The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. Mar
woman,
intent to commit self-destruc-
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was charged with swallowing
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; and Samuel Foreman, her husband, was charged
with aiding and abetting her in that attempt.
Police-constable 414, said—On Saturday evening between
7 and 8 o'clock I was informed that a woman had taken
poison at a house in Lahour-in-vain-yard, Fish-street-hill.
Upon proceeding there I found the female prisoner sitting
on a bed and vomiting. The male prisoner and his son came
up stairs immediately afterwards, and the former said "I
give my wife into your custody for taking oxalic acid." I
asked where she got it from, when the son said his mother
gave him some money and he went and purchased it
at Mr. Wright's, a chemist, in Old Fish-street. In another
room, on the same floor, I found the tumbler which I
now produce, and in which a small portion of the poison
is still left. I then took the woman to a doctor, who gave
her something to increase her vomiting, and told roe to take
her to Guy's Hospital. I took her there in a cab, and they
used the stomach pump. In about an hour I brought her
away from there and took her to the station-house, where
she said her husband gave her the money to purchase the
poison, knowing that she intended to take it, and the hus-
band was taken into custody also.
Inspector Newnham said he was at the station at the time,
and heard the female prisoner make this statement; but the
husband denied it.
Lord Mayor—Well, where is the son who said he pur-
chased the poison ? If he is in court let him be examined.
Samuel Foreman then stood up and said—Tbe prisoners
are my parents. I bought the poison. My mother gave
me some money on Saturday evening and told me to get
twopennyworth, but I did not know what she wanted it
for. I got it at Mr. Wright's, but I don't know now what
it was.

Lord Mayor—Was it oxalic acid ?
Witness—l think it was.
Lord Mayor—Did the chemist ask you what you wanted
it for?
Witness—Yes, he did, and I told him I did not know.
Lord Mayor—And when you told him that, he gave it to
you ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Lord Mayor—Well, what did you do with it when you
got home?

Witness—l gave it to my mother.
Lord Mayor—Had your father and she been quarrelling
Witness—No, sir, they had not.
Mr. GLodthan (chief clerk)—Was your father present
when you gave it to her ?
Witness—Yes, he was.
Mr. Gocdman—What took place then ?
Witness—l don't know; I did net see liar take it, but
soon after I went into the other room, and saw the paper in
which it had been wrapped lying on the floor empty. I said,
" Father, here's the paper on the floor in which I bought the
poison," and he sent me after a policeman directly.
Lord Mayor—Well, that seems right enough. (To the
male prisoner) : You did not know anything
about the
poison till your son told you ?
Male prisoner—Yes, I did ; I will tell you all about it. On
Saturday I went home to dinner, but I tonna there was none
ready, and that my wife was the wot se for drink. I told her
it would not do, that she was the worse for liquor. She said she
was not; and I told her to make haste and get me some din-
ner, and before I went away again I told her to be done in the
afternoon, so as to get everything comfortable before I went
home in the evening, and she promised to do se. But when
I went home a little before seven, I found that she was not
much better, and I said, " You are not quite sober yet."
She said she was, and after another word or two I went and
sat against the window, looking out; and while I was there
she said, " If I knew what would poison me, I would take
it." I turned round laughingly, and told her that if she

took some oxalic acid, that would do for her soon enough.
She then gave the boy twopence and told him to get some,
but I told him not to go. She, however, insisted that he
should go, and as I thought they would not serve him, I
let him go. When be came back, he gave it to her. I was
surprised to find that he had been able to get it so easily,
but I thought she would never take it, and I said to her,
" The best thing you can do with it is to put it on the fire
at once." She promised to do so, and went into the back
room, from which she came out in a minute or two, and
said he had taken it ; but I did not believe she had done
so until my son came in with the paper which he had picked
up from the floor ; and then, as the best thing which I
could do, I sent at once for a policeman.
Lord Mayor—Well, now, that explanation is quite satis-
factory ; and if you had given it to the officers, I am sure
they would not have taken you into custody. Leave tke
bar at once, for, of course, you must be discharged. As for
you, Mrs. Foreman, your conduct is highly criminal.
Prisoner—l did not know what I was doing, for I had
been worreted all Saturday.
Lord Mayor—Yes, with drink, I suppose. How many
children have you ?
Prisoner—Only one, who has been a witness here.
Lord Mayor—Well, he seems a respectable and intelli-
gent child. Don't you think he is worth living for ?
Prisoner—Yes, he is a good boy, indeed.
Lord Mayor—And yet you sent him for poison to destroy
his mother's life ?
Prisoner—l did net think it was poison. I thought they
were only having some fun with me.
The Lord Mayor, however, refused to accept this expla-
nation, and remanded the prisoner for a week to give her
time for reflection.
TILE CASE OF MRS. SODEN.—Received for Mrs. Soden
54., from "H.B. ;" from "a Bristol Gentleman ;" and
ss. Anonymous.
For the Poor-box.-6s. 3d., as " Forfeiture of wares for
procuring a false character," by a servant ; and 2s. 6d. from
" Mrs. E. 8.," in grateful acknowledgment of kindness and
assistance extended to her by the Lord Mayor, in December
last.

