The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

POLICE IN7'

ELL IGENCE.,

THIS DA Y.)

GUILDHALL.
HUGHES, THE ABSCONDING BANKRUPT.—This morning
David Hughes, the absconding bankrupt, was again placed
at the bar, charged with absconding and defrauding his
creditors.

The case was proceeding when we went to press,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF A CAB-DRIVER.—JOIIII Hill,
a big, rough-looking fellow, described as a cab-driver, was
charged by Mr. Wm. Love, chief constable of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with
being drunk and cruelly torturing a horse.
Mr. Love said that morning he was passing by Wood-
stock-street, where he saw a horse and cab, the only one on
the stand, and observed the horse biting at its knees, liftinL.-:
first one leg, then the other, and evidently in great agony.
He examined its legs and found that both knees 'were broken
shockingly, and presenting a ghastly ,_‘..-ypearance, blood
issuing from them. The horse wiks; covered with dirt, and
much ill-Used. Upon maki•ls inquiry lie found the priso-
ner in a coffee-house ("lose by quite drunk. The prisoner
admitted he lcict the horse out nearly 12 hours, and abu. ed
Wilt ('sir. Love) for interfering. He (Mr. Love) then sent
for a constable, and the prisoner got on his cab and drove
off down Oxford-street so drunk that he rolled about on the
box, and on arriving in the Regent Circus drove across an
omnibus, impeding the traffic and blocking up the road for
some time. He had also strong reason to believe the horse
had been kept without food all night, as it ate ravenously
some dirty hay lying in the street, the nose- bag being
quite empty, and he therefore ordered the horse to be well
fed at once.
Charles Baker, of Providence-yard, Vauxhall-road, the
owner of the eab, said it was taken out by the regular driver
in a perfectly sound condition, kept out many hours beyond
its time, and seriously ill-used.

The proper driver of the cab said ho left the horse in
charge of a man while he went into a public house, and
when he came out the horse and cab were gone.
The prisoner said same one asked him to drive them
somewhere, and he stopped at several publio houses, and
had a drop too much.

Mr. Beadon said the proper driver's conduct was very re-
prehensible, and that of the prisoner scandalous and dis-
graceful, and for which ho would be committed to the
House of Correction for two months with hard labour.
CRUEL DESERTION OF AN INFANT.—Jane Johnson, a
young woman, was charged with deserting hor male infant,
one month old, under the following. circumstances :
Mr. Bowman, relieving officer of St. Martin's, attended
to watch the case on the part of that parish, to which the
infant had been left chargeable.
From the evidence of Michael Brennan, porter of St.
Martin's Workhouse, it appeared that at half-past nine on
the night of the 27th of September, he was informed that a
male infant was lying on the steps of the register office at-
tached to the workhouse, and it was at once taken in and
properly attended to: Last night the prisoner came to the
house drank, and asked if they knew anything of a child
left on the door-step. He took her in to the matron, who
asked her what she knew of the child, but she refused to
give any information, but demanded to see the child, and
said if they did not let her see it she would go to the police
court. She was then taken into custody.
A nurse from St. Martin's Workhouse produced the in-
fant, and the prisoner assumed excessive affection towards
it, calling it her "poor dear child ;" and in defence said,
when she left St. Giles's Workhouse, where she was con-
fined, she gave it to a woman to hold, and though she made
inquiries could not find it again.
The prisoner, who conducted herself in a very impudent
manner, was remanded.