The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 27.

WESTMINSTER.—DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO
MURDER A HUSBAND.—Elizabeth Waring, a dimi-
nutive woman, 30 years of age, who was committed
from this court a short time ago for a serious assault
upon another woman, was placed at the bar,
charged with the following determined attempts to
murder her husband :

George *Waring, of Union-place, Castle-lane,
Westminster, hawker, whose head was enveloped
in surgical bandages, and who appeared in a very
faint and low condition, said that he had gone to
bed in prisoner's absence on Saturday night and
fallen fast asleep, when he was awoke by a severe
pressure on his throat, and subsequently found that
the prisoner had rolled her apron round his neck,
and, tightly pulling each end, endeavoured to
strangle him. He tried to speak, but could not,
but by a violent effort rose up partially, and, by
inflicting a blow on her eye, released himself. He
then called out, and a young man in the next room
came to his assistance. Prisoner immediately -went
out, and he shortly afterwards got into bed again
and fell asleep. How long he remained undis-
turbed he could not say, but was awoke by feeling
blood: streaming from his head, forehead, and
fingers, and found that he had been attacked by
his wife with a 51b. stone bottle.

Mr. Arnold inquired whether he saw his wife
when he awoke the second time ?

Prosecutor replied she was in the room, and he
saw her run out. •

Mr. Arnold asked whether she had anything in
her hand ?

Prosecutor answered, she had part of a stone
bottle, which was smashed to pieces. When she
left his sleeping room he got out of bed, and while
the blood was pouring from his wounds, she threw
two large earthenware vessels at him from the
door, which were dashed to pieces against the wall.
An alarm was then given, the police came in, and
he was taken to the hospital.

By the Magistrate---She was not sober. She
drinks very often.
Henry Gear, 252 B, said that at three in the
morning he was attracted to 2, Union-place by the
cries of " Murder" and " Police." He found prose-
cutor leaning against the street-door, bleeding pro-
fusely from the head. He said his wife had cut
him with a bottle. On examining the bed he found
a pool of blood, and there were parts of a broken
glass bottle, a broken stone bottle, and earthenware
vessels on the floor. The prisoner was intoxicated.
In answer to an inquiry from the Bench witness
said there was blood on part of the stone bottle.
When he apprehended the prisoner, and told her
what she was charged with, the only reply she
made was, that they had had words together.
The following certificate was handed in :
" This is to certify that George Waring is an in-
patient of this hospital, afflicted with two scalp
wounds. " PONSONBY KELLY ADAIR.

" Westminster Hospital, Sept. 27."
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Edmund Oatley,
a man about 25 years of age, described as a journey-
man carpenter, was charged with the manslaughter
of Sampson Stroud, also a journeyman carpenter.
It appeared from the statement of Joseph John-
son, that on Saturday evening Stroud discovered
that his wife had run away with the prisoner or some
other man, and her husband's furniture. Upon in-
quiry of the man employed to move the goods, it
was ascertained that they had been conveyed to 36,
Graham-street, Pimlico, where apartments had been
taken in the prisoner's name. While witness and
Stroud were standing at the corner of Graham-
street, after having made this discovery, prisoner
turned the corner, apparently with the intention of
ping into the house, when Stroud, who was much
excited, went up to him and said, " What have you
done with my wife ?" and a scuffle immediately
occurred between them, both being in the act of
fighting. Prisoner, who is a very tall powerful
man, then took Stroud round the waist, swung him
round two or three times, and fell with all his
weight upon him on the ground, Stroud's head
striking on the pavement with great force. Witness
immediately pulled prisoner off' Stroud and sepa-
rated them, and they then followed prisoner, who
went away down Coleshill-street, to give him into
custody. While engaged in following him, prisoner
turned round and again showed fight to Stroud,
but witness prevented it. Witness then went back
to Graham-street, to watch the house No. 36, while
Stroud, in a very excited state, went by his advice
to the station. Witness waited three-quarters of
an hour in Graham-street expecting Stroud, and
then heard that he had been taken to the hospital
and was dead.

By the Court—l cannot say who struck the first
blow. When deceased got up after falling he looked
delirious aild very ghastly. He did not complain
of suffering—he had no opportunity of communicat-
ing his feelings to me, as we were running after
the prisoner. Witness added that while watching
in Graham-street, during Stroud's absence, he saw
prisoner let himself into the house No. 36.

- Inspector Friar said that at half-past six on
Saturday evening Stroud came to the station in a
most excited state, and made a complaint to him of
the circumstances above detailed. He had not
left the station-house above a minute when
witness was told by a little boy that he had
fallen down in the street. Witness immediately
sent constables out with a stretcher, and Stroud
was picked up insensible and conveyed to the hos-
pital, but he never spoke, and was found to be dead.
Evidence was given showing that prisoner, who
had absconded, was apprehended by Birch, 208 A,
on Sunday evening at his sister's house, Grove-road,
between Holloway and Highgate. He was at first
denied by his sister, but witness forced his way into
the house, and found him in a room at the top of
the house. The constable then told him the nature
of the charge against him, but the prisoner denied
that his name was Oatley, or that he had any know-
ledge of Stroud. The constable then desired him
to come out to the light, and on his doing so found
he had the remainder of a neckerchief on, a piece of
which had been previously given to the officer.
Finding it useless to deny his identity any longer,
prisoner admitted that he was the man of whom
the constable was in quest, and said Stroud had
struck him first.
The accused was remanded for a week.

