The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-27 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—The list at
this court contained 30 charges, of which an assault
on the police stood most prominent.
William Rain, a carman, living at Chelsea, was
charged with violently assaulting Fauce and another
constable of the T division, and further wilfully
damaging a helmet and coati to the amount of
201.

Thomas Fauce, 8 T R, whose face was much cut
and disfigured, said that at 8 on Saturday evening
he was in plain clothes in Arthur-street, Chelsea.
The prisoner and three others came down a street,
and met constable Crockwell. A window was
smashed, and I and Crockwell went up. The land-
lord came out and told the man in uniform he
would give them in custody. I said I was a con-
stable, and the prisoner knocked me down by a
blow on the nose and eye, exclaiming " there you
- slop." Ile ran away. I was knocked down
again by another man not in custody, and was
kicked while on the ground and struck in the mouth
by another man, whom I secured and held for five
minutes. I was kicked about the legs, and he was
rescued before I had help.
Wm. Crockwell, 223 T, corroborated. Ile fol-
lowed and took the prisoner after the first assault
on Fauce. He knocked me down and smashed my
helmet all to pieces by kicking it about.
The police having stated that they could appre-
hend the other men,

Mr. Selfe remanded the prisoner till Friday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

After disposing of about 30 charges of drunken-
ness, several of them being against cab-drivers—
most of the offenders pleading as their excuse that
it was Christmas time—and the greater part of
them being dikcharged without a fine, the following
cases were heard by Mr. Mansfield :
DASTARDLY ASSAULT.—John Brown, a cabinet
maker, of Carlisle-street, Lambeth, was charged
with assaulting a young woman named Annie
W illiams.

The complainant, whose face bore marks of
violence, said that on Saturday morning, a little
after oue o'clock, she was standing at the corner of
Charles-street, Haymarket, with a female friend,
when the prisoner and two friends carne up to them
and in consequence of one of the latter indecently
assaulting her friend she pushed the prisoner away.
An altercation then arose, and a constable came
up, told them to go away, and she did so; and
while crossing the Haymarket the prisoner followed
her and struck her two violent blows, one in the
eye and the other in the mouth. Her eye was
badly hurt, and one of her teeth was loosened.

In answer to Mr. Mansfield, the complainant
said the prisoner was an entire stranger to her ; the
blows were given with such violence that she was
knocked down insensible ; and that a constable saw
the assault.

Daniel Palmer, 51 C R, said that the prisoner on
his going up gave the complainant into custody for
striking him, but, seeing uo marks, he refused to
take her, and told the females to go away, and
they did so ; and the prisoner then went after the
comilainaut and struck her in the eye and
mouth, and she bled profusely, and had to be taken
to the hospital. The prisoner, after he struck the
complainant, said he was satisfied, as he had had
his revenge.

The prisoner said he went up to get his two
friends from the females, and the complainant
struck him, and as the constable would not take
her into custody he went after her and struck her.

The prisoner called a witness named Henry Cox,
a cabinetmaker in West-square, Lambeth, who said
the complainant struck prisoner, and prisoner, who
was a respectable man, struck her.
Mr. Diansfield said whether the prisoner was
respectable or not his conduct was most dastardly,
and he would have to pay £2O or three months.
Richard Gamble, a young man living in Newport-
market, and who has several times been charged
with assaulting the police, was charged with as-
saulting Police-constables O'Dea, 47 U, and Wheat-
ley, .18 C, and fined £5 or two mouths.