The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

OIIILISMALL.
JoAN Bustle, a carman in the employ of Mr. Mayburg,
of Billiter-street, was summoned before Alderman Luck,
charged with cruelly ill-using and torturing two horses
by whipping them on their heads and brutally kicking
them on the legs.
The chief constable of the Royal Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals was present.
William Fanny, 553, said that about half-past ton
o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of July he saw the de-
fendant with a van and two homes in Cannon-street. The
van was loaded with soda, and the wheel was fixed against
the kerb stone. The defendant was for three minutes
cutting the horses about their heads with his whip, and
after that he got down off his van and commenced kicking
them violently on the legs, until the blood ran from the leg
of one of them, apparently from the kicking. He drew the
defendant's attention to the wheals on the horses' heads
and sides where they had been struck, and to the legs
where they had been kicked. Defendant then got assist
anoe, and got the van out of the rut, and when it was on
level ground they were able to draw it.
air. William Marsden, of 21, Wood-street, Ring's-cross,
corroborated the constable's statement as to thecruel treat-
ment the horses had been subjected to.
Alderman Lusk fined the defendant 10s. and costs, or,
In default, seven days' imprisonment.
Mr. John C. aide, a merchant, of 17, Watling-street,
was summoned before Alderman Finnic for damaging a
cabmen's coat.

—itichirdHaywasd, cab-driver. of Princes-street, Spital-
fields, said that on Monday last he had taken a fare at the
corner of the Post-office, and was passing by Sir Robert
Peel's statue, when the defendant, who was looking over
his shoulder, stepped from the monument and struck
against the shaft of kis cab, the rebound from which
threw him down, and he fell on his hands. He called to
him twice, and that drew his attention to the cab, when
he tried to save himself by putting his hands on the
middle of the shaft. The defendant sot up, caught hold
of the tail of his coat, and tore a piece out of it. The
damage done was about IL He did not keep on driving
when he saw defendant in the road.

Mr. Shiols said the facts were that he was crossing the
road, and had left the statue, and got nearly to the tourk-
maker's, at the opposite corner, when the head of the
complainant's horse struck him on the back of the head
and the shaft of the cab struck him in the middle of the
back, and knocked him forward. He turned round, and
bad agility enough to spring out of the way, but in doing
so he fell, and cut his land, his arm, his knee, and both
his lege. The defendant never stopped. his horse, and
the wheel of the cab went over his foot, injuring it very
much, and at the present time it was perfectly black. The
oomplainant then tried to drive off, but he (rot up, con-
fused certainly, and ran after him, and having nothing
else to lay hold of, caught his coat tail, a portion of which
came away in his hand. He then caught him with •
spring by the breast, and said that if he did not stop he
would pull him off the boxy and then he stopped. The
shock had been so great to his nervous system that he had
been ill ever since, and was still under medical treatment.
He had oontemplated summoning the complainant, but
bad been too ill to do it. . _ _

Alderman Plums said defendant had made one mistake,
and that wee in not summoning the complainant. Had he
done so he would have punished him very severely. As
the ease stood, he should dismiss the summons.
The summons was then dismissed.

Richard Reilly, &labourer, was bmught up ou a war-
rant, and charged before Mr. Barker with committing a
violent assault on Henry Skoins, (4 foreman of bricklayers
at the Imperial Gas Works. York-road, Ring's-cross.
The facts were very simple. Bkoins complained to the
defendant and the gang of labourers of which ho farmed
part of their not doing work enough. and the defeatist!
hit him twice with the hod. After that the defendant hit
him on the breast, and followed this up by itriking him in
the face with his fist, and kicked him ou the knee.