The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

TVORSHIP-STREET.

Y.sterday, two young fellows named James Clew and
George Meredith, were charged with committing a high-
way robbery upon Evan Morgan, a tailor, reAding in
Floxton-market.
The prosecutor was passing a dead-wall in the Kings
land-road, between the hours of five and six on Tuesday
evening, when he met the prisoners, and Meredith
having struck him a violent blow on the head, which
stunned him for a moment, snatched from his hand a
bundle, containing, two new coats. Both the prisoners
then ran off together, and were apprehended on Wed-
neiday night by police-constables 365 N and 121 N,
who found in Clew's possession a black wrapper now
identified lay the prosecutor as that which had contained
the two coats.

The prisoners were remanded.
LAMBETH.

A VICTIM OF SEDUCTION.—Martha Wood, a young
woman, whwe apparel was both scanty and indifferent,
applied to Mr. Norton for a summons, to compel the
father of her two illegitimate children to support them.
The applicant, whose manner and address betokened a
good education, said, that some three weeks ago she
made an application to Mr. Henry, at this Court, similar
to the present, and that gentleman granted her a sum-
mons, but she unfortunately had not got the two shil-
lings to pay for it. Since then she had endeavoured to
raise the two shillings to get the summons, but was stilt
unable to do to, and was at present driven to such a state
of distress, w th her two little children, that she knew
not on earth what to do.
Mr. NoaTote desired her to state the circumstances
under which the wanted the summons, when she said
that eight years ago, and when only fourteen years old,
she was induct,d to leave the house of her father, by a
gentleman holling a situation in the Council, and enjoy-
ing a salary 01550/. per annum, and to go to live with
him. For sohe years he supported her in excellent
style, but twelve mouths ago he deserted her, leaving
her with two
Chelsea
to essa
see
l;
gchildren, one three years old, and the
other a mere ilfant. He had, however, contributed to
the support
)f the children until about three
months ago,
"'ban he discontinued paying anything, and
the consequenq was,
that she had been obliged to do the
sbest she could, and as long as she could, to provide ah-
ohlueltsee ri s Oenntitehme
aenv.eniinngthebehfoopree
osfhehwisednotintgo
something for r, but, on knocking at the door, she was
told by the withw of an officer, who is at present living
with him, that unless she took herself off, she (the
would
widow) give her into the custody of the police.
Mr. NoaToN—.wba,t was the cause of the father of
the children leavng you? Applicant (much affected)—
I don't know, Sit, except it was that he got tired of me.
Mr. NORTON—flow have you supported yourself these
three months? kpplicant —I have lived with my father,
who, though onto a timber-merchant, is now glad to
work journeywort as a carpenter with a person who was
once his own erra,d-boy.
Mr. NORTON—Vas your youngest child twelve months
old when
you fist made application for a summons
against the father) Applicant—No, Sir, not quits; but
it is more than twelve months old now.
Mr. NORTON—Then you shall have a summons against
the father for the :oungest child, but the other is beyond
the age prescribedby the Act of Parliament.
The applicant e::
pressed her thanks, and the summons
was made out, ant marked ,t poor."
...., SOUTHWARK..
ALLEGED rRAID By AN ATTORNEY'S CLERE.—Mr

Henry Kempton, a tradesman residing in the vicinity of
this Court, attended on the preceding day to make
complaint of an imposition which was practised upon
his wife in the course of some proceedings which had
taken place there.
The applicant stated, that a few days since he had
occasion to give his wife into custody for assaulting him,
and that the magistrate (Mr. Cottingham) held her to
bail in two securities of 201. each to keep the peace.
The defendant not being in a situation at the moment
to find the required bail, she was locked up, but had
not been long in the cell, when a person named
described as an attorney's clerk, had an interview
with her, during which he undertook to procure
the requisite securities for her liberation if she
gave him a sovereign and something for his trouble.
Applicant's wife, anxious, of course, to obtain her re-
lease, immediately handed over the sum to Hall, who
immediately went away, promising to return spedily
with the persons who would bccome bail for her. Afti-r
waiting, however, in a state of suspense, the promised
bail was not put in, and the result was that his wife was
conveyed at five o'clock to the county gaol. The next
day he (applicant) attended at this Court with a desire
of making arrangements for the liberation of his wife,
when she made him ainfiainted with the above particu-
lars, and as he considered a very gross imposition had
been practised on his wife, he thought he was only per-
forming a public duty by bringing the matter under the
notice of the Court.

