The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-07 00:00:00

Ny MARCH 7, no.

mented somewhat severely on the injudicious act of
the guardians in reducing the miserable pittance of
Is. a-week, which had been originally allowed the
poor girl, to the sum of 6d. per week, upon the
authority of an anonymous letter, the Learned Judge
said that he would leave three questions to the j ury—
first, whether they were satisfied that the death was
caused or accelerated by exposure to the cold and
want of food ; secondly, whether they were satisfied
that Mr. Cooper's order for admission to the work-
house ever got to the hands and knowledge of the
prisoner. If so, he was bound to obey the order
unless he had reasonable ground for believing that the
poor girl who presented it to him was not the person
for whom it was intended. The jury would, there-
fore, further inquire into this, and if they felt satisfied
of the cause of death, and that the order was presented
and came to his knowledge, and thought that he had
not bona fide believed, upon reasonable grounds that
Riggs was not the person for whom the order was in-
tended, it wouldbe.their day to find the prisoner guilty
on those counts which charged a disobedience to the
doctor's order. Even if they thought—and there was
really no pretence for saying so—that the poor girl
was an impostor in any other respect, that would
not justify him in disobeying the order, and free him
from criminal responsibility in consequence of the fatal
calamity which bad resulted from his misconduct.
And thirdly, whether, without reference to the doc-
tor's order, they thought, from all the circumstances
of the case, that the prisoner must have known that
it was a case of urgent necessity requiring imme-
diate assistance. If the jury were of that opinion, he
(the Learned Judge) thought the prisoner was bound
to relieve her necessities at once, and would recom-
mend them to find him guilty with reference to
certain other counts in the indictment. They had
nothing to do with the validity of the indictment A
very excellent character: h. •^ anity had been given
to the prisoner, one of the 'est which be bad ever
heard given in a court of justice. And if the jury
had any doubt upon the fact, the 7 would of course
give the prisoner the benefit of this character.
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, re-
turned a verdict of Islot Guilty,:and added that, in
their opinion, the prisoner left the bar without the
slightest imputation on his character.

HOME CIRCUIT, Chelmsford, March 6.

CROWN SlDE—(Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE.)
John Livings, 26, was indicted for feloniously cut-
ting and wounding his wife, Susan Livings, with in-
tent to murder her. In other counts his intent was
laid to be to do some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parnell defended
the prisoner.
Susan Wood deposed that in _September last she
lived in the same house with the prisoner and his wife,
at High Ongar. On the day named in the indict-
ment, the 10th of September, the prisoner was in the
garden with the prosecutrix, and they were engaged
in digging up potatoes, when a quarrel took place
between them, and she saw the prisoner strike his
wife a violent blow on the eye with a spade, and she
fell to the ground, and while she was in that position
the prisoner kicked her several times in the stomach.
Shortly afterwards witness saw the prosecutrix at a
cottage close by, and she observed a good deal of
blood upon her clothes.
Upon being cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL, the
witness said she was not near enough to hear what
was said before the prisoner knocked his wife down.
They frequently quarrelled on account of the prose-
cutrix having an improper intimacy with another
man. She had no doubt that a -connexion of that sort
existed, because she had seen the wife of the prisoner
and the man of whom he was jealous in bed together.
The witness also said that the prisoner had always
acted as a good husband until this improper intimacy
was found out.

Emma Conel, a cottager living near the prisoner,
proved that while the prosecutrix was in her house
the prisoner came there, and after making use of very
violent language, he dragged her into the road and
kicked her several times.

Mr. W. R. Gill, a surgeon at High Ongar, stated
that he was called in to examine the prosecutrix, and
he found her clothes saturated with blood, and that
she had received a very severe blow on the right eye.
She was delivered of a dead child on the 6th of
November.

Mr. PARNELL, in addressing the jury for the pri-
soner, complained that his wife had not been called to
inform the jury of the circumstances which had led to
the assault upon the day in question, and be said that
in her absence they had no means of knowing what
provocation the prisoner -bad received at the time.
He urged upon the jury that it was perfectly clear
the prisoner bad been deeply wronged by his wife,
aLd he called upon them to make allowance fur the
provocation he had received, and only find him guilty
of an assault.

