The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

HIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1865.

MARKETS—This Day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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BOW-STREET.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CIIILD.—Goorgo Kettley, cab-
man, was placed at the bar before Mr. Flowers, charged
with causing the death of a child named William Lacey,
aged four years, by driving his cab over him.
Joseph Jackson, 14, Middlesex-street, Somers-town, said
about a quarter past five on Sunday evening he was stand-
ing at the top of Bow- street, near Long-acre, and while
there he saw a hansom cab coming from Endell-street, and
going towards the Strand. Just at this moment a child
darted into the road, and before the cabman could pull up
the horse knocked the child down, and the cab wheel
passed over its head.
Police-constable 168 F said he was on duty in Long-
acre last night about half-past five, and when near Mr.
Merryweather's, the fire-engine manufacturing establish-
ment, he saw the cab driven by the prisoner coming along.
It was not going at more than three miles an hour. It
had just got into Bow-street, and when he looked
round again he saw the wheel of the cab pass
over the child's head. The prisoner stopped directly
he could, but not before the child was knocked down. He
took the child to the station, but it was quite dead.
Robert Saunders said he came up just as the accident
had occurred. He saw the witness Jackson pick up the
child. The child was given to him, and he ran with it to
the doctor's in Long-acre, but he was not at home, and ho
then went for Dr. Harvey, and ho also was absent, but in
about five-and-twenty minutes ho arrived at the station.
The child was then dead.
Lacy, the father of the child, residing at 14, Broad-
court, said he was assured by all those who had seen the
sad occurrence that it was purely an accident, and there-
fore he could say nothing in the matter. The child had
not been out of his home but a few minutes. He bad but
just ran out for a few minutes while his tea got cool. He
had a few friends with him to celebrate his birthday, and
the shocking accident that had occurred had given a most
melancholy termination to the evening.
Mr. Flowers said it was a very sad accident, but there
did not appear to be any blame attaching to the prisoner.
There would, of course, bo an inquiry into the matter by
the coroner, and therefore he could not discharge him,
but he should order him to enter into his own recognisances
to appear that day week.
DISTURBANCE IN THE STRAND.—Mary Macdonald was
charged with creating a disturbance and obstructing the
footway in the Strand.
Police-constable F 149 said the prisoner was in the
Strand near the Charing-cross Railway station selling
fruit. He told her to go away, but she turned round and
used a dreadful expression, and then he attempted to take
her into custody, but she resisted violently. Ho was
compelled to use force to take her to the station.
The prisoner said the constable had used her most
shamefully, and she had witnesses to prove it.
Mr. Carter, of the Strand, said he was sitting in his room
last evening when he heard loud screams, and on looking
out of the window ho saw the constable using the woman
in a very brutal manner. Ho saw the policeman throw
the prisoner violently down in such a manner that com-
pelled him to cry "shame." He went to the station to
state what he had seen, when he was refused admittance.
The constable shut the wicket of the station-house door in
his face very rudely when ho asked to be allowed to enter.
One of the inspectors, however, came up and reproved the
officer for not allowing the witnesses to go into the charge
room and give their evidence.

Mr. Morris said he resided at York Buildings. Last
evening he saw the prisoner, with a few pears in her
hand, in the Strand. He perceived the prisoner speak to
the woman, but the next thing he saw was tho constable
throw the woman down. She got up, and ho seized her a
second time, threw her down, and fell upon hor. He heard
the woman say she would go quietly if her arms were not
held so tightly. Tho constable let her get up, but it ap-
peared to him that a groat deal of unnecessary violence
was used.

Edward Welch said he saw the commencement of the
disturbance. The woman was on one side of the way and
he on the other. She had some pears in her hand, and
the constable told her to go away, but she turned round
and said something, and the constable then pushed her
and she fell down on her basket. When she got up the
constable then took hold of her and threw her violently
on the ground. The screams at this time would be those
that brought Mr. Carter to the window. The constable
took hold of her by her arm the last time, and thrust her
very violently in the doorway of 443, Strand. The woman
appeared quite sober.
Roubach Martin said he resided in the Strand, and last
evening he was walking near the Charing-oross station.
He saw the police-constable tell a number of persons who
sell fruit in the street to go away. The prisoner refused
to go, and the constable then pushed her and she fell down
and went in her basket. Ho did not see the constable
throw her down a second time, but as she got up he kept
hold of her by the arm. The prisoner used very bad lan-
guage to the constable, who, according to his view of the
matter, was very patient.
Inspector Brennan said it was an inexperienced constable
at the wicket. Immediately he came up he gave directions.
for all the witnesses to be admitted.
Mr. Carter said nothing could be more gentlemanly than
the conduct of the inspector. He could not, however, but
think that the behaviour of the constable in taking the
woman into custody was inhuman and violent ; at least,
all that he had seen bore that aspect. He certainly did
not see the beginning of the matter ; but it quite made
my blood boil to see the policeman use the woman so
cruelly.

