The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-15 00:00:00

MI DLL ESEX SESSIO W.—Oct. 14.

The Citart at to-day at Clerkenwell, to t tire bail
ca =es in arrea-. Mr. BliQs, Q. C., the Attorney-
General of the Du thy of Lancaster, presided, under
th-3 sanction
of the Secretary of State for tun Home
Dept tm-nt,for tho leArned.Assistant-Judg.., though
rec,vering from
a severe and dangerous illness, is
still in such a state of health it-4 will preclude his
iesutning his duties for some time.

Dieduich R,athgen,
POLICE CASE.
a carpet-bag manufactui er,
Nva,t indicted f, r havity, assaulted Hugh Brady and
George Quinley, two police-coustablue, in the exe-
cution of :heir duty.
Mr. Langford appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Sl&gh for t;‘e defendant.
Brady, 185 fl,
stated that on the morning of the
oth July, he was on duty in George-street, Spital-
tield,,, when about 3 in the morning he beard a noise
A hleh proceded from the defendant and others, who
wee, shouting and
quarrelling. On his interfering,
the defendant was most conspicuous in obstructing
him in his effort to get them away, and struck him
a blowOtt the head, which stunned him, and then
ran into his houie and procured a poker, the others
bating him while he fetched it. When Ito returned
he struck him with the po:zer, and sail—" You
damn ---, I shall do for y. in," and as lie continued
to strike him with the poker, he at length drew
his staff and use" it about defendant's Lead. Ano-

ther constable came to his assistance, and the de-
fendant then ran into the house. They pursued
him, and eventually lodged him at the station. lie
was then bleeding from the head. He could not
say how many times he struck him on the head
with hia truncheon.

In cross-examination lra said he had only been on
that Leat a few days, an-1 he had not, prior to the
altercation, called any fmale a prostitute. Two
females were with the defendant. He did not re-
collect the defendant saying that he would take his
number, or that he (witness) said, upon hearing
anything to that effect, that ho would ba first with
him if that was what he meant.

The other constable, George Quinley, 125 H,
said he went to the ass stance of Brady on hearing
the disturbance, when one of the women who were
with the defendant said he (Brady) had thrown her
cape over her head and insulted her. He saw the
defendant hit the constable, who had, he said, called
his wife a prostitute. In the scuffle ho received a
knock on the nose with the poker, and he saw Brady
follow defendant into his house. Blows took place,
and when he came out the defendant and another
person were bleeding from the head. He heard
the defendant say he would take the officer's num-
ber, but at what part of tits affray be could not
tell. Witness received a blow on the back of the
hand which gave him groat pain.
The witnesses were crom-exatnined by Mr. Sleigh,
but they did not dev:ato from their statements in
any material particu'ar. Mr. Sleigh, in his address
to the jury, said he should prove that Brady had
insulted defendant's wife, by pulling her cape over
her head and calling her a prostitute in the public
streets, as Mr. Rathgen and his friends were re-
turning from a party, which was corroborated by
th© evidence of the second constable. It was a
most infamous ease.

Mr. Adams, house surgeon at the London Hos-
pital, said the defendant had been under treatment
at that institution for wounds on the head, such as
would be produced by blows. He was an in-patient
twelve days, and was not dii•etiargel, bus left of
his own accord to joiu his family. His life was in
danger some time, and he was not cured when he
lef-. •

Emma Roberta—l live at 16, Little Sutton-
street, and am sister-in-law to the defendant. On

the morning of the 9th of July I was with him arid
some friends returning from a party, and I weiA
home with them. There was a little girl 14 years
o" age with us. We saw Brady, the policeman, on
duty. We said nothing to hint. He laid hold of
my sister's cape, and pulled itjover her head, and
she asked him what h did th a for. He told her
to go on, or he.would lock her up, as she was only
oat for the purpose of prostitution. The defendant,
attract Al by this, came up, and my sister said to
Brady, " You ate here t o protect, and not to in-
sult respectable poopli." She told defendant that
she had been insuited by Brady, and ho told her to
come home, and he would report himthe next morn-
ing. ltathgen had not ri tru Llic Brady when Quinley
came up. My sister told hint Brady had insulted
her. We went indoors, and shut the g ate after us.
A young man stood at the gate, and tried to pre-
vent the police entering, as they were attemptint,
so to do, and 185 hit him on the heal. They said,'
"We will lock some of you up yet." They broke
open the gate, and rushed iu. The defendant had
his pocket-book in his hand, and said h 3 would take
their numbers. They stracii him about the head as
hti stood on the mat. The defendant had neither
st.ck nor poker in his hand ; nothing but his pocket-
book. He cried "Murder," and they went away,
but came back again, and they and the defendant
went to the station. My brother-in-law has lived
in the same house in King Arms-court for four
years.
The jury stopped the e Ise, and said that after such
evidence for the defence it was useless to go on.
Mr. Langford claimed and exercised his right of
reply.
The learned judge was about to sum up, when
The jury said they were quite satisfied, and found
the defendant " Not Guilty."
Mr. Sleigh said a prosecution for perjury most
certainly ought to follow this flagrant ease.

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