The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

CHRISTMAS SPORTS.—Michael Macarthy, a thief, was
brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with assaulting Thomas
Harney, a pugilist, with a most unmistakeable fighting face,
and also with assaulting the pugilist's wife.
Harney has frequently given much trouble to the police,
to the magistrates of this court, and others, and has been
fined for assaults and breaches of the peace. He appeared
in court not like the celebrated portrait of the man that lost
the fight, but with a head frightfully beaten and covered
with surgical plaisters.

Mrs. Harney stated that she was in her husband's com-
pany at a public-house in Back Church-lane on Christmas-
eve, and her husband had a bottle of rum given to him by
the landlord. The prisoner took the bottle from her hus-
band, and struck him three times with it on the head, and
cut his head open. Her husband was in a " deluge of
blood." The prisoner then cut her head with the remains
of the broken bottle, and stole her shawl. The prisoner
was quite sober.

Mr. Selfe—Why was not this charge brought here
before ?

Mrs. Harney—My husband took out a summons yester-
day, and we could not find the prisoner till last night.
Thomas Harney said he had been a teetotaller for five
weeks.

Mr. Selfe—Then what business had you in a public-
home ?

Harney—Well, I can't read and write ; and I go in to
see the Shipping Gazette, and the list of arrivals of ships.
Mr. Selfe—But if you cannot read what is the use of
the. Shipping Gazette to you ?

Harney—Well, some one reads it for me. He then con-
firmed the statement of his wife, and said his head was cut.
in five places.

Mr. gelfe—What did you want with a bottle of rum, Mr.
Harney ?

Harney—Why, to comfort my father-in-law. Besides, I
have broken the pledge, and take a little rum myself.
Mr. Selfe— I thought so.

Harney said the prisoner kicked at him an I defied him,
because he was bound over to keep the peace. If he had
gone into the boy, he could have murdered him in a few
minutes, but he kept his hands off' for fear of the conse -
quences.

Tho prisoner said there was a " scrimmage" in the pub-
lic-house, and in the course of it Mrs. Harney struck a
young women with a child in her arms, and the bottle of
rum was taken out of Harney's hands by a man, and it
was broken.

After a long investigation, Mr. Selfe said the Harneys
were not blameless, and fined the prisoner 10s., and in
default 7 days' imprisonment. '

DRUNK AND DEAD.-Mr. Selfe said there was a charge
on one of the police sheets against Robert Maguire, aged
49, of No. 10, Albert-street, Shadwell, labourer, and
he found it stated on the same sheet in pencil writing that
he was dead.

Inspector Dandy, of the H division, said that police
constable found the deceased lying in the snow in Dock-
street, Whitechapel, last night at half-past nine o'clock.
The deceased was helplessly intoxicated, and could not
move. A stretcher was sent for, and the deceased was
placed upon it and brought to the station-house in Leman -
street. He put the man before the fire and rubbed his
hands to produce warmth. In three minutes ho observed
an alarming change in the man and sent for Dr. Conoley, of
High-street,Whitechapel, who arrived at the station-house
in a few minutes, and pronounced the man to be dead.
Mr. Selfe—Was he drunk ?

Inspector Dandy—No doubt he had been drinking to ex _
cess and fell in the snow. Every possible attention was
paid to the poor fellow, and I very much regret he should
have died under such circumstances.

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