time he had ill-
treated her in the same way, and t..l'at she had been in
St. Pancras Workhouse in consequence of the injuries
she had received from him. She added that I,l'lis was the
last time he would do it, for she should not recove-
Mr. Henry—Were you examined before the coroz;er?
Witness said she was present but not examined.
Police-constable E 20 said that another nurse, named
Hall, was examined at the inquest, and was present in
court.
Mary }Tall corroborated the evidence of the head-
nurse, as to the statements made by the deceased. It
also appeared that the prisoner visited his wife in the
infirmary on Friday morning. He spoke with apparent
kindness to her, sayiu'g "you know I did not do it ;"
to which she replied, ,i irou know you did." He said,
"I will take you home amijn when you az e a little re-
covered." She replied, "Thai will never be." She
did not speak after this.
Mr. Henry remarked that if he had been informed of
the dying condition of the wife he would. have attended
to take her statement in the presence of the prisoner.
This course was always adopted at hospitals, anii,
.f any
such case again occurred in the workhouse, he hod
proper intimation of the fact would be given him, when
death was expected. Although some nice questions had
arisen upon the point, the statements of a dying. per-
son—if made in the expectation of approaching death—
were held to be receivable as evidence, although made in
the absence of the accused ; and he should, therefore,
feel it his duty to send the case to a jury. Were there
any other witnesses who were in the house at the time
of the quarrel ?
Ellen Sullivan said that she lived in the same house,
and heard the quarrel. When she got to the spot she
saw Mrs. Rich (deceased) with her sleeves tucked up,
smelling of drink, with a poker in her right hand, say-
ing to her husband, " Come on, you b , and fight
fair." The prisoner never once laid hands on her, and
how Mrs. Rich got her fall witness could not imagine,
but it was all owing to herself.
_ _

Another Irishwoman stepped forward and begged to
be examined, because she had known the prisoner four
years, and he had never once laid hand on his wife.
Mrs. Small lived in the same court. The prisoner's
child, a little girl, came to her and said her father and
mother were quarrelling, but when witness got there
she saw no blows on either side. She had known the
prisoner a long time. He was a little given to drink,
bet no more than his business compelled him.
Mr. Henry—What is his business, then ?
Witness—Selling fowls in the street. The wife was
fond of drink also ; a little now and then.
Sergeant Hughes had known the prisoner and his wife
eight or nine years. They were always drinking, fight-
ing, and quarrelling.
Prisoner said—On Thursday, at 4, he asked his wife
to get his tea. She told him to get it himself. He
told her she had been drinking. She replied that she
had, but not at his expense. They got to words. She
took up the poker. He took it from her, and then she
fell backwards down five stairs. He went to see her at
the workhouse, and she admitted it was her own fault.
The nurses spoke false.
Mr. Henry committed him for trial; and sent his chil-
dren to the workhouse.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Bryant, conductor
of omnibus 6,429, was charged before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the prosecution.
Miss Catherine Moses, of Gracechurch-street, frui-

terer, said—On the 4th of September I was going to
Sydenham by train, and I hailed the defendant's omni-
bus on this side of London-bridge. I said, " To the
railway, if you please. He said, " my eyes if I
would have taken you if I had known where you were
going to." I was no sooner seated than he asked me in
a rude manner, "Do you want change ?" I said, "No."
Re then said, " I'll take your money," in the same rude
manner. I said, " You'll take my money when I get out,
if you please ;" and he went on, and then took up a pas-
senger on the bridge, at this side of the Hibernia-wha.rf.
He then said loudly and rudely to me, "Railway, railway,
I tell you." I said, " This is not the railway, and I shall
not get out here." He then said, "I'm -- if I don't take
you right on to Dulwich, I'll stop no more;" and a gentle-
man spoke to me and stopped the omnibus, and I got out,
and in paying him, the money fell to the ground. The
omnibus was in motion when I got out. He then said
as he was picking up the money, "I'll give you a slap
across the eye for a half a pin, you nasty stinking strum-
pet. I know you, you come out of Gracechurch-street ;
and -- your eyes, I shall know you when you again
stop my omnibus."

A policeman proved that on the subsequent day he
heard the defendant sly he was innocent Gf the offence,
but he would rather pay something than have to appear,
and if he got a month it would be the death of him. The
defendant also said to the witness, "You know Miss
Moses, and when you are talking to me speak to her."
Cross-examined—Witness recollected that Miss Moses
was turned out of Guildhall Court, having made some
remark offensive to one of the aldermen.

