The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 8.

BOW-STREET.—The Rev. J. C. Ward, a clergyman
of the Church of England, attended for the third time
before Mr. Henry, to an‘wf r the charge of being a wan-
dering lunatic, and of writing letters to the Queen and
different members of her Majesl's Government.
Mr. Henry informed Lim that a letter had been re-
ceived from Mr. Greenwood, of the Treasury, to the
effect that no further proceedings would be taken in the
cage on behalf of the Crown. This, he believed, was
the result of a private arrangement with the friends of
the defendant.
The warrant was then dismissed.

WESTMINSTE IL—A STRANGE AFFAIR.- Ann Wit—
son, a prostitute of the lowest gra le, was charged with
wilful and corrupt perjury.
The proceedings arose out of the trial and conviction
of George Brown, a young man very respectably con•
netted, who was charged, in January last, with assaulting
the defendant, and committed for six months to hard
labour in the House of Correction, from which he was
brought to this court upon a jßd4e'is order, to exhibit
the present olmplaint, after an ineffectual application to
the Secretary of State, representing that he had been
the victim of perjury.
The offence Laving been proved Mr. Arnold com•
mitted the accused fur trial.

CLERKENWELL.—CAPTURE OP ONE OP THS
ESCAPED CONVICTS Paoli THE Naw MODEL PRISON.
—.Henry Mitchell, aged 23, a short, thick-set, powerful-
looking fellow, described in the police-sheet as a brick- •
layer, of No. 4, Brill-row, Somers-town, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Carrie, charged with being an es-
caped convict, and illegally at large, before the expira-
tion of his term of imprisonment.
It will be remembered that the prisoner made his es-
cape in company with another convict, a shoemaker,
named Henry Simpson, from the New Model Prison,
ebout three or four weeks since. The prisoners' escape
caused a great deal of excitement, it being almest
ralleled, and beyond aft-precious prison breaking. It
appears that the two prisoners had been for some Cate
incarcerated irethe gaol, Simpson—who is described as
a labourer, 21-years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, fresh
complexion, brown ha'r, hazel eyes, and stoutly made—
having been convicted on the 26th of November last, at
the C ntral Criminal Court, of burglary, and senteneed
to 14 3ears' tracspor tation, having been before convicted
of felony in Surrey, and sentenced to 10 years' transpor-
tation, while the prisoner Mitchell, who was convicted
at the same sessions for a like offence, was sentenced to
four years' penal servitude. They were two daring cha-
ractene and one, it was stated at. the time, was a rela-
tive of the notorious Hackett, who escaped from the
same place several years since. When the prisoners were
in Horsemonger-lane Gaol, a female was apprehended
and convicted for conveying to them a file and other ar-
ticles necessary for the picking of locks, inside of a hslf-
quartern leaf, and the prison authorities were told to keep
a sharp look on them. On the night of thel9th of March
they were safely locked up in their cell, and to get
out they had to pick one of the patent locks which fas-
tened the cell door. On the following morning an alarm
was raised, and, on subsequent search being made, .it
seems that the prisoners walked along the passage,
where they found an iron trap door, weighing three hun-
dred weight, which they must, have forced up, and got
upon the roof of a low building, having picked several
locks on their way. From thence they scaled a lefty
wall, by the aid of a ladder made of wax-ends, which
brought theta to the roof of the prieon ; fyr they de-
scended and ascended at least six times before they could
have reached the outside of the gaol. The matter was
placed in the hands of Sergeant Whicher, of the detec-
tire force, and he, after watching for some time, suc-
ceeded, after great difficulty, in apprehending the' pri-
soner. Mitchell stated that after he and his companion •
escaped, they walked in their prison dress as far as Cam-
berwell, passing several of the metropolitan police, be-
fore they entered any house, thus showing the necessity
of the police being made aware of the different styles of
dress worn by the different prisoners. He also stated
that, in making their escape, they once or twice ran
great risk of losing their lives.

The prix )ner, who had nothing to say in his defence,
was remauded for a week.

SOUTHWARK.— CONVICTION or A Commramr.
TRAVELLER FOR ASSAULTING HIS WIFE. —A gentle•
manly-looking and well-dressed young man, named
William Thompson, described in the charge-sheet as a
commercial traveller, residing at No. 8, Inman's- build-
inge, Wellington-street, Southwark, was brought befit*
Mr. Combe,.charged with committing a violent assault
on Harriet Ann Thompson, his wife.
The complainant, a very respectable female, who ex-
hibited a cut on the nose, with some reluctance gave the
following evidence :—She stated, in a low voice, that
she had been married to the prisoner about two years,
and that he was a commercial frivoller, but recently
had done nothing, but• was supported by her, out
of an excellent business, which she carried on
without his assistance. On the previous night,
about eleven o'clock, he went to bed, and believing
him to be unwed, she asked- him whether sbe should
prepare him something nice for supper. He replied that
he bhould like some tea and ham and eggs. She accord-
and carried them
accord-
ingly s provided twhheesne thhei ti s for him,
Jumped out of bed, and threw
them down the stairs. She was exceedingly frightened
at his conduct, and ran away from him, but he pursued
her, and struck her several times on the face, inflicting
the wound on her nose.
Mr. Combe asked her whether that was done with any
instrument ?

She replied that he used nothing but his fiats. Her
cries brought itsistance, and, on a constable entering
the hou,e,ehe gave him into custody.
Mr. Cornbe—Were you quite sober at the time
Witness replied that she was, and she never drank
anything intoxicating. Her husband knew that to be
a fact.

The prisoner, who during the examination covered his
face with his handkerchief, here exclaimed that his head
was very bad when he went to bed, and he did not want
to be troubled. His wife carne up and teased him. She
also struck him in the face, causing blood to flow.
The complainant positively denied his assertions.
was continually in the habit of ill-using her, although
she provided him with every comfort. She bad several
times obtained summonses against him at that court,
but she never attended before to support her complaints.
Ever since they had been married her husband had done
no work, but he lived entirely upon her labour. She
had actually been in the habit of supplying him with
his meals in bed, and in return he knocked and kinked
her about dreadfully.
The prisoner, in a violent manner, said that his wife
struck him, and he showed her the blood, when he
merely gave her a push.
The wife, bursting into tears, said she never touched
him. In fact, to took up the knife and fork and
threatened to run me through, but I pushed them away.
• Mr. Combo asked her what he said to her at that
time
Witness replied that he callei her a --, and said
"I'll do for you.
Mr. Combo said that was quite enough. There could
be no doubt he was a brutal lazy fellow, and he should
commit him to the House of Correction for three monthe,
with hard labour, and at the expiration of that term of
impri.onment he must find two sureties to keep the
peace for six months, or remain in gaol.
The prisoner, who was with some difficulty removed
by the gaoler, hoped his worship would not commit him
to prison, as it would be the death of him. He implored
his wife to witheraw the charge, promising never to ill
use h. r again. -
Mr. Cembe told him- that the sentence was passed on
him, and it was lenient cemoarecl with his brutal con-
duct towards his wife, who, fortunately., (Auld do better
without him.