The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A BRUTAL FELLOW WELL PUNISIIED.—John Berry, a
low-looking fellow, with a tremendous cut in his head,
and smothered in blood, was charged with being drunk
and riotous,causing wilful damage, and violently assaulting
one Joseph Parrott.

Jane Allibon, a widow, landlady of the General Elliott,
Queen's-road, East, Chelsea, said the prisoner, who had
frequently created disturbances at the General Elliott, was
in the house on Saturday night, and seeing he was drunk
she refused to serve him. He then used fearful language,
assaulted the nearest person to him, and then ran out of
the house. He returned the back way, climbed over a wall,
got into the tap-room, and would not leave. She asked
him why he had come back, and he said "to make a row,"
and commenced to do so. She went to fetch a policeman,
and on returning to the tap room found Joseph Parrott, a
cripple, her potman, on the floor, bleeding profusely, and
the prisoner and a man kicking him all over. The potman
got up and ran into the bar parlour, whither prisoner fol-
lowed him, violently assaulted him, and smashed all the
ornaments on her mantelpiece. He was ejected, and then
kicked the bar door down.

The potman, whose head and face were very much cut,
corroborated. He gave no provocation.
Prisoner said the potman first assaulted him with a
poker, and afterwards the landlady took it from him and
assaulted him.
This was denied.

Mr. Selfe, after commenting on the brutality and
ruffianism of the prisoner, committed him for a in)nth's
hard labour.'

THAMES.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—Timothy Murphy, aged 29, an
Irish labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged
with the wilful murder of Thomas Sullivan, another Irish-
man, at No. 34, Royal Mint-street, better known as
Rosemary-lane, in the immediate vicinity of the Royal
Mint, on Saturday night.
This case originated out of a drunken quarrel, and ter-
minated fatally. Both men were intoxicated on Saturday
evening, and were fighting, quarrelling, and abusing each
other. The prisoner afterwards went out and declared in
the hearing of several persons, "I will kill that to-
night. Ho went into the shop of Dr. Loane at the
corner of Dock-street, Whitechapel, and asked for
some medicine. • Mr. Loane, jun., who was in the
shop, said he wanted no medicine, and told him to go home.
He then uttered a threat, and said be had a knife, and
would use it, and finish Sullivan. He also said, in the pre-
sence of a police-constable, No. 9 H, that he intended
mischief. He went home, and soon afterwards there was
a struggle in the passage of the house where the parties
lived, and when it terminated the deceased exclaimed " I
am stabbed," and fell ; and when his wife threw herself
upon him she discovered that her husband was dead. He
had been stabbed in the body, and the knife is supposed to
have penetrated his heart. The prisoner ran away
directly he had stabbed his countryman. Information was
promptly convoyed to the Leman-street station-house, in
Whitechapel, and Inspector Dandy, of the H division, took
vigorous measures for his apprehension, which was effected
the same night by John Fox, a police-constable, No. 144
H. The prisoner managed to get rid of the knife after ho
stabbed the deceased. The prisoner's eyes were swollen
and discoloured, and he said the injuries were inflicted by
the deceased.
Dr. John Loane, of No. 1, Dock-street, Whitechapol, said
the deceased had been stabbed on the loft side near the
heart, and that wound was the cause of death. There
would be a post mortem examination this afternoon. ,
Dr. Loano's brother was examined as to the prisoner
a
throats on Saturday night.
Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner, who appeared
quite unconcerned.
Inspector Dandy said the prisoner was laughing and
whistling in his cell the whole of yesterday.

A piece of property in St. Paul's, Minnesota, for-
merly owned by Captain Moffit of the privateer Florida,
and confiscated by the United States Government, was
sold on Thursday, August 2, for 83,000.
The valuation of the city of New York is 40 per
cent. of that of the whole State.