The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ASSAULT THROUGH A BETTING TRANSACTION.—Mr.
Frederick Kingwell, wheelwright, of St. Martin's-lane,
was charged before Mr. Mansfield with assaulting a brass
instrument maker named Ryan, as follows :
The complainant said he went into the Cranbourn Hotel
the previous night about 11, and seeing the defendant
there he asked him for 10s. he owed him, and the defendant
then struck him, " cutting him to bits."
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, said he
would call a witness who would show that the defendant,
who was a very respectable man, had been grossly assaulted
by the complainant. He was aware that words would net
justify blows, but the complainant had brought it all on
himself, and it was in being pat out of the house that he
received the blow.
Mr. John Keck, of the Cranbourn Hotel, St. Martin's-
lane, said Mr. Kingwell was talking to him about some
horses, when Ryan spoke to him about a bet, and then
abused him. Several gentlemen were present. There was
a scuffle, but he could not tell who struck the first blow.

Mr. Mansfield said there seemed to be a provocation, but
the witness for the defence did not contradict the complain-
ant. The landlord, or his servant, should have put the
complainant out, and not the defendant. Thu complainant
seemed to have received some blows, and he should fine
defendant 20s.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKE.—SINGULAR IF TRUE
Wilhelm Kraus, a German shoemaker, about 40 years of
age, and dwelling with his children at No, 6, Plummer's-
row, Mile-end Old-town, was brought before Mr. Wool•
rych charged with assaulting Elizabeth Holmes, a mar
rigid 'woman, of Grove-cottage, Shacklewell. The prisoner
was arrested last night.
The complainant, a most respectable and lady-like female,
who was much agitated aad trembled excessively while
giving her evidence, stated that on Tuesday night last,
about half-past eight o'clock, she was passing along Green-
field-street, Whitechapel, when the prisoner came up to
her, looked very fiercely at her, and walked alongside of
her a few yards, and then seized her in his arms and said,
" I have got you." She called out " Mur&r," and said
"Leave me alone." A crowd assembled and she appealed to
Lem for assistance. They were all Germans and did
not pay any attention to her. The prisoner continued his
grasp of her, and pushed and kicked her along the street
for a distance of 200 yards. Sherepeatedly said to him "Let
me go, if you want my money take it." At last she reached
the door of a chandler's shop, and implored of a woman
there to relieve her. The woman at first refused,
and told her to go away, but ultimately re-
leased and sheltered her. .The prisoner then ran away.
She was very sore all over, particularly about the chest,
from the pi isoner's violence.
In answer to questions by Mr. Wealryeh, the witness
said that she allowed the prisoner no familiarities, and did
not converse with him about the weather or time of day
before he seized her. She never talked to or held commu-
nications with strangers, whether:on foot, in a railway car •
riage, or in an omnibus.
The prisoner, in defence, said that his wife, who was
thirty-eight years of age, left him a few weeks ago,
and eloped with a young man. He met the corn
plainant in Greenfield-street on Friday night, and mis-
taking her for his wife, said to her in German, " Dear wife,
dear angel, do come home and look at your children, and
then you may go again." He pushed her along, when she
reais4ed, and directly he found out his mistake he left her.
He had since made an apology for his conduct, and was
very sorry for what had happened.
Mrs. Holmes was recalled, and said the prisoner only
spoke three words to her, and in English, " I've got you."
She did not hear him speak in German.
For the defence several witnesses were called, who &Aid
the prisoner's wife had abandoned her home, as he
described, and that the complainant, in stature and
appearance, was very much like her, and their
dresses, particularly their shawls, were similar. On
Friday night a little girl told the prisoner his wife was
in Greenfield-street, and he went there, and seeing the
complainant put his arms round her waist, and said to her,
in German, " My wife, my Louisa, come home ;" and then led
her along the foot-path, but did not kick her or push her.
Mrs. Hitchcock, who keeps the chandler's shop, referred
-to in the evidence of Mrs Holmes, said that when she saw
the prisoner struggling with the complainant at her door,
she refused to interfere, believing she was his wife ; but
when Mrs. Holmes exclaimed, " I don't know the fellow,"
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The prisoner was discharged.

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