The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COWARDLY ASSAULT ON A FEJIALE.—TIIOMaS
Sefton, a tall, powerful looking man, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting an unfortu-
nate, named Katherine Kelly.
The complainant said that shortly after one
o'clock that morning she was in Piccadilly, when
the prisoner, without her having said a word to him,
or given him the least provocation, came up to her
and gave her such a violent blow in the mouth that
it completely stunned her, and her mouth was cut.
A sergeant saw the prisoner strike her, and took
him into custody.
Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, said that while in Pic-
cadilly last evening about one o'clock the prisoner,
who had been drinking, came to him and complained
of a constable striking him. He told the prisoner
that if he had any complaint to make against the
constable he had better go to the station. The
prisoner refused to go to the station and walked
away. The complainant then told him (Sergt. Ap-
pleton) he had provoked the constable a great deal.

lie had scarcely turned his back when he heard the
complainant screaming, and saw the prisoner strike
her a very severe blow in the mouth.
The prisoner had no defence to the charge.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a cowardly
fellow to strike a poor woman, and would go to
prison for a month with hard labour. The com-
plainant was not to be treated in such a way because
she happened to be on the street.
A RUFFIAN. —William Wilkinson, a costermonger,

living in Fitzroy-square, was charged with being
drunk and disorderly, and assaulting Sergeant
Bailey, 7 E, and Crashe, 160 E.
The prisoner, who has the reputation of being the
greatest blackguard in Fitzroy-market, was behav-
ing in a disorderly manner, and on the police at-
tempting to take him into custody he set to kick-
ing them.
Barnes, the gaoler, said the prisoner had been
several times charged at that court. _ .

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 203., or 14
days.

WESTMINSTER.

UNPROVOKED AND DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT.—
David Delaney was charged with an unprovoked
and disgraceful assault upon Thomas Knott.
Complainant, one of the Westminster omnibus
conductors, said that last night, after finishing his
day's employment, he was proceeding along Flood-
street, Chelsea, when the defendant, who was
accompanied by two other men, pushed him violently
from the ;middle of the footway against some
shutters. Complainant asked what was meant by
such conduct, when defendant struck him a violent
blow OR the mouth. As complainant had a large
sum belonging to his master about him and was
afraid of being robbed of it, he kept his hands
in his pockets and ran across the road to escape,
when defendant followed and struck him a second
blow in the eye. The police came up, and defend-
ant was given in charge.
James Hill, 212 B, said that he found the com-
plainant covered with blood, and on his complaint
took the defendant to the station.

Defendant said that the complainant came up and
pushed and struck him, and he merely took his own
part.
He called a witness who gave his evidence in a
most unsatisfactory manner, and endeavoured to
make it appear that Lo - blow whatever had been
struck.

Mr. Arnold said he was altogether unworthy of
credit. He believed complainant's account, and
should commit defendant without a fine for ten days
to the House of Correction.

THAMES.

M URDEROUS ASSAULT.—Thomas Deacon, aged

19, a lighterman, of No. 37, Joseph-street, Back-
road, St. George-in-the-East, was brought before
Mr. Knox, sitting for Mr. Benson, charged with
violently assaulting Edward Dove, a waterman, at
Shadwell Dock-stairs.

The complainant said that the prisoner was a
perfect nuisance at the place, and was in the watch-
box at Shad well Dock-stairs last night with another
man. They had no right there, and were requested
to turn out, which they refused to do, and the pri-
soner, who is a strong and powerful fellow, struck
the complainant a tremendous blow on the mouth
with his clenched fist, and completely wounding the
upper lip. A surgeon attended the complainant and
stitched up the lip. A policeman said that it was
impossible to inflict such a wound with a man's fist,
but Mr. Livingston, the chief usher, was of opinion
that it was just such a wound as would have been in-
flicted with the sharp knuckle if a man struck with
great force.

After the examination of several witnesses, who
all agreed a blow was struck, but differad in some
of the details,
Mr. Knox said it was a brutal and abominable
thing to inflict such a blow and inflict such a wound
as the prisoner had done on a man double his own
age. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
for two months and kept to hard labour.