The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-13 00:00:00

SONATING WOMEN

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF. PER-

BOW-STREET

—('fins DAr.)
The further examination of the prisoners Boulton
and Park, who stood charged with the .Ixtraordinary
charge of personating women, again drew an im-
mense crowd of pei sons inside the Police-court.
There were a great many gentlemen accommodated
with seats o❑ the bench, but the interior of the Court
was by no means as crowded as on the two former
occasions.
The first witness examined was—
Henry Holland, who said he was a driver in the
employ of Mr. Yeomans, said, on the day of the Ox-
ford and Cambridge boat race, he was directed by his
master to go to Wakefield-street with a brougham.
He did so, and then Park came out, and getting
into the brougham said his sister was not ready. He
drove to a restaurant in Newcastle-street, and on
arriving there Park got out, and after going and
remaining there a short time Park came back with a
gentleman, and they returned to Wakefield-street,
and the two prisoners then came out dressed as
women, and he was told to drive to Hammersmith-
bridge and see the boat race. He did so, but as he
could not get on to the bridge he was ordered to turn
back, and the prisoners got out and walked a short
distance down the road. No one spoke to them.
They then got into the brougham, and he was directed
to go to Haxell's Hotel in the Strand, and was there
discharged. On the 26th of April he drove them to
the Surrey Theatre, and just before the theatre was
over the prisoners, on Mrs. Graham's carriage being
called, left the theatre and entered the brougham
in company with two gentlemen. He was directed
to drive to the Globe Restaurant, when he accord-
ingly did so. After remaining there some time he
drove the prisoners as far as Guildford-street, where
he was discharged. He did not know the two per
sons were men. They had ♦eils on, but he could not
say whether they wore bonnets. They were quite
sober.

Cross-examined.--He was first spoken to about
giving evidence by Chamberlain. He was taken to
Hunter-street police-station, and having told all he
knew, he was taken to the Treasury, and there
repeated his evidence to Mr. Pollard. He could
read, but did not become acquainted with the
former proceedings at that court by reading.
He was told about it. He was asked
at the Treasury whether on either of the occasions he
drove the prisoners they spoke to gentlemen on get-
ting out of the brougham, and said, " No, they did
not."

Re-examined—Last Friday was the first time he

had ever seen the prisoners in men's clothes. He
could not without difficulty find all the public-houses
at which he had stopped while driving the prisoners
in the brougham.
John Reeves, of 61, Frith-street, Soho, staff-super-
intendent at the Alhambra, Leicester-square, said he
had known both prisoners for nearly three years, and
during that time he had seen them at the Alhambra
frequently dressed as women. On the first occasion he
told them he believed they were men, and must leave.
A gentleman told me he was deceived, but he marched
them out, and their friends followed them. He did
not know the name of the gentleman referred to,
but he should know the photograph. The prisoner.,
on that occasion appeared as if they were enticing
gentlemen. They - have been to the Alhambra
dressed as men, but they wore low shirt collars, and
their necks and faces were painted up. They looked
more like women than men, and, as they created a
disturbance, he marched them out again. He had
seen them at the Alhambra as late as March of the
present,year, on which occasion they occupied a pri-
vate box, but, although dressed as men, their faces
and necks were painted up. The people looked up,
as they were playing all sorts of frivolous games
with one another. They made noises with their lips,
just the same that females did when they passed gen
tlemen in the streets. They were turned out, the
guinea they had paid for the box returned, and the
money-taker was told not to admit them again. He
did not know whether they were women or men.
They had been to the Alhambra about twenty times,
but only twice in women's clothes. _ _

Cross-examined.—He had seen aboat 20 men al
the Alhambra with powdered faces, and his evi•

dente would apply to each. Would swear he had
seen Boulton at the Alhambra in March. On that
occasion he had marched the prisoners out of the
building, he never asked them for their names. He
had not kept a diary with respect to the pri-
soners. He would not swear he had seen Boulton
in Marc]. There were a great many women who
went to the Alhambra with painted faces. He did
not, when he first spoke to Inspector Sheraton,
wish to introduce himself as a witness in a sensa-
tion case. He was a volunteer, and did not ex-
pect to be paid for his attendance at that court.

