The Sun. — 1864-07-06 (London, England)

THAMES.  SAVAGE ASSAULT.—John Lovell, better known as the Gip,y, a morose looking fellow, who called himself a boiler maker, cf 2, Dunstan's-place, Itatcliff, was brought beton Mr Partridge charg, d with violently assaulting Mr JAI, Will, the landlold of the Silver Trumpet, ale and wine house, at the corner of Stepney Uaueeway, Commercial road Ea cliff.  Mr Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the proseculidn. The prisoner has given much trouble to the complainant, who is an influential man in the beer trade, and is the land lord of two respectable houses. The prisoner was tune, out of the Silver Trumpet three years ago. in c nist quenc. of his violent and bad conduct. Since then he had otter disturb.d Mr Hall, and was held to bait to keep the peact towards him List night. the prisoner came t .'the Silver Trumpet again, and Mr Hall said he did not w int his company, and turned him out, The prisoner came again a few minutes afterwards and grossly inAulted Mr Hall. He wife turned out a second time, and as tie was leaving be time.. round on the comtlainant and struck him sevetal times ot. the face with his flat. The cowardly fellow then ran away He was pursued and overtaken. Mr Hall's face wrir marked and his eye contused. Mr Partridge said the prisoner had committed a vary brutal assault, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month.  Determined Suicide of a Detective Police. Sergeant.  - -oP  CORONER'S INQUEST (THIS DAY).  This :corning at. 11 o'clock ar Linghera, depu y •coronet for the ciiy ot Westminster, held an itiques, at the Portman Arms. Millbank-street. Westminster, touching thi death ot Mr Creasy Robinson, fur many ye.‘rs one of tht most active and effective constables hdlunging to the chief Detective Force, Scotland-yard, who committed a wort de terminecl suicide by cutting his throat, on Monday morning, shortly betore 10 o'clock, at, his residence, No. 61, Milrbank• street.  The jury having bean sworn, and viewed the body,' Mr It. Gowing, b 7, Millbauk-street, builder, identified the body of the deceased, who was 42 years of age, and said' about 12 mouths back the "deceased had a very severe -attack of rheumatic gout, and latterly he bad become very much depressed in spirits from an an apprehension of a return or the complaint. He had a wife add two c ildren living with him. On Monday morning about half• past vine, Mrs Robinson called to witness in a state of great excitement and said there was something the matter with her hus .and, and asked him o break open the door of the hick parlour, which he did, and then bound the deceased lying on his bed with his head to th., partition. Mrs Rubinson called out, " On, he has cut his bead, whatever shall I do." They turned his head over and called in two plice-constables, and sent for Dr Whitney, of Collegestreet, who promptly attended. The deceased was partly dressed, and appeared to have been in the act of waving previous to committing the rash act. The deceased hau locked himself into the room.  - Police•constable Stenson, 227 B, proved being called in and finding the deceased lying on the bed with his throat cut. He ran for Dr INt bitney, who returned with him, but his servicee wore of no avail. On the drawers he found the razor pi oduced, which was i:overed with blood. Mr Richard Tanner, Inspector of the Detective Force, deposen that the deceased bad been in the Police Force 20 year?. lle was acting eergeant of the detectives. The last little he saw him was on Sunday night, in Westminster Abbey. Witness asked him why he was there, as the place was so draughty. lie replied that he had such pains in his limbs and all over his betty that he could not stop at home. In 1863 the deceased had a very severe attack of rheumatic fever. aud was absent from illness 133 days. The deceased bad latterly been unfit for service, and only last week Mr Inspector Williainsor, his brother officer, had laid the matter before Sir Richard Mayne, and he wes to have gone betore the chief surgeon of the force with a view to his being zu?craLnuated, as ho was fetind to be from continuous illness unfit tor the service, as his memory fatted hive, Beim e his illness in 1863, which was not continuous. he was a strong hearty man. Dr. Whitney, of 38, College-street, M.R.C.S., gated that when he was called in he bound the deceased in the act of expiring. There was a large incised wound separating all the main arteries and vessels of the throat, causing death, tes wound having been it,fiteted by the right hand. The+ disease under which the deceased labutued, might have pre:, ed en his mini. The Cuioi,ei having summed up, The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed j himself while in a state of temporary insanity.