The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-05 00:00:00

HATTON GARDEN.

Yesterday, John Rose, late a policeman of E di-
vision, No. 68, and Mary Marks, a young woman,
were charged by Mr. Parker, fruiterer, of No. 15,
Tottenham-street, Tottenham-court-road, with hav-
ing embezzled ten sovereigns under the following
circumst aneits
Previous to the 20th of last month, the prose-
cutor was robbed of fifteen sovereigns, and, suspect-
ing an individual of the robbery, he consulted with
Rose, who lodged in his house, and he advised him
to give the suspected party into custody, which was
accordingly done, and the prisoner Rose brought
him before Mr. LAING, at this office, who remanded
him, and on searching the back part of the premises
in which the prisoner lived ten sovereigns were
found concealed, which Rose took possession of.—
At the subsequent examination, Mr. Parker swore
positively to t oof the sovereigns, upon which he had
made a peculiar mark, in consequence of an impression
that they were bad. On Wednesday evening last,
the prisoner was intoxicated when he was about to
be sent on night duty. The inspector ordered his
attendance before the superintendent. On being
questioned about the ten sovereigns, he said that he
had lost the money.
Mumford, one of the policemen, stated that the
prisoner was cohabiting with the female prisoner
by his side. His wife was then in the office, and
she was actually living in the same lodgings with
the prisoner, and slept on the floor while he lay
with Marks in bed. It was also stated that a few
nights ago he took his wife to a common brothel.
Mr. RoGERs inquired whether it was known
how the prisoner procured a situation on the estab-
lishment ?—Lincoln, inspector of E division, said
that it was not positively known, but inquiry would
be made. The prisoner had been 11 months in the
force, and, until this transaction, they had not disco-
vered any thing against him.
The prisoner's wife was present in tears during
the examination, and was far superior, in point of
personal attraction, to Marks.
Marks denied all knowledge of the property.
The prisoners were remanded until Monday, arid
the officers were directed to trace, if possible,
where the prisoners had paid away sovereigns, in
hopes of finding the marked ones which Mr. Par-
ker identified.
UNION-HALL.

Yeterday William Williams, a butcher, residing
in Paradise-Areet, Lock's-fields, was brought up in
custody on the following charge :
The wife of the prisoner detailed various acts of
brutalitycommitted upon her since she had had the rnis-

fortune to be married to him ; but until Wednesday
he had never before attempted to deprive her of
life. On the day in question, while she was sitting
at tea, her husband entered the room with an open
razor in his hand, and desired her to prepare for
death, saying that he should give her but five
minutes to make atonement for her past sins. Mrs.
Williams, alarmed at the threat of annihilation, re-
solved on having a desperate struggle before she de-
parted this life ; and, seiz;ng the poker, declared her
intention of having a crack at htr husband's skull.
She then rose from the chair, and while he stood
brandishing the razor at the other end of the room,
she gave the window-frame a whack with the poker
that smashed it all in pieces, and then lustily called
for assistance. When the policeman went into the
room he found Williams with the razor in his hand,
vowing vengeance against his wife, who stood in
one corner with the poker uplifted, ready for a
struggle in case of attack. The prisoner was in a
state of great mental excitement, and to secure his
wife against an attack upon her life he was taken to
the station-house.

The prisoner, when asked what cause he had to
act in such a mariner towards his ~rife, declared that
she was the agp.essor ; that she fir.st took up the
poker to strike him, and the razor being the only
weapon handy, he caught it up to defend himself
from a " topper" with the poker. He added, that
he had not laid hands upon his wife for the last
five years, and he would not then have disgraced
himself by striking her, had he not caught her in
rather an equivocal situation with one of his own men.
Mrs. Williams, with fury in her eyes, dared him
to the proof of his assertion, and ejaculated that she
was ready to make oath that all her children were
born in wedlock.

Wlliams did not deny that the children were
born as she hazl described, but that was :to criterion
to judge as to whether they were his or Tom Wil-
son's, with whom he had caught her in his bed-room.
Mrs. Williams said, that jealousy had taken pos-
session of his whole soul, and she went in bodily fear
of him.

The MAGISTRATE remarked, that he should not lis-
ten to what took place between the parties five years
ago ; it was necessary, however, to restrain the pri-
soner from committing violence on his wile, and he
should therefore hold him to bail to keep the peace.