The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-04 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, JULY 3.

T. Dawson, aged sixteen, was indicted for stealing two
necklaces, a gold snap, and a gold brooch, the property of
H. A. Dawson, his sister.
The prisoner's mother stated that the articles set forth in
the indictment were given by her to her daughter, and de-
posited in a box, which was locked, on the 13th of Febru-
ary last. The prisoner was released from Brixton House
of Correction, and she gave him an asylum. He had been
in the house but a short time when he broke open the box
and absconded with the property in question, and when he
was apprehended for another robbery the duplicates of the
above property were found upon him. The witness (in
tears) stated that her family were respectable, and every
good example was put before the prisoner, who had been
educated at a boarding school, but nothing would re-
claim him.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner was also indicted for stealing a blanket, the
property of Mary Ross, a poor widow.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, andhe was sentenced
to be transported for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday James Phelps, a bargeman belonging to Ful-
ham, was charged with the following furious assault on po-
lice constable Exton, of the B division, No. 117.

On the preceding evening the prisoner, in company with
two other men, went into the shop of Mr. George Stacey,
a pork butcher, Queen-street, Pimlico. One of the pri-
soner's companions made free with a hand of pork, which
he was concealing about his person, when he was observed
by Sarah Mills, who served in the shop, upon which he
dropped the pork and ran off. A police constable came up,
and the prisoner was given into custody as a person acces-
sary to the robbery. On going to the station-house the
prisoner made a desperate resistance, violently assaulted
the police constable, and got away ; but was eventually
lodged in the station-house. On searching the prisoner
he seized the constable's hand, got the middle finger of the
left hand into his mouth, and bit it so dreadfully that he
broke the bone, and in all probability it will have to be am-
putated. He also got hold of the hand of Sergeant Bolton,
and bit it in the fleshy part to the very bone, and with
great difficulty he was secured. Police constable Exton
was immediately taken to a surgeon's in great torture, and
the finger was dressed ; but he is totally unfit for duty.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that in his
lifetime he had received several violent blows on the head,
and when he got a little to drink he did not know what he
was about.
The Magistrates ordered him to pay the full penalty of
5/., in default of which he was committed for two months to
the House of Correction.
It is rather singular that within the last twelvemonth po-
lice constable Exton, when in the act of apprehending a pri-
soner, bad the middle finger of his right hand bitten in such
a dreadful manner that he was under the necessity of having
it amputated.
HATTON GARDEN.
_ _ _

yesterday Mary Bond, a respectable looking woman,
was charged by John White, a lame man, who walked with
a crutch, with having committed an assault, when the fol-
lowing disclosure of an atrocious attack upon an elderly fe-
male, who has nearly lost her life, was made :
The complainant White, a shoemaker, residing in the
neighbourhood of Rosoman-street, Clerkenwell, levied a
distress upon the goods and chattels of a poor old couple
named Coxhead, his lodgers, for rent due. On Friday
night last Coxhead quitted home for a short time, leaving
his wife to take care of the place, and on his return shortly
afterwards he found the landlord, White, in his apartment,
and his (Coxhead's) wife lying in one corner of the room,
doubled up, bleeding profusely froi a dreadful wound on her,

head, and she was quite insensible and unable to speak. There
being no one else in the room but the man White, who
appeared agitated, and having no doubt but that he had ill-
used his wife, Coxhead alarmed the neighbourhood with
cries of " murder," when the defendant, Mrs. Bond, and a
Mr. Travers, with several other individuals, entered the
place, on which the prisoner tried to escape, but the police
were called in and he was given into custody. Mrs. Coxhead
was carried to St. Sepulchre's workhouse, where she was
examined by the surgeons, and it was discovered that three
of her ribs were broken, her skull fractured, and they pro-
nounced her life to be in danger. The man White was
ultimately brought to this office, but no prosecutor appear-
ing against him he was discharged, on which he returned
home and abused Mrs. Bond, called her opprobious names,
which she resented by striking him, for which he had the
temerity to take out a warrant and appear against her as a
prosecutor.

Air. LAING, on hearinc, the above particulars narrated, in-
stantly discharged Mrs. Bond, and said that the case as-
sumed a very serious aspect. He ordered White to be placed
at the bar as a prisoner, and
Mrs. Bond and Mr. Travers were sworn, when they re-
iterated the above particulars, that they were attracted by
the cries of murder, and on entering the place they found
Mrs. Coxhead bleeding and insensible in a corner of the room.
The prisoner and the injured woman's husband were the
only persons in the place.
The master of St. Sepulchre's workhouse here stated
that the injured woman was in that establishment in a
dreadful state, unable to move or speak from the injuries
already described, and that she was unlikely to survive the
effect of the injury.
The prisoner denied the charge.
Mr. LAING remanded the prisoner for a week.
MANSLAUGHTER.—Joseph Martin, aged 32, was finally
examined, charged with the manslaughter of Jeremiah Ma-
earthy, aged 68. The particulars of this case we have
already. given. _ _ _

The Prisoner denied the charge, but he was fully corn.
mitted for trial.

INQUEST IN THE KING'S BENCH PRISON

An inquest was held on Monday before Mr. Le Pipre,
Coroner, on the body of Captain Marcus Samuel Hill,
R.N., a Post Captain of 1802.
Marcus Hill, son of the deceased, being sworn, said—
Deceased has been ten weeks here last Tuesday. He had
been staying at Clifton for the benefit of his health, being
very ill and much swelled. Has heard the doctors say that
he had drank a large quantity of spirits for the last ten
years. He was in such a state as to be unable to move
except in a carriage, and required two or three persons to
move him. That is about seven weeks ago. He had no
idea of being taken. He was arrested at Clifton, and taken
to Gloucester gaol, where he remained from Friday to
Tuesday, and was then brought here. He was 64 years of
age last August. Was brought here by habeas, for if he
had remained he would have died in a week. That is my
opinion. He never had the gout. He was subject to ery-
sipelas every winter. When arrested he was taken ill out
of his bed. The Sheriff or the Under-Sheriff told him
that he must 'come to him, and took him to a lock-up
house at Bristol, where he remained one night, and was
then removed to Gloucester. He has had the ery-
sipelas ten years ; he became rapidly worse the last
six weeks. Dr. Syder told me that if he was not
removed he would surely die. Dr. Teeven thought
he would die, and desired me to call in Dr. Whiting,
which I did. He was more depressed after he came, and
very irritable. He applied to the Under-Governor, at
Gloucester, to be allowed to sleep on the road, which he
refused, as it was never allowed to prisoners. We left
Gloucester at three in the afternoon, and arrive 1 in London
at seven in the morning, by the coach, when he appeared
very much exhausted, and went to bed for two hours. He
was then removed to Chancery-lane, where he became
very irritable, fancying that he was charged too much. Since
here everything was done to alleviate his sufferings ; he was
allowed everything he wished ; for about a fortnight he
drank brandy. His medical attendants were Dr. Cooper,
Dr. Hooper, Dr. Whiting, Dr. Syder, and Dr. Teeven.
Dr. Syder distinctly stated that if he was not removed to
better air, he would not be answerable for his life. No ap-
plication was ever made to the Marshal for him to go in the
rules. After hearing further evidence, the Jurors were of
opinion " that the deceased laboured under a form of disease
which must be ultimately fatal. The Jurors are of opi-
nion, also, that the fatal result was greatly accelerated by
the fact that deceased was forced to travel all night, toge-
ther with the distress of mind caused by his arrest and con-
sequent imprisonment. The Jurors also find that deceased
had every comfort and indulgence which the regulations of
the King's Bench prison could extend to individuals in his
unhappy situation."