The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

The prisoner declined making any defence, and was
fully cot omitted.

HAMMERSMITH.
Flannaghan was placed at the bar on a
charge of having violently assaulted Samuel Hart,
the fore' :lan of the bricklayers engaged in the erection
of the nt'w workhouse at Kensington, and with at-
tempting to throw him off the scaffolding.
It appeared from the evidence gone into that the
prisoner was one of the labourers employed by Mr.
Thomas Burton, the builder, who is erecting the new
workhouse for the parish of Kensington, at Earle's-
court. Yesterday morning he came to his work at
seven o'clock instead of six, and Mr. Hart, the fore-
man of the bricklayers, lost sight of him again from
the works before eight o'clock, not having been at
work quite half an hour. From that time he was
not again seen until one o'clock, when, on the return
of the worlLmen from their dinner, the prisoner pre-
sented himself before Mr. Hart, and said he should
take the whole day for a holiday. Mr. Hart told him
he might take that day and the following days for
holidays, as he had already put a fresh man in his
place. Mr. Hart then ascended the ladders to
the top scaffold, a height of about forty feet, and
about a quarter of an hour afterwards the pri-
soner went to him there and demanded payment
for an hour's work he said he had done in the
morning. 11Ir. Hart told him he must go to the
office for it, but he refused to do so, and seized
hold of Mr. Hart by one of his arms and by his
throat, and threatened that he would then hurl him
from the scaffold. A fearful struggle then took place
between Mr. Hart and the prisoner, the latter trying
to force him towards the edge of the scaffold. Mr.
llart, however, by a great effort on his part, fell
against a part of the back wall where it was about
two feet above the scaffold, and at that juncture the
men from, all parts of the building rushed to his as-
sistance, and overpowered the prisoner, who was in-
stantly given into custody.
Mr. PAYNTER asked Mr. Hart, whose evidence was
fully corroborated by two of the bricklayers, if he
wished the case should go for trial ?
Mr. Hart said it would be a great inconvenience to
him if it was sent for trial. He would prefer leaving
it in the hands of the Court.

The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he was
entitled to be paid for the hour he had worked, which
was all he asked Mr. Hart; but as to having an idea
of throwing the complainant off the scaffold, he
would put it to the magistrate whether it was likely
he would do so when he knew it was nearly 40 feet
high.
Mr. PATNTER said the case was a very serious one,
and if the prisoner was committed for trial, his
punishment would be very severe, it being an attempt
to destroy life. As Mr. hart declined to prosecute,
he could only inflict the very inadequate punishment
of a fine of 51., or two months' imprisonment.
The prisoner was committed in default of payment.
James Green, potman at the Builders' Arms public
house, Charles-street, Kensington-square, was finally
examined on the following charge, of stealing wine
and spirits, the property of his master.
Mr. William Hallows deposed that the prisoner had
been in his service as potman for the last four months.
On Wednesday, the 13th instant, he called the pri-
soner to take a letter to the post-office, and receiving
no answer, he went into the lobby to look for him.
He then saw him come up the cellar-stairs, with the
can produced in his hand, and said "I'll go directly,"
and took the can across the yard to the pot- house,
and locked it up, putting the key into his waistcoat
pocket. Witness's suspicions were excited by his
conduct, and while the prisoner was gone with the
letter, witness went to the window of the pot-house,
and with a stick lifted up the can, and found it to
contain a little better than a pint of Knowing it
to he his property, from its peculiar flavour, and
having mi-sed quantities of gin from the spirit-cellar
for the last two months past, he sent for a policeman.
The bottle containing about a pint of sherry, witness
had no doubt, was his property. The cork in it he
saw about a week ago in the bar, and the sherry was
such as he had on draft.

Policeman 13radahaw, T 130, deposed to taking
the prisoner into custody. On searching the pot-
house, the door of which he opened with a key
given him by the prisoner, he found the bottle pro-
duced between the rafters of the pot-house. It
contained about a pint of sherry. Found on the pri-
soner 16s. 10d in silver, 12fd. in copper, a watch, a
pipe, and two keys.
The prisoner contented himself with saying there
were four cans in the house like the one produced,
and was fully committed to Newgate for trial.