The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 26.

WESTMINSTER.—PorterfieId Howitt, a young
man respectably attired, was charged with the fol-
lowing shocking brutality to his brother :
Robert Howitt, between 11 and 12, living at 14,
Market-street, Westminster, said I live with

my mother ; defendant is my brother. On
Thursday he came home, and beat me ; then he
told me to go into the kitchen and strip. I did, and
he tied a rope into knots and beat me all over till
the blood ran out of me. (Sensation). I don't know
why he beat me. My mother was not at home. He
did not give me any reason whatever. He went up
stairs and told the people to hold their noise, and
then I ran out. I took off everything I had on be-
fore I was beaten, and went out in the streets in
that state. He is a wood carver, and has not beaten
me like this before.

Cross-examined by defendant—He did not tell me
he beat me for robbing my employers, and stopping
away from my work. He did not ask me to explain
what I had done with the money.
Witness answered all the questions decidedly.
The cord was here produced, and had nine large
knots in It.

Thomas Slaughter, 8, Market-street, opposite de-
fendant's house, said—l heard a boy halloo out
" Murder !" " Save me!" I ran over the way and
saw the elder brother running after the other, who
was quite naked, in the street. I took the poor boy
to my place. His brother came over and said he
would make me give him up, and he would give him
some more yet ! I took him to my landlord. He has
not one inch of solid flesh on him, and many of the
places are bleeding. He has been served scandal-
ously. This was not all. This morning the prose-
cutor was in the area with only his trousers on, out
in the cold, and I made him go inside. His mother
knew of his being beaten.
Cross-examined—You did say you would give
him some more—you saidyou would cut him in two.
Thomas Cording, landlord of last witness, said—
The boy was brought into my shop for protection.
Prisoner declared he would have him, dared
me to keep him, and talked about an action. It
was dreadful to look at the boy. It made us com-
pletely shudder. (Cries of" Shame.") I believe
his mother knew his brother was going to beat
him, and went out, in order not to hear his cries.
Butcher, 109 B, said he was called to 8, Market-
street. Prosecutor and prisoner were there ; the
former said his brother had made him lay down on
the kitchen floor while he beat him. I asked him
why he had done it ? He said it was no business
of mine. At the station-house he pulled out the
cord, and said he had merely given his brother a
" little chastisement." The boy is one mass of sores,
and his little arms are shocking to look at. He is
sores and weals all over.

Defendant said complainant had been working
for Mr. Birch, the omnibus and cab proprietor, and
had latterly stolen some money from him, and
stayed away from his work. He wanted to lead
him away from such evil courses, and considered
himself of sufficient age to beat the boy.
In answer to inquiries from the magistrates, he
said he was 22.

Mr. Arnold said the mother was the proper per•
son to beat her son ; 'why had she not done so ?
Defendant said. his mother was not fit to beat
him.

Mr, Arnold hoped not to that extent.
Mr. Birch said the boy was employed by a young
woman in his mother's family, and had been very
much petted by her; latterly he had stolen various
sums of money from her; and had sometimes stayed
away from his work two days together. He had
got into bad oompany and was a very bad boy.
The prisoner, a very respectable young man, had
beaten him, he having no father, and he was afraid
his rage at his brother's repeated misconduct had
caused him to beat the boy too severely.
The mother, a very quiet-looking woman, who
stated that she knew the defendant was about to
beat his brother, said she did not know he would
have hurt him so much. It was very cruel of him,
and it would not have occurred had she been at
home.

Defendant hoped the magistrate would be lenient
with him, as he helped to support his mother and
her family.
Mr. Arnold said great cruelty had been used.
He would remand the accused, and should like the
poor little fellow to be examined by a surgeon.

CLF,RKENWELL.—Mr. Richard Canty, of Ra-
here-street, Goswell-road, applied that the property
found upon the deceased Charles Canty, murdered
by Edward Tombs, and also what had been taken
possession of by the police, might be given up to
him. He had been left sole executor, and the books
belonging to the deceased were required by his
partner to enable the business to be carried on.
Mr. Inspector Witham, of the E division, pro-
duced the will, and said that the police had no ob-
jection to the property being given up.
The order was at once taken.
The deceased, it is arranged, will be buried on
Sunday next, at the Bow Cemetery.

MARYLEBONE.--Eliza Gook and Mary Ann
Armstrong, well-dressed females, the former 19,
and the latter 13 years of age, were brought up by
Rowe, 201 S, charged with the following robbery
of a lady.
It appeared from the evidence that at 11 that
morning Miss Annie Tacon, 31, Albert-street, Re-
gent's-park, got into one of the London General
omnibuses near Trinity-church; and that when near
Tottenham-court-road, W. Newell, the conductor,
distinctly saw the younger prisoner Armstrong
take a. portemonnaie from the lady's pocket ; shortly
afterwards both the prisoners desired to be let out,
and on the vehicle being brought to a stand they
were in the act of alighting when Newell asked the
lady if she had lost anything ; she felt the pocket of
her dress, and found that she had been robbed. He
laid hold of Armstrong, whom he charged with the
theft, when she threw the portemonnaie on the
step of the bus, saying that the lady had dropped it
inside. Prisoners were both given into custody.
Cook was discharged, and Armstrong, who
pleaded. guilty, was sent to hard labour in the
House of Correction for six months.

William Bryant, a stiff-built young fellow, was
charged with being concerned, with three other
prisoners now in custody, in the following daring
garotte robbery.
It appeared from the evidence that as a young
man named Alfred Letolffe was on his way home to
Little North-street, Lisson-grove, on Saturday night
last, and when near his own house, he was seized
a very violent
from behind, and thrown down in