The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE IIVTE'LLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—A. Hungarian refugee applied to
the sitting magistrate, Mr. Henry, for his advice under
the following circumstance. He stated that the London
.To7svii,i/ had been publishing supplements, the profits
upon which had been devoted to the fund which was
being collected fir the wives and children of the soldier
now on service in the East. Anxious to assist even in a
very bumble way, in the good purpose, he left at the
office of the publication in question the manuscript of
part of an unpublished work fur publication in the sup-
plement, as it had a bearing upon the topic in connec-
tion with which the supplements were issued ; but it
had not been published, and be had applied six or seven
times personally, and twice by letter, for it to be re-
turned, but he could not get it. If it was published
he should not care, but it was now wanted for the work
of which it formed a portion, and which related to the
Turks and people of the eastern countries.

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Mr. Henry said the usual rule was that manuscript
contributions were not returned if rejected.
The applicant said be left the manuscript in question
on the condition that it was to be returned if not used.

Mr. Henry said he could not interfere. If the appli-
cant resorted to law on the subject he must go to a
county court, and there try the question if newspapers
and periodicals were bound to return manuscript which
wan not used, or if not, whether in this particular in-
stance there was a condition to that effect.
James Coppick, cab-driver, No. 3,214, was placed at
the bar sharo•ed with having used abusive language.
Mr. Frederick Mortimer Lewin, of the Wyndham
Club, stated that he took the defendant's cab at New-
gate in the morning, and desired him to drive him to
Long-acre. He did not know that he was in drink.
When he arrived in Long-acre he remonstrated with him
for having driven in a most reckless manner, whereupon
defendant commenced abusing him iu language of the
most disgusting nature—calling him a vagabond and a
scoundrel, and among other things he said it would not
take him two pins to punch his nose. Deponent
Procured two persons to witness this, and by the advice
oftone of them he re-entered the cab and desired the de-
fendant to drive him to this court. The inspector on
duty, finding that the defendant was somewhat the worse
for liquor, had him locked up for a time before he was
brought before his worship.

.Inspector Mitchell said he did not think the defendant
had then recovered from the effects of drink.

The defendant denied that he had drank anything that
day, except what he took with his breakfast.
Two gentlemen gave evidence fully corroborating the
prosecutor's statement.
The defendant denied that he used any abusive lan-
guage whatever, and assured the magistrate that he was
quite sober, and that he had driven in the streets for
over twenty years and bad never been complained of in
all his career. As to the reckless driving, he said gentle.
men must know that it was not such a very easy thing
to drive straight with a " shoful," and if he did go in
and out a little he could not help it, and the gentle-
man need not have got quite so " cheeky " about it as
he did.

Mr. Henry said the offence had been most clearly
proved, and he should teach the defendant that such
conduct was not to be passed over lightly. Defendant
must pay a fine of 31., or be imprisoned for one calendar
month.

GUILDHALL—Mr. William", a dairyman, was
summoned by the inspector of meat for Newgate-market
for sending the body of a cow to rilarket for sale which
was totally unfit for human food.
It arpeared, front the statement of the witnesses for
the prosecution, that the cow was delivered at the shop
of Mr. Weaver, a salesman of Newgate-market, in the
ordinary way in which meat intended for human con-
sumption was usually forwarded ; but Mr. Weaver's
foreman detecting the quality of the meat refused to
take it in. The porter, however, said lie should not
take it back, and accordingly threw it on the shop
floor, and one of Mr. Weaver's men suhsequently hung
it up in the back of the shop. Information was then given
to the inspector, who, on examining the meat, found
is not only unfit for human food, but actually in a
putrid state, the cow,being what was termed in the
market a " wet'un," having been killed to prevent its
dying, from a disease it had long been suffering from.
Th defendant said the cow appeared to him in good
health, and the only thing that induced him to have her
killed was that she dropped off in her milk, and got
gradually rather thin. He did not see the meat after it
was dressed, and it was put into the cart to go to mar-
ket before he was up in the morning, and he therefore
had no opportunity of seeing it before it went away.
Sir W. Carden and Alderman Rose severely censured
the practice of sending meat in such a state to market at
any time, but more particularly during the prevalence
of such/a fearful epidemic as that from which all London
had been suffering, and to which thousands of persons
had fallen victims, but as they had no summary juris-
diction in the matter, they had no alternative but to
commit the defendant to take his trial at the sessions.
Committed accordingly.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. A'Beckett was engaged for
several. hours in investigating several charges against
parties carrying on offensive trades under the arches of
the South-Eastern Railway, in the parish of Ber-
mondsey.
Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Messrs. Drew and Gray,
solicitors to the Bermondsey Improvement Commis-
sioners, appeared to prosecute ; and Mr. Solomon was
retained for the defendants.

