The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-31 00:00:00

The CkIAIRMAN ruled that the case should go on.

Mr. Josephs then stated that the prisoner lived in
adultery with his brother-in-law. He had had the
misfortune to lose his wife by the cholera, and, ever
since that time, whenever the prisoner met him,
she grossly insulted him, calling " Murderer !" " There
is the person who murdered his wife," and such
like expressions. On the 14th of August, he was in
Capel-street, where he had the misfortune to meet the
prisoner, who instantly began her usual abuse, but that
day she did not confine it to mere words ; she spit in his
face, and told him that "she had not yet done with him,
but would do the same to him whenever and wherever
she met him." A person named Miers was with him,
but he was unable to attend from illness.

The prisoner put in a written defence, in which she
stated that Joseph was a man who cared li:tle for an oath;
that he sometime ago was obliged to escape in woman's
clothes to America, because he was charged with for-
gery; and that, since he had returned, he had supported
himself by practising frauds, which the pawnbrokers of
the metropolis could testify. She begged the Court to
look at the D;spatch of 2d June last, where they would
see that she spoke the truth. It was in consequence of
his supposing that she bad informed against him that be
always abused her, and that on the day in question he said
he wish-d he could wind her bowels about her neck.
An Irishwoman proved, in a most rich brogue, that she
was with the prisoner on the 14th of August, and pointed
out Josephs to her. He owed witness 165., and Mrs.
Nathan went to him and asked him for it. She did not
not spit in his face. -
The Jury instantly found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Thomas Haysham, a spruce-looking young man, was
then indicted for violently assaulting Sarah. his wife, on
the 16th September.
The prosecutrix stated that the prisoner was her hus-
band ; he was waiter at Green's Hotel, St. James's-street.
He kept sw.iy from her, and was living with another
woman. On the morning of Sunday, the Ibtb, she went,
at five o'clock, to the Hotel, where she saw him coming
out to go down St. James's-street. She asked him for
some money to pay her taxes with on the Monday. She
said to him, " I suppose I have disturbed you this morn-
ing, but you may as well give me the money as give it to
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him.
He
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came out,
Hotel,
when butshe
followed
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waited
him, and said she would continue to do so till she got
money from him. When they got to the bottom of St.
James's-street, be turned round, and said, " If you
follow me five minutes more, I will take and break
your I-gs, and make such a figure of your face that
you will not again be able to follow me for some
time." She still went after him, and he then
turned round and broke her umbrella, and gave her a
blow on the face. She went to him again on the Monday
morning for money, when he said he would come home
and do to her all he had ever promised her—he did go
home with a large stick in his hand, but she kept out of
his way ; he waited fur nearly four hours, when he saw
her in the yard, be came down and dragged her up stairs
to their own room, where he bad the window fastened
down ; he then locked the door, and struck her often with
his fists ; after he had knocked her down, he took the stick
and struck her so severely over the thighs and legs that
she was under the hands of a doctor for a fortnight. He
said unless she would go on her bended knees and ask h
pardon he would certainly murder her. She was a
widow when be married her, and was possessed of a good
lease. It was because she would not administer that he
began at first to ill-use her,
Mary Plant and Elizabeth Lightfoot deposed to seeing
the prisoner with the stick, and searing the cries o

murder from Aid Trayebam: Theq bed often beard fel
ill language from both parties, but never saw the
prosecutrix spit in the prisoner's face.
The prisoner said in his defence, that they had
at his wife's request, a year and a half ago. Ile 1,
got into several good situations ; but, as she was Al"' t
annoying him, he lost them. She had also declared th;
she would get him out of that he was in at proPnt.
the day in question he went home to settle the taxes,
when she insulted him, and spit in his face.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; and the
man, after commenting on the enormity of the offeecoei•
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in the 11"°ty-,
Correction for six months, and then to find security'
himself in 401., and two sureties in 201. each, to '''e"
partecili

the peace for twelve months.
hy the
BILL STEALING.—Mr. ADOLPHUS said he saw -',0,1y
newspapers that John Minter Hart was now in cu ad
As there were many witnesses who would have to at".—ric
from all parts of the country, it would be very convenje
if the Court would appoint a specific day for the trii)* d
The CHAIRMAN consulted his brother Migistrater 813
fixed that it should be taken on Tuseday, December S'
THE KING ON THE PROSECUTION OF F. D. ASTLSCI

PALMER.
It was expected that a motion for arrest of jutig`,ye
would be made in this case on the ground that during
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trial the jury were allowed to have an hour for t3l',
refreshments. We believe, however, that no suchOf;
cation will be made, the legal advisers having caunselio
application to the Court of King's Bench in preference'