The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STPEET:

Mr. Edward Brunton, a master plumber at .11ack-
ney, was charged with assaulting and wounding a
man named William Harratt, in the service of Mr.
Nunn, landlord of the Victoria Tavern, at Cambridge •
heath.

The complainant stated that the prisoner called at
the above house on Saturday evening, in the company
of a Mr. Neale, a builder in the neighbourhood, the
latter of whom requested to see his ma-ter. He was
accordingly shown into the bar parlour, in which a
violent uproar immediately afterwards ensued, and on
his hastening into the parlour to ascertain the cause
of it, witness found his master struggling upon the
ground with Mr. Neale, who was grasping him so
forcibly by the throat, that he appeared to be upon
the point of strangulation. With the assistance of
some of the tap-room customers, he succeeded in
rescuing his master, and was endeavouring to force
Neale into the street, when the prisoner made a rush
at him from the parlour, and struck him a tremendous
blow on the forehead with a heavy iron spittoon,
which cut him to the bone and inflicted a wound an
inch and a half in length. On the arrival of the
police, the prisoner and Neale were both conveyed to
the station-house, where they were charged with
the several assaults, but his master had sustained such
serious injuries that he had been since confined to his
bed, and was unable to appear and give evidence.
Inspector Waller stated that when the party reached
the station-house it was found necessary to imme..
diately call in Mr. Gai rod, the divisional surgeon, to
dress the wounds of the prisoner and Mr. Neale, one
of whose hands had been so severely cut by glass in
the course of his encounter with Nunn, that one of
the arteries was divided, and he was likewise unable
to attend the Court, to which a certificate the witness
produced bore evidence.
Mr. Hunt addressed the Magistrate on behalf of
the prisoner, and said he was instructed to state that
the whole affray originated, in the first instance, from
the extreme violence of a party of brickmakers in
Mr. Nunn's service, and called
The prisoner's nephew, who declared that at the
time the struggle was going on between the com-
plainant and Neale, the prisoner was lying senseless
on the road, from a blow inflicted by one of the com-
plainant's party, and the marks of which he then bore.
Mr. HAMMILL said the case was manifestly one of
far too serious a nature to be summarily dealt with,
and he should, therefore, order the prisoner to find
substantial bail to answer the charge at the sessions.
A determined-1. oking fellow, named Charles
Thompson alias Townley, was charged with having in
his possession a large quantity of counterfeit coin, and
also with violently assaulting a sergeant of police who
took him into custody.
It appeared that between six and seven o'clock on
Saturday evening, as Sergeant Brannan, of the
division, was reconnoitring in plain clothes with a
con-table named Hawkins, in the neighbourhood of
Old-street, he saw the prisoner in the company of
two other men, whom he at once recognised as noto-
rious " smashers." On observing that they were
watched the whole of them made off, but the sergeant
speedily overtook and seized the prisoner, who imme-
diately drew from his pocket a handful of half-crown
pieces, which the sergeant endeavoured to wrest
from him, when he WAS grappled by the prisoner,
and flung heavily on the pavement. The prisoner
then commenced swallowing the counterfeit coin, four
or five of which he had got rid of, and had transferred
the last two to his mouth, when the sergeant started
up and struck him a sharp blow underneath the jaw,
which compelled him to disgorge them, and drop
them irto the road. With the assistance of the other
officer the prisoner was then handcuffed and conveyed
to the station-house, where, upon being searched, nine
other spurious half-crowns and five-shilling pieces
were found in his possession.
The prisoner, who declined offering any defence,
was remanded for the attendance of the Mint au
thorities.