The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury,
after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilty of a common assault, and the prisoner was
sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for six months.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.---Northampton, March 6.
(Before Mr. HUMFRET, Q.C.)
Thomas Band, aged 30, labourer, was indicted
for having, on the 20th of January last, at Alal-
winkle, All Saints, in this county, feloniously cut and
wounded one William Wills, with intent to maim,
disable, or disfigure him, or to do him some grievous
bodily harm.

M. Miller conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Mellor the defence.

The prosecutor, William Will, was a keeper or
watcher, in the service of Lord Lilford, and the as-
sault was committed on him whilst in the execution of
his duty.
An attempt was made to prove an alibi, but
The Learned JUDGE told the jury very emphati-
cally, that the only question for them was, whether
or not they were satisfied as to the identity of the
prisoner as being the man spoken to by the two wit-
nesses for the prosecution; and he would entreat them
not to violate their consciences and the oaths they
had taken by finding any other verdict than that
which before God they believed to be the true one.
A verdict of Guilty, with intent to do grievous
bodily harm, was, after the lapse of some time, re-
turned ; and a previous conviction for felony (stealing
fowls) having been proved against the prisoner,
The Learned JUDGE remarked, that after a long
and patient investigation, the jury had at last come
to the only conclusion that, in his judgment, they
could have arrived at • and observing upon the atro-
cious extent of the violence and recklessness of human
suffering and human life exhibited, passed upon the
prisoner the sentence of transportation fur ten years.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, March 6.
(Before FRANCIS BAYLEY, E'q., Judge.)
GIBSON V. LORD ROBERT GROSVENOR, MX.
This was an action brought by William Gibson, of
Grantly-villas, Clapham, against Lord Robert Gros-
venor, M.P., to recover the sum of 201. as remunera-
tion f,,r assistance rendered to the defendant imme-
diately previous to his election for Middlesex.
Several witnesses were examined in support of the
claim, but the Court held that no case had been esta-
blished, and uonsuited the plaintiff.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 6.
Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a Bench of Ma-

gistrates.)
The Court sat this morning for the disposal of cri-
minal caies.

THE LATE CASE OT CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
The grand jury came into court with a true bill
against Edward Kenealey, of '3
-ray's Inn, barrister-at-
law, which set forth " That he did with force and
arms commit an assault upon Edward Hyde, a child
of tender years, to wit, six years, and that he did by
means of a cord and rope hang the said child by the
neck, by fastening the said cord to a certain peg, then
and there being, and then and there did pull and strip
from off the body of the said Edward Hyde certain
clothes with which the said child was covered, so that
he was uncovered and naked ; and whilst so uncovered
did cruelly, wantonly, and unmanly beat the said child
upon the back, shoulders, arms, wrists, legs, &c., with
other wrongs and injuries to the said E I ward Hyde,
then and there, to the damage, and against the peace
of our Sovereign Lady the Queen."
Three other counts varied the offence.
This case has become familiar to the public from
the proceedings which have taken place at the
Guildhall Police-court, and which were reported at
the time.

Soon After the bill was returned, a report was
neral that the defendant intended to remove the fur-
ther proceedings in the case by certiorari to a superior
court.

The prosecution will be continued by the guardians
of the West London Union.

Rober Paine, 23, was found Guilty cf stealing a
handkerchief, the property of Mr. Wm. Rosenthal.
The Learned JUDGE inquired of the police-con-
stable who apprehended the prisoner whether any-
thing was known of him ?—The policeman said no-
thing was known of him except that he had been
several times summarily convicted.
Tile Learned JUDGE said that this was the most
amusing answer he had ever heard, with the exception
of one that he hail once received, which was, that the
prisoner was summarily convicted for want of evi•
dence.—(Laughter.)

