The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-09 00:00:00

THAMES.

AVENGING A HUSBAND'S QUARREL.—Ann Donovan,
a little Irish woman, was brought before Mr. Selfe eharged
with assaulting and wounding Michael M'Carthy, who
appeared in court with his head bandaged, and his clothes
saturated with gore. _ .

It appeared that M'Carthy and the prisoner's husband
quarrelled on Thursday night, and from words proceeded
to blows, and that M'Carthy boat his countryman about the
head and body with a quart mug, and injured him severely.
Donovan went home to his wife and complained that Mike
M'Carthy had kilt him quite, en which Mrs. Donovan made
a vow that she would be revenged on Mike wherever and
whenever she met with him. She laid wait for her
countryman until yesterday afternoon when she met him
in Wapping, and commenced " ballyragging him," and
called him a " murdering villain." She also applied other
epithets to the complainant, and then proceeded to attack
him in a violent manner with a large stone she held in her
hand, and with which she pummelled him about the head,
inflicting divers cuts and contusions. One wound was
described by a Thames police-constable, who apprehended
the prisoner, to be a very severe one. It was a jagged
wound from which the blood flowed copiously and had been
dressed by a surgeon.
Mrs. Donovan justified the attack she made on " Mike,"
and said he had "kilt and murthered" her husband.

Mr. Selfe—What I Is be dead
Mrs. Donovan—No, yer honner's wortchip, but he's
kilt quite, and his obliged to keep his bed.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner had no business to interfere
in the men's quarrels or avenge the injuries her husband
had received, in the way she had done.—He sentenced her
to pay a fine of 40s.
RESCUE OF A THIEF, AND FURIOUS ATTACK ON A.
POLICE-CONSTABLE.—Thomas Reading, a well-known
Keate-street thief, from Spitalfields, and cennected with a
lawless gang there, was brought before Mr. Salfe, charged
with attempting to pick pockets, and with assaulting
Francis Kelly, No. 130 H. _ _

Yesterday afternoon Deeble, a police-constable, who was
in plain clothes, saw the Prisoner in Cable-street, White-
chapel, following sailors, and attempting to pick their
pockets. The prisoner was about to draw a handkerchief
from the pocket of a mariner, when Deebl• pounced upon
him and took him into custody. The prisoner tripped up
the constable and ran away into a public-house. Deeble
pursued him, and, after a long and desperate struggle,
secured him.

A second charge was made against the prisoner by Kelly,
130 H, who stated that between eleven and twelve o'clock
on the morning of Saturday, the 2d instant, he apprehended
a Keate-street thief in a public-house in Backchurch-lane,
Whitechapel, for stealing a watch. An immediate attack
was made upon him by two other thieves who forced the
prisoner from him. He re captured the fellow and put him
into one of the compartments in front of the bar, and cloeed
a door upon him, The prisoner called out " rouse, rouse,"
a slang term used by thieves, meaning to rescue, and he
was immediately surrounded by desperate thieves from
Lower Keate-street, and a savage attack was made upon
him by the. prisoner and others. A pannel was broken and
the door forced open, and the man who stole the watch was
rescued. He was severely injured in the affray, and the
prisoner and his companions made their escape.

Several former convictions against the prisoner were

proved, and Mr. Selfe said he was a most dangerous cha-
racter, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment
and hard labour.