The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-16 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET.-(T HIS DAY.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY AN ITALlAN.—Giovanni
Zannelli, an Italian street musician, was brought before
Mr. Hardwick, charged with violently assaulting David
Rees.

The prosecutor was not able to attend, being at pre-
sent in Middlesex Hospital in a most dangerous state
from the injuries he had received. A certificate signed
by the house-surgeon to the above effect was producCd,
when a young man named Shernon, who had witnessed
the assault, stated that yesterday afternoon he was in
Charles-street listening to the prisoner and his com-
panions playing, when he saw the man who is at present
iu the hospital, go up and speak to one of the men
who was playing the harp, and who in reply laughed, as
in a good-humoured manner. The prisoner then, with-
out the least cause or provocation, left his com-
panions and seizing hold of David Rees, threw him with
great violence into the road, the back part of his head
coming in contact with the kerb stone. Witness ran
forward and picked him up in an insensible state, and on
carrying him to a surgeon's it was found that the back
part of his skull was fractured. A constable was then
called and the prisoner was given into custody. Rees
was subsequently taken to the hospital.
The prisoner denied the charge and said the injured
man used insulting language, and eventually struck him;
in yetturn hn merely anvn him a push when he
tell down.

Mr. HARDWICK remanded the prisoner until Wednes.
day next.

ROBBERY AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. John
Williams, a young man with about 20 aliases, was
charged with stealing a silver watch, the property of
Mr. John Hinde Hale, brewer, No. 11, Oxford-street.
The prosecutor deposed that on the previous night
be was at the promenade concert at her Majesty's Thea-
tre, and on making his way through the crowd he felt a
tug at his watch. He looked round and saw the pri-
soner close by his side, and on witness feeling in his
pocket he missed his watch, which had been cut
away from the guard. Witness immediately collared
the prisoner, and taxed him with robbing him
of his watch. The prisoner denied it, and having extri-
cated himself from witness's grasp, endeavoured to
make his escape from the house. Witness, however,
kept him in sight until he got to the door, when he gave
him in charge to a constable.
Police-sergeant Mount said he received charge of the
prisoner, and conveyed him to the station, where he was
searched, but the watch was not found. The prisoner
was a member of the swell mob, and was well known to
the police.

The prisoner, who protested his innocence, was re,
mended till Saturday next.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
John Deering was charged under the following cir-
cumstances :—A policeman, of the E division, said that
about eight o'clock last night he saw the prisoner in Judd-
street, Brunswick• square, surrounded by a mob of about
200. He Ras swearing and running after several young
children, and afterwards asked a gentleman to buy a
pawn-ticket for a watch. Upan taking him to the sta-
tion thirteen pawn-tickets for watches and eleven for
pieces of silk were found upon him.
In answer to further questions the witness stated that
he was well known as a regular " watch duffcr," going
about town selling pawn-tickets.
The prisoner said that he had bought all the articles
at sales, and afterwards pawned them.
Mr. ComBE said it was a regular system, and it was
observed that none of the articles were Fawned in the
same name or at the same place ; be should, therefore,
fine the prisoner 205., or 14 days' imprisonment.—The
fine was not paid.

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.

SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A MOTHER ON HER CHILD.—
This day, Catherine Carpenter, a married woman, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and in-
capable ( f taking care of herself, and with cruelly ill-
using her child by knocking its head against a wall.
Alfred Smith, a lad, stated that about 9 o'clock the
previous night he was in Hunt-street, Spitalfields, when
he saw the prisoner violently shaking an infant child
that she had in her, arms. He said to her, " What are
you doing with the baby?" She made use of a low ex-
pression, when she knocked the child'shead against a wall.
M`Carthey, H 134, stated that, on apprehending the
prisoner he found that she had been drinking.
Sergeant Horae, H 13, said that the infant, which is
8 months old, was taken to the workhouse in a very
weak state. He produced a certificate from Mr. Agar,
the parish surgeon, which stated that the child was in a
declining condition from want of food, and that there
were some contusions and injuries about its head. He
was informed that she had left her home early in the
morning to go to a dispensary, and had not returned.
Tho prisoner was remanded.