The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Aug. 11.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Michael George Ryan, a
fashionably-dressed young man of about 18 years of age,
was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with hav-
ing threatened to stab Mr. John Mackie, proprietor of
Mullins's Hotel, 11, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, with
a dagger.
Mr. Moss appeared on behalf of the defendant.
The prosecutor, having been sworn, said--I! knew
nothing of the defendant until he came to lodge at my
hotel about a week ago. About one o'clock yesterday
(Sunday) morning I met him coming out of my water
closet, and told him I had found it in a state which I
did not expect to find it. He made a remark to me
which I did not understand, and at the same time drew
from his coat the dagger produced (a most formidable
weapon about a foot in length), and held it in a menac
ing attitude towards me. '; Ele then went into his bed
room, and I sent for a policeman. The defendant and a
friend of his occupied a double-bedded room.
Mr.Moss—ln what state were you when the defendant
drew the dagger, were you in your sober senses ?
Prosecutor —I was.
Mr. Moss—Upon your oath, were you not drunk !
Prosecutor—Certainly not. I. did not refuse to allow
another gentleman to leave my house till a policeman
was called in. I did not demand of him 501., or 401.,
or 31/. before I would allow him to depart; but I did
insist upon his paying me 101. before he left.
Mr. Moss—Did that gentleman owe you 10/, ?
Prosecutor—l don't think he did.
Mr. Moss-Did you not return him the difference be-
tween what ha owed and the 101. yesterday ?
Prosecutor—No ; Mrs. Mackie did.
Mr. Moss-Will you swear that you are not known
to the police as being in the habit of getting drunk and
quarrelling with your customers
Prosecutor—l am not so known.
Mr. Moss—l will call a gentleman to prove it.

The Lord Mayor—You cannot call a witness to put
the complainant on his trial. Even if the complainant
was drunk, it is no reason why your client should
brandish a dagger over kis dead.
Mr. Moss—l trust I shall be able before the case is
concluded to Fatisfy your lordship that the prosecutor
was not in a position to give the defendant into custody
Police-constable W. Willoughby, No. 48, said—l
was called by Mr. Mackie to take the defendant into
c Istody. I found two persons in thAbP 1-04-m, one of

whom was the defendant, wbo was i❑ his trousers only,
and hal the dagger produced suspended from a strap
round his body. He was quite soly:r.
The Lord Mayor—You Hay that the defendant ti•as
; in what state was the prosecutor?
Witness—A little the worse for drink.

Mr. Moss, on behalf of the defendant, said that the
latter had purchased the (lager for the purpose of tak-
ip,g it with him to Buonos Ayres, for which port he and
a gentleman who had been staying with him at the
hotel of the prosecutor fur a week prior to the disturb-
ance were about to sail. He (Ur. Moss) could not for a
moment justify the conduct of the defendant in drawing
the dagger, but ho was instructed by his client to state
that the prosecutor at the time of the altercation was
drunk, and, without the least provocation, threatened to
throw the defendant down stairs. (To the prosecutor.)
—Will you withdraw the charge ?
Prosecutor—lf I withdraw the charge, will you with-
draw the insinuation as to my being drunk ?
Mr. Moss—No, certainly not; because your own wit-
ness, the officer, has proved you were drunk, in spite of
your own denial of the fact.

Mr. Edward Healey, a fashionably-dressed young gen-
tleman, of about the same age as the defendant, and who
gave his evidence in a remarkably clear manner, said—
The defendant and I came from Ireland together about
10 days ago, and put up at the hotel of Mr. Mackie
from the time of the arrival until the occurrence of the
disturbance. A. few days ago we paid for our passage to
Buenos Ayres, for which port the vessel by which we
are booked sails on Wednesday next. My friend pur-
chased the dagger for the purpose, as he told me, of de-
fending himself in the event of a mutiny happening dur-
ing the voyage. On the night of the disturbance I ob-
served that Mr. Mackie, whom I did not then know to be
the proprietor of the hotel, was drunk, and I had seen
him drunk on two previous occasions. I went to bed,
and shortly afterwards I heard some words passing be-
tween Mr. Mackie and my friend, and when the latter
came into my bedroom I asked him what was the matter.
He replied' 'A drunken man wanted to throw me down
stairs." That man (dr. Mackie) came to the door and
began to abuse us. I opened the door and said to a police-
man whom I saw on the lauding, " You must protect us
from the annoyance of this man ; you see he is drunk ;
he is a madman. I shall not stop here." I immediately
packed up my things, and said I should leave the hotel,
upon which Mr. Mackie, who was dreadfully excited,
entered the room, and, holding his clinched fist in my
friend's face, said, " make you pay for this." The
policeman was present all this time, and both heard and
saw everything that took place.
The Lord Mayor (to the office►)—ls all that true ?

