The Sun. — 1852-06-30 (London, England)

CLERKENWELL. within the rooms of Cay and Black, Edinburgh, July 6 John Shute, a young man of powerful appearance, Was and 27, at one. placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie, charged with having assaulted the police, and also with a violent assault upon Margaret O'Keefe, a young woman with whom he cohabited, by which she was so seriously injured that her life is place in imminent danger. Mr. CORRIE said he would remand the prisoner for a week, and gave instructions to the constable to make inquiries at the hospital daily and report her state at this court, with the view that her deposition might be taken.  James Welsh, John Gorman, and Mary Welsh, the wife of the former prisoner, were charged with having been concerned in the following daring outrage and assaults on the police. The male prisoners appeared with their heads bound up and covered with marks of violence. It appeared from the evidence of Caleb Davis and Job Lewis, officers of the E division, both of whom were severely injured, the former having had his srm nearly broken, and aho was otherwise so hurt that he is disabled from duty, that on Tuesday evening they received information that a desperate affray had taken place in Selina-place, Somers-town. They repaired thither and found the neighbourhood in excitement and confusion, while the male prisoners were fighting with every one indiscriminately. Welsh escaped into a house and bolted himself in. In attempting to apprehend him, he wrested Davis'a staff from him, and beat him with it on his head, arm, and. side unmercifully, while Mrs. Welsh had a broom, which the used desperately, and Gorman was also very_ violent. Welsh and his wife called out, " the —," and it was not until a reinforcement of officers arrived on the spot that they could be taken into custody, when they resisted violently all the way to the station-house, where they were locked up. James Moriarty, brother of Mrs. Welsh, who was also severely maltreated, said that Welsh and Gorman brought "a faction" to ill-use him, when he was seized, his house besieged and broken into, and he was dreadfully beaten. Ills property and part of the house were demolished, and he would have been murdered had it not been for the arrival and assistance of the police. Welsh, exhibiting the wounds on his head, said the police caused them by blows with their truncheons. He owned that he had been drinking. Mr. CORRIE asked whether he had been struck on the head with a truncheon. Davis—l struck him with my staff when he struck ins on my arm. Welsh—Four or five of them struck me. lam covered all over with bruises. The other prisoners denied the charges against them. It was stated that the injuries received by Davis were of so serious a nature that the surgeon who attended him had desired him to pay great attention, or the result might prove dangerous to him. Numerous other officers and private individuals were in attendance to give evidence against the prisoners. Mr. CORRIE thought it a savage and lawless outrage, and fined Gorman 20s. or three weeks' imprisonment; Mrs. Welsh he fined 10s. or one fortnight's imprisonment; but James Welsh he would remand for having assaulted the officer Davis, until the result of the injuries inflicted upon Nina could satisfactorily be made known.