The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

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CLERKE,N WELL.

nomas Mansfield, a low, ruffianly looking fellow,
was charged with having assaulted and wounded Mary
Mansfield, his own mother, residing in Cromer-street,
St. Pancras.

Orebo, 41, E division, si4id that on Tuesday night,

2S, 1851.

at about a quarter to ten o'clock, he was on duty in 1
Cromer-street, when the prisoner's mother came to
v,itness bleeding profusely- from a wound near her
threat, and her ear was nearly bit off. She informed
him that the prisoner returned home and demanded
money of her, and on refusing to let him have it, he
attacked her in a brutal manner and inflicted the in-
juries on her person with a knife. Witness instantly
went and took the prisoner into custody, and locked
him up, after a desperate resistance, in which he
fought, bit, and kicked at witness, and he was now
suffering severe pain from the violence of the prisoner.
The witness added that the prisoner was an idle,
skulking, profligate fellow, who had frequently been
in custody, and imprisoned for similar assaults upon
him, and he had only just been released from the
House of Correction, where he had been confined two
months under a conviction for having • stabbed his
sister. His mother had her wounds dressed by a
surgeon, but on this, as on other occasions, she de-
clined making her appearanee to prosecute.
Mr. COMBE, however, determined on hearing the
whole of the case, and decidir, on the charge of as-
sault upon the constable.
Mr. COMBB—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner (sullenly)--Nothing.
Mr. COMBS sentenced him to one month's im-
prisonment, with hard labour, in the House of Cor-
rection.

Clara Pairling, the young woman who was charged
with attempting suicide by cutting her throat with a
penknif-, and remanded, was again placed at the bar
before Mr. Tyrwhitt for final examination. It will
be recollected that the prisoner was housemaid in the
service of Mr. Smith, of Palatine-house, Stoke New-
ington. She exhibited obstinacy of temper, and im-
pertinently refused to obey the orders of Miss Smith,
her young mistress, when she received notice to quit
her situation, and she was subsequently found in her
bedroom with her throat cut, having inflicted a wound
with a penknife, and her person was covered with
blood. A doctor was called in and he dressed the
wound, and she was given into custody.
The prisoner's mother, a respectable looking woman,
attended in grief.

Mr. TYR;FiITT, in a feeling address to the pri-
soner, said it was a most lamentable and melancholy
thing to find a decent girl like the prisoner making
such a rash attempt upon her life. He did hope dur-
ing her imprisonment she had reflected upon the
wickedness of the act she had committed, and would
shun such an attempt in future and go home with her
mother.

The prisoner said she had reflected properly on
her offence; she was very sorry, and would not re-
peat it.
Mr. TYRWHITT—Then go home with your mother.
I shall discharge you now ; and keep to your promise.
She then left with her mother.
SOUTHWARK.

Joseph Nye was charged with wilfully administer-
ing poison to Ann Gadding.
Sergeant Wright, M division, stated that the
woman Godding was so seriously ill from the effects
of the poison alleged to have been administered to her
that she was rendered incapable of attending the exa-
mination, and was at present under medical treat-
ment. The sergeant then proceeded to state, that
from information he received on the previous day re-
specting the affair, he went to the prisoner's lodgings
and found that he was absent. He (the sergeant),
however, waited about the neighbourhood and suc-
ceeded in taking him into custody late on the previous
night. When he apprised the prisoner of the nature
of the charge against him, and said that it was for
administering poison to Ann Godding, his answer
was—" Ob, it was only done in a lark. There were
others in the room when it occurred, and no harm
was intended." The circumstances attending the
offence with which the prisoner is charged occurred
on Monday ; on which day, about two o'clock, the
prisoner called at the woman Godding's lodgings, in
Dclf-street, Kent-street. On entering the room
where she was, he took a raspberry tart out of his
pocket, and, offering it to her, invited her to take it.
She at first refused, but upon his pressing her she
was at length induced to comply, and in his
presence partook of the greater part of it.
The prisoner remained there, and in about
half-an-hour after she had eaten the tart he
asked her how she felt. She replied that she felt
nausea or sickness at the stomach, and a nasty taste
in her mouth. His remark to that was, " You will
feel a good deal worse before you are better ;" and
then added, " I have only given you a Spanish fly
and a half." Soon afterwards she became so alarm-
ingly ill that the people in the house were compelled
to send for a medical gentleman, who pronounced that
she was labouring under the effects of cantharides,
and if immediate steps had not been taken to neutra-
lise the effects of the poison, there was little doubt
but it would have proved fatal. As it was, the poor
woman was much debilitated from the quantity she
had taken, hut was considered much better, and would
be enabled to attend the next examination.

Mr. BINGHAM asked the prisoner whether he wished
to say anything in answer to the alleged charge,
which was one of a very serious nature ? The priso-
ner replied that at present he should decline making
any defence, and he was remanded.