The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1849

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Yesterday William Sandford, a young man, was
brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with creat-
ing a disturbance in the house of Mr. Joseph Jar-
main, landlord of the Queen's Head, in Fashion-
street, Bermondsey, and instigating his daughter, a
girl fifteen years of age, to abandon her home.
The complainant stated, that for some time past
the defendant bad been in the habit of frequenting
his house, and as be observed of late that familiarities
which he was averse to encourage were passing be-
tween the latter and his daughter, a very young girl,
he forbade him the house. The defendant, however,
still persisted in his visits, although remonstrated
with, and warned not to come there ; and on Satur-
day evening he presented himself, and forced his way
into the room where complainant's daughter was
sitting, and repeated his solicitations for her to leave
home and accompany him. On that occasion the
defendant became so exceedingly turbulent in his
conduct, that when threatened to be turned out, he
made use of language of a highly irritating nature,
vowing that complainant's daughter should not re-
main longer under her paternal roof, and his conduct
became so violent that, in order to prevent serious
consequences, he was at length compelled to call a
policeman and give the aggressor into custody. The
complainant here handed a letter addressed by the
defendant to his daughter to the magistrate, in order
that his worship might be made acquainted with the
improper character of his epistles to so young a girl.
Mr. COTTINGIrAM, having perused the letter, ob-
served, that indeed it was of a most improper descrip-
tion, and that the father was perfectly justified in
banishing such a customer from his house, who was
evidently, by his letter, endeavouring to prejudice the
mind of a young girl against her parents, in order
that she might abscond with him, and quit all pa-
rental control. But there was one paragraph in the
letter which he should read aloud, to exhibit the style
in which the defendant addressed the object of his so-
licitations, and it ran thus :—" I hope and trust that
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her parents are opposed to our union.
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Mr. COTTINGIUM—Pray, what age are you ?
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The father said that the defendant was not yet out
of his apprenticeship, but that independently of that,

he (complainant) did not wish his daughter, quite a
young girl, to marry the man.
The (::fondant said that he considered Mr. Jarmain
the aggressor in the matter, and that he had no right
to expel him from his house more than any other cus-
tomer—that it was a public-house, and he was bound
to furnish his customers with entertainment on being
paid for it, but that he refused to serve him.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM told the defendant that the land-
lord of any house of that description was perfectly
justified in refusing to serve a man who conducted
himself in such a manner as the defendant was proved to
have done, and that the letter already referred to clearly
showed that such a customer as the defendant richly
deserved to be treated in the manner he was by the
complainant, whom he (the Magistrate) should take
care should not have his feelings outraged by a young
fellow like the defendant resorting to his house, and
endeavouring by all means in his power to prejudice a
young female against her parents, and induce her to
quit their house with him. For that purpose he (the
Magistrate) should call upon the defendant to find
two sureties of 251. each and himself in 501. to keep
the peace and be of good behaviour. The Magistrate
at the same time advised the complainant, if he could
manage it conveniently, to send his daughter to some
of her relations in the country, a step which the
father intimated he should avail himself of as speedily
as possible.—The defendant was locked up in default
of finding the required sureties.