The Sun. — 1845-05-16 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. C'LERKEIVIVELL.  Edward Wilcox, of No. 3, Little Guildford• street, was charged with the following outrageous conduct. Julia Wright, the wife of a decent mechanic, a modest, quiet-looking young female, stated, that on the previous night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, she was returning home with her mother and husband, when the latter made a momentary stop, and they walked on. At the corner of Cromer-street, a boy was playing a barrel organ, and they stood awaiting the return of the husband. The prisoner, with five or six others, was standing at the door of a beer-shop on the other side of the street, when Le suddenly ran over, and dragged her to the side upon which he was standing. He then asked her to dance—she being much terrified refused—her mother interfered, but the prisoner knocked witness down, and another man knocked her mother down. Witness rose three times, but was each time prostrated with a blow on the chest from the prisoner. The fourth time she got upon her legs as well as she was able, and screamed " Murder." Her husband came up, and the prisoner ran away. She pursued him, but the prisoner suddenly turned round, and with a blow again felled her. Witness had some bruises on her, and felt great pain in her chest from the bruises inflicted there. Herself, husband, and mother were perfectly sober. She considered the prisoner was sober. Mary O'Neill, the mother, gave exactly the same account of the transaction. Her daughter, the complainant, being in the family way, she feared she would be killed, and when the prisoner knocked her down, she threw herself between them, and said, " Oh, for God sake, preserve her life, she is in the family way." Witness had hardly uttered these words when one of the prisoner's comrades felled her with a blow on the chest. Police constable 216 G deposed that he saw the prisoner running away and strike the complainant, who was pursuing him, a violent blow, from which she fell on the pavement. Before he came up, he heard screams and cries of murder.  Mrs. Williams, the housekeeper of the Court, deposed that there were bruises on the complainant's hips, recently inflicted.  The husband gave confirmatory evidence. The prisoner said that when he asked the complainant to dance, she refused, and struck bim on the eye. Mrs. Wright positively denied this, and Waddington, the gaolor, said there was not the slightest trace of injury on his face. Mr. GREEN WOOD said the complainant was a respectable woman, and had given no provocation. She was waiting quietly for her husband when attacked and treated in the manner described. He would fine the prisoner 2/. 10s., or three weeks' imprisonment. The money was paid soon after, anti the prisoner was liberated.  Henry Bunting was charged with stealing 17s. 6d. The prisoner, a lad about twelve, is well known to the police. lie lodges with a poor woman named Bunting, in Stephenstreet, Maiden-lane, whose little savings lay in a box in an upper room of the house. The prisoner is supposed to have pilfered the money, fora bag full of buttons, which lay in the same box, was found on the prisoner's person. The prosecutrix, a miserable looking poor woman, iden • tilled the buttons found on the prisoner as ber property. The prisoner, who would give no account of the matter, was remanded.