The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Eliza Goswell, a woman of loose and desperate
character, was charged with having wilfully broken
the windows of Thomas Westlake, general dealer,
Vernon-street, Bond-street.
Some time ago the parish authorities of St. James's
took steps to suppress the brothels in Sheppard-street.
The complainant was employed to give evidence in
order to ensure convictions, and since that period he
has been constantly annoyed and threatened by those
whose infamous traffic was put an end to through .his
instrumentality. The defendant, who has for years
been known as one of the lowest class of unfortunates,
on several occasions wilfully broke the complainant's
windows, and not having money to pay the damage
and the fine, has been sent to prison to pay in person.
On Monday evening she paid the complainant a fourth
visit, and smashed windows to the amount of 7s. 6d.
The complainant no sooner entered the witness box
to give his evidence than the defendant levelled a
volley of execrations and threats at him, and continued
her disgusting conduct to the end of the proceedings,
in spite of the efforts of the officers to restrain her.
Mr. MALTBY asked her what she had to say in
answer to the charge ? Defendant—Say, why that
I shan't leave this world happy until I've put my mark
on that (pointing to the complainant). I'll
smash every window in his house, and I'll scratch him
too, the first chance I get. I wonder the Jews of
Sheppard-street don't go in a body and knock his
brains out. You may send me to prison, but as soon
as I come out I'll be at the again.
The complainant having declared that he went in
bodily fear from the defendant's threats,
Mr. MALTBY decided on requiring the defendant to
find bail to keep the peace for three months.
The woman paused for a moment as if meditating
mischief. She said, however (looking at the magis-
trate). " No, 1 wont blackguard you, but (fighting
her way through the constables to the complainant)
I'll have the heart of that ---." Before she could
execute vengeance on the complainant, she was seized
and her arms forcibly pinioned. She was then
locked up.
About an hour or two after this, Thomas Westlake
himself was brought into Court, and charged with
having grievously wounded Ellen Barry.
The complainant is another of those wretched
creatures who haunt the streets ; and she too has long
been known to the police as one of the most drunken
and desperate women about town.
When called upon to give evidence she was too
drunk to say more than that she had got her death
wound at last. She pointed to her head and clothes
which were covered with blood.

The defendant said the woman had just been to his
house and smashed three of his windows. He went
out with a stick to protect his property, when he was
attacked, and he then knocked her down by a blow on
the head.

Several witnesses were present who saw the trans-
action. They said the defendant had what appeared
to be a life preserver in his hand, with which he struck
the woman many heavy blows on the head which ren-
dered her insensible.

Mr. MALTBY directed the woman to be taken to the
hospital to have her wounds examined, and, remanded
the defendant until next day in order to have the
surgeon's certificate.
Louis Woodcock, a gentleman of property, who is
known at this Court from his disputes with various
hotel-keepers, with whom he has at times taken up
his abode, was charged with having broken two lamp
shades, and also assaulted Mrs. Cocquerell, landlady
of the European Hotel, Leicester-place.
It appeared that the defendant went to the Euro-

pean Hotel to obtain some linen he had left there, but
the linen was refused to him until he had paid the
balance of his bill. This excited the defendant, and
with his stick he broke the glasses in question, and
then afterwards struck the landlady a blow on the
mouth, and two blows on the body.
The defendant said he was attacked by the waiter,
who had a carving-knife in his hand, and he was
obliged to defend himself with his stick. It was
while using his stick that the glasses became broken.
He denied having assaulted Mrs. Cocquerell.
Mr. MALTBY asked the complainant if she had
noticed the state of the defendant's mind when he
lived at her hotel ?

The complainant and waiter both said they believed
the defendant's intellect was affected.
The defendant denied that he was of unsound mind.
Mr. MALTBY was informed that the defendant had
been confined in a lunatic asylum in France.
The defendant was fined at., or one month's impri-
sonment.