The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIOENOIt—March 21.

GUILDHALL.--E. Duckworth, omnibus driver,
No. 7,802, bearing the name of "John Kincaid"
as the proprietor, was summoned before Alderman
Cubitt for loitering in the crossing at the end of
Prince's-street by the Bank.
The stated that the defendant followed
very closely another omnibus plying on the same
road, and it was in endeavouring to push in on bin
wrong side, to prevent the other oin.nibus taking
up any passengers, that the delay was occasioned.
A gentleman in the habit of travelling. in the
other omnibus attende I before the magistrate fir
the purpose of drawing public attention to the un-
fair attempt resorted to by the London General
Omnibus Company, or others in their behalf, to
prevent those proprietors who are independent of
them from running omnibuses upon theirlines of
road, and so to ob'ain a monopoly for themselves.
He further stated that three omnibuses had been
started by different, proprietors, and run to and
from Hornsey-road and Highbury and .London-
bridge Station, and the one referred to as preced-
ing the defendant's was one of them. The.defeml-
ant'a omnibus was put on to run against the other,
to follow •it wherever it went, and never to lose
sight of it. This had been carried out to such an
extent that if the driver of the other omnibus put
up at the stables in the City, after completing his
morning journey, the defendant did the same, and
waited to accompany him back, in the afternoon,
or whatever time he might start.

Alderman Cubitt asked Mr. Woodford, Who
represented the proprietor of the defend int's omni-
bus, if it was the property of the company, or if
they exercised any influence over it in any way.
Mr. Woodford said the company did not in.er-
fere with this omnibus, or recognise it as their pro-
perty at all.
Alderman Cubitt said that was no answer to hie
question, but of course he could not decide such a
matter. However, the London General Omnibus
Company must take iG as a warning, and if this
reilly was their omnibus he would recommend
them to discontinue the unfair practice complained
of. As the defendant had not been summoned be-
fore, and'had been civil to the police, he woo d nut
fine him beyond requiring him to pay the cos's.
The costs were accordingly pail.

BO W-STREE r. --HORRIBLE CRUELTY.—Mary
Beckett, dirty, ragged woman of about:4s years
of age, was charged with skinning c its alive.
It appears that this horrible practice has of late
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been very much on the incre
e, as is shown by
the number of skinned cats found every morning in
the areas and cellars of back sine's. The prisoner,
who had long been suspectel, was watched on Sa-
turday m caning last, ahout 5 o'clock, by a coster-
mrmger n airiest Witham Payne, who saw her stoop
down and. thrust two skinned cats under the flap of
a cellar. He then went for a policemen and gave
her into cmstody. At first she den'ed what she had
been dolt tg, but afterwards admitted it. Upon the
bodies of the cats being taken up they were found
to be quite warm and quivering. On examining
the carcissos, a mark of a spke was found at the
back of thi head of each CA', the usual mode of
performing this horrible operation being to fix till
head of the animal to a spike, by which it is half-
stunned, vrhen the skin is removed. Iu answer to
questious. put by the magistrate it was stated that
the value of a cat's skin, when taken from the
living a a mal, is 2s. 2d. ; otherwise they are not t.o
valuably 1, as the fur loses its gl.ss.
Mr. Henry said it was a most barbarous and
atroaciov s act, and he should inflict the highest
penalty ha could, which was three months' impri-
sonment, -with hard labour.

MARY) I.EBONE. Charles Seymour, an ill-
looking Ina .0 was brought before Mr. Long, charged
with the A dowing scandalous outrage upon Emily,
his wife, s respectably-dressed woman, about 0.5
years of ag 3.
Complai aant deposed that in consequence of the
prisoner's continued ill-treatment she, of Monday,
left him, a., nd sought the protection of her father,
living at to White Lion stables, Edgeware-road.
On the pr svious evening she was pa-sing along the
New-roar I, near High-street, when the prisoner flew
at her an( I- struck her with great violence on the eye.
She screa Wed Qiit as loud as ohe could for assistance,

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tuid immediately afterwards hailed a cab. She got
into it, when the prisoner fonowed her, and
also struck and kicked her in the vehicle, in addi-
tion to which he tore of her bonnet and fs awl,
and threw them into the road. He then alighted,
and after jumping upon the articles, saying that
they were bought.with his money, he ran off.
Thorn as Walden corroborated the above evidence,
and complainant's mother-in-law also spoke as to
the prisoner's frequent assaults upon his wife.
Police-consialde 399 A stated that hearing cries
of "Murder," he stopped the prisoner, who was
running at the top of his speed, when he (prisoner)
told him that his wife was continually annoying
him, and that she was living with another man.
The pr:soner, who depied having acted with so
much violence as had been sworn to, and said that
his wife struck him first,• was sent to hard labour
in the House of Correction for two months. He
was then looked up.

THAMES.—Win. Hall, 40, day watchman in
the employ of the East an,l West India Dock Com-
pany, was charged with stealing rum, the property
of his employers.
The magistrate sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned and kept tl hard labour for six months.