The Sun. — 1848-04-04 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET. IA young man named Thomas Bailey, well known to thie police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with having been concerned with two other mkn, not in custody, in assaulting and robbing Mr. Henry Haynes, a brassfounder, in Chapman-street, St. George's in the East. lit appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was passing through Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, on his way home, at a late hour on the preceding night, when the prisoner and two other men suddenly rushed out from a dark passage, and one of them instantly struck him a stunning blow between the eyes, which caused the blood to gush from his nose, aid felled him to the ground. Before he had doe to recover himself, they all threw themselves upon him, and commenced rifling his pockets, from which they extracted all the loose silver he had about him, acid darted off in different -directions. His cries of "!Murder" arrested the attention of Police constable Powlei, who was hastening to his assistance, when ho slim the prisoner, who had been walking rapidly from Oat direction, enter a low lodging-house in the neighbburhood, to which he immediately conducted the procutor; and, upon milking their way into an upper Qom, -they found the prisoner in the act of changing s dress, and having been instantly recognised by the osecutor a 3 one of the thieves, he was taken into ensdy- There were several beds in the room, occupied characters of the worst description, and in one of vsecredhcronchrpg hicla:the prisoner declared that he had been sleeping; t, vii turning down the another man was distat liillte es ..and the i beneath' them, with his boots and all prOsecntor expressed his belief lame w'-`1•all") -mle of the robbers, although he was ironer, some money weal unir upon him, corresponds with part of that takei positively to identify h. Upon searching the so a silk handkerchief hich.the officers entertained" _ The prisoner positively 1 ( another robbery. :fTtontahethienpitrio:slsecu„toHr., ita.n,d,, dehied all knowledge of the no doubt was the produce / • ,bbery, but it was _too eonaliiiively established to admit ' any doubt, And -Mr. Ilamauta. ordered him ..to be Sally ' committed to etc. %tra tor. trial_.... - ...... A- middle-aged man; named Samuel.Lewis, ww, isr,,,rn ed with having cruelly maltreated Le d o iildren, and. also-with cuttiegsrMd wounding eof his a married -oman,. named Williams, who. interfered for its peace. oa.  prosecutrix, : It_appeared from the evidence of Ithose, wrist was covered with bandages, that the neigh. e sequencewh oltour h od owia. was thrownhe violentiat ‘Coanladruinctamf excitementth ,65 seen to dash his child's. head roitclocatthedl).s•targeeati.nstTthhee her 1 ilwp iotnh thehis loor, and, finally, to fling it out. into iiwriutut aeisistyr when eont ht(h.res prisoner, risoTiremonstrateder, after assailing withlli cilescittho3e, caught up a knife, and madea v.ihionivfele.artetdsdtatbo at her through the window pane, which he pieces, and. before she had" time to escape, frightful gash in her wrist, Wh-.cli had since depriv'cedeh a of the use of the arm. The witness was conveyed to theer surgery of Mr. Wildbore, by: whom her wounds were dressed, and the policeman who captured the prisoner, upon searching his place, discovered a knife, which he produced in court, much blood stained. • The prisoner generally denied the charge, declaring th© prosecutrix had caused the injury by dashing her hand through the window. But this was positively contradicted by a witness named Smith, and the prisoner's own wife havingclaimed __thea.,lroteetion of the Magistrate for herself and children ase:i,ntnettiiittnhi,arunbhifiusib.rtae nh;shdavditohalaegtnce, which she represented as o, continual r r. occurrence. completion oford're the • d him toaibinte evidence. wouldar no I n opportunitytded most probablyofexcbr e. for the formal