GUILDHALL.—" COFFEE-HOUSE ROBJERIES."—
Richard Jones, a seafaring man, descrihing himself as a
steward, was placed at the bar before Alderman Wire
charged with the following robbery :
Mrs. Main, a coffee-house keeper, of GG, Long-lane, said
—The prisoner came to my house on Saturday last and
engaged a bed. My servant showed him to his room, and
when she came down stairs she said she was sure the prisoner
was the same man who robbed me three weeks ago. In the
morning when the prisoner was leaving his room I sent the
servant up to examine the bed, and in the meantime the
prisoner made his way into the coffee-room and offered a
girl in my service Gd. to let him out to go and get shaved ;
but upon hearing my servant calling out to me that
the sheets were gone from the bed he ran up stairs
and locked himself in his bedroom. I followed,
and threatened to give him Into custody, but he
would not open the door. I sent for a policeman, who shortly
after arrived, and then the prisoner opened the door; but
upon again examining the bed we found three sheets there
instead of two which the servant had missed, and they were
lying on the top of the bed. I afterwards found that the
third sheet had been taken from the bed in the next room.

The officer said there was another charge against the
prisoner.
Sophia Hennings said—l am chambermaid at the Vic-
toria coffee-house, opposite Astley's Theatre. The prisoner
came to our house with a female about half-past one o'clock,
on Wednesday morning last, and engaged a bed. He slept
there with the female, and in the morning he sent her down
to order breakfast. He did not leave his room till between
10 and 11 o'clock, and then made an excuse to leave the
house to get change for a £5 note, but he never re-
turned. The female remained, and paid for her own
breakfast. After the prisoner was gone I misaed the sheets
from the bed.
Officer—lf the prisoner be remanded for a few days I have
no doubt there will be many other charges against him as
soon as it is known he is in custody.
Alderman Wire—Have you anything to say why I should
not remand you?
Prisoner—All I have to say is, sir, that I came up from
the Isle or Wight to see an uncle in the Excise living at
Hackney, and when I got there f found he had removed to
Andover, where he died very suddenly. I had no money
left, and distress drove me to this course.
Alderman Wire—You appear to have been pursuing a
system of plunder, by which I have as doubt you have been
netting your living far some time ; but if you can bring any
one forward to corroborate what you say, and give you a
good character, it will meet with the consideration it de-
serves.
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday.
Albert Laurent, a young Frenchnaan, lately employed at
t!Qe Crystal Palace as a cook and confectioner, was charged
with stealing a £5 Bank of England note from the premises
of Mr. Thompson, a licensed victualler, of Cloth-fair.
Mr. John Thompson, jun., said—l live with my father,
who keeps the Rising Sun, at 38, Cloth-fair. I have known
the prisoner about 12 or 18 months. On Monday last I
gave change to a Mr. Daniels for a £5 note, which I placed
in a leather bag on a small shelf in the bar. The prisoner
then came in and took a seat in the bar and remained there
shout an hour and a-tsalf. My father came in, and I told
hint in the presence of the prisoner that the £5 was in the
bag, and then went up stairs to dress. When I came down
I went out with the prisoner, who promised to call in the
evening. He did so, but I was not at home. When I
returned I m'-ssed the £5 note from the bag, and as my
father knew nothing about it I concluded the prisoner had
taken it. He called again in the morning, but I did not
see him.
Alderman Wire—Has the note been traced to the pri-
soner ?
Mullineux (the detective officer)—Yes, sir; and he has

