The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

Mr. Combe asked whether there was any danger ?

The officer replied that the surgeon had-certified that
she was very bad. She had bruises all over her body.
The wife was recalled, and, in answer to the magis-
trate, she said she was a very sober woman, and acted
honestly towards her husband. Her body was com-
pletely covered with bruises. She was under the bed
more than five hours.

The prisoner, who could make no defence to the
charge, was remanded for a week, to ascertain the ex-
tent of the injuries he had inflicted on her.
The prisoner, who seemed to think very little about
it, was then removed by the gaoler.

At the Westminster Police-court, Edward Leach, a
powerful, determined-looking fellow, was charged with
a similar offence.

Complainant, whose right eye presented a most shock-
ing appearance from the effect of recent violence, and
whose face and neck were covered with severe contusions,
stated that the defendant was her husband. She had
been married to him only two years, and it was his
daily habit to ill-treat her. He never came home in the
evening without doing so. After she had got his break-
fast that (yesterday) morning, he asked her to give him
sixpence ; when she replied that she had not got so
much. Upon which he declared, with a fearful oath,
that he would kick her brains in, and commenced beat-
ing her about the head.
Mr. Broderip—Did he disfigure your face in that
way 1 . _ - - - - -

(3omplainant—He did that, sir, the night before last,
and bit me.

Mr. Broderip—Bit you, did you say ?
Complainant—Yes, he seizes me by the hair, and bites
me all over my body.
Defendant (in a brutish tone)—"Don't tell lies."
Mr. Broderip—Don't interrupt the proceeding. You
will be beard in your turn. _ .

Complainant-I am covered with marks all over my
body—(bursting into tears.) I entreated him this morn-
ing not to beat me again, as I was so bad from his pre-
vious ill-usage.
Elizabeth Anderson, of 5, Queen's-place, Peter-street,
said, that hearing screams of " murder" from the com-
plainant, she went to their room. Observing her con-
dition as she got away from him, she told him that he
ought to know better than to beat a woman like that,
upon which he replied that if he could get at her he
would kill her. Witness said, "ain't you satisfied with
the face you have given her ?" when he declared he was
not, but would give it her worse when he got hold of
her. Witness took the poor woman, whose body was
covered with bruises, down stairs, to protect her from
further violence.
James Saunders, 192 B, said that he was called on
the previous night, and told that the woman had been
most cruelly beaten by her husband. When he took
defendant in charge he said to his wife, "You , if
you conic here I'll kick your liver out.
Defendant, in reply to the charge, denied that he had
struck her that morning, and said he asked her 50 times
for a shilling. She got drunk and squandered his
means.

The witness Anderson was recalled, and declared that
the complainant was a sober, quiet woman, always at-
tending to her home.
Mr. Broderip sentenced defendant to six months'
hard labour.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CLAR-
BOROUGH TUNNEL.

On Thursday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Odd Fellows' Arms, inn, near the Retford station of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, on the
body of the late Mr. H. E. Strickland, whose melan-
choly death, took place whilst making some geological
investigations near the Clarborough tunnel of the above
line. The jury were taken by special train to view the
place where the accident occurred.
David Mitchell, goods clerk at the Retford station,
deposed as follows—l was on the platform of the Ret-
ford station yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, at about
3 o'clock, when the deceased came up to me and asked
permission to go down the line to inspect the Clar-
borough tunnel, stating that he was connected with the
British Association, and was travelling for scientific
purposes. I told him that Mr. Carr, the station-master.
was not at home, and that I could not permit him to do
so. He repeatedly pressed for permission, but I told
him I could not give it as it was contrary to the com-
pany's orders. He then asked me to give him a note to
go by the road, and inquired the way. Ultimately I
accompanied him as far as the hop-gardens, and then
pointed out the way to Clarborough by the canal side.
We then shook hands and parted, and I did not see
him again alive. He requested his luggage might be
forwarded to Gainsborough. The witness identified
the body as that of Mr. Strickland.
Two plate layers engaged on the line deposed to see-
ing the deceased walking on the line near the Clar-
borough tunnel with a note book in his hand.
James Challenor, engine driver in the service of the
Great Northern Railway Company, said—l left Lincoln
with a passenger train yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon
at 35 minutes past three. Just after we got from under
the Grindley Bridge I saw the deceased standing on the
line about two and three quarters miles from Retford.
There is here a very sharp curve on the line. I saw the
Person get off the up line, to avoid a coal train which
eighty
whichapwpreowaching him, and step on to the down line,
off the stealmeroeffrunning upon. He was from seventy to
He seemed to my train. I whistled alarmingly, shut
reversed the engine, and put on the break.
coeino notice of us, his attention being
directed to the
where the collision toolicid him about thirty yards from
when I pulled up train. The engine struck him, and
fifteenthin e
yards of him. It ap-
peared I dare not go I was so much alarmed
pea,red to me that his he
ad
of the occurrence to the clerkailnoff. I gave information
deceased were fetched
clae at the Retford
Station, and the remains of the
aNsvearbout no yards
aboutwhich
twenty-five or twenty-six miles an hging
thither on a truck. The deceasedwwe
off when I first saw him, and
our,
ordinary speed. The line is on a, decline towardsisßtehte-
ford.
After some consultation the jury brought in the fol-
lowing verdict We find that the deceased was
on the line without leave, and that he came to his death
by being accidentally rim over.
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TREATMENT OF G. P. R. JAMES IN AMERICA.--The
Philadelphia correspondent of the Morning Chronicle
says :—" Two attempts have been made by incendiaries
at Norfolk to set fire to the residence of G. P. R. James,
Esq., the British Consul in Virginia. It appears that
there is a strong prejudice against him on account of a
song ascribed to his pen several years since, when there
was danger of war between England and the United
States, and in which song he suggests a liberation of
American slaves by British arms. Whether this feeling
prompted the cowardly and assassiu•like attempts at
arson it is difficult to say."