The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Mr. Adam Uriah Bryant, a master tinplate-worker,
and Mr. James Hind, a paper-stainer, both of whom
carry on business in Beech-street, Barbican, were
charged before Mr. BroughtOn.with having endangered
the life of William Young, a boy 14 years of age, by
driving a horse and gig over him.
Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence
it appeared that shortly after ten o'clock on Tuesday
night they perceived a gig, in which the prisoners and
another person were seated, and which was proceeding
along the Hackney-road at a furious rate towards town,
when the injured boy, who was crossing the road, was
knocked down by the horse, and one of the wheels
passed over him. A young man named Emerton picked
him up, and carried, him in a state of insensibility to the
shop of Mr. West,' a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who
endeavoured to 'bleed him in the wrist and temporal
artery, but after expending two hours in unavailing at-
tempts to revive him, he directed him to bo conveyed in
a cab to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The parties in the
gig had continued their career in the meantime, as if
nothing.had happened ; and although they were pursned
by a crowd of persons, who called after them that they
had killed a boy; they urged on the horse at increased
speed, until they arrived at Shoreditch Church, when
Mr. Deering, a tea-dealer, ran into the road, and at great
personal hazard succeeded in arresting their flight.
James Reeve, an intelligent boy, aged 14, stated that
.he had been playing with the boy Young, and the latter
was running across the road on his way home when he
was knocked down by the horse which was proceeding
at a gallop. A lad named Charles Shorey ran after the
gig and. got up behind it, but one of the party inside
turned round and knocked him back into the road with
his fist. He believed. the man who had escaped was
driving at the time, and he appeared less intoxicated
than the prisoners.
Police Constable Malin, II 74, and a witness named
Jones, said that they saw the reins in the hands of the
prisoner Bryant, and that he passed them to the other
man immediately after the occurrence.
Police Sergeant, N 24, stated that he called at the
hospital that morning, and saw the boy who was suffer-
ing under concussion of the brain, and was still quite
insensible. He produced a certificate from Mr. Ware,
the house surgeon, to the effect that he was in
,a very
dangerous state, although rather better than on the pre-
ceding night. •
Mr. Elijah Grant, a tallow-chandler, living in Hack-
ney-road, stated that he was uncle to the injured boy,
whose father was a porter at the London Insurance
Office, and had fourteen children.
Upon being asked if they wished to say anything, the
prisoner Bryant stated that they were returning home
from Walthamstow, when they stopped to take refresh-
ment at the 'White Horse tavern in Clapton, where they
met the man who had escaped, and to whom they were
entire strangers. After some' conversation, however,
they consented to let him ride with them to town, and to
allow him to drive, but they were unconscious of the" ac-
cident until after it had occurred.

Mr. BROUGHTON, after animadverting on the apparent
want of feeling displayed by the prisoners, said that he
should commit them to prison to await the result of the
boy's injuries ; in the event of whose death, they
would both be arraigned for manslaughter, under very
aggravated circumstances.
Bail to any amount was offered for their appearance.
but the Magistrate refused to accept it.
The prisoners were remanded until Saturday next.