admitted tsking it.
Mr. Daniels, of 4, Cloth-fair, said—l changed the £5
note now produced at Mr. Thompson's on Monday last. I
know it is the same note by the manner in which the two
halves are pasted together.
William Packer, assistant to Messrs. Nixon and Harnett,
of Skinner-street, Snow-bill, said—The prisoner came to
our shop on Monday last and bought some tea and coffee,
for which he paid me with a£s note. I wrote en the back
of the note the name and address he gave me, which was
" Deltnint, 13, Bishopsgate-stree." That note was paid
into the Commercial Hank of London. The note produced
is the same I received from the prisoner.
The prisoner here intimated, through Minshull, one of
the Mansion-house officers, who acted as interpreter, that
he bought neither tea nor coffee.
Packer said—ln answer to that, I may say that on the
way to the station the prisoner admitted buying tea and
coffee, as well as taking the £5 from Mr. Thotnpson's ; and
added, that he meant to make restitution.
Mr. R. A. Bailey, a clerk in the Bank of England, pro-
duced the note in question, which had since been cancelled,
and said it was paid in on the 19th of the present month.
Mullineux said—W hen I told the prisoner the charge, he
said he had the note, and changed it at a grocer's in
Skinner-street, but that he received it from a friend in
Perla. With the change he bought a pair of boots, and
took a gold watch and a pair of boots out of pledge. He
afterwards said he took the note, and would pay Mr.
Thompson again. I searched him and his lodgings, and
found the gold watch, but no money.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Edwin Shepherd, of 176, Fleet-street, lozenge maker
and confectioner, appeared in answer to a summons charge
in, him with assaulting Mra. Harriet Thurgate.
Mrs. Thurgate stated that she wrote to the defendant ap-
prising him that she would call upon him for money owing
is her, and accordingly she went on Wednesday last to the
manufactory at 12, Crane-court, Fleet-street; but finding
no one there she went to 176, Fleet-street and inquired for
the defendant. The shopman said he was not in; but as
she could see him in the back-room she told the shopman so,
and requested him to call him out. At the same moment
the defendant rushed out and gave her a push backwards
which threw her violently to the ground, injuring her back
and breaking her parasol. He then retreated into the count-
ing-house and locked himself in, and finding she could not
get at him she left the slop.
Cron-examined—She had not received notice from the
defendant to refrain from going to 176, Fleet-street.
Alderman Wire said if she had it would not justify the
assault. He held that such a notice given bv a debtor to
prevent a creditor applying for her money could not be de-
fended fur an instant.
Mr. Wontner said the defendant owed her no money.
Alderman Wire said there were bills for about £4OO,
which the complainant had put in, showing that money
was owing to her.
Mr. Wontner said those bills were drawn and accepted by
the defendant's brothers for money lent to them, not to
the defendant.
Mrs. Thurgate said she lent the money to the firm, which
consisted of the defendant, his two brothers, and their sister
and mother. She bad received £5 on account of two bills
for ,E 35 hut nothing off the £3OO bill, which was overdue.
The defendant said there bad been no firm. The busi-
ness did belong to his mother, and at her death it came to
his sister, in whose employ he now was.
Alderman Wire fined the defendant 20s. and costs, and
recommended the family to settle Mrs. Thurgate's claim,
as it was evidently a family affair.

