The Sun. — 1846-01-30 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.  A powerful fellow, named IV ilham Newcombe, apparently a journeyman shoemaker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with the following scandalous outrage upon a poor woman named Anne Anderson, the wife of a waterman, and also with attacking and injuring two other women, named Jury and Ledger,. Harriette Jury, whose head was bandaged and both of whose eyes were puffed up and contused, stated, that on the preceding afternoon she was told by a friend of hers that the prisoner wanted to see her, and she accordingly went to the house of Mrs. Anderson, where he lodged, to inquire for him. On ascending the first flight of stairs, the prisoner came out of an adjoining room and immediately accused her of attempting to injure his character by spreading false rumours respecting him amongst his neighbours. She earnestly assured him that she had not done so, but the prisoner, who was greatly excited, replied that he knew she had, and before she had an opportunity of inquiring what had been said of her, struck her such a violent blow between the eyes that she was felled backwards down the stairs into the bottom passage, and remained for a considerable time in a state of total insensibility. Ellen Ledger, the wife of a mechanic living in the house, gave an almost identical account of the commencement of the outrage with that of the preceding witness, and stated, • that after the latter had been hurled down the stairs by the prisoner, Mrs. Anderson gently rebuked him for his conduct, and told him he ought to be ashamed of himself for so brutally striking a woman, on which the prisoner instantly struck her down by a blow in the face, and kicked her violently several times in the side, although she was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and on seeing that she was entirely motionless and insensible, declared, with an oath, that he should die perfectly happy if he could only be sure that he had murdered both of the women. As the prisoner was then trying to escape from the house the witness attempted to stop him, but had no sooner placed her hand upon his shoulder for that purpose, than she was herself felled to the ground by a blow on the neck, and the prisoner rushed past her out of the house. A policeman deposed that, upon being made acquainteJ with the outrage the prisoner had committed, he went, in search of him, and having succeeded in tracing him to a neighbouring public-house, in the tap-room of which he was sitting with the greatest coolness and indifference, took him into custody. The witness handed up to the bench a medical certificate, signed by two surgeons who had beeiainin attendance upon the injured woman Mrs. Andersoen., d which stated that she was then confined to hneti-iebr with congestion of the brain, alarening symptoms, that it wasan if she for a consider she could attend and prosecute the prisone dismnffpoesrisibglefl,-"' sucleilbould recover, abie time. eh'iafde Daniel Anderson, the woman's husband,i hiss.anildentcheatah wife was was in such a dangerous state, advanced in pregnancy, that, ;sustained and her being so he bad next to no hopes but that it would resultinher I death. About a twelvemonth since his wife had been obliged