The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRJLI 10, 1850.

SECONDARIES'.-{THIS DAY.)
(LlAoro Socorchry JAMES.)
M'KELLAII V, 110MEWOOD.

This was an actio❑ to recover the sum of 67. 5g., for
one quartet's rent of a. house, 3, Charlo6-place, Nov
Peckham.

Mr. CROUCR spprarcd for the plaintiff, and called Mr.
Ramsay, who si ai the agent who let the house to the
defendant. The witness said that he had made nume-
rous applications Ex the lent, tut the only reply lie got
was that he (witness) might uo his Lest and his worst, as
it was only a county court job after all. Witness felt
very much annoyed this, and said that as defe:ithint
did not seem to care much about that he would st e what
else could be done, and the present action was brought.
The Learned SECONDARY said the case was quite
clear. Defendant made no defence, and it was not ma-
terial to the prevent issue whether the county court
judge had been applied to, or whether the present action
had been brought. It might be a question as to costs,
but as to the rent being duo there could be no doubt.
Verdict for 6/. ss.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY
____

OLD COURi:

(Before Mr. Justice Foirena4li.. Baron PLATT.)
Mr. Bowen; applied for a postponement of the trial
of the persona who stood indicted for keeping public
music and dancing rooms, known as the Argyle Rooms,
without being licensed by the magistrates, on the ground
that an important question was about to be decided by
the Court of Queen's Bench, as to the construction of the
25th Geo. 11., under which the parties had been indicted.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry, who appeared for
other of the defendants, concurred in the application.
Mr. CLARKSON, who had been retained for the prose-
cution, objected to the postponement of the trial, and
stated that the parties still continued to keep the'
rooms open notwithstanding the indictment which
had been preferred against them. They had, in fact,
sittingsopan of
tfor dancing and music.
a,h
admitted the illegality of their proceedings, by applying
at the
elast
the magistrates for a license to
keepthe
roo rooms
JUDGES,
after consulting together, postponed a e
case, as far as. same of the iprisoners were concerned,
until next sessions, intimating, at the same time, that
they thought this a fit tribunal to determine any point of
law, because, if any doubt was entertained respecting it,
an appeal might afterwards be had to the Court of Cri-
minal Appeal, which perhaps would be better enabled
than the Queen's Bench to give a prcper construction to
the Act. With respect to the other prisoners, their
Lordships fixed the trial for Friday next.
MnapEn.—Alexander Lovey, 43, described as a gun-
smith, who was remanded from the last sessions, was
placed in the deck, indicted for the wilful murder of
Charlotte, his ease.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry for the defence.
Mr. BODKIN briefly stated the facts of the case. It
appeared that the deceased, who lived in Whitechapel,
went to the magistrate at Worship-street to get a sum-
mons against her husband, in consequence of some
quarrel which had happened between them. She left
home in the morning, and on returning at night, hot
husband, who seemed to be in a good humour, offered to
bring her some wine. I3e went out for this purpose, and
came back with the wine and some sweetbreads, and es
he was cooking the latter on the fire, his wife told him
that she had been to the magistrate for a warrant. The
prisoner turned round, and, using a vulgar expres-
sion, said, Have you?" and immediately struck
her on the shoulder with a knife, and ie-
flicted a blow from which a vast quantity of
blood issued. She ran down stairs into the street,
and was picked up by some persons who were
passing by and carried to the hospital, where shea died
after lingering for a short time. The magistrate for the
district aaended the deceased at the hospital, and took
her depositions in the presence of the accused, and ti oy
would be produced in evidence against him. These were
the chief circumstances involved in the charge, and he
should prove them by the testimony cf witnesses.
John Woolcoche aged fifteen, was then called—lie
said he lived in Crown-const, Whitechopel, and knew
the prisoner. He worked for him on the 19,h of
February, when the occurrence took place. The de-
ceased woman, his wife, was away from home in the
early part of the day. She went out between ten and
eleven, and did not come borne till dusk—about hula
The prisoner was then at home, five in the evening.
aed he asked her where she had been, and she said
to witness's mother. He replied, " Well, if you have only
been there we will have some wino and make ourselves
comfortable." She then said, Well, go fetch it;" and
the prisoner went and took a stone bottle with him. He
returned with some wine and some sweetbreads. She
took the stone betide and. poured some of its couterts
into a teacup and drank it, and while he was frying the
sweetbread she said, " I have been up to the court to
get a warrant against yon." Ho said, " You thief, you
want to swear my life away," and immediately stuck the
i
knife which he had n his hand into her shoulder. He
struck her only once, and the blow was between the
shoulder blade and the breast. She cried out, " Oh,
you have stabbed me," and ran down stairs to the street,
screaming all the way. She was sitting at the fire
in a chair at the time he aimed the blow. Witness
lowed her into the strew, and a gentleman came up. and
the deceased was Immediately taken to a doctor's shop, a
few doors from Petticoat-lane. A street-keeper took
charge of the wounded woman, and witness returned
with a policeman to the house, and they found the priso-
ner sitting on the opposite side of the fire to where his
wife had been. Ho was finishing his tea, and cutting
some bread with the knife with which he had stuck his
wife. The prisoner was then taken into custody. In
the morning the deceased was sharpening the knife upon
an earthen pan, and said she intended to cut her throat
with it. The prisoner told her she might do so if she
liked, but he pulled the knife out of her hand. The
prisoner Was sober when he used the knife, and his
wife was a temperate woman.