lie was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with
hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
William Jones, Thomas Belton, John Belton, and
James Griffiths, four young men, the first of whom
bore marks of having been engaged in some severe
conflic', were charged with the following desperate
attack upon the police :
It appeared, from the evidence of several witnesses,
that a man named Garwood entered the house of Mr.
t..4evvell, the White Swan, Vauxhall-bridge-road, on
Tuesday evening, and, having refused to pay for the
liquor he had drunk, created a disturbance and as-
saulted the landlord ; upon which he was given into
the custody of Police constable Joseph Butcher, 109
B. The latter had only proceeded a few yards with
his prisoner towards the station, when the defendant
Jones suddenly came up, armed with a large black
stick, and told him to let Garwood go, and upon his
refusing to comply Jones attacked the constable,
striking him repeatedly on both sides of the neck
with the weapon he had in his hand, and then sud •
clnly seizing him bythe legs threw him heavily upon
his back. In consequence of this Garwood got away,
and Jones endeavoured to make his escape by
running into the midst of some unfinished buildings
sear the Penitentiary. The-constable, however, pur-
sued and caught him, when he and Garwood—the
latter of whom again made his appearance when he
found his friend engaged with the officer—made a
second attack upon the constable, Jones biting him
severely on the hand, and also endeavouring to inflict
an injury of a most dreadful description. A formi-
dable mob, as it was stated by the police, of thieves
and other persons of bad character, had by this time
assembled, and discharged a volley of brickbats at
the constable, one of which, however, struck Jones
upon the back of the head, and but for the assistance
of Mr. Se well, together with a gentleman residing in
Lupus-street, and a licensed victualler residing in
Ponsonby-terrace, fatal consequences might have en-
sued. The outrageous conduct of the mob continued
until the arrival of a sufficient body of the police, who
succeeded in apprehending the four defendants, but
were followed by a crowd of same hundreds of per-
sons to the door of the police•station in Ito.
cheater-row. In consequence of the violent re-
sistance offered by the prisoners Butcher
was compelled to use his truncheon, and struck the
defendant Jones a blow on the back of his head, and
Garwood, finding that he was overpowered, effected
his escape. The evidence went clearly to prove that
the two Beltons (brothers) and Griffiths were im-
plicated in the outrageous attack upon the police.
Thomas Belton was sworn to have been the leader of
the mob, to have repeatedly incited the others to at-
tack the constable, and with his brother John to hare
thrown several bricks which struck Butcher about
the loins and legs, and when Marshall, 60 B, seized
hold of one of the Beltons, Griffiths, who is the
youngest of the party, with a filthy expression, urged
those near him to split the officer's head open with a
brick, and when himself captured kicked the officer
apprehending him several times. Butcher complained
of the severe injuries he had received from defendants
and others, which had rendered him unfit fur duty.
Ttie whole of the defendants contradicted the state-
ments made against them, and denied their guilt.
Mr. BaonEfor having inquired of Mr. Symons,
the inspector on duty, whether the Commissioners
wished him to dispose of the case, and having received
an answer that they left the matter in the hands of
the magistrate, observed that the evidence against the
whole of the defendants was of the clearest possible
description, and he took that opportunity of informing
them that had any fatal result attended their violent
attack upon the constable they would all have been
liable to be tried for murder. The offence they had
committed called for the severest penalty of the law,
and he therefore committed the whole of them for the
full period—one month in the House of Correction.
TV ORSILIP-STRE E 7.

Alexander Lovey, a working gunsmith, was placed
at the bar before Mr. liammill, charged with the wil-
ful murder of his wife, Charlotte Lovey, by stabbing
her with a table-knife.

