The Sun. — 1855-01-22 (London, England)

LAMBETH.—Charley Lyon, a middle-aged man, who has for some time carried en the business of a greengrocer in the Old Kent-road, was placed at the bar on a charge of murder in having caused the death of his wife, Jane, by kicking her in the groin with his hobn boots, and causing such serious injuries that she died of hmerrhaze. The first witness called was George Leonard. a painter, who deposed that he knew the prisoner and his deceased wife from living opposite to them for some time. On the evening before, at about 5 o'clock, when returning home, he saw the deceased, Mrs. Lyon, hurried across the foot pavement, as if she had been forced out of the door of her husband's house with great violence, but she did not fall. He did not see who it was that pushed her out, as he was not in a position to do so, but the instant she was pushed out the door was closed. The deceased returned to the doer, and commenced to knock for admittance ; but finding that the door was not opened to her, she came over to his (witness's) house, in a very weak and exhausted state, and sat on the door step. A. quantity cf blood which he (witness) observed to flow from the lower part of her person, after she had been forced from the house of her husband, still poured from her, and by this time, from the quantity which he had observed on the road, he should have thought she had lost at least two quarts. The prisoner at the time opened his dnnr, and calling out to the deceased, said, "You are drunk." She replied, " I am not drunk, look at the blood ;" and he said it was not blood, it was more like water. Mr. Norton—How far was the primer from his wife at that time ? Witness—About ten yards. The prisoner then went inside his house and shut the door, and witness sent his nephew for a policeman, he himself being engaged at the time in supporting the deceased. A. policeman came, and, seeing the sate of the deceased, he crossed over and went into the house of the prisoner, and soon after the constable and prisoner came across the street. The prisoner, addressing his wife, said, " Will you come in ?" and she said, "No, you aro my murderer ; you have murdered me." The prisoner made no reply to this, but went back to his house again. He returned after shutting up his house, ond, again addressing the deceased, said, " My dear Jane, will you now come is I" and she said, " No." The prisoner took her in his arms, and carried her aeross the road to his house. At about 10 o'clock the witness went to the prisoner's house, and he then found, the deceased just breathing her last, and in fact he saw her die. The prisoner was not present at that time, as he had been removed by the police to the station-house. In reply to the questions of Mr. Norton, the witness said that he had known the deceased a long time in her business, and bad never observed her the worse for liquor, nor had she any signs of liquor on the evening before. The prisoner also appeared sober. Police-constable Wells, 271 P, corroborated much of what had been said by last witness. Sergeant Mann, 25 I', said he was on duty at the station-house, aid took down the charge against the prisoner. In reply to it, he said that drink was the cause of it ; that his wife went out to purchase a bonnet, and came home the worse for drink. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon and other witnesses.