The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-31 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

George Lawson, residing in Charles-street, Bagnigge
Wells-road, was charged with wounding Frances Law-
son, his wife, whereby her life is seriously endangered.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner,
who is a man of drunken habits and savage disposition,
was presiding at some society having benevolence for its
professed object, in the Fox and French Horn beer-shop,
in Clerkenwell-green, on Sunday night last. Having
drank a good deal, he fell asleep in the tap-room, with
his head reclining on the table. his wife, who was like-
wise under the influence of liquor, came in and asked
him for money. He did not hear, her, upon which she
seized him by the arm and shook him. He im-
mediately jumped up with a long pipe in his
hand ; angry words ensued, and the prisoner
thrust the shank of the pipe into her right
eye. The thrust was made with such violence that the
shank penetrated into her head one inch and a half, and
was broken across in the eye, about the eighth of an inch
protruding. The woman fell, and bled so profusely,
that there was a pool of blood on the floor of the tap-
room. Police-constable 242 G was called in, but he was
so shocked at the woman's appearance, that he fainted,
and was carried out of the room in a state of insensibi-
lity. The prisoner, taking advantage of the condition of
the officer, and without attempting to administer the
slightest assistance to his agonised wife, ran away and
was not arrested until Monday night, when Doyle, 197
G, arrested him in Maiden-lane, Islington. The prose-
cutor was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
bleeding all the way thither. The house surgeon con-
sidered her life in imminent danger, and she still lies
there dangerously ill.
The prisoner, who evinced the utmost indifference at
his wife's condition, was remanded for a week, but sub-
sequently admitted to bail.
UNION-HALL.
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Yesterday James Buckley, Catherine, his wife, Edward
Haynes, Bridget Brown, Caroline Wigzel, and Mary
Quin, were charged with stealing a cash-box, containing
gold, silver, and Bank notes, to the value of 1801, the
property of Mr. Conolly, a newsvender, residing near
the station of the Greenwich Railway, at London-bridge.
About three or four months since the prosecutor, Mr.
Conolly, was robbed of a cash-box containing gold and
notes of the value as stated above. At the period of the
robbery the prisoner Brown was in the service of Mr.
Conolly, as a domestic servant, and from circumstances
which came to his knowledge, he suspected that the rob-
bery was committed by Brown, but could not bring it
home to her for want of sufficient testimony. Brown
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patient of Charing-cross Hospital ; but it appears that
mate terms, visiting each other daily. A policeman, in
the prisoner Brown and Mrs. Buckley were on very intl.-
private clothes, was set to watch the e motions of Brown,
and he proceeded to the home of Wigzel, where Mrs.
Buckley was staying, and questioned her respecting
the robbery, but failed to elicit any evidence relative
to the cash-box. Nothing further was heard of the
transaction until about a fortnight ago, when
Mary Quin was charged at Bow-street Police-court,
on suspicion of having one of the stolen notes
in her possession, which note she said was given to her
by her mistress,
English Miss Harrison, who keeps a cigar-shop
adjoining the Opera-house. The note was a
Bank of England note, of the value of 5/. The note was
identified by Mr. Conolly, as having been stolen from
his cash-box. Miss Harrison, on -being requested to
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account for the possession of the note, said that she re-
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this latter occurrence, and was then staying at the house
of the prisoner Wigzel. From informatio given to the
police, they proceeded to the house of Wigtel, and after
searching the house, two large boxes containing a
quantity of wearing apparel, bed-ticks, table-covers, and
linen, were discovered, supposed to be the produce of the
robbery, which were taken possession of by the police,
and the prisoners given into custody.
Mr. Conolly said :there was the direct*testimony of
Miss Harrison having received the 51. note from one of
the prisoners, and lie was prepared to swear to the ntun-
' lacr of the note.