The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

KINGSTON PETTY SESSIONS.

(Before Sir R. FREDERICK, the Rev. Mr. HATCH, and
H. WESTCAR, Esq.
SINGULAR PROCEEDING.—TWO persons, named
George Edmunds and William Summersby, attended
before the Bench under the following circumstances :
Police constable Hill, of the V division, deposed that
he was on duty at West Moulsey, whon he heard a great
disturbance, and soon afterwards a person came to him
and requested him to go to the house of the defendant
Edmunds, and on his arriving there he found his son
very much intoxicated. He requested him to go away
quietly, but he refused, and swore he would go into his
father's house. The sister came up and begged him
to take her brother away, and not let him into the house,
for she was sure from his violence that murder would be
done if he went there, and witness upon hearing this,
and seeing the state he was in, thought it prudent to
take him to a place of safety, and after a desperate
struggle, in which his clothes were torn, and himself
struck repeatedly, ho succeeded in lodging him in the
cage at IVest Mousley, and left him there in the
charge of a constable, while he went to inform
a Magistrate of the circumstances that had oc-
curred, and when he returned he found that the cage
had been broken open, and the prisoner rescued. From
the evidence of the other constable it appeared, that
shortly after the prisoner had been lodged in the cage,
the defendant Edmunds, who was his father, and the
other man, armed with a mattock and a large piece of
iron, came to him and declared that, they would have
the man out. The constable cautioned them not to
attempt to break the place, but Summersby began to
use his iron bar to the door, and, when witness laid
hold of it to prevent him, he struggled with him to get
it away, and while he was so engaged, Edmunds, the
father, knocked off the padlock, and got his son out.

The CHAIRMAN asked whether he had since been
taken ; and a certificate from a surgeon was put in,
stating that he was labouring under great mental ex-
citement, and was quite unfit to attend.
Thu defendant Edmunds, in answer to this state-
ment, admitted he had acted as described, but said he
should not have done so, had he not been afraid that
his son would destroy himself, which he declared he
would do if he was not let out. He admitted that fear-
ing this should occur, he had broken the lock. He
then expressed his opinion that the policemen ought
not, in the first instance, to have taken his son into
custody.
The Constable said he should not have interfered, if
he had not been told that murder would be done, and
seeing the excited state of the man he apprehended
something serious might occur, and thought it bis duty
to place him in confinement.
The Bench, after some consideration, said that under
all the circumstances, they had come to the conclusion
of discharging the case, upon the defendants under-
taking to repair the damage done to the cage and to
the policeman's clothing. They said it must also be
understood that the son should attend before them as
soon as he was in a fit state to do so.

The defendants agreed to these terms, and they
were discharged.

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