The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-15 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SERIOUS ASSAULT BY A WAITER AT THE CAFE
CRA.NTANT.—CharIes Weerse, a waiter at the Cafe Chan-
tant, Leicester-square, was charged before Mr. Beadon with
committing an assault of a serious nature on James Suttree,
a carpenter employed at the cafe.
Edward Ros, a waiter at the cafe, said that on Saturday
night, after 12 o'clock, the prisoner, who has boen employed
at the café for a few months as waiter, quarrelled with Sut-
tree, who was employed doing jobs there. At the moment
he went into the room, he saw Suttree push the prisoner,
and the prisoner immediately struck him a blow in the face
with a dinner plate which he had in his hand, breaking it
in pieces, and causing a large wound in his face, from
which the blood flowed profusely. A medical man was sent
for, and he was afterwards sent to the Charing-cross Hos-
pital.
Tilley, 78 C, said the injured man was a married man,
and handed in a certificate as follows :
" Charing-cross Hospital, Nov. 15.—1 certify that James
Suttree is not able to attend the court to give evidence,
owing to loss of blool.
(Signed)

" J. SKEGG, house surgeon."

The prisoner said the other man insulted him, and he
made a remark in reply, but not of such an insulting na-
ture, and told the man to go out of the room, when he
refused to do so, and gave him a violent blow in the face
and knocked him down, and again assaulted him ; and
having some plates in his hand at the time, he struck him
with one of them.

Mr. Beadon told the prisoner that if he had cut an artery
and the man should die, he would have to take his trial for
manslaughter. _

The prisoner was then remanded.

THAMES.

STEALING PLATE FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE..-ClittrlCB
Stockwood, a boy about 17 years of age, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing 2 table spoons, 6 tea-
spoons, 8 dinner forks, a nut-cracker, and other articles, all
silver, from the dwelling-house of Mr. John Green Sugars,
a gentleman residing at No. 48, Beaumont-square,
Mr. Benjamin Green Sugars, jun., the son of the prose-
tor, stated that on the 23d of July last the prisoner came to
his father's house with a basket of fire grate shavings,
which he offered for sale. Directly afterwards he heard his
mother call out " The plate is gone, stop him," and he
quitted the house, went into the square, and saw
the prisoner, with the basket of plate in his hand,
and just beginning to run. lie pursued the pri-
soner, who dropped the basket of plate, and made his es-
cape. The plate, consisting of about 20 pieces, was
recovered.
A boy, who said he had been living opposite the priso-
ner, said that Stockwood admitted to him he stole the
basket of plate, and that a boy named Devonport told him
to do it.
Sheridan, a police-constable, No. 443 K, said he appre-
hended the prisoner yesterday (Sunday) afternoon in
Bethnal-green, and he was then in compauy with four
convicted thieves. The prisoner was in custody nine
months ago for a similar robbery, and had been the most
successful of those " area sneak" thieves who went aboutte
the suburbs undyr pretence of selling fire grate
shaving hearth-stoncs, and other articles, and who
stole any thing that came in their
way. He
had been looking after the prisoner for the last four
months.

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The mother of the prisoner, a respectable looking matron,
said she believed this was her son's first offence, and hoped
the magistrate would have pity on him. She had twelve
children to maintain, and her husband, a dissipated drunken
fellow, left her at the mercy of the world.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Selfe—l shall convict you of larceny, and I am afraid
this is not your first offence. If you are ever brought here
again I shall commit you for six months, or else send you
for trial. You are committed to the House of Correction
for four calendar months, and to be kept at hard labour.

Mr. Edgar Quinet, the well-known political ye.
fugee, has, after residinc, in Belgium and England, defuli.
tively taken up his residence in the canton of Geneva.