The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE Dec. 29.

CLERKENWELL.—CHARGE OF S 1
'MING.—
Ellen O'Reilly, a charwoman, residingtat.Bl, M
stabbing Mil-
ton-street, City, was charged with bbing and
wounding Esther Coley, with an awl, at the King's
Arms public-house, Whitecross-street.
public-house, Mr. Wakeling appeared for the pmpeution.
Both parties were in the above and
the prisoner attempted to drink oft
of the com-
plainant's pot. Because she would ot let her the
prisoner made a great disturbance and
struck the
complainant, and not content with that she pulled
from her dress a shoemaker's awl, gad
attempted to
thrust it into her eye. Fortunato it only went
into the cheek, but the prisoner repeated
$
h the stabs
two or three times, and when
e saw the blood
begin to flow she ran away, but Was followed and
the awl taken from her. On the
co day to the police
station the prisoner said if she
uld
gse-
et away
Mshe
would give the complainant anotlir. Tyrwhitt fully committed the
do
the prisoner to
the sessions for trial.
THE DIVORCE AND MATRIROv
•,lAL CAUSES ACT.
—A SAD STORY.—Mr. R. Jon
solicitor of New
Inn, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt'
on behalf Mrs.
Sarah Ann Steele, of Lorn lie
tise, Mildmay Park,
for a protection order under tie following circum-
stances :
Mrs. Steele said that he?
husband was a mer-
chant in the City, and his nape was Joseph Steele.
She was married to him. at temehouse Church, on
rid
the 18th of May, 1837, she had four children
who were entitled to some
p toperty. Her husband
deserted her on the 9th
of anuary last, and was
now keeping company with i
other side of the water. 11):.inother female on the
en he went away he
did not say anything to he?
but he sent a letter to
her daughter saying that he had gone to Switzer-
land. She kept a school, and had for a long time
supported her husband, a,ld she could not account
'
for his deserting her. T!
property to which the
children was entitled wei
being administered under
the Court of Chancery, 4id steps were being taken
to prevent him from
receiving the children's
dividends.
Mr. Jones said there kTre other circumstances of
a very painful nature
Vhich he need not mention,
and he trusted that the
order would be granted.
Mr. Tyrwhitt granted the order.
WORSHIP-STRE T.
FORGED REGISTER,
Wm. Betts, 29, a tailos
r'
11,ramill cutter, was charged on re-
mand, before Mr. with feloniously and
and knowingly insertt•'
ing in a registry-book of mar-
riages, at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch,a certain forged
and false entry, for the purpose of procuring a cer-
tain marriage.
ly-place, prosecuted, and Mr.
BelNalr.
rd dLefeewndise, fdoth
c
prisoner.
It will be remenered that at the former exami-
nation evidence w
as,l! adduced showing that a youth
named Lewis G lion sworn to be under 16 years
of age, and whose sole guardian was his own bro-
ther,lfr. Joseph ashion, of Brick-lane, St. Luke's,
contracted a ma
iriage with one Alice Betts, pre-
viously a servart in the house of that gentleman,
September last, at the parish church
oofnleirieditthchS,epten
which occasion the prisoner signed
the marriage 'ertificate in the name of William
Gashion, therell
ot being any relative of the family
so named, andti at ho said he was the bridegroom's
natural guarqa,
n. It was further sworn by Mr.
Joseph Gash
the prosecutor, that when his
brother Leis became b'
entitled to ecame of age he would become
,_ about £5OO. Prisoner, when appre-
hended,
from
roore4bd having taken part in the marriage
iiact telcilii4aig
of a monetary character, and not deny-
inge preferred against him. deelnrea he
Botts, bein,""ted by the .''get of his sister, Alice
.„... ,___ enceinte at the time.
be Tcii,....-14,.:T1s now called the youthful husband to
—i-,a by the officiating minister as the per-

son he had married on the occasion in question, but
would not put him under examination for reasons
of a private nature.
Mr. Beard strongly protested against this, and
declared that the prosecution was not fairly carried
on. He was in a position to prove, if Lewis Gashion
was fully examined, that the case against the pri•
soner was one of cruelty and injustice.
The prosecutor was then cress-examined, and
being hard pressed refused to swear that Lewis
Gashion would come into any such sum as £5OO.
He was one of the executors, but had not seen the
accounts for the past eight years. He would not
swear to more than £5.