HAMMERSMITH.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE or
ABDUCTION.—ROMANTIC STORY.—John Haines, a
rough-looking man, about 30 years of age, who was
described as a " brickey," was brought before Mr.
Ingham on a warrant, charged with unlawfully
taking away from her home a young girl, named
Lucy Parton Nicol, the daughter of Mr. Robert
Nicol, the landlord of the Elgin Arms, in the Elgin-
road, Notting•hill.
The 6omplainant, an interesting-looking young
woman, who had all the appearance of being 18
years of age, deposed that she would be 16 on the
20th January next. She had known the prisoner
about 14 months. He was formerly inn her father's
service as potman, and he left in April last. In
the following July she was passing the Planta-
tion-road, near her father's house,- when she met
the prisoner, who took her by the hand, and
led her amongst some trees. They sat down
together, and he then accomplished his pur-
pose. She did not scream, although he forced
her backwards. She met him frequently after
that time, and he asked her if she would leave
home and go with him. He also said if she would
go with him he would take care of her. She rbeginninge
to leave home, or to go with him. In the beginning
of the present month she again saw him,and
gave her some beer. She then promised to meet
purpose.
She in the fields, and she went out for that
She waited a long time, and she was about going
home, when he came up, and said she must go with
him. She believed the beer she drank had been
drugged, for she felt Very giddy, and everything
appeared to become dark, hen she recovered her
senses she found herself walking with him in Wim-
holt Scrubbs, and she then said that she would go
home. He said she should not, but go with him,
and that if she told anything about the matter he
would either shoot or stab her. She then went
quietly with him to Fulham, and he took her to a
house kept by Mrs. Rose. They had supper, and
remained up till one, o'clock in the morning. She
slept with two
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until Sunday morning, wh en he took her home.
The prisoner declared that he did not take he

away. He asked her before Mrs. Rose if she would.
go home, and she refused.
The complainant, in answer to questions, said
the prisoner told her that he should ask her to
go home before Mrs. Rose, and that she must
answer " No," for she-should not go home. He did
ask in the presence of Mrs. Rose, and witness said
she did not care about going home.
The prisoner said he begged and prayed of her
to go home, but she would not. She was always
following him about, and he took her to Mrs. Rose's
rather than to another house.
Mr. Robert Nicol, the father, was next examined,
and said his daughter went out on Thursday, the
9th inst., and did not return until the Sunday fol-
lowing. He did not know of her going away, and
had not the least suspicion of anything wrong.
Mr. Ingham—Then the prisoner never had your
consent for paying his addresses to your daughter?
The witness—No, sir ; and could never have had.
my consent, because I knew he was a married man..
Hannah Amelia Rose said she was a married wo-
man, and lived at Sand's-end, Fulham. When the
prisoner came to her house with the complainant,
he said that he had left his wife, and was going to
live with the young lady. She slept in her house
two nights, but never with the prisoner. She heard.
the prisoner ask the young lady if she would go
home, but she replied that she would not, and that
if he left her she would poison herself.
The complainant here denied having made that
statement.

The witness added, that on the Saturday she
suspected there was something'wrong, and she told
the prisoner that she should not provide any dinner
for them. Witness's husband allowed them to sleep
in the house as he had known the prisoner and his
wife a long time.
The prisoner further said that he told complain-
ant that if the lived with him she would have tv
fare very roughly, as he was sometimes out of work,
but she refused to go home, and said she would fol-
low him.

Mr. Ingham then remanded the prisoner for the
attendance of Mrs. Nicol, who was said to be very

PHOTOGRAPHING AN EXECUTION.

The Photographic News (a new journal devoted
to photography) contains a strange and startling
narrative from a correspondent in Algeria. It ap-
pears that a family of Arabs (one of them a Sheikh)
had been convicted, and very properly condemned to
death, for a most atrocious murder in the vicinity of
Algiers. The correspondent resolved to photograph
the execution of these ruffians. He says :—" The
crowd of men was immense, and as the rays of the
rising sun fell upon their upturned swarthy faces it
was painful to see the earnest and even frightened
expression of their countenances. I had been pre-
sent not long before at an execution in France,
which thousands had assembled to witness ; and the
recollection of the jests and laughter I then heard
made the dead silence on the present occasion more
impressive. lat first thought that this silence
was owing to the number about to be executed,
yet I could not reconcile this interpretation of it
with the reports I had heard of the indifference of
the natives to human life. I asked the driver of
the waggon if such silence was usual, and learnt
from him, half a native himself, the reason. The
Arabs are followers of Mahomet, and believe that
their bodies, after death, will, by means of the tuft
of hair they leave on their otherwise shaven heads,
be conveyed by their prophet into paradise. Now,
the head, which is completely separated from the
trunk by the action of the guillotine, can alone, ac-
cording to their belief, be placed in paradise, and
as the body must be left on earth, they conclude
(what is perfectly natural, seeingthe nature of their
paradise), that this arrangement will not contribute
much to the owner's gratification. I have since
heard that when the native chiefs executed a
man by cutting off his head the executioner
invariably left it attached to the body by . a
bit of flesh, with a view to obviating the in-
convenience referred to above.

The criminals were not brought on the scaffold to-
gether, but led up one at a time. The first was the
Sheikh, who seemed perfectly indifferent to his
fate. So rapidly was he bound to the plank and
thrust under the axe that I had barely time to in-
sert the plate-holder and get the instantaneous
movement into order before the sharp edge de-
scended and his head rolled into the basket. This
picture was quite successful, and so was the second,
but the third presented a dim appearance ; the
fourth was nearly, and the fifth and sixth were
wholly invisible. How to account for this I know
not, unless the atmosphere around the scaffold be-
came in some way affected by the blood, the odour
of which was distinctly perceptible to me. Perhaps
some of your readers may be able to suggest the
reason."

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