The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

George Harper, a labour, r, and of very Savage ap-
pearance, was charged with cutting and wounding a
brick-maker, named Henry Garden, re,iding in Phea-
sant-place, Ball's-pond, Islington, so as to seriously en-.
danger his life.
A certificate was produced from a surgeon, setting
-forth that Garden was dangerously ill, and of course
unable to attend in court. _

Harriette Garden, the wife of the wounded man, de-
posed as follows :—My husband works *in Mr: Rhodes'
brickfields, in the Britannia-fields, Islington. Last
night, at half past eleven o'clock,he went out to look at
some bricks and protect them from the frost. He came
back at about half-past twelve, bleeding profusely from
several wounds in the head. ' He lay down, and the'next
moment was insensible. One of his eyes is quite de-
stroyed, and his head is dreadfully bruised. I ran out
for a policeman, who fetched a surgeon. When he
dreped the wounds my husband became delirious, and
continues so. Before the surgeon came I asked him
what had happened to him; and he said he was sitting
down on a heap of brick when the prisoner came up and
exclaimed " Ah, I have an o!d grudge against you, and
I'll pay you now ;" he then struck him with a brick, and
he could recollect no more. When he recovered his
senses he found himselflying on the ground, bleeding
from the head.

Mr. COMBE—Did your husband say he gave the pri-
soner any provocation ? Witness--I asked him that
question, but he said he had not given him the least
provocation. The poor woman, who seemed to be suf-
fering great agony of mind, said the surgeon had in-
formed her that he had no hopes of the recovery of her
husband, and recommended his removal to the hospital.
Police constable Treford, N 3, deposed that, on that
morning, between twelve and one o'clock, Harriette
Garden called upon him, and said her husband had been
nearly murdered by Harper. He went to-her house, and
there saw Garden lying on the ground, he was still
bleeding profusely, one side of his head was a perfect
mummy—his eye seemed to have been quite battered in.
After fetching a surgeon he went to the prisoner's house
and arrested him. Witness said to him that he appre-
hended hi.o for the attack on Garden. " On.llarry
Garden, is it?" replied the prisoner. Witness said
"Yes," and the prisoner said no more.
Mr. COMBE asked him if he had been to the brick-
field. Witness said he had, and saw a large pool of
blood beside a heap of bricks there ; he found a brick
beside it partly broken and stained with blood.
Mr. COMBE, after administering the usual magisterial
caution to the prisoner, asked him what he had to say
to the charge. Prisoner-1 gave him a blow, bnt he
struck me on the head (he pointed to his head on which
there was the mark of a blow).
The policeman added that when he arrested the pri-
soner, he had blood upon him. Witness had learned on
that morning that the man's life was in great danger,
and that he was delirious. He was about being conveyed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Mr. COSIBE directed the officer to inform him if the
wounded man recovered his consciousness so far as to
be able to give evidence before five o'clock, that he
might go to his residence, and have his evidence recorded.
The officer promised compliance, and the prisoner
was conveyed to the cells.

A young lad named Claire was charged with breaking a
pane of glass in the Holborn Union Workhouse.
Benjamin Barlow, the porter, deposed that he admitted
the prisoner into the workhouse on the previous night, on his
application as a destitute person. He told the prisoner that
he was required by the Act of Parliament, in return for his
bed and breakfast to work four hours, to which he made no
other reply than that he must leave the workhouse early.
This morning he refused to do the work assigned him, de-
clining his breakfast which was offered him at the same time.
He was told he must work, and half a pound of coir was
presented to him, but instead of doing so he broke a pane
of glass,

Mr. COMBE (to the boy)—Why don't you do the four
hours' work 7

The prisoner replied that he had obtained.work from a
tradesman at Bs. a week, and that he did not like to stop.
Mr. Comm: told him the Act of Parliament required. the
performance of the task. If he would go back to the work-
house he should have his breakfast and then let him pick
the yarn. " • .

The boy promised compliance and the worthy magistrate
discharged him.

