The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-30 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A powerful fellow, named IV ilham Newcombe, apparently
a journeyman shoemaker, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged with the following scandalous outrage
upon a poor woman named Anne Anderson, the wife of a
waterman, and also with attacking and injuring two other
women, named Jury and Ledger,.
Harriette Jury, whose head was bandaged and both of
whose eyes were puffed up and contused, stated, that on the
preceding afternoon she was told by a friend of hers that the
prisoner wanted to see her, and she accordingly went to the
house of Mrs. Anderson, where he lodged, to inquire for him.
On ascending the first flight of stairs, the prisoner came out
of an adjoining room and immediately accused her of at-
tempting to injure his character by spreading false rumours
respecting him amongst his neighbours. She earnestly as-
sured him that she had not done so, but the prisoner, who
was greatly excited, replied that he knew she had, and be-
fore she had an opportunity of inquiring what had been said
of her, struck her such a violent blow between the eyes that
she was felled backwards down the stairs into the bottom
passage, and remained for a considerable time in a state of
total insensibility.
Ellen Ledger, the wife of a mechanic living in the house,
gave an almost identical account of the commencement of
the outrage with that of the preceding witness, and stated,
• that after the latter had been hurled down the stairs by the
prisoner, Mrs. Anderson gently rebuked him for his conduct,
and told him he ought to be ashamed of himself for so bru-
tally striking a woman, on which the prisoner instantly
struck her down by a blow in the face, and kicked her
violently several times in the side, although she was in an
advanced stage of pregnancy, and on seeing that she
was entirely motionless and insensible, declared, with an
oath, that he should die perfectly happy if he could only be
sure that he had murdered both of the women. As the pri-
soner was then trying to escape from the house the witness
attempted to stop him, but had no sooner placed her hand
upon his shoulder for that purpose, than she was herself
felled to the ground by a blow on the neck, and the prisoner
rushed past her out of the house.
A policeman deposed that, upon being made acquainteJ
with the outrage the prisoner had committed, he went, in
search of him, and having succeeded in tracing him to a
neighbouring public-house, in the tap-room of which he was
sitting with the greatest coolness and indifference, took him
into custody. The witness handed up to the bench a me-
dical certificate, signed by two surgeons who had beeiainin
attendance upon the injured woman Mrs. Andersoen.,
d
which stated that she was then confined to hneti-iebr
with
congestion of the brain,
alaren-
ing symptoms, that it wasan if she for a consider
she could attend and prosecute the prisone
dismnffpoesrisibglefl,-"' sucleilbould recover,
abie time.
eh'iafde Daniel Anderson, the woman's husband,i hiss.anildentcheatah wife
was was in such a dangerous state,
advanced in pregnancy, that,
;sustained and her being so
he bad next to no hopes but that it would resultinher
I death. About a twelvemonth since his wife had been obliged