The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-20 00:00:00

IN RE ANTHONY.

This bankrupt was described as an attorney's clerk at
Manbey• place, Stratford.
Mr B. Beverley applied for the bankrupt's release from
custody, which was granted without opposition.
These were the only cases on the list.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROtiGH-STREET.

MR. BASS'S ACT,—SINGULAR CASE.--Michael Betio-
net, an Italian organ grinder, was charged before Mr
Knox with annoying Mr Robert M. Rew, of the firm of
R. M. Rew and Co., chemists, 282, Regent-street.

Mr Rew said that, at half•past eight o'clock last night,
the prisoner set to grinding his organ next door to his house.
The prisoner very much annoyed him by doing so, and he
went out and requested him to go away, but he refused to
do so, and persisted in playing. Upon this, he (Mr Rew)
gave the prisoner into custody, when he rushed into the
passage of the house in front of which he was playing,
being encouraged by a neighbour who has a taste for organ
playing. He (kir Rew) wished to state that, as the dis•
pensers of medicines, great responsibility was placed in
them, and they required quietude, and not to have their
minds distracted from their business, and that, had he not
felt much annoyed, he would not have taken the trouble to
come to the court. The prisoner continued to play in
spite of the police. Prisoner said he had a Ventleman in
court to speak for him.

Mr Sykes, of Regent-street, the nest door neighbour to
Mr Rew, said the prisoner had been in the habit of coming
to his house every Friday night to play his organ for about
half an hour, at the time when he was paying his people,
and lately Mr Rew had felt annoyed at his doing so, and
last night he had the prisoner in his passage.

Mr Knox—Then he was inside the house ?
Mr Sykes—He was.
Mr Knox—Did the constable come into your passage and
ake him out ?
Mr Sykes—Yes, but I did not see him.

Mr Knox—Then that is not evidence.

George Hurst, 108 E, said that on being told by Mr Hew
that he wanted to give a man into custody for annoying
him by playing his organ, he went to the spot and found
the prisoner playing outside Mr Sykes' door. The prisoner,
on being told he was given into custody, went higher into
Mr Sykes' passage, and he and another constable, in plain
clothes, went in after the prisoner and took him into
custody. Mr Sykes, who was not there up to this time,
then came down. He did not take the prisoner out of the
passage till after the prisoner had been in his custody and
rushed into the passage.
James Clarke. of the E Division, said he saw the prisoner
playing on the pavement in front of Mr Sykes' house, and
Mr Rew gave him into custody. The prisoner then put
down his organ and rushed into Mr Sykes' passage, and ho
(Clarke) went in and pulled him out.
Mr Sykes's forewoman and porter having given evidence,
Mr Rew said that before ho came to the Court, that morn-
ing, a man came and played his organ, and Mr Sykes took
the man in and closed the door, and this deadened the
sound, and therefore he did not object to it. But the organ
playing had been of daily occurrence, and Was a great
annoyance in consequence.

Mr. Knox said that every householder in London had a
right to protection under the act of Parliament. It was not
necessary in the present case to have brought in Mr. Bass'
Act, as under the old act it would have been a perfectly
legal arrest, as ha had continued to play after being re-
quested to leave, a reasonable cause for his leaving being
given. It would never do to let the men off from feelings of
compassion, or it would become an intolerable nuisance.
In the present case it was not so much dealing with the
prisoner, as between two persona equally respectable, but
of different feelings. He should fine the prisoner 205., and
as Mr. Sykes had been the cause of the prisoner offending,
he would recommend Mr. Sykes to pay the fine.
ROBBING A CONTRACTOR.—SamueI Eastop, a labourer
in the employ of Messrs. Docwra and Son, of Ball's-pond,
extensive contractors for gas and water-works, charged with
stealing some lead from a trench which he was at work in
in Oxford-street, some works being there carried on by
Messrs. Docwra and Son for the Chartered Gas Company,
was again brought before Mr Knox.
Mr Louis Lewis appeared for the prisoner.
The case having been proved by Mr Drummond, foreman
to Messrs. Docwia and Son,

Mr Lewis addressed the magistrate on the prisoner's
behalf.

Mr Knox said he would take the prisoner's previous good
character into account, and could only commit the prisoner
fur a ninnth with hard lab.ar, hoping that would operate
as a warning to the prisoner.
Messrs. Docwra and Son, who have several groups of
men at work in different parts of London, have been much
robbed of late by labourers in their employ.