The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

MIDDLE SE:

Day.

THE RIOT AT CRENWILNE GARDENS.
The further hearing of witnesses in this case was resumed
this morning. The court was crowded to excess.
The several defendants, Reginald Herbert, John Bir-
kett, Joseph Edward Saville, Robert Shaweross, Charles
M'Dougall, and Charles Mott, were charged in a great
number of counts with riot, and creating a breach of the
peace at Cremorne-gardens.
The whole of the day, up to the hour of our going to
press, was occupied in the examination of witnesses for the
defence. The evidence given was in effect that the whole
of defendants were well conducted persons, and not given
to intoxication, and wholly incapable of acting as the
police had stated.
At half-past two ;o'clock the Assistant-Judge com-
menced summing up the voluminous evidence in this
affair, so the verdict will not be returned before a late hour
this evening,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

M A.RLBOROU GH- STREE T.

THE CHARGE OF ROBBING A CAFE PROPRIETOR.--
Edith Holloway, the young woman charged with robbing
Mr. Alfred Lion, the proprietor of the Cafe de Londres,
New Coventry-street, her employer, was again brought up.
Mr. Herring appeared for the defence.
It was alleged on the last examination that the prisoner
had stolen a " lady's companion" and other articles, and
Mr. Lion said that while she was in his employ he missed
a quantity of valuable property.
Mr. Lion now stated that as he had reason to suspect
another person was more guilty than the prisoner, he did
not wish to press the case.

Mr. Herring, on behalf of the young woman, said that
on the last occasion it was stated that an album and a

" lady's companion" were found in the prisoner's room. It
was quite true that was the case, but there was no conceal-
ment of the articles, as they were placed on a table in the
prisoner's bedroom, to which any person in the house could
have free access. He (Mr. Herring) would ask the prose•.
cutor whether it was not owing to his belief that the pro-
perty he had missed had been taken away by some one
else that he wished to withdraw from the prosecution.
Mr. Lion said that was the case:

The magistrate and Mr. Herring having both exonerated
Mr. Lion from all blame in charging the prisoner, she was
discharged.

WESTMINSTER.

CHARGE OF FRAUD AND SWINDLING.-A respectably
dressed wan, who has been several times at this court on
remand, was charged before Mr. Selfe, in the name of Capt.
Archibald Logan, with having obtained a pony under the
following circumstances :
Mr. Smyth attended for the prosecution.
It appeared that a few weeks ago the prisoner saw a pony
which belonged to the coachman of Mr. Pearce, Knights-
bridge, and which was valued at about £35. He subse-
quently agreed to give £3l 10s. for it. He got the pony to
try it, and left the deposit of a cheque for that amount,
which was not honoured. The prisoner was subsequently
apprehended by Serg,ant Hodgson, B 36, when the charge
of obtaining fraudulent possession of the animal was en-
tered into, and the prisoner was held to bail in
his own recognisance of £lOO to appear again. He, how-
ever, did not attend, upon which his recognisance was
forfeited. On the next occasion, through the exertions of
Sergeant Hodgson, the pony was discovered at Cambridge,
in the possession of a person who had bought it, and who
gave a price much less for it than the owner originally asked.
The prisoner having been committed on this charge a
further charge of conspiracy was entered into in reference
to an alleged attempt to defraud Messrs. Tolman and Co.,
dressing-case manufacturers. It was stated by the magis-
trate that being in the City the charge was out of his juris-
diction.

The depositions having been taken against the prisoner
he was sent for trial.

Application was made for bail, upon which he was told
that after he had paid the amount of bail he had forfeited
his application would be considered.

THAMES.

A BRACE OF RUFFIANS.—MURDEROUS ASSAULT.--
John Connor, aged 28, a labourer, was brought before Mr.
Partridge on remand, charged with violently assaulting
and wounding Thomas Harney, pugilist, ruffian, and touter
to some of the crimps along shore.

The complainant Harney is a fighting man, and has been
repeatedly fined and held to bail to keep the peace for as-
saults on men and women, and other outrages. For the last
two or three years he has behaved comparatively well, and
while he was under heavy sureties to keep the peace his
temper has been sorely tried by persons who have annoyed
him and attempted to provoke him to commit a breach of
the peace. He has been in the London Hospital for a week,
and has certainly received fearful injuries. There were
surgical plain: era on his head and face, and he appeared very
pale and weakly. He said that he was dwelling with his
wife, at No. 3, Hope-court, St. George-in-the-East, and
that the prisoner lived in the same court. A few nights
since he was on his way home and was passing the pri-
soner's dwelling talking to hi mself. and saying that he would
ask a policeman to call him up next morning, when the pri-
soner rushed from his door-way with a poker in his hand
and struck him repeatedly with it over the head and face,
and inflicted divers wounds. He was knocked silly—he
lost a large quantity of blood, and was picked up and
carried to the Hospital. Harney then bent his head and
exhibited the surgical plaisters on the top of it.

In answer to questions by Mr. Partridge, the complainant
said that he never had a quarrel with the prisoner, and
never gave him any provocation at all.
Mrs. Harney, the complainant's wife, confirmed the evi-
dence of her husband, and said, after he was lying on the
ground weltering in his blood, the prisoner called out, "If
he is not settled with that, I'll rip him open with a knife."
Evidence was called fur the prisoner, which proved that
Harney was the aggressor, and beat Connor in a brutal
manner.

Mr. Partridge said that Harney was beaten within an
inch of his life with a heavy iron poker, but he was the
aggressor and brought the dreadful punishment he received
on himself. There was also no doubt Harney was a very
quarrelsome fighting man. In consideration of the gross
provocation received by the prisoner, he should fine him
40s. only, and in default one month's imprisonment.