WESTMINSTER.—CHARGE OF FURIOUS DRIVING.
—R. Smith, a cab-driver in the employment of Mr. James
Benham, cab proprietor, Green-street, Chelsea, appeared
before Mr. Paynter on remand to a summons, in which he
was charged with furiously driving his horse which was in a
cab, and by which he unlawfully damaged a horse, the pro-
perty of Mr. Bernard John Graham, Edge Farm, Battersea-
park. He was also charged with being drunk at the time.
It appeared from the evidence that about nine o'clock at
night on the 11th inst., the prisoner was proceeding along
Lower Sloane-street, when, at about 150 yards from Chelsea
Suspension-bridge, he came in collision with the horse in
Mr. Graham's brougham, and the shaft entered the animal's
chest. It was alleged by complainant that the driver was
going at a furious rate, and that he was intoxicated at the
time. The complainant stated that a short time ago he was
offered £l3O for the horse, and that in consequence of the
injury it had received it was now useless to him.
The defendant denied that be was furiously driving or
that he was tipsy, and be brought a witness forward who
supported his statement, and he said he would bring for-
ward the police-constable on duty at the bridge, who would
swear that he was sober, when the case was remanded.
Police-constable B 254 now stated that the prisoner was
sober, and other witnesses spoke to the same effect.
The constable stated that at the spot where the accident
occurred it was so dark than collisions were very frequent.
Complaints were made by the railway authorities that this
was a most dangerous part of the road.
Other witnesses gave similar evidence, while the pre-
ponderance of the evidence went to show that the prisoner
was going at a rapid pace.
Mr. Paynter said it was clear that the prisoner was
driving furiously.
The prisoner was fined 403. fir furiously driving, or in
default, a month in the House of Correction.

WORSHIP - STREET. FEMALE DEPRAVITY.-- A
woman, who gave the name of Mnry Johnson, was placed
before Mr. D'Eyncourt for re-examination on several
charges of felony, her practice halting been to take temporary
lodgings with the complainants and make off at the earliest
opportunity with anything she could lay hands on.
Mr. Quintell, a coffee-house keeper in St. George's-place,
Old-street-road, proved that on Monday, the 16th, the
prisoner engaged a lodging in his house, but went out in the
evening, taking with her the key of the room door, and did
not return. In the morning the room was entered and
examined, when the sheets from the bed, a shawl, and other
things. were missing.
A Mrs. Emily Dodd also stated that on Sunday last the
prisoner came to her house, and the witness lent her a
shawl to wear during the day. She remained for the night,
but left early the next morning, carrying off not only the
shawl but several other articles, some of which did not
belong to the complainant herself, but had been intrusted to
her to be mended.
Another complainant, Mrs. Susan Edwards, stated that
the prisoner had in the same way robbed her lodgings of
sheets, a blanket, &c.
Several other complainants appeared against her.
The police-constable who took her into custody found
upon her 15 pawnbrokers' duplicates, some of them for the
articles in question, which had been pawned immediately

after they were stolen, and were now produced aad iden-
tified.

The magistrate having directed inquiry to be made as to
the prisoner's antecedents, was now informed that she was
a married woman, wife of a pensioned revenue officer, but
not living with her husband, and cohabiting with another
man.

She pleaded guilty, and was sentenced under the Criminal
Justice Act to six months' imprisonment.
A SAVAGE.—Dennis Flynn, a powerful young Irish-
man, was charged with assaults.
It appeared that on Sunday afternoon he was given in
charge to Policeman Luark, 12G, for baying committed a
wanton and brutal assault upon a boy, when be then sud-
denly threw his arm round the constable's neck, and com-
pressed his throat until he became quite purple in the face,
and spat blood, and would inevitably have been strangled
had he not been rescued by a City policeman.
The fellow had nothing to say in defence, and was com-
mitted for one month for the assault on the constable, the
boy not being in attendance.

MARYL EBONE. RUFFIANLY OUTRAGES BY A
DRUNKEN CABMAN.—Andrew Richardson, a cabman,
was brought before Mr. Long, at the instance of Mr. Durdle,
inspector of the Great Western Railway police at Padding-
ton, charged with drunkenness and ruffianly assaults.
It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday last,
upon the arrival of the 6 p.m. train, the prisoner, who was
intoxicated, drove into the premises, and commenced quar-
relling with another driver about a fare. The noise attracted
the attention of Mr. Durdle, by whose directions the pri-
soner was taken into custody. On the way to the station-
house be kicked Hawkins, one of the railway officers, five or
six times with great force ; and in addition thereto he
attacked another officer, named Barrs, grasping the latter
furiously by the thigh, and endeavouring to bite one of his
hands.

