The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-01 00:00:00

THF LA7 E FRACAS A 7 NEIV IZKET.

The disgraceful proceedings on the part of certain
jockeys at Newmarket, on the Cambridgeshire-day, aro
about to ferns the subject of a series of inquiries in the
police courts, and will doubtless furnish considerable em-
ployment to the gentlemen of the long robe.
The first of these inquiries took place at the Newmarket
Petty Sessions, on Tuesday,wheu Henry Parry and Thomas
Cannon, two well-known jockeys, were charged (before
Mr. J. Dobede and Major Fryer) with having assaulted
Mr. James Lethbridge Templar, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm.
Numerous statements as to the circumstances of the
affair have been published, but the statement of )till. Tem-
plar himself, as deposed to before the magistrates on oath,
was to the following effect :—Tho complainant was for-
merly a student at Cambridge, and now resides at Harrow,
and as he was visiting at the house of a friend, Mr. Bou-
yon, in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, ho and that
gentleman wont on to the heath together on the Cam-
bridgeshire-day to witness the racing. When one of the
races was being run, a servant of the Prince of Wales
very indiscreetly rode across the course, and two of the
competing horses, named Water Cure and Easby, came in
collision with the horse the servant was riding. A general
"spill" was the result. Mr. Templar and his friend hap-
pened to be near the spot at which the accident occurred,
and, after making an ineffectual attempt to secure Water
Cure, who had broken away and was galloping along the
course without a rider, Mr. Templar wont to the otherhorso,
who waslying on the ground apparently injured, and with a
man sitting on his head to keep him down. Mr. Templar
understands something about horses, and he suggested that
it would be better for the animal to be got up, and the man
having moved from his bead he took hold of the bridle and
got him up. After leading him a short distance along
the course a groom came up and claimed the horse as be-
longing to his stable, and Mr. Templar at once gave him
up. The horse, however, staggered a good deal, and ap-
peared much injured ; and Mr. Templar was accompany-
ing him along the course, walking within a yard of his hind
quarters, when Parry, who was on a hack, rode between
him and Easby, the horse striking the complainant's
shoulder and twisting him round. Parry at the same time
used the expression, "I suppose you aro some vete-
rinary." He took no notice of this ; but upon Parry re-
peating the act, ho said, " You needn't ride over a fellow."
Upon Parry attempting to do it again, Mr. Templar laid his
hand on the bridle of the horse to prevent his being ridden
over, when he immediately rec,:ived a severe blow on the
head from Parry's whip. Almost at the same moment he
was struck in another direction, ho believed by Cannon.
Tho defendants were then joined by other jockeys and a
mob of roughs, some mounted and some on foot, and he
was knocked about on all parts of his head and body with
riding whips and fists. On attempting to make his escape
ho was pursued by the mob, who rode him down and
actually rode over him, beating him :severely while upon
the ground. One of the horses also trod upon his body.
Ho was at length joined by his friend Mr. Benyon, who
was also assaulted ; and both made off towards tho en-
closure, where they were again pursued by the mob, who
raised the cry of " welchers," and they had to run the
gauntlet through a shower of blows, ultimately succeeding
in gaining the enclosure, from which, however, they
narrowly escaped being turned out upon suspicion that
they were really " welchers." Mr. Templar was then
taken in Sir Robert Pigot's carriage to the Rutland Arms
Hotel, where ho was attended by Mr. Fairclotb, surgeon,
who found him suffering from numerous severe bruises
and contusions on his head and various parts of his body,
and an injury to the groin which it is feared may produce
hernia.

Aft or the magistrates had heard the evidence of the com-
plainant, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Faircloth, and a clerk in the telo-
graph-office, who spoke to the part taken by Cannon, a
consultation took place as to the proper course of proceed-
ing, tho result of which was an agreement on both sides
that it would be better that the case should bo sent to the
Cambridgeshire Quarter Sessions for trial ; and the further
examination of witnesses (of which there aro a great

number) was adjourned until Monday, the 25th November
in order to suit the conveniance of all parties concerned.
Mr. Salmon, of Bury, is the attorney for the prosecution,
and the defence is entrusted to Mr. W. 0. Kitchener, of
Newmarket.