The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance,
named Frederick Hill, was charged with being drunk
and disorderly.
John Bayes, a constable of the F division, at A
quarter before three o'clock on Sunday morning saw
the defendant talking to a woman in Bow-street.
He desired him to go home, which he refused to do,
and seeing that he was intoxicated, he took him into
custody and lodged him in the station-house.
The defendant said that the woman to whom he
had spoken appeared to be very ill, and he merely
told the constable to look to her, when he ordered
him, in a peremptory manner, to go home and attend
to his own business. He was then proceeding to-
wards Long-acre, in which direction his residence
lay, when the constable desired him to go in another
direction, and on his refusing to do so the constable
knocked him down on the pavement, and then took
him to the station-house. Two gentlemen who
witnessed the transaction came to the station
to speak on his behalf, but they were themselves
dragged into the station and locked up.
Mr. HALLS discharged the defendant, advising
him to go quietly home in future, when lie hap-
pened to be in the streets at an unseasonable hour.
George Melton and John Jackson, the two
gentlemen referred to by the defendant Hill, were
then charged by Inspector Rogers with creating a
disturbance at the station-house.
The inspector stated that as soon as Hill was
brought to the station-house the defendant Jackson
presented himself at the door, and desired to be ad-
mitted. He then sent in his card, and said he
wished to speak on behalf of Hill. Witness told
him that he was not empowered to hear witnesses,
but he might attend before the Magistrates in the
morning. The defendant, however, pushed his way
into the charge-room, and, in doing so, nearly
knocked the man down who was standing to guard
the door. Witness then placed him at the bar for
creating a disturbance, and subsequently ordered
him to be locked up. His companion, who insisted
on joining his friend, was locked up also.
The defendant Jackson having witnessed the af-
fair between Hill and the police constable, went to
the station to give evidence on behalf of the former,
whom he conceived to have been very ill-used.
The inspector refused to admit him, but subse-
quently seized him by the collar, dragged him to
the bar, charged him with being drunk, and his
companion and himself were locked up together in
a filthy dungeon until eight o'clock in the morning
when they were turned into the yard, in order that
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be sent to a friend in order
to procure bail, and a pot-boy who came into the
yard offered to convey a note for them, but the
gaoler would not allow him. Subsequently, how-
ever, the gaoler himself took the note, on re-
ceiving a shilling for his trouble ;.but his friend and
himself were not bailed out until five o'clock in the
day.
The defendant Melton said, that on his express-
ing a wish to join his friend in the station-house,
the inspector dragged him in, and knocked him
down three times in the passage.
Mr.' HALLS asked if the defendants were intoxi-
cated at the time ?—lnspector Rogers replied that
they were very drunk indeed.
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