The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

APPLICATION FOR THREE WARRANTS.—SINGULAR
CASE.—A woman of respectable appearance and address,
named Sarah Ann White, applied to Mr. Yardley for three
warrants to apprehend a man, Charles Shipley, chief en-
gineer of one of the steam packets running between Dover
and Ostend.
It appeared from the statement of the applicant that she
had cohabited with Shipley for several years, and that their
union was never sanctified at the altar. The fruits of their
intercourse resulted in the birth of three children, and soon
after the third was born Shipley abandoned her, and she
affiliated the three children upon their father, upon the 12th
of May last, when Mr. Selfe made an order upon Shipley
to pay 2s. 6d. per week for each child. There were
now eight weeks' money due upon each order and
she required the amount for the support of her
children. She had occasion to summon him for arrears
of pay before, and he had never paid the expenses, amount-
ing to 1.55.
Mr. Yardley—You should have refused to take a portion
of the money, and demanded the whole.
The applicant—He sends me a trifle now and then, and
puts me to a good deal of trouble.

Mr. Yardley asked the applicant if she could pay the ex-
penses of an officer proceeding to Dover ?
The applicant replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Yardley said it was high • time the father of the
children was taught he could not evade the law with im-
punity. He would include the amounts due upon the three
orders in one warrant, and send an officer to Dover to
arrest Shipley, and if he did not pay all that was due, and
the expenses, he would be brought to London and put to
great loss and inconvenience. _ _

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.—Mary Ann Nunn, a young
woman, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
breaking seven panes of glass.

The prosecutrix, a young woman of decent manners, said
she lived at No. 33, Grove-street, St. George's-in-the-East.
Yesterday she came to that court for a summons against
the prisoner for abusive language. She was on her return
home when the prisoner met her, and said, "So you have
been to Arbour-square, have you ? Arbour-square you,"
and abused her grossly. In the evening the prisoner came
to her house and abused her again, and broke seven panes
of glass.

The prisoner, in defence, said the complainant, a widow,
had seduced Mr. Nunn, which Mrs. Gordon strongly denied,
and said she had not seen him for two years.

Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to eight days' hard
labour.

BITING A WOMAN'S NOSE OFF.-At 12 o'clock, after the
disposal of the other night charges, Sarah Ann Hayes, a
bloated, dirty, and dissipated woman, who has been fre-
quently in custody for assaults and disorderly conduct, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with biting off the
nose of another woman, equally as repulsive and as vicious.
This case was a most horrible one. The complainant,
Ellen Craven, who was in great pain, presented herself in
court with her face disfigured with surgical plaisters and
bandages, and her dress clotted with gore. She articulated
faintly, and said there was a row among some women in
the Royal Sovereign public-house, in Bluegate-fields, St.
George's-in-the-East, last night. The prisoner was there
drunk, and said betore she left the place that night she
would eat off the nose of some - woman or other, and
suddenly threw herself upon her, knocked her down, and
then " chawed" her nose off.

Mr. Yardley—Were you in great pain ?
Witness—Oh, I was. I shrieked out " Murder, mur-
der," and she did not leave off until she took my nose off,
and she said she would eat every bit of it.
Mr. Yardley—Did you bleed much ?
Witness—l did, sir, indeed.

John Goggan, a youth, saw the whole occurrence, and
deposed as follows :—There was a quarrel among the
women in the Royal Sovereign, and I saw the prisoner
strike the young woman, and say she would bite her nose off
and eat it, and she got her down, seized her nose with her
teeth, and bit it clean off, and began to chew it.. I drew
her off, and as she was going at the young woman again,
I pushed her away.
Mr. John Brown Ross, divisional surgeon of police, of
High-street, Shadwell, said--I was called into the station-
house in King David-lane last night. I saw the prosecu-
trix, who was bleeding copiously. Her nose was bitten off,
and much lacerated. It was hanging by a small piece of
flesh on the left side only. The bone and cartilage were
bitten through. I had to sew the nose on again with several
stitches.., The woman is probably disfigured for life.
The prisoner said the complainant and others took her
clothes and raised money upon them at the "leaving" shop,
and not being able to get her revenge, she supposed she had
bitten the woman's nose off.

Mr. Yardley said this was a most shocking case. The
prisoner was more like a furious wild beast than a woman,
and the wretched creature whose nose she had bitten off
was very little better. It was not necessary to send this
case for trial, but he should certainly exercise the summary
power entrusted to him to the full extent. He sentenced
the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept: to hard labour in the
House of Correction for six calendar months.

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