The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-24 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DESPERATE ASSAULT BY A WOMAN.—Elizabeth
Miles, a woman about 30 years of age, residing at
51, Flood-street, Chelsea, was charged with assault-
ing Jane Bank, a married woman, by striking her
on the head with a jug•

Prosecutor said that she had occasion to appear
as a witness against the prisoner and her mother in
August last, but they were strangers to her. On
Saturday night they came into the Coopers' Arms,
iu Flood-street, Chelsea, where she was with
her husband, and, without any words, dashed a
jug of beer in her face, as well as the jug, inflicting
a frightful series of wounds and contusing both
eyes.
Two witnesses corroborated.
Prisoner said the proseeutrix called her sister a
--, and repeated it. She threw the beer at her,
and the jug slipped out of her band.
A woman named Davis corroborated this story,
as also a man named Thomas Marnan, a general
dealer, of Flood-street, whose story, however, dif-
fered materially from that of the previous witness,
and evidently bore the complexion of untruth.
Dennis, the gaoler, said the prisoner had been
there before, and bad been in an asylum. The
mother was a fearful drunkard, and had often been
there.

Mr. Selfe remanded the case for further evidence
till Saturday, and refused to take bail.

THAMES.

A TROUBLESOME PAUPER,—`Lary Ann Stage-
man, aged 17 years, a pauper who has been charge-
able to the parish of St. George's-in-the-East from
her infancy, and has cost £2OO at least, was charged
with wilfully and maliciously breaking a pane of
glass in the casual ward. She was misconducting
herself in the workhouse; making a disturbance and
bawling out maledictions against every one in
authority, and as a punishment was sent to the
female nurses' department of the casual ward, to
be confined there until the next day, on which sne
made a great disturbance and broke a pane of
glass. She was about to demolish another, and had
made preparations for a general smash up of every-
thing in the ward, when she was seized, and made
to exchange the comfortable accommodation in the
workhouse for the small, dark, and comfortless
cell of the King David's-lane Station-house in
Shadwell.

Mr. Samuel James, snperintendent of the casual
ward, said the prisoner had been repeatedly eon-
victed for refractory conduct, and sentenced to
7 days, 14 days, and 21 days' imprisonment; situa-
tions had been procured for her, and she would not
stay in them. _ _ _

The prisoner, a strong, hale-looking girl, asked
if that was all that could be said against her, and put
on a debonair air.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner was an incorrigible
and mischievous person, and ought to be support-
ing herself, not living at the expense of the rate-
payers. lie sentenc,d her to one month's impri-
sonment and hard labour for wilful damage. She
would be compelled to work in prison and to be
have herself in a proper manner.

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