The Sun. — 1850-06-20 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.  Joseph Wood, a middle-aged man, of dissolute-appearance, described as a cabinet maker, was brought up before Mr. Arnold in the custody of the police chargqd with the following series of brutal and un. provoked assaults upon a poor woman named Elizabeth Pancit  The complainant, a delicate-looking woman, whose face was shockingly contused, ono of her eyes being bruised all round, and the other blackened, puffed up like a ball, and entirely closed, stated,—My husband having deserted me a long time ago, leaving me perectly destitute, I was induced by the prisoner, about two years since, to live with him as his wife, but, in consequence of his jealousy and cruel conduct towards me, have more than once been obliged to leave Upon each occasion I did so, he swore that he could not live without me, that I must live with him as long as we lived, and declared, if I did not come back to him, that he would murder me. The hat time was on Saturday last, but he renewed his illusage of me again on the following morning, when, whilst I was in bed, he called me an opprobrious epithet, and struck me three or four heavy blows on the face with great repidity, one of them between the eyes, which severely bruised one of them, and caused the blood to pour down so profusely is to completely soak my clothes, and, when 1 entreated him to desist from his cruelty, he finished . Iv kicking me with great force on several parts of my body. On Monday he again renewed his violence, and, being in great danger of my life, I came lowa to this court to procure a warrant against him to insure my protection, which was to have come on for hearing to-day, but he did not make his appear-3.13C9 to answer it; and, after waiting a couple of sours, I was about to leave the court, when, just as I 'and got outside, he suddenly rushed upon me, struck ,ne several terrible blows in the face, and reduced my left eye to the state in which it now appears. Mr. ARNOLD (to the prisoner)—What explanation have you to give of such an unmanly outrage ? Prisoner (in the most cool and deliberate manner)—Nothing at all, Sir; I have struck her in the way she describes, and I do not wish at all to deny it, end am perfectly satisfied to endure all the punish went that the law can inflict upon me for it. If I have to undergo a twelvemonth's imprisonment I shall go through my hard labour without complaint, and I am glad that this has taken place, as now there will be an eftectual separation between us, and if I meet her ever so often in the street she will be a perfect stranger to me for ever after. I have done all I I could to render her happy, and I know, if something is not done to me, that she will have to be hers again is a week or so, as I have before been imprisoned for her, and should be again ; but not now. After I had beaten her the last time she appeared reconciled to use, and I was drinking some beer with her when I e;as served by the officer with her summons. This hurt me very much, and, As I have always had a great dread of appearing at a police-court, when I now found that I must do so, I swore a solemn oath that I would not rest in my bed until I had had revenge, and I have not done so. I came dawn to this court at the time appointed, to watch for her return from it, and just as I saw her coming along from the steps I determined to myself that I would strike her two or three blows as hard as I could, and hid myself behind a cart until she came up towards me, when I rushed out upon her and struck her violently, and the policeman, I believe, was present and saw me do it. I have had my revenge, and am now perfectly tranquil and easy in my mind, and will willingly undergo, without a murmur, whatever punishment or sentence you think proper to inflict upon me. Mr.