The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

Alderman LAWRENCE remanded him for a week.

Alderman LAWRENCE begged through-the medium
of the press to acknowledge the receipt of Si. from
‘!lt. IL" in aid of the funds of the poor-box, for
which he was most thankful.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Julia Leahy, a young Irish-woman, with an infant
in her arms, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having stabbed John O'Brien with a
knife in the throat, whereby his life is seriously en-
dangered.
From the statement of police-sergeant Mackenzie,
B 5, it appeared that about half-past eight o'clock,
while on duty at ,Hyda-park-corner, he received in-
formation that a man had been stabbed in the park,
and that the wounded man had been conveyed to St.
George's Hospital. Witness proceeded to the hospital
and found there John O'Brien, a labouring man, who
appeared to have received a wound in the region of
the throat, which bad gone through the root of the
tongue. The wounded an told him he had been
stabbed by the prisoner,: who lived in John-street,
Edgware7road. Witness proceeded the prisoner's
lodgings, and very soon succeeded in meeting with
her. When he mentioned what he came about the
prisoner at once admitted that she had inflicted a
wound on O'Brien, adding that she hoped
he would soon be dead. On, the way to
the station-house the prisoner said the wounded
man was the father of her child ; that he would
not allow anything towards its support; and,
that she had been obliged to have him before a ma-
gistrate, and to get an order of affiliation to pay so
much per week, which order the man had not obeyed.
She met O'Brien on Sunday evening, near St.
George's Hospital, and asked him if he meant to do
anything for the child ? He told her " the child and
herself might be d—d ;he would never pay a far-
thing." After some more conversation he took her
into the park, and there some angry words passed,
after which the man seized her by the throat and said
he would do both for her and the baby. She strug-
gled with the man, and getting one hand at liberty,
she pulled a clasp knife out of her pocket, and having
opened it with her teeth, she struck at him with it
in the face. She was not conscious that she had done
him any serious injury, as O'Brien walked away im-
mediately afterwards, and did not give any alarm.
Witness asked where the knife was ? The prisoner
said she dropped it in the park, because it shut on her
fingers and cut her.
The prisoner, in defence, made a similar statement
to that which she had given to the constable. It was
in consequence of O'Brien's attack on her that she
drew the knife from her pocket with which to defend
herself. •

The surgeon's certificate was handed in. It stated
that the man O'Brien could not attend in conse-
quence of a wound in the mouth, which had injured
the tongue.
In the course of the day a relative of the wounded
man called at the court, and said the latter was in a
very dangerous state, and the worst result was feared.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Barratt, a tall weather beaten sailor, was
charged before Mr. Hanimill under the following cir-
cumstances :
A cabman named Plumley stated that he had just
set down a fare at the Euston-square railway terminus
on the preceding evening, when he was hailed by a
policeman, who directed his attention to the prisoner
and another man, the former of whom was in a state
of helpless intoxication, and told him that as the sailor
was entirely incapable of taking care of himself, he
had better receive them both into his cab and take in-
structions from his friend, who was quite sober, as
to where he should convey them to. The prisoner
W 23 then helped into the cab with thiattigatified-tr
Katharine's Docks, and he accordingly drove them in
tl at direction, but on reaching a street near Fins-
bury square, the sober man pulled the check-string
and got out, telling him that he must call upon
a friend close by, and would be back in a few
minutes. After waiting nearly half an hour without
seeing any more of him, he opened the cab-door to
obtain further instruction from his remaining fare,
when he found the prisoner stretched out in the cab,
in a state of p2rfect helplessness, with all his pockets
turned inside out. As it was manifest that he had
been robbed by his friend, and was too insensible to
comprehend anything he said to him, he considered
the best course he could adopt was to drive him
at once to the police•station, that he might be pro-
properly taken care of.
On being called upon by the magistrate to state
what he knew about the transaction, the prisoner said
that he had not even the faintest recollection of either
the cabman or his vehicle ; but he remembered to
his sorrow, that on leaving a messmate, with whom
he had been cruising about the New-road, he wa,
picked up by a man who claimed his acquaintance,
and that he had then a good round sum in gold and
silver in his possession ; but what became of the man
whom he had never before seen, he did not know, and
upon recovering his senses that morning at the
station, he found that the whole of his money was
gone, with the exception of a few shillings, which
were stowed away in the corner of a side pocket, and
had escaped the clutches of the thief.
Mr. liAmmiLL, after expressing a hope to the pri-
saner that the loss he had sustained would be a warn-
ing to him for the future, intimated to him the ne-
cessity of devoting his few remaining shillings to the
liquidation of the cabman's fare and expenses, to
which the poor sailor very readily acceded, and, having
handed over the amount, he was thereupon ordered
,o be discharged.