The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

WANTON ATTACK UPON FEMALES.

BO\-STREET (This Day.)—Two interesting
females, dressed in a style of fashion, attended to make a
charge against a man holding a situation as patrol, for having
assaulted them in a most wanton manner on Wednesday night
last. One of the complainants stated, that on Wednesday
night she was passing by the Opera House with he friend,
when the prisoner ordered them to move on, and after using the
most violent language, pushed her with his stick, and gave her
a blow on the face, and took very indecent liberties with her,
which caused her eyes to be discoloured very much,She proceeded
to a watchman, and had the prisoner taken to the watch-house.
This witness, who is a highly interesting young woman, ap-
peared in a pregnant state, and excited strong indignation
against the prisoner, who in his defence denied the charge, and
seemed to excuse himself by saying they were prostitutes. This
they denied, and Mr. .HALLs, in terms of the utmost indig-
nation, condemned the prisoner's conduct. It was no matter
what a woman's situation was in life, in any they demanded
our pity and protection. and he wished to impress on the minds
of all officers and patrole, that whenever they exercised cruelty
to women, in what they called the execution of their duty, (if
proved) they should receive merited punishment.—He advised
the complainan•s to indict the prisoner at the Sessions; whi ch
they were determined to do.

DESPERATE SUICInE.—An Inquisition was yes-
terday afternoon taken before Thomas Stirling, Esq., at the
Middlesex Hospital, on the body of George Rose, who com-.
'mitted suicide, by hurling himself head foremost, from the
parapet of the house, No. 2:2, Church-street, St. Giles, in
which he lodged, into the street. It appeared from the evi-
dence of the wife, that he had been for some time. past in
a consumptive state, that in addition, he had been recently
attacked by the Typhus fever, from the effects of which
be was slowly recovering. Early on the morning of last
Sunday, -she was sitting watching by the bed-side, when
he expressed a desire to have some tea made, and she left him
for that purpose; but had scarcely got down stairs when she
heard a heavy fall, succeeded by a groan, and which she found
proceeded from her husband, who, it seems, had, the moment
she had quitted the room, left his bed and gone up to a cock-
loft, and thence precipitated himself into the street. Witness,
on getting to the street, found her husband supported by two
watchmen, whom she requested to carry him to the Hospital,
but they refused, assigning as a reason, that they must go to
the watchhouse to resign their lanthorns, &c. as it was just o
the stroke of seven.. The man ultimately was carried to th
Hospital by some neighbours, when it appeared that his
jaw-bone was fractured, and his right thigh broken ; be-
sides which he was much bruised and , shattered in different
parts of his bod when he lingered in extrethe agony till five o'clock
m the evening, he died. Several facts Were mentioned
to show the delirious state of the unhappy man, of which the
Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict of
insanity- The conduct of the watchmen in refusing to take the
man to the hospital was reprobated by several of the Jurors.—
Another Inquest was afterwards held by the same Coroner,
and at the same place, op the body of Catherine Shelton, aged
39, who, it appeared, resided in Cirencester-place, and had on
Saturday last taken a powerful dose of laudanum, which every
effort to dislodge from the stomach proved unavailing, and
causeh
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unhappy woman expired in the course of the day. The
of the rash act was not clearly shown ; but it appeared. that she
was much addicted to drinking, arid it was supposed she had
committed it while in a state of inebriety—Verdict—lnsanity.