The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

POLIO F, INT EtrIGENTE—June 13.

WORS I P-ST REE Harris Michael, a mid-
dle-aged mat, of gentlewat.ly appearanc , d scrib id
as a merchant, was c!,argeo with having criminally
assaul,ed Mrs. Juta Lewis, the wife of a wholesale
stationer, of Clifton-street, Finsbury.
The complainant, a delica'e-looking young per-
son, who exhibited very great excitement and ner-
vous prostration, state] that the prisoner, about a
fortnight ago, etigned apartments in her house for
himself and his wife. Oil the pr ivious afterooon
when the .prisoner's wife was absent, ai•d one of
her two servan s was also out of the house, she
went up stairs to make the hels. The prisoner
suddenly entered the town, and, having closed the
door aft r him, clasped her round the waist, and
assailed her with the grossest indelicacy. After
throwin2 her down upon the bed, he applied to her
mouih a stone bottle, and forced her to swallow a
portion of its contents' which hurt her throat and
partly stupefied her. He then stifled her cries and
proceeled t, futthier acts of violence, from the
effects of which ahe becam., totally insinsible. On
recovering her consciousness she g t back to her
own room, where she remained till her husband re-
turn.-al, to whom she communicated the particulars
of the outrage.
Mr. Richard Lewis said that on returning home
he found lus wife lying on the bed in a sta e of corn-
p ete s upon Upon 11 iarin. what had taken place
he weut to the prison -r, and charged him with his
infamous conduct, to which he replied that there
was no truth in it, and his wife must be insane.
`Witness then sent for a policeman and gave him
into custody.

A solicitor, who appeared for the defence, said
he was ins-ructed to say that the charge was alto-
gether without foundatou.

- Mr•. Hammill commi• led the prisoner to NeNvgatd
and refused to take bail.

WESTMINSTER.—W. M‘Gowan, who charged
Albert, attache to the Prussian Einb issy, with
having, under the title of the Baron de Bierre,
swindled him out of 1.001. upon his I 0 U. given.
16 years ago at Oxford, and which was adjourned
from this day week fur evidence on both sides, was
resumed.

Evidence was given to prove that Mr. Alb-rt
was at the time mf-ntioned but 16 years of :42e. and
at ,chool at Berlin ; a d it wai sated the the al-
leged B iron de B e=re was a German Jew, now 51
yea's of age, and au present in prison in Australia
for f-loop..

m-•gis'rate was of opinion that M'Gcwan
att-mated to ext ,rt money ; hut as Mr. Albeit wa,
swisfi d with defendant's admistion that he was
complaell in erg or, and with his making an apo-
logy, he was distharg d.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-4. Beaumont, a
foreigner., whose real namei4 B iutnoud, was charge,'
with robbing WeA end jewellers, of valuable dia-
wond rings.

Pris'mer, and a young female pretending to be
his daughTer, went into the eslablishinent of Mr.
Emanunls, ilanover-squ.re, and reque-ted to oe
shown some diamond rings. Several trays were
produced, and one was selected. Prisoner then
asked to see some large diamonds, and ultiinat-ly
given an order for a diam tnd o: nament worth 150/.
Prisoner gave the name of Le Blanc, of No. 27,
Upper Seymour-street. Wh-n they hsd left a
dismond ring worth 451. was missed. The name
and address were false. The sane parties subse-
quently visited Mr. Gillett's, 5, Regent-street, and
by similar means contrived to text a ring, value
341.

It was proved that prisoner was tried for fHlony
in 1856, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment
under the name of Boumond.
Prisoner denied being the person who went into
the two shops.
He was commit'ed.

