The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A

HUSBAND.-IN BE WILLIAM KEMP.

Mr. Power applied on the part of Anna Maria-Kemp
that she might be allowed to exhibit articles of the peace
against her husband, William Kemp, ironmonger, of
Woodbridge, Suffolk, for cruelty. The articles stated
that applicant was married about 9 years ago to the
defendant, and that for two years past he had treated
her with great cruelty, frequently during that time he
had laid ♦iolent hands upon her, and had threatened to
take away her life. In July and August last, and on

several eecaeions whilst in bed with him, she had been

awoke by feelings of suffocation. On one occasion she
found one of his hands over her mouth and with the
other he was pressing her nose, to prevent her breath
inn. In 1855 her husband, whilst she was in bed with

him asleep, attempted to strangle her by violently pull
ing the string of her night cap. He threatened also to
smother her and otherwise injure her. Oa the night of

,he 26th October last she went to bed with her husband,

and in the course of the night she was awoke from her
sleep by finding that he had ♦iolently grasped her arm
with one hand, and with the other he was pressing her

head with great force on her chest, so as to prevent her
breathing, and thus strangle her. She, however, sue-

(*.dad in breaking away from him, and took refuge in
tho servant's room, where she remained awake the
remaining portion of the night. In the
morning, en complaining to him of his conduct, be
threatened to garotte her. On the 29th October she

informed her parents of her hisband's cruelty, and ou
their advice she applied to a magistrate for protestioa

from her husband's ♦iolent conduct, and he recom-
mended her to leave him aad Munk and live with her

parents, who resided at Hadleigh, about 17 miles from
Woodbridge. She did so, bat returaed to him agabt

•n his promise never again to hurt her. She, however,
had scarcely returned home before he 'sized her vio-
leatly by the arm, and bending her finger so as to

sauce her great pain, he tore her wedding ring
from her finger, and had refused to give it hew
again. The same night he seat the only female domestic
servant that was in the house away, and she had to re-
main with him alone ; he, however, went eat, and did
not return hems till near two o'clock in the merning.
Applicant, in the meantime, being afraid to 'lisp with
him, went and laid dowa in a room adjoining her has-
band's bedroom, and on kis return she overheard him
talking to himself, as he was in the habit of doing, saying
that he would take her geld watch from her and murder
her. He threatened her several times, and being afraid
of her life, she sat up all that night, She then went
home to her parents, who agreed to support her if
her husband would contribute 101. a•year to her
support, but he would only give her 2s. id. per week.
which being too little she was obliged again to return to
him. On the let of November she applied to the same
magistrate as on a previous occasion for his proteotion
but he refused to entertain her application and bind
her husband over to keep the peace, advising her to
separate from him and return and live with her parents.
♦pplicant stated her belief that the magistrate had been
improperly influenced by some parties and attributed to
that his declining to call upon her husband to provide
eareties of the peace. She was in daily bodily fear of
her life.
Lord Campbell—l ♦ery muck regret the magistrate
referred to did not order, when applied to, the husband
to find sureties of the peace, so as to render it unne-
cessary for the applicant to have applied to this court.
We think she is entitled to our protection, and we
grant the application. I don't think the magistrate,
in refusing to call upon the husband to find sureties,
acted from improper motives, bet he was certainly
wrong, according to the wife's statement, in refusing
her application.
Mr. Power—Then your lordships order a writ of
attachment to issue.
Lord Campbell—Yes.
The writ was accordingly issued.
IMPRISONMENT OP A MAGISTRATE.

THI ATTORNEY-MIN/ZELL Y. ROBERT BILLAUT, BRQ.,

MAGISTRATE OP TIE COUNTY OP DUAUAL

In this case, the defendant was tried at the last Dar-
ham assizes, and found guilty of receiving money for
compounding an offence. It appeared that two men
were brought before the defendant, charged with tres-
passing on his land and shooting a rabbit for the sick
wife of one of them. He took away the gun, and in-
sisted they should each pay him one pound, other-
wise he would send them handcuffed to gaol. The poor
men accordingly sent to their friends and succeeded in
obtaining the money, having, however, been kept in
custody in the meantime with handcuffs on. The money
was ultimately paid and the men discharged, and it was
proved on the trial that the defendant appropriated the
money to his own ase, instead of returning it in fines to
the Clerk of the Peace.
Mr. Justice Coleridge, in sentencing the defendant,
commented strongly on hie disgraceful conduct, and
sentenced him to pay a fine of 2001. to the Queen, to be
imprisoned 12 months in the Queen's Prison, as a first
class misdemeanant, and at the end of the time to be
farther imprisoned till the fine was paid.
Lord Campbell said it should be known that that
Court had no power to dismiss the defendant from
the Commission of the Peace. He had no doubt,
however, that the particulars would be laid before the
Lord Chancellor, who would immediately dismiss him
from the Commission.
The Solicitor-General, who appeared on the part of
the Crown, said he believed that had already been done.
The defendant was then removed in Custody.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)
THZ LONDON AND EASTERN BANE.—IN 381 COLONEL

VirAIJGII.

To-day was appointed for the adjourned Examination
of this bankrupt, who was one of the directors of the
London and Eastern Bank, and of Branksea, Ireland,
and was declared bankrupt some time since, during his
absence from England, and has not since returned, it
being alleged that he was suffering severely from
ill-health.

Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, objected to any
further adjournment, as this was the third or fourth
time they had been before the court, and the assignees
were anxious to get accounts, but all they got were
unsatisfactory letters.

Mr. Lawrance put in certificates as to the present state
of the bankrapCs health, and urged that no possible
benefit could accrue to the creditors by resorting to the
extreme powers of the Court by proceeding to outlawry,
and suggested that a further adjournment should take
plan, and that interrogatories should be sent out to the