Mr. Beard required that this recantation should
be added to the former deposition of the prosecu-
tor. It was a matter of moment, particularly as it
had been previously intimated that the prisoner
had acted frem pecuniary motives.
Mr. Lewis said that the question of greatest
moment was the actual offence, no matter why com-
mitted.

Mr. Hammill, upon the application of Mr. Beard,
for bail to be accepted, under the altered circum-
stance of the ease, consented to receive two sureties
in £4O, or one in £BO, and the prisoner was then
fully committed for trial on the above charge.

SOUTHWARK.—IMPORTANT TO MASTERS
AND SOURNETMEN.—Henry Buckharn, a journey-
man tailor, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Saunders,
a master tailor, of Edward-street, Black.friars-road,
was brought before Mr. Combe on a warrant,
charging him with unlawfully neglecting to perform
certain work given out to him by his master.
Mr. Saunders said that in September last he first
employed the prisoner as a journeyman, giving him
work to perform at home. After a few weeks ho
became very irregular, and in the early part of
October witness gave him a coat to make, supply-
ing him with all the materials, and advancing him
78. The coat was to have been finished and brought
home by the Tuesday following, but that has not
been done, and although he had made repeated
applications to the prisoner about it, it was not
forthcoming, and, as a protection to himself and
other masters, he was compelled to take the pre-
sent proceedings. Witness had been compelled to
supply the customer with another coat at great in-
convenience and expense.
Mr. Combe asked the prisoner what he had to
say about it.
He replied that ho had nothing more to say than
that he got drunk and lost the coat, and he was will-
ing to work the value of it out at Mr. Saunders's.
that he would never trust
himThaeglaaitnt.er observed
In fact, he would not have such a man
in his house, as he Wonld soon ruin kis business.
cwauotrisohni
efoarsekee asked
shai s
P to put the act of Parliament
in to others.

Mr. Combe told the prisoner that he had ren-
dered himself liable to severe punishment, and he
could not say his master had been hard towards
him, as more than two months had elapsed since he
done the work. As for his stating
had been robbed of the coat, that was idle
tehutftht
he to have
nonsense, and would not avail him. As a caution
to him and other journeymen he sentenced him to
one month's hard labour in the House of Correction.

THAMEs.—MITIMEROUS ASSATILT.—A mascu-
line looking
was bye woman, named Martha Macdougal,
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
wounding a little Irishwoman, named Mary
M'Carthy, on the head with a poker.
The Complainant said she was enjoying herself
with a party of English, Irish, and Scotch, on the
previous
when night, at No. 7, King-street, Wapping,
in the midst of their revelry tho prisoner
brought in a sailor, and witness noticed some very
bad behaviour between them, and remonstrated
with them on their misconduct, as there were girls
in the room. Soon afterwards the prisoner whipped
a Watch and guard off the sailor's neck, She said
to the prisoner, "Don't do that; you may get into
trouble; give him back the watch," Some words
ensued; the company broke up, and witness was
leaving the house, when the prisoner made a furious
attack upon her, struck her several times with her
Clenched fist, and then took up a fire poker, with
'which she inflicted a severe wound on her skull.
She was rendered insensible by the blow, and lost
a large quantity of blood.
Charles Pearce, a police-constable, 182 K, stated
that he saw the assault committed, and took the
prisoner into custody. Ile knew Mrs. Macdougal
well. She was a most violent woman, and had
been often in custody for robberies and assaults.
The last time she was in that court she charged a
police-constable with robbing her of a gold watch
and chain. The charge turned out to be without
the least foundation.

Mr. Yardley convicted the prisoner of an aggra•
vated assault, and sentenced her to one month's im.
pris-onment and hard labour.

WESTMINSTER--VIOLENT AND UNPROVOKED
ASSAULT UPON A RESPECTABLE TRADESMAN.-

John Jannaway, a pensioner from the army, was
charged with the following disgraceful conduct :

Mr. S. Walker, fishmonger, Pimlico, was passing
through the King's-road, on the previous night,when
defendant and another man issued from the bar of
the Colville Tavern, and rushed up against him.
He told them quietly that they ought to be more
careful, when defendant, with a filthy expression,
threatened him ; at which moment a policeman
coming up, defendant was prevented committing
any act of violence at that time, but directly the
constable had turned his back, defendant hastened
after complainant and gave him a severe blow on
the face, which blackened one of his eyes.
Defendant pretended that Mr. Walker struck him
first.

