Star.
London, England, 1810-12-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 7.

S. !Pinter, J. ffentiscre, and W. Stareh, were indicted
for having committed an assault oft the wife of a Mr.
Hancock.

Charlotte Hancock stated, that she and her hue-
band lived at Sudbury, near Hafrow, in a house of
which. the defendant, Winter, was landlord. In the
beginning of August, Winter came to enquire when
her husband would be at home. Next morning he
Came again, and•said he was come to take possession
of the honse. On the witness endeavouring to prevent
him from letting two men into the house, he pushed
and struck her violently ; and then brought in the
other defend Ants at the window. They took an invens
tery of the goods, and the next morning she was put
out of the house. The witness is ill at the present
time, in consequence of the violence offered her.—
The other two persons pushed her about at the time.
The witness, her cross-examination, said, she in-
sisted on keeping possession of the house. She had
been in it for about .five months.
Martha Perkins was in the house on the 6th of
August, when Winter came there. He pushed Mrs.
Hancock about in the most shameful manner, and
threw her violently against the dresser. The witness
and Mrs. H. were turned out in the rain.

It appeared, on the evidence of another person, that
the prosecutrix was, on the day in question, greatly
bruised, beaten, and very ill.
The defence set up by the Counsel for the defendant
was, that Hancock and his wife had unlawfully, and
as trespassers, kept possession of the house, and that
Winter, to whom it belonged, had a right to put
them out.

The Chairman observed, that the prosecutrix and
her husband having been in possession of the house,
whether they obtained that possession by right pr
wrong, no person had any right to put them out by
force, or in any other way except according to law ;
which would not suffer the peace to be broten, by
persons taking on themselves a power which might
be converted to the worst purposes, and be productive
of endless confusion. Winter certainly had no right
to turn the woman forcibly out of the house. Al tei
the other two, they were merely brought there to as-
sist Winter ; bu they were acting against law as well
as he. The Jury, however, had to determine whether
they joined in the assault. Winter was found Guilty,
and fined £lO. The other two were acquitted.
Samuel Merril was next tried on an indictment,
charging him with assaulting Thomas Bland. Tht
prosecutor is a cooper, employed at the brew-house
of Messrs. Truman and Hanbury. On the 20th of
August last, as he was walking through Church-lane,
Whitechapel, he saw a woman in the street, in fits,
and he exerted himself in her relief. When she was
so far recoirered as to be able to walk, he undertook
to see her home ; but had not gone many steps, when
he was suddenly knocked down by a man whom he
was an entire stranger to, and kicked and beat most
violently. This was proved by two witnesses, who
were called by Mr. BARRY in support of the prosecu-
tion, one of whom, on being cross-examined as to
who the woman was, answered, that he heard she
was the wife of the defendant, but that he had lately
sold her for a guinea and a bottle of wine. The de.
fendant, in answer to the charge, said, that his wife
was in the habit of keeping loose and idle company,
and greatly given to drinking ; that he had mistaken
the prosecutor for one of her paramours, and was
sorry for what he had done ; but that now-he had got
rid of her.—. The Jury fottnd him guilty, and Mr.
MAINWARING, after a suitable admonition, how he
ventured in future to strike an unoffending person, on
account of a worthless drunken woman, sentenced him
to pay a fine of RlO.
Dite. S.—Patrick and Elizabeth. M'Coy, Michael
Martin, Owen Bradley, Michael Moram, —Fitzgerald,
Cornelia: Ahern, and Mary Cunningham, were charged
with a riot, and assaulting several watchmen of St.
Giles's parish in the of their duty.
Mr. GURNEY stated that the Defendants were eight
out of sixteen, against whom a bill had been found
for a most serious riot ; the other eight did not choose
to appear to take their trials at the present sessions.
The July were, some of them, perhaps, acquainted
with what a riot amongst the lower order of Irish
was. He in the course of his profession had known
something of the subject, but nothing that everecame
mear the present ; and it was owing to a merciful Pao-
VIDENCE only, that the defeqdants, instead of standing
where they then did, we're not standing at the bar of
the Old Bailey to take their trials on an indictment for
murder. The defendants formed part of the inhabi-
tants of a court, called Lascelks-court, in Broad St.
Giles's,. which, it seemed, was noted as a place of
terror to all peaceable persons ; so bad was it, that
even watchmen dreaded to enter it, and whenever a
row occurred there, which was not wrfrosweat, the pa.
trole always mustered as strong a force as they could
before they ventured to enter it. On the night men-
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