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London, England, 1845-05-01 00:00:00

twenty-four years carpenter in Mr. George Smith's employ-
ment.
Cut the hole for the suction-pipe, which was at first
too small, and bad to be enlarged.
John Elry had been foreman carpenter to Mr. Smith in
1825. Made the hole in the top of the receiver, which was
plugged up. Believed the plug produced to be the plug then
used. Nailed boards over the other hole. Could not swear
that the boards produced in Court were the same, but they
looked very like them.
Mr. Charles Allen Young—ls a back maker in High-street
in the Borough. In 1825 was in partnership with his father,
and made the receiver for Mr. Smith. Knew that a hole in
the cover to receive the dipping-rod was plugged up, and
another made. Could not say that the plug now shown to
him was the one used. Should think from its appearance
that it had been driven in very hard.
Cross-examined—Did 'not think that it had been so long
made as twenty years.
Re. examined—Could not swear to any opinion positively
on the subject.
The Court then adjourned at five o'clock to ten to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Yesterday, Mr. J. G. Mayer, a furrier, of 58, Oxford-
street, was charged with assaulting his brother-in-law,
Mr. E. M'Lean, 169, Strand, an importer of paint-
ings, Scc.
Mr. Ballantine attended as the complainant's counsel,
and Mr. Blackmore, a solicitor, appeared for defendant.
Mr. Ballantine, after alluding to the respectability of
both the parties, begged that the magistrate would not
allow any domestic or other matters unconnected with
the charge before him to be mixed up with it. The com-
plainant and the defendant had not been latterly on
friendly terms, and probably, if the calve of their diffe-
rences were investigated, it might appear that there
were faults on both sides. He trusted, therefore, that
the mere assault, which was a very serious one, and le-
gally unjustifiable, under any pretence, would occupy ex-
clusively the attention of the bench. He then called
Edward 11• Lean (thecomplainant), who appeared with
his head bound up, and said—Last night, shortly after
my shop had been closed and the shoptnan had gone
home as usual, I heard a ringing of the door bell, and
went myself to answer it. Immediately on opening the
door, and before I had seen who was there, 1 received a
heavy blow on the head, which felled me to the ground
and stunned me. On recovering my senses I saw who
the man was, and caught hold of the stick which he had
in his hand to prevent him striking me again, as he
seemed about to do. In the struggle he either threw or
knocked me down. The mob round the door then closed
in upon us, and I heard him telling them that I was his
brother-in-law. I believe I bled as much as two quarts.
A medical man afterwards attended me, and I sent a
policeman to take the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Blackmere rose to cross-examine the complain-
ant, when he was interrupted by
Mr. TWYFORD, who requested that he would confine
himself strictly to the charge, and stated that, if he was
not prepared to deny it, he would at once send the case
to the sessions.
Mr. Ballantine intimated that he was obliged to re-
gard the offence as a felony, and not as an ordinary as-
sault, and, therefore, it must go to the Central Criminal
Court.
Mr. Blackmore was about to speak of the gross pro-
vocation which would be shown in this case, but
Mr. TWYFORD declined entering into that subject, and
begged that Mr. Blackmore would avoid it in his cross-
examination.
Mr. Blackmore said that the defendant, whom his
brother-in-law had been pleased to call " the man," had
endured the utmost wrong that it was in the power of
one man to inflict on another ; and was it to go forth to
the world that a person of Mr. Mayer's respectability
and character had been charged with a felonious attack
on a relative, without the slightest notice being con-
veyed, through the same channel, as to the motive which
had led to it ?
Mr. Ballantine asked the complainant how long a
period had elapsed, previous to the present transaction,
since he had seen the defendant ?—The complainant re-
plied, about four months.
Mr. TWYFORD—WeII, then, there could have been no
immediate provocation in the case. You must not intro-
duce matters irrelevant to the charge.
Mr. Blackmore declared that he could prove an imme-
diate provocation of the grossest kind, and earnestly' en-
treated that he might be allowed to ask the complainant
a few questions.
The complainant was then asked if his sister was not,
prior to her death, the wife of Mr. Mayer, and whether
a daughter was not the issue of their union?—He replied
to both questions in the affirmative.
Mr. Blackmore—Was not that daughter in your house
at the very time when this assault was committed ?
Mr. Ballantine objected to this question being an-
swered, but, as his Worship did not interfere, it was re-
peated.
Complainant—Certainly she was, and you can see the
lady if you like.
Mr. Blackmore—No, Sir. There was a time when I
should have been happy to see her—but that time is past.
Mr. Ballantine insisted on this course of proceeding
being stopped. If observations tending. to criminate his
client were to be allowed, he might be in a condition to
show that there was culpability on both sides.
Mr. TWYFORD—You must see, Mr. Blackmore, that I
cannot hear anything foreign to the actual charge be-
fore me.
Mr. Blaelcmore said his principal object was to estab-
lish Mr. Mayer's claim so far to the consideration of the
beAch as to induce his Worship, should he determine on
sending the case for further inquiry, to grant bail.
Mr. TWYFORD—When the proper time arrives,
namely, at the end of the case, you can make your ap-
plication for bail in the ordinary way.
The case was then proceeded with.
Mr. Richards, a surgeon, deposed that he had exa-
mined: the wounds on the complainant's head. They
were apparently very severe, but there was not the
slightest danger attending them.
Constable F 72, stated that he took Mr. Mayer into
custody at his house in Oxford-street. On telling him
it was for assaulting Mr. M‘Lean, he said, " What I
have done I will do again."
This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Blackmore
applied for the liberation of the defendant on bail.
Mr. TWYFORD did not feel justified in granting bail in
so serious a case. Why should he ?
Mr. Ballantine also objected to the application, ob-
serving that the evidence of the policeman showed the
necessity of that protection being secured to the com-
plainant which it was the province of the magistrate to
afford. The application might afterwards be made to
the judge at chambers.
Mr. Blackmore said he had never once supposed that
Mr. Mayer would be refused his liberty on furnishing
the security which it was in his power to give. The
threat spoken to by the policeman was evidently uttered
under feelings of great excitement, and he hoped
therefore it would not influence his Worship's mind. Mr.
Mayer was prepared to pledge himself not again to mo-
lest Mr. M‘Lean, although he never could forget the in-
jury that had been done him, and this avowal would be
backed by bail to any reasonable amount. He (Mr.
Blackmore) had known the defendant for more than
twenty years, and he could testify personally to the high
character always borne by him as a citizen and as a man.
Mr. M'Lran, the brother of his late wife, had inflicted
on him a far deeper wound than that which he bad him-
self received at the hands of Mr. Mayer in a moment of
great but pardonable irritation. Mr. Mayer had struck
the seducer of his only daughter, for lie could not with-
hold the fact any longer, and that daughter was the
child of Mr. M‘Lean's own sister. She was in his house
when her injured and afflicted father struck the blow
for which he had been taken into custody; and, under
these painful circumstances, he declared it would be an
outrage on Mr. Mayer to refuse his application, and to
send him to gaol to await his trial on this charge.
Mr. TWYFORD said there were two reasons why he
felt bound to refuse bail; the one being the secret man-
ner in which the assault had been committed, and the
other the threat made in the presence of the constable.
The defendant was then committed for trial at the Old
Bailey.