The Sun. — 1849-06-02 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.  Timothy Leary, a powerful Irishman, was brought up before Mr. Arnold, charged with the following brutal and unprovoked outrage upon a journeyman shoemaker, named Thompson, living in Little Wentworth-street, Whitec-hapel, and also with seriously injuring Ante Thompson, his wife. The wife, whose head was partially covered with bandages, stated, that while in bed with her husband at three , o'clock that morning, sbe was roused from her sleep by a noise on the stairs, and immediately afterwards the prisoner, accompanied by three or four other men, burst in the door, and rushing into the room, advanced to the bed where she was lying, from the side of which he seized a heavy stool, and, without the slightest observation or reason for such conduct, dealt her a violent blow on the head with it, inflicting an extensive ga-1, from which the blood poured in a stream down her neck. This was instantly followed by a second blow over the eyes with the prisoner's fist, and would have been succeeded by further ill-usage but for the interposition of her hu:band, upon whom the assailants then proceeded .to wreak their vengeance, and the witness ran down into the street, where she was screaming for assistance, when all the nit n rushed past her and escaped. A constable, however, shortly after came up. and, from the description she furnished him of the men who had committed the outrage, he took her at once to an alley in the neigh bourhood, called Mulberry-court,where the prisoner and two other men were standing, and she immediately identified the former as the man who had assaulted her, and gave him into custody. The injuries both she and her husband had sustained were of so serious a character that they were obliged to be conveyed to the London Hospital to have their wounds dressed, and she had suffered the most acute pain ever since. Benjamin Thompson, the husband, whose face was shockingly disfigured with contusions, and whose upper lip was cut completely through, stated that upon seeing his wife struck with the stool, he leaped out of bed to her assistance, and was met by the prisoner, who had a file in his hand without a handle, with the sharp end of which he made a blow at his face, and the tail of the file cut through his lip and penetrated the flesh of his mouth. At the same moment another man struck at him with a knife and on witness attempting to ward off the blow with his arm the blade decended upon his band, and cut a piece out of one of his fingers ; while another man, whom he believed to be the prisoner, jobbed some sharp instrument into the back of his head, inflicting a deep wound, from which the blood flowed down his back. The whole of the men then commenced an indiscriminate attack upon him, beating him furiously about the head and face with their fists, until he was reduced to the condition in which he then was, when they appeared to have become alarmed by the screams of his wife in the street, and the whole of them ran out of the house. The prosecutor added that he was wholly at a loss to account for the brutal attack which had been made upon him, as he had never before even spoken to the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to him, was not aware that he bad ever offended any of the other men, and could only imagine that they had been hired to ill-treat him by some one else who entertained malice against him. Bolton, a constable of the H division, stated, that upon hearing the cries of " Murder," he ran to the spot, and found the wife of the prosecutor standing undressed at the door and bleeding fearfully from a wound in her head. Upon her pointing out the prisoner as the man who had attacked her, the prisoner denied that he had been near the house at all, swore that he would not be taken, and, flinging himself upon the ground, fought so desperately, that it was only with the greatest difficulty that he, and a cumber of other constables, could overpower and get him to the station. The prisoner protested his innocence, declaring that the prosecutor and his wife were entirely mistaken in his identification; hut Mr. ARNOLD, who considered it a gross and lawless outrage, ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week fcr the completion of the evidence against him, and directed the police to make unremitting exertions in securing the other men who had aided him in the commission of the offence.