The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

i POLICE INT

--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CURIOUS CASE Op JUVENILE DEuINQUENCIY. —Alfred
Waller, 12, of 34, Upper Charlton-street, and Henry
Turnbull, 14, of 23, George-street, were charged before Mr.
Knox as follows :

Mrs. Jane Waller, the mother of the first-named boy,
said that on Tuesday night she had £lO Ss. in a drawer in
her back parlour, the drawer being locked and the key of it
in the pocket of her dress hanging h-shind the door of the
room. Yesterday morning she found the key in her pocket
where she had left it, but on going to the drawer £2 of the
m ney was gone, though the drawer was locked when she
went to it. Her son went out as usual to go to school,
but did not return to dinner, and on inquiry at the school
she found he had not been that morning. About 4 o'clock
he came home, and on charging him with taking the money he
admitted doing so, and said that he had been to Blackwall
along with two other boys He said he had given some of
the money to one of the boys, who said he would hide it,
and to Turnbull. She then gave her son and Turnbull
into custody.

George Buckley, a boy, said he met Waller and Turnbull
in the Tottenham-court road, and Waller showed him £2,

which he took from his boot. They all then wen, in a 'bus
past Newgate, and then to Blackwall. There a boy went
up to Turnbull, and seeing hat he had money, demanded
some, and Turnbull gave him Cd ; they then went to a
coffee shop and had bread and butter, coffee, eggs, &o. ;
bought some air balls and let them all oft at once, and then
had a lot of nuts. They afterwards had a boat and went
on a steamer, Waller paying the expenses, although Turn-
bull had 245. Turnbull said he would make a hole in the
area of the house where he lived and hide the money.
Rogers, 87 E, proved taking the prisoners into custody,
and that Turnbull denied all knowledge of the money, but
afterwards said that he had got all the money but half a
sovereign which he had dropped into the water. The last,
witness told him that he had had ss. of the money, and that
he had hidden it in a garden near the Regent's Park, and
going there he (Rogers) found it, and in an area in George-
street he found 21s. which had been secreted by Turnbull.
Mr. Knox (addressing the father of Waller) said that he
was sorry he should have such a distressing affair in his
family, but if he (the magistrate) sent such boys to the
House of Detention amongst thieves and pickpockets, and
placed there at their early age in such a place they would
be tainted with a shadow they would never get rid of. He
would advise their parents to take them home and punish
them themselves in such a way that they would not forget
it for a while.
Mr. Turnbull asked whether the boy could not be sent to
a reformatory ?
Mr. Knox said that when a boy came out of a reforma-
tory he was looked upon almost as badly as when he came
out of prison. If his parents could send the boy into the
country for a time, and to school, that would be the best
course to adopt. He could not send the boy to a reformer.
tory.

The boys were then given up to their parents.
NIGHT CAB HORSES.—A CAB PROPRIBIOR FINED ?OR
CRIIELTY.—John Marshall, cab proprietor, of 12, Herne-
street, Pentonville-street, appeared before Mr. Knox to
answer the complaint of Mr. Wm. Love, chief officer of 4he
Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals, for
causing a horse to be ill-treated and tortured, by causing it
be worked in a cab.

The case was proved by Ge rge Smith, one of the officers
of the Royal society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, who deposed to seeing the poor animal drawing a
cab in a totally unfit state for work.
Mr. Knox ordered the driver, who had been taken into
custody, to be discharged, and hearing that the horse had
been killed, said he should fine the defendant 205., and but
for the fact that the horse hld been destroyed, he should
have sent him to prison without a fine.