The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-ROUSE.—Jane Mudden was brought
before the Lord Mayor, yor, charged with having robbed
Mr. Thomas Nolan, with violence, in the public streets,
of a port-monnaie, containing a sovereign and eight
shillings, and of certain papers, &c.
D. T. Evans (City Police)—Yesterday, in consequence
of information I apprehended the prisoner upon a charge
of highway robbery, and took her to the station-house,
where, after some hesitation, she gave her name and
address. I afterwards went to her lodgings, and found
the articles and property I produce.
Here the witness produced the property alluded to,
two silver watches, a purse containing two sovereigns,
and 17s. 6d. in silver, three silk handkerchiefs, and
three pocket-books, in one of which, marked G. G.,
Jamaica Coffee-house, was a bill of exchange for 411.,
and in another was some religious publications.
The prosecutor, a mercantile clerk, said, on Sunday
night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, I met the prisoner at
the top of the Minories. She asked me to go home
with her, and she prevailed upon me to treat her, as the
night was cold. We went into a public•house, and I
gave her brandy and rum to drink, and I also gave her
some brandy in a bottle, which she took home with her.
After drinking in the public-house for some time, she
asked me to see her home, and took me into Northum-
berland-alley, Fenchurch-street, where I was knocked
down, I think, by a man with a stick. I believe the
liquor I had been drinking was drugged. I was then
robbed of everything I had in my pockets except my
handkerchief. My pockets were turned inside out. I
got up when I could and went home at once, and I was
obliged, on account of the blow and the fall, to lie in
bed till late on Monday. On Tuesday evening I was
coming down the Minories, and, having met the pri-
soner, I caused her to be taken into custody. I swear
I never went into any house with her, except the public-
house in which we drank.

On his cross-examination by the prisoner, witness said
she offered him 81. to drop the proceedings.
The prisoner, in answer to the Lord Mayor, who par-
ticularly cautioned her as to the answer she appeared to
be ready to give to the charge, said, I assure you, my
Lord Mayor, that the gentleman last night promised
for two sovereigns to drop the ,tharge. We went ;bout
together, and the fact is we both got drunk, and did not
know what we were about ; but he came back to my
house in A bchurch-lane, where I entertained him, and
he accidentally pulled out the things, some of which
were found at my apartments, and left them there. As
to the knocking down in the street, the gentleman is
quite in error. lle never fell.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor acknowledged the receipt of a cheque
for 101. from the Fishmongers' Company, for the poor
box.

GUILDHALL.—James Barrett was charged with
the following savage assault upon a young woman of the
name of Tubbs :

Margaret Tubbs, who appeared with a frightful black
eye, and the whole of one side of her face contused and
swollen, said I lodge in the same house as the prisoner,
and on Saturday night I went to the prisoner's room to
call out my husband who was drinking with him and
several of his companions. The prisoner, with a filthy
expression, said "He shall not come. I've known you
walking the streets more than once, and I'll make your
husband leave you altogether." My husband then tried
to get me away and pushed me out ; but the prisoner
immediately rushed towards me and dragged me by the
hair of my head into the room. He then struck me on
the eye, knocked me down and kicked me with his
heavy boots repeatedly about the face and body, while
I was lying on the ground. I screamed for assistance,
and had it not been for Mrs. Finnigan, who rescued me
from the prisoner's violence, I believe he would have
murdered me. lam so dreadfully bruised all over my
body, that I can neither stand nor sit without expe-
riencing great pain in all my limbs.
Sir It, W. Carden—Who gave you that black eye ?

Complainant—(pointing to the prisoner)—Thatgen-
tlema,n, sir.

Sir R. w. Carden—That gentleman ! Don't call him
even a man ; call him a brute ; a man who would be
guilty of such conduct to a woman deserves no better
title.

Two witnesses corroborated the complainant's state-
ment.

