The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

EVENING.. APRIL 15, 1856,

POLICE ~TNTELLIaBNCE.

MANSION-1101.1SE.,—Williarea Augustus Fitzwil-
Ram, who was charged with having in the house of Mr.
Sicker, of Mitre-square, Aldgate, desperately assaultcd
one of the servants of the establishment, upon the at-
tempt to plunder the house, was brought up for final
'examination. The prosecutor, who had been desperately
wounded in-the head, appeared to give evidence.
Richard Martin said—l am servant to-Mr. Socker.
Oa Sunday night, the 6th inst..," I was in the counting-
house on the first floor at the back of the house. I was
Minding the house while the manager and his wife and
servant went to church, 'about .bait-past 6 o'olock, leav-
ing rue alone: in the house; I.z,..clotted the :_front- door
after them. The back door. was -left open. - It. leads to •
an enclosed.yard. I then went into:thecountiug-honie,
-and was reading there, I think, about-an hour. I then
went into the front room, '.-ehich is over the ground
floor, where there was a fire,‘.. sd was reading for alviut
five minutes,. and then put d_ tii the-book. I lay down
on the sofa and dozed about five minutes, and- then
opened my eyes and saw the prikoner in the room, stand-
' log Opposite to me, looking at the candlestick on the
sideboard. I rose up and said " Ralloa ?" believing it
was a man belonging to the house. • The then
rushed towarie me with the:,candleetick in' his 'hand
anl struck at my head with all his might 'with the
eandlestick. I 'held my hand up to protect my,
head, and received the blow .on the palm of my
band, and wy arm dropped powerless from the effect
of the blow. He , then. struck me over the head,
and rek eyes seemed. to strike fire, and all in the
room seemed tog round'witls me, and the blood flowed
into my eyes frotn. the wound in my heaeLim lhat I
cenjsktiters !lie* ie,A,nestisiniaret-mlttiiveirgifititri• -pace or
'l'--.l3Mvertis tlle fireplaeeto get the poker, and the
prisoper.stepped rather awry from the, and male another
desperate blew ,at My- heazl with the- cerlleStick. Ho
hit me two ,nr three times more over any -bead, and the
candlestick flew. out of his hand and rolled under the
table. lle then turned round and ran out of the room.
I threw up the, windeiv, andiseeing a little boy passing,
I told bine to go and call the police. I was then all over
bleep]; and the boy went on looking at me, as if in terror.
I was e_slling out Murder ! " and "Police!" while the
prisoner was striking me. The prisoner did not speak a
word. Wni!e I was 'Calling at the windew several per-
sons cattle to the door. I -told them there were 'thieves
in the house, and that I would go down and 1 .t:them in.
The pri otter is quite a stranger to me. I let the people in.
The prisoner--Are you sure that I am the man who
struck you ? , -
• Witnee4=Quite positive that you are.
The prisoner—What-! .Inthe.dark ?
Witness—lt wafenot dark.
To the Lord Wayer—l have regained, the use of my
arm, which was paralysed by the first blow. I have
been under the bands of the, surgeon since.
Cress-examined by the prisoner—I do not know where
the prisonerMede his entrance to, the room in which I
was,—whether he came in 'at the winnow, or at the
door, or through skeleton keys, or.how.
The Prii-zintrlt is useless for we to say anything.
I say thst'l did not Strike the man ; hut it is all useless,
My, fate is sealed, and therefore I wish your lordship to
bring the- thing to a conclnsi zn. I was not within a
bandredyards of the' house. The man is misled by the
police. 1.00 assure your lordship. that I never saw the
man who accuses me till I saw him this day in the chair
in which ho sits.•

The Lord Mayor--have you, prisoner, any question
to a.ik.tho wittles»?

The 'Prisoner—Net at all, my lord; but I trust that
he will recover, fur my sake.
The Lord Mayor fto Martin)—Are you quite sure
that the prisoner is the man-of whom you have spoken ?
Witness—l am quite sure.
-A policeman ( the metropolitan force) said—l was
present when the prisoner, whose real name is William
13urgon; was -convicted at the Clerkenwell Sessions of
having stolen a chest of tea, and sentenced to transpor-
tation for seven years, and upon that occasion he so
desperately assaulted a policeman that the officer was
unable, to. pirfuriu any -more duty, and has been pen-
sioned

The depo,itions were then ordered to be made out,
and the prisoner was ordered to be committed for trial.

WORSIIIP•STREET.---- Anderson wag charged
with being concerned, with four others who have escaped
apprehension, in assaults and highway robberies.
A youbg- gentleman named -Mace stated that while
paising thriugh Shoreditch, in company of a friend,
between 11 and 12 on the preceding evening, the prisoner
and four other fellows advanced towards hiM, and the
former, without the slightest provoc.ttion on his part,
ran willingly against him, exclaiming " Which way are
you going I" Witness tried to get clear of them without
observation, but that did not suit the purpose of the pri-
soner, who immediately struck him such a terrible blow
On the head with his, fist that he dr,;pped to the ground•
perfectly senseless. How long he remained so he did
not i.ao,v ; but n coming,
—,.twedot its bat, walktug-stzek, handkerchief,
s.nd.all the money he hail in his pocket.

