The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

WO RSHIP-STR E ET. —AN EXTENSIVE BET-
TING ESTABLISHMENT.—Peter James Knott, the
proprietor of a beer-shop in High-street, Shore-
ditch, James Hazeltine, Edward Jetty's, Henry
Newman, William Morgan, Fre ler ick Leck, Frank.
Love, Michael Cox, Thomas Winworth, ant Wil-
liam B rnett, were brought up on a warrant, io
which the first-named prisoner was charged wi h
keeping a commr,n betting-office, and the nine
others with having been found therein without
lawful excuse.
Mr. Superintendent Martin, of 'the G division,
having produced the usual authority from the
commissioners of police, to justify the entry and
capture of the defendants,
Henry Bennison, a respectable- looking elderly
man, was examined, and stated that on Thursday,
the 16th instant, he called at the house if the de-
fendant Knott, in which he found from 15 to 20
persons standing iu front of a small box at the end
of the bar, and engaged in betting upon horses with
a man who was seate inside. The man in the bee,
who was familiarly addressed as "Jemmy," was
answering questions respecting the odds against
different race horses, the names of which were in-
serted in a small black book. About 16 heis were
made on that occasion by the parties, each of whom
depositel half-a-crown wit i "Jemmy," who
citered the stakes in his book. Witness subse-
quently attended at the house, but in answer to an
inquiry as to the odds against "Sydney" in the
Two Thousand Guinea Stakes, he was informed
ihat no bets would be taken that day.
Police-c nstable G5l stated that on the precious
morning he proceeded in plain clothes to the defen-
dant's house, when he found the man "Jemmy"
behind a desk surrounded with curtains, and in the
act of taking bets from persons who were constantly
thronging in. Bets of 40 to 1 were laid against
Sydney and Highflyer for the Chester Cup, and
Jemmy himself offered 40 to 1 against another
horse, whose name he had. forgotten. All the bets
were entered by Jemmy, who received no fewer
than 32 half-crowns during the short space of two
hours. The defendant Knott was present during
the whole of the time, but he took no active part
in the proc edings. Superintendent Martin stated
that h visited the place that morning, and on in-
timating to Knott, who was serving behind the bar
that he intended to apprehend him for suffering
bet ing on the premises, he denied that his house
was ussd for such purposes. There was no
betting going on at that rime, but on searching a
desk at the eed of the bar, the key of which was
reluctantly handed to him by Knott, he found
therein the several racing lists and betting cards
now produced. The prisoner Knott was then taken
into custody, together with the rest of the defend-
ants, who were smoking and drinking in the baga-
telle-room ; but he had no evidence to prove that
either of the latter were betting characters. After
some observations from Mr. Beard, who appeared
on behalf of the defendants—Mr. D'Eyneourt said
that the case had been so fully established against
Knott that he should require him to enter into his
own recognisances in 2001. and to procure two re-
spectable sureties in 1001. each, for his future ap
pearanet3 ; but as there was no evidence to affect
either of the others, he should order their discharge.
Andrew Andrews, a tall well-dressed man,
described as a watchmaker, was charged before Mr.
Harnmill with the following wanton outrage.
A respectable-looking married woman, named
Catharine Gilling, the wife of a harpstring maker
in Butler-street, Bethnal-gseen, stated,—l was
returning home last night, in company of a female
friend in the same line of businsss, and conversing
with her, when the prisoner, who is a total stranger
to me, came up, and placing himself directly bsfore
me, grasped hold of me in a most indecent arid in-
sulting manner. I said som,-tiling to him in re-
proof, which I do not recollect, and he immediately
turned round, and, raising his umbrella, strteek me
so violently in the face with it hat the blood fol-
lowed the blow profusely, and the front of my 11,-ess
was completely soaked . with it. He instantly
walked away, but I called "Police I" and, a con
stable happening to come up and stop him, I gave
him into custody. He pretended that it was an
accident, but it was not, find I can swear that both

acts were intentional. [The complainant here drew
notice to the sta e of her face, her right eye being
contused and her nose cut at the bridge.]
Mary Fitzgerald, the friend referred to, said—
The complainant made no observation to the pri-
soner till he seized hold of her in the way she has
described ; she then called him a nasty fellow, or
something to that effect, and he immediately struck
her in the face with the umbrella. Both acts were
certainly done on purpose.
Card, 132 11.—I heard the cry of "Police !" and
on getting to the spot found the complainant. co-
vered with blood. She pointed out the prisoner,
who was cooly walking away down a dark street,
but, on hearing me mining after him, stopped
and asked what was the matter. Complainant fol-
lowed and charged him with grossly insulting and
assaulting her, and he said it was nothing but an
accithnt.

Prisoner.—And so it was. I happened to touch
this go pd lady as I passed her, and she abused me ;
I turned round to apologise, and my umbrella,
which was over my shoulder, struck her in the face.
Mr. Hainmill.—l am continually endeavournw,
by inflicting the full amount of punishment the
Act enables me, to put a stop to these abominable
assaults, but, I regret much to say, only ineffec-
tually. This is a very bad else, and I shall send
you to the House of Correction for six months,
with hard labour.

The prisoner listened to the sentence in astonish

ment.

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the song of birds. The song, fur example, of a thrush near
London, or in any of the home counties,, has little re
semblance, except in tone and specific character, to
that of the same bird in Devonshire, or near Exeter.
The Bathe notes, I suppose, will all of them be detected ;
but they are arranged, for the most part, in a diffe-
rent tune, and are not sung in the same way. Tney
are given wtih different values, and the singirw is
pitched in a different key. ()tie great distinction be-
tween the two cases is the number of guttural notes of
which tit() song of a Devonshire thrush is often made up,
but which, near London, are heard only at the end of a
bar, or even much hoe= frequently ; while those chief
notes which mainly constitutl the song of the other bird
and make it impressive, are rarely pronounced by the
Devonshire thrush.—Jesse's Country Life.
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The frauds having been distinctly proved agasns;
the accused they we e committed fur three mont.s
to hardlab. air in the House of Correction, and would
have been committed as incorrigible rogues to the
sessions, but for the very advanced age and in-
firmities of Mrs. Dolley, which rendered her atten-
danc, there a matter of uncertainty.
William Norris was finally examined, charged
wigs a most murderous assault upon Mary Anne
Maloney with a hitchet.
Prisoner bad been several times remanded owing
to the object of his violence being in too precarious
a state to leave the hospital.
The injured woman and the accused had lived
together for the last three m 'nths, and had a quarrel
on the evening of the 28th ult., when he followed
her ups airs, and taking the hat'het from the land-
ing made a murderous attack upon her, at the same
time declaring "he would lean her to follow him."
She was taken to the hospital in an insensible
state, and the prisoner captured in the course of
tie night, when he said "it was a bad job, and he
must get out of it the best way he could."
Mr. J. H. