The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, June 15.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice WIGHT3IAN.

THE QUEEN V. BUSHELL.

Mr. WILLIS said in this case the defendant was in-
dicted at the Middlesex Sessions, for keeping a common
gaming-house in St. James's, but he was ignorant
of the name of the prosecutor, or of the street
'in which the alleged gaming-house was situated. A
rule nisi had, therefore, been granted calling upon the
prosecutor to furnish the defendant with the particulars
of the house and his own name. That rule had been
served upon the attorney who endorsed the indictment,
but an affidavit had been filed by him, stating that he
had ceased to be engaged in the case and that he neither
knew the situation of the house nor the name of the
prosecutor. Under these circumstances he now moved
that the rule be made absolute.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN directed the rule to be en
'urged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
Mr. Henry Clarke, Idol-lane, Tower-street, appeared
to a summons charging him " with having composed
and published a certain libel containing divers matters
and things of and concerning" Captain George Beau-
clam Grosvenor-street West, Pimlico.
Certain letters having bean read,
Defendant, in reply to the charge,
complained in
strong terms of the mode of proceeding adopted against
him, declaring that he had been persecuted as
with a
well as
prosecuted. Proceedings had been first takn
view to put him in a bad position beforethe
create a strong impression against him in
thweorpldubltinc
mind, which the life of a century
might not erase, by
charging him, in the first instance, with threatening to
publish There
rtetnt to extort money,
e k e
ing certainn o e
vid things,enee
that charge, one of
libel was next exhibited against him.
towistuhppillo.
After hearing the case, which had no public interest,
the Magistrate felt bound to call on defendant to find
bail to answer the charge at the Central Criminal
Court.
Tho Captain was bound over to prosecute, in the usual
•
way, and defendant put in bail to answer the charge.MARLBOROUGH-STREET
The man Haynes, who was held to bail for having a
gun and ball-cartridges in his possession, for Chartist
purposes, was brought up to be liberated, he having pro-
cured two respecsable tradesmen to be answerable for I
his future good behaviour.
One of the tradesmen said the defendant he had known
from a child, and had given him work. He was a steady
aharintwreordkeianiggaminagn,
ebhuatraheated br,ueekn leddhe was
awwasaynboywohtheaerrstiloyf
the bail if they were willing to
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be bound for his future good conduct, and that he should
not frequent seditious meetings ?—The bail answered in
the affirmative.
Haynes then came forward, and,
with
tial aspect, promised future
good b e
he would give up vll ha vai onlu ro,a td
Pe
ce lnairt inn;
" i anous company," and stick to
work like an honest man.
Mr. HARDWICK accepted the proffered bail.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. David Waterworth, a bootmaker, in the Hack-
ney-road, was placed before Mr. Hammill, for final exa-
mination, charged with having assaulted and danger-
ously
injured Mrs. Eliza Kirby, the wife of a tradesman
in the same neighbourhood.
The complainant stated, that on the night of Wed-
nesday, the .17th ult., she was standing at the door of
her house, with her niece and daughter, having been
attracted there by an alarm of fire, when the defendant,
with whom she had some previous misunderstanding,
suddenly came up, and after assaulting her with the
coarsest abuse, and declaring " that he would give it to
her, now that he had got her alone," instantly struck
her several violent blows in the face, and knocked her
to the ground. The moment she regained her feet, the
defendant struck her a violent blow over the right eye,
which again knocked her down, and rendered her sense-
less. Upon recovering her senses, she found herself in
her own parlour, under the at.;endance of a surgeon, and
bleeding profusely from numerous wounds, and being
at the time in an advanced a tate of pregnancy, a mis-
carriage soon afterwards took place, and she was con-
fined to her bed, in a very precarious state, for nearly
three weeks.
The evidence of the complainant was fully corrobo-
rated by that of Amy and Susan Kirby, her niece and
daughter, and a tradesman, named Gomer, who stated
that although the defendant wits an entire stranger to
him, he was enabled to identify him from having seen
him at the door of his shop, -which was rendered con-
spicuous by a profuse display of Chartist bills and politi-
cal announcements exhibited in his window.
Mr. Mark Pickering, a surgeon at Haggerstone,
proved that upon beingcalled in to attend the complainant,
he found her face severely Lacerated in six or seven
places, her nose seriously contused, and both her eyes
blackened, and he attributed her subsequent miscarriage
to the injuries she had so sustaiated.
Mr. H&MMILL said that he 'considered the case of far
too serious a nature to be summarily disposed of, and he
should therefore send it before a jury, and the prisoner,
who expressed his intention to reserve his defence, was
accordingly committed for trial ; but the Magistrate
consented to take substantial bail for his appearance.
Frederick Murgatroyd was eh iarged with having stolen
a gold watch, of the value of 3 5 guineas, the property
of a gentleman named Winterford, residing at Cottage-
grove, Walworth.
The prosecutor stated that while passing through New-
street, Whitechapel, at a late hour on the preceding
night, the prisoner made a sudd,en rush towards him, and
grasped hold of his watch-guard 'with such a violent jerk
that he snapped the swivel aru got possession of his
watch, with which he instantly darted off: Witness pur-
sued the prisoner with a cry of " Stop thief," and kept
him in sight until he was seized by a policeman who was
advancing; but although he was subjected to an imme-
diate search the watch was not recovered, and he had
no doubt he transferred it to ale of his confederates,
who escaped in a different direr tion, just before he was
captured.
The prisoner, who protested :his innocence, was fully
committed for trial.

BENEVOLENCE.—The Magistr ate announced his re-
ceipt of a letter, with the signature " A. 8.," enclosing
the half of a 20L note, No. 60,52.2, and lettered " T.F.,"
for the poor-box of the Coua •t, and the remaining
moiety of which was promised to be transmitted upon
the acknowledgment of the re c eipt of the first in the
daily papers.