The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-19 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Jeremiah Donovan and Caroline Donovan, his
wife, were charged before Mr. Hammill with the fol-
lowing attack upon a labouring man, named David
Murphy, who is now lying in the London Hospital
in a dangerous state. _ _

A young man named Daniel Sullivan, a journey-
man tailor, living in 'Wheeler-street, Spitalfields,
stated that at half-past nine on the preceding evening
he called at the house of his wife's mother, in Geul-
ston-court, Whitechapel, to request her to visit her
daughter, and after knocking several times ineffec-
tually at the door, he was at length answered by the
male prisoner, who lodged in the house, and who,
thrusting his head out of window, demanded the
cause of his knocking. He explained to him that he
wanted to see his mother-in-law, to which the
prisoner replied that she was not at home, or some
such answer, withdrew his head, and slammed down
the window. Witness knocked again, but with the
same unsuccessful result, and was about to go
away, when the street-door was suddenly thrown
wide open, and the prisoner rushed cut upon him
in a state of ungovernable fury, with a heavy stick
in his hand, followed by his wife, who
brandished a hammer in her's. Witness immediately
hurried away as fast as he could in great consterna-
tion, but was pursued by the prisoners with nearly
the same rapidity, and on reaching the bottom of the
court, finding them close upon him, he entreated the
man Murphy, who was standing there talking, to in-
terfere for his protection, and drew his attention to
the weapon they were armed with. Murphy in-
stantly ran forward to facilitate his escape, but the
moment he got between them the male prisoner
felled him by a heavy blow on the head with the
stick, and his wife, the instant he dropped, followed
her husband's example by striking him several blows
in rapid succession upon the head with the hammer.
The man screamed out, but became perfectly insen-
sible directly after, and the prisoners, upon seeing the
blood, which was pouring in profusion from the
wounds they had inflicted in his skull, retreated into
their house and fastened themselves in. The witness
expressed his inability to assign any reason for the
furious attack the prisoners had attempted to make
on himself in the first instance, as he had never had
any quarrel with either of them, and had given them
no cause of offence, unless his knocking at the door
could be so considered.

Police-constable 54 H stated, that while on duty
in Goulston-street at the time in question, he was
told that a man was believed to have been murdered
in the court adjoining, and on hastening there found
the man Murphy had been just raised from the
ground by some bystanders, bleeding shockingly
from some serious injuries in the head, and still
entirely senseless. Upon ascertaining that the
prisoners had inflicted the wounds from which Murphy
was suffering, he proceeded at once to their house,
and took them into custody, and the injured man was
conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, who directed his
instant removal to the London Hospital. The witness
handed in a certificate from Mr. Wyatt, the house-
surgeon, which described the wounds the man had
received as being three severe lacerated wounds of
the scalp, and evidently inflicted with some obtuse
instrument, and which were of such a nature as to
preclude bis attendance, with any safety, for some
time.

The prisoners made some rambling observations
in extenuation of the facts alleged against them, and
Mr. RAMMILL having characterised it as one of the
worst cases of that description that had ever been
brought under his notice, ordered them to be re•
mand.-d until that day week, to afford time for
ascertaining the result of the injuries the man had
sustained.

Harriett Goding was next charged with cutting
and wounding a man named Henry Ward, who is
also now lying in the London Hospital.
In this case it appeared, from the testimony of a
married woman, residing in the same house, that
there was extreme provocation for the offence the pri-
soner had comrni'ted. She had been living, it
seemed, for a considerable time past with Ward, who
used her most cruelly. Ward came home at five
o'clock on the preceding afternoon, and the instant
he got in, without the slightest apparent cause or
provocation on her part, exclaimed to the prisoner,
" Take that, you -," and struck her such a
violent blow in the face with his fist, that one of
her eyes 'became contused and swollen immediately.
The prisoner did not offer to resent this ill usage,
hut remained perfectly silent, and taking a
knife from the cupboard, held the cool blade of it
against her eye to reduce the swelling. She remained
in this position for a few minutes, when the fellow,
Ward, got up again to strike her, and the prisoner, in
fear of his brutality, thrust out her arm, in the hand
of which she was holding the knife, to protect her
face from his blows, when, whether the man staggered
against th, blade, or she struck him with it inten-
tionally, did not clearly appear, but the result was
that the knife was sent across his face, inflicting such
a serious gash in his forehead that it bled terribly,
and though he at first walked to a surgeon's to have
his wound dressed, 111 was obliged afterwards to be
removed to the hospitil, and now remains there.
King, a constable, proved that on the road to the
station the prisoner had several times exclaimed, in a
tone of exasperated feeling towards Ward, that she
hoped he would die before morning, as he had always
behaved in the most brutal manner towards her.