Mr. COTTINGHAM expressed his surprise that such an
advantage should have been taken of a person in de-
fendant's situation at the time, and inquired by what
means the person complained against had the oppor-
tunity of having an interview with the applicant's wife
after she was locked up? •
Spikin, the gaoler, said that attorneys and their clerkz
were permitted to see their clients in their cells, and that
as Hall was supposed to be interested in Mrs.Kempton's
behalf, he was not prevented from .seeing her.
Mr. COTTINGUAM directed that; in future, access to
prisoners should not be permitted, unleis by application
made to the Court, with a view to prevent the recurrence
of such a transaction in future,. _ _

Some time afterwards Mr. Hall entered the Court to
defend a prisoner, but the moment he stood up for the
purpose, Mr. COTTINGIAM said that a charge of a very
serious nature had beet, alleg,d against him, and that
Arline it was pending he could nut be permitted to act
there professionally. The magistrate then described the
nature of the accusation brought against Mr. Hal'.
Mr. Hall admitted that he had received a sovereign
from Mrs. Kempton for his professional services, and
that he was well acquainted botb with her and her hus-
band, and did not imagine tat any complaint would
have been made against him fb'r taking a fee for his at-
tendance on her behalf.

Mr. Kempton said that the sovereign was not given as
a fee, but for,the purpose of bail being procured.
Mr. Hall still asserted that he took the sovereign in
the naturo of a fee; but that, as such scruples were now
made about it, he was willing to return it to the person
from whom he had it.

Mr. CorrINGHAK said, that it was a charge of 30
serious a nature, as affected the individual complained
against, that it must not be permitted to drop ; and that,
for the purpose of investigating it, he should request the
attendance of Mr. Kempton and his wife, and also the
person to whom the money had been given fur a specific
purpose.
Yesterday was the day appointed for entering into the
merits of the case. Mr. Kempton and his wife were pre-
sent, according to appointment, but Mr. Hall did not
make his appearance.
The MAGISTRATE told Mr. Kempton that he should
not lose sight of the matter.
THAMES.

STABBING.—Sarah Maclean, a dissipated•looking
woman, about 45 years of age, who has been in custody
a fortnight, was brought before Mr. Ballantine for final
examination, on a charge of cutting and wounding
George Dixon, a man about her own age, who was
brought from the hospital in a very weak condition.
The prosecutor is a lumper employed in the docks, and
has cohabited with the prisoner for the last seven years.
They lived in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel. On the
27th of March the prisoner went in search of Dixon,
who had been absent from her several days, and
found him at the East India Dock. Some words
passed, but they afterwards became friends, and began
drinking together. After visiting several public-houses
they proceeded in a half•drunken state to the dwelling
of the prisoner's son, in Queen Catherine-court, Itateliff
After remaining there some time, and partaking of more
liquor, Dixon offered to leave the prisoner and fetch
some more gin. She attempted to stop him, a struggle
ensued, and the man was wounded in the back of the
head with a knife. It was such a wound as nearly cost
him his ,life, but neither Dixoa nor the woman's son
could or would state how it was inflicted. Dixon him-
self stated there was a struggle, that his head was cut
open, that he afterwards became insensible, and next
morning found himself in the London Hospital.
The prisoner's son, a dock labourer, said his mother
and the prisoner were both drunk, but his mother
was the worst of the two. The prisoner hit his
mother, and she hit him in return, but he
saw no knife. After the parties left the house,
Dixon went into a chemist's shop, and his wound was
dressed. The blood continued to flow profusely after-
wards, and a mob collected about the parties. The at-
tention of How, a policeman, was called to the cir-
cumstance, on hearing several persons say, " There is
the woman who stabbed the man." He took the pri-
soner into custody. Dixon was led to the station-house
with the blood streaming down his face and clothes.
Townson, the sergeant on duty, seated him on a chair,
and asked him who had wounded him. lie pointed to
the prisoner, and said she jobbed a table-knife at him.
The prisoner said, "Yes, you vagabond, and I'll do for
you yet. You have not been near me since Saturday
last." The man immediately became insensible, and
after being attended by a surgeon. was sent by Townson
to the London Hospital, where he remained until yes-
terday, when he was allowed to come out and give evi-
dence. The policeman, How, afterwards found a knife
in the room where the affray took place. It was spotted
with blood, and the point of it was turned back, evi-
dently by coming in contact with some hard substance.
William Maclean, the prisoner's son, identified the
knife. It was in the table-drawer before the struggle,
and the point was not turned back then.
Mr. James Stock, surgeon, in King David-lane, Shad-
well, saw the prosecutor on the 27th of March. He
was then bleeding profusely from•a wound on the head.
It was an inch and a half above the right ear, at the
back of the head. The wound was a lacerated one, with
jagged edges, an inch in extent, and a branch of the
occipital artery was divided.
The prisoner, in defence, said she had not drank any
liquor for twelve months previous to the 27th of March,
and got drunk because Dixon was drinking.
Mr. BALLANTINE committed the prisoner for trial.

SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A HUSBAND ON HIS WIFE.—
On Thursday Neil Maclean, a ship-joiner, residing at
3, Sun Tavern Gap, Shadwell, was charged before Mr.
Billantine with committing a series of cruel and
cowardly assaults on Ellen Maclean, his wife, to whom
he has only been married eleven months.
It appeared from the statement of the wife, who
carried in her arms an infant to which she had recently
given birth, that she was a widow in comfortable cir•
cumstaaces when she married the prisoner, who had ever
since ill-used her in a most barbarous manner. He
frequently knocked her down while she was in a state of
pregnancy. That morning about two o'clock he came
home partly inebriated, and after beating her tore her
cap from her head, drove her from her bed and turned
her out of doors. Her husband threw the bed on the
floor, and threatened to kill her. Assaults of a similar
description had been often committed upon her.
The prisoner vehemently protested that he had never
ill-used his wife at all. He would be the last man to do it.

The wife said her neighbours had been witnesses of
the ill-usage, and two of them were sent for. They
stated that they had seen the prisoner strike his wife,
blacken her eyes, and make her nosebleed. The neigh-
bourhood was continually disturbed by her screams and
cries for mercy.
The prisoner wes then fined 51.. and in default of pay-
ment was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
CON!LICTING TESTIMONY.—John Massey, a powerful
man, a boiler maker, in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn
and Mare, at Blackwell, was charged with assaulting
Mary Anderson, his next door neighbour.
The parties lived in Mary-street, Poplar, and accord-
ing to her statement, she was standing at her own doer
talking to her son, when the defendant came up and cast
some reflections on her husband. She retorted, and the
follow after using some very bad language, struck her a
very severe blow with his fist on the face, and knocked
her down. When she got up she ran towards her own
house. Massey followed her, and overtook her in the
passage, and then kicked her, and inflicted a very serious
injury upon her, fr3in whieh she is still suffering. 'vile
transaction occurred on Monday last, and the bruises on
the woman's face, and her blackened eyes, were indica-
tive of the violence of the blows she received.

Two witnesses confirmed the statement of the com-
plainant in every respect.
The prisoner, in defence, said there had been a
squabble. but he denied there had been any blows
struck at all, and he called three witnesses. Their evi-
dence was very unsatisfactory and contradictory, but
they agreed in one thing, that Massey did not strike
Mrs. Anderson.

The complainant said the defendant's witnesses were
not present during any part of the transaction.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who investigated the case with
much care, was of opinion the defendant's witnesses did
not see the affray at all, aad spoke in terms of severe
reprehension of their conduct. After commenting on
the brutal conduct of the prisoner, he sentenced him to
pay a fine of 51., which he was unable to do, and •was
committed to the House of Correction for six weeks.

GREENWICH.
THE MURDER OF THE rOLICE-CONSTABLE AT DEPT-
FORD.—SuIIivan, Bruzon, alias O'Keefe, Collins, and
APCarthy, the four men who stand charged with the
wilful murder of James Hastie, police•constable
334 R, were brought from Horsemonger-lane Gaol for
re-examination before Mr. Traill, the newly-appointed
magistrate at this Court consequent on the retirement
of Mr. Grove.
Mr. Haywood, of the Treasury Solicitor's office, ap-
peared, for the prosecution; and Mr. Austen, of London,
on the part of the prisoners.
The whole of the evidence taken during the many
examinations was gone through anew in order that Mr.
Traill should be perfectly acquainted with the details,
which engrossed the attention of a crowded Court
nearly four hours and a half.
Mr. TRAILL said, he thought the prisoner,' attention
should have been drawn to Hastie's declaration, in order
that they might deny, and if then silent the case.would
be much stronger than at present. The case did not
present that point where deceased was conscious of dying
at the time it was made. The coroner's jury had re-
turned a verdict of wiful murder, and upon that verdict
the prisoners would be arraigned before another tribunal.
He (Mr. Traill) would remand the case until the 30th
instant, when other evident% might be fbrtbcoming, and

and the prisoners would in the meantime have plenty of
time to get up the defence for the ensuing session at the
Central Criminal Court.
IVANDS WORTH.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF A SSA ULT.—Capt. Frederick
White, of No. 3, Era-•place, Battersea, surrendered to
his bail to answer a charge of assaulting Mrs. Martha
Bowler, the landlady of the Star and Garter public-
house, Battersea.