Officer—No.

Mr. Healey—l most solemnly declare every word of
it to he true. I then offered to pay the bill, upon which
Mr. Mackie said, " No, you shall not leave my hotel
unless you give me 501." I then desired the porter to
let me out, which he refused to do, saving that his mas-
ter would discharge him if he acted contrary to his
orders. Upon this I went to the coffee•room and called
for a policeman, when constable No. 451 came up, and
he saw Mr. Mackie sign a receipt for the 10/. which I
paid him.
The Lord Mayor—lt is quite clear that either the last
witness or the policeman has not told the whole truth.
What is the defendant I

Mr. Healey—He has been a clerk in Ireland. Ile has
friends in Buenos Ayres, and so have I. We both wish to
join some friends there who have offered us employment.
The Lord Mayor ordered the defendant to enter into
his own recognizances to keep the peace, and said that
the dagger must be impounded.
The defendant entered into his own recognisances, and
was discharged.
The Lord Mayor requested that the pre4s would ac-
knowledge the receipt of IL from Mr. J. Dillon towar Is
a fund for defraying the expenses of conveying home
tan of the aborigines of Walpole Island, Upper Canada.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE handsome, well-
dressed lady entered the court, and begged advice on
this matter :

Last week she was induced to go into a shop where an
auction was being held, and, believing the sales to be
lona fide, she was induced to make purchases of plated
fish covers and other expensive articles to the amount
of 601. She paid a deposit of 101. and left her address
where the purchases were to be sent and the balance
paid. The next day the articles came, with a bill'inak-
ing the purchases amount to 1001., and this was effected
by putting down 101. where the article was knocked
down to her for 71., and so on. She was satisfied of the
additions that had been made to the prices because she
had put down the figures at the time, and her servant
was with her, who could also speak to the same fact.
She remonstrated against this imposition, and she was
told the matter could easily be rectified ; but, as she
found the mode of proceeding was to be by taking away
goods so as to reduce the amount to 601. she refused to
have any further dealings with the auction people, and
preferred to come to this court to know if there were any
means by which she could get back her 101. deposit.
Mr Bingham said he presumed the lady had not been
long in Loudon, otherwise she would not have ventured
into a sham auction with any hope of being honestly
dealt by.

The lady admitted she had only just come from Aus
tralia.

Mr. Bingham asked if she was a person of means ?

Th• lady replied she bad 2,000 guineas a•year of her
own to spend.

Mr. Bingham would then advise her to take steps to
punish the parties who had attempted to defraud her,
and her solicitor would point out the way.

MARYLEBONE.—DanieI Haley and John Gorman
were brought before Mr. Broughton, on remand, charged
with having been concerned with another not in custody,
In feloniously assaulting, under the Infamous garotte
system, and stealing from the person of Mr. James, a
tobacconist in Stingo-lane, New•road, a silver watch,
Value 51.