She was ordered to be committed till that day week,
to afford time for Ward's recovery•

THE LATE CASE 6F'AURDER IN
HARLEY-STREET.

It will be remembered that, after the second ex-
amination of the wretched woman Sarah Drake on
Saturday last, for the murder of her child, Lewis
Drake, Mr. Herring, her solicitor, made application
to. Mr. Long for all the property belonging to his
client to be given up, in order that sufficient funds
might be raised for efficiently carrying on the defence.
The magistrate acquiesced in the request, and Super-
intendent Kinder, of the Nottingham constabulary,
handed over to Mr. Herring a go!d watch and about
11. worth of silver, which were found in the possession
of the prisoner when searched by Mrs. Bridge at the
Marylebone-lane station-house. Sergeant Whistler,
of the detective
.police, also gave up to the learned
gentleman the keys of the prisoner's boxes, which
were then at Mr. Huth's (her late master's) house.
Shortly after Mr. Long made the order alluded
,to,
Mrs. Johnson, the woman who had had the charge
of the murdered child, and to whom many pounds
are still due for the care which she took of it, spoke
to Whicher upon the subject of the debt; and, on
the matter being made known to the magistrate, he
thought it right that a portion of what belonged to
the prisoner, and which was still in her boxes, should
be kept back for the benefit of her (Mrs. Johnson),
whose peculiar position in the melancholy affair en-
titled her to much sympathy.
Yesterday Mr. Herring, who was not aware that
the magistrate had altered his decision in the first
instance given, entered the court and addressed Mr.
Long in reference to the insufficiency of the means
afforded him for defending his client, at the same
time stating that the worth of what had been given
up to him did not exceed 51. or 61. He sympathised
as deeply as any one could possibly do with Mrs.
Johnson, but it was necessary that he should do
all in his power for the prisoner whose cause he was
engaged to defend.
Mr. Long remarked that he could not interfere
further than he had done in the affair; Mrs. Johnson
ought to be looked to, and be had given such direc-
tions on Saturday as would, he hoped, have the effect
of liquidating her claim upon the prisoner, and she
certainly should not be a loser in any way if it could
be avoided.

Sergeant Whicher came to the court soon after the
conversation above given, and held a communication
with Mr. Herring, who ascertained from him that
the boxes containing the prisoner's clothing, &0., had
been taken away by him (the sergeant) from
Mr. Huth's premises, and that in his opinion a
sufficient sum might be realised to compensate
Mrs. Johnson, and also to, furnish the accused with
the moans necessary for the employment of counsel,
and the payment of other incidental expenses attend-
ant upon a defence on the heinous charge which had
been brought forward against her. The solicitor
gave this information to the magistrate, and said that
he had made an arrangement with Whicher to meet
him at Scotland-yard at twelve o'clock to-morrow
(this day), when the boxes which were there
would be opened, and the contents carefully examined.
Mr. Long said he was glad to hear that the adop-
tion of such a course, of which he entirely approved,
had been agreed upon.
In reply to a question from the Magistrate,
Mr. Herring said that he had examined the whole
of the letters produced on the last inquiry, and had
selected two which he considered to be of much ilia-
portance ; but it was not his intention to cro3s-
examine Mrs. Johnson with regard to them, as he
(Mr. Long) had no doubt made up his mind to send
the prisoner before a jury. Mr. Herring then
thanked the magistrate for his attention, and
withdrew.

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