The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Toseph Pike and George Luter,
private 3 in the Grenadier Guards, stationed at the Tower,
were brought before.the Lord Mayor, charged with hav-
ing committed a desperate assault upon James Thread-
gold (559), of the city police.
Threadgold said, On Tuesday evening, at 20 minutes
past 8 o'clock, I was on duty in Great Tower-street,
and I saw the two prisoners push at the door of a coffee-
shop. The door of the house flew open from their vio-
lence. The woman of the house was much frightened
at their conduct, and remonstrated with them, and they
replied in the most filthy language, although they were
not at all in liquor. I told them to go on, or I should be
obliged to call for a picket or take them to the station-
house. They replied in the most revolting language,
and continued their abuse. I took hold of the belt of
one of them, and a struggle took place, in which he and
1 fell down, and, while I was down, the other took off
his belt and struck me violently on the head with the
breastplate, and cut it open. If it had not been for the
interference of a working man who came to my help
they would probably have killed me.
The side of the complainant's face was as black as jet,
and he was evidently in great pain during the exami-
nation.

W. Brownlow, a carpenter, said, I saw the defend.
ants break open the door, and stopped to see so unusual
a circumstance, and heard them use the horrible lan-
guage described. Both the landlady and the policeman
spoke to them in the most civil terms, but that had no
effect. When the struggle took place I interfered to
save the policeman from the attacks of the two, and
struck one of them, who evidently did not relish the
blow. The other then hit the policeman with the breast-
plate attached to his belt while ho was upon the ground
with his comrade. When they found that a picket had
been sent for they ran away.
The servant to the coffee•shop keeper said the soldiers,
upon breaking in the door, observed that they thought
the house was a drinking house, and they used tho most
awful language she had ever heard. They werh not sl
all known at the house, and had no right to go to toe
door at all.

The Lord Mayor—Did they assign any reason for
their conduct?

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Witness—None at all ; and they were not in drink.
The Lord Mayer—l never saw fellows who better de-
serve to be whipped at the cart's tail. The sentence
upon the defendants is that each of them be imprisoned
for one month for assaulting the officer. It is proper
that I should say the policeman acted with great pro-
priety, and so did the poor man who went to his assist-
ance.

The defendants were then conveyed to the prison at
Holloway.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--James Brocas, work-
ing optician, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick for
assaulting Jemima Brocas, his wife.
The parties were very respectably dressed, as were
their two female children—one about 12 years of age,
the other 8.

The complainant said she had left her husband some
days in consequence of his ill treatment, but on Monday
last her husband came to where she lodged, and per-
suaded her to go home with him under pretence of giving
up her clothes and making arrangements for her future
support. As soon as he got her in-doors he tore her
bonnet from her head and gave her a black eye.
The husband, in reply, said he was the party who had
most cause of complaint. His wife had a home with
every comfort, but though she had two children to attend
to she gave way to every kind of immorality. She had
formed a connection with a man in the employ of Mr.
Willoughby, law-writer of Parliament-street, and she
was accustomed every now and then to forsake her home
and children and to go to this man's lodgings, and stop
with him until her frolic, as she termed it, was over.
She would then make her way home, sometimes sober,
and sometimes drunk ; and he always received her back,
being desirous to hide the disgrace and scandal she
brought on her children. Some days ago she ran off as
usual, and, being certain she was with her customary
companion, he went to the man's place of business, and
would not leave him until he took him to where his wife
was concealed. The man took him to his lodgings in
the York-road, and there he found his wife, who had
been in the man's lodgings all the time she had been ab-
sent. He persuaded her to return home, but she would
have the man accompany her, and when they got home
the only violence that took place was in consequence of
an attempt on her part to possess herself of a cloak
bought for her by the man with whom she had formed
an illicit connection, but which he was determined should
be destroyed. •
The wife, who had heard -all this statement with very
little emotion, merely said, she wanted protection as her
husband had threatened to murder her.

The husband said, had he been disposed to commit
violence he could have done so when she came home
with him, and when her paramour stood trembling by
her side, abjectly apologising to him, and declaring that
the woman was most in fault, for she would come pester-
ing him, and that he should be glad to be rid of her
acquaintance.

Mr. Hardwick asked the wife if it was true she had
been living with another another man ?
The wife said she had not exactly been living with
him, but she certainly did Visit him at his lodgings.
The husband said, in order to guard against his wife's
irregularies, he had told one of his children always to go
out with her mother, thinking this would be check upon
her ; but he had since discovered that his wife actually
took the children to houses of ill-fame, into which she
went withher paramour.
Mr. Hardwick said said, if this ware true, no words
were strong enough with which to brand such infamy.
The very lowest class of prostitutes were found to ex-
hibit so mach of remaining virtuous feeling as to shrink
from bringing up their children to, or exposing to their
view, that contamination they themselves exprienced.
The wife said all she required was protection.
Mr. Hardwick replied that, under the circumstances
detailed, it was hardly to be expected that a husband
would be calm and refrain from using his hands. The
complainant had certainly not merited that amount of
protection which the law afforded to wives assaulted by
violent-tempered husbands • but as ill usage could not
be permitted, whatever might be the amount of provo-
cation, he must require the husband to promise to keep
the peace towards his wife for the future.
The husband said he would readily give that promise.
He never had any wish to hurt his wife. All he wanted
was to screen her shameless conduct from his children
and the world.
Mr Hardwick dipissed the suramenc

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TnhilnlbaesredWa6c236,llW as charged
, proprietor
with the following offence :
The case excited considerable interest, from its being
andWd°rinveSrlioifP ;
the first which had accurred under the 17th section of
the Amended Hackney Carriage Act, which imposes a
penalty of 405., or one month's imprisonment, upon any
driver who shall so offend.
Inspector Jocks, of the G division, stated, that having
been specially appointed by the Police Commissioners
NI visit and inspect the various cabstands in that dis-
trict, with a view of carrying out the provisions of tho
act, he proceeded on the 14th instant to the rank
in Shoreditch, where he found the defendant plying for
hire with a horse in a most deplorable condition, both
its knees being very badly cut and almost completely
bare of flesh, which had evidently been occasioned by a
recent fall. The poor animal was evidently enduring
great pain, and upon his closely examining the part that
was injnred, and which was covered with coagulated
blood, he found that it had been smeared over with SD/110
dark-coloured ointment for the manifest purpose of con-
cealing the wounds, but which was more calculated to
be of injury than benefit. On calling the defendant's
attention to the state of the horse, he said that it had