Mr. Long told the prisoner that it was his duty to punish
him severely. He had been guilty of drunkenness while in
his employ as a cabman, and also of two separate assaults.
On each of the charges he was fined 205., or fourteen days,
making in the whole £3, or six weeks in the House of Cor-
rection. Not being prepared to pay, he was removed by
Arnold, the gaoler, and locked up.
INDISCRIMINATE ALMSGIVING.—SeveraI persons were
brought up by Sergeant Potter, 10, and Lee, 190 D, charged
with begging. One of the prisoners, a strong, hearty-
looking fellow, on being asked what he had to say, replied
" Does your worship think it likely, now, that it would
answer my purpose to go begging ? No one would relieve me,
imagining me to be in distress."

Ar. Ding observed that a great many people gave to any
one who asked them for assistance, and while believing that
in reality they did good, they too frequently did a deal of
harm.

A month's imprisonment was the penalty in each case.
CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—John Harris, cab proprietor,
Northumberland-mews, blarylebone, attended on a sum-
mons which had been obtained against him by Mr. Love,
chief constable of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, to produce the driver of one of his cabs
to answer the charge of cruelly abusing and torturing a
horse.

Mr. Love stated that on Wednesday, the 18th instant,
he was in Park-street, when he saw the man driving a
horse and cab The poor animal seemed to have the greatest
difficulty i❑ moving along, and was evidently suffering
considerable pain ; and on witness stopping it, and asking
defendant what was the matter with the horse's legs, he
said " Oh, not much—it's all right." The knee of one of
the animal's legs, upon examination, was found to be
swollen to about three times its natural size, and
the surface thereof presented a shocking appearance ;
the top skin bad been entirely taken away, and
there was a discharge of festering matter. Witness
asked him how he came to work the animal while in such a
condition, when he said be had only had it out for a few
hours, and as it was the first time it had been worked for
a long while, he imagined that a little exercise would do it
good ; upon which witness gave him to understand that
there was a vast difference between giving a horse moderate
exercise and driving it about over the stones with a heavy
four-wheeled cab behind it. He said he had just put down
a fare for which he had received 2s.
The defendant denied that the horse was in the state tie-
scribed by the officer ; and said that he had produced it in
order that his worship might see it.
Mr. Long proceeded to view the animal, which was
standing at the front entrance to the court; and being satis-
fied that the case was one of cruelty, for which he was
bound to inflict a penalty, fined defendant 20s. and costs.

CLERKENWELL. MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON
THREE CONSTABLES AND A FEMALE.— J ohn Redding,
sen., John Reddi;ng , jun., and Dennis Bedding, were
placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with being
drunk and violently assaulting Sergeant Choune, 5 E,
Police-constables Bass, 154 E, Manson, 69 E, and Mrs.
Redding, the aunt of the younger prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that o❑ Saturday niglat,
between 11 and 12, Sergeant Choune, 5 E, was:passing
alr•ng Little Coram-street, when hearing a great disturb-
ance in Russell-place, he went to quell it. He took a
female in custody, but had no sooner done so than the
three prisoners tell upon him, knocked him about, and
kicked him very violently. The other constables coming up
they were also assaulted and knocked about, and the female
rescued from their custody. Dennis Redding also got away
f,r a short time, and because his aunt would not let the female,
who made her escape, go into her house, he struck her,
blaekered her eye very much, and bit her two fingers. She
got under the bed to escape his violence, when he kicked
her in the most shameful manner, and, out of malice, broke
a valuable looking-glass and some other articles.

Sergeant Choune—said that Ittissell-place was a very bad
neighbourhood, and the police were surrounded by the worst
of characters.

The prisoner, Dennis Redding, said he was the worse for
liquor and was sorry for what he had done; the other pri-
soners said they were sober, and denied having assaulted the
police.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the elder prisoner 20s. or a month,
John Redding-, jun., bs. or a week, and Dennis, 20s. or a
month, for the assault on the police, 10s. or a week, for the
wilful damage, and one month, without the option of a flue,
for the assault on the female.

