The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

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Nine or ten tradesmen of a sort had received orders, and
they had been given a false reference to Mrs. King, a
butcher at Brighton. A stout woman, having the
appearance of a housekeaper, went round to the trades•
men, and, representing that the family kept four ser-
vants, and that there were five children, there was every
prospect of their being good customers. There was no-
thing on the premises, and the things obtained must
have been immediately removed.
Mr. Arnold observed that the charge before him was
one of a serious breach of the peace committed by de-
fendants with a view, as he supposed, of righting them-
selves ; but if the inmates of the house were the greatest
rogues on earth, their conduct could not be justified,
because the offenders must be punished by law. He
should advise the tradesmen to go to some respectable
attorney, who might take proceedings against the par-
ties for a conspiracy to defraud.
The tradesmen replied, that before that could be done
the persons would have flown.
After some further conversation, and it having been
denied by the tradesmen accused that they had broken
the windows in entering,
Mr. Arnold called upon the accused to enter into their
own recognizances to appear again on Friday neat.

WORSHIP-STREET. Mari/ Leverge, a young
woman of about 25, described as a silkwinder, was
charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with the following dan-
gerous attack upon a middle-aged man named Jones.
The complainant stated,--I am a boot and shoemaker,
living in Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, and on Monday
evening, between 9 and 10 o'clock, was sitting at home
with my wife, when I suddenly heard the voice of the
prisoner, who is my own sister,at my street door, which
happened to be open, and at which she was entering in
an excited and threatening manner, calling my wife by
the most scandalous names. I went out to induce her
to be peaceable, as a sort of family quarrel had occurred
before, and found her in the company of a tall man
named Jennings, with whom I am also acquainted. I
tried to pacify her, but she became the more enraged
loaded me with abominable abuse, tore my clothes,
clawed my face, and did all she could to make me strike
her, at the same time exclaiming that many men bad
had six months imprisonment for assaulting and injuring
women, and she was determined that I should have a
twelvemonth. Notwithstanding her exasperating con-
duct, however, I would not strike her,
men t upono whic
him.
This, man This Jennings
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much more powerful man &an I was, and I thought by
that means that it would be settled quietly : but, all of
a sudden, and when I could not imagine she was going
to do such a thing, she stabbed me twice, once in the
back, and again close to the hip, upon which the man
hurried her away, and I could not see her again till last
night.

By Mr. D'Eyncourt—The stab in my back was be-
tween the shoulders, and fortunately not severe, but
that in my hip was a bad one, and I feel the effects of
it now ; it bled very much. At the time she stabbed
me I was answering the man who was trying to make
me fight him, and my back was therefore turned towards
her, but upon receiving the stabs I turned round, and
distinctly saw a penknife in her hand, with a white
handle.

Hodd, a constable of the H division, stated that upon
lodging the prisoner in the station-house he was directed
to accompany the complainant to the house of Mr.
Meares, the divisional surgeon, to have his injuries at-
tended to, and there he saw the two wounds described ;
the stab in the back was a punctured wound, and not
severe, but that in the hip had bled a great deal, and his
linen was very much blood-stained.
The complainant here said—l should be sorry, as she
is my own sister, to see her severely punished, but I
must be protected from such conduct.

When called upon fdr her defence, the prisoner stoutly
declared that she had not used a knife at all, and, ad-
dressing the magistrate, defiantly observed that " she
hoped he would punish her as severely as he could if it
could only be proved she had done it." She then called
a woman named Louisa Cummings, living next door to
her, who distinctly swore that, though present when the
occurrence took place, she saw the complainant strike
the prisoner twice, but that she did not see her strike
him with the knife, as stated, and that, in fact, she had
no knife about her.

Mr. D'Eyncourt, however, ordered the prisoner to be
remanded till that day week for the completion of the
evidence, consenting, in the meantime, to accept sub-
stantial bail for her future appearance, and directed the
police to procure the attendance of the medical gentle-
man under whose care the complainant had been placed.

CLERKENWELL.—Jarnes Seagrave, aged 35, um-
brella-maker, residing at No. 8, Leather-lane, Holborn,
was put at the bar before Mr. Hammill (who sat for Mr.
Tyrwhitt), charged with being drunk, and violently as-
saulting James Seagrave, his son, 12 years of age, by
which his life is placed in danger.
He was remanded.

Two women, well-known characters, were charged with
having been concerned in robberies on licensed vic-
tuallers.