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

THAMES.

Henry Haseman, a registered coal-whipper, Catherine
Haseman, a bloated and dissipated looking woman, his
wife, and Emma Smith, a girl of loose character, were
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously
assaulting and robbing Mr. Charles Williams, a
country gentleman, now residing at 37, Jubilee-place,
Stepney.

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The prosecutor appeared with his head and face cut
and bruised in a dreadful manner. His shirt and
clothes were torn and covered with blood, his hands
wore severely lacerated, and his eyes were swollen and
discoloured. It appeared from his evidence that ho had
only been in London a few days, and that on Monday
evening he was passing along John's-place, Stepney,
near his own residence, when ho met the female
prisoners at the door of the house No. 10, and they
invited him into the house and asked him to give
them some porter. He was not acquainted with the
character of the house and its inmates. He imprudently
accepted the invitation and sent for porter. When that
was drunk Smith asked for some rum and ho gave her a
shilling to fetch some. This was repeated several
times, until the male prisoner came in, with his face be-
grime:led with coal dust, and Mr. Williams was intro-
duced to him as a country gentleman whom they had in-
vited into their humble dwelling to give him a caution
against the thieves and sharpers of London. Soon af-
' terwards, and while talking to the women who were
constantly hanging about him, he put his hand into his
waistcoat pocket and missed his purse, which contained
five sovereigns. Ho was sure it was safe when he en-
tered the house. His silver in another pocket remained
untouched. The prosecutor immediately jumped up
from the chair and said, " You have robbed me,"
upon which Smith attempted to leave the room.
Mr. Williams put his back against the door and pre-
vented her. The man, Haseman, directly made a fu-
rious attack upon him, struck him right and left with
his fists, and declared that he should not leave the
apartment alive unless he allowed Smith to leave
the room. Mr. Williams was soon covered with
blood, which flowed copiously from his nose, mouth,
and ears, but he, notwithstanding, defended himself
as well as he was able, and he was then set upon by the
female prisoners, who struck, bit, and scratched him in a
moat savage manner; the other prisoner all the while
hitting and kicking him as hard as he was able. After
a desperate conflict the door was opened, and the parties
all got into the hall of the house, where the struggle
was renewed. The prosecutor was dragged into the yard
at the rear of the house, where an attempt was made to
strangle him. lie clung to the male prisoner, who threw
him down and kicked him, and the women set upon him
again and beat him. He called out " Murder, police,
thieves!" as loud as he was able, and at length, when he
was nigh exhausted, Pye, a police-constable, No. 111 K,
rushed into the house just as Mrs. Haseman was pre-
paring, with a piece of wood three feet in length and as
thick as a man's arm, to beat out the prosecutor's brains.
Pye arrested her arm, and saved the prosecutor from a
blow which would most probably have killed him hid it
taken effect. Pyc drove Haseman on one bide and raised
the prosecutor from the ground. Ho was then covered
with blood and there was a frightful gash on his fore•
head. The prosecutor said he had been robbed of five
sovereigns and nearly murdered. While they were talk-
ing Pye saw Mrs. Haseman attempting to conceal the
piece of wood in the garden. Ho took the male prisoner
into custody, leaving Sergeant Smith, No. 28 K, in the
house, who began to search the front parlour for the
purse and sovereigns which Mr. Williams bad lost.
While he was doing so, the prosecutor saw the end of
his green purse behind a shell on the top of a chest of
drawers. He snatched it up, and the woman peroeiving
him do go, mid to sraitb, “etch him, he hes ag doubt

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got it about bim." Mr. Williams immediately said,
" Yes, I have, got it," and handed it to the sergeant. It
contained all the money the prosecutor had missed.
The prisoner endeavoured to turn the tables on the
prosecutor by accusing him of most gross familiarities
with the two women, which he solemnly denied. They
denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said the purse
was never in their possession. Haseman also said he
caught the prosecutor taking indecent liberties with his
wife, and resented it by striking at him, and was struck
again.
Mr. YARDLEY asked the character of the house
where the assault and robbery was committed?
Smith said it was a brothel where a sailor was robbed
and nearly murdered a fortnight ago.
Mr. YARDLEY, after commenting upon the imprudence
of Mr. Williams entering such an infamous place and
joining such company as he had done, committed the
prisoners for trial.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
APPOINTNENTS.

WOOLWICH, JULY 2.—Captain—Augustus L. Kuper,
C.B. (1841), to command the Thetis, 40, recently em-
ployed on particular service.

Lieutenant—Nelson G. Spencer (1847) to the Cygnet,
commissioned yesterday at Devonport.
Master—T. B. Wells (1850) to the Cygnet.
Paymaster and Purser—G. 11. Deighton (1850) to
the Cygnet.

Masirs Assistant—W. J. G. Hutchinson, to the
Cygnet.
Boatswain—John Dixon to the Cygnet.
Carpenter—William Ward to the Cygnet.
The Cygnet is to take out the next mails to the Coast
of Africa.
The Howe, 120, Captain Sir James Stirling, has been
telegraphed as arrived at Portsmouth from the Mediter-
ranean, and is come round to Sheerness to be paid off,
and will be immediately recommissioned.