The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

ASSAULT ON A POLICE-CONSTABLEo—JOhn Petelin, a
tall German sailor, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
with assaulting police-constable Simon Ralph, No. 244 K.
The complainant said—At half-past 11 last night I was
on duty in South-street, and saw the prisoner fast asleep on
the ground. I aroused him and found he was drunk, and
he fell down again. I got him up and told him to go home.
He swore at me, and hit me twice on the chest. I did not
take him into custody, but advised him to go home, on
which he hit me again and kicked me

Mr. Yardley—Where did he kick you ?
Witness—He kicked me nine or ten times on the shins,
and also upon the hand, and he has injured my wrist.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, began
laughing, and said—" Please you, mine vorship, I vos
dronk, and cannot tell vot vos the matter on Last night, but
I vent to go to mine ship."
Mr. Yardley—Drunkenness is no excuse at all. You are
fined 205., or eight days' imprisorunent.
TERRIBLE CAST; OP STAnnlxa.—Dennis Harrington, a
big, burly, morose-looking fellow, who said he was an Irish-
man by birth and a dock labourer by trade, was brought
before Mr. Yardley, charged with assaulting and wounding
Mary Regan, who appeared in court with bandages on her
head and face, and in a weakly condition from loss of blood.
The complainant said the was in no row last night, but
there were a few angry words between her husband and the
prisoner in Stone-stairs-court, Ratcliff. She told the prisoner
to go home, and he struck her a viofnt blow on the eye
and knocked her down. Sh 6 called out " Murder" and
" Police," and a constable soon arrived and took the prisoner
into custody. The prisoner broke away from the constable,
and struck her and knocked her down again, and while she
was upon the ground he kicked her and stabbed her with a
knife below the shoulder on the-left side.
Mr. Yardley—ls your eye much injured?

Witness—lt is indeed, sir. I thought my eye was out.

am in great pain, your. worship.

William Freestone, a palice-constable, 105 K, stated
that he was on duty in Brook-street, Ratcliff, last night,
and heard cries of "Murder" and "Police." He went
to Stone-stairs-court, and saw the prisoner, who was mad
drunk. He took him into custody for assaulting the woman,
and on the way to the station-house he broke away from him
—as the woman described—and knocked her down, and
struck her while she was down. He was not aware the
woman was stabbed until he reached the station-house,, and
he then found her bleeding copiously, and called in a sur-
geon, who dressed the wound. It was below tho shoulder,
He found a clasp knife upon the prisoner. It was in the
prisoner's pocket, and the blade was stained with blood.
Mr. Yardley—Does the wound correspond with the size
of that knife? • _ .

Witness—Exactly so, sir. It is a deep wound.
The Prisoner—l was stoneblind drunk last night, yer
honner's wortehip, and I don't know anything about it.
Yardley—You are committed for trial at the sessions.

APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the
their examination in the
names of gentlemen who passed
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, an Thursday, September 16 :—John Davies,
Festiniog, Merionethshire ; Thomas Hewlett ; Robert
Hollings, Yorkshire ; John Ashley, Bristol ; and on the
9th inst., John Blackeft Jeaffreson, ington ; and three
gentlemen who passed their first examination.
A CHILD KILLED BY A PLAYMATE.—An inquest
was held at Bristol on Friday afternoon, on the body of W.
H. Twitchings, five and' a-half years of age, son of a chair-
maker, whose death, it was alleged, had been caused by a
blow given by another boy named Thos. Clark, aged 10
years. It appeared that on the previous Saturday the de-
ceased, who was in good kealth, found Clarke sitting on a
door step with a little girl named Eliza Thomas. The
deceased attempted to pull the girl away, upon which
Clarke gave him a violent blow in the side. The
little fellow went home crying, and complained to his
mother of being in great pain. lie was at length taken to
the infirmary, where it was found that he had sustained a
rupture, and on Thursday afternoon an operation was per-
formed for the purpose of replacing the intestines. The
child, however, died under it. The coroner told the jury
that although it was more than probable that death had re-
sulted from the blow given by Clark, yet they could hardly
charge a child so young with manslaughter. The jury re-
turned a verdict of accidental death, and the constable in-
attendance was desired to inform the iments of the boy
Clark that unless they punished him the case might yet be
taken up by the_ police.