DISGRACEFUL CRUELTY TO A SHERI'. —TV illiarn
Perry, a big surly-looking fellow, a drover, was charged, at
the instance of Mr. W. Love, the chief constable of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
with the following cruel treatment to a sheep :
From the evidence of Guest and Sell, two of the Royal
Society's constables, it appeared that they were at the New
Cattle Market, where they saw the prisoner, with two or
three other drovers, driving a flock of sheep. One of the
sheep to get out of the way of the dogs separated itself from
the drove, when the prisoner set a lar2e dog after it. The
dog flew at the sheep, caught it by the ear, worried it in
this way votne minutes, and caused the blood to flow from
the ear, the prisoner continuing to urge the dog on. The
sheep at length got away, and rushed towards the pans, the
prisoner sending the dogs after it. In making its escape
from the dog the poor sheep rushed against an iron rail and
fell backwards. The animal kicked and plunged in great
agony, and was taken away immediately and slaughtered,
when it was found its neck was broken.

The prisoner, in repli-to the -shame, denied that it was
he who set the dog on the sheep, and said it was one of the
other drovers.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that the case was clearly proved
against the prisoner. He was a very brutal fellow, and for
such disgraceful conduct, in default of paying a fine of 205.,
he should commit him to the House of Correction for a
month, and he might depend upon getting a heavier punish-
ment if brought up again on such a charge.
ILLEGALLY PAWNING.—John _Evans, aged 39, a watch
engraver, residing at 20, Great John-street, Clerkenwell,
was brought up in the custody of police-constable Hughes-
titan, 163 G, one of the warrant officers of the court, and
charged with unlawfully pawning a gold watchcase, the
property of Mr. Joseph Layne, at Clerkenwell.
The offence was clearly proved, the prisoner having sent
his wife to the prosecutor with the pawn ticket; and
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to pay the value, £3
and a fine of 405., or, in default of payment, three calen-
dar months' hard labour in the House of Correction.
The prisoner was locked up in default.

SOUTHWARK.—A LUCKY THIEF—ALLEGED HIGH-
WAY ROBBERY.—Sarah Bunce, a notorious street thief,
who has been three times tried and convicted of highway
robbery, was brought before Mr. Combe charged with steal-
ing a silver watch from the person of James Lint.
The prosecutor said be was a clerk, and resided at the
Dover Castle, Retherhithe- wall. About ten o'clock on Tues-
day night last be was proceeding home, and on turning down
Tooley-street the prisoner accosted hint, and walked as far
as John-street, under the railway, where they stopped talk-
ing a short time. He had his watch in his waistcoat pocket
attached to a ribbon a minute before she accosted him. After
remaining talking to her about a minute she ran away from
him suddenly, and he then missed his watch from the ribbon.
He saw nothing snore of the prisoner until Saturday night,
when he met her in Tooley-street and gave her ints custody.
In cross-examination he raid be was perfectly sober at
the titne ; but he neither saw nor felt her take the watch ;
but he knew nobody else could have stolen it but her, as he
spoke to no other person.
Mr. Combe asked whether she was known to the police ?
Scannels, 177 M, a detective officer, said that she had
been tried and convicted three times at this court for street
robberies. She had also been tried and convicted at the
Old Bailey for highway robbery with violence.
She denied all knowledge of the watch.
Mr. Combe told her that whatever her former conduct
was there was not sufficient in the evidence before him to
warrant his sending her for trial. She must therefore be
discharged.

LAMBETH.—CAUTION TO LUCIFER MATCH MAKERS.
—Benjamin Jonas, a match dealer in the Minories,
appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to a summons charg-
ing him with attempting to send by the South-Western
Railway a chest of Inciter matches withaut making the
officers of the company aware of the contents of such pack-
age, for which offence be bad incurred a penalty not ex-
ceeding £2O.
From the statement of Inspector Bent, who appeared to
support the summons, and the testimony of the witnesses
called by him, it appeared that on the 11th instant a chest
was brought from the shop of the defendant to the railway
station at Nine Elms. The chest was described as contain-
ing toys ; but the company's officers discovered the contents
to be lucifer matches, and the present proceedings were
taken.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that from the
way in which the package had been made up the
officers could have easily discovered what its contceonmtsp
m aitde or
frnoomwat
and it would have been at their option to take .netyri
lees,
It was denied that this discovery could bed
external appearance of the package
having remarked that the most serio;usanconsequences and
result from the indis-
criminatethe magistrate
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NOSE OFF.—
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an, an Irish labourer, was brought up on re-
mand on a charge of violently assaulting Lawrence
Crannige, a countryman of his, and biting his nose off.
The complainant, who
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nose strapped up, and ppearedfor
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some
statementdays in
great danger, gave his evidencle
the encounter between them, and
which resulted in the loss
of the nose, was more like that
between two wild animals than human beings.
The prisoner was convicted In a penalty of £5 or two
months for biting off
the nose, and £3 or one month for an
assault on another person.
TH

