The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

W R S HIP - S

Mr. Edward Salter, a master butcher in Artillery-
place, Spitalfields, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having brutally ill-treated and
entiant ered the life of his wife, by throwing a large
kettle filled with boiling water at her head.
It appeared from the statement of the:wife, a delicate,
meek-looking woman, that she had been married about
ten years to the prisoner, by whom she had two chil-
dren, during the greater part of which period he had
abandoned himself to the most intemperate habits, and
behaved towards her with systematic harshness and bru-
tality. On returning home in his usual drunken con
dition a few nights since, he commenced a furious attack
upon her, and seizing her by the throat while in bed,
attempted to strangle her, in which he would in all pro-
bability have succeeded, but far the strenuous interfe-
rence of some of the lodgers, who heard cries of distress,
and opportunely hastened to her rescue. On the pre-
ceding evening, after drinking to excess all the early
part of the day, the prisoner went to bed to sleep off the
effects of his debauch, and on her venturing to wake him
to tell him that his supper was ready, he immediately
assailed her with the most abusive and threatening
language, and apprehending her life to be in danger,
she ran into the shop to escape beyond the reach of
his violence. The instant she loft the room, however,
the prisoner caught up a large tea-kettle, containing
nearly a gallon of boiling water, from the fire, and hurled
it at her with all his force through a glass partition which
divided the parlour from the shop. After passing over
the heads of two children who were lying asleep imme-
diately under the partition, and whose bed was corn-
p!etely saturated with the scalding fluid that escaped
during its progress, the ponderous missile struck against
the counter within an inch of the spot where she was
standing; and a policeman, who had been attracted by
the disturbance, immediately secured the prisoner, and
conveyed him to the station-house.

Police-constable H 103 corroborated the latter part of
the comp'ain ant's evidence, and stated that during the
three months that he had been on the beat the prisoner
had been in a constant state of intoxication, and that his
brutal and inhuman conduct towards his unfortunate
wife had excited the indignation and disgust of the whole
neighbourhood.

On being asked if he wished to make any answer to
the charge, the prisoner, in a surly, growling tone,
declined saying anything.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after a severe and suitable admoni-
tion, ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of SL, or to
undergo two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in
the House of Correction ; in addition to which, he re-
quired him to find substantial bail to keep the peace for
three months, with twenty-four hours' notice to ascer-
tain its sufficiency.

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