The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday William Thigaen, a journeyman tanner in
Bermondsey, was placed at the bar before Mr. A'Beekett,
charged with inflicting such injuries on his wife that she
is not expected to survive.
A policeman stated that on the previous night he was
called to a house where the prisoner and his family
lived, at Bermondsey, and on entering a room on the
ground floor he found his wife lying on the floor in a
state of insensibility. There was a part of a broken bed
rail at a short distance from her, which he (policeman)
was informed her husband (the prisoner) had broken
while in the act of beating her and inflicting the injuries
which she had sustained. Finding that the woman was
in such a bad state he (the policeman) procured a cab,
and bad her placed in it, and drove her off to the hospi-
tal. On being examined by the house-surgeon the latter
gave a certificate (produced), which described that the
patient was utterly incapable of attending the
body.
court
owing to the severe contusions inflicted on er
The policeman added that the woman had never spoken
since the alleged acts of violence had been committed,
and that he accordingly took the prisoner into Fustody.
Upon subsequent inquiries being instituted, it as
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certained that the prisoner was a hard-working indue-
trious man, having a family of children, bat that lus
wife was aiven to habits of drunkenness and neglecting
her home; that upon a recent occasion, after Irving
pledged and made away with most of her husband is and
children's clothes, she left home and stayed away forha
week. On the previous night she returned, sad t
prisoner being at home at the time, under exasperated
feelings at her conduct in abandoning:her children under
such circumstances, he grasped the first thing that came
to hand, and that was one of the bed rails, and beat
life.
her with such violence as almost to deprive her of _
Mr. ATK ECETT, upon the production of the certifi-
cate from the hospital where the injured woman is riovr it
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lying, remanded the prisoner, who said nothing, until.
was ascertained whether she is likely to survive the ..
lence inflicted upon her.
Thomas Wales, late a patient in St. Thomas's Hospi.
tal, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes belong.
ing to an inmate of the same institution.
The prosecutor stated that he was a patient in the
above hospital, and the prisoner being in the same rrd,
and convalescent, he asked him to brush his suit of
clothes. and clean his boots, preparatory to leaving the
institution. This the prisoner consented to do en the
promise of remuneration, and the clothes were accor
ingly given to him for the above purpose. The pry.
Boner, however, instead of erforming the ob, the 020'
ment he had possession ofp his fellow-patiejnt's clothes
left the hospital with them, and converted them to WA
own purposes, and was not heard of again until the pre-
ceding night, when he was apprehended in Shoreditcla
with the complainant's coat on his back. The remainder
of the garments he had disposed of.
The prisoner said he could say nothing in extenua-
tion of his offence.
Mr. A'BECLETT said the offence was aggravated from
the circumstance of the prisoner acting in such a non"
ner towards an unfortunate fellow-patient in the .50"
hospital. The magistrate, however, added that if
the
sent the prisoner for trial on the charge of stealing
clothes, there was a probability that he might escape, se
the complainant had asked him to brush the clothes, sad
entrusted them to him for that purpose. Instead, ther.e.
fore, of dealing with the case in that way he (the Mao-
trate) should deal summarily with it, and should con-
vict the prisoner and sentence him to two months'
prisonment.
The prisoner was committed accordingly.