AMES.—Tun CASE OF MRS. SPIJ RLING.7-PoliCe-
serg!apt Egerton, No. 24 H, who had been directed to make
winhqouirinrteas:raifeit,er Samuel Spurling, a recruiting sergeant,
a respectable woman, the widow of Patrick
Readdy, an Irish soldier, on the 9th inst., and abandoned her
on the following day, came before Mr. Selfe and stated that
Spurling came to the Leman-street station and gave himself
up, but as there was no charge of which he paid take cog-
nisance or keep him in custody, he advised him to attend the
court and make an explanation. Spurling bad been de-
p! ived of his situation as a recruiting sergeant, and his uni-
form had been taken from him. The police-sergeant added

that the staff-officer of the pensioners intended to attach
Spurling's pension, until the £lO he had received with his
newly married wife, and which had been paid to her by the
Indian Mutiny Relief Fund Committee, had been repaid.
Mr. Selfe—Then Spurting will not be employed as a
recruiting sergeant any longer?
Egerton—No, sir.
Samuel Spurting, who had often appeared in this court
with recruits, in the uniform of a sergeant, and decorated
with ribbons, then got into the witness-box attired in an old
and dirty suit of a civilian. He looked much chopfallen. He
stated, in answer to questions put to him by Mr. Selfe, as
follows :—I am a pensioned private and have served in the
army. I was a recruiting sergeant. I was married on the
9th of this month—this day fortnight—to an Irishwoman
named Readdy, the widow of Patrick Readdy. She was in
the receipt of a pension of 7s. Gd. per week. Of course she
lost that when she married me. She had £lO given her on
the day of her marriage with me. I drew that money
myself on the day of the marriage. I did not want to
go away from her, but she did not stop in her
lodgings till I came back. I have been in different
parts of the town since I left her on the day after our mar-
riage, because I had ini.,sed a recruit. Two women went
away with me, but they were not loose women, as was re-
ported in the newspapers, but two soldiers' wives. I told
the two women to wait at the Tower until I returned from
Westminster. I returned to the Tower and the two women
were gone.
Mr. Selfe—Then why not return to your wife ?
Spurting said the magistrate was too quick for him. He
did not return to Back Church-lane, where his wife was
staying, certainly.
Mr. Selfe—The substance of your story is this :—You
marry on the Monday; you get £lO from the Indian Mutiny
Relief Committee; you abandon your wife on the following
day, and go away with two women ; you expend the £lO
for your own sensual gratification, and you now come her•
to excuse yourself. _ _

Spurling—l maintained that woman for a month before
married her.
Mr. Selfe—You did. What has that to do with it ?

Mrs. Spurling—l maintained myself. I had 7s. 6d. per
week pension up to the day of my marriage.
Mr. Selfe asked if Spurling had any other statement to
make, or any arrangement to suggest for the benefit of hie
wife ?

Spurling said he did not want to make any statement.
f his wife was willing to come back he would take her.
Mr. Selfe—You left her. What has become of the £10?

Spurling evaded this question by saying he left his wife

183. to pay two or three little debts with, and tkat, in con-
sequence of the untrue statements made about him, the
staff officer had taken away his regimentals and dismissed
him from the recruiting staff.
Mr. Sclfe—l think you are very properly dismissed. I
don't see that anything untrue has been said about you.
Spurling said that since he had left his wife he had
frequently seen her, though she had not seen him.
Mr. Selfe—What do you mean by that ? These are mani-
fest falsehoods. Since Mrs. Spurling was here last I have
made inquiries, and have now seen you, and you have con-
firmed all that has been said about you, and I believe you to
be a very vverthless fellow.
Spurling then turned round to his wife, and in an autho-
ritative manner said, " Do you mean to come and live with
me ?"

Mrs. Spurling—No; I do not.
Mr. Selfe—lt you don't bring evidence to alter her state-
ment I will grant a warrant against you on the application
of the parish officers.