The defendant was apprehended on a warrant on the
previous day, and brought before Mr. Paynterjust prior
to the closing of the Court. As all the witnesses were
not in attendance, the magistrate adjourned the case
until yesterday, and admitted the defendant to bail.
Yesterday Mra. Martha Bowler, the complainant,
stated that, on last Saturdaytvening; between seven and
eight o'clock, she went to defendant's house and asked
for him. The servant denied him, but Mr. White called
out that he was at home, and desired the complainant to
walk in. The defendant was seated, and had a glass
containing some beer in his hand. When asked her
business, complainant said she was landlady of the Star
and Garter, and had come to demand ss. 6d., an amount
due for gin-and-water, beer, and tobacco, which she had
-upplit d the defendant and his friend with on Thursday
evening last. He said he did not owe her anything, and
he would not pay her. Complainant observe d it was very
hard, and then defendant said, I'll not pay you—go
out of my house, you ---." He then dashed a glass of
beer in her face, jumped up from his chair and struck
her in the side with his fist. He then caught hold of
her arms, and pressed them so violently as to bruise
them very much ; afterwards he pushed her vinlently out
of the house. She would have fallen had not her daughter
saved her from so doing. Hi-r daughter had gone pre-
viously to ask for the money, and the defendant pelted
her with mud and stones. She did not suppose that the
defendant would have served her so, but he p:Atf d h r
also, atter turning her out of the house.

Mr. PAYNTEICSaid he was desirous of knowing how
the debt was incurred.

The complainant said that the defendant and another
gentleman, who was outside the Court, and who were
strangers, came to her house on Thursday eveninz, and
had two glasses of gin and water, and some tobacco.
They ultimately had two more each, and yeatel s too
bell-ringers to some beer. The defendant amid he had
no money, but if the comphinant would send, her pot-
man with him he would pay him. The potmatitreiit,
but returned empty-handed. Complainant sAt four
times for the money before making application herself.
Cross-examined by the deferidan,—She did not strike
him in the lace, and throw him upon the flour, or use
the poker to him. He did not say it was an unjust de,
mand, and he would see her another time about it. 7'
Elisabeth Ann Beckley, a married daughter of the
complainant, proved that she went, between six and seven
o'clock on Saturday evening, to defendant's house ; he
was denied to her, but she found him in • the garden.
When she told him her busines, he thumpA her on
the back twice, and said, " Get out, ycu stinking —."
Witness went afterwards with her mother, and heard
defendant address the same coarse langtlage to her
parent, and saw him push her out of the door and down
the steps. She would have fallen had not witness sup-
ported her.
Cross-examined by the defendant—Did not call him a
thief, a villain, and a swindler.

John Everett, a carpenter, living in Surrey-lane, and
opposite defendant's house, distinctly proved that de-
fendant assaulted both mother and daughter, and although
he was quite sober, made use of language most dero-
gatory to the character of a gentleman.

To other witnesses, named Hill and Bennett, proved
that when they interfered to protect Mrs. Bowler, the
defendant applied most foul language to them, and
threatened to thrash them.

The defendant's answer to the charge was, that on the
evening in question he was in his garden with a friend,
when the complainant's daughter came up to them, and
abused them most scandalously ; she was not satisfied
with that, but she called his lady a kept mistress. Cer-
tainly, after such language, he could not be expected to
be very calm, and he turned her out of the premises.
With respect to the widow, when she entered the room,
she said, " You th ef, you liar, you beat my daughter ;"
and then she struck him a blow on the ear, which sent
him reeling, and as he was recovering himself, she gave
him two blows with the poker. Her violence was so
great that his wife, who is very young, ran up into her
bed-room. He at last took her by the arms, and by the
exertion of some strength, turned her out of the house.
She then knocked at the door, and when he opened it
called him a swindler and thief. Two or three men, her
friends, were outside in his garden, and they bullied him
and told him he was a swindler. He positively dented
having made use of any such language as was imputed to
him, and did nothing but in self-defence, to prove which
he would call two witnesses.

Mr. Bernard Tanham Dryden was called—He said he
had been in the royal navy, and now held the rank of
Lieutenant in the Indian navy, and at present resided at
Battersea. He was the gentleman who was with the
defendant at Mrs. Bowler's house, and when the
daughter came be knew perfectly well the nature of h,r
errand. The language she made use of both to himself
and friend was most disgusting. He did not hear any
of the disturbance between his friend and the widow.

Margaret Higgins, the servant to Captain White, was
called to show that the complainant was the aggressor,
but her evidence was entirel) useless.
Mr. PAYNTER considered that a very violent assault
had been proved, and he should have inflicted the full
penalty if he did not think that the complainant was in
some measure to blame for taking such an imprudent
step when she had a legal mode of obtaining her money.
He should inflict the fine of 41.