The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and the usual Bench of
Magistrates.)
ASSAULT UPON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.-011 Friday
Charles Ruby was indicted for assaulting Edward Driver,
a police-constable, in the execution of his duty.
The prosecutor said that .he observed the defendant
standing over a woman who was upon the ground, and
that he interfered to preserve her from violence, when
the defendant exclaimed, " It's my wife, and I shall do
as I like with her." He then turned upon his], seized
him by his person, kicked him in the side, and subjected
him to further brutal usage. The defendant was not
sober.

The defendant said that he was having a word with
his wife, and that he never in,,ulted the prosecutor, nor
saw him before.
The jury found him Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said that he must understand,
and he wished it to be understood by every man of his
class of life, that whenever they made an attack upon
the privy parts of a constable they should be most se-
verely punished, for it might injure a man for life. It
was well for the defendant that he had not kicked the
constable there; or he would have had a much heavier
sentence than he was about to pronounce, which was im-
prisonment with hard labour for four calendar months.
A TEETOTALLER IN TROUBLE.—James Manning was
indicted for assaulting George Andrews and several
other constables on the 13th of August last ; and upon
another count with assaulting James Kelly, landlord of
the Red Lion public-house, upon the same day.
The assault complained of was committed, it appeared,
between ten and eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th
of August, when the defendant. with eight or nine other
men, came to the door of the Red Lion, exclaiming that
he would fight any man in Cow-cross. He attempted to
enter the public-house, but, upon being repulsed by the
landlord, he laid hold of him by the neck, and pinched
him so hard that he was speechless and almost breath-
less. A scuffle ensued, when, the constable Andrews
coming up, he was given into custody ; but Andrews was
as little respected as the landlord, and was most un-
mercifully beaten, having had his truncheon wrested
from him by the defendant, who is a great, brawny
Irishman, and beaten about his head till he was sense-
less. Several other policemen who arrived to his as-
sistance felt the effects of his herculean blows, and it
was necessary to strap him doWn to a shutter before he
could be secured.

Mr. Kelly, the landlord 'of the Red Lion, said that as
the defendant was heartily sorry for what he had done
while very much intoxicated, and as his wife was near
her confinement, he wished to withdraw the prosecution
as far as he was concerned.
The defendant said that he had been a teetotaller for
three years, but having broken the pledge the effect upon
him was very serious.
Mr. HORRY, who appeared for the defendant, sgad
that be (defendant) unfortunately got drunk through the
birth of his first child, the christening of which caused
him so much joy that it upset him, and ho forgot the
pledge. He could receive a good character as a steady,
well conducted man,

that the Court in passing
consideration that he was not
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habitually a drunkard, and that there was nothing un-
manly in his 'conduct, inasmuch as he might have con-
,iclered that he was acting in self defence against the
police while under the influence of liquor. He would,
however, become a teetotaller again if he was a wise man.
The COURT pronounced a mitigated sentence of one
months' imprisonment, for which the defendant ex-
pressed himself extremely grateful.
Sir Moses Monteflore has been present upon the bench
during this session, and in his magisterial capacity has
had the pleasure of assisting in doing justice, in more
than one case-, in which members of the Hebrew nation
were concerned.
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DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A CHlLD.—Yesterday
afternoon as Mr. Perkins, a livery-stable keeper of Rus-
sell-stteet, Covent•garden, was proceeding along High-
street, with a cart, a woman was standing in the middle
of the street talking to another, who ha a little girl
about four years old playing by her side. The child in
running about came in contact with the wheels of the
cart, and before Mr. Perkins had time to pull up, the
wheel passed over the child's thighs, breaking one in two
places, and lacerating the other dreadfully. The little
snffer was instantly conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, but
recovery is scarcely looked for.

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