The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-14 00:00:00

COCK-FIGH7 IN G 1N SOU 7 HiVARK.

At the Southwark police court on Saturday, Jas. Green,
Wells-road, Sydonham ; Chas. Thomas Whitd, Camber-
well ; Wm. Lawrence, John Brooks, potman ; John Free-
stone, carpenter; R. Pearce, fitter; H. Gibbons, 10, Wor-
cestor-street, Walworth, gentleman ; John Cleave, 57,
Stamford-street, gentleman; F. Doane, 9, Camberwell-
lane, Brixton; S. Howlett, Maida-hill ; Wm. Gillbanks, 5.
Bow Church-yard; G. Church, Kent-street, turner; R.
Roberts, coffee-house keeper; Wm. Garner, Peckham,
gentleman Wm. Keene, Ship Hotel, Charing-cross; Goo.
Edwards, Peterborough-villa, St. John's-wood; S. Taylor
Camberwell; W. Stevens, Jas. Jones, John Hillman, Geo.
Stone, Wm. M'Pherson, Thos. Dorrington, John Costello,
John Taylor, John Armitage, Joseph Matthews, Fredk
Wallace, Joseph Deane, Henry Webb, James Greene, and
John Brown, were brought before Mr. Burcham, the
latter being the landlord of the Two Brewers, Ewer-street,
Gravel-lane, charged with keeping a place for cock-fight-
ing and dog-fighting; and the first-named defendants,
with aiding and abetting in cock-fighting and dog-fighting.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. J. Colam, the secretary
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, attended to prosecute, and in opening the case said
that the defendants Brown and Brooks were charged with
using, keeping, and having tho management of a place for
dog and cock-fighting; and the other defendants were
charged with aiding and assisting. Tho 3d section of the
act empowered .the magistrate to inflict a penalty of .f.. 5 ;
and the 18th section authorised the magistrate to com-
mit the guilty parties to the House of Correction for
three months, with or without hard labour. The
defendant Brown was the principal, and kept the
Two Brewers beer-house, in Gravel-lane, and was
well known by the cognomen of the King of the Dog-.
fighters, which business he carried on successfully for
some time past. However, through the activity of the
police, and the exertions of the Royal Society for the Pro-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, the detection took place,
and all the defendants were apprehended by the police. He
should be able to show that Brown charged ss. each to the
parties, who were considered to be select.
Mr. Bradbury, on the part of Brown and Brooks, pleaded
guilty, but, as for the others, they denied the charges.
Jesse William Mohun, of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Croelty to Animals, said that on Wednesday
last he went to the Two Brewers beer-shop, kept by the
defendant Brown, and purchased two tickets for a cock-
fight, and paid Brown 103. On Friday evening he went to
his house, and at the roar ho found a groat number of peo-
ple. They were in the bar at first, but afterwards pro-
ceeded into the back room. He recognised some of the
defendants. Brown, Deane, and Brooks took a very active
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more were brought in, but they would not fight. After
that some rats were put into the pit and were killed. Then
two more cocks wore brought forward, and after fighting
for 15 minutes they were withdrawn, fearfully injured.
One of them was cut on the side, and its leg was broken.
The other was mangled.
In answer to Mr. Burcham, witness said that the place
was a kind of skittleground at the rear of the premises,
and appeared to be specially fitted up for cock and dog-
fighting. The spectators wore betting money with each
other. _

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The defendants were hero ranged in a sort of line, and
after an investigation 14 wore discharged. The remainder
were fined 10s. each, and Brown and his man £5 and 40s.

The fines wore paid.

A WELSH SALMON TRAP.—Visitors to Snowdon
their"first
course" at the table which
nature
who have sojourned at that romantic retreat Bettys-y-Coed
entirelyignorant t a favourite resort of tourists and landscape painters, are
Perhaps
subservient
to o f
art he
in ingenuity
providing
with
is made
d'hote. Tho visit last week of the
special commissioners for inquiring into the legality of the
fixed engines on the rivers of England and Wales threw
some light on the process. On Thursday last at their sit-
ting at Conway the commissioners decided on a claim by
John Jcnes, of Tanralt, to use a fishing basket at a certain
spot on the river Sledr at Bettws-yeCoed. The claimant
is the owner of a small farm on the banks of the Sledr a
tributary of the Conway), at a spot where the river falls
over one of the picturesque waterfalls of that remote dis-
trict. At this point the river on Jones's side tumbles off a
rock into a natural hollow or chasm, and thence by a
smaller fall--about a yard—into a lower level. The fish
in ascending the riser easily jump up the lower fall into
the natural basin above, but hero they aro stopped by a
barrier only passable in high floods. Tho water running
entirely through rock is almost always clear, so that the
salmon can be scan from above when lying in the natural
basin. John Jones, therefore, when he sees a fish between
the two falls, first places a man on the top of the rock,
holding by a rope a wide-mouthed basket which rests
against the outlet of the second fall, while with a long
wand ho tickles the snout of master salmon, who is
vainly waiting to get higher up the river, on which the
affrighted fish immediately turns tail sad rushes down
stream head first into the basket, where ho is trapped,
This trap it was provedtad been used for generations by
the same family, and so was certified by the commissioners.
MUSICAL ON DITS.—Tile Orchestra mentions
that one of the first features of the next season at Covent-
Garden will be the production of Verdi's "Don Carlos '
111dlle. Tietjens, who is now in Paris, is about to sing at
Vienna, whera " Antigone," with3lendelssohn's choruses,
will shortly be given. During the past year 23 new operas
have been produced in Italy; of which only four survived
fiest-performance! It is expected that "Don Carlos" wil
not be ready for production at the Paris Opera before the
end of the month, as Von.li is making certain changes in
the score.