The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 13.

BOW-STREET.—John Lawley appeared to
answer an adjourned. summons, charging him with
wilfully misconducting himself in his- employment
as conductor of an omnibus, by refusing to stop the
vehicle in order to allow a passenger to alight.
The facts of the case were stated in the report of
the former examination, which appeared in our
impression of Monday. The case was adjourned to
allow defendant an opportunity of calling a witness.
The witness was now in attendance, but his evidence
only went to show that there was room in the om-
nibus for a passenger on each side.
Mr. Jardine observed that this made very little
difference. The defendant had no right to detain a
passenger who wished to go out, and certainly no-
thing could excuse him in allowing the omnibus to
go on at a rapid rate while Dr,- Sall was hanging
on by one hand. He understood that when Dr.
Sall applied for the summons he was in a deplorable
condition, from having been dragged through the
mad. it was a most dangerous proceeding, and
might have cost Dr: Sall his life.
The officer (Lush, A 198) said the conductor had
pointed out to him the spot'where he (the conductor)
alleged Ilia Dr. Sall first aLtomptoa to alight,
which was fully 50 yards from the place where the
omnibus pulled up ; but he (the witness) had seen
Dr. Sall hanging on by one hand for a somewhat
longer distance.
Mr. Jardine said this was much too serious a case
for the infliction of a fine, which would probably
be paid by the defendant's employers or by a sub-
scription among the men, and would thus become
a mere nominal penalty. He considered that the
least he could do consistently with justice was to
send the defendant to prison for 14 days.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Jones, a con
victed thiet•was charged with a brutal assault upon
a young woman named Ellen Little; John Cum-
mings, a coffeehouse-keeper in the Kingsland-road,
was charged with, assaulting two of the police ; and
a man named William Haynes, who refused his
address, was charged with threatening to stab a
policeman.
All these assaults, together with another 'whieh
is not worth repeating, arose out of the outrage the
first prisoner was charged with, and the substance
of which was this,—Jones had for some time been
living with thd young woman Little as her hus-
band, but abandoned her five weeks ago, leaving
her with a child by him, and answerable for several
debts, which appear to have induced a bad feeling
on her part. This, however, did not seem to have
influenced her, on this occasion; when, while she
was standing on the pavement in the Kingsland-
road, the prisoner, with a number of other men,
issued from a publichonse, and, as she knew from his
previous conduct to her that he would be sure to
ill Use her, as he had always done, she turned
her face from him, to avoid receiving his blows
there, and he immediately struck her down with
a violent blow on the side of her head, kicked her
cruelly, as also others of his companions did,
and pulled her along for several yards by the
hair, till she became senseless and could recollect no
more. This was all the complainant's statement,
but a needle-woman named Evans deposed td seeing
the prisoner kick her five or six times, and incite
another woman to strike her, who did so ; and Frost
and Gill, two officers, stated, the first that he heard
the complainant " screaming awfully," and found
her on the ground and the prisoner kicking her in
the side and striking her on the back of the head ;
and Gill stated that on his getting up he found the
complainant almost naked to the waist, and covered
with blood and dirt, and that while he was holding
the prisoner, whom he had succeeded in stopping
after his escaping from Frost, he saw another man
walk up to the complainant, and violently strike
her head against 'a door-post, without the witness
being abie to prevent him.
This last occurrence gave rise to the charge
against
_Cummings, into whose house this cowardly
fellow Tin, and on Maveety, Sturgeon, and two
other officers attempting to follow him into a back
room he refused them entrance, and threatened to
knock out their brains with a poker.
Haynes, while Frost was taking the prisoner in
the fourth case to the station, went up to the officer
and threatened to stab him, thitist his hand into his
pocket, and withdrew it with something in it which
glistened,
but was overpowered and secured, offer-
mg any money to be liberated, though no knife was
found upon him. .
Mr. Beard addressed the magistrate for the de.
fence in all the cases, saying the best he could for
each of his clients, but
Mr. Hammill commented severely upon such a
series of lawless and brutal outrages, and sentenced
Haynes to pay a penalty of 405., or one month in
the House of Correction ; Cummings to pay a
penalty of £5, or the same term of imprisonment in
default; and Jones to three Months' hard labour,
without the option of any penalty.
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THAMES.—Mr. W. H. Maitland, the secretary
of the Royal Benevolent Society, of which Lord.,
Viscount Raynham, M.P., is president, waited
upon Mr. Selfe to make some explanation, in
answer to the observations of the magistrate,
who stated from the bench a few days since that
the society was a mockery and a delusion, and that
11,000 had been expended in distributing £236 in
loans and gifts to the poor.
It may be necessary to state that since the ob-
servations of the magistrate were made public a let-
ter has appeared in. the Times complaining of the
management of the society, and that letter has been
replied to by Lord Raynham.
The statement made by Mr. Maitland yesterday
was a recapitulation of the arguments advanced by
Lord Raynham, at whose request he attended to
make an explanation. The magistrate had com-
plained of the enormous outlay for the small bene-
fits obtained, and had taken as his authority the
first year's balance-sheet of the society. A great
number of expenses were necessarily incurred in
the establishment of the society for advertisements,
books, furniture, stationery, and other things ; ex-
tra clerks were employed to make inquiries, and
other preliminary costs were incurred. The new
balance-sheet for the quarter ending July, 1859,
would show a vast decrease in the expenses, the
office expenses being only £6l ss. 2d. The extra
clerks, who were necessary during the first year of
the society's operations had been superseded, and
many other economical arrangements carried out.
A great loss had been sustained by the society in
consequence of the misconduct of Captain Shep-
pard, the late secretary, who absconded in March
last, after he had cut, mutilated, or burnt every
book connected with the society, in consequence of
which it was impossible to ascertain whether the
subscriptions and donations promised had all been
paid up or not.
Mr. Selfe reiterated at great length his objections
to the first year's report of the society, and said
there was .a great deal of sack to a very little bread.
In addition to disbursements to the amount 0f1777
j Os. 5d.. for bestowing £236 Os. 4d. in loans and gifts
to the poor, there was another extraordinary item,
" £ll2 due on account of a public dinner. He
was not aware until Monday -there was a second
balance-sheet. It was quite evident the first secre-.
tary was a very dishonest man. ,
Mr. Maitland—No doubt of it, sir. I wish to point
out to you that the objections which apply to the
first year don't apply to the second; and that for
an expenditure of £495, since I have been secre-
tary only £6l costs have been incurred.
Mr. Selfe said he was perfectly astounded that
two auditors should have put their names to the
first report, and asked how it was that the dinner
cost £ll2, and the cash for dinner tickets only
amounted to £l6 163. He always understood that
when gentlemen dined at a public dinner each cne
paid for his ticket.

Mr. Maitland7s.aid it was the initiation dinner of
charitablethesoviet
y.in slttituwtLaistheto'cuinsvtoitmethe in England for
public to a,
obtaLi subscriptions and donations. •
• Mr.- Seife said there were outstanding, liabilities,
according to the first, report:
Mr. laitland-Which Lerd Raynham has ge-
nereusly paid, and tie society is now making fa-
vourable progress..
Mr: Selfe was very glad to hear it, and paid a
very high. compliment to Lord Itaynham for his
benevolence.' He (Mr. Selfc) did net want to set
himself up as a, censor, or to say. anything un-
kindly, but the society was certainly somewhat
pretentious.
Mr. Maitland said that an entirely new system
of
management had been
adopted, the .accounts