The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-27 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, Much 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PkrrnsoN.)
Henry Harrison was indicted, charged with having, at
Denton, feloniously and violently assaulted and beaten
Sidney Taylor, and stolen from his person one sovereign
and half-a• crown.
Mr. Monk appeared for the prcsecution, and Mr. A. B. Pol-
lock for the defence.
It appeared that the prosecutor had been drinking at
various public-houses on the 23d February with several per-
sons, and amongst others with the prisoner, to whom he in-
cautiously displayed some money from his waistcoat pocket
He was followed, tripped up, and knocked down by prisoner.
When he had done this he commenced kicking the unfortu-
nate man upon his head with a heavy boot he wore, inflicted
a very serious wound on the left side of his forehead (which
bled profusely), and knocked out a large double tooth ; not
content with this, the prisoner gathered a quantity of loose
mud together, and forced it into his victim's mouth' with the
intention and in the hope of choking him at once. This ren-
dered him insensible, and while he remained so the prisoner
rifled his waistcoat pockets and robbed him of 1/. 2s. Bd.,
with which he immediately decamped.
Mr. POLLOCK addressed the jury for the defence.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury having retired to
consider their verdict, returned in about half an hour, finding
the prisoner Guilty.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, _March 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAuLa.)
Charles Hood, aged 34, was charged with having wilfully
and maliciously thrown a quantity of aquafortis on the right
foot of Sophia Frakes, with intent, &c.
Mr. Evans appeared for the prosecutrix.
The prosecutrix is a young factory girl, aged 15 ; the pri-
soner is a journeyman miller, and both reside at Ditching
ham. The defendant had made dishonourable proposals to
the prosecutrix in the course of last summer ; she resented
the insult, and expressed her determination to make it
known to her mother. About the middle of last August the
prisoner met the prosecutrix walking with a friend, when he
" spurned" (kicked) her in a brutal manner, and used the
most disgusting and threatening language. On the 23d of
that month the prisoner bought two drachms of aquafortis
from a chemist at Bungay, who warned him of its properties,
to which he replied, " Oh, I know its use very well," and
went away. On the following day he met the prosecutrix
walking with her sister, who reproached him for his designs
on the virtue of the prosecutrix, and said," It is a shame for
any old man like you to interfere with such a young girl as
Sopliy." Immediately afterwards she observed him throw
something at the foot of the prosecutrix, who at the same
time felt a blow on her right foot, and a burning and smart-
ing sensation. The prisoner said, "That's what I meant to
do to you," and went away. The prosecutrix went home,
and taking off her stocking found the right foot and ankle
covered with blisters, under which wounds nearly half an
inch deep were subsequently discovered by a surgeon, who
now gave it as his opinion that they had been produced by
aquafortis, or some other corrosive poison.
Mr. CARLOS COOPER, for the prisoner, contended that the
act was unintentional, and called several witnesses, who de-
scribed him to be a person of a humane disposition.
The jury, after consulting together for ten minutes, found
the prisoner Guilty. The sentence was deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-110USE.
A. man named William Williams was charged with smug-
gling.
C. A. Davis, an officer of the Customs, stated, that between
twelve and one o'clock on that day he saw the defendant
passing from the City of Boulogne steamer, and took from
his person two bottles of foreign brandy.
The defendant—lt is not brandy, just taste it my Lord.
Alderman Giens—What is it then? The defendant—lt
is not brandy at any rate.
The officer—lt is brandy.
The defendant—l say it is not. It happens to be spirits
of wine.
Alderman Gums—Why that is worse still. The duty is
higher.
The defendant—But he comes here to charge me with
smuc;gling, and he has not established his charge.—(A laugh.)
The officer—He has been getting his livelihood by this
sort of work for years.
The defendant—l have no other way of supporting my
family. What am Ito do? You accuse me of smuggling
brandy. You are all wrong.
Alderman Ginns—You have proved by your own admis-
sion that you are an old smuggler, and I fine you 5/., the
full penalty, or one month.
The defendant—l'll take the month, the money is not con-
venient.—Committed.

BOW-STREET.
A STRANGE SORT OF " DISORDERLINESS."—A tall and
very lean old man was brought to this court yesterday morn-
ing, charged by the police-sheet of the E division with being
drunk and disorderly.
Tile Court, as usual, inquired the nature of the disorderli-
ness ? " Why, Sir," replied the charging constable, "we
found him hanging on the railings in Bloomsbury-square, at
three o'clock this morning, by the hinder part of his
trousers."
The COURT observed that this was a very extraordinary
position for so old a man to assume; but they did not see any
great harm in it.
The constable, in continuation, said, " Before we could get
up to the spot, your Worship, the trousers gave way, and
he fell inwards amongst the laylock bushes."
" Did he do any harm there?" asked the examining ma-
gistrate. " No, your Worship," replied the constable ; "he
lay as quiet as a mouse."
The old man was asked what account he could give for
this strange conduct ?—He replied that, on the previous
afternoon, he had gone down to Greenwich, to see a grandson
on board the Marine Society's ship, and, in returning he got
very wet with the rain and very weary with the walk ; and,
being thus wet and weary, he lost his way and his wits to-
gether, he believed, for, though he only dank one penny glass
of porter on his way home, he had no sort of recollection
how he managed to get on the palisades in Bloomsbury-
square. All he knew about it was, that instead of being in
Bloomsbury-square at three o'clock in the morning, he ought
to have been at Camberwell before nine o'clock on the pre-
ceding night.
