The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-13 00:00:00

' 1850.

Mr. Commissionor LAW observed that the insolvent,
on his former hearing, denied the promise to marry,
which he now admitted by the state-meat he had math:
to Sarah James. The case would stand adjourned to
settle; and if the young woman withdrew her oppo-
sition he might be discharged, otherwise he would re-
ceive a judgment.
The case was adjourned to the 24th July.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
James Balls appeared in discharge of his bail before
Sir Chapman Marshall to answer a charge of careless
driving, and thereby causing the death of Robert
William Harris, a child about three years of age.
Police-constable 348 stated, that about half-past
eight o'clock on Tuesday evening be was on duty on
Ludgate-hill, when he heard the scream of a child,
and on looking round saw the conductor of one of the
Hackney omnibuses pulling a couple of children
from under the feet of the horses. The defendant
was driving the omnibus, which belonged to Mr.
Barber of Hackney, up the hill, when the two chil-
dren ran directly under the horses' feet and were
knocked down. On being picked up they were con-
veyed on a stretcher to Mr. Hutchinson's, a surgeon
in the neighbourhood, but before they arrived there
deceased was found to be dead.
Joseph Ebill, a gentleman residing in the Hack-
ney-road, deposed that on the evening in question he
was riding on the outside ne defendant's omnibir.,,
which was going up Ludgate-hill at a slow "pace,
about five miles an hour, when nlittle boy, abov
or twelve years of age, carrying deceased , eleven
attempted
to cross the road immediately under th
.e heads of the
horses. They were both knocked d'Avn and trampled
on by the horses, but he beli°ved they were not
touched by the wheels of the vehicle.
Huntley Harris said, 'ue resided in Fleur-de-lis-
court, and was first-cousin to the deceased, whom be
was carrying in Ills arms across Ludgate-bill when
knocked down',,ythe omnibus horses. The omnibus
was standing still a few minutes previous at the bot-
tom of the bill, and when he endeavoured to cross the
omnibus name on him unawares, knocked him down,
and his cousin (deceased) out of his arms ; he felt
the foot of one of the horses placed on his back, and
the fore wheel passed over his cousin's neck. He
(witness) got up as soon as he could and took de -
ceased in his arms, when a gentleman came and took
him away to the doctor's. He recollected nothing
more as he was very much frightened at the time.
Did not see deceased after he was taken from him.
Several of deceased's relatives appeared to give
evidence, but nothing was elicited to support the
charge of careless driving on the part of the de-
fendant.

Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said, he believed that the
defendant was perfectly blameless, from the evidence
which had been adduced, the more particularly so
from his own personal knowledge of the great care
and attention displayed by the drivers of the Hack-
ney omnibuses in general. He would therefore dis-
charge the defendant, but recommended him to be
punctual in his attendance at the inquest, in order
that the end and aim of justice might be perfectly
satisfied.

WORSHIP-STREET.
William Wickley, a tall, powerful man, described
as a greengrocer in Turville-street, Bethnal-green,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged
with causing the death of his sister-in-law, a young
married woman named Margaret Wilmot.
James Turpin, a hawker, said—l was standing
with a friend in front of the bar of the Victory
public-house, in Little Nelson-street, Bethnal-green,
at eight o'clock last evening, when the prisoner came
in in the company of a woman, and both of them
appeared to be intoxicated. The deceased, Margaret
Wilmot, followed them in, and, addressing the other
woman, asked her if she knew that the prisoner was
a married man. She had scarcely uttered the
words when the prisoner, with a threatening obser-
vation, raised his arm, and was in the act of striking
her, when I ran out to seek her husband, whom I
met in an adjoining street, and having been informed
on my way back that the woman had been carried
home senseless, we proceeded there together, and on
reaching the house found her lying there, dead. A
policeman was standing outside, to whom I commu-
nicated what I had witnessed, and I accompanied
him to a house in a street leading out of Club-row,
where I pointed out the prisoner, who was taken into
custody.
Susan Shepherd, a married woman, residing two
doors from the public-house in question, stated—l was
very intimate with the deceased, whose sister was the
wife of the, prisoner, and while conversing with her
at my own -door, between seven and eight last even-
ing the prisoner passed us with a woman, who was so
much intoxicated that she fell down in the road. She
Was raised up by the prisoner, wbo took her into the
public-house, followed by the deceased, who had seen
the two together, and directly afterwards I heard the
noise of a violent contest inside the house, and on
hastening there found the deceased, supported in the
arms of two men, without either bonnet or shawl,
convulsively struggling, and being carried into the
street. I picked up the deceased's cap and shawl,
which were lying on the floor in front of the bar, and
went out to follow her, but, not seeing the deceased,
I returned home and found her sitting on a step at
the back door, retching violently, and apparently very
ill. I raised her head to support her, and asked if I
should get her a cup of tea, to which she seemed
silently to assent, and I sent my little girl to prepare
it, while I continued holding her, but almost imme-
diately afterwards her head suddenly dropped, and she
exclaimed, in a faint voice, " Oh, dear, Mrs. Shep-
heard, what shall I do !—my eyesight is gone ? " She
then became senseless, and never spoke afterwards,
and I, having procured assistance, caused her to be
carried into her own house, where she was placed in
bed, and a surgeon in the neighbourhood was in-
stantly sent for, but upon examining her he at once
pronounced her to be dead. This morning I assisted
in undressing her, but did not, while doing so, observe
any marks of violence upon her person.
Police-constable Kimberley, of the H division,
stated, that upon taking the prisoner into custody and
apprising him that he was charged with Maltreating
his sister-in-law, who had since died of the injuries
she had sustained, he made no reply, and was there-
upon conveyed to the station.
The prisoner, who appeared very much depressed,
offered no observations in answer to the charge, and
Mr. ARNOLD ordered hint to be remanded for the
completion of the- evidence, but consented, in the
meantime, to accept substantial bail for his future ap-
pearance, which he fixed at the prisoner himself in
1001., and two sureties in 501. each, with twenty-
four hours' notice to inquire into their sufficiency.