The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Mr. James Perrott, manager
for Mr. Henry Stockman, coal merchant, of Belmont-
wharf, York-road, appeared on the complaint of Mr. Wm.
Love, of the Royal Society for the Prention of Cruelty to
Animals, for having caused a horse to be cruelly-tortured ;
and David Crane, a carter, in their employ, appeared on
remand to answer the charge of working the same animal
whilst in an unfit state.

The evidence of Monnery and Rutherford, constables of
the Society, showed that the defendant Crane was seen
working the horse in question in a coal waggon on the
15th inst., the horse at tho time having large suppurating
wounds on each shoulder. The animal was lame, and in
a totally unfit condition for work. Crane was taken into
custody, and brought to the court, and a summons was then
taken out by Mr. Love against the defendant Perrott, since
which the defendant Perrott had stated to the officer that
the horse in question was a hired one, and that they did
not pay much attention to it on that account ; that they
had two of their own horses laid up in the stables unfit for
work, and this one was hired in consequence.
For the defence, Mr. E. D. Lewis said that what had
been stated by Perrott to the officer was correct. The
fact of his client hiring horses to do his work rather than
work his own with bad shoulders, in- itself showed how
careful he was. His client was sorry that the horse should
have been found working in the state described, but he
seemed to have conceived it to be the duty of the person
of whom he hired it to look after his own animal.

Mr. Tyrwhitt thought a great amount of carelessness
had been shown in allowing a horse to be worked in such
a state. Ile should discharge Crane, and fine Perrott 20s.
or 11 days' hard labour.
THREATENING A WITNESS.— Julia Keith, a young woman
living in Barley court, Drury-lane, a court inhabited by
some of the lowest characters in the metropolis, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with using threatening language to-
wards Matilda Roper.,
The complainant said she was going home on Tuesday
morning, when the prisoner came up and asked her if she
was !going up the next day against Joseph Gairdilli for
stabbing a man in the Tottenham-court-road. She told
tho prisoner she was, and the prisoner then said that she
had been false swearing. She told the prisoner that could
not be the case, as she had 'Lot then given any evidence.
The prisoner then said that sho had better not give any
evidence, for if she did she would give her something that
would prevent her walking in the road again. The pri-
soner then struck her in the face and left.

Robert Carter, 117 E (accompanied by Beetlestone, 80 E),
took the prisoner into custody, when he called the com-
plainant a vile name and became very violent.
The prisoner called a young woman named Mary Ann
Johnson, alias "Garibaldi," living in Barley-court, and she
said that she saw no blow struck, but she said nothing
about the threatening language.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that it was a case of some im-
portance, not so much on account of the assault itself, but
from the spirit in which it was done. Ho had on a former
occasion, in connection with this case, stated that any per-
sons who threatened witnesses would bo punished
severely, and he should send the prisoner for six weeks,
with hard labour, and the next persons charged would go
to the sessions.