SOUTHWARK.—Jeff ry Hunt, a respectable-
looking man, described on tie charge-sheet as a
nia,ter madner, was b ought before Mr. Comae
by Thomas Waldr in, City polic,-constable 460,
charged with ste 1 ng a gold w.tch a silver watch,
a gold ch tin, a gold ring, part of a gold c'min, four
silver spoons, a seal, sextant, and a carpet big
from the shio William and M try, lying in the
river Thames, the property of J. Morice, ship and
insurance broker, 63, Cannon-street, City.
Mr. Morice stated that the vessel in question had
been for some mouths on a foreign voyage, and a
few days a.A) he received information th tt the cap-
tain in charge of her died on the passage home,
and ,hat the ship was put into the port of Kinswe,
in Ireland. by the mate for further orders. Wit-
ness b dog the agent and execu'or of 'he deceased
captain, sent the pris '11.31- to Kinsale to bring her
over as master. When the vessel arrived off D.-pt-
ford the pris mer absconded, and on witness being
sent for he missed th-• property mentioned in the
charg.4-sheet, which belonged to th- late captain,
to whose effects he was exectr. or. H, then gave
information to the pace, and on Friday afternoon
the prisoner was brought ti his office by a constable
and he gave him into cii,..ody.
Mr. Cowie asked why the prisoner was brought
to this- police-court ?

Mr. Morice said the prisoner had acknowledged
pledging the property somewhere in Berinonds,T,
but time hsd not been afforded to make the neees-
saryioqulrivs.

Wal,iro❑ said he received information of the rob-
bery, and took the prisoner in custody in Thames-
streer. He willingly went to Mr. Morice's count-
ing-house, where he acknowledged attaling tha
property and pledging it in Betmondsey. Witness
asked for a remand to produce the property.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the
owner of the ship was indeoted to him, and he took
the articles as security.

Mr. Combe remanded him until Tneaday.

THAMES.—Mr. J. C. Evans, superintendent of
the Thames police, call, d the attention of the majs-
trate to a hop-less cis,' of insanity in the person of
an Irish lady, named iltrbara Grant, who had b .en
stint t t this country in the John Bull ste Amer by
the authorities at Hamburg, where she had for
so He time residfd. The iv& ,rtunate woman, the
subject of Mr. Evans's application, wam introduced
to the magist rate, and was attended by a woman
horn in Germany of paren's and who paid
the most earnest attentum to her patient. Tne
lunatic, an interesting-looking woman, who was
very restless, threw hereon ..n a seat, and was sup-
ported by her attendant, seeming quite unconscious
of all around her.

Mr. Evans said the Commissioners of Police had
been directed by Sir Geurge Grey, the Secret-try
of State to employ an officer to bring the lady be-
fore the magistrate. to be de dt with und,r t.,e
Lunacy Act. He then banded to the mqgi,t,ate
a letter from Mr. Wa Id ngton, Under Secretary of
State for the Home Department, which stated that
the luthafic would come to England in the J tin
Bull, and that she was to be treated according to
law.

Mr. S-lfe asked if the names of the lady's friends
in England or reland were known 1
Mr. Evans said he w i.m unable to elicit any infor-
mation whatever from the lunatic.

Mr. Sclfe said he could not act without medical
evidence, and directed that the lady should be pro-
vided with a comfortable 1 Kitr„in,4, and that a re-
spectable practitioner should visit her and report
on her state of mind.

William ;loyse, a gardener, re-iiding in George-
street, Bromley, was re-examined on the charge of
shooting at Mr. Hickmott, a timber merchant, of
Mile-end-road, with intent to murder him.
It will be recollected that Mr. Hickmott, who
was the prisoner's landlord, went to the cottage of
the laitcr with a writ of possession, and in com-
pany with a sheriff's officer, and that the prisoner
fires a gun at Mr. Hickmutt, wounding him in the
side.

The prisoner was now committed for trial.

WANDSWORTH.—Mr. Covelles, the clerk of
the Wandsworth district Board of Works attended
before Mr. Daytnan to hear his dec;siou in .he
summonies taken out against the Bo ?rd of Works
for compeusation to Mr. Dryden, Mr. Hare, and
another, residents of Putney, for the btoppaie of
the water in their through the consttuctiou
of a sewer in the High-street.

Some particulars of this case have already ap-
peared.
Mr. Dayman now stated that he had come to the
conclusion t±i•tt I.e had no jurisdiction, and that an
appe sh,,uld have been made t J the Metropolitin
Board of Works.

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