The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-07 00:00:00

THAMES.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN.--TWO roughs,
named Morris Murphy and John Howard, were
brought before Mr. Paget charged with violently
assaulting and wounding a young woman named
Ann Bryant.
The complainant stated that at half-past eleven
o'clock last night she went to Bill Donahoo's beer-
shop at the corner of Harris-court, Ratcliff, near
her own dwelling, to obtain some refreshment. Her
sister-in-law and two other females accompaniel
her. The prisoners were in the beer-shop drinking,
and when they left followed them to Bear Cottage,
Bear-street, their dwelling, when the most foul
language was made use of by the prisoners. She

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told them to go away and associate with people of
their own sort. Murphy immediately threw him-
self on the ground and commenced halloaing
and screaming. She told him to go away, and
he at once jumped up and struck her a
tremendous blow on the side of the head with his
clenched fist, and knocked her down. She became
insensible. When she came to herself he struck her
again, and while she was on the ground close to her
own door he kicked her with his heavy boots on
the face and head, and loosened her teeth.
The witness, whose face was much cut and
bruised, her left eye much inflamed, and who had
lost a good deal of blood, said Murphy had been in
the practice of beating women, and that the last one
he had illused was a Mrs. Robinson, who kept a
fish shop in Ratcliff, and who received compensa-
tion from him ; but that would not do for her. She
was a hard-working woman, and had not offended
any one.

Three other females, all relatives of the complain-
ant, corroborated her evidence at length. One of

the witnesses threw a large shell at the prisoners,
and it was picked up by Howard and delivered to
the police. It was represented that Murphy was
drunk, but that Howard was sober. The prisoner
Murphy asked foc a light for his pipe, and a Mrs.
Mary Bryant, the sister-in-law of the complainant,
was about to give him one, but owing to the bad
language he used she refased to give him one. It
did not appear that Howard used any violence at
all. He tried to pull Murphy away from a police-
constable, and did not succeed.

Howard, an Irishman, who has not been long in
this country, was discharged, and gave evidence for
Murphy, who was born in London of Irish parents.
Howard did not know much about the affray. He
did not know how the poker came upon the scene.
There was a row of some sort. The woman would
have half killed Murphy if he had not been present.
After a long investigation, Mr. Paget said he be-

lieved that all the parties were under the influence
of liquor last night, and that he could not rely on
the evidence of any one witness. The woman said
the affray occurred at half-past 11 o'clock. The
police said it was half-past one o'clock this morning
when they were called to the scene.
The complainant said she was sober, and left off
work at half-past ten o'clock.
Mr. Paget—Yes, you left off work at half-past
ten o'clock, and got drunk afterwards. The poker
and the shell came out of your house, and the pri-
soner used neither. Both men were so tipsy that
neither could give any clear account of the transac-
tion. It was a drunken affray. I have already
discharged Howard, and I now discharge Murphy.

HUNGARIAN WHEAT. A communication from
Kohl, in the Courrier du Bas-Rhin, says :—" Never has so
much wheat from Hungary passed through this place as
this year. Whole trains arriving from Pesth and Temevar
are discharged into boats or cross the Rhine to enter France.
But means of transport for this immense traffic, which
tends to increase every year, is wanting, a circumstance
of YOILI this enormous commerce complabu loudly."