The Magistrate--You say in your evidence you
have seen about twenty men at the Alh ►mbra with
painted and powdered faces—were they friends of
the defendants ?
Witness—Ye•.

The Magistrate—Have you seen them talking to
the prisoners ?
Mr. Besley, on behalf of the prisoners, asked to
see the letters seized at the prisoners' residence upon
which the prosecution relied to prove their case.
Mr. Bland said they were not yet in evidence, but
all should be seen in good time.
The Court at this point adjourned for a short
time.

The first examined on the magistrate recommenc-
ing the investigation was
George Smith, the beadle of the Burlington Arcade,
who said he had frequently seen the two prisoners in
the arcade in women's attire conducting themselves
as gay women usually did. He had prevented them
as far as he was able from parading the arcade.
This witness was subjected to a long cross-exami-
nation, but nothing to sfrengthen the case fur the
prosecution was elicited.
Maria Stacey, the landlady of the house, 12, Wake-
field-street, said a room in her house was hired by the
prisoners as an occasional bedroom. She knew that
both of them went out in woman's attire, but did not
think it was for any other purpose than having some
fun. This witness was also minutely examined, but
nothing important resulted.
After seme other evidence, the defendants were
remanded till to-morrow for the production of bail,
in the sum of £l,OOO, and the inquiry was adjourned
till next Friday.

The interchange of ratifications of the Ili pano-
Hawaiian Socisty of Unity, Commerce, and Navigation, took
place on Wednesday, at the Spanish Legation, between the
respective Plenipotentiaries, Don Maimel Rances y Villa-
nueva and Sir John Bowring.

WASHINGTON, May 12.-11. Covode and other
prominent members of the House of Representatives declared
to-day during the debate on the amendments to the Tariff
Bill that the latter was certain to fail.

A telegram from Ottawa, received to-day, dated
the 12th says :—The condition of Sir John A. Macdonald is
more hopefcl to day.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place,
between Miss Agnes Lushington and Mr. Walter Philli-
more, son of Sir Robert Phillimore.
A SLAP IN THE FACE.—An Alexandria letter
reports that the Viceroy intends to replace the whole of
the present Turkish officers in his army, down to the
rank of captain, by foreigners—chiefly Americans.
Already some fifty of these latter have been engaged by
his New York agent, and nearly half of those so enrolled
have reached Egypt. As yet, however, they are nearly
all "Generals," and a ;correspondent reports a stormy
scene between one of theie 'heroes and the Minister of
War, in which the Yankee elosed'thOdiscussion with the
Pasha by " reckoning that he was a' tar-nation skunk,"
aid giving him a slap in the face. The official hubbub
thereupon was great, 'but "General'-' Mott is said to have
effected a poinp-tomise of the
_quarrel by extracting an
unwilling apology' from the Kentuckian which Cherif
was fain to accept.—Lepai# Sergld. "

INHUMAN CONDUCT OF A SAA,PIP4.-4 North
Shields Police-court,
on Wednesday' Reuben Grossman, a
C bombardier in the oast Brigade Artillery,
was charged with having committed a murderous Agsault
upon a young woman named Julia Norris. It appeared
that the prisoner had betrayed the prosecutrix after
having promised to marry her. It has since transpired
that he was keeping company with another girl, to whom
he had engaged himself to be married. On Sunday even-
ing Crossman and Norris met at Tynemouth, and while
in his company she asked him was he going to
desert her and her baby, and he became
angry, and violently assaulted her, leaving her
in a state of insensibility on the Green. Prosecutrix had
to be brought home in a cab. The prisoner had since
been married to the other woman. The solicitor who ap-
peared for the prosecution asked for a remand as the
proseoutrii was very ill, and still in a state of insensibility.`
The appli4tion was granted.

BEETIWYBN COTTEI,ERY.-4. grand festival is
to take place at Vienna On the' 23rd of 'October; the hun-
dredth anniversary of the 13irthcla3i_ o N#thoveh; Con-
certs and operatic performances will bse given of 'the works
of Beethoven, in which the principal musical celebrities of
Germany will take part. The festive arrangements will
be made by
.a committee chosen from the artistic and
scientific societies of Vienna.