Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A DOG.

George Smith a plumber, residing at 7, Queen street,
Dalston, appeared at the Clerkenwell Ic'olice-court, London,
on Thursday, in answer to a summons obtained against
him at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, charged him with having cruelly
ill-treated and tortured a dog. Phoebe Bungard stated
she was a laundress, at 22, Tottenham-road. On the 7th
July, about two o'clock, she was informed that defendant
had been cruelly ill-using her dog. She went out and
saw the dog lying in the road, moaning piteously, having
its skull shattered, one of its eyes protruding, and its hind
quarters much mangled. After lying in the road for some
time, the poor animal got up, crawled into the house,
dragging its hind legs after it and uttering the most piteous
cries. Witness was so horrified at the sight that she
hardly knew what to do, but after some time, she got a
person to put it out of its misery. The dog was an
exceedingly harmless and inoffensive animal. Mrs.
Lane saw the defendant strike the dog with a heavy
hammer six or seven times over its head and body, after
which he picked the poor animal up, and threw it into the
road, at the same time exclaiming, That's the way to cook
the -." Mrs. Jane Sophia Knott, and Sinclair and
Love, officers of the society, who attended is prosecute the
case, gave confirmatory evidence. The defendant did not
deny the charge, but said the dog flew at his children, and
he struck it once or twice with the hammer for the purpose
of killing it. Mr. D'Eyncourt remarked, that probably the
dog was a little ill tempered, but that was no reason why
the defendant should have recourse to such a revengeful
and cruel method of torturing it. Had he destroyed the
dog, and not let it suffer, the case would have been differ-
ent. It was a most cruel act, for which the defendant
wood have to pay a fine of 405., or in default fourteen days
in the House of Correction.

A TOBACCO:, PETTICOAT.-CRINOLINE SUPER•

SEDED.

Lottie Dartdemere, a little Dutchwoman, who carried
an infant in her arms, was brought before Mr. Yardley, at
the Thames Police-court, on Thursday, charged with
smuggling 21 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, by which
she had incurred a penalty of £lOO. This was an infor-
mation exhibited by Mr. J. A. 'Milford, a tide surveyor,
by order of the Board of Customs. It appeared that on%
the arrival of an Antwerp staamer, on Thursday, at St.
Katherine's-wharf, the prisoner, who was a passenger, wds
about to leave the vessel, when her extraordinary bulk
attracted the notice of the revenue officers on board, who
politely asked her if she had any goods liable to duty in
her possession. She made signs in the negative, but the
officers transposed her to a female searcher, to whom she
declared that she was enceinte. "Then you must allow
me to ba the widwife," said the unrelenting English-
woman, and she accordingly proceeded to strip the Dutch-
woman, and took from her a huge petticoat which encircled
her person, and which was lined throughout with com-
pressed tobacco. The prisoner then stammered out an
excuse that as ladies wore crinoline petticoats in England,
to give them a very bulky appearance, she had substituted
tobacco, which was cheap in Holland. The excuse was
not cre ited, and the prisoner was taken into custody, the
case reported to the Board of Customs, and this prosecu-
tion instituted. The prisoner, through an intepreter,
pleaded guilty. A custom-house officer produced a large
petticoat made of canvas, with straps attached to make it
fast to the shoulders of the wearer. It was filled with
tobacco. Mr. Yardley said he had no alternative but to
sentence the prisoner to pay a fine of £lOO to the Queen,
and in default to be imprisoned for six months. The
prisoner hoped she would be allowed to take her baby
into prison ; and, as it was only eight months' old, she
was allowed to take it with her.