The policeman who had interfered in the first in-
stance to restrain defendant's violence, distinctly
denied this assertion. He saw defendant overtake
the complainant, and assault him as described.
Mr. Paynter inquired whether complainant suf-
fered much from the effects of the blow.

Complainont replied—Not particularly ; but it
was a great annoyance and inconvenience for a re-
spectable man in business to have a black eye.
Mr. Payntcr asked whether anything was known
of the accused.

it was replied that he had been repeatedly in
custody for drunkenness and assaults. He had been
imprisoned for attacking the police, and had been
committed for trial for presenting a pistol at a
woman with whom he had some quarrel.
Mr. Paynter animadverted in becoming terms
upon his misconduct, and fined him 405., in default
of paying which he was committed for a month.

GREEN WICIL—A NoTonious GANG Or Bur-
GLAM.—William John alias Baxter, of 31, Mint-
street, Borough, a ticket.of-leave convict, Sophia
Johnson, his wife, James Richards, described as
a general dealer, 4, George-street, Lambeth, and
Charles Henry Williams, 2, London-court, Green-
wich, were brought up on remand before Mr. Traill,
charged with being concerned in the following
daring burglaries.
Mary Southeron, servant to Mrs. Aarons, 7, Circus-
street, Greenwich, said that about half-past six on
the night of Monday, the 12th inst., she saw the
prisoner 'Williams standing on the step of a door of
a house opposite her mistress's residence. He then
walked across the road and joined another man.
Having some suspicions, she communicated what
she had seen to her mistress, who watched the men
With witness from the parlour window. A woman
then joined the men, and after they had walked
about fer a quarter of an hour, one of the men went
to the street door of No. 18, and made a noise, as
though he was unlocking it. Both men then en-
tered, and shortly afterwards the female, who was
standing outside, called out, " Sarah, make haste."
Witness did not see the woman's face. The men
then came out, and shortly after they re-entered,
having exchanged hat; for caps. After a short time
they again made their appearance from the house,
carrying large bundles upon their heads, with
which they decamped.
George Doughty, a porter in the employ of the
Greenwich Railway Company, said that between 11
and 12 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 13th
inst., he was leaving his own house, when he saw
the first three-named prisoners leaving the house
occupied by the prisoner 'Williams, and each carry-
ing bundles. Having heard that a robbery bad been
committed on the previous night in Circus-street,
Greenwich, he suspected the prisoners were the
thieves, and followed them into the Prince of
Orange Tavern, adjoining the railway terminus,
when he gave information to the police, and the
prisoners were taken into custody:
Police-constable Warne, 271 R, deposed that from
information received from the last witness, he went
to the Prince of Orange Tavern, and took the three
first-named prisoners into custody. They each had a
bundle in their possession. The prisoner Johnson
claimed the whole of the property, saying he was a
general dealer, living in George-street, at the back
of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and that he was
about proceeding to London to dispose of the pro-
perty. On searching the prisoner at the station,
witness found upon him several silver and plated
articles, produced.
Police-constable Cheeseman, 168 It, deposed to
receiving charge of the prisoner Richards, and also
that on searching him at the station, various silver
and plated articls were found upon him.
William Spearman, a railway porter, said he as-,
sisted in taking the female prisoner to the statior.
On the way thither she asked witness to throw
away some property she had in her pockets, offer-
ing to recompense him for so doing.
Inspector _acid, division, proved that the pri-
soner Johnson was a ticket-of-leave convict, having
been sentenced to 14 years' transportation on a
charge of forgery, in the nun of Willh m Baxter.

Mr. Trail I said that, so far as the cases of burglary
at Mr. Doughncy's and Mrs. Wright's were con-
cerned, the evidence was complete, and the pri-
soners would be committed for trial, but Would ke
again brought up for the completion of the deposi-
tionsin the third case.
The prisoners were then removed.