The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH.

Thornas Badcock, Henry Badcock, and Henry
Driver, three powerful young men, were charged
before Mr. Paynter with the following attack on two
labourers, working on the Richmond Railway.
It appears that these men, whose names are James
Smith and Jesse Haydon, went on Saturday night
into the tap-room of the nose and Crown, and had
hardly been there a minute before Henry Badcock
knocked Smith down anti kicked him, Haydon
picked his companion up, when he was struck and
knocked down. With considerable difficulty they
got out of the house, and proceeded towards home.
In passing up Garrett-lane they were met by the pri-
soners Thomas Badcock and Driver, who attacked
them with the ferocity of wild beasts, they felled
them, and then in the most cowardly and brutal
manner kicked them with their nailed and plated
shoes over the face, head, and body. The poor
fellow Smith became insensible, and the moans
of Hayden were distinctly heard three hun-
dred yards distant. Their cries of murder
brought Police-constable Webb, 134 V, to the
spot, and the prisoners then made off, but were ap-
prehended in the course of that night and Sunday.
When found by the police the navigators were lying
in a pool of blood, Smith's frock being completely
saturated. Both men exhibited such marks as proved
they had been most ill-treated, while their assailants
were without a scratch.
Mr. PAYNTER said the assault that had been com-
mitted on the unoffending men was one of the most
brutal he had ever had to adjudicate upon. But that
the injured parties were poor and could not afford the
cost of going to the sessions, he would have sent the
prisoners for trial. Thomas Badcock and Henry
Driver, would pay 51. each, or be committed for two
months; and the other prisoner would pay a fine of
41., or be committed for one month.
HAMMERSMITH.

Christopher Charles Thurston, who stood charged
on suspicion of having, with two others not in
custody, been concerned in stealing, on the 3d inst.,
from Jhe premises of Mr. William Redkinson, the
Sussex Arms Tavern, Broadway, Hammersmith, a
cash-box, containing Bank notes, &c., to the value of
1001., and a cheque on the banking-house of Messrs.
Drewett and Fowler for 12/. 3s. Bd., was placed at
the bar, for the fourth time, for further examination.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, was remanded
for the third time on Thursday last, in order to afford
the police more time to trace out the residence of an
apple-woman, who on the day of the robbery had a
stall in Hungerford-street, Strand, and informed Ser-
geant Mount that she saw the prisoner, who got off
an omnibus on which he rode from Hammersmith,
directly after the robbery, and that he joined two men,
whose description, as she gave it, corresponded with
that of the two men.who stole the cash-box.

Inspector Morgan, T division, on the priscner being
put to the bar, informed the Magistrate that the po-
lice were unable to carry the case further against the
prisoner.
Mr. PAYNTER said he did not think the case suffi-
cient to obtain a conviction, if he was to commit him
for trial. lie should therefore, under those circum-
stances, discharge him.
The prisoner was consequently discharged.