It was proved that the defendant, accompanied by the
coachman, called on the brother of Miss Moses, to in-
tercede with him to stop proceedings.
A man who was in the omnibus at the time, and who
was in the habit of travelling with the conductor, said
he had not heard that person use any offensive or uncivil
language at all. (Laughter.)
Another man, who was on the omnibus, said be saw
the complainant throw--not drop—her money upon the
ground, but did not hear a word or a sound except that
of the copper on the ground.
Mr. T. F. Balls (omnibus proprietor) said the defen-
dant bad been in his service four years and a half, and
had been summoned once.

By the Lord Mayor—lt was the defendant's duty to
take up a short passenger if there was room. The defen-
dant had been fined 51., and his licence had been stopped.
The Lord Mayor said the case was an extremely aggra-
vated one, and he did not know whether he would be
justified in inflicting a merely pecuniary penalty. He,
however, was willing to make some allowance for the
exciternen, of the moment, and be was also disposed to
take into consideration the fact, that the defendant had
been in Mr. Balls' service for so long a period. The
sentence of the Court was that ho should pay the fine of
31. and costs, or be imprisoned for one month.

THAMES.—Mary Ann Field, a woman of the town,
was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged with assaulting
and wounding Elizabeth Johnson, who presented a
hideous sight, with her face torn, and her nose strapped up.
The complainant, who was in a weakly condition from
loss of blood and the injuries she had received, stated
that she was going along Ratcliff-highway with a young
man, a sailor, when the prisoner and three other women
attacked her. The prisoner accused witness of taking
her young man away, and commenced beating her, and
tore her bonnet, The other girls "pitched into her"
also, and she defended herself as well as she was able,
until the prisoner got her down and fell upon her, and
swore she would be her butcher. Witness called out for
help, and the prisoner, using a dreadful exclamation,
said " I'll help you I" 'and after tearing her face- and
mouth with her nails, got her nose bEtween her teeth,
and bit it in a savage manner. The end of it was only
hanging on by a piece of skin. She was taken to a
doctor, with the blood streaming from her nose and
mouth, and he strapped up her nose and told her to go
to the hospital.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she was in the Dake
of York public-house, in the highway, talking to her
sailor chap, when the complainant led him away, and
left the house with him.

The complainant—Why he gave her a quartern of gin
to get rid of her, and said he would keep my company.

Search, a police constable, No. 300 It, said the com-
plainant's nose was dreadfully lacerated, and the end of
it almost bitten off. He found the prisoner in bed and
very tipsy in Bluegate-fields, and he made her turn out,
and took her into custody. The prisoner, whom he know
to be a most desperate woman, said she did not care
about what was done to her ; she had had her revenge.
and did not care if she had twelvemonths' imprisonment
for it. Both women had fought desperately and were
very disorderly.
Mr. Ingham said the two ill-conducted and wretched
have women before him had been fighting, and he should not
the
use
eunoif hershed fithstes but
prisoner if
she h
she hadad en
confinedronrse
to suchhersel a
f to
diabolical act as biting her rival's nose, and then ex-
pressingl iadc o ol elide rupsantnisf.action at what she had done when she
;eavyenireelnyt., He
finietd,
thelie pwraissondeertesrlminedd "to. pdunfishltherf
committed her to the Ho.u,seand Cionrreectaioun foroa
little two months.
Richard Repath,
halfe urchin, 9 years of age, was
charged withs tealing
father, William Repaathv,
oawaseii:rifouvieire,ign the money of his
)s carpenter, residing at
2, John-street, St. George-in-the-East.
gipvai nngd be powerfully-built
evidencell
eitd man,
hisa p appeared
The prosecutor,
last voyage he left 31 a month
terribly moved ; whhilisst
heaved with a heart-quake
tears profusely.
but on- histirl•eeturn
friend
dtourtiankge
cherge
of
his
Son,
llwiaietwhsaan'isdfiritiieluich disturbed by being informed that
had contracted bad habits, mixed with the worst ofboy com-
pany, and stayed out until very late hours. On Tuesday a
last witness left half a sovereign on the mantel-piece 'to
have some refreshments procured against his return
home, but when he did return neither his son nor the
half-sovereign Were to he found. He gave information '
to the police, and 266 K took the boy into Custody. He