The first case was against Messrs. Garner, leather
dressers arid japnners, carrying on an offensive business
in Nos. 11'3, 117, 118, 119, 120, and 121 arches, under
the South-Eastern Railway, adjoining Russell-street,
Bermondsey.
Mr. Ballantine said that the defendants' business was
very obnoxious, and carried on in such a place as to
spread disease and terror among the inhabitants. The
very spot in which they boiled the compound for japan-
nit], was directly under the line of railway where the
ticketsb were collected from the passengers, and so offen-
sive was the smell that complaints were hourly made by
parties compelled to travel by that railway. Not only
that, but the inhabitants of the surrounding neighbour-
hood made bitter complaints to the commissioners ; and
he was instructed to say that the nuisance was so bad,
that many parties were seriously indisposed at the pre-
sent time in their houses adjacent. For the protection
of the lives of the inhabitants he must press upon his
worship the necessity of its instant removal.
Mr. Garner said that they would do no more boiling
under the arches.

Mr. Ballantine—But you still carry on the dyeing,
which is equally offensive. Will you discontinue that
Mr. Garner—We have 195 degrees of heat in that de-
partment, and I suppose we must keep the windows shut.
Mr. Ballantine—Yes, and kill your own men. Your
business is injurious to the health of the inhabitants,
and it must be discontinued.

Mr. Garner— We will construct a shaft to carry away
any offensive smell.

Dr. Challi?, the medical officer, here said that if
shaft was constructed it ought to be thirty or forty feet
above the railway. He was sure that could not be done.
The vapour arising from the factory was very heavy,
and must be, at the present time of serious injury to the
inhabitants and railway passengers.
Mr. Garner—But there has been no complaint made
before.

Mr. Ballantine—Typhus fever and cholera existed all
around the premises, and the effluvia must he got rid of.
If the defendants undertake to remove the nuisance I
suggest to the commissioners the necessity of allowing
the summons to stand over. We had these matters be-
fore Mr. Justice Crowder at the Central Criminal Court
last week regarding a Lucifer-match factory, and the
learned judge laid down that no business could be car-
ried on that endangered the lives of the inhabitants.
Mr. Garner—We will remove the nuisances immedi-
ately, if that is the law.

I Mr. Ballantine—The magistrate at my request will
give you a fortnight to do so, and unless that is done you
will be indicted at the Central Criminal Court.
Adjourned accordingly.
James Oates, a bone boiler, carrying on business in
Nos. 243, 244, and 245 arches under the South-Eastern
Railway, in Bermondsey, was next summoned for car-
rying on certain trades or manufactures so as to be in-
jurious to the health of the neighbouring inhabitants.
Mr. Ballantine said the defendant's factory is at the
corner of Blue Anchor-lane, a very crowded neighbour-
hood, and if his worship thought fit he would carry the
case to the Central Criminal Court for indictment. The
law was perfectly clear on the subject, and, as before al-
luded to, no one could be allowed to carry on a business
injurious to health. The defendant's business was so,
and he was consequently liable to he indicted unless he
removed the nuisance. It would be impossible for the
defendant to construct a chimney of a sufficient height,
connected by the railway, to carry off the obnoxious
smells, as that would interfere with the railway. As it
at present existed it was dangerous in the extreme, and
parties coming from the pure air in the country when
waiting for the ticket collector over those arches, were
sickened by the noxious effluvia emitted from defendant's
premises below. Although not the immediate cause of
death, he was instructed to say that such smells predis-
posed persons to the prevailing disease, and swelled the
lists of mortality in Bermondsey. He must say that
the authorities had been extremely active in putting
down all nuisances in their district, as no less than 450
persons had been summoned by them for nuisances, and
in all cases they were immediately remedied. He, there-
fore, called upon his worship to assist them in putting
down the present offensive nuisance.
Mr. Solomon said his client did not wish to carry on
any business that was likely to be injurious to the health
of the inhabitants. When he took these premises there
were no houses near him, but now he was surrounded.
If he should be ordered to remove immediately it would
ruin him.

