The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP STREET.--A. 'well-dressed, middle-aged
man, who refused to disclose. his name, address, or occu-
pation, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt, with having
violently assaulted and otherwise grossly misconducted
himself towards a young woman named Anne Harris,
residing in Eagle-street, City-road.
The complainant stated that on the previous night she
was passing through Short•street, Finsbury-square, in
the company of a female friend, when the defendant
suddenly advanced towards them, and, after uttering
some insulting observation to attract their attention,
deliberately exposed himself immediately in front of
them. On telling him he was a beastly fellow for con-
ducting himself in such an infamous manner towards two
unprotected women, the prisoner assailed her with a
scurrilous epithet, and instantly struck her a violent
blow on the face, which cut open her lip, and caused her
mouth to bleed profusely. The prisoner followed up
the attack by dealing her a savage kick, and was about
to proceed to further acts of brutality, from which. he
was apparently deterred by their screams for assistance,
and made rapidly off, but was closely pursued by her
friend, who kept him in sight until she met a policeman,
and gave him into custody.
Harriet Holland, the young woman. who was in the
complainant's company at the time in question, fully
corroborated her evidence, and stated that, after assailing
her friend in the manner described, she was also sub-
jected by the prisoner to an qatrage of too gross and in-
delicate a nature to admit c.,f description.
In reply to the chargr..l, the prisoner, who treated the
matter with the coolest indifference, declared that the
evidence had been greatly exaggerated, and insinuated
that he had been. in the habit of visiting both the young
women at their homes upon terms of the most familiar
intimacy.

On being interrogated by the magistrate, the witnesses
emphatically denied the statement of the prisoner, who
was an utter stranger to them, as neither of them had
ever seen him before the present occurrence.
Alderman, the gaoler, here intimated to the magis-
trate that the object of the prisoner for the studious
concealment of his name, might probably be explained
by the fact that he had been twice before in custody at
this court upon similar charges, on one of which occa-
sions a communication was forwarded to the magistrate,
from the Governor of the House of Detention, to the
effect that the accused had been previously under his
keeping, for a considerable period, for an offence of a
more serious description.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that the prisoner had been
guilty of a most scandalous outrage, and he should order
him to pay a penalty of 51., or be committed, in default,
for two months to the House of Correction.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. J. Smith, the landlord of a
beer-shop and coffee-house in Duke-street, London-
bridge, near the railway-station, was summoned by the
police for keeping open his house for the sale of coffee
contrary to the act of parliament, which prohibits him
from selling liquors or other articles before one o'clock
on Sunday afternoon.

The evidence was that a police-constable went into
the house between seven and eight, when he saw five
people, some of whom were taking their breakfast. lie
did not believe any of them were travellers.
Iu answer to the charge, evidence was produced that
all the persons in the defendant's house were travellers,
and were going by the early train to Brighton. The
names and addresses of all five were banded up.
The magistrate said there was no ground whatever
for believing that the persons in the house were other
than travellers whom the defendant was bound to sup•
ply with refreshments.
The summons was, therefore, dismissed.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Richard de Oltamouse Ortome, an
attache to the Portuguese embassy at Paris, was charged
before the Hon. G. Norton, with assaulting Mr. Fran-
gois Napoleon de Sazostakowsky, a Polish refugee, at
the Vauxhall-gardens, on the preceding night.
Mr. F. J. Van Zeller., the Portuguese consul-general
attended, and occupied a seat on the bench during the
hearing of the ease.

From the statement of the complainant, whose head
was bandaged, it appeared that during the performance
at the amphitheatre, in the Vauxhall-garclets, on the
night before, he said to a friend, alluding to the de-
fendant, " That's a Portuguese I have been looking out
for for seven years." The de-fondant asked him what
for ? The reply was that he must know very well, and
that some years ago he was in the habit of meeting him
at a gambling-house. The defendant assured him be
was mistaken, gave bim his card, and said he was Vr
attaché to the Portuguese embassy in Paris. Com-
plainant said he did not believe it, and the defendant
then struck him with a stick on the head, and inflicted
a wound.

In his cross-examination, the complainant admitted
that he said he recognised the defendant as a gambler,
and that he had been frequently in his company, and
that in 1847 he had lost a large sum of money. He did
not say the defendant was no gentleman, but, believing
him to be a gambler, did not consider him one. Did
not challenge the defendant to go out of the theatre, or
say "I'm your man ;" but they did go into the place
where the fireworks are discharged, and he took off his
gloves. Did not strike the complainant but had in-
tended to do so.
Defendant admitted the assault, but said that the
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