Prisoner—lt's all false, your worship. I never struck
her at all ; I only pushed her out of my room. It was
her husband gave her that black eye.
Sir R. W. Carden (to complainant)—Did your husband
strike you at all on that occasion
Complainant—He did not, sir. He only pushed me
once or twice'in trying to get me out of the room.
The pris4ier then called his father and mother, but
their evidence tended to confirm the complainant's story.
A young man, of the name of John Carr, then got into
the witness-box, and his testimony was so palpably false,
that Sir R. Carden ordered him instantly to quit the
court. rs.
Springate (the gaoler) stated, that the prisoner was a
journeyman tailor, and for the last twelve years he had
contitftially been in and out of prison for assaults, and
drunken and disorderly conduct. The last time he was
in the Compter he had six weeks for assaulting his wife.
Sir R. W. Carden regretted that the proposed enact-
ment to empower magistrates to punish such as the
prisone;olay flogging had not reoetved the sanction
of thp•legislature. Had he had the power, he would
certainly have ordered him to be tied to a cart's
tail and flogged through the town, and he would
have placed the scourge in the hands of the pri-
soner's victim, so that' he might have known how
she felt when suffering from his brutal rage. Im-
prisonment was not sufficient puWshreent ; and he (Sir
•R. Carden) trusted it would not The long before the re-
jected mode of punishment was adopted. He then sen-
tenced the fellow to six months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

BOW-STREET.—Henry Bennett, a carpenter, who
has been repeatedly fined at this court for ill-treating his
wife, was charged with assaulting her in a ferocious
manner, in Drury-lane.
The complainant, whose face was sadly disfigured,
stated that she had not lived with the prisoner, since
her last complaint against him, but had contrived to
earn a living fur herself and her two little children with
out his assistance. Yesterday morning (Wednesday) she
met him accidentally in Drury-lane, and, having her
face tied up at the time, he asked her what was the
matter ? She said that she had the face-ache, and
passed on to avoid him, not wishing to have anything
further to say to him. He followed her up, however,
saying, with a coarse expression, " I'll make your
cheeks ache a little more, and struck her a blow in the
face which knocked her down. He then raised her head
from the ground, and struck her a succession of blows
on both sides of the head with his clenched fist. She
managed to crawl into a shop and was there protected
from the prisoner's further violence.
The wife's statement was fully corroborated by the
shop-keeper, Mr. Billingto
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The prisoner said it was all her own fault.
Mr. Henry said this was the seventh time within a
short space of time that thepriwsoansenrohtasdatbeefernomchhairsgiend.
with assaulting his wife, and, even now that she had
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had been given to the magistrates 'to inflict a punish-
ment more adequate to the nature of the offence ; but,
in addition to this even, some guarantee must be even
for his future good behaviour. His worship then com-
mitted the prisoner to six months hard labour, and, at
the expiration of that term, directed that he should find
two sureties to keep the peace for a further period of six
months, or he committed in default.
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Mary Ann Read, a married woman, who stated that
her husband was a builder, was charged with smashing
the plate-glass windows of the Crooked Billet public-
house, in Serle-street.
Mrs. Lewis, the landlady, described the violent con-
duct and threatening language of the defendant, who had
first represented herself as the sister of Mr. Read, and
afterwards produced a certificate of her marriage with
him. Mr. Read was in the habit of using the house,
and his wife was constantly creating a disturbance by
coming after him, and accusing her (landlady) of " har-
bouring" him, whereas it would be a source of great
pleasure to her if she could get rid of them both.
The waiter of the establishment having proved the
amount of damage.
The defendant admitted that she broke the windows,
in the belief that her husband was inside. She declared
that Mrs. Lewis had made quite another man of him,
and made several assertions about the encouragement
given him by the landlady, which were indignantly re-
pasudaia,s
t,edingble by latter.mtlaien,aths i request.Shco
Mr. Henry confessed, however, that
she had herself represented Mr. Read, in the first place,
fined
her it. and 16s. the amount of the
damage.

WORSIIIP-STREET.
.Robcrt Stanton, a horse-
breaker, was charged with a brutal 'and aggravated
assault upon Margaret Robertson, a young woman with
whom he cohabited.

It will be recollected that the prisoner struck the un-
fortunate woman a terrible blow on the forehead with an
iron tea-kettle.
A certificate from the house surgeon of the London