A woman named Connor, one of the worst specimens of
her sex, was charged with robbing a gentleman of 15s. She
robbed the gentleman in Gray's Inn-lane on the previous
night, and he gave her into custody. At the station-house
the policeman saw
her attempting to swallow something,
and seized her by the throat; she struggled violently; two
other officers seized her, and a fourth introducing a key be-
tween her teeth opened her mouth, and tools out three half-
crowns, which she had attempted to swallow:—The prosecu-
tor declined to come forward, and she was discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.
A modest-looking, and rather pretty, young woman
applied to Mr. Bingham, the sitting Magistrate, for
advice and assistance, under the following circumstances:
• The applicant stated that, while living in service,
about two years ago,, she became acquainted with a
young man, about 30 years of age, who paid his ad-
dresses to her, and they were married, after a short
courtship, at Hoxton Church. They proceeded, after
the ceremony, to Gravesend, and, on her return to
town, on the same evening, her husband left her, under
the care of a friend, until he was able to provide a place
for her reception ; but she had neither seen nor heard
anything of him since that time. His father, who was
a respectable tradesman at Hoxton, had informed her
that he believed her husband had gone into the
country in quest of employment, but he had no certain
knowledge on the subject. Since her desertion she had
filled a comfortable situation as a domestic servant,
until a few, days ago, when her mistress received an
anonymous letter apprising her of the extraordinary
circumstances connected with her marriage, and she dis-
charged her in consequence. As the same prejudice
would no doubt operate against her elsewhere she wished
to know what steps she could adopt to relieve herself
from the difficult and embarrassing situation in which
she was placed.
Mr. BINGUAN said that it was certainly a very hard
case, but he regretted that he had no power to assist
her, and her only remedy was to sue out a. divorce in the
Ecclesiastical Court.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Brown, a powerful young man' who described himself
as a gentleman's servant out of place, but who is well known
to the police of the district as the associate of notorious
thieves, was placed at the bar on the following.charge
James Edward Turner, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, who had received a tremendous blow over the left eye,
and whose face was otherwise frightfully contused, stated,
that he 'resided at No. 17, Henrietta-street, Cavendish:-
square, and was a clerk in a mercantile house. • Bettieen two
and three o'clock this morning, as he was passing along
Oxford-street on his way home, having been out to an even-
ingparty, he was induced to enter the Spread Eagle public-
house, at the corner of Woodstock-street, Bend-street, and
call for some refreshment. There were several disorderly
having passed some very blackguard
persons. and amongst them *as the prisoner, standing at the
bar, and they
remarks relative to witness, he . was hastily leaving
the house, when some person knocked his hat over his eyes,
He was then violently assaulted by two or three of them.
He defended himself as well as he could, but one of the party,
whom, he had a strong conviction was the prisoner, seized him
behind by the-cravat he wore and nearly strangled him, and
then struck him in the face. Witness got out of the house
at last, but the prisoner, after following.him about 200 yards,
rushed upon him and struck him the very severe blow on the
eye he had the mark of. A policeman coming up at the in-
stant, the prisoner was given into custody. Witness after-
wards discovered that he had been robbed of his
,silk cravat,
-and about 16s. in silver which he had received at the bar in
change for a sovereign. His diamond breast pin had also
been stolen, and his upper coat was torn to pieces.
The prisoner said he was taking the complainant's part,
and denied striking him.
Mr. Msurnr seemed to be of opinion that the prisoner
could not be connected with the robbery, but fined him 40s.
for the assault,.or 14 days' imprisonment..
The prisoner has been three times previously fined at thi;
Court fur similar assaults.
UNION-HALL.
Three able-bodied men were charged with stealing a
quartern loaf, from the shop of a baker, at Walworth. The
prisoners walked into the shop, and one of theni took a
quartern loaf, and, breaking it, divided it between his two
companions, and they commenced eating it as they went
along, but being followed, were given into custody.
The baker stated that, of late, he had been robbed of a
great quantity of bread, under similar circumstances, and
had, therefore, determined on giving the prisoners into custody.
The prisoners, when questioned, said that they had come
up from the country in quest of work, but not succeeding,
they were driven to the utmost distress, and that hunger,
and that alone,'prompted them to take the bread.
. Mr. TRAILL committed the prisoners for fourteen days.
UNGRATEFUL. ROBBERY.—William Rose was charged with
stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Mr. Buckridge,
a builder in Lambeth.
• It appeared that the complainant, who is brother-in-law to
the prisoner, has been confined from illness for some days.
On the precedingnight the prisoner was seen coining out of
his premises with a quantity of lead, and being stopped and
taken to the complainant's house, it was then ascertained that
the prisoner had procured a skeleton key, with. which he
entered the premises, and had taken the lead with Out the
knowledge of the owner.
The prisoner was remanded, the MAGISTRATE remarking
that it was such a case as should be sent foVirial. •

A •
FROM THE .R 2 MARCH 20.--Accountsfrom
Copenhagen, which may be depended on, confirm the
news from Washington, that the Americans threaten to
interfere by force in the affair of the Sound duties. We
hiar that Great Britain and Russia have been requested
to intervene by diplomatic negotiations in this matter.
MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.—A man named J.
Ozenne, a house-painter, was tried last week at Rouen, on a
• charge of having assassinated the widow Decouville, who
lived in the Rue au Lard, at Havre, during the year 1840.
The great suspicion against the prisoner was that, although a
married man (his wife being.twenty years older that him-
self) he professed a most 'passionate regard for the widow ;
and, as he lived in an adjoining house, was known to spend
many of his hours in her company, and to have the means
of admission to her apartment by a private key to a door
which was closed to all except himself. His passion was
under no control, and he had been heard to threaten that,
should she extend her favoured smiles to airy one else he
would kill ker. The body of this unhappy woman was found
one afternoon, in the year 1840, in a wretched State of mutila •
tion in her own kitchen ; the head was placed against a wall,
and the feet on the hearth stone—between the legs was
found a candle which had been burnt out—the clothes of
deceased were destroyed by fire, and the legs and thighs had
been charred to a great extent, Appearances led to the sup-
position that the deceased had been strangled, and the body
afterwards set on fire; but, as no robbery had been com-
mitted, for even near to the dead body were found silver
spoons and other things of value, an inference was drawn
that the murder had been caused by jealousy. Now it was
notoriously known that Ozenne was jealous of the deceased
almost to madness, and he was apprehended and examined ;
but preofs sufficient to warrant .his committal for trial were
wanting, until an individual who was in prison for debt
wrote a letter to some official party implicating him in the
murder; and the facts therein stated having been inquired
into, Ozenne was put upon his trial. There were several
witnesses called, who deposed to circumstances which left no
doubt of the guilt of the prisoner, and on Saturday, after two
days' hearing, he was convicted, and sentenced to imprison-•i
meat with hard labour for life.