The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-27 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.—
nowlaud Hough, 62, tailor, was charged with the
following brutal assault on a police-constable :
William IVl‘lienzie, 266 B, whose head presented
a frightful appearance, and whose left eye was com-
pletely closed, said about a quarter to two he was
on duty in Coburg-row, Westminster, and saw the
prisoner and a woman in a door-way making a great
noise, so that the people opened their windows.
Witness ordered them on, and they moved a short
distance, but began again, and were again ordered
on by witness. Prisoner then turned round, knocked
him down, and while on the ground kicked him on
the head, inflicting the wounds visible. He was
rendered insensible, and recollected nothing furtha
of the transaction until he found himself in the
station. They were both drunk.

Prisoner, who is a tall, powerful Irishman, over
16st. weight, cross-examined the constable as to the
state of drunkenness, in which he was, and denied
that he was drunk, said his wife was ill, and he was
struck several times by the constable who knocked
his hat off.

This the constable denied, and the case was ad-
journed for the evidence of a witness respecting the
prisoner's drunkenness.

Sergeant Matthews, 12 B, who took the cLarge,
was called, and proved that beyond a doubt pri-
soner was drunk.

Prisoner made a rambling defence, to the effect
that he was not drunk, and complained of being
assaulted by the police-constable.
A witness who saw the whole affair was not
present.

Remanded till Wednesday ; a summons to be
issued for the witness to attend. The prisoner will
then be committed for trial:

THAMES.

BOXING DAY ORGIES.—There were only four
drunken charges from the K or Stepney division,
and two from the H or Whitechapel division, this
morning. The two divisions have the preserva-
tion of the peace and the protection of life and pro-
perty in a district containing a populatien of 330,000
souls. There were 21 other charges of the usual
miscellaneous description.

Mary Macarthy, an Irishwoman, was charged
with stealing eleven. gunney bags, valued at 55.,
from the warehouse of Mr. Henry Schlemann, sack
and bag maker, of Langley-place, Commercial-
road, East.

The prosecutor carries on a large business, and
he has been most extensively robbed. He has been
plundered of 4,000 bags in the course of the last
four years. He had lately received information
that the prisoner was plundering him. Ho was
slow in believing this, as the prisoner had been in
his service 19 years, and he laboured under an im-
pression that she was an honest woman. Yesterday
afternoon he met her in Prescott-street, White-
chapel, and carrying a large bundle under her shawl.
He asked her where she was going, to which she
replied that she was going to a laundress with
some linen to be washed. He pulled her shawl
on one side, and found there eleven new bags,
his property, which had been stolen out of his
warehouse. The prisoner said she was innocent
and that the forewoman of Mr. Schlemann's estab-
lishment gave her the bags. This turned out not
to be the fact. The prisoner, in her defence, en-
deavoured to make it appear that she was only the
innocent tool of another woman, but failed in
making out that defence.

Mr. Schlemanu said he would not have prose-
cuted if he had not been robbed to a large amount.
Mr. Paget—There is no occasion whatever for
you to excuse yourself. The prosecution is a very
just and proper one. It is the case of a servant
robbing her employer, whose interests she was
bound to protect.

Mr. Schlemann said he wished the case to be
iutnmarily disposed of.

Mr. Paget—l cannot do that. The law does not
allow summary jurisdiction in a case of this sort, a
servant robbing her master. The prisoner is com-
mitted for trial.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7-71iis Day.

Sales probably 8,000 bales. Market dull and in-
active.

MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—On Thursday an
inquest was held at Wavendon, near Newport Pagne 1.
on the death a John White, a gamekeeper in the employ-
ment of Captain Swabey. The facts elicited were briefly
as f Alows :—While the deceased, in company with an
under-keeper named Edward Farr, were in 'Wavendon
Wood on Christmas Eve they were met by James Inwood,
a lathrender, and William Emmerton, bricklayer, belong-
ing to Woburn Sands, who were out on a poaching expe.
dition. On find;ng they were discovered Emmerton ran
away, and he was pursued by Farr. When they had got
away a distance of fifty yards, Farr heard a shot fired,
and on looking round saw White falling to the ground.
Farr ran back to render assistance, and as he returned
the deceased cried out, " Farr, I'm a dead man, and it's
James Inwood that has shot me." Inwood ran away.
Farr lifted White up, but he soon afterwards expired.
Emmerton could give no account of where he was at the
time of the occurrence, but, on his way to the Fennv
Stratford Police-station, he made a statement to the fol-
lowing effect :—" I, William Emmerton, was in a field
adjoining Wavendon Wood on Christmas Eve, between
five and six o'clock, with James Inwood, going in Aearch
of game, when we saw two men before us. We then
stopped and stood still, when Inwood said, `Shoot"em ;'
and I said I would not. He then said, `God strike ins
dead, I will ;' when the men commenced running towards
us. I said, ' Run,' and commenced running away. When
I had got some distance I heard the report of anon. I
then went home." The jury returned a veraict of
"Wilful murder against James Inwood," but expmssed
their conviction that there was no evidence against
Emmerton. Inwood treated the matter with the tutinost
Aidifference. •