The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tnis DAY,

A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.—Mr. Charles
Hunt, of No. 74, Tavistock-crescent, Westbourne Park,
and who had previously given name and address as Capt.
Hunt, Brickban Hall, Morton, Kent, was charged before
Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with
behaving in a disorderly manner at the Portland-road
Railway Station. Mr. White, superintendent of the
Metropolitan Railway, watched the case. Inspector
Joseph Armsbury, of the Metropolitan Railway, said
that on the previous evening his attention was called to
the prisoner, who was on the platform of the station
using grossly obscene language, and who, he was informed,
had insulted a lady. The lady came to him and claimed
his protection, stating that the prisoner had very much
insulted her. He took the prisoner into a room, and he
gave his name and address, and then went out on
the platform mid began cursing and swearing, and said
he would fight, any of them, and asked the lady who she
was, and as his language became very bad he had to give
him into custocly. Mr. Joseph Luckie, poulterer, of Nu.
117, Great Portland-street, deposed that on the previous
evening he was sitting in a recess at the station, when a
lady told him the prisoner had annoyed her, and asked
to be protected, on which the prisoner said, " You call
yourself a lady, you are not, you are only a woman,"
and on his expostulating with. the prisoner, he said,
"What the devil is it to you," and called him a "—City
clerk " and other things, and on his telling the prisoner
he had better go away he threatened to knock him down.
Mr. Richard Tabb, relieving officer of St. Marylebone,
proved hearing the prisoner make use of very bad lan-
guage, and on his advising the prisoner to go away. he
said he would fight any -- amongst them. He (Mr
Tabb) told the inspector that if he did not
have the prisoner locked up he would, as
his language was very disgusting, and the pri-
soner then said that he had been nine years
in the Army, that he had plenty of money, and that he
would fight anybody. The prisoner said he had been
drinking out and taken a little too much to drink, and his
temper got the better of him. He did call the witness a
clerk, and was sorry for doing so, and if he had insulted
the lady he would give a written apology if it would be
accepted. He had been locked up all night, and had not
been well lately. Mr. White said the lady was unable to
attend that day. Mr. Knox said the prisoner talked
of having been locked up • all night, and had he been
locked up for a month it would have served him right, as
he had not only insulted a lady, but abused those who
protected her. The highest penalty he could impose was
a fine of 405., and that he should impose. If the lady
thought proper to take out a summons against the prisoner
she could do so, and he (Mr. Knox) would pursue the
matter to the end.

THROWING TEMPTATION INTO THE WAY OF ILL-PAID
WORKPEOPLE.—A poor needlewoman named Sarah Work
man, was brought up at the Thames Police-court,
charged with illegaq pawning five pairs of corduroy
trousers, belonging to a man named Samuel Flewett. He
prepared the materials and converted them into trousers
by machinery, and the prisoner was entrusted with them
to finish them. She was to receive 31-d. for finishing each
pair of trousers. She pawned the trousers after they
were finished, some for 35., and others for 3s. 6d. each.
It was elicited from Flewett that he received Bd. per pair
only for making the trousers. The prisoner said she could
not live on the wretched pay she received, and being very
poor raised money on the trousers. She meant to redeem
them the first opportunity she got. The magistrate fined
her 205., and 15s. 6d., the sum she had raised on the five
pairs of trousers, or the alternative of six weeks' im-
prisonment, with hard labour.