The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-15 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, Ocr. i 4.

Alicia 'Haywood Hooper: was 'convicted oran
sault on Mary Johnson, and sentenced to six months
ithpriionment.
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1!? The only trial which excited interest • was that of
'an Apothecary, named Price, in Riad:friar's Road,
fdra wanton anti brutal assault Upon a youth of fif-
teen years of age, named Thomas Oliver Gale, his
apprentice, on the 3otlibf April last.
'This trial occupied the 4cloquencc of .Mr. MAC-
tiyArr and Mr. LAwEs, and the ingenuity of 'Mr.
SM ITH, in arguments upon t.lb cases;:end the exa-
mination of evidence, for above six hours..

The fads of the. charge were simply these :
The father of the =Prosecutor had. articled him to
the Defendant about, ten' months: :previous to this
assault, and, gave. wiih• him an apprentice fee- pf
501.:On the day above stated, as the Prosectitor.
swore,. he was employed, then, and for some days.
before;-in a kitchen belOw stairs 'e.b4lpping
tras.:.wood, by his master's direClions, and be.had,
Wed for the perpose, the head of a beer barrel,
'ld by a
accidental -stroke he 'bre inn part 41
LI e head of the ca.k. His master hoppened;to
come doWn stair*, and seeing what* bad happened,'
he immediately began to Anse: him; knocked him
down with a blow of his fist, and, while down,'
kicked him on Several parts of'the limbs and body.
While thus unmercifully beating hint, the Delild.
ant's wife ran into the kitchen, with her child in
her arms, to interpose• and prevent the 'Defendant:
ft-tau:proceeding farther Sn his Cruelty to. the lad;
and. while ffile OlUdealt6l4red to keep Mm at n d-
is
tance,:and preventing hiM Teaching the lad with MS'
fists he caught up a black thorn stick, struCk. the boy With it repeatedly nbout the :bend; 'arms, an:!',
hands, severely bruised both his ears, so as to leave
them black, and. blue, • and cut hits in, three places.
over the. nose. 'Thee bcl had. been repeatedly beaten
by his master, andikatticularly about a:week before;
v hen his Master cintplainedsthat he had'not washed.
and put-away some returned bottles, when be pulled
his ears severely,, and struck him over the' head With
a'bearth brush. -

The trial, hoWeVer, was for the assault alledged
to have .bren committed on the 3oth of
Bhortly:after this beating, on,the same day, the, boy
went away, and was folrowed by his master, 'who
intercepted him on London; Bridge, ou his way to
llitt parent's house, and insisted On his Coining back"
to Union Hall before the „Magistrates. To which
the boy, agreed, and returned ;•.but the Defendant
'brought him past Union Hall towardi MS own hbuse,
and'ithe.lad afraid to return thither, apprehensive of
'worse usage, went away again, not towards.ltis,
Tlyirent's house, lest his master should'again overtake:
but over Westminster Bridge, land to West.
ininster, vi,here he staid all night,.and went the next
'evening. to his hater's Lenge, where he comintnii,,
cated the treatment .he had received.

John Gale, thelad's father, and a' Mr, 'Ha trrn mid;
his next :neighbour, and an Other witneis;‘Pgro-
borated the, proofs as to the cruelty received by; the
lipy; and.ai to the marks on his face, ears; and limbs,tiro e
which he bore ai tiro of mid;
,severity.
On the part•of the I.),:fenltur, several kv imes se
were eiaminet4 One Of whom; naniedifarrict' Hatt,
'who was' a servant in the house} of the liciendutt„
.who,• however, could say nothin; it) 'disproof ut the
issaUlt,bUt denied that. the hi)y had 4tr:Yr • collie any
Otopiiiint to her, though, in his testimony he stated
that be had; she also deified that-he had a6y intlrks
on 'his face, ears, or head; immediately atter the'
tune he allelged himiielf to have been so beaten..
Mr. Serjeant Ch)l4ow`very, accurately sunamed up
the evidence, with huitabte Corrinnuits,!to the Jury,
who, after a few minutes cOnsultationjound a. ver-
dia of Guilty.
•The . in proceeding to pays ,sentence;
said, that a variety ot,consideration 0n..1
ant's professioual situation, had:induced- thu Bench'
.nut, to •puuitih [din by imprisonment. The 'only
alternative that remained then, was a,l'junit4tinent
by tine; and that shot* not be a- light one, ibe.
therefore ordered hitn to be ft-tied:64 and to be
prisoned until the line was paid; •
The Court adjonrned at eeven o'clock '•in the,
evening, until which time the above trial occupied`'
the Court.

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original 11SS. which had long been in the possits-•
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`and liave bimi) cop.oklutiletted to tlieTublie,throurllt
the medium of that Work, As they. relate to, the
bat' Branch of a Family as distinguished by tnisfor-
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