:11r. IlAllantine said he did not want to injure the de-
fendant, and he was willing to allow him time to remove
hk im-ine.e,s, provided that he refrained from continoing
the nu ißan ce.

Mr. Solomon replied that his client would do what
was ri within a month.
Mr. A'Beckett then adjourned the summons for a
month.

THAMES.—Ceor•ge Bennett, 17, late apprentice on
board the Ythan, lying in the St. Katherine s•dock, was
charged with cutting with a knife the body of Alfred
Audsley, who is now lying in a dangerous state at the
hospital at Leghorn.
Inspector Bolas, of the river police, who bad charge of
the case, put in a document from Mr. Alexander
M‘Bean, British consul at Leghorn, directing the cap-
tain of the Ythan to have the prisoner brought before a
magistrate in this country on a charge of endangering
the life of Audsley, and another document stating that
the wounded man had been paid off at Leghorn, and
lodged in the hospital there.
Mr. James Joseph Moore, master of the Ythan, said
he did laot know what led to the quarrel between the

prisoner and Audsley. His attention was called to the
fact that the latter had been stabbed in the thigh, and, on
going to visit him, he found him bleeding profusely. He
at once stopped the flow of blood, and had him immedi-
ately conveyed to the hospital, where he lay in a dan-
gerous state when he (witness) left.
Mr Yardley—Have you got the knife with which the
wound was inflicted ?—Witness : No, sir. It is to be
sent over with some documents pertaining to the case by
the British consul.

Inspector Bolas—The captain told me' sir, that mor-
tification had set in before the vessel left Leghorn.
Captain—l could not speak of my own knowledge as
to the fact, but such was the rumour.

Inspector Bolas said that a man who gave evidence on
Saturday, and who was a material witness, refused to
come up unless his attendance was compelled.
Captain—l have not paid that man, for had I done so
it is impossible to say when or where he could be found.
Mr. Yardley—You did perfectly right. I shall issue
a summons for his immediate attendance, and commit
the prisoner for trial. That witness shall be bound
over, and if necessary I shall order him to find sureties
for his appearance.
The captain's depositions were then taken. He said
the prisoner was apprenticed to the owners of the ves-
sel, and the wounded lad (Audsley) was au ordinary sea-
Hu had been left iu the hospital at Leghorn on
the 21st of July, suffering from a severe wound in the
thick part of the thigh, which was calculated to do him
serious bodily harm, Witness had had no conversation
with the prisoner on the subject since the occurrence
took place.

ShUrtly before the magistrate left the bench, Inspector
Bolas returned with William Brown, cook of the Ythan,
who said—l know the lad Audsley whom we left in the
hospital at Leghorn. In the latter end of July, I think
about the 25th, he and I, and the prisoner, and others
were taking tea together in the forecastle. The pri-
soner had a pair of ragged canvas trousers on, and
Audsley laughed at him. I told the prisoner not to
mind it. He had a knife in his hand at the time, cut-
ting his meat, and I suddenly beard Audsley cry out
"I am struck." Seeing that he was bleeding profusely,
I called the master, who put bandages on the wound,
and Audsley was taken to the hospital. I said to the
prisoner, "This is a rash act," but he made no reply.
Inspector Bolas said the prisoner was handed to him
at Gravesend by a sergeant of local police there. When
in his custody he said, "I did stab the boy. I was
taking my tea, and he took hold of me by the pri-
vates. I went to push him away and the knife went
into him."
The prisoner was committed for trial.