The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-16 00:00:00

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DISAPPOINTED LOVE AND ATTEMPTED RUICIDI. On
Thursday Elizabeth Birmingham, a good-looking servant-girl,
was brought before Mr. Bingham, the sitting Magistrate,
upon a charge of attempting to destroy nerseif by poison.
Mr. Cochrane, a tradesman in the Cambridge-read, Beth-
nal-green, said the prisoner was in his service, and a very well-
disposed young person, but she had been courted by a young
man, from whom she had lately received a letter, telling her
hat he should break off the acquaintance with her ; and in
conseguen•te of thi- she bought a quantity of laudanum for
the purpose of ramming herself, The witness, however,
found her very sick, and discovering what she bad done, gave
her in charge to the polies.
A servant boy stated that he saw the prisoner take some-
thing out of a cup, but it made her sick, and he then saw her
pour the contents of a phial down the sink.
The phial was produced by a policemen, who said that on
the ,say to the Court the prisoner told him that she did pur-
chase some laudanum, but she only tasted a little of it, for it
immediately made her ill, and she threw the rest away.
The prisoner, who wept, and appeared dejected, said she
was now very sorry for what she had done. and would never
do so again.
Her master, who seemed to feel much interested in her wel-
fare, said she came from Petworth, in Sussex, and he would
gladly bear the expense of conveying her to her mother there.
'I he prisoner, however, expressed reluctance to return home
to her mother, and said she would rather remain till she could
get a fresh service.
Mr. BileGisAlt said he would send her to be taken care of at
the Bethnal-green workhouse fur the present.
IMPUDENT ROSSIET.—A young fellow, named Robert
Henning, was brought ep for re-examination no a charge of
stealing upwards of 81. in the shop of a tradesman, named By-
for.i. in Church-street, Bethnal-green.
Mrs. Byford w-.s in her parlour last Friday afternoon when
saw toe prisoner in the shop. with his hat and handkerchief
in one hand and a wooden bowl in the other, and having placed
the wooden howl in his hat, he covered it with his handkerchief
and put his hat on his head. The money-drawer was partly
open, and this complainant instantly discovered that a wooden
bowl, containing Si. in silver, had been stolen, but before she
could get past the counter the prisoner had made off. She,
however, caught a glimpse of him running round the corner
of the street, and Mr. Wragg, a butcher, living opposite,
went in pursuit on learning what had occurred.
The prisoner was traced to a cellar in Shackle-
well .street, the owner of which procured a light and
a search was instituted. The wooden bowl was then found
empty, hut the thief had made his way through a thin partition
to an adjoining cellar and escaped, but a black frock-coat and
hat were left there. These were identified by the complainant
as having been worn in her shop by the robber, anti the pri-
soner biting afterwards auprehended without coat and hat. She
picked him out also from several others amongst whom he was
placed in the station-house.—The prisoner was committed.
CLERKE VWELL
itousiNa CHILDEsN.—On Thursday Elizabeth Malloy was
finally examined, charged with robbing numerous children of
their clothes, &c.
The prisoner, it appeared, was in the habit et stopping
children who had been •ent on errands, and under pretence of
rewarding them, would entice them into by places, where she
robbed them.—Several charges were substantiated against her,
and she was committed for trial.
DARINO OUTEAQI.—JanItS Burgess and Sarah Burgess
(brother and sister), Henry Bull, and Sarah, his wife, were
charged by James Thorne, of Prospect-place, Islington, with
the following daring outrage and asAult
The complainant appeared in court upon crutches, in come-
qurnce of the injury he had received, and he was in a weakly

From the evidence, 'it appeared that complainant and his
wife were not on the most comfortable terms, and he had
threatened to separate from her. The defendants, who'were
related to her, came to his house on Monday night week during
his absence, and took possession of his parlour, where they
commenced smoking and drinking. On his return home he
was immediately accosted by Henry Bull in reference to his
domestic affairs, and asked why he had dared to call his mother-
in. law an " old The witness ordered them out of his
hoo,e, on which he was seised and knocked down by Bull, who
beat him shockingly, whilst the female d.fendaiits held him
down, and pulled his hair, calling out "butcher" him, and
during the time the male defendant Burgess, stood with his
hack against the door. Witness felt his life to he in danger.
and he called out " Murder," but they endeavoured to stifle his
cries. After maltreating him for a con;iderable time, he, by a
desperate effort, wade his escape from them, .1
and rushed
to the
back part of the house, and leaped out of a window. by which
his leg was so much injured that he had been ever since under
the care of a surgeon.
lie called several witnesses, who proved that they heard
cries of murder from complainant, and stifled noises u if some
one was being suffocated, and they went for the pollee; who
took Henry Bull to the station.house, where Mr. Thorne pre-
ferred a charge of attempted murder against him, hut- he
(Mr. Thorne) was told to apply for a warrant against hinland
the other party, and Bull was liberated.
Phelan, •./P2 N, who took Bull to the station-house; said
he saw no marks of violence or blood on Mr. Thorne at the
time. The prisoners had no witnesses. Their defence was
that they went to the house without ill feeling to remonstrate
with Mr. Thorne, who had threatened to turn his wife out.
Mr Gits:k.Nwoon said it was a very bad case, and intinired
whether Mr. Thorne wished to put the law in force against
them ? Mr. Thorne—l do ;Igo in tear of my life ; I require

protection.
11r. Gesesswooo fined Henry Bull 21. IN., or one m-nth's
imprisonment, and the other prisoners 10d. each, or seven
fiats ;ri default of payment.
They paid the money, and were liberated.
MAR YLEBONE-
NOVEL PEEFORMANCe AT MADAMS ALBEktTAZTI'S
Rasa OZNCE.—On Thursday, two summonses, which bad been
placed in the hands of Hooker, the officer, came on for hear-
ing before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Rawlimon, the defeti-
cints in each case being in the service of Madame Albertazzi,
whose residence is at No. 22, Park road, Regent's-park.
Mr. Ward, a solicitor, attended on the parts of the com-
plainant.
OLieE GENCE.
Toe first case called on was that against Mary Covell, wet-
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nurse to Madame Albertaszi's and who carried in her
Julie Pal.,,er, a well-dri woman t.t the town. was arms a very beautiful infant.
brought before the Lord )I.a --or. charged with having
Mary
Nye, a married woman, deposed that she is lodging at
24, Charles-street, Hampstead-road, and that she had been
robliel Richard Waller, an ihterpieter. cook to Madame; on the 19th nit. defendant insulted her
The complainant, it appeared, was spoken to by the most grossly, and struck her on the arm with a broom, and
prison-r —one of th.,se w unit.. the avocations of thief alter some time Madame Albertazzi serrated them. Com-
and pr ,et;tute —on bridge. and eon'ented to p'ainant added, that in consequence of the alarm into which
treat her to a glass 't woe While they were standing she wen thrown, she was ill the whole of the same night,
at the bar the prisoner sai l she would just try if anyone and on the next morning, she gave birth prematurely to
was in the parlour, and quitted the complainant, who a child.. '

\'(>RTTJ ERY CIIICUI T.— Lirerpool, Arig. 14.
The Commission for holding these assizes was opened in the
usu4l form in the Crown Court yesterday, immediately after
the arrival of the Judges, Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice
Cretswell, from Lancaster. Their Lordships attended Divine
SPrvice at St. George's Church after the ()piling of the com-
mission.