The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-17 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DAMAGING A TREE IN HYDE PARK—A BAD EXAMPLIr%
—Harold Savage, a boy, and Henry Savage, his father,
were charged before Mr. Knox, the former with damaging
a tree in Hyde Park, and the latter with being drunk and
disorderly in Oxford-street.
Police-constable Haylor, 747 A, said that yesterday
evening ho was on duty near the Victoria-gate, Hyde
Park, when he saw the boy breaking some boughs off a
tree and placing them over his father, who was sitting
down and appealed to bo drunk. He asked the bOy what
ho was doing, and he replied, " Only having a game." He
told the boy that he must take him into custody, when the
father so much interfered that he was obliged to get an-
other constable to keep him off. After taking the boy
to the station, and as he was leaving it the father followed
him into Oxford-street, and said, " You vagabond, you have
locked up my son." He told him to go away, and as he
would not and got a large crowd round him he was com-
pelled to lock him up.
The father said he had only left his work an hour and a
half, and therefore had not had time to get drunk.
Mr. Knox said he was of a different opinion.
Inspector Hari ison said the father was drunk. The boy
had been locked up all night.

Mr. Knox—The boy has been locked up all night, and
if he has done wrong there is more than an excuse, having
a drunken father. The boy will be discharged. As for
the other defendant he will have to pay lOs. or 7 days,
and I would advise him to keep himself sober, and not set
his son a bad example.
CAUTION TO OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS AND HORSE-
KEEPERS.—Joseph Eldridge, horsekeeper, in the employ
of Mr. Hughes, omnibus proprietor, appeared to answer
the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, of causing a horse to be tortured by
sending it out while in an unfit state.
_

Peter Hayward, officer of the society, proved seeing a
brown horse attached to an omnibus, in Regent-circus, on
the ith of May, and, on examining it, be found it to be in
a very poor and weak condition, lame, and diseased, and
totally unfit for work. On seeing the defendant, he ad-
mitted that ho had sent the horse out to do two journeys.
Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary surgeon,
proved seeing the horse on the Bth of May, and said it was
lame in both forelegs and both hind legs, and was
suffering from a disease called grease and from internal
disease. It was totally unfit for work, and it would tor-
ture it to work it in the state it was in. He thought it
right to state that he had ascertained that Mr. Hughes bad,
since the complaint was made against him, had the horse
in question and another destroyed. _

Mr. Knox, taking into consideration that the horse had
been destroyed, fined the defendant 10s. and costs.

THAMES.

A GOOD PRACTICAL WARNING. —Rosa Scott, Mary Ann
Wardell, Susan Wallis, Mary Ann Scott, Catherine Sheen,
and Bella Brown, appeared before Mr. Paget, on cross-
summonses, charged with assaulting each other.

The defendants aro all too well known at this court, and
aro turbulent, dissipated, and very disorderly young
women. Some of them carried children in their arms for
the purpose of exciting sympathy. There have been
many scenes of noise and disorder in this court, owing to
the almost daily assemblage of loose women from those
horrible places, Angel-gardens, Bluegate-fields, and Bate-
man's Folly in the vicinity of High-street, Shadwell, and
Ratcliff Highway ; and the fighting, riots, and outrages in
those dens of infamy have given much trouble to the
magistrates and the police, and have been a tenor and
nuisance to the respectable inhabitants living near them.
Mr. Paget has lately inflicted many severe but just sen-
tences on the wretched women who infest the above places,
and more particularly on those who have used dangerous
weapons. This was the third appearance of some of the
defendants, and the second appearance of others. The
evidence, which was interloaded with much foul language,
having terminated,
Mr. Paget ordered the six defendants to stand in front
of the dock, and addressed them. Ho said he had repeat-
edly mentioned the disorderly women living iu Palmers'
folly, Bluegate fields, and Angel-gardens, and he had been
compelled, in the performance of his duty, to visit many
of them with severe punishments. If the sentence
he was about to pass did not restore some-
thing like peace be should go on increasing
the term of imprisonment, or commit the offenders
for trial. The prisoners before him, and other wretched
women of their class kept the localities in which they lived
in a continual state of uproar, and then came to that court
accusing each other and maintaining a perpetual clamour.
One was as bad as'the other; he could make no choice.
He would endeavour as far as possible to restore peace in
the district, and put an end to scenes which were a dis-
grace to a civilised country. Ho sentenced each of the
prisoners to be imprisoned for two mouths in the House
of Correction and kept to hard labour.
The prisoners, who wore in a state of great excitement,
asked the magistrate to fine them.
Mr. Paget—Fines! certainly not; you will all go to
prison for two months.