From the evidence adduced at the former examina-

tions it appeared that the prisoner had lived for some
years past on very unhappy terms with his wife,
who, in consequence of his violent conduct towards
her, was compelled to proceed to the Thames Police-
court on the 19th ult. to obtain a warrant for his ap-
prehension. On apprising him of the course she had
adopted soon after her return, the prisoner, who was
dressing some meat at the fire with a knife in hid
hand, became greatly exasperated, and, uttering a pas-
sionate exclamation, instantly raised the weapon and
plunged it into the right side of her throat. The poor
woman immediately staggered out of the room, with
the blood pouring profusely from the wound, and on
reaching the street was caught in the arms of two
persons who were passing, and conveyed to a surgeon's
in the neighbourhood, who directed her instant re-
moval to the hospital, where, after lingering in a
hopeless state for a period of eight days, she ultimately
expired from the effects of the injury.
Mr. John Wyatt, house surgeon of the London
Hospital, stated that, on the woman being placed
under his care on the night in question, she was in a
very exhausted condition, and bleeding copiously
from an incised wound in the right side of the neck,
three-quarters of an inch in length, and nearly three
inches in depth, which terminated fatally on the 27th
ult. Upon performing a post-mortem examination he
found that a knife, or some other sharp instrument, had
passed within the eighth of an inch of the carotid
artery, transfixing the pharynx, which was cut com-
pletely through on both sides. Ile also found an
extensive abscess amongst the muscles of the neck
upon the opposite side, but he was clearly of opinion
that the cause of her death had arisen from the ge-
neral inflammation of the tissues of the neck, result-
ing from the wound.

The prisoner, who was greatly dejected, and pre-
sented a very haggard and emaciated appearance, de-
clined offering any defence, and was fully committed
to Newgate for trial upon the charge of wilful murder.
William Cakraft, the public executioner, was
then charged, at the instance of the parish officers of
the -Witham Union, in Essex, with having neglected
and refused to support his aged mother, Sarah Cal-
craft, who had become chargeable to the parish of
Hatfield Peveril, he being of sufficient ability so to
do, and legally liable for her maintenanes.
Mr. Shee, the relieving officer of the union, stated
that the defendant's mother, who was 73 years of
age, had been an inmate of the Witham work-
house during the last fortnight, and, having been
subjected to the usual examination to ascertain the
position and circumstances of her nearest existing
relatives, it was elicited from her that she had only
two sons, one of whom was the defendant, and that
the other sen was wandering about the country, with-
out any fixed habitation, or any apparent means of
affording her relief. It was therefore determined to
proceed against the defendant for his mother's mainte-
nance, and in consequence of directions he had re-
ceived from the board of guardians,- witness came to

town by railway on the preceding day, and repaired
to the defendant's house, Devizes-street, lioxton,
where he found him in the working dress of a shoemaker,
which he believed to be his ordinary occupation ; but
upon disclosing his business the defendant positively
refused to comply with the requisition of the board,
and it therefore became necessary to take out a sum-
mons against him.
Mr. lismuu.r.., on referring to the terms of the
Act relating to such cases, said, that it was not only
necessary to establish the defendant's liability, but
also to prove he had competent means to support his
mother, which last was strictly enjoined, by the Act,
and inquired if the relieving-officer was furnished
with the necessary evidence to that extent ?
The witness answered, that it was well known the
defendant was in the receipt of a good income from
the office he held under the corporation of London, in
addition to which the indications he had himself af-
forded of carrying on the trade of a shoemaker were
confirmed by the testimony of his mother,
who was then in such a state of helpless debility from
her age and infirmities as to preclude her removal to
town, a distance of thirty-six miles, to support the
complaint ; but if the magistrate felt it necessary to
postpone the case he should be able to produce an
officer of the Corporation to depose to the amount of
permanent income the defendant received, and n
he held
in his hand the certificate ofthase
the parish surgeon to
prove the cause of the mother's
should -Afr. itek mu iLb
justifiedsaid,
at that
presenthe ididn conceivenniaokting an ode
rhor
against the defendant in the absence of sur:h evidence,
was imperative, and in order tosdford tie re-
lieving ingofficer an opportunity of adducing the formal
proof that the defendant was in a condition to sup-
port his:aged mother, he should adjourn the case for
a week.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Chapel Whaley Fowler, a man of respectable
appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott,
on a charge of being concerned with his brother (not
in custody) in stealing six horses, of the value of
3001., the property of Mr. Philip Law, proprietor of
the Three Nuns livery stables, in Aldgate.
Mr. Games appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
L. Norton for the defence.

From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared
gliklykring known the prisoner and his brother for
1101110 /eau, and finding that they were nut of ern-