John Melhuial;, friend of the prosecutor, decribed the
attack in the same terinP, !..mt•eduhl not say which- of the
men robbed the laAt witness, the attack, robbery, and
esc:Lf,e of the men scarcely occupying•a minute.
Prisoner said—l did hit hith, it's true, hut not till he
hael struck Me, and (lid not rob bite at all. •

. _
D'Eyncourt—Well, it appears to me very tiaucla
nice a pdrposed assault with intent to rob, and if gou
was known I would send you for trial.
A se.r4eant of the N division—Why, your worShip,
there is another person present on other business who
has just- renogni.-ed the prisoner as having robbed and
violently assaulted him the, same, evening.
This prosecutor, Henry George, then stood forward,
and stated that while passing through the Hackney-road
at 10 O'clock he noticed that he was being dodged by
five men, including the prisoner, whose dress he parti-
cularly marked, and who followed him till he reached
Pownall-road, when he heard a quick step behind him,
and was immediately seized by the throat by the priso-
ner. He plated his hand on his waistcoat to Faye his
watch, upon which the four other men came up, and
while two struck him violently upon the head and chpst
two others held his legs, dragged him along• for several
yaeds and then flung him down so heavily that he lost
his senses, and on recovering them he found. hiniFelf in
and that his guardcham had been
tbirokaeriT(s)ffofand7sotialene,.

The prisoner declared that he was not out of Shore-
ditch the whole evening ; but

Mr. D'Eyncimrt intimated hi 4 intention to send him
for trial on both charges, and comnlitted him for the
convietion of the evidence.

SOUTH WARK.—Richard Pitts, an elderly man,
was.brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with com-
mitting a ince, murderous assault ou Catherine Pitts,
his wife.

The compl iinant, whose.head was bandaged up, and
who appeared to be in such a weak state from the inju-
rica inflicted on her that it was with some difficulty she
gave the following evidence, stated that she_had been
married to the prisoner nearly 20 years, and had three
children to support by her own labour, as she was corn-
polled to live apart from him, owing to his .grossly
ill-
u:ing her. Ou Saturday night last, about 9 o'clock, he.
came tt. .the house where she was living with her
children, in AUrket•street, and as soon as she opened
the door he madeuse of an. oath and knocked her down.
After that he strack her oven the head with his walking-
stick. until she became insensible. She was positive
that had not assistance arrived he would have murdered
her.

Mr. A'Beckett asked her whether she had ever charged
bins before for assaulting her.?
She replied that she had, and once he was committed
to prison, but she forgot how long. She was now in
such a weak state from his violence on Saturday that
she could hardly stand.
Mr. A:Beckett said it was quite clear from the evi-
dence that he had committed a murderous assault on
his wife, and there was nothing to justify such brutal
conduct. He bad been once punished for-assault upon
her, and he should not be doing his duty unless he in-'
fl►cted the full penalty allowed by act of Parliament.
He should, therefore sentence, him to six months' hard
labour in Wandsworth House of Correction.
The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler, and
locked up in one of the 'ells at the rear of the court.
Shortly afterwards Downes, the gaoler, had same sus-
picion of the •prisoner, which induced him to go to the
cell, when he saw him in the act of cutting his throat
with a small clasp-knife. Downes, with the utmost
alacrity, rushed into the cell, and fortunately wrenched
the knife from his grasp before he was able to accom-
plish his object. However, the wound was so severe
that a medical man was called in to attend to him.
Mr. A'Beckett, on hearing the facts from. Downes,
ordered the prisoner's immediate committal•to prison,
so that he might be prevented from repeating the at-
tempt.

On the door of a certain parish church not a hundred
miles from Wycombe was recently affixed the following
notice The church 'ardens will hold their quarterly
meetings once in six weeks instead of half-yearly as for-
merly."

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Imperatriz, transport, No. 150, arrived at Sheer-
ness on Sunday at 8.20 a.m., from the Thames. She
steamed up alongside the Russian prison ship Devon-
shire, Lieutenant Commander Lloyd, and received all
the Russian prisoners of war, and also the merchant sea-
men of different northern nations who had beeradeta'ned
for br'esking the blockade. The Imperatriz left again
at 10 20 a.m. the same day for a Russian port iu the
Baltic, supposed to be Libau.
The adder steam-vessel, Second Master Commander
W„, Al-oncham, passed Sheerness at 14.35 a.m. on Sunday
l' with a new despatch gun-boat, the A!acrity, in
,;f .mu t) be immediately fitted at Chatham.
The Sampson, G guns paddlewheel steatia:frigate,'Cap-
tain G. S. Hand, arrived at Sheerness on Sunday, and
anchere lat the Little Nore at 12.45 p.m from the Bal-
tic. Sae left Kiel on'-Friday last, and-had t, fine run
,home. Sae came into habour to anal and water at 4.25
p.m. on the same day. She is under sailing orders to
,proceed to Portsmouth and to tow with her mortar-yes-
!sets to j the squadron.
Orders have been received at
.Sheerness garrison to
prepare to receive three more companies of Royal Artil-
lery for field battery exercise. They are daily expected.
The surgery at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, is to un-
9ergo some extensive alterations and improvements, in
!order to afford superior accommodation to the large
!number of medical officers stationed at that establish-
!mull-. The building hitherto used as a dissecting-room
to be converted into a surgery, and a large and corn-
,lioslious building, in aline with the library and museum,
'is is coarse of erection for the purposes of anatomical
}study.
- Tha_LordS of the Admiralty having decided, that the
!Marine Barracks at Chatham shall be considerably en-
da-ged, so as to render them capable of affording accoin-
auoilation for an additional number of officers and men.
belonging to that branch of the service, the necessary
:alterations are to be at once commenced.

An order was received in Limerick on Saturday, from
!the Horse Guards, for draughts from the 9th, 17th, and
39th Regiments to be held in readiness for immediate
embarkation for Malta, there to join their service coin-
panic.., and proceed direct to Upper Canada. The de-
:pot of the 9th Regiment will furnish 100 rank and file,
'with ono ensign, for this service; and their departure is
daily expected. • The draughts of the 17th and 39th are
!also to be 100.