Sergeant Baines,whoiiveill be recollected discovered
the body of the murdered O'Connor in Minver-place,
deposed to arresting the prisoner, when he told him that
he was going. to take him into custody fnr stabbing his
wife. He said he knew all about it, but hoped he had
not hurt her. lie told witness that the knife with which
he was cutting the bread was the one ho stabbed his
wife with. There wereesome slight marks of blood on
the bandle. (The witness produced the knife, which
was a table one of the ordinary size.)
Mr. Wyatt, houseeturgeon at the London Hospital,
said when he was called to attend the deceased she was
bleeding from a wound in the neck, and appeared much
exhausted. It was a punctured wound, and suela as
might have been produced by the knife exhibited by
the last witness. The wound was three-quarters
of an inch long, and three inches deep,
She lived from the 19th until the 27th, and died at mid-
night on that day. 114 male a post mortem examina-
tion of the body, and the cause of death was infleues-
tion, arising from the infliction of the wound. The de-
ceased appeared very desponding about her recovery.
151 r. Pine, chief clerk of the police court, produced
the statement of the deceased, and said it was mule in
the presence of the accused. It was the result of ques-
tion and answer, and, after being made, it was read
over to her, and she attached her mark to it.
The statement contained no important facts beyond
those detailed by the preceding witnesses.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. PARRY, for the prisoner, contended that as there
was no plan or plot connected with the perpetration of
the crime, it could not be construed to be a murder,
and therefore that the jury could only return a verdict
of manslaughter. Ile put it to them whether, after re-
viewing the whole circumstances of the case, they could
come to any other conclusion than that the fatal wound
was iefl:cted in a moment of irritation and while the
prisoner was quite unconscious that he held the weapon
in his hand. The expression of kindness and affection
which had fallen from him immediately prior to the
melancholy circumstance was good proof that he had
entertained no mailed. us feeling towards his wife, and
mcoonmfiermnteaerlythpeasospioinni.on
Ttihifit,tiltharenebdlocwouwna.ssel
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he.erneseualt
called
several witnesses, who spoke in high terms !.t the pri-
soner's "character, end described him as kind-hearted
.
among his associates, and affectionate his bearing to-
wards hiS wife.
Mr. Justice ERLE then summed up, and the jury,
after a short Consultetion, returned a verdict of uniu-
slaughter against the prisoner.
His LORDSIIIP took time to consider the sentence.

ab9add
Edgar, been
(Before the Commora-SergEatt BULLOCK, and Mr,
men. of. Messrs. Swann
Alderman CARDE.N.)
John Leach, a respetable-looking young man, who
to an indictment charging
him with emEezzling'') is. ed., the money of his em-
ployers.
Mr. IinDDLEsToNE, on behalf. of the prosecutors,
pie2leedarsi,iuniitythe se
strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account
of his previous good conduct, believing that this was his
first offence.
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to eight days'
imprisonment in Newgate.