The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

SECONDARIES".---(THIS DAY.)
(13c,for: Mr. ;3;-.condary JAmEs.)
DrKELIAR V. HOMEWOOD.

This was all aCtiOT.I to recover the :Aim of 61. 5g., for
one qtrtrter's rent, of n hour'., 3, Cutriei-place, .N(.tv
Peckham.

Mr. CitorcEr appeared for the plaintiff, and called Mr.
Ramsay, who c.a..; the agent who .10., the house to the
defendant. The witness said thet he had wade nume-
rous applications for the re,it, hut tee only reply he got
was that he (witness) might co his Lest and his worst, as
it was only a county court job alter all. Witness felt
very n3uet annoyed this, and said that as defendant
did not st em to care much about that he would sse what
else could be done, and the present action was breught.
The Learned SECONDARY said the case was quite
clear. IMendant made no defence, and it was not ma-
terial to the present issue whither the county court
judge had been applied to, or whether the present action
had been brought. It might be a qui-stion as to costs,
but as to the rent being due there could be no doubt.
Verdict for 61. ss.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice ERLE and Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Mr. BoDux applied for a postponement of the trial
of the persons who stood indicted fbr keeping public
music and dancing rooms, known as the Argyle Rooms,
without being licensed by the magistrates, on the ground
that an important question was about to be decided by
the Court of Queen's Bench, as to the construction of the
25th Gen. 11., under which the parties had been indicted.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry, who appeard for
other of the defendants, concurred in the application.
Mr. CLARKSON, who had been retained for the prose-
cution, objected to the postponement of the trial, and
stated that the parties still continued to keep the
rooms open notwithstanding the indictment which
had been preferred against them. They had, in fact,
admitted the illegality of their proceedings, by apply ing
at the last sittings of the magistrates for a license to
keep the rooms open for dancing and music.
The JUDGES, after consulting together, postponed tl-te
case, as far as some of the iprisonees were concerned,
until next essions, intimating, at the same time, that
they thought this a fit tribunal to determine any point of
law, because, if any doubt was entertained respecting it,
an appeal might afterwards !at had to the Court of Cri-
minal Appeal, which perhaps would be better enablid
than the Queen's Bench to give a proper construction to •
the Act. With respect to the other prisoners, their
Lordships fixed the trial for Friday next.
MURDER.—Alexander Lovey, 43, described as a gun-
smith, who was remanded from the last sessions, was
placed in the dock, indicted for the wilful murder of
Charlotte, his wife.