The prisonera were both committed to take their trial
at the Central Criminal Court.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Williant Perry, a drover,
was charged with the following cruelty and outrage :
Sinclair, an intelligent officer of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, stated—l have for
some time past had my attention directed to the wanton
act of barbarity committed by drovers upon the cattle in
their charge, and the more especially in consequence of
repeated complaints by respectable inhabitants of New-
ington, Kingeland, and Hoxton, which form the chief
part of the route from the railway lairs to the New
Cattle-market at Islington. I have therefore kept a per-
severing watch upon their actions, and while in Hoxton
at 7 in the evening of the 27th ult. noticed the defendant
and other men driving a herd of foreign cattle in the
direction of the new market. One bullock happened to
he slightly in advance of the others, but was walking
quietly and slowly, and doing nothing whatever to give
cause for such cruelty, when the defendant went up to it
nod grasping his stick, which was a very thick one, in
both his hands, dealt it such. a terrible blow just above
one of its hocks that the poor brute seemed perfectly
paralysed and crippled, and could not move its hind legs
for some time afterwards. I took the prisoner into cus-
tody directly, and he went with me quietly for some dis
twice, but he suddenly changed his mind, refused to go
any further, and told me that I was only an informer. I
explained to him that I was sworn in by the Police Com-
inisaioners the same as a constable, but he resisted vio-
lently, and shouted to his companions to rescue him.
the other men advanced, and one crying out "Cut him
up," the others flung me to the ground, and held me
white the prisoner kicked me about the body and legs
and escaped, and I saw no more of him till he was taken
last night by a constable who knew him, and to whom I
had given a description of him.
A tradesman named Spencer in Horton described the
lefeedant's brutality in similar terms, characterising it as
tne of the most wanton acts he ever witnessed, and that
the defendant had struck several other bullocks before
that both cruelly and unnecessarily.

Defendant—l did not hit the animal upon the legs at
All. I am a licensed drover, and my badge is with Mr.
Shanks, the clerk of the m trket.

Mr. D'Eyncourt —There is no doubt of the cruelty
whatever,and I am very glad that the officers have got hold
of you. I cannot conceive how you can be so brutal and
cowardly as to wantonly injure a poor anim4l which has
ioly a few hours more to live. I shall send you to the
H.ouse of Correction for 21 days, without any fine, for
your cruelty to the ox, and in addition to that you must
oay a penalty of 20a. fot your assault upon the constable
or undergo another imprisonment of 14 days.
Defendant—Well, I can't pay it ; that's all.

THAMES.—Joseph Dorringtom, a carman, aged 19,
)f 9, Rornford-row, Rotniord, was brought before Mr.
Suite, charged with furlong driving and injuring a wo-
man named Mary Ann Lumchley, who is in the London
Hospital.

It appeared that on Saturday evening the prisoner,
who was in charge of a horse and cart, was having an
altercation with a woman named Luoichley, who is a
vendor of oysters at the Earl Grey tavern, a roadside
house in the Mile-end-road. The woman demanded some
money that was due to her, and the prisoner said he
would not pay her then, and attempted to drive off.
The woman seized the reins on one side and clialg to
'.hem, and the prisoner directed her to let go, and on
her refusal to do so flogged his horse, proceeded
up the road, with the woman clinging partly to the
shafts and partly to the reins, to the great alarm and
horror of the bystanders, who expected that she would
be dashed to the ground and run over. The woman oh-
+tinately held on to the reins while the prisoner drove as
cast as he was able. The consequence was that the horse
sod cart were driven on the footpath at that part of the
road called Syke's-terraco, to the peril of the foot passen-
gers. Mr. John Taylor, a respectable tradesman, remon-
strated with the prisoner, and threatened to give him into
custody. The prisoner swore at him and utt r d most foul
anguage. Thu woman, spite of her danger, and regardless
Lf remonstrance, stuck to the reins with great tenacity,
Lnd at last fell, and the wheel went over her leg. The pri-
-'oner then turned round and drove furiously down the
road to werds Essex. Mr. Taylor called out " Stop him,"
Lod an instant pursuit was made by Police-sergeant
Smith, No. 28 K, in another vehicle, and after a long
pursuit and a deal of shouting the prisoner's horse and
c trt were stopped and he was secured. Sergeant Smith
,aid the whole scene was a most frightful one, and that
'he people in the road were greatly terrified. The pri-
soner drove along the 'road at a most fearful pace, and
if there had been anything in his way, or if the horse
and cart had come into collision with any other animal
or vehicle, the conQequences would have been serious.
The rrrisoner said that all the officer said against him
was right.
Mi. oeire.—What do you mean by acting in this
manner and endangering people's lives ?
The prisoner said the woman now in the hospital, in
defiance of his entreaties, would hold on to the reins, be-

cause he was unable to pay her a few pence—a debt in-
curred fqr oysters.
Mr. Selfo bad no doubt the woman acted very wrongly
in holding to the reins, but he was not now tryi❑g the
case of assault upon her, but the case of furious driv-
ing, which was clearly made out, and for which he
should fine the prisoner 203.
The penalty was instantly paid.

