The Sun. — 1827-08-28 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  MANSION-HOUSE.---Simon Moses, Abraham Woolf, Catherine Elias, and Rosetta Phillips, appeared to answer the complaint of one Phoebe Moses. It appears that Simon and Phoebe are man and wife, but, like many other men and their wives, they cannot manage to go on in that smooth way that they ought to do, and no longer since than last Tuesday, Phoebe cited Simon before his Lordship for giving her a black eye, and calling her an. adultress, and so forth, and Simon defended that charge by stating that Phoebe was an adultress, and that she,got the black eye in attempting to sluice him (Simon) with the contents of a can of milk, but his Loldship then Ordered Simon to find bail and keep..the ,peace, as also his son, who was accused of assisting Simon m the said assault, and Simon did find•bail to keep the peace, and was allowed to depart home ; but the Lord Mayor recommended at the time, that Simon and Phoebe would consent to be parted, as his Lordship thought there was not any chance of keeping the peace if they remained together, and so they undertook to get a mutual friend to interfere between them, and arrange their differences; and thereupon they did depart, but on the next day but One Phoebe applied again against Simon her spouse, and also against Abraham, and Catherine, and Rosetta, his near relations, charging them with assaulting, her on the very same Tuesday that Simon had found bail to keep the peach, and yesterday Simon, Abraham, Catherine, and Rosetta, appeared to answer the charge, attended by a great quantity of friends and relations and Mr. Harmer at the head of them, as their legal adviser; nor was Phoebe at all backwards, for she appeared attended by a pretty numerous list of friend. and accompanied by Mr. Isaacs, as her solicitor. The precise charge now made against Simon was, that on the very day that he was last before the Lord Mayor, after they departed, he caused his wife Phoebe to be crushed between the do6r and the door-post, and that Abraham, Catherine, and Rosetta assisted him in performing the said crushing. Phoebe deposed, that on the day of the last hearing she went quietly home to her husband's house in Duke's-place, to claim her rights as a wife, when the four defendants obstructed her and stopped her entering the house and crushed her between the door and the door-post until her life was in danger. A Mr. Lazarus, and other witnesses, confirmed this statement.  Mr. Harmer cross-examined the witnesses, in order to show that Phoebe came with a number of her friends in order to break into the house, and that Simon only resisted force by force, and upon this point there was much conflicting testimony; but it was admitted .on both sides that the door of the house was broken, and that it was a question of strength between the parties within side and those without, as to which should carry the day; and in trying this question of strength, Phcebe got herself between the door and the door-post, and thus the keeping the peace was violated, and the Lord Mayor's recommendation forgotten, and murder likely to have been committed. . _  . . After a vast deal of noise and disturbance, in the courso of which very little in the shape of truth could be elicited, his Lordship directed that Simon should find hail to try if he could endeavour to keep the peace in future; and his Lordship recommended that some arrangement should be entered into, so as in future to keep a stronger barrier between him and Phcebe than the door of the house.  Mr. Isaacs said, that an arrangement had been made for a separation, but Simon had broken it ; and it was in consequence of this that the last disturbance had taken place. Mr. Harmer said, that it had been broken off in consequence of Mr. Isaacs demanding nine pounds for preparing some deed, which poor Simon was not able to raise. Mr. Isaacs said he would give time for that, and produced the deed,. and at length all the parties, at the suggestion of the Lord Mayor, retired to see if they could arrange their differences, otherwise the defendants were to find hail. The Loan MAYOR rose before the parties had come to any arrangement.