The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-03 00:00:00

THAMES.

A tall and powerful man, Henry Jones Harrison, was
charged with assaulting and wounding Anne Fox.
The case was brought before the magistrate by Police-
sergeant Nicholas, No. 1, K, in consequence of a com-
munication made to that officer by Mr. Cleland, a sur-
geon, residing in Ratcliff, that a patient of his was in a
dying state from the effects of injuries she had received
from her husband. Nicholas immediately took the pri-
soner into custody. Harrison is a labourer, and was
formerly a police constable of the K division. _

Sarah In-ce stated, that on Saturday fortnight the pri-
soner came home very tipsy, after the witness had bean
to market, and quarrelled with Anne Fox, a woman
with whom he cohabited, and kicked her on the stairs.
Fox immediately afterwards exclaimed, " Oh, Harrison,
you have murdered me !" He then kicked her after she
was down, and the woman had been ill ever since, and
was now dying. Nicholas then put in the following
certificate:—

" I hereby certify that Mrs. Fox, of Dunstan-place,
has been under my care for the last fortnight, with an
inflammatory affection of the bowels, the result, as she
states, of violence offered to her by her husband, a kick
on the stomach, and from which I believe her to be in
imminent danger.
" June 2. "A. CLELAND, jun., surgeon, Ratcliff."
Mr. Cleland gave evidence in confirmation of his cer
tificate. The woman was in the most imminent danger.
Mr. BALLANTINE gave directions to Inspector Bilson,
of the K division, to proceed to the house in Dunstan-
place, and take down in writing any statement which
Anne Fox might have to make in the presence of the
prisoner, and bring the case before him in the afternoon.
Some hours afterwards the prisoner was again ar-
raigned in the dock. He was in a very excited state,
and was made fully aware of his perilous situation.
Inspector Bilson said he found the woman very ill in-
deed, life was fast ebbing, and the doctor said he believed
his patient was in a dying state. He took down the
statement of Anne Fox in writing, in the presence of
the prisoner, and she afterwards signed it.
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, read the statement, which
was to the following effect:—
"Anne Fox, residing at No. 6, Dunstan-alley, parish
of Stepney, says—On last Saturday night fortnight the
15th day of May, 1847, between ten and eleven
o'clock, the prisoner Henry Jones Harrison, withwhom
I have been living about eighteen months as man and
wife, came home very tipsy. He sent for some gin, part
of which I drank, and part the prisoner drank, about
eleven o'clock. No quarrel took place at that time, but
on my returning between eleven and twelve o'clock,
having been to marker, the prisoner locked me out of
my room. I kicked the panel of the door, which I
pushed out, and, putting my hand inside, let myself into
the room. The
prisoner jumped up, and made use of
the expression, I will scrag the b---,' and kicked me
in the stomach. I fell down by the room door, in con-
sequence of the kick. After
I ... was upon the floor, the

prisoner again kicked me in the side. I then called out
Police,' and I said, lam a murdered woman.' Sarah
Ince came up stairs to my assistance, and I asked her
to go for the police. She left for that purpose, and a
police-constable came into the room in a few minutes.
I did not call on the constable to take the prisoner into
custody. I firmly believe that the illness lam now
labouring under, viz., pains in the stomach, is occasioned
by the violence of the prisoner on the night in question,
as I was previous to that in good health. Taken on the
2d of June, 1847. " ANNE FOX."
Mr. BALLANTINE (addressing the prisoner) said—This
is the declaration of the unfortunate woman, and the
doctor says she is dying.
The prisoner buried his face in his hands, and sobbed
aloud.

Mr. BALLANTINE—You may hold down your head,
but your sorrow comes too late. You may have kicked
the woman to death, if she dies, as I am afraid she will;
and I commit you to prison without bail for a week,
when you will be brought up again, most probably to
be committed for wilful murder.
W EST MINSTER.

Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, accompanied by three or
four friends, waited upon Mr. Broderip, and solicited his
assistance under the followirg circumstances:—
Mr. Somers said, that on the previous evening a person
named O'Connor, the son of a highly respectable towns-
man of the borough he represented in Parliament, came
up to him in the lobby of the House of Commons, and
called him a privileged swindler, a robber, and other
opprobrious epithets. He also shook a stick which he
had in his hand, and placed himself before him in a
menacing attitude, Mr. Gossett, the Assistant-Sergeant-
at-Arms, immediately had the person put out. On Mr.
Somers subsequently leaving the House, O'Connor came
up to him in the street, and repeated the same offensive
conduct. Mr. Somers said that he could with difficulty
keep his temper, and he felt that unless the man was
restrained by the law, a breach of the peace must be the
consequence. The person of whom he complained had,
without the slightest reason, annoyed him for a length
of time past in various ways, and it was the great respect
that he entertained for the offender's father alone that
had made him hesitate to take proceedings against the
son.

Mr. BRODERIP said that Mr. Somers could avail him-
self of either of two courses. He could take a warrant
against the offender for the intimidating conduct in the
lobby of the Housa of Commons; or he might proceed
against him under the Police Act for the abusive lan-
guage in the street.

Arr. Somers gave the first-named course the prefer-
once, and a warrant was accordingly issued.
HAMMERSMITH-.

Amongst the names of persons charged on the police
charge-sheet laid befure Mr. W. F. Beadon, the sitting
magistrate, appeared that of Lord Viscount Neville of the
21 Life Guards, Regent's Park Barracks, charged with
having broken a window at the house of Mr. Barber,
hatter, Brentford- end, Isleworth.
Mr. BEADON inquired if the noble offender was in at-
tendance?

Inspector Morgan, T. division, said he was not. He
had been bailed immediately that he was brought to the
station, but had not attended.
A gentleman who stated himself to be an officer in the
same regiment said he had attended for his Lordship,
and had satisfactorily arranged with the complainant,
who had no charge to prefer.
Mr. Barber having confirmed that statement,
The bail book was then handed up to the magistrate
to mark with the accused's discharge, but
Mr. BEADON demurred at doing so, on the ground that
the noble defendant had not surrendered in discharge of
his bail, and eventually the book was marked that the
recognisance should be estreated.

Tile ground of the charge, Mr. Barber informed our
reporter, was, that about a quarter past eight o'clock on
the previous evening, as the Noble Viscount was driving
a four-in-hand, on which were four other gentlemen,
along the Great Western Road from Ascot, on passing
the complainant's house they discharged a shower of
oranges against a window at which his wife and child were
standing. Mr. Barber pursued them through Brentford,
and gave information of the outrage at the Brentford
station-house, when Policeman Ambridge, T 162, in-
stantly jumped on a horse and galloped after them to
Turnham-green; where, notwithstanding the party swore
at him, and two said they were magistrates, he took his
Lordship into custody.