The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONLON, WEDNESuAY Ev ENING, DECEMBER 26, 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

MARLBOROCG 11-STREET.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT BY FOREIGNERS.—CharIes Turen,
waiter, and Rudolph Stauffer, cook, at Epitaux's Restau-
rant, Pall Mall, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
assaulting Win. Hams, a cab driver, badge 10,402 ; and
Turen was further charged with assaulting Augustus
Giovanelli, a cab driver, badge 14,475.
Wm. Hams said that on the previous night ho brought
the prisoner from the Borough to the end of the Hay-
market, and on asking for his fare Stauffer seized him by
the whiskers, and pushed him down and trampled and
jumped on him, and Turen violently kicked him, and but
for assistance coming ho believed he would have been

Augustus Giovanelli said that he saw the prisoner kick-
ing the last witness, and bumping his head on tho pave-
ment. Ho went .ap and told them that it was scandalous
to beat a man in such a way, when the prisoner let go of
Hams and turned upon him (witness), Turen seizing him
by the throat with one hand, and catching hold of his
hair and forcing his head back with the other. He at last
got away, and went behind a cab so that the prisoner
should not see him, when they came after him and kicked
him violently, and Turen seized him by the comforter he
was wearing so tightly that he was nearly choked. Ho
called to the bystanders to release him, and at last a
female came out of Epitaux's and unfastened his comforter,
and ho was thus able to get away from Turen. The
prisoners then got him down, and again ill-used him. He
believed if be had not interfered on behalf of Hams that
that Hams could have been killed.

Mr. John Elson, of Chester-street, Kennington, and a
gentleman residing in the Brompton-road, both spoke of
the prisoner's conduct as being of the most violent
description, stating it as his belief that if the bystanders
had not interfered Hams would have been killed.
Stauffer said that he offered Hams his fare and he would
not take it.
Hams said that was not true.

Turen said that Giovanelli attacked him first.
Giovanelli said that he had done nothing of the kind.
He merely said, " Don't abuse the poor old man," and then
the prisoners attacked him. _

Dixon, 226 C, proved taking the prisoners who were
drunk into custody.
The only answer the prisoners made to the charge was
that they had been drinking.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for two months'
each with hard labour, remarking that such assaults would
never be passed over.

A NIGHT CAB-HORSE.---Alfred Sims, cab proprietor of
Savoy-wharf, Strand, appeared to answer the complaint
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
of causing a horse to be tortured by being worked
Anima;a,
while in an uni:: state.
On a former day, a ;:an in the defendant's employ was
fined 20s. for driving a h2rse which was in a most
wretched condition, having severa:.sores on it, and which
it appeared was only brought out at nig:: t
Sell, officer of the Society, said that, on asLing the de-
fendant why he worked the horse, he said he knew was
lame, but that he only worked it occasionally.
The defendant handed up a card showing that he had
the horse killed.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that, having soon the condition of
tho horse, ho considered it a bad case, and fined the de-
fendant 20s. and costs.

THAMES.

A VIOLENT AND lINDI:TIFUL SON.—Dennis Lyons, a
young man, barman and manager in the service of Mrs.
Bridget Lyons, his mother, who is the landlady of the
George and Vulture public-house, Wapping-wall, Lower
Shadwell, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged
with being drunk and disorderly, assaulting his mother,
and kicking two police constables.
Mrs. Lyons, a widow, said she did not wish to press the
charge against her son, who was tipsy when ho struck
her, and was very sorry for what ho had done.
Mr. Partridge asked the complainant where her son had
struck her, to which she replied, " On the head," and that
ho wanted to take the liquor out of the bar to treat his
friends. She would not allow him to do so, and pushed
hire out of the bar. He was then very violent, and struck
her. She begged to withdraw the charge.
Police-constable No. 347 K said he was called upon at a
quarter-past five o'clock on Christmas morning to take the
prisoner into custody. The prisoner was drunk and threat-
ened to kill his mother. He requested the prisoner to leave
the house and come with him. The prisoner refused to do
so, and said, " You are not the man to take me." The
prisoner made use of many threats and bad language, and
called for a knife. Ile seized the prisoner, who said, "I'll
see whether you will take me out or not," and kicked him
on the lower part of the stomach. He called a Thames
police-constable to his aid, and the prisoner struck the
policeman in the lower part of his body and hurt him very
much.

The prisoner said ho was very sorry for what he done•
Ho had never been placed in such a position before, and
would take care this did not happen again.
Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had conducted himself
in a very disgraceful manner, and ho did not wonder at his
striking the policeman after the brutal assault on his
mother. Ho was almost disposed to send the prisoner to
gaol without the option of paying a fine, but as the peni-
tence of the youth appeared to be sincere he should inflict
a fine of 40s, for the assault on the two police constables.
Mrs. Lyons paid the fine and liberated her son, who
spent his Christmas-day in a police cell.