The Sun. — 1851-05-17 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. aD r gp .indicteduaC Purvey, vOd e rUßrwf hu s tice intentT AtLor do ou ahni him feloniously nutting grievous bodily harm, Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury. It appeared that on the evening of the 6th of April a serious disturbance took place in TooleY -street on a number of the lower order of Irish; two of them, among Lynch and Walsh, began to fight. The prosecutor, who is a police•constible, interfered to prevent a breach of the peace, took Lynch into custody, and was about to convey him to the police-station, when his companions interfered with a view to rescue him, and the prisoner, who took an active part in exciting the mob to attack he police, wrenched the staff from the prosecutor and attacked him with it in a most savage manner, inflictng a desperate wound upon his head, which felled him to the ground insensible, and he remained for some time in a dangerous state, owing to this and other injuries ho receivea upon the occasion. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and, The Learned JunaE, after observing upon the savage and unmanly conduct he had exhibited, and the necessity for protecting the police in the execution of their duty, sentenced him to be transported for ten years. John Lynch, 29. labourer, Bartholomew Coghlan, 27, tailor, Patrick Collins, 17, labourer, Michael Walsh, 26, labourer, and Margaret Hart, who surrendered, were then arraigned, upon another indictment, charging them with feloniously wounding Samuel Congdon, a police• constable. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted; Mr. Worsley and Mr. Cockle appeared for Hart and Collies. This prosecution tow out of the same transaction as the former, and the facts deposed to were pretty nearly the same. The jury Acquitted Walsh, Hart, and Lynch, and found the other prisoners, Collins and Coghlan, Guilty, but recommended them to mercy, Collins on account of his youth, and Coghlan on account of the good character he had received. Mr. Justice TALFOURD sentenced Collins to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 and Coghlan for 12 months. John Lynch then pleaded guilty to another ()barge preferred against him for a common assault, and be was sentenced to be imprisoned for 6 months. Mary Ann Coster, 20, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate male child by drowning it. Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended the prisoner. The evidence merely went to show that on the 26th of March the prisoner was delivered of the child in question at her father's house, in York-street, St. Luke's, and Mr. Mack, a medical gentleman, who was called in, expressed an opinion that the child was born alive, and that its death was the result of drowning; but the reasons for this opinion were by no means conclusive, and there wes an utter absence of any evidence to show that, even supposing the child had, in point of fact, been born alive, the death was the result of any wilful act on the part of the prisoner. The Coroners jury, it appeared, had returned a verdict of "Found Drowned." Mr. Baron ALDERSON stopped the case, and the jury, under his Lordship's direction, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Thomas Humphrey, 18, was indicted for cutting and wounding William Burton, a police-constable, with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension. It appeared that on the night of the 28th of April the prosecutor had taken a girl into custody for disorderly conduct, and as be was conveying her to the stationhouse the prisoner interfered and struck him. He immediately laid hold of the prisoner, who walked with him a short distance towards the police-station quietly, but upon their getting to a spot that was rather dark be began to struggle with the policeman, and at length drew a knife from his pocket and stabbed him in the arm, inflicting it very severe wound. Not•sithstanding the in.