The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-01 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Yesterday Robson Rogers, Thomas Oxley, and Mat-
thew Reed, three men belonging to the journeymen
hatters' union, were brought before Mr. TRAILL, charged
with committing a violent assault on Charles Tum-
mins, a hat-trimmer, in the employment of Mr. Moore,
the extensive wholesale hatter of Castle-lane, South-
wark ; and the defendants were also charged with in-
timidating other workmen on the premises, and endea-
vouring to incite them to strike, and belong to the
unions.—Mr. Nobler attended to prosecute.
William Kinder, an apprentice to Mr. Moore, stated
that on the preceding afternoon the three defendants
came to his master's premises, and Rogers, addressing
witness, said that if he was a young man like him, he
would hang himself rather than be a knobstick and
work on Mr. Moore's premises. Oxley, the other
defendant, repeatedly called witness a knobstick ;
and, finding that he was not disposed to enter into any
dispute with the parties, he ( Oxley) challenged him
to fight, and tried every means in his power to excite
his temper for not joining the union.
John Quick, foreman in Mr. Moore's employ, stated
that his attention was called on hearing a noise out-
side the warehouse, and upon proceeding to ascertain
the cause, he saw the three defendants, who, on ob-
serving him, exclaimed, " You are all a set of
knobsticks for working here." They used other lan-
guage, of a tendency to induce the other workmen to
st.tike and join the union. Oxley was extremely voci-
ferous on the occasion, and frequently said, in a loud
tone, that rather than work knobsticking there he
would suffer death. He also used other language
of a threatening nature, challenging out to fight any
of the men who dared to stand before him.

In answer to Mr. TRAILL, the witness said, that the
meaning of the word " knobstick" applied to all jour-
neymen hatters who did not belong to the union.
Edward Windley, a journeyman hat-clipper, stated,
that he saw Tummins, one of Mr. Moore's men,
knocked down by the defendants, and he received such
serious injury that it was found necessary to convey
him to the hospital.
Henry Power, dresser to Mr. Key, at Guy's Hospi-
tal, stated, that when Tummins was brought to the
Hospital, on examination it was discovered that the
small bone of his leg was broken near the ancle. The
witness considered him in an unfit state to be brought
to the office to appear against the defendants ; and al-
though no danger was to be apprehended from the in-
jury, yet it was likely that he would be confined a
month at least.

The defendants denied that they went to the pre-
mises for the purpose of intimidating any of Mr.
Moore's men.

Mr. TRT ALL— If you did not go there for that purpose,
why use the word " knobstick," and other terms of a
threatening nature, to the workmen on the premises?
Rogers said that the foreman misconstrued the
meaning of the word " knobstick," for instead of the
term being applicable to those not belonging to the
union, it was a term of reproach to those who did not
serve their full time to the trade.

Mr. Moore's foreman contradicted the assertion,
and said that he had given the proper explanation of
the term, as it was known to all in the trade.
Mr. TRAILL (to the defendants)—What have you to
say in answer to the charge of assault on the man Tum-
mins, now lying in the hospital, incapacitated to work,
owing to your violence ? Rogers said that that person
offered to fight him, in the first instance, and, in fact,
foreman and all came out of the warehouse stripped,
as if they were going to pitch into them.
Mr. Hobler explained, that upon hearing the noise
and confusion created by the defendants outside the
warehouse, some of the men went to see the cause,
and he admitted that they might be divested of some
portion of their clothes, but everybody knew that jour-
neymen hatters worked without coat or waistcoat, al-
though the defendants sought to induce a belief that
the men had stripped for the purpose of engaging with
them. Such was not the case Mr. Hobler declared ;
and in remarking upon the conduct of the defendants
on the occasion, he explained the serious consequences
that might have ensued, Mr. Moore having upwards of
200 men at work in his manufactory. He also inti-
mated that Mr. Moore had determined to proceed
against the defendants to the utmost extremity of the
law, for the cruel attack they had made upon one of
his workmen out of revenge, no doubt, for not enter-
ing into the Society to which they belonged.,
The Magistrate sentenced Rogers and Oxley to
six weeks' confinement at hard labour in Guildford
House of Correction, and Reed to one month at Brix-
ton, for the first offence, and adjudged them to find
bail to answer the charge of assault at the sessions.

FECUNDITY.—The ewe belonging to Mr.
John Thurlby, in Helpringham Fen; which, as was
last year noticed, had yeaned 50 lambs in 20 years, has
this season had another lamb, making 51 in 21 years ;
her age is 23 years.—Boston Herald.
The spirit of insubordination, which has
long been prevalent in the greater part of this ill-fated
barony (Ennishowen), continues to increase. Scarce
a night now passes without leaving some tale of terror
to be told. Threatening notices against the payment
circulated ; and letters
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