The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGFI-STRE ET.

A RUFFIAN PROPEP,LY PUNISIIED.—Thornas G.
Kay, a collector, of 28, Coleman-street, City, was
charged before Mr. Kuox with violently assaulting
Eliza, Pardoc, a married woman, living at 22,
Peter-street, S:. James's.

The complainant, whose head was bandaged, and
who appeared to have been much Mused, said that
about seven o'clock yesterday, when going home
from the military stores where she was employed as
a tailoress, she stopped at the door of a house in
Whitcomb-street to speak to a friend, when she saw
the prisoner, who was very drunk, coming along
the street. Directly afterwards she saw the prisoner
run after a doctor's boy who had a basket on his
arm and attempt to kick him in a brutal manner.
She went to the boy's protection and drew him into
a passage, when the prisoner came up, and after
using most offensive expressions towards both her
and the boy he attacked her in a violent manner,
blackening one of her eyes, shattering her teeth,
and bruising her all over.

la answer to Mr Knox, the complainant said
that she gave the prisoner no provocation whatever.
All she did was to protect the boy from being
kicked.

Wm. Cameron, of No. 9, Dorset-place, Pall-
mall, said that he saw the prisoner, who was drunk,
first hit the boy with the basket, and then because
the complainant pulled the boy into the passage the
prisoner attacked her, there not being the least pro-
vocation for his doing so.
Police-constable Ward, 107 A, proved that the
prisoner was drunk.

The prisoner said that he had taken some whisky
with some friends, and remembered nothing more
than that some boys vexed him. He went after
one of them, and on a female protecting the boy he
struck her twice, as nearly as he could recollect,
and a man came up and gave him a good hiding,
and then he wai taken into custody.
Mr. Knox said it was not for him sitting in the
chair he did to commend a person who had used
actual violence, but he considered the prisoner de-
served any amount of thrashing any of the
bystanders thought proper to give him. He should
commit the prisoner for two months with hard
labour.

Mr. Knox refused the prisoner's employers' appli-
cation to alter the decision to a fine.

WESTMINSTER.

INVEIGLING CHILDREN TO UTTER COUNTERFEIT
COIN.—A respectably dressed woman, giving the
name of Susan Littledale, was placed at the bar
charged with unlawfully causing a child, only 10
years of age, to put off counterfeit coin.
Augusta Barrett, the child in question, said that
she was on the Marlborough-road, Chelsea, last
evening, when the prisoner, who is a perfect
stranger to her, came up and asked her if
she would go into a shop and buy
her a pennyworth of thread, and at
the same time gave a two-shilling piece. She went
into a haberdasher's for the thread, but there they
could not give her change, and told her she must
get it elsewhere. She went to two or three places,
and at last to Mr. Dails, pork butcher, 67, Marl-
borough-road, where it was discovered that the two-
shilling piece was bad.

Mr. Dails said that having detected the spurious
coin he asked where the child got it from, and
being informed followed her until she joined
the prisoner in the street. She pointed hor out as
the person who gave her the money, and prisonev
denied it.

Inspector M'Hugo, of the B division, said that
the police had been unable to make any inquiries
respecting the accused, as she had refused at the
station to give her address.

Prisoner was remanded till Monday.

THAMES.

A COWARDLY SON AND A COWARDLY MOTHER.---.
James Martin, aged 21, was brought up on a war-
rant charged with violently assaulting Thomas
Milton. Both men are fishmongers. Ihe com-
plainant is living at No. 88, and the defendant at
No. 129, High-street, Shadwell. There had been
some bad feeling and a quarrel between them owing
to rivalry in trade. A fortnight ago, and about
midnight, the complainant, overcome by fatigue and
the heat of the weather, seated himself in a chair at
his door and fell asleep. While in this helpless con-
dition the prisoner came by and cowardly struck
Milton a violent blow on his back, which knocked
him off his chair. Before the helpless man could
recover from the surprise of this brutal and das-
tardly attack, the prisoner jumped upon him and
again struck him several times. The prisoner left
his foe prostrate on th:; ground and ran away. A
summons was issued, to which the complainant did
not appear, and then a warrant was granted, on
which he was arrested. Several respectable wit-
nesses, who saw the assault committed, gave evi-
dence, and the complainant said a finger was
jammed, and that he had been in fearful pain
about the back and loins since he was assaulted.

The prisoner's father made an attempt to save his
son by a good deal of hearsay evidence, which Mr.
Benson said he did not believe, and he then said his
son and the complainant had a fair stand-up fight.
His son was subject to fits.

Police-sergeant Gamble, of the K division, said
that the prisoner was a savage fellow, who had been