The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEafALE.—Thomas Jones, a
tall, powerful looking fellow, was brought up on a war-
rant, charged with committing a brutal assault upon
Ann Sullivan, by throwing her out of a house in Tattle-
court, Bermondsey.
The complainant, an unfortunate young female who
exhibited a severe wound on the top of the head, stated,

that on Monday night she went to the prisoner's house
(a brothel) with a sailor, where they had some drink
which was supplied to them by his wife. They re-
mained in a room about half-an hour when the sailor

left, and shortly afterwards she was about to follow him
when the prisoner came towards her, called her a d--
thief, and said she had robbed the place. She told him
she had not, and if he suspected her she was willing to
go to the station-house. The prisoner, however, made
no more to do, but seized hold of her and struck her a
severe blow on the face. She put up her hands to pro-
tect herself, when he seized hold of her and tliiew her
with watt violence into the treet. She came in con-
tact with a post, and was picked up and conveyed to
the hospital in a state of insensibility. The top of her
1e td was much cut, and she had suffered severely
from the injuries received.
Manna, 69 M, said he was on duty in Bermondsey-
street at the time, when his attention was attracted by
hearing groans in Tattle-court, and on going there he
saw Lie complainant lying in a pool of blood at the pri-
soner's door. He picked her up and took ber to the
police-station, where her face was washed, and after-
wards eonveyed her to the hospital, but her forehead
was only grazed. After that witness accompanied her
back to the prisoner's house, when she gave him into
custody. He was taken before the magistrate the next
day, and owing to the absence of the complainant he
was remanded for her attendance. He understood she
had been tampered with by the prisoner's wife to prevent
her attending to prosecute her husband.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that the
female was drunk and fell against a post. He denied
thrusting her out. He had no witnesses, however, to
prove that.
The magistrate said it Was a brutal assault, and he
should commit him to the House of Correction for four
months with hard labour.

THAMES.
THREATENING A TEETOTAL LECTURER.-Mr. Charles
Young, solicitor, applied to Mr. Selfe for a warrant to
apprehend John Regan, an Irish labourer, who was
charged with threatening the life of Mr. David Walters,
a temperance lecturer and coffee-house keeper, of No.
63, Royal Mint-street. Mr. Young said that a sum-
mons for the attendance of Regan had been already
but he would not attend
last Mr. Walters was in a
tgoraitn.tedoanndsusne rdvaeydaftitePronnooh:lm,
pulpit in the Commercial-road, delivering a lecture,
grimaces,wfi e when R e
annd madeca llhei
dsout,
to appearance,the made
astonishment use ofimproper
crowd in the street, "You b---y thief, why don't
you pay my wife the 15s. yon robbed me of,
instead of coming here to preach about temperance."
There were between 200 and 300 persons in attend-
ance, and the lecture was interrupted. Regan had
also abused and insulted Mr. Walters in his own
house, and had threatened his life, and the complainant
actually went in bodily fear. On Tuesday evening
Regan called on Mr. Walters at his coffee-house, made
a great disturbance, and said it he had a pistol he
would blow his brains out. Regan had been already
bound over to keep the peace for six months in con-
sequence of 'his insolence and threats towards another
person, and had also been convicted and sentenced to
12 months imprisonment and hard labour, for knock-
ing out a man's eye.
Mr. Selfe--He is a dangerous man. What is the
reason he has threatened Mr. Walters!

Mr. Young Regan's wife broke the temperance
pledge, and forfeited 15g. which she had paid to the
society, of which Mr. Walters is chairman.

Mr. Selfe—You may have a warrant.
A SINE OF INICJITY IN BLIIINATE-FIELDS, SHAD-
WELL.—Two dirty savage-looking Chinamen, named
Lim Apoo alias Hingpoo, aged 30, -and Aeyt, 30, were
charged, before Mr. Selfe, with assaulting and wounding
Emma Sergeant, a woman of the town, who keeps a
brothel for the convenience and accommodation of Chi-
nese and Lascar mendicants, in that horrible and pesti-
ferous place called Bluegate-fields. Shadwell, where a
colony of about 100 Chinese and Lascar mendicants are
located, and where outrages and brawls are of nightly
occurrenea.

It appeared that the two Chinamen quarrelled with
the complainant, and Apoo, who is related to another of
that name now in prison, beat her with his fists, and
Aeyt struck her several times over the legs with a poker
and disabled her.

Apoo said he had lived with the woman, at intervals,
for the space of 10 years, and that he had lately arrived
in England again after a long voyage. He gave 351. to
his wife (the complainant), and she expended it all in a
short time. He beat the woman because she got drunk.
Evidence was given of the brutal nature of the assault.
Roche the gaoler of the Court said, that most disgrace.
ful scenes were of nightly occurrence in the pestiferous
Chinese colony, in Bluegate-fields. Afew nights ago he
saw the woman Sargeant in her chemise, running after
some Chinese beggars, and Chinese beggars running
after her. He was afraid murder would be committed
some night or other.
Mr. Selfe said, the mistaken benevolence of people
who gave money to filthy and idle Chinese and Lascar
mendicants, had caused the establishment of a pestilen-
tial colony in Shad well, which was a complete sink of
iniquity, full of infamous houses resorted to by Chinese
mendicants. He fined Apoo 31. or one months'
i impri-
sonment, and sentenced Aeyt to one months' mprison.
ment and bard labour.

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