LAMBETH.
Eliza Eaton, alias Fitzgerald, who stands com
mitted with a young fellow named Foster to take her
trial on a charge of receiving a quantity of cloth,
stolen from a shop in Tunbridge-wells, with a guilty
knowledge, and Mary Taylor, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Elliott fur final examination on a charge
of being concerned in robbing a Mr. Jones, a gentle-
man residing at Carshalton, of a valuable gold watch.
The short facts of the case were these. On the
night of the 28th of last month, and during the
Goodwood races, Mr. Jones, while walking up the
i ligh- street, Chiche,ter, in company with a friend,
was accosted by a female, and Linnediately after was
attacked by three men, who knocked him down and
robbed him of his gold watch. On the morning of
Monday, the 23d of last month, Sergeant Morten,
7 P, on searching the house of the prisoner Fitz.
gerald, found in her own apartment the gold watch
which had been stolen from Mr. Jones. On a former
examination Mr. Jones, the prosecutor, recognised
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bing Mr. Smith, a friend of his, of two shillings.
This was denied on the part of the prisoner and her
solicitor, and it was solemnly asserted that she had
never been to Chichester.
To-day, Maiden, a constable at Chichester, who
had taken her into custody, and his wife, who had
searched and attended to her while in custody, were
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already committed to the Old Bailey, the prisoners
were ordered to be brought up on a future day.
John Stock, a middle-aged man, of gentlemanly
appearance and a idress, was placed at the bar on a
charge of stealing a small silver fruit knife, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Eliza Sheffield.
The complainant stated that on that forenoon her
daughter called out to her that a gentleman had come
about the lodgings, and upon her coining down stairs
and entering the parlour she found the prisoner there,
and recognised him as a person who had called to
look at a room she had to let the weel: before. She
asked him to accompany her up stairs to see the room,
and he replied he would. She then left the parlour
to proceed up stairs with him, and finding that he did
not follow her, but remained in the parlour for some
moments after her, she at once suspected- his object
was to steal something; she, in consequence, returned
into the parlour, and missing a small silver fruit knife
from the mantelpiece, which had been there a moment
before, she charged him with taking it. The prisoner
indignantly denied the charge, but feeling conscious
in her own mind that no other person could have
stolen it, she sent for a constable.
Police-constable 60 M said the prisoner had been
given into custody by the last witness, and after lock-
ing him up he (witness) returned to the house, and
found the knife produced, and which the prosecutrix
identified, behind some drawers in the back parlour.
Mrs. Sheffield added to her former evidence that
the prisoner had gone into the back parlour while the
policeman had been sent for, and while there some-
thing had been heard to knock against the window ;
so that she had no doubt the prisoner had attempted
to throw the knife out of the window, which was
partly down at the top, and then instead of doing so,
he knocked it against the window, and it fell upon it,
and had been found.
The prisoner, who spoke with a south-of-Treland
accent, denied de charge, assured the Magistrate that
he was. perfectly incapable of committing such an
act, as his Worship would see on the perusal of a letter
he was just about to post, and said that if Lord Mor-
peth was in town he would testify to his character for
honour and respectability-
Mr. ELLIOTT read the letter handed to him, but
instead of its having the effect of satisfying his Wor •
ship on the point of his character and respectability,
he told him he must know something more about him
before he could consent to his liberation.
The prisoner begged hard to have his case at once
disposed of, but he was refused, and he was remanded
to the following (this) day
THAMES.
David Walton, the owner of three small tenements
in Hayes-court, Glasshouse-street, Rosemary-lane,
was summoned by the trustees of St. Mary, White-
chapel, before Mr. Yardley, to show cause why he
should not be compelled to reinove a nuisance of a
most diAgusting and frightful description, which as
alleged has caused a virulent fever in the above place,
and the deaths of several persons.
Mr. Smith, vestry clerk of Whitechapel said, this
was a proceeding under the 9th and 10th Vict., cap.
96, to abate a nuisance caused by the overflowing of
an open privy in Hayes-court, which contained four
houses, three of them were owned by the defendant,
and they were all occupied by poor families. The
privy was uncovered, and the soil had overflowed into
the passage and caused such a nauseous effluvia that
fever had been engendered and several deaths had
taken. place. The subject had already been made
public in various newspapers in the reports of inquests
held on the bodies of persons who had died of fever in
Hayes-court, and another death had taken place there
only that morning. The place in question was corn-
, mon to the tenants of all the houses in the court, and
,Nr4giv $ 44,30#0,1stste. Tio it ooal through