The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCIL—Oct. 19,

MANSION-HOUSE.-- John M'Crow, a fero-
cious-looking fellow, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having stabbed Wm. Witham,
a fish-dealer in Whitecross-street, under the follow-
ing circumstances :

The prosecutor having been sworn, said—On
Saturday afternoon last I wag in a coffee-shop in
Botolph-lane, eating a haddock. I asked the pri-
soner to pass me the pepper-box, and he made a
dirty observation in reply. A young man who was
standing by commenced larking with the prisoner,
who immediately took a table knife from his pocket,
and said, " This is how I serve people who interfere
with me.'' He placed the knife on the table and
took up a stick, saying ho would strike any low-
bred fellow who did anything to him. I said to
hint 1' Why, you are the first that ought to be hit
witheit, for the expression you used just now." The
prisoner took up the stick for the purpose of strik-
ing the young man, whom I was anxious to protect
from violence, and upon my endeavouring to waist
him, the prisoner again took up the knife, and
stabbed me in the hand in two places. I then pro-
ceeded to St. Thomas's Hospital, where I got my
wounds dressed.

Cross examined by the prisoner—I did not at all
interfere with you. You wade use of a very bad
expression when I asked you to pass me the pepper-
b )x.

Henry Wooster, a c3siermonger, said—l was
present in the coffee-shop when the prosecutor was
stabbed. He was eating a haddock, and asked for
the pepper-box. The prisoner replied " You don't
want it," and made use of a filthy expression. He
then began larking, and got out of temper, and
tried to give me a crack on the head with a stick.
He bawled out, "The first man who uses bad lan-
guage ought to Is hit on the head with the stick."
I r ;plie d, "Then you are the first that ought to be
hit on the head." I got larking with him and he
got upon the seat for the purpose of striking me.
The drosecutor tried to stop him, upon which he
took up the knife which he had previonaly taken
1. om hil pocket, and stabbel him in the hand. He
" jobbed" the knife at him twice, and I imme-
diately saw the prosecutor's hand covered with
blood.

Cros3-examine I—l did not throw any tea or
coffee at you. The prosecutor was trying to pro-
tect me when you stabbed him.
Mr. G. Grabham, house-surgeon, at St. Tho-
mas's Hospital, said—The prosecutor came to the
hospital on Saturday, when I examined his hands,
which I found had been wounded in two places.
They weraincised wounds, and had been very cleanly
cut, evidently by some sharp instrument. One was
iii the palm of the hand, the other in the middle
finger. The one in the palm of the hand I consider
a dangerous wound. The danger of bleeding has
not passed by yet.
Cross-examined--One of the wounds is vary
deep, and both have been inflicted by " jobbing"
with a knife.

Monger, police constable 564.-1 was sent for to
take the prisoner into custody. I asked him for
the knife, and he said he had thrown it away. I
rcce:ved the knife produced from a waiter, who
found it under a seat. I aftetwards found a white-
handled knife in the prisoner's pocket, upon which
hi said, " That's not the one I stabbed him with,
it was a black handled one, and I would serve any
one the same who interferes with me."
Tee prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that the
prosecutor had been wounded accidentally, in at-
tempting to take the knife from him. •
He was fully committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.

GUILDEL.A.LL.---CRUELTY. —Alfred Allan and
George Pond were brought up before Sir George
Carroll, charged with cruelty to a cat.
It appeared from the evidence of several wit-
nesses that the prisoners, with a number of others
with dogs, were worrying a cat from arch to arch of
the new street leading from Farringdon-street to
Clerkenwell, after which Allen caught the cat, and
held it why the tailfor the dogs to snap at, and a large
she* dog, which belonged to oneoftheprisoners, bit
the cat across the Icing, and the weight of bo h am-
'pais made Allen drop the cat, upon which the pri-
soner Pond took up a brick, and beat the cat to
death. They then called off their dogs and ran
away.

The prisoners said they were looking for rats,
and had no idea that a cat was in any of the arches.
They deniedhaving any hand in killing the cat.
Mobbs, the officer, and several other persons,
said it was a constant practice among boys of the
prisoners' description, having dogs, to meet upon
Sunday afternoons for the purpose of worrying any
stray cat they might find, and they even went so
far as frequently to bring a cat with them for the
purpose.

- Sir George Carroll strongly condemned the in-
human practice, and fined the prisoners 40s. each,
or one month's imprisonment.
CHARGE of ASSAULT.—Mr. James Fowler, ware-
houseman in the employ of Mr. Whitewick, carry-
ing on business at 98, Farringdon-street, under the
name of the Irish Linen Company, appeared to a
summons charging him with assaulting Ann Dono-
van, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Buchanan, of Basingliall-street, appeared for
the defendant.
The complainant stated that she had been about
nice months in Mr. Whitewick's service, and about
three weeks ago she was discharged at a moment's
notice, but as her master went home without pay-
ing her wages. E•he resolved to sleep in the house
th ft night ; after she had retired to bed the defen-
dant c Arne up to her room, broke open the door, and
ettu 1 her a violent blow on the eye. She screamed
" Murder," and two policemen shortly after cane
up, bat they said they could not interfere, as she
had not Leen paid her wages, and after they left two
other policemen came, and one of them knocked
I.er down and knelt upon her chest, while they tied
her hands. Her wages were paid on the folio ming
morning.
Whte-
in'tted she hid a very kind master, and Iss r. i
Mr. Buchanan said the complainant had ad -
v,iek found it necessary to discharge her in cons
toe
tier having had
of information he had received relative
had a man in her bedroom during the
night on one occasion. At the same time he gave
the defendant instructions not to let the co
mplain-
ant remain in the house on the night in question,
and he saw her leave at an early hour the in even-
ing. She, however, returned, and on gaining ai -
mission she hurried up to bed, and when the de-
fendant ascertained she was in the house he went
up and desire! her to leave, but she positively rc-
, fused, whereupon he broke open the door in the
presence of another young man, and
wasimmedi-
ately assailed by the complainant, who hurled
everything moveable in the room at his head, and
when the police came in she was so violent that
they were obliged to hold her lo prevent her injur-
ing herself. _ _ _

-Alfred Hobson said he accompanied the defend..