The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-20 00:00:00

LAMBETII.

OUTRAGEOUs ASSAULT.—J. Rogers, carpenter,
was charged with assaulting Eliza Stevens, barmaid,
Pheasants Tavern, Stangate.

The prosecutrix said that last night the prisoner
name to the tavern and ordered two half quarterns
of gin hot, and put down 6d. and a penny. She
gave him back 2d., and he then said he had given
her is. She said he had given her only 6d., and he
said that if she did not give him the change of
the shilling he would throw the contents of the
glass at her head. She would not give him the
change, as he had only laid down 6d., and upon
that he threw the contents of the glass in her face,
and then threw the glass at her, striking her on the
arm and shoulder very severely, which were very
much swollen, and she suffered great agony.
Two gentlemen who were present corroborated
the statement of the prosecutrix, and said it was a
wonder the glass had not cut open her head.
The prisoner said he did put down a shilling, and
the barmaid threw hot water over him twice.

This was denied by all the witnesses.
The magistrate fined him 205., or in default 14
days' imprisonment.

THAMES.

STEALING RICE IN TRANsiT.—Benjamin Goodson,
aged 22, of No. 3, Spick's-fields, Spitalfields, car-
man, and Frederick Ellis, 29, the proprietor of rice
mills, No. 144, Kirby-street, Poplar, were brought
before Mr. Paget, charged, the first with stealing
two bags of rice, and the other with feloniously re-
ceiving the same, knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, conducted the pro-
secution for Mr. William Hooper Ropes, the pro-
prietor of the "American Rice Mills" in Berner-
street, Commercial-road, East, who he said had
been a great sufferer by the depredations of carmen
and others, having lost 33 tons of rice in the course
of the last 12 months. On Friday last Goodson
was employed to cart 250 bags of rice from the
East India Dock to the prosecutor's rice
mills. The rice was safely stowed away in
Goodson's cart. His last load consisted of 50 bags,
and on his way to the prosecutor's mills he pulled
up at the premises of the prisoner Ellis, where he
took two bags of rice out of the cart and delivered
them to Ellis. Mr. Joseph Stevenson, a foreman in
the East India Dock, was watching him, and gave
information to the police. On Monday afternoon
Charles Douglas, an officer of the East and West
India Dock Company, went to Ellis's rice mills, and
seized the two bags of stolen rice. It was what was
called "paddy rice." Ellis admitted buying the
rice from Goodson, and said he had given a fair
market price for it.

Mr. Charles Young called fire witnesses in sup
port of his statement, and Mr. Thompson, the pro
secutor's manager, identified the rice.

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoners till Monday
next, and said he would accept good bail.

A YOUNG HUSBAND.—Thomas Mansfield, of
Chigwell-row, Essex, labourer, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with deserting his wife and
family, and leaving them chargeable to the Poplar
Union.

The prisoner is 18 years of age. On the 10th of
June last he married a widow with two children

He had recently deserted her, and Mr. Spratley,
relieving officer of the Poplar Union, said the
woman and her children had been maintained at
the expense of the ratepayers.
The prisoner, in defence, said his wife had com-
mitted adultery, and if the case was adjourned he
should be able to prove her guilt.
Mr. Spratley said he had no objection to an ad-
journment.

Mr. Paget said no man was bound to live with or
support a wife who had committed adultery, and he
certainly should give the prisoner an opportunity
of relieving himself frum a faithless wife. He ad-
journed the further hearing of the case until Wed-
nesday next.

A complaint was made to the Magistrate that the
prisoner had been entrapped by two men to pro-
ceed to the Chigwell station-house, in Essex, and
there taken into custody by a police-constable with-
out a warrant, and brought to Stepney. The war-
rant was in the hands of one of the summoning
officers of the Thames police. Similar proceedings
had been adopted before for the sake of obtaining
rewards offered by unions and parishes for the
apprehension of men charged with deserting their
wives and families.

Mr. Paget said those policemen who arrested per-
sons for deserting their wives without a warrant did
so at considerable risk. He should make inquiries
on the subject. He allowed the prisoner to go at
large on his own recognisances.