The Sun. — 1840-08-10 (London, England)

FAREBROTHER.---Was there a sufficient depth of water to have drowned her? Barnes—Yes, there was ; and the current flowing from the Fleetditch made it the more dangerous. To further questions from the Alderman, the officer stated that after she was taken to the station, and was recovered from partial inanimation, she appeared grateful and quite sober, and told the following tale, which, upon subsequent inquiry, he had found in the main to be strictly true. She stated that she lived in Lissongrove, and was a sempstress ; that her husband was a " slaughterman" to a carcase-butcher in Clare-market, and that it was entirely owing to his " brutal" conduct that she to commit the rash act, she liaving been violently assaulted by him an hour previous. . The. Alderman (interposing)—l have committed two brutal husbands. to Bridewell this week, and I heartily wish -the- law allowed -me the power to have ordered them to be severely flogged.—Addressing the- young woman, who was well dressed and e-vidently of weltcultivated mind, he said—" My good woman, don't commit suicide, sin of which you Call never repent.  If your husband is such a brute you can indict him at session, and the law will be found too strong for him." The policeman—Your worship, I have been up to where she lives, and I have an exceeding good character of her, and quite the reverze of her husband. Mrs. East begged to make a f: w observations, which she prefaced by thanking God and the persons who had rescued her from a watery grave, which, in a moment of frenzy she was aware she had sinfully contemplated. Unwilling as she was to make any complaint against her husband, she felt herself bound to state the facts. His conduct was such that she considered her life in danger, and indeed he had rendered it valueless. It was not only los own personal violence of which she complained, but that he employed other persons to designate her as a drunkard, and something worse, for which no one had the shadow of a cause. The Alderman wished to know when she last received personal violence ?—She replied on Friday. Pokers, broomsticks, anything was all the same to him. She was a maker of military shirts for the army of the finest kind, and when she has been busy at her avocation he has come in and thrown her work and materials into the street from the second-floor window, which of course caused a difficnity between her and her respectable employers, who would readily vouch as to her character.  The ALDERMAN then asked where the last asault was committed ?—She replied in Clare-market. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER, having consulted Mr. PAyne, said although the cause which brought the poor woman bz:lore him happened to be out of his jurisdiction, he was determined to take the most effectual means to protect her from future violence ; but, first of all, he should like to know where the man could be found ?  Mrs. East—No doubt at the Crooked Billet publichouse, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; but the officer must insist, or he will be denied by the people there. The Alderman then wrote a letter, to which was affixed the City seal, to the magistrates at Bow-street, requesting that they would forthwith send their officers with the City policeman (Barnes) to apprehend him, so that he might give an answer to the charge cf brutal conduct" to the woman, who appeared " too good" for his wife. Mrs. East then withdrew, but not in custody. Several persons were in attendance who would have testified to the excellent character of Mrs. East, had the Alderman power to have adjudicated on the case. Mr. William Pilbrook was brought up by one of the City police on the charge of being found in a beastly state of drunkenness within the purlieus of that office on the preceding night, in consequence of which he was taken to the station, and having a great deal of property about him, of which he was unable to take care, he was detained.