The Sun. — 1866-02-09 (London, England)

THAMES.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—SamueI Diable, a labourer, about thirty years of age, was brought up on a warrant, charged with violently assaulting Mr. Alfred Marshall, of No. 13, Colchester-street, Whitechapel.  The prosecutor is a boiler-maker, and employs a great great number of men at his factory in Whitechapel. The prisoner had been employed in the place for five or six years at intervals, and at last finally discharged. He came to the prosecutor's establishment on the 22d January last and said he wanted to have an interview with one of the workmen, named John Williams. The prisoner was intoxicated, and Mr. Marshall said he would not allow him to see any one. The prisoner abused the complainant and threatened him, loitered about the premises until fiftyeight minutes past one o'clock, when the large gates were opened for the admission of the workmen, on their return from dinner, when he again saw the prisoner, who forced his way into the workshop, and refused to leave. Mr. Marshall endeavoured to eject him. The prisoner laid hold of a boiler, and held fast by it. Mr. Marshall pulled him from it, and a scuffle ensued. The prisoner nearly forced Mr. Marshall on the ground and knocked off his hat. He then struck Mr. Marshall, and knocked him down. He got up and the prisoner hit him again with great force, dislodging one of his teeth completely, and loosening another, which was lost. The complainant's mouth was full of blood, and he was put to much pain and inconvenience by the loss of his teeth.  Mr. Gomm, for the defendant, attempted to show that the complainant acted with great violence to the defendant, who only wanted to speak to an old fellow workman. Mr. Marshall said he requested the prisoner to leave the factory a dozen times before he attempted to remove him, and he used no more violence than was necessary to eject him from his premises.  Mr. Marshall's evidence was fully confirmed by Andrew Stapley.  The magistrate doubted whether he ought not to send the prisoner :to gaol without the option of paying a fine. He sentenced him to pay 405., and 2s. costs, or be imprisoned 21 days.  THE HORSE THE WISER ANlMAL.—William Argent, a heavy, half-sleepy, agricultural labourer and carter, in the service of Mr. Lawrence, carter and farmer, of Romford, in Essex, was charged with being drunk and asleep in his master's cart.  Lewis Lambert, a police-constable, No. 311 K, stated that yesterday evening he saw a horse and cart, which left the Whitechapel haymarket a few minutes previously, passing along the Mile-end-road. There was no driver. 't he horse suddenly turned round, crossed the road, and proceeded towards the water trough of the Plough, a road-side inn, where the animal had been accustomed to have a bait on its way to and from the haymarket in Whitechapel. The wheel of the cart wc..s locked in the lamp-post on its way to the trough, and he was compelled to back it and convey the horse and cart to the green-yard. Heavy fees would have to be paid to the keeper of the green-yard. The prisoner was lying at the bottom of the cart, drunk and asleep.  • The prisoner—l had a little beer, that is all. He was ordered to stand up and make his defence properly. Mr. Paget said the prisoner's master would have to pay heavy fees to the green-yard keeper, and discharged him.  A