The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-01 00:00:00

TaA MES.

TILE IDLE APPRENTICE.—George Johnson, the idle
apprentice, wbose indentures expire on the ith of next
May, was brought up, on remand, before Mr. Benson,
charged with threatening and striking his master, Mr.
Wilson, an optician and nautical instrument maker, in
13,)w.
Mr. Pelham, solicitor, conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Benson said it was only a question whether the
priscner would consent to have his indentures cancelled
or to find two substantial sureties to be of good behaviour
and keep the peace for six months. It could not be per-
mitted for the prisoner to strike his master, and put him
at defiance again, to rise at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and
have three meals in one, and commit other numberless in-
s ulordinate acts.
The prisoner said he could not find bail.
Mr. Benson—Which means that no respectable person
has a good opinion of you, and I don't wonder at it, after
you have struck and insulted ycur master. I still think
it best that your indentures should be cancelled.
The prisoner was then permitted to consult with his
mother; and on his return to the dock said ho would con
sent to the cancellation of his indentures, which was forth-
with done, and the prisoner was• discharged with a long
and useful lecture from the magistrate on the folly of his
conduct.
HOW PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS.—
Lewis Barnett, a cab driver, was brought before Mr. Ben-
son charged with being drunk on his duty as a cab driver
and running over a man named Crownson.
Wm. Young, a police constable of the H divisicn, saw
the prisoner driving a cab and great numbers following
him, and calling out, "Stop him, murder, and scoundrel."
He did stop the prisoner near the Whitechapel Church,
and on returning with him down the road ho saw a crowd
assembled round a man who was lying on the footpath in
a state of insensibility. The man ,had been run over by
the prisoner and seriously injured.
The prisoner said he did not see the man who was cross-
ing the Whitechapel-road.
The House Surgeon of the London Hospital said the
man who had been run down was badly injured about the
head and face, and his leg was lacerated. Tho patient was
a very poor man. The shock to the system was very
great.
Mr. Gomm, who appeared fur the prisoner, said the man
in the Hospital was very old.
Mr. Benson—What of that, ho is not to be killed by a
drunken cab driver.
Mr. Gomm said the man bad fallen accidentally.
The House Surgeon said if the man had fallen without
force and by his own weight the injuries would not have
been so very severe.
Mr. Benson said this was how people were killed in the
public streets. Drunken cab drivers drove recklessly
along public roads where people were continually passing.
He should remand the prisoner.
Mr. Gomm tendered bail, which was accepted.

Lola Montes, in one of her works, remarked that
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tho essential combination of preserving and restorative
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Some experiments which are considered to have
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newly-invented torpedo, under the superintendence
of the chief officers of the School of Military Engi-
neering at Brompton.

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at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUN VILLE & Co., who havo gained
a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Loyal Irish