The Sun. — 1853-09-20 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  CLERKENWELL. —ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN. Yesterday morning many unfortunate women were to be seen about the court with features betokening the handiwork of heartless ruffians. It was altogether a sickening sight ; many of them, however, went away, rather than appear as witnesses against their brutal assailants, perhaps to fare more sadly on hearing the decision of the following cases : James if acklin, described as a watch-glass maker, residing at 23, Hull's-place, St. Luke's, was charged with an inhuman assault on his wife, whose face was frightfully disfigured with cuts and bruises. The front of her dress was besmeared with blood.  She stated that on Sunday evening her husband came home drunk, and began abusing her in a savage manner. She appeased him a little, and fed him with some dinner, when on a sudden he pushed her from him, struck her down with a blow over her right eye, causing the blood to flow, and afterwards, while she was prostrate on the ground and altogether helpless, he beat her on various parts of the body, blackening it with almost every hit or kick. She called for assistance, and her mother coming to her aid was knocked down by the prisoner with a poker. In answer to the worthy magistrate the poor creature said that "she had borne her husband six children, three of whom were principally dependent on her exertions for sustenance, for she had very little help from him.  The mother in part corroborated the complainant, and proved the brutal attack on herself. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prisoner his defence. In a surly manner he answered, " that he had none to make."  Mr. Tyrwhitt said, " these cases were truly lamentable, and it was impossible to go on in this way. He had hoped the law as it now stood would have diminished such outrages, but every day experience showed an increase of them." He sentenced the defendant, for the two assaults, to hard labour for four months. Mielaael Kelly, a raw-boned Irishman, was next charged with assaulting Catherine Holmes. Complainant said, she had cohabited with the prisoner, and had been his support for a considerable time past, by pawning her clothes and other worse means. She had no money on Satutday night, and for that reason he knocked her to the ground and blackened her eyes. Mr. Tyrwhitt observed that " words would he wasted on such a vagabond," and sent him to the treadmill for two months.  William Streton Sturgis, avs ell-dressed man, aged 27, was indicted for embezzling three sums of money, amounting to 131. 3s. 6d., which he had received for and on account of Charles John Stewart, his master. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted ; the prisoner conducted his own defence.  The prosecutor was a bookseller in King Williamstreet, Strand, and the prisoner had been in his service, as clerk and cashier, for about seven years and a half, his salary for the last three years and a half being 21. per week. Suspecting that something was wrong, Mr. Stewart fixed a day for an investigation of the accounts, and when that day arrived the prisoner told him he need not enter upon any such task, and then admitted that, during the last four years, he had robbed him to the extent of from 3501. to 4001. The prisoner had been married about that time. The prosecutor nevertheless went on with the investigation, and the result was that he found that the total amount received by the prisoner and not accounted for was over 6001. The prisoner left town, with Mr. Stewart's knowledge, but subsequently it was discovered that he had forged his master's name to a cheque on a City banking-house, for a sum remitted to them from the country on Mr. Stewart's account, and that the same proceeding had been taken with a postoffice order. Upon this Mr. Stewart caused the prisoner to be apprehended, and on the case of forgery being gone into before a magistrate it broke down, and the prisoner was sent for trial on three charges of embezzle. ment.  TBE ALLEGED MURDER at