The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-30 00:00:00

YARMOUTH POLICE COURT.

Thomas Mapes, for obstructing and assauting po-
liceman John Horn in the execution of his duty, and
William Woolsey for attempting to rescue Mapes from
the custody of the police, were yesterday fined 3/. each
and costs. This case arose from the disorderly state
of our streets ta night, which the police are endeavour-
ing to prevent. It appeared that Mapes was standing
with a group of idle females on the pavement, when
Horn, No. .29, requested him to move into the noddle
of the street, and upon his refusing to do so, Horn
dispersed the females, and pushed Mapes out of the
way. Mapes, however, continued to obstruct the
pavement, and to resist the policeman in his endea-
vours to remove him, and also made use of much abu-
sive language, in consequence of which Horn proceeded
to take him into custody, when Mapes violently as-
saulted him, and was assisted in 39 doing by a mob, wha
succeeded for a time in overpowering Horn, and drone
him off his post into the market. Mapes and Woolsey,
however, were secured after a desperate struggle, and
lodged in the station-house. In default of payment
they were committed to gaol for one calendar month.—
[We have inserted this at the request of a respect-
able Correspondent, as the local papers have omitted.
it, though it is contrary to our practice to give an ex-
parte statement of such a affray.]

AWFUL CATASTROPHE.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT ON THE SPOT.),
The town of Gravesend, and Milton, next Gravesend,
were thrown into unexampled alarm on Sunday
night, by the melancholy results of a most afflicting
and disastrious occurrence. The particulars, in brief,
are as follow :—Two men, one of whom was in the
employ, as foreman, of Mr. Bennett, a respectable but-
cher in the High-street, and his friend, returning about
nine o'clock in the evening from a visit to some rela-
tions at a neighbouring village, in the same horse and
gig they had driven out in the morning, had pro-
ceeded in safety as far as Darnley Terrace, when, by
some yet unexplained act of drunkenness, or madness
of some kind, they contrived to drive their horse, at
the top of its speed, into the body, as it were, of a glass
coach, on the road, ttavelling in a contrary direc-
direction. The mere force of the concussion bad the
effect of forcing Bennett's foreman, head foremost,
through one of the large panes of glass, the sharpness
of which took one of his ears clean off, which causing
the poor creature to struggle dreadfully in order to ex-
tricate himself, the glass so much the more lacerated
his head and neck, and to such an extent that at length
the head was nearly severed from the body, and the
windpipe cut. The other unfortunate man was dread-
fully injured, but in a different manner. The one is
dead, and the other not expected to live out the night.
Mr. Saunders, the eminent surgeon, of Gravesend,
did everything that the ablest medical skill could
suggest, but in vain. The horse, terrified by
the injury it had sustained, and frightened by
the violence of the collision, galloped furiously
off from this awful scene through the town of
Gravesend, passing Milton, and on to Park-place,
situate at the terminus of Milton, when its progress was
arrested by some men who knew the animal, and re-
' cognized the gig, which it still dragged after it
with great violence and speed, and who restored them
to the owner. We understand Mr. Bennett speaks
' highly of his foreman ass faithful and honest servant.