The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ET A CUSTOM-11oUsE OFFICER.—
and violently assaulting Johanna Want,
Robert Francis Baker, a Custom-house officer, was brought
before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk and disorderly,
a poor and feeble
Irishwoman, who is very ill.
Mr. Henry Allen, the prosecuting officer of the Asso-
ciate Institution for Enforcing and Improving the Laws
for the Protection of Women and Children, watched the
case for that useful society.
The complainant stated that yesterday afternoon she was
passing along Leman-street, Whitechapol, with a bottle of
medicine just prescribed for her at the Dispensary in one
hand, and leading her little girl with the other, when the
prisoner accosted her, and said, " The boys are very
wicked ;" to which she replied, "Yes, they are, sir." He
asked her where she lived, and she replied in Goulstou-
court, close by here, and said, " I must make haste home,
my time is not Nay own." Sho was hurrying away from
him with her little girl, and he ran after her, and swore at
her and knocked the bottle of medicine out of her hand.
She then called for a police-constable, and he struck her on
the shoulder and about the body several times, and knocked
her into a draper's shop.
The prisoner—She asked me to treat her.
The complainant—No, I did not. Do you think I would
suffer a man I never saw before to treat me ?

Porter William Dunaw;;,p7,lice-constable 11 H, said—
Yesterday afternoon I was at the corner of Leman-street
and High-street, Whitechapel, and I saw the woman run-
ning away from the' prisoner: He knocked a bottle of
medicine out of her hand, and then followed her and struck
her three times. She was knocked into a draper's shop
and fell. The prisoner used the most fearful language and
aelmB)ripasto:nelrto the stationhouse.
threats towards the poor woman. I collared the prisoner,
and said to him, " I've a good mind
most t
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greater
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to
beat '
Mr. Wilson, a tradesman in the Whitechapel-road, who
was
aat hiswoman.
dwe
On the way there he took a sample bottle, containing port
its contents nfrtoenmtshiosn the ground.- The prisoner had been on
duty in ono of the docks.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was drunk yesterday
afternoon.
Mr. Paget—l cannot for one moment doubt the truthful-
ness of the charge. Hero is a poor feeble sick woman going
along the street with a bottle of medicine, given to her at
a charitable institution, and you abuse her and attack her
in this brutal manner. The streets would not be endur-
able for women if I did not punish you severely. You
are sentenced to two months' inTrisournent and hard
labour. 410111,1

in our House of Commons,
who have
T FATItERS.—We,
a pugilist in
their Congresq. Put Mr, Gully was a very different sort
seenedhl t I tint toEl gnE hd at the tprize
IA
fighter
mi ericans for having
of person from Mr, Iktorrissen who lately, as one deputy or
another rose to address the Assembly, Is said to have in-
terrupted them with coarse professional slang. When the
Hone() becattis angry at this conduct, "Morrissey roared
out that lie would Dot be interfered will, by any cuss in
Congress,' and appealed to the Speaker to prevent his being
crowded to the ropes.' After a protracted wrangle,
during Which the prize-fighting legislator declared that he
did not care it straw for the rules of Congress, lie handed
up to the Speaker a copy of the rules of tho Prize-ring,
which he vowed were much more to the purpose, and
insisted that the clerk should read aloud from an old copy
of Bells Life the details of a mill between the Staleybridge
Infant and the Brummagem Chicken. This proved too
much even for Congress, and the drunken blackguard was
forced from the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms and his
men." Wo aro glad, though wo are also surprised, that
th,i House was capable of so much self-respect. We trust
it will henceforth imitate its own example, and hand over
to the Sergeant-at-Arms members who, without Morris-
soy's excuse, are guilty of similar misconduct.—,London
Review.