Mr. Bodkin appeared fa the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry for the defence. •
Mr. BODKIN briefly stated the facts of the case. It
appeared that the deceased, who lived in Whitechapel,
went to the magistrate at Worship-street to get a sum-
mons against her husband, in consequence of sonic
quarrel which had happened between them. She left
home in the morning, and on returning at night, her
husband, who seemed to be in a good humour, offered to
bring her some wine, Be went out for this purpose, and
came back with the wine and some sweetbreads, and es
he was cooking the latter on the fire, his wife told him
that she had been to the magistrate fur a warrant. The
prisoner turned round, and, using a vulgar expres-
sioh, said, "Have you?" and immediately struck
her on the shoulder with a knife, and in-
flicted a blow from which a vast quantity of
blood
.issued. She ran down stairs into the street,
and was picked up by some persons who were
passing by and carried to the hospital, where she died
after lingering for a short time. The magistrate for the
district attended the deceased at the hospital, and took
her depositions in the presence of the accused, and they
would be produced in evidence against him. These were
the chief circumstances involved in the charge, and he
should prove them by the testimony of witnesses.
John Woolcock, aged fifteen, was then called—lle
said his lived in Crown-court, Whitechapel, and knew
the prisoner. He worked for him on the 19th of
February, when the occurrence took place. The de-
ceased woman, his wife, was away from home in the
early part of the day. She went out between ten and
eleven, and did not come home till dusk—about half-
past five in the evening. The prisoner was then at home,
and he asked her where she had been, and she said
bluee witness'sn" Welt, if you have only
comfortable." She then said, " Well, go fetch it;" and
there we mother.will haveile replied,
somelied, wine and make ourselves
the prisoner went and took a stone bottle with him. He
returned with some wine and some sweetbreads. She
took the stone bottle and poured come of its contests
into a teacup and drank it, and while he was frying the
sweetbread she said, " I have been up to the court to
get a warrant against you." He said, " You thief; you
want to swear my life away," and immediately stuck the
knife which he had in his hand into her shoulder. He
struck her only once, and the blow was between the
shoulder blade and the breast. She cried out, " Oh,
you have stabbed me," and ran down stairs to the street,
screaming all the way. She was sitting at the fire
in a chair at the time he aimed the blow. Witness fol-
lowed her into the street, and a gentleman came up, and
the deceased was immediately taken to a doctor's shop, a
few doors from Petticoat-lane. A street-keeper took
charge of the wounded woman, and witness le turned
with a policeman to the house, and they found the priso-
ner sitting on the opposite side of the fire to where his
wife had been. He was finishing his tea, and cutting
some bread with the knife with which he had stuck his
wife. The prisoner was then taken into custody. In
the morning the deceased was sharpening the knife upon
an earthen pan, and said she intended to cut her throat
with it. The prisoner told her she might do so if she
liked, but he pulled the knife out of her hand. The
prisoner was sober when he used the knife, and his
wife was a temperate woman.
Sergeant Barnes, who it will be recollected discovered
the body of the murdered O'Connor in Minver-place,
deposed to arresting the prisoner, when he told him that
he was going to take him into custody fir stabbing his
wife. He said he know all about it, but hoped he had
not hurt her. He told witness that the knife with which
be was cutting the bread aas the one ho stabbed his
wife with. There were some slight marks of blood on
the handle. (The witness produced the knife, which
was a table one of the ordinary sin.)
Mr. Wyatt, house surgeon at the London Hospital,
said when he was called to attend the deceased she was
bleeding from a wound in the neck, and appeared much
exhausted. It was a Punctured wound, and such as
might have been produced by the knife exhibited by
the last witness. The wound was three-quarters
of an inch long, and three inches deep,
She lived from the 19th until the 27th, and died at mid-
night on that day. He made a post mortem examina-
tion of the body, and the cause of death was inflame-
tion, arising from the infliction of the wound. The de-
ceased appeared very desponding about her recovery.
Mr. Pine, chief clerk of the police court, produced
the statement of the deceased, and said it was made in
the presence of the accused. It was the result of ques-
tion and answer, and, after being made, it was read
over to her, and she attached her mark to it.
The statement contained no important facts beyond
those detailed by the preceding witnesses.
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come to any other conclusion than that the fatal wound
was inflicted in a moment of irritation and while the
prisoner was quite unconscious that he held the weapon
in his hand. The expression of kindness and affection
which had fallen from him immediately prior to the
melancholy circumstance was good proof tbat he had
entertained no malicious feeling towards his wife, and
confirmed the opinion that the blow was the result of
momentary passion. The Learned Counsel then called
several witnesses, who spoke in high terms of the pri-
soner's character, and described him as kind-hearted
wards his wife. and affectionate in his bearing to
among his associates,

Mr. Justice ERLE then summed up, and the jury,
aLer a short consultation, returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP took time to consider the sentence.

NEW COURT.
Bef,,re the Common-Sergeaftt BuLtocK, and Mr

AldermanCAßDEN.)
John Leach, a respectable•looking young man, who
had been eight years in the service of Messrs. Swann
and Edgar, pleaded guilty
him with embezzling is. 6d., the money of his em-
ployers._ to an indictment charging

IluDnLEsTortE, on behalf of the prosecutors,
strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account
of his previous good conduct, believing that this was his
first offence.

The CommoN SERGEANT sentenced him to eight days'
imprisonment in Newgate.

A poor emaciated-looking young man was placed at
BOW-STREET._(THIS DAY.)
his master's goods.
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obtleiefo,rteh'M e
large bootmaker residing
pawning
prosecutor,
sehcluentorry,,a charged with unlawfully
in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, deposed that the prisoner
worked for them in the cashmere ladies' boot line, be
being an excellent workman in that particular branch ( f
their trade. nearly
As alt that kind of work was given
to him, he had always-plenty on hand, and it was nothing
out of the way when he asked for more work, even sup-
posing he had four or fire pair at home with him. Some
seven days ego he asked f'Jr some more work, and ho
was questioned about the other eight pair he had at
home. He replied that they were nearly done, and that
he would bring them altogether. Since that time he
had not been to his employers, and yesterday one of the
ah9pmen was sent to his lodgings. There he found the
prisoner in the greatest distress—no fire, no clothing,
no furniture, and, in fact,
nothing in the shape of corn-
fort. lie said he was in a state of starvation when he
pawned them, and from appearances he spoke the truth
when he said so.
Mr. HisNitY remarked that the competition now-:-
days was such, that the masters were obliged to send
their work to the cheapest markets. Bat still they and
the pawnbrokers must be protected from such frauds us
the present.

Both these gentlemen pleaded hard for the prisoner,
and the worthy Magistrate mitigated the fine to U.,
which there was every reason to believe will be paid by
Mr.l'ottle.

INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Her Majesty's at-
tention having been tailed to the distressing case of an in-
fant family, suddenly deprived of both parents in Clonmel
(the fattier having been Sergeant-Major in the Ist Regiment
of Dragoon Gnarls), she has most kindly placed one of the
youngest children in the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum.