The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

MA.RLBOROUGII-STREET.

CREATING A DISTURBANCE AT A DOCTOlit'S.—Edwin
Dodd, india-rubber manufacturer, of Hemming's-row, was
charged befor, Mr. D'Eyncourt with creating a disturbance
at the house of Dr. Broughton, 30, Duke-street, St
James' s .

Edward Sanger, servant to the doctor, said the defendant
had supplied the doctor with an india-rubber article, and
came to the house the previous day and created a great disk
turbauce. He told him to call the next day, when the
doctor would be at home. He then said that we were all
" - swindlers," and would not leave the house. He
(witness) succeeded in getting him out, and he brought two
men into the place, and all three of them threatened him.

The defendant said he had called thirteen times for the
sum of 17s. 6d. which had been owing him by the doctor
for 15 months. The doctor was never at home, and never
could be seen. He created no disturbance, but did tell the
servant he would not leave till he got the doctor's address,
so that he might write to him.

C 108, said he heard the defendant call the complainant a
" swindler."

Mr. John Frederick Powell, silversmith, Soho, said he
accompanied the defendant to the house. The doctor was
refused, and some one coming out of the house said the
doctor was at home at the time. They then went back to
the house, and told the servant they knew the doctor was
at home. There was no disturbance.

➢ir. Tyrwhitt said he should discharge the defendant,
and he could suo the doctor in the county court.
The defendant, on leaving the dock, pointed to the ser-
vant, and said he believed he was Dr. Houghton.
SAVAGE AND UNPROVOKED ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—
Edward Hayes, a rough, determined fellow, was charged
with committing a violent and brutal assault on a female
named Caroline Elkerton.

The complainant was in court in a most pitiable condi-
tion, her face being covered with bruises, the effects of the
prisoner's brutality.

Emma Wood, a widow, residing at 52, Castle• street,
Leicester-square, said that on the previous evening she was
on her way home with the complainant, and left her for a
moment to speak to two friends, and on her return to the
complainant, who was only a few yards off, she found the
prisoner violently beating the complainant, who was covered
with blood.

Inspector Holden said the prisoner was drunk and
knocking everybody about. He was a violent, brutal
fellow, and had been charged over and over again with
assaults.

Mr. Tyrwhitt (having told the complainant to keep her
seat) ordered her to be sworn, when it was stated by the
witness Wood that, owing to the injuries she had received,
she could not speak, and that she was, besides the injuries
about her face, severely bruised all over the body.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that she must be at once taken to the
hospital, and remanded her brutal assailant, an entire
stranger to her, for a few days.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—John Purcell, a powerful
Irishman, who was formerly a seaman, and has been lately
working as a hammerman at Westwood and Bailey's
factory, in the Isle of Dogs, Poplar, was brought before
Mr. Yardley, charged with committing a violent assault on
John Scotcher, foreman at Cubitt's tile works.
The prosecutor has sustained injuries of a serious cha-
racter. His head was covered with linen bandages, his
face was frightfully bruised, and he had received contu-
sions on various parts of the body. He said he had been
with his wife and a party of friends to Peckham, yester-
day, and upon his return home was about to enter his
cottage, near Mr. Cubitt's new church opposite Green-
wich Hospital, when a Mrs. Banks, one of the party
who had been to Peckham with him, fainted, and he was
directed by her husband to attend to her and get her out of
the fit as soon as possible. While he was standing over
Mrs. Banks and had hold of her two hands, the prisoner
came up and struck him a violent blow on the head with his
fist. The blow was delivered with so much force that ho
was driven three or four yards. When ho recovered him-
self he asked the prisoner why ho struck him. The prisoner
made no answer, struck him again with his fist, and knocked
him down, and when he was down kicked him repeatedly
about the head, face, and body until he was completely in-
sensible. He lost a good deal of blood, and his left eye was
injured. There was a gash on his forehead. He was
kicked on the side, and also on the head, and had been since
under medical treatment. He gave no provocation what-
ever for this outrage. _ _ _

The prisoner made a long and rambling defence, from
which it appeared that his father died on Thursday, and he
buried him yesterday. He quarrelled with his wife, and to
spite her and please himself he drank rather heavily, and
took a walic. While doing so he heard the screams of a
woman, and while labouring under the impression that the
complainant, who was over the woman and had hold of her
hands, was murdering her, ho beat him.

Evidence was given that after it had been explained to
the prisoner that Scotcher was relieving the woman and
getting her out of the fit, he attacked the husband.
Mr. Yardley said the prisoner had committed a most
violent assault, for which he fined him £5, and in default,
one month's imprisonment.

We regret to have to record the death of General
the Hon. Sir Henry Murray, K.C.8., who died on Sunday
morning, at Wimbledon.

The foreman of the jury, who appeared consider-
ably agitated, said that they were unanimous in
recommending the prisoner to mercy.
The Clerk of the Crown then put the usual inter-
rogatory to the prisoner, who was asked whether
he had anything to say why sentence of death
should not be pronounced against him ?
Prisoner (speaking huskily).--No, nothing.
Anything I can say .can be of no use. The jury
have found me guilty, certainly.
Baron Hughes.—John Holden, you are at liberty
to make any observations you choose, either in
mitigation of punishment or with any other object.
Prisoner.—l do not know that anything I could
say would serve me. I have nothing to say. I
have been very ably defended, no doubt. I
have been found guilty, no doubt—found guilty on
circumstantial evidence, which I believe is not
usual. I have also to tell you that the evidence
against me was false. What Holland swore was
false. The jury may have done their duty con-
scientiously; but the evidence was false.

Baron HUghes, who assumed the black cap, said
—lt •now becomes my duty, John Holden, to pro-
nounce upon you the extreme penalty of the law.
You—

Prisoner (interrupting).—My lord, before you
speak, I wish to say that, as it has been stated that
M'Clelland was shot, and as the jury have agreed
that I shot him, I should be shot also. I wish to
be shot also, as that was the case.

Baron Hughes—Have you anything more to say?
Prisoner.—Nothing, unless to ask that you will
be so kind as to grant this request. I will be very
happy to be shot.
Baron Hughes—l cannot.
Prisoner—l would be very happy, and I have a
few personal friends among the police whom I
would select ; Constable [the name escaped us]
for instance.

Baron Hughes—Prisoner, I would beg of you to
dismiss from your mind all such notions ; and I
assure you that I shall not dwell on anything or
say a single word which could increase those feel-
ings of distress under which you must be at present
labouring. The verdict which the jury, in the dis-
charge of their duty to their country and to the
laws, have returned is one in which I fully concur ;
and no one who listened to the evidence could have
failed to foresee that the deliberations of the jury
could lead to no other conclusion. Ido not think
the jury could have done otherwise. Their recom-
mendation to mercy is very natural; but I must say
that, in point of sympathy, my sympathies are
more with the deceased, who was hurried before his
God without one moment of that time for prepara-
tion which will be afforded you. After a length-
ened and full investigation of the crime, after a
most able defence by your counsel, and a patient
hearing, you have been condemned by the verdict
of 12 indifferent and impartial men, upon their
oaths. Our wise and merciful law gives to you
what you did not afford the unfortunate M'Clel-
land, when you hurled him into that abyss on the
brink of which you are now standing—time for
making your peace with that God who will be pre-
pared to receive you if you are sincerely penitent.
The sentence of the Court is that you, John Hol-
den, be taken to the place whence you came, and
that on Monday, the 27th of August next, you be
there hung by the neck until you are dead, and
your body buried within the precincts of the gaol ;
and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul. As
I have said, it was natural that the jury should re-
commend you to mercy. No humane men could
have avoided such a recommendation under the cir-
cumstances. I have considered that recommenda-
tion, and I have found it impossible to attend to it.
John Holden, you have nothing to expect in this
world, so prepare yourself for the next.
At the close of the sentence a piercing shriek
rang through the court, coming, apparently, from
a distance. It was Holden 's wife, outside the
building.
Prisoner—My Lord, there is another thing.
There are—

Baron Hughes—Better for you to say nothing
more.

Prisoner—My Lord, there are papers there con-
nected with my marriage, and I am anxious that
they should be published.
Baron Hughes—The gentlemen of the press
have been in mart during the whole of your trial,
and have heard the entire of the evidence. That
is a matter for them. Your solicitor can have
copies of all the documents read by Mr. Matthews.
Prisoner—Yes, but Mr. Matthews did not read
the treacherous part of these documents. I have
some friends in this country—not many now—and
I would like them to know the truth. They would
be sorely uneasy to think that I had deliberately
(with emphasis on the word) murdered M'Clelland
—that I could be guilty of so cold-blooded a thing
as murder without a motive.
The prisoner's attorney here advised him to be
silent, and Holden was removed from the bar.

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