The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Thomas Pledge was charged with wilfully breaking
thirty cucumber glasses in a market-garden, at Ber-
mondsey.
Charles Shepherd stated that he is the owner of a
market-garden at Bermondsey, in which he rears cucum-
bers. On the preceding afternoon, while watching on
his grounds, he saw the prisoner flinging stones into the
garden, and he did not desist until he had smashed
thirty or forty of the cucumber-glasses. After a smart
pursuit he was taken into custody.
The prisoner was fined fifty shillings, the value of the
glass he had broken, besides ten shillings costs, and in
default of payment he was committed for one month.
James Cannon, foreman to a wharfinger, was charged
with assaulting and breaking the organ of Antonio Ma-
zeppa, a Piedmontese.
It appeared that Antonio was " grinding" his organ in
the street, when the defendant came up and desired him
to go to his own country, and not to be annoying the
passengers. Antonio, however, paid no regard to what
was said, but still continued playing on the organ, when
the defendant wilfully ran up against him, struck him in
the eye, and broke his instrument.
Mr. MAUL condemned the conduct of the defendant
towards a poor foreigner, and inflicted a fine of 10s. on
him for the assault, besides making him pay for the
damage, amounting to 235., and in default he was
locked up.
Thursday, Sarah Drew, a woman advanced in years,
was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with ad-
ministering poison to Richard Drew, her husband, with
intent to deprive him of life.
The complainant, who is also advanced in life, and
very sharp, stated that he keeps a circulating library at
3, Castle-street, Kent-street, and that the prisoner occu-
pied a room up stairs, but did not take her meals with
him ; that she was in the habit of quarrelling with him,
being of a very violent temper, and that was the reason
they did not live together in the house, she occupying a
room up stairs, and he allowed her a weekly sum of
money to support herself. On the preceding day, he sold
a small chest of drawers, that he did not require, to his
son, and this gave great offence to the prisoner, who
came down from her own room, and began to abuse him,
and while he was afterwards assisting his son to take
away the drawers, the prisoner, from an up-stairs room,
intentionally dropped a heavy piece of wood on his head
from the window. The same afternoon, she (prisoner)
came down into the parlour, where he was preparing
his tea, and began to abuse him for selling the drawers,
during which a customer came into the shop. He took
the teapot off the table, and placed it on the grate
by the fire side, while he went into the shop to attend
upon the customers, and on his return into the room the
prisoner was still there, and he took the teapot and
poured out a cup of tea, and when he had taken two
draughts he experienced a burning sensation in his
mouth and throat, and immediately began to vomit. He
complained to the prisoner of his sensations, saying he was
eertain there was something wrong, but, instead of procur-
ing anything for him to abate the sickness, the prisoner
seemed rejoiced at his sufferings, and ejaculated that she
hoped he would throw up his b eart, and used other language
of a similar description. She then left the room and went
up stairs, when soon after her departure he perceived a
piece of paper on the spot where the prisoner had pre-
viously stood, and on opening it he found it to contain a
lump of white stuff resembling chalk in its appearance,