The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

BRUTAL OTTRAGE ON A YOUNG WOMAN

On Friday morning last, a most brutal assault was
made by two men on a maid servant, named Sarah
Sewell, in the service of Mr. William Odin, Great
Burstead, who prosecuted a man named Cheeks at the
recent Quarter Session, and agaiast whom this young
person was principal evidence. Atioet two o'clock in
the morning some one whom the girl supposed to be
the man servant, and who lives a short dtstence from
his master's, called to her, stating that the furrier had
come to bleed the mare, which was ill, and that he
wanted a piece of cord and a light. The girl very incau-
tiously went down stairs only sightly dressed, procured
a piece of cord, and unfastened the door to give it to
the party. One man then caught her by the arm, and
the other pushing the door back, they di ew her out,
and threatened to murder her if she did not desist
from calling out. They then cut all the hair off her
head with a pair of shears, and having knocked her
about left her probably, as they imagined, dead. At six
o'clock, when the servant came, he found her lying in the
yard weltering in her blood. She is Low delirious and
in a very dangerous state, but is lucid intervals has
made a deposition as to certain parties, who have been
apprehended jointly by Mr. William Curtis and the
police, but are now out on bail. The mare referred too
was ill at the time, and it is supposed poison had been
given to her. A fowl was taken from the coop by the
same party, and was found dad one field from the house,
and also the hair of the poor girl, which appears to have
been carried off as a trophy.—Essex Herald.
A BARBER••OUS EXPEDIENT.—There once lived
and exercised his profession in the town of Ayr,
a very dry barber, well known by the familiar
name of " Jamie." Many an ingenious plan
he took to slake his unquenchable thirst. and
among the rest the following :—One morning
about. the Cadgers' Race time, he was famishing—for he
had been liberally supplied the night before—when an
unfortunate Irishman cane into his shop to be shaved, car-
rying a bottle half-full of whisky. Jamie scarcely saw the
man after he had got a single glance at the bottle,
but he managed to place him on the usual chair
which, b• the bye, was the only article of furniture
in the shop, for he could not do well without it, the
spark in the barber's throat having found a grate-
ful use for every other article he had possessed.
When the Irishman sat down, he placed his hat, and
the bottle inside of it. on the floor ; and Jamie, hav-
ing fastened a piece of a towel round his neck, com-
menced to lather his face at random ; his eye all
the time being eagerly fixed on the bottle. The
lathering over, the razor was produced and carefully
stropped and displayed with sundry flourishes, ac-
companied with several indistinct mutterings and
Irindings of the teeth, which rather astonished the
rishman. Jamie seeing the consternation his man-
ners produced, suddenly withdrew behind the chair,
thrust the razor into his pocket, and pulling out a
redding comb, drew it sharply. across the Irishman's
throat, crying, at the same time, " Take that, you
villain, for knocking nle down on the street last
night I " Up leaped the Irishman, and, with one
bound, was on the street roaring that his throat was
cut, and holding, with desperate energy, the piece of
towel to the supposed wound. A crowd of people were
immediately gathered, and looking aghast at the sup-
posed murder; but they soon discovered the trick. The
Irishman, foaming with fury, rushed into the shop to
have his revenge; but he found the premises deserted.
Jamie and the solitary chair had departed; Rad so had
hew hisky.—iljer Observer.
HBROIC CONDUCT OF A POLICEMAN.—On Mon-
day, about four o'clock. Constable Mansfield was pro-
ceeding over Patrick's-bridge, when his attention was
attracted by a crowd of persons who were hooking in.
tently into the river, calling our, " Will no one save
him ?" Accordingly going over to the quay, he dis-
covered a man in the middle of the river, and strug
gling against the current, which was bearing him
away. The constable, with an intrepidity which had near
to have cost him his own life, immediately ran down the
slip opposite the River Steamers-office, and plunged,
clothes and all, into the tide. He at once made for the
unfortunate creature whom he sought to rescue, but
when within a few paces of him he sunk to rise no more.
The constable himself was by this time well-nigh ex-
hausted, and were it not for a boat which put off to his
assistance, ho might have perished. The name of the
man who met thus untimely with a watery grave, is
Maurice Connor, a day labourer, who, it seems, flung
himself recklessly into the river near Lavitt's Quay, after
having spent everything he was possessed of.—Cork
Southern Reporter of Tuesday.
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OINTMIINT.—Mary Gilmore, aged tvrenty-one, the
daughter of Mr. Henry 'Gilmore, ;residing Chnrch-
street, Shoreditch, was in the second stage of
consumption, and considered past recovery, when, as
a last resource, large quantities of Holloway's Oint-
ment was rubbed twice a day into her chest and left
side, which was imbibed into the lungs, and there stopped
the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as effectually
as though the remedy bad been applied to an ulcerated
sore palpable to the eye. The Pills were taken as di-
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three months. Sold by every medicine vendor, and at
the Establishment of Professor Holloway, 244, Strand,
whine wiTice coy be bail gratis.