Mr. Flowers said he should discharge the woman, and
reflect a little on the evidence that had been given. The
constable might have exceeded his duty, but he could not
say that until ho had carefully gone through the evidence.
Inspector Brennan said the constable 149 F was a very
well behaved and attentive man.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE ORGAN-GRINDING NUISANCE.—Guiseppo Marsalina,
an Italian organ player, was charged before Mr. Arnold
with playing his organ to the annoyance of Dr. Jelin Ash-
burner, physician, of 7, Hyde-park-place, and refusing to
g o away when directed to do so.
Dr. Ashburner said that on Saturday night, about eleven
o'clock, his family having all retired, he heard a loud bar-
rel organ playing near his house. He wont to the window
to see whether ho could stop it, but, as he could not, he
called up his servant, and sent him to tell the man playing
the organ (the prisoner) to go away. The prisoner then
crossed from one side of the street to the other, and con-
tinued playing. The nuisance had occurred so often that
he had resolved, the first time he had an opportunity, to
give the prisoner into custody.
John Winn, servant to Dr. Ashburner, proved being
sent by his master to tell the prisoner to go away. The
prisoner then crossed to the other side of the street, nearer
to Dr. Ashburner's house.
Mr. Arnold asked the witness whether the prisoner un-
derstood what he said.
Tho witness said he not only spoke to the prisoner, but
motioned him away with his hand.
Mr. Arnold asked the witness whether he told the pri-
soner to go away a second time, and the witness admitted
that ho did not, nor did he point to the house the inhabit-
ants of which he was annoying.

The prisoner, through Mr. Albert, the interpreter, said
he did not understand what the servant said to him, but
he afterwards showed that he did.

Mr. Arnold said, in the first place, it was a most unrea-
sonable time to be playing an instrument in the streets,
and in the second place the prisoner was bound to go away
when ordered by a housekeeper. If he came to this country
he must obey the laws. The prisoner must pay 55., or be
imprisoned for four days.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A young woman, named Sarah
Ann Bromley, servant to a lady residing at No. 5, Somer-
set-street, POrtman-square, was charged before Mr. Arnold
with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself
into the Serpentine.

A young man named Dempsey, a tailor, said that on
Saturday night he was crossing Hyde-park about 10
o'clock, when he saw an object in the Serpentine which
ho at first thought was a Newfoundland dog, but after-
wards found to be the accused.no went into the water
and. succeeded in getting her out, she being at the time
unconscious. She was taken to the Receiving-house of
the Royal Humane Society, and afterwards to Mount-street
Workhouse.

Tho mistress of the accused stepped forward, and, in
answer to Mr. Arnold, said that the only cause she could
assign for the young woman's conduct was that she bad
been slightly reprimanded and told to go to bed for some-
thing which had occurred while they were out of town.
Mr. Arnold said ho should remand the young woman
for a week He thought at the same time there must be
some other cause.

The mistress of the young woman asked that She might
be allowed to take her home, but Mr. Arnold refused' the
requeiA, stating that alto I. Quid bo properly attended to

transacted, and the quotations have somewhat improved.
The import into London last week was very moderate.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
s d
Fleeces—South Down hogets l. 8/
Half-bred d 0... 2 0
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes and wethers 1 8
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

s d
1 91
2 1
1 14
1 91
2 01
1 01
1 111

SEEDS.
On the whole, the seed trade is firm, and late rates are
well supported. The cake trade is dull.

TALLOW.
Tallow continues to advance in price, and to-day the
quotations have further improved. P.Y.C. is now quoted
at 46s per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow is worth 46s 3d
net cash. Rough fat commands 2s 4d per Blbs.
Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.
Stock this day 51,857 42,20.5 42,148 32,774
Prico of Y.C.
1 49s 41s 6d to —s —s Od
Delivery last week...... 1,31;5 1,007 2,262 1,621
Ditto from Juno 1...... 20,290 13,307 15,529 21,466
Arrival last week
Ditto from June 1...... 16,830 17,768 12,656 21,757
Price of Town

the House of Detention, and have the benefit of the chap-
lain's advice.

WESTMINSTER.
STONE THROWING NUISANCE—NARROW ESCAPE.—Peter
Jones, a boy 14 years of age, was brought up on a warrant
charged with wilful damage.
Augustus Hobainn, a Germain, who spoke very bad
English, said that on the 13th of August he was sitting at
about eight in the evening in his parlour, at 1, Causton
Cottages, Regent-street, Westminster, when suddenly a
stone was thrown through the window, which struck him
on the side of the head and made a great swelling. Com-
plainant's wife had been sitting with an infant seven weeks
old in her arms in the same place as complainant but a
minute previously, and had the stone struck the child it
might have killed it.
Mrs. Clara Kirk, a neighbour, said she saw the stone de-
liberately thrown through the window by the defendant,
who then ran away.
Defendant—There was a lot of us as heaved stones.
Mr. Selfe—That makes it so much the worse.
Mrs. kirk—He was alone down by the wall when he
deliberately threw the stone. I am sure I owe him no ani-
mosity. Boys will be boys I know when they are all
together.
Mr. SeHe—And when they are not, too, I suppose.
What made you do this ?
Defendant—We were a having to break the windows.
Mr. Selfe—Why ?
Defendant—We were having a game with Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. Selfe—You will have to have a game with me.
What is this about Mr. Kennedy ; does any ono know ?
Policeman—He is the landlord of the property. He is a
little queer in the head.
Mr. Selfe— And his lodgers will soon be the same if
stones are thrown about in this way.
Poticeman—This boy has been here before for felony,
and gives a great deal of trouble. People frequently com-
plain of him.
Mr. Selfe—This conduct on your part, boy, is mischie-
vous, wanton, and most dangerous. Had the woman and
child been in the chair, you might have killed the baby. If
brought here again I shall put you away for three years to
a reformatory.
Defendant was committed for 14 days in default of a fine
and costs.