The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ASSAULT ON A GOVERNMENT CLERK.-At Bow-street,
John Germyn was charged with an aggravated assault on
Mr. John Frederick Tomlinson, a clerk in the Patent
Office. It appeared that on the 25th June, the prisoner,
who is a fireman belonging to the Patent Office, had, as
usual, procured the prosecutor's luncheon. While the
latter was eating it, he received a violent .blow on the
head, which for some moments took away his senses.
On partially recovery, he saw the prisoner stand-
ing by looking very wild, and immediately
closed with him. After a severe struggle,
one rolling over the other, the prisoner got
up, ran away, and jumped out of the window, to the
ground, a distance of forty-three feet. Mr. Tomlinson
gave an alarm, and P.C. 44 A came and made a search
for the prisoner, finding him eventually in a closet insen-
sible, with his throat cut. He Was immediately taken to
the hospital, where he had been until to-day.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner. was a well con-
ducted man, and he believed would not have committed
the attack, except he was labouring under an aberation
of intellect. It was stated that two or three years since
he fell down a flight of stone steps, receiving injuries in
the head, which had produced deafness, and at time wan-
dering of the mind,—The prisoner was committed
for trial.

Mn. GRENVILLE MIIERAL—IR the Bankruptcy Court
o'lo case in re Grenville Murray was heard. This was
a bankruptcy under the Act of 1869. The bankrupt
was alleged to be one of the proprietors of a newspaper
called the Queen's Messenger. Some months back he
charged Lord Carington, at the Marlborough-street
Police-court, with an assault for having struck him
at the door of a club in Pall-mall, when Lord
Carington complained of attacks alleged to . have been
made upon himself and certain members of his family in
the columns of that publication by Mr Grenville Murray.
The usual forms necessary upon adjudications were gone
through, and a day was appointed for the proof of debts
and choice of a trustee, and the appointment of a com-
mittee of inspection.
AN UNNATURAL PARENT.—At the Guildford assizes,
Elizabeth Steadman, 33, was indicted for feloniously
cutting and wounding Ilosina Steadman, at No. 6, Victoria-
place, Old Kent-road, with intent to do her grievous
bodily harm. This was a painful case, the pri-
soner being charged with cutting the throat of
her own child, an infant of three years old.
The evidence left no room for doubt as to the com-
mission of the offence, and the medical testimony shewed
that the wound in the childs throat, an incision some 2i
inches in length, although not absolutely dangerous, was
serious enough. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but
there being some doubt about her state of mind at the
time of the commission of the offence, his Lordship de-
ferred passing sentence until an inquiry as to her sanity
should be made by the prison surgeon.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Burgeis, Edward Nathan, Waterfield-terrace, Black-
heath.
Dedman, William, Regalia-terrace, High-st., Lower Nor-
wood,• builder.

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