The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

COWARDLY AND OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULTS. —Henry Her-
bert, 20, a picture frame-maker, living in Hanover-street,
Long-acre, was brought up at the Marlborough-street
Police-court, before Mr. Knox, charged with assaulting
Mr. Robert Godfree, refreshment shopkeeper, 'No. 61,
Tottenham-court-road, and also MatildatLeach, assistant
to Mr. Godfree. Mr. Moore, of the Associate Institute
for the Protection of Women, watched the case. Mr.
Godfree said that on the previous night, the prisoner and
another young man, came into his shop smoking, and on
his telling them that they could not smoke, there the
prisoner gave him a violent blow in the mouth and knocked
him down, and on his assistant coming to his aid she
was also assaulted. Matilda Leach, asssistant to
Mr. Godfree, said that seeing the prisoner knock her
master down, she went to his assistance, when the
prisoner threatened to smash her and knocked her down
twice, trampled upon her, and hurt her very much
and she felt very unwell. Police-constable T. Carlyon,
46 E, proved running after the prisoner, who was trying
to make his escape, and taking him into custody. The
prisoner said he was very sorry. Mr. Knox : Well you
may be, Persons are sent to prison for three or six
months for stealing a shilling's worth of property, and a
young man like you goes into a shop and knocks down an
unoffending man, and on a poor girl interfering to protect
her master you knock her down twice and brutally assault
her. I shall commit you for a month for the assault on
Mr. Godfree, with hard labour; and for the far graver
offence of assaulting the girl, two months, with hard
labour.

IMPORTANT DECISION RESPECTING SKITTLES.-Mr. Jas,
Hayward Hughes, of the King's Arms, Cremorne-road,
Chelsea, was summoned, at the Westminster Police-
court, for knowingly suffering gambling in his house with
skittles. Sergeant Large, of the D Reserve, proved
visiting the house of the defendant and finding several
persons playing at skittles, and betting on the games ;
defendant was not present, but upstairs at supper. Mr.
W. D. Smyth, for the defendant, did not dispute
the facts, but urged that his client could not be held
responsible for any act done in bis absence ; he had
used every means to keep his customers from playing
either for money or moneys worth, and since the Com-
missioners of Police had warned licensed victuallers on
the subject, 'he had posted placards in his house for-
bidding any gambling. It was necessary to sustain the
charge to show the guilty knowledge of the defendant,
and that could not be sustained in the present case, Mr.
Woolrych was of opinion that the scienta must be clearly
shown, and held with Mr. Smyth that the defendant
could not be responsible, and dismissed the summons.

FRACAS ON A RAILWAY. -Mr. George R. Edgcumb, a

young gentleman who is clerk in the engineers' office of
the Great Northern Railway, and who resides with his
parents at 66, High-street, Poplar, and Edward Green, a
porter at the Poplar station of the Blackwall Railway, ap-
peared on a cross summons at the Thames Police-court to
answer charges of assaulting each other. The first case
was that against the defendant Edgcumb, and a solicitor
(who represented the Great Eastern Railway Company)
said the case was aggravated by the fact that Mr Edgcumb
filled a responsible situation in the service of another rail-
way company, and ought to know how dangerous it was
to interfere with a servant of a railway, and to get into a
carriage of a train while in motion. The complainant
Green saidl that on the 22nd ult. he was receiving 3d.,0f
a lady for the carriage of.a dog, and the defendant, who
had just taken a ticket at the office, and was waiting for
a train, asked him why he charged 3d. for .a dog and only
3d. for an ordinary passenger. He told the defendant to
mind his own business. The defendant told him to be
d— --, and threatened to strike him, and challenged
him to fight. He said if he was not in his uniform and
on duty he would not challenge him to fight twice.
The defendant pushed him backward from the top to the
bottom of the stairs, and, while the train was in motion,
got upon the steps of a carriage. He. pulled him off
and ordered the defendant to go up stairs. The
station-master would not allow him to proceed by
any train to London that evening. After hearing the
station-master, who corroborated Green, Mr. Lushington
fined Edgcumb 205., and dismissed the summons against
_ green.