The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 24.

BOW-STREET.—The attention of the sitting magis-
trate was called by Sergeant Hughes, of the E
to a charge which appeared on the police-sheet and hi
which the defendant bad not been sent to the court.
He stated that, on the'previous night, a Mr. Jones, a
gentleman about 50 years of age, residing in Store-street,
Bedford-square, was found by the police in Tottenham-

court-road in a helpless state of drunkenness. He was
removed to the station and the charge was entered, the
defendant being just sensible enough to hear it and to
give his name. He then relapsed into a state of uncon.
sciousness, and, all attempts to rouse him proving inef-
fectual, it was judged advisable to send him to the hos-
pital. Here r 'course was had to all the usual remedies,
equally without effect. After using the stomach-pump
and cupping him, the medical officers had applied the
galvanic battery, but he appeared quite insensible to the
shock. He still lay in the same state of unconsciousnese,
and in short no hopes were entertained of his recovery.
The magistrate observed that this result was very
shocking, but really ought not to excite aiiy surprisv.
He rather wondered that such things di:l not occur
oftener.

The sergeant further stated that a considerable sum of
money and some valuable rings, &c., were found on the
prisoner. It appeared that be had lately had a legacy
to a large amount left him, and it was supposed that the
sudden improvement in his circumstances had affected
his mind and had been the cause of his taking to drinking.
The magistrate inquired if there was any suspicion of
poison ?

Sergeant Hughes replied that there Wa3 not. The
pump was only used to relieve the stomach of the liquor
he bad been drinking.
Ultimately it was ordered that an entry should be made
on the sheet, that the prisoner was removed to the hospital
without having been brought before the Court.
John, Tong, a master plumber, carrying on busing Is is
Upper Wellington-street, and having several lodging-
hobses in the neighbourhood, was summoned for an as-
saelt upon Mrs. Catherine Eycott, the wife of a clerk at
Somerset-house, who holds apartments of defendant at
.12, York-street, Covent-garden.
It appeared that Mrs. Eycott had hired the rooms in
question, not of defendant himself, but of a Mr. Shirlock,
tOs partner in business, and had stipulated fur the use of
coal cellar. This coal cellar, among other things, had
ince been the subjecti of dispute, and defendant had given
complainant notice to quit on the 25th of March ; but,
as that notice was given a day too late, complainant, not
having been able to find apartments to suit her, had de-
termined to remain. On Wednesday, the 16th inst., the
defendant renewed the dispute about the coal cellar, de-
siring Mrs. Eycott to clear the cellar and give it up.
On her refu-al he said he would kill a couple of pet fowls
which she kept in the kitchen, and, aster throwing a
piece of wood at one of them, and killing it on the sp t,
he jumped on a table to strike at the other, which was
escaping by the window. Mrs. Eycott tried to pull him
back by the skirt of his coat, which was torn in the
struggle, and he turned upon her and kicked her under
H the chin. Ike. then jumped to the ground, flew at her
with sudden fury, and beat her in the most barbarous
manner with his clenched fists. In giving her evidence
Mrs. Eycott showed her arms, which were very much
bruised, and a black eye. At first she was quite over-
whelmed by the shower of blows, but after a while she
caught up a stick and was making a feeble attempt to
defend herself when defendant's wife and a neighbour in-
terfered and got him away. Afterwards he made his
way to her rooms, where he loaded her and her husband
with abuse, the latter being a cripple and unable to turn
him out.

Mr. lienry, several times in the course of the hearing,
and again at the close of the case, suggested to Mr.
Duncombe, who appeared for the defence, that he had
better induce his client to make some offer of compensa.
tion, a proposal that gentleman showed no disposition to
adopt till his worhip nitirnated that, if the matter could
not be arranged, he must either send the case fur trial or
deal with it under the recent act of Parliament. In fact,
his only reason for permitting a compromise was, that
he would wish the money to go into complainant's
pocket, which would not be the case if he inflicted a fine.
The case, after being adjourned to allow au opportu-
nity of arrangement, was brought a second time under
his worship's notice by Mr. Doncombe announcing that
his client had agreed to pay 1.51. on that day week.
Mr. Henry said if he had decided the case he should
have inflicted the full penalty of 201.

Mr. Wontner, for the complainant 'said, that his
client was willing that the rent up to that date, about
4/. or 6/., should be deducted.

Mr. Henry ordered the def3ndant to enter into his
°nu regoguitatioefi for iio/, to appear on a future day,