The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

POLICE L.ll TELLIGENCE-- This Day.

11rE STMIN STE R

SERIOUS CHARGE OF STABBING.—Mary Hylen,
a woman about 30 years of age, was placed at the
bar charged with feloniously assaulting and wound-
ing her husband by stabbing him in the back with a
table knife.

The police said that the in man was lying in
the hospital in a precarious state.

Matthew Page, police-constable 101 S, sworn—l
was on duty at Chelsea, last night, and at about 11
o'clock I was told that a wan had been stabbed
near the back of the White Horse, in Church-
street. I went there and saw the prisoner, her
husband, and another man in a cab going to the
hospital. Prisoner's husband was wounded. I
asked who had stabbed him, and was told by per-
sons in the crowd that his wife bad done it. I got
on the spring of the cab and rode with them to the
hospital, and there I learnt the wife had stabbed
him.

Mr. Arnold--Who told you?
Witness—Her husband in her presence.
Mr. Arnold—Did she make any reply ?
Witness—She said she gave him a slight blow.
After the man's wound had been dressed I told
the prisoner she would have to accompany me to
the police station. She said it would not have hap-
pened if he had not first taken a knife to her.
While she was being charged at the station the in-
spector inquired if I had got the knife, and she
said I should find it on the table in her room.
I went to the first floor front, at 20, Laurence-
street, Chelsea, and I found the knife I now pro-
duce upon the table there.

Mr. Arnold—Did the husband give you any ac-
count of the transaction ?

Witness—He could not. He was so seriously
injured the doctors would not allow him. It was
believed that his lungs were penetrated by the
knife.

William Budding, 19, Laurence-street, Chelsea,
said—Last night I was returning from work, and
was at my own house when I saw the prisoner
standing at her door undressed. I saw her husband
running away. He called out " She has stabbed
me." I followed him. He was bleeding from the
left side. He would have fallen, but I caught him.
I got a cab and took him to the hospital.
Mr. Arnold—Prisoner, have you anything to
say?

Prisoner—My husband carne home drunk last
night, and I went down to let him in. He followed
me, and when he got upstairs took up the knife and
said he would kill me. I wrenched the knife out
of his hand, and in the struggle he fell on one side,
and I fell with the knife.

Mr. Arnold—Had the husband been drinking ?
Page—He bad been drinking.
Prisoner was remanded.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A CHILD CHARGED WITH SERIOUSLY INJURING
ANOTHER CIIILD.—WIII. Dear, about seven years of
age, appeared to answer a summons charging him
with assaulting litizabeth Daley, a child of a simi-
lar age.
The defendant having been placed on a chair, so
that he might be seen by the magistrate, Mr.
Ty rw hitt,
The complainant was sworn, when she said that
she lived in the same court as the defendant, Pul-
teney-court, and that on the 6th Nov. she was in
Broad-street, when she saw the defendant, who
was coming home from school, and he threw a
piece of slate at her and hit her in the eye, he re-
marking at the time, " I'll hit you a smash in the
eye." The defendant afterwards on her stopping
kicked her in the eye with his foot and then went
home, and she went home too. Iler eye was after-
wards very bad, and she had lost the sight of it.
In answer to the defendant's grandfather, the
complainant said sho had done nothing to the de-
cendant.

Mary Ann Gibbons, a little girl, said that she
was returning from school with the complainant,
when the defendant said, " You are Irish, and go
to the ragged school." The complainant said, " We
are Protessans" (meaning Protestants), and the
defendant then threw a bit of slate at complainant,
and hit her in the eye ; and on the complainant
stooping down the defendant kicked her in the eye.
The complainant's parents said th.►t in conse-
quence of the injury to the complainant's eye she
had become affected with cataract, and they be-
lieved would lose the sight of the eye.
For the defence it was stated that the defendant
took up a handful of mud and threw it at the com-
plainant, and that there might have been unknown
to him a piece of slate in it ; and it was also stated
that the complainant had had something the matter
with the eye for some monthS past.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that at the same time he had
no doubt an assault had been committed on the
complainant, he did not believe the whole injury
to the eye was caused by the defendant, as cataract
did not come in a week or two.

Jeffrey, one of the summoning officers, said he
knew the boy, who was rather a vicious child, and
and was encouraged in it by his father.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should fine the defendant
10s. and costs, or seven days, and perhaps that
would act as a lesson to the father.