Spurling then turned round and marched out of court as
rapidly as possible.
luroRTANT CONTICTION..—• Richard Sanderson, a
common lodging-house keeper, was summoned at the
instance of Inspector Price, an officer appointed to carry
out the provisions of that excellent sanitary measure, the
Common Lodging-houses Act, for as infringement Of the
regulations.

The defendant when called upon did not appear, and it
was proved by police-sergeant Kirby, 53 A, that the defen-
dant kept a registered lodging-house, at 142, High-street,
Shadwell, and that he had been twice convicted for keeping
his house in a filthy condition and not properly lime wash-
ing the walls. The neighbours complained of the house,
and said it was a nuisance. He visited the defendant's
house again, a few days ago, and it was then in a very dirty
and dilapidated state, and quite unfit for the reception of
lodgers, of whom there were, unfortunately, many in the
house. He again visited the house on Friday. It was as
bad as ever. The defendant had been twice convicted of a
similar offence, and on one occasion summoned for keeping
swine, and then sold them.
Mr. Selfe said the defendant had been already twice con-
victed for offences against the act, and had acted contuma-
ciouely and in open violatio❑ of the law. He now fined the
defendant 405., deprived him of his license, and prohibited
him from keeping another registered lodging-house for five
3 ears. The fine and order were to be immediately enforced.
DAGGERS AND KNUCKLE-DUSTERS.—OUTRAGE MY
FOREIGNERS.—Martin Lewis and John Sieg, Spanish
seamen, were charged with assaulting and beating William
Savage, police-constable 212 H, and a man named Samuel
Sutton.
It appeared that Savage was passing by the Cock and
Neptune public-house, in Rateliff-highway, and heard
cries of " Murder." He looked in. There was a general
row and a fierce conflict going on among foreign seamen,
prostitutes, and others, and many were armed with knives
and daggers, and upon the hands of several were brass
" knuckle-dusters," a diabolicel American invention to break
heads and knock out eyes. An English sailor ran out
with blood streaming from his face. He was followed by
the two prisoners, one with a finely worked dagger, with
bright steel blade, and the other armed with a large stone.
The Englishman had been struck in the Cock and Neptune;
he narrowly escaped the knives and daggers of Italians and
Greeks, and when he got out of the public-house Sieg got
him down, beat him with a stone, and cut his head. Lewis
made a cut at the Englishman with his dagger, and
Savage fortunately hit the villain's arm on one side
and prevented the blow taking effect. The prisoner
then turned upon Savage and beat him. He called
several persons to his aid, and the prisoners were secured.
A dagger was taken from Lewis, and knuckle-dusters from.
Sieg. Savage received a contused wound on the head, and
was kicked. Samuel Sutton, an English sailor, was much
hurt in assisting to take the prisoners into custody. Some
of the foreigners had sticks and the others knives.
Lewis said he intended the dagger as a present to a friend
in Spain, and he threw it away because he should net be
suspected of using a knife.
Mr. Selfe could not understand why there were such con-
tinual outrages in and near the Cock and Neptune.
A police-constable said a new landlord bad lately come
into the house.

Mr. Selfe—lt has been going on ever since I have been a
magistrate, now more than two years. I do not understand
why the licensing magistrates continue to license such
houses as this Cock and Neptune, which furnish cases every
day for this court, and sometimes more than one.
Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, said, on a proper repre-
sentation of the case to the licensing magistrates, they
would take serious notice of the Cock and Neptune.
Mr. Selfe—What could these foreigners do with those
weapons, except for the purposes of offence ? It is necessary
to visit such cases as these with severity. A rush was
made at Savage with the dagger, and he narrowly escaped.
I sentence the prisoners to one month's imprisonment for
assaulting the police-constable, and to pay a fine of £5 for
assaulting Sutton, or be further imprisoned far one month.

COUNTRY MARKRTS.

YORK. CORN—Ara. 21.

At our corn exchange this morning there was but a moderate
supply of wheat on offer, but some samples of this year's growth
were shown, in prime condition. The trade was slow, but priced
were the turn higher than the rates of last week.
Prices—White wheat, 49s to —s ; extra, —s; red wheat, 42s to 465;
extra, —s ; barley, 30s to —s ; beans, 46s to 49s ; oats, is 3d to is
4d per stone.