The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Av UNCRATEFUL MAN.—At the Middlesex Sessions a
deaf and dumb man, named Cartwright. was charged with
assaulting Mr. Johns, the deputy lodgiug•honso keeper
at Eagle•street. He had no money, but Mr. Johns allowed
him to sleep there on three occasions without paying, and
one morning the prisoner suddenly attacked Mr. Johns
with a poker. He was sentenced to live years' penal servi-
tude, his defence being that he did not know what he was
about.

A ltoonE AND VAGABOND.--At the same sessions
another deaf and dumb man was sentenced to twelve
months' hard labour and twenty strokes with a birch rod
for being a rogue and vngaLond. Ile had attacked a lady
from whom he was Legging, and assaulted the &nicer who
took him in charge.
A NrA-SAGENTS' QUARREL.—At the Guildhall, on
Monday, Mr. Eyre, director of the Newspaper News.
agents Publishing Company, was summoned before Mr.
Alderman Dakin for assaulting Mr. Clinton Hoey, editor
and proprietor of the Universal News, which is published
by the Company. The quarrel arose out of a placard
respecting the Polish nun, whose story has lately excited so
much interest. Mr. Hoey objected to the placaid being
put up, declaring it to be derogatory to the Catholic
religion, and the defendant persisted in doing so. Mr.
Hoey, therefore, pulled the bill down and the defendant
struck him. He was fined 90s. and costs.
CHAEGE AGAINST A CONSTABLF..—It will be remem-
bered that Police-Inspector Brooks gave some evidence
before Mr. Paget respecting a charge of stealing tobacco,
which the magistrate believed to be false. It now appears
that Mr. Paget has communicated with the Chief• Co-
mmissioner, and that Brooks has been fined two days' pay
and severely censured. The Custom House authorities,
under whom he held an appointment, have deprived him
of his post.

CHARGE OF MEEDEE.—At the Southwark Police-court,
on Monday, a young man, named Rountree, was charged
with attempting to murder a young woman, named Eliza
Raven. The prisoner and the prosecutrix were near
neighbours in the Old Kent-road, and the quarrel between
them arose out of some foolish dispute about the door-
steps. The prisoner, who said there was no bullet in the
pistol which, he fired at the young woman, was committed
for trial at the Old Bailey.
ANOTHER RAILWAY PEosEcuriON.— At Wakefield, on
Monday, Mr. T. Flockton, of Stockton-on-Tees, was
charged with making use of the means of communication
between passengers and railway servants on the Great
Northern Railway without sufficient cause. As the driver
of au express train from Leeds reached Sandal on the 9th
of August, he heard his gong strike, and saw a man at a
carriage window beckoning that he should pull
up at the next station. The driver went on
to Hostel], a short, distance, where the defendant
alighted, and said he wished to go to Kirkgate station,
and finding the train did not stop, be felt justified in the
step he bad taken. In defence, it was stated that Mr.
Flockton had been telegraphed for to execute a deed, and
he was under the impression that the guard would come to
him if be touched the signal. The bench held that the
case had been made out, but it being the first that Lad
been brought before them under the Act, they imposed
a nominal penalty, which, including costs, :mounted to
fifty shillings.

Mr. Stitupsoo, the late secretary to the ForcsterF,
nas marl° an explanation with re&,,strd to the a; plicat:on
wade by his wife at. the Clerkenwfill I'olic +-court on Friday.
Ito stated that it was nearly two ears s nee he hal p
ate d from his wife, and that ha tad agreen to allow her £1
wceic as lung as the did nut molest him. lie Lad con-
ned that payment regulatly fur eighteen munths, When
brolic her engagement by molesting him, and Le stopped

the pnyineut.

MURDER IN LIVEUPOOL.—At a coroner's in-
, rptest held upon the body of a widow named Hannah
Tennant, it was shewn by medical evidence that the inju-
res to the throat and windpipe could not. have been in.
flicted by her own hand. The deceased was found
lying upon the floor of her house with her throat
terribly cut. A piece of the windpipe and a knife
covered with blood were found at some distance
from the body. The jury returned a verdict of wilful
murder against some person or persons at present un.
*inown.