The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-Aug. 20.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
Michael Murphy, 26, a man with a wooden leg, who
was described in the calendar as a musician, was charged
with the manslaighter of Din Simpson.
Mr. Sleigh aid Mr. O'Connell conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Cooper was counsel for the defence.
It appeared that the prisoner lived in Kate•court,
Spitalfields, and got his living by going about to dif-
ferent public-houses playing a fiddle. The deceased
lived in the same court, and cohabited with a man
flatbed Fitzgerald, and it appeared that she was
acquainted with the prisoner, arid on the night of the
6,Li of July they were at a public-house together and seemed
to be upon very friendly terms. They left about three
o'clock in the morning, and in a short time the lodgers in
the house of the deceased were awoke by her shrieking
" Murder," and upon their going to see what was the
matter the prisoner and the deceased were found upon
the landing of the second floor, and the prisoner, who
was in a very excited state, made use of very bad las-
guage towards the deceased and knocked her down, and
while she was upon the ground he kicked her with his
wooden leg about the head and face, and she exclaimed that
he had kicked her eye out. One of the witnesses, a black
roan, who lodged in the house, begged the prisoner to desist
from his violence, but, instead of doing 81, he said to him,
" You black -- I'll serve you the same if you are net
quiet." When the prisoner appeated to have exercised his
brutality to the fullest extent he went to his own house,
arid the uefurtunate woman was taken to the London
Hospital, where some assistance was rendered to her, asd she
was removed to her own house, where she died on the 12th of
July, her death having no doubt been occasioned by the
injuries she had received.
Mr. Cooper addressed the jury for the prisoner, and be
commented upon the entire absence a evidence to show the
first commencement of the quarrel. He also called the pri-
soner's brother as a witness, and he stated that on the night
in question the deceased was drunk at a neighbouring pub-
lic-house, and that she had a quarrel with another woman,
who seized her by the hair and knocked her head
several times against the wainscoat. He also said
that the deceased was constantly drunk, and he never
saw her free from a black eye. He added that he
was with her on the morning in question until nearly one
o'clock ; and after he had been to bed be was disturbed by
hi arieg a noise in the court, and upon looking out lie se;
the deceased holding his brother by the hair and the shirt,
and he said he would strike her if eke did not loose hin ;
but he said he saw no blow actually shuck.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
was sentenced to 12 months' hard labaur.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

Charles Davison, 29, conductor, was indicted for etn-
bt zeing 2s. 4d., the moneys of the Metropolitan Saloon
Omnibus Company, his masters.
r. Sleigh and Mr. Salter prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe
defended.

The case proved against the prisoner was this :—He was
one of the company's conductors to an omnibus plying
between Putney and London ; and it was his duty at the
e, d of each day to give in to the clerk a statement of the
business he had done during the day. Upon the evening
of the 30th of July, some ladies, acquaintances of a 12 rntle-
man connected with the company, were riding in the omni-
bus conducted by the prisoner, which being uausnally full,
the circumstance was spoken of, and it coming to the know-
ledge of the directors, the statement furnished by the
prisoner upon that day was examined, and for the particular
journey he had set down only a few passengers.
In cross-examination, it was elicited that the company
recasionally carried passengers part of their journey from
Putney to meet some other omnibuses going to Islington.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
Robert Brigenshatv, 19, butcher, was indicted for cut-
ting and wounding George Barry, with intent to maim
him.

Mr. Robinson prosecuted and Mr. Sleigh defended.
It appeared from the brief statement made by Mr. Robin-
son that upon the 18th of July some drunken sailor was at
the Blackwall station of that line, and the prisinier was
also there, and was seen to take a handkerchief from the
seaman which he claimed as his own. Upon this, Batry,
v,lio is an officer to the railway company. was called to take
hiui Lt.) custody, when he resisted violently, and, with a
knife, wounded him severely upon the right wrist.
Mr. Sleigh, upon hearing the above statement of facts,
said that he could not resist a conviction for unlawfully
wounding, to which he should advise the prisoner to pleall
guilty.
Mr. Robinson said he should leave the case in the hands
of the Court.
The prisoner, who up to this lima had borne an excellent
character, having pleaded guilty, was sentenced t) six
months' imprisonment.
t:l%-1, Daniel l9, labourer, was indicted for stealin
to
a purse and money Sullivan,from the person of Elizabeth Lowrance.
Mr. Carteen prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton defended.
The vrosecutrix was in Fleet-street upon the 18th of July,
when the prisoner in the most impudent manner stole her
purse. She .eized him by the collar, when he slipped out if
his coat, and, leaving it in her bands, made off. Ile, however,
being known to the police, was taken a few dadys
fiafterward ar,
and the coat also being known to them, nohye
in identifying him as the person who had committed the
robbery. and it was proved that he had
The jury found him guilty,
been several times convicted of street robberies, and had only
come out of prison the day before the commission of this
robbe
He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
William Brown, 30, plasterer, Fanny Riggory,