The Sun. — 1828-11-01 (London, England)

HATTON-GARDEN.  One of those labourers called navigators, of the name of .7 olzn Randall, a powerftl-looking man, eras yesterday brought up handcuffed before the sitting 314gi'-4nttel RoGEtts and Mr. I.,usG, and ordered to be places at the bar, to prevent his committing violence arid outrage even im presence of the Magistrate!, on a charge of assaulting his wife, and a young man, a baker, of the name of John Jame.. It appeared, that on Thursday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, the defendant, who for a considerable time past has been labouring under the strong influence of a rooted jealousy, and sedulously vigilant to detect the object of his suspicion in her dishonourable intrigues, came home to his lodgings, in Cow-cross-street, Smithfield, and finding his wife within in the company of the complainant James, and another young man, he immediately struck her,  ' and knocked her down several times, and also attempted to strike at James, the principal object of his vengeful fury ; but a constable having been called in, he was seemed and taken to the watch-house, where, however, James, having accompanied him to give charge of him, in spite of all restraint he tore at, and made a desperate assault upon him, and knocked him down three or four times. The .same night he was brought up before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Laing, and both the complainants appeared to prefer their complaints against him ; but under a recent regulation of the police, it being necessary that two Magistrates should hear and decide in all cases of assault, Mr. Laing ordered him to be taken back to the watch-house, and detained there till one o'clock the following day (yesterday), when himself and Mr. Rogers would be sitting together. The defendant was accordingly removed from the Justiceroom ; but as soon as he entered the outer office, coming again in contact with his wife, he wrested himself eat of the constable's hands, and with all the unbridled rage of a madman, struck her two violent blows on the face, and stretched her almost breathless on the floor; and Was then about to make a similar attack upon his fancied rival, till he was seized by the officers, whose most strenuous efforts it required to drag him again before the Magistrate, who ordered him to be handcuffed behind his back, and in that situation taken to the watch-house.  The wife complained of the groundless mistrust with which he watched all her actions; of Nis habitual ill-treatment of her ; and that she was constantly in terror of her life from his violence, and, she had no doubt, his murderous intent.  James protested against any dishonourable connexion or illicit intercourse with the woman ; and said that on the evening in question, she being his washer-woman, he called at her room in the company of another person for his linen. The defendant insisted, that if this were the case, it was somewhat strange that every time he went home he should find him (James) with his wife; and that at different periods for some months back he had received several letters from him, insulting him with instances of his wife's infidelity, and threatening, if he took the slightest angry notice of it, to give him a good sound thrashing.  Mr.