The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—SamueI Diable, a labourer, about
thirty years of age, was brought up on a warrant, charged
with violently assaulting Mr. Alfred Marshall, of No. 13,
Colchester-street, Whitechapel.

The prosecutor is a boiler-maker, and employs a great
great number of men at his factory in Whitechapel. The
prisoner had been employed in the place for five or six
years at intervals, and at last finally discharged. He came
to the prosecutor's establishment on the 22d January last
and said he wanted to have an interview with one of the
workmen, named John Williams. The prisoner was in-
toxicated, and Mr. Marshall said he would not allow him
to see any one. The prisoner abused the complainant and
threatened him, loitered about the premises until fifty-
eight minutes past one o'clock, when the large gates were
opened for the admission of the workmen, on their return
from dinner, when he again saw the prisoner, who forced
his way into the workshop, and refused to leave. Mr.
Marshall endeavoured to eject him. The prisoner laid
hold of a boiler, and held fast by it. Mr. Marshall pulled
him from it, and a scuffle ensued. The prisoner nearly
forced Mr. Marshall on the ground and knocked off his hat.
He then struck Mr. Marshall, and knocked him down. He
got up and the prisoner hit him again with great force, dis-
lodging one of his teeth completely, and loosening another,
which was lost. The complainant's mouth was full of
blood, and he was put to much pain and inconvenience by
the loss of his teeth.

Mr. Gomm, for the defendant, attempted to show that
the complainant acted with great violence to the defendant,
who only wanted to speak to an old fellow workman.
Mr. Marshall said he requested the prisoner to leave the
factory a dozen times before he attempted to remove him,
and he used no more violence than was necessary to eject
him from his premises.

Mr. Marshall's evidence was fully confirmed by Andrew
Stapley.

The magistrate doubted whether he ought not to send
the prisoner :to gaol without the option of paying a fine.
He sentenced him to pay 405., and 2s. costs, or be impri-
soned 21 days.

THE HORSE THE WISER ANlMAL.—William Argent, a
heavy, half-sleepy, agricultural labourer and carter, in the
service of Mr. Lawrence, carter and farmer, of Romford,
in Essex, was charged with being drunk and asleep in his
master's cart.

Lewis Lambert, a police-constable, No. 311 K, stated
that yesterday evening he saw a horse and cart, which
left the Whitechapel haymarket a few minutes pre-
viously, passing along the Mile-end-road. There was no
driver. 't he horse suddenly turned round, crossed the
road, and proceeded towards the water trough of the
Plough, a road-side inn, where the animal had been accus-
tomed to have a bait on its way to and from the haymar-
ket in Whitechapel. The wheel of the cart wc..s locked in
the lamp-post on its way to the trough, and he was
compelled to back it and convey the horse and cart to the
green-yard. Heavy fees would have to be paid to the
keeper of the green-yard. The prisoner was lying at the
bottom of the cart, drunk and asleep.

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The prisoner—l had a little beer, that is all. He was
ordered to stand up and make his defence properly.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner's master would have to pay
heavy fees to the green-yard keeper, and discharged him.

A RAILWAY JOURNEY IN THE LATE GALE.—It
appears three actions are to be brought by Malton
merchants against the North-Eastern Railway Company to
recover compensation for delay during the gale of Tuesday
last. The Leeds corn market is held on that day, and the
gentlemen in question were regular frequenters of that
market. The train left Malton at 7 a.m., and had, in addi-
tion to the regular carriages, five horse boxes attached. It
was alleged that the engine power was inadequate to the
increased weight of the train, which had to make head against
the wind, and that walking pace was occasionally observed
in consequence. In the cutting, shortly after leaving Mal-
ton, a runaway truck was met with, which the gale had
blown from the next station during the night. Fortunately
this obstruction was seen, it being then daylight. The
truck had to be pushed back three miles, and the train, in
all, lost more than an hour in the first 30 miles to Thirsk.
The consequence was that the corn market was closed be-
fore the passengers reached Leeds—more than three hours
late.