LAMBETH.—Mr. George Lamb, who described him-
self as a Methodist minister, residing at No. 14, Suther-
land-square, Walwortb, was charged before the Hon.
G. C. Norton with obstructing the foot and carriage
way in front of the Lock's-fields station-house, by sing-
ing and preaching during the hours of divine service on
Sunday morning.
Mr. John Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division
of Police, deposed that at about half past 10 o'clock on
the precedin:: morning he was at the Lock's•fields police-
station, and saw the defendant and seven or eight others
place themselves at about 30 yards from his office. They
commenced singing a hymn, and in a very short time a
crowd collected that blocked up the carriage way and
foot pavement. The single men who had been on duty
on the night before, and who were asleep at the station-
house, complained of having been aroused from their
sleep by the singing, and deprived of their proper rest,
and he (slr. Lund), in consequence, sent a sergeant to
the parties to inform them that they had caused the
blocking up of the street, contrary to law, and must de-
sist. The sergeant returned with one of the party, who
said his name was Lewis. He (Mr. Lund) told Mr.
Lewis that he could not permit the public highway to
be impeded, or his men, who had to go on duty at night,
deprived of their necessary rest, and the parties must
therefore desist. Mr. Lewis returned to his friends, and
notwithstanding what he had told him the parties still
continued upon the ground, upon which he (Mr. Lund)
approached them, and addressing the defendant, who
was preaching at the time, said that he could not per-
mit him to proceed, and unless he desisted he should
feel it his duty to order him into custody. The defend-
ant desisted for a moment, and, removing from the car-
riage to the pathway, commenced a hymn, upon which
he ordered him into custody, and the charge was taken
in the ordinary way. The defendant was immediately
bailed out by his friends, and he and his party proceeded
to a piece of waste ground close by, where he recom-
inenCB,l preaching.

Mr. Norton—How many persons were collected in
,he first instance ?

Mr. Lund—l should say there were about 200, your
worship.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that he went
to the place in question, in front of the station-house,
from having heard that the Rev. Mr. Sherbourne, a friend
of his, had preached there a few Sundays before, and had
he been aware that he was disturbing any persons, and
more particularly the constables who' had been up all
night, he should not have stopped there. He begged to
say that no communication had been made to him by
his friend Mr. Lewis from the officer who had just given
his evidence, and when Mr. Lund had personally com-
plained to him he had merely given out the verse of a
hymn preparatory to his taking the congregation who
had assembled to a piece of waste ground close by, the
use of which was granted to them by its owner.
Mr. Norton considered Mr. Lewis very much to blame

in not communicating to the defendant the message de-
livered to him by Mr. Lund. He (Hr. Norton) saw no
harm whatever in properly appointed ministers preaching
in the open air. On the contrary, he believed it to be pro-
ductive of good ; but they must select places where no
obstruction to the public thoroughfares would be occa•
sioned, and persons, and particularly policemen, who, of
all others, required proper rest when off duty, would not
be disturbed. If proper places were selected he did not
suppose the police would interfere.
Mr. Lamb, the defendant, observed that the number
of persons who had congregated on the spot the day be-
fore proved that no place could have been better chosen
than the one in question, and he should be most willing
to attend there at a time mentioned by the superintendent
that would be less inconvenient. He understood that the
police had directions to protect them (the ministers) ; but
if this was not the case, and that the law was to be car-
ried out to the letter, they would be liable to be taken up
every moment.
Mr. Norton repeated his belief that much good was

done by open-air preaching, as there was a large class of
persons who could not be got to church, and recom-
mended the defendant to put himself in communication
with Sir Richard Mayne on the subject, and ask his
permission to preach at the place mentioned.
Mr. Lund said he should be compelled to oppose such
permission, and observed that during the last week no
less than six watch robberies took place at the Surrey
Obe,isk during the open air preaching.
The defendant having promised not to repeat his
preaching and singing at the place objected to, at least
for the present, was discharged, zinc' kit toe court in com-
pany of a large number of friends.