He was told he might go home as soon as he pleased, and
he very thankfully departed. He said he was bred and born
a tailor, but that was many years ago.
WORSHIP-STREET .
SrIAMEFITL ASSAULT.— William Murray, a master cabinet-
maker, in Half-Moon-street, Bishopsgate, was charged before
Mr. Bingham with having assaulted and wounded a young
woman named Rosa Sheridan, the daughter of a retired
tradesman, living in the same neighbourhood.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, whose
head was bound up, and who was evidently in a state of great
suffering-, that on the evening of Thursday se'nnight, her
sister-in law accompanied her to the house of a tradesman in
Worship-street, for the purpose of remonstrating with him
on his injurious conduct towards the witness, in inducing her
to elope with him from the house of her father, and remain
for two nights absent. On mentioning the object of the
visit, the defendant, who was seated in the shop, immediately
assailed the complainant with the most opprobrious epithets,
and advised his friend to turn her into the s treet. The lat-
ter, however, refused to do so, and the defendant, after some
threatening language, struck her a violent blow on the fore-
head with a massive and sharp •edged piece of mahogany,
which produced an extensive lacerated wound, and covered
her face with blood. The defendant immediately followed
up the attack with another violent blow on the back of the
head, which brought her to the ground in a state of insen-
sibility.
Mr. BINGHAM said that he had no power to deal ade-
quately with such a case, and he therefore felt it his duty to
send it for the adjudication of a jury.
LAMBETH.
SAVAGE ASSAULT.—MYSTEMOUSAFFAM.—Yesterday, Ann
Lynch was brought before Mr. Henry, on a charge of
savagely ill-treating and causing the death of a young woman,
whose name is at present unknown. The facts of the case
are these :—The prisoner, with others of her class who are
in the habit of leading a loose and dissipated life, had been
accustomed to apply for and obtain lodging at Marlborough-
house, Peckham, in which establishment a number of the
City paupers are fanned. On the morning of' the sth of last
month loud cries of " Murder" were heard to issue from
13 ward in the institution, and on the nurse and others
going to see what was the matter, they found the prisoner
ill-using another young female, who had been a casual in-
mate, in the most savage and brutal manner. Not content
with striking her with her fists in the face, she drew the hair
from her head in handfuls, and dashed her head against the
wall with such savage brutality as to cause pieces of the
skin of the skull, with the hair attached, to adhere to
the bricks. The excuse for all this was that the unfor-
tunate female had stolen three halfpence from one Of her
fellow-inmates, and was about to put on the stockings of
another.
Maria Dennis, who described herself as a nurse at M arl-
borough-house, said that on going to 13 ward she found
the prisoner with both her hands entangled in the hair of
younga woman, who was then lying on the bed, and pulling
each handful different ways, declaring at the same time, and
in the most savage manner, she would have her life. The
female was rescued from the prisoner, and the former looked
in a most deplorable state with the blood streaming from her
mouth and nose, and also from her head, where the prisoner
had drawn the hair from large patches.
Mr. HENRY—Did you send for a constable to give the pri-
soner into custody? Witness—No, sir; if I was to send for
a constable for every little affray that takes place, I'd have
nothing else to do. I can manage all the persons that comes
there myself, but the prisoner, and she is such a desperate
character, that I myself was afraid of her, and it takes five
men to master her.
Mr. HENRY—And what became of the injured female?
Witness—l gave her her breakfast, which she took away
with leer in her hand, and sent her out, and was really glad
to get rid of her out of the prisoner's reach.
Mr. lltternv—What ! Turn out a person who yourself de-
scribe as being in a deplorable state, bleeding profusely, and
with whose blood one of the witnesses says she was satu-
rated. Why did you not send for some medical man to see
the unfortunate young woman ? Witness I did not
send for one, and there I think I was wrong ; but I was glad
to:get rid of her, fearing that the prisoner would again attack
and murder her.
Mr. HEetav—Then I must say that it was quite scanda-
lous that the unfortunate female should have been turned I
into the streets in such a state. A medical man should have
been sent for to see her, and the prisoner should have been
then given into custody.
The prisoner here said, that though Mrs. Dennis, the
nurse, had said site had done all she could to separate her
from the young woman, the contrary was the fact, for she
actually encouraged her to ill . use her, and several times
called out, " Give it her well ; give it her well."
The husband of Dennis, who also holds a situation in
Marlborough-house, confirmed his wife's statement as to the
deplorable condition of the young woman, who had been so
savagely attacked. •
Morton, a constable belonging to the P division, said that
from what he could learn of the case, it appeared that the in-
jured female, upon being turned out of the house with a
piece of dry bread, was so exhausted that she was obliged to
sit down at the gate. She afterwards managed to crawl
along the Kent-road some distance, when she fell from per-
fect exhaustion. From there she had been carried to one of
the hospitals, where she since died. He, Morton, had been
to Guy's, St:Thomas's, and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, but
could get no tidings of such a person. That she was dead,
however, there was strong reason to believe, as she had net
since been seen in any of her accustomed haunts. There were
two females named Bell and Thompson, who, he understood
had visited her at the hospital to which she had been taken,
but he could not at present make them out, and suspected
they were in confinement at some of the metropolitan prisons.
He also understood. that, on Monday last, a female had called
at Marlborough-house, to inquire about a female who was
missing, and whose description corresponded in every way
with the female that had been Mused.
This was admitted by one of the servants at Marlborough-
house, and
Mr. HENRY further remanded the prisoner for a week,
and directed that Mr. Richards, the proprietor of Marl-
borough-house, and his clerk, be mullioned to attend the
next examination.