The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-22 00:00:00

THAMES.

ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC STREETS.--
Thomas Fitzgerald, aged 23, a labouring man, of No. 7
London-street, Rateliff, was brought up on remand, before
Mr. Paget, charged with violently assaulting Mary Ann
Pitman, a young woman of good education of address, who
has lost her right eye, over which she worn a shade.

Mr. Gomm, clerk to Mr. Hodgson, solicitor, defended
the prisoner.
The complainant said sho hal been abused and threat-
ened by some of the prisoner's friends since the first
examination, and was in fear of her life.

Mr. Paget deprecated in strong terms the practice of
threatening and intimidating witnesses, and said if the
offenders could be pointed out he would punish them
severely.

The case made out by the complainant was that, on
Thursday night last, between the hours of 11 and 12
o'clock, she was followed out of a beer-house, where she
had been with some friends, by tho pzisoner, who made
overtures to her, which she rejected. lie continued fol-
lowing her for some time. She repeatedly bogged of him
to leave her, which he refused to do, and ultimately he
struck her violently about the head and face, and made her
nose and mouth bleed.

William Freeston, a police-sergeant, No. 58, K, stated
that at a few minutes before two on Friday morning he
heard the screams of a woman, and saw tho complainant
bleeding profu.:ely from her nose and mouth, and crying;
sho said the prisoner had beaten her. He saw the prisoner
with other men at the corner of Hams'-court, and took him
into custody.

A journeyman baker was at his work on Friday morning
at two o'clock, and heard the screams of a woman. Ho
looked through the grating over-hanging the bakehouse,
and saw the complainant running and the prisoners
running after. She made her way down Stepney-cause-
way, across Brook-street, into Collingwood-street.
Mr. Gomm cross-examined the complainant, who said
she had been married four years to a commercial traveller'
and was separated from him. Mr. Gomm elicited from
her that she was a person of light character, and belonged
to the class called " unfortunate." She had private
lodgings in George-street, Ratcliff, and it was Weans° she
refused to alloiv the prisoner to outer the house with her
that be struck her.

Mr. Gomm called several Irish wincsses, who swore
that the complainant was iu the White Swan Public-
houso, Commercial-ioad, two hours before the prisoner
was taken into custody, and that she wis larking with
two men named Arthur and Richard Calunby, and that
one of them struck her and made her nose and mouth
bleed. She abused him, and he struck her again.
The complainant admitted that she was in the White
Swan talking to the Culauby's, but denied that either of
them struck her.

Mr. Paget said there were many glaring inconsistencies
and contradictions in the defendant's witnesses, and he
did not believe them. The young woman, Pittman had
given her evidence with remarkable clearness and accu-
racy, and she was confirmed by the police sergeant and
baker. The case was consideraby aggravated by the
defence set up. The woman was undoubtedly a person of
light character, but she was entitled to the protection of
the law. The prisoner made advances to her which she
rejected, and ho thought when his advances were re-
pulsed that ho had a right to beat her. It was a great
mistake. The assault was a brutaland cowardly one, and
ho sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months
and kept to hard labour.

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The market opens with a fair demand at steady
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STANDARDS CoIIMISSION.—A meeting of the
Commissioners of Inquiry into the Standards, Weights,
and Measures was held ouFriday, at 7, Old Palace-yard.
Present—the Astronomer Royal, chairman; Sir John
Shaw Lefe fro, K.C.13., the Master of the Mint; the Earl
of Rosso and 11. W. Chrishohn (Warden of the Stanards);
Mr. 11. Chaney, secretary to the Commission, was in
atten dance.