The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-17 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELLY TORTURING A CAT.—Georgo Taylor, of 14,
Lancashire-court, New Bond-street, appeared before Mr
Knox to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of having cruelly tortured
a cat.

Edwin Harris, a lad living at No. 5, Lancashire-court,
said that on the night of Whitsunday ha was in the court,
when he saw the defendant take up a kitten, strike it, then
pinch it on the back of the neck, and afterwards squeeze its
throat with both hands, trying to strangle it. The defend-
ant then dashed it on the ground, put his foot on it, and
took it up, and again dashed it on the ground, and finally
killed it.

The defendant said that when he saw the kitten it had no
owner with it, and he therefore thought he would put it out
of the way, and did so. Some lads were kicking it about.
Harris denied this, stating that he had been stroking and
playing with a kitten.
William How, another lad living in the court, said the
kitten was not illused by any one but the defendant, who
was seven minutes killing it. When he told defendant
that the kitten belonged to a female living in the court, the
defendant said he did not care a - for the kitten, and on
the owner of the kitten saying it belonged to her, the de-
fendant said he would like to serve her and every woman
the same.

Mr Knox asked whether the defendant was sober, and the
witness said he thought not from his conduct.
The defendant said he killed the kitten because he saw no
owner of it.

Mr Knox inquired of the defendant whether he was in
ho habit of killing all the cats he saw without owners.
The defendant gave no answer.

Mrs. Jenkins, the owner of the kitten, said, hearing cries
of "Shame," she went to see the cause, and the bystanders
were complaining of tho defendant's barbarous conduct to
the kitten. On expostulating with defendant, he said he
would serve every - female the same.
Mr Knox said he did not see why Mrs Jenkins should
not have the cat protected, and but for the fact that defen-
dant would probably lose his work he would have sent him
to prison.

The defendant was then fined lOs and oats, or seven
days' imprisonment in default,

THAMES,

ROBBERIES IN THE LONDON DOCK.—David Rogers,
aged 21, who said he was living at a coffee-shop in King
David-lane, Shadwell, was brought up before Mr Partridge
charged with stealing a coat and hat.

On the 23d of last month Edward Ellis, a London dock
constable, saw the prisoner in the dock with two coats on
and a wide, awake hat under the coats. Ellis made the
prisoner pull off both coats, and being convinced that one
of them was not his coat, and that it was not made for him,
questioned him, and he said that he had bought the coat in
" the lane," (as that great receiving depot, Petticoat-lane,
is styled, par excellence) and that he purchased the wide-
awake in the same place. Ellis detained one of the coats
and the wide-awake, and knowing the prisoner well allowed
him to depart. The coat and hat were afterwards identified
by Mr John Binning, a foreman on the South-west Quay,
whose box was broken open and his coat and hat abstracted.
Ellis said other robberies of a similar description had been
committed in the dock, and that the prisoner was suspected
of having committed a robbery on board a steamship in the
deck, The vessel was away and he wanted a remand. He
apprehended the prisoner last night, in King David-lane,
Shadwell.
Mr Partridge remanded the prisoner, and directed in-
quiries to be made about his antecedents.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of English grain fresh up to onr market,
to-day, were small. Notwithstanding the limited number
of samples on the stands, sales progressed slowly both in
red and white qualities, yet Monday's prices were supportel

The supply of foreign wheat on offer was by no means
extensive. The trade, however, for nearly all descriptions
ruled quiet, at late rates.

Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at pre-
vious quotations.

Barley—the supply of which on sale was very moderate
—changed hands at Monday's currency.
The malt trade was quiet, on former terms.
With oats the market was scantily supplied, and the
trade ruled firm, with an upward tendency in prices.
Beans and peas—the supplies of which were small—fully
supported previous rates.
Flour was in moderate request, at late rates.
ARRIVALS THIS litrußx.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout.
English 830 680 1,220 570
Irish 1,2!C
1,570 7,850 16) sks
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