The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WHOLESALE WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
—Robert Clark, a journeyman in the employ of Mr. Edwin
Mogford, confectioner, of 407, Oxford-street, was charged
with wilfully destroying property to the amount of £3O
belonging to his master.
Mr. Mogford said on Saturday night he was sent for,
and on reaching home found that property to the amount
of £3O had been destroyed.
Miss Emma Jane Mogford, sister of Mr. Mogford, said
that on Saturday night, about 10, while she was sewing in
the shop, the prisoner came from the bakehouse with a large
hammer in his hand, and smashed four large looking-
glasses. He then came to the counter and broke a num-
ber of shelve glasses, 17 show bottles, and 14 glasses, a
water bottle, a square of glass in the glass case ; also a
large quantity of ginger beer and ice glasses. The pri •
goner said at the same time " Iv'e now had ray Bs. worth.
Her brother was at his other shop, and had told the pri-
soner to fetch a box for the Oxford-street shop, which h^,
refused to do, and her brother said he would not pay the
prisoner his wages, Bs., till he did, and this was what pri-
soner meant by the remark.

Burgess, 142 C, said on taking prisoner into custody he
said " I've had my revenge."

Prisoner said he had brokea a lamp in conveying it from
one shop to another, and, as Mr. Mogford said he should
stop his wages, he broke the things.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that as maliciously destroying pro-
perty was now a misdemeanour, the prisoner would go for
trial.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

A BARRISTER CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A SOL-
DIER.-Mr. William Knox Pomeroy, barrister, of 21, Sack-
ville-street, was charged with assaulting William Wylds,
a private of the Coldstream Guards.

I The soldier said that on stepping out of n public-house in
New Burlington-street last night, where he had called in
to get some tobacco, the defendant said, " Can you fight ?"
and before he could answer struck him with his umbrella
on the shoulder, and then gave him a blow in the eye. Ile
never struck the defendant, but waited till a constable came
up and gave him into custody.
Defendant—l've no questions to ask. I believe it is all
true. I was drunk, and am now sorry.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—lt was an unprovoked assault, and I
ought to fine you, but you can settle with the soldier if you
like. You ought to pay him handsomely, for he could
have punished you no doubt severely if he had liked to do
so, and then you would have been sorry for it.
The complainant and the defendant then left the Court,
and the defendant having given the complainant two
sovereigns he was discharged ; Mr. Tyrwhitt remarking
that it was only a proper reward for the soldier, who had
acted with great coolness in the matter.
MORE HORSE CRUELTY.—Levi Chitton, of Speen,
Bucks, was charged at the instance of Mr. William Love,
chief facer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a horse, in using it in
an unfit state.

James Rutherford, one of the officers of the Royal So-
ciety, proved seeing the defendant driving the horse at-
tached to a cart containing a load of 30 cwt. The horse
was in such a miserable condition that it could scarcely get
along, and on ite shoulder there was a large wound, into
which the collar was pressing, the wound being one o f old
standing. The defendant said he had brought the horse
30 miles, and that it was no worse then than it had been
for three years.

The defendant treated the matter very lightly.
The magistrate, having inspected the poor animal, whose
appearance bore out the officer's statement, fined the de-
fendant 405., or six weeks in default.

SOUTHWARK.
A DISGRACEFUL CUSTOMER.—Walter Moore, a tall,
stout young man, who is well known to the police as one of
the most disorderly characters in the Borough, as well as
a noted thief, was charged with being drunk and threaten.
ing the lifo of Martha Moore.
The complainant stated that she ras married to the pri-
soner's brother, who keeps the " Shipwright's Arms,"
Bermondsey-street, and on Thursday evening the former
came to her house during her husband's absence, and be-
haved himself in the most violent manner towards her.
She expected that he would assault her, and she refused to
serve him anything to drink. After using very abusing
language he wont away, but came to the house last Satur-
day and repeated his misconduct, threatening to murder
her, which, from his violence, she thought it was not un-
likely he would have attempted, but for the appearance of
a police constable, who happened to be on duty near the
house at the time, and who took him into custody. She
stated that she was frequently threatened by the prisoner,
and from his manner and character she was in fear of her
life.

Sergeant Raymond, of the M Division, said that the pri-
soner, who was living with a prostitute in Bermondsey,
was a most desperate character.
The prisoner, in reply to the magistrate, said that he was
drunk at the time, and that the complainant was in the
habit of annoying him by flinging disholothes at him and
smacking his face.
The Magistrate bound over the prisoner to keep the
peace for three months, on two sureties of £lO each.