The Sun. — 1852-11-11 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.—John Ludd, a journeyman cabinetmaker, was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with cutting and wounding a young woman named Mary Anne lXlitton, with intent to murder her. Mr. John Cousins, the landlord of the Coach •nd Horses, Holy well-lane, Shoreditch, :stated that shortly before five o'clock on the preceding afternoon, the woman Mitten entered his house in the company of another woman, and ordered some refreshment, of which she was partaking in front of the bar, when he heard a man in the street call to her by the name of " Mary," and sho immediately went out to him. Atter a short interval be heard a loud uproar in the street. and directly afterwards the injured woman was brought back to his house by two men, who supported her in their arms; and observing that she was bleeding profusely from a frightful wound in the throat, he gave directions for her immediate removal to the hospital. James Cousins, the nephew of the last witness, stated that while standing in front of his uncle's house at the time in question, his attention was attracted by the screams of a woman who was struggling with the prisoner on the opposite side of the street, and endeavouring to disengage herself from his greap. He instantly ran to her assistance, and after forcing the prisoner from her, he caught her in his arms as she was in the act of falling to the ground, and carried her into the publichouse, where ho discovered that her throat was cut, and that the sleeve of his coat was saturated with blood. On hastening out in search of the prisoner, he found that he had effected his escape; but the table knife now produced, the point of which was bent and stained with blood, was handed to him by a man who had picked it up close to the spot where the struggle had taken place. Police-constable N 236 stated that he succeeded in apprehending the prisoner at his mother's house in Heaton on the preceding night, and on acquainting him with the nature of the charge, he made no observation *hatever, and had not uttered a word during the time he had been in custody. The constable handed to the magistrate a certificate from the house-surgeon of the hospital, describing the serious nature of the injuries the woman had sustained, and added that, from his inquiries that morning, he had ascertained that she was in a state of imminent danger. It was intimated to the magistrate by Alderman, the gaoler,;that the wounded woman was the wife of a soldier who had been engaged for the last two years on foreign service in Canada, with his regiment, during the latter part of which period she had formed a connection with the prisoner, with whom she had been living for some months past. It appeared, however, that she still kept up a correspondence with her husband, and baying recently received a letter from him, apprising her that his regiment had been ordered home and that she might shortly expect to see him, her feelings were so powerfully wrought upon by the intelligence, that she made a determined attempt at self-destruction, for which she was brought to this court about ten days since, and committed to prison ; but, after a week's incarceration, she was delivered over to the care of her mother.  The prisoner, who had listened to the evidence with an air of sullen apathy, and maintained an obstinate silence throughout the investigation, was ordered to be remanded for a week to afford time for ascertaing the result of the injuries the woman had sustained.