The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD and Mr. Barm
MARTIN.)
Henry Gregory, 18, was indicted yesterday fir
the manslaughter of Daniel Michael Isaac.
Mr. Robinson was counsel for the prosecution.
It appeared that on the 19th of August the prisoner
and some other persons were playing skittles at tie
George and Dragon public-house, Hoxton, and upm
the prisoner refusing to pay for some beer that le
had lost the potboy called him "a thief." The pr.-
soner then struck the potboy, and the deceased inter-
fered, and offered to fight the prisoner, and their
stripped and fought several rounds, and both of then
frequently fell to the ground. The deceased, in the
course of the struggle, became insensible, and diel
almost immediately. The fight was represented to 1e
a fair stand-up one, and it appeared that when the
prisoner was informed that his opponent was dead in
expressed the greatest regret for what had occurrec,
and procured water and did all that he could to re-
store the deceased.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter
under mitigating circumstances, and he was sentence&
to he imprisoned for two months.
Walter Whittaker, 24, was indicted for cutting and
wounding Alfred Stride, with intent to do him grie.
vous bodily harm.
Mr. Locke and Mr. Payne prosecuted ; Mr.
O'Brien defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of the 4th of Septem•
her the prisoner and two other persons went into the
Custom-house Stores public-house, Lower Thames-
street, and had some refreshment, and in consequence
of the prisoner misconducting himself the landlady
refused to serve him with any more liquor, and insisted
upon his leaving the house. He would not do so, and
she then called in the prosecutor, who is one of the
City police, and at his entreaty the prisoner went out,
but he came back almost directly, and expressed his
determination to go into the house again. The
officer advised him not to do's°, and put his hand upon
his shoulder and requested him to go away, and the
moment he did so the prisoner took a pipe that he
was smoking from his mouth, and thrust it with great
violence into the constable's face, at the same time
exclaiming, " There, you -, take that." The
blow was so violent that the pipe was forced into the
nose of the prosecutor, and a portion of it was em-
bedded in the upper jaw so deeply that Mr. Childs, the
surgeon to the force, who was called in upon the oc-
casion, was occupied for more than a quarter of an
hour in extracting it.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common
assault, and he was sentenced by Mr. Justice Talfourd
to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for nine
months.

John Caffrey, 42, was indicted for wounding
James Caffrey, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. Carteen prosecuted.
The prosecutor was the son of the prisoner, a lad

14 years of age. When the case was called on, the
constable engaged in it informed the Court that he
had gone away and could not be found, and he believed
he did not intend to appear.
Robert Crebo, a police-constable, was examined,
and he stated that between 9 and 10 o'clock at night
on the 4th of September, while on duty in March-
mont-street, Barton-crescent, he heard screams of
"Murder" proceeding from Crescent-mews. He
went to the place, and at No. 22 the sounds directed
him to the top front room. He was refused admit-
tance, hut burst in the door, and he there saw the
prisoner standing in the room with a redhot poker in
his hand, which he was holding by, a cloth. The
prisoner's son was stark naked and crying, and ap-
peared to have been burnt. Witness asked what was
the matter, and the prisoner ordered him out of the
room, and told him he had no business there. Wit-
ness asked the boy what had been the matter, and he

said that his father had been beating him with a red-
hot poker, and he observed the marks upon his person
where the redhot poker had been. The prisoner then

ordered him to leave the house again, but he refused
to go, and told him he was his prisoner, upon which

he —struck him, a❑d his wife came into the room, and
they both assaulted him, and forced him out of the