The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-24 00:00:00

CUTTING WITH INTENT TO MURDER.

John Dunn, aged 21, was charged with having, on the
15th of October last, stabbed, cut, and wounded Ann
Moffatt, with intent to kill and murder her,
Mr. Otter and Mr. Fenwick conducted the prosecu-
tion; Mr. Taylor defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a shoemaker, and
lodged with a person named Johnson, in Laidlea's
Entry, on a flat. Mr. and Mrs. Moffat lived on the same
staircase, and an intimacy sprang up between the pri-
soner and their daughter, a girl seventeen years of age,
and he became her suitor. For some cawe or other
she slighted him, and the prisoner expressed his deter-
mination to her to revenge himself if she kept company
with any other young man; or, to use the phrase of the
prosecutrix, " if he caught her with any one he would
be very apt to give her two black eyes." Early in Oc-
tober the prosecutrix (Ann Moffat) took a walk in a
place called Tesman's Dean with another young man.
She saw the prisoner following her. On her return
home, whilst going up stairs, the prisoner ran up behind
her, and said,—" Stop, Ann, I want to speak to you."
She told him to let her go; she wanted to have nothing
to say to him. At that moment, by a gleam of
light on the staircase, she saw that he had an open razor
in his hand. Finding he was closing upon her,
she seized his hand, when he drew the razor
through it. She was rushing down stairs, and the pri-
soner struck her a blow on the head, which knocked her
down stairs. She fell on her face. The prisoner put
his knee on her back, and, placing his left hand under
ber chin, lifted up her head, whilst he drew the razor
across her throat with the other hand. She screamed
out, and he got up and left her, saying—" There, you
b—, I have done the trick; you will do so no more."
She became faint; and the neighbours, being alarmed,
came in and sent for a surgeon. Both her hands were
cut. Luckily for the prisoner, she recovered, but her
bands were crippled. The prisoner was taken into cus-
tody next day.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of cutting with
intent to murder.
His LORDSHIP then ordered sentence of death to be
recorded against the :prisoner. He could give him no
hope, further than that his life would be spared.
Several minor town cases were tried before Mr. Jus-
tice Coleridge. The county cases will be tried to mor-
row. The Civil Court did not sit to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A lady and her daughter presented themselves before
Mr. Hardwick, and begged to be allowed to make an ap-
plication. The lady said she wished for protection from
her husband, who had left her without attendance suit-
able to her station. Her husband, she said, had turned
the domestics out of the house in Park-lane, at a late
hour last night, and she was now without male or female
servant. In addition her husband had threatened her
life, and had so constantly pursued her with annoyance
and menace that she was compelled to seek the protection
of the law.

Mr. HARDWICK—Who is your husband? Applicant
—His name is Haughton Hardinge; ho writes " the
Reverend" before his name, but I am not aware of his
ever having filled any post in the Church.
Mr. HARDWICK—What do you wish me to do? Ap-
plicant—To give me protection for ray person and my
property. The truth is, my property is settled on my-
self, and wholly out of the reach of my husband. This
is the cause of the shameful treatment I receive. The
object is to destroy my life to get at my property.
Mr. HAanwicx—Would not a separation be advisable?
Applicant—l have offered to settle an allowance on my
husband if he will keep away from me. Some time ago
a woman made her appearance who called herself his
wife. She caused a great disturbance at the house, and,
I believe, was punished by an imprisonment of three
months. To show you my husband's character, I beg
you will read these paragraphs in the newspapers.
The applicant produced the Morning Post and other
papers, with an account of the examination of one
Thomas Haughtou Hardinge, an Irish clergyman, in
which it was stated that out of the applicant's income of
9001. a year, she had offered to settle 2301. on him, if he
would separate from her.
Mr. HARDWICK, the applicant having declared that
she went in bodily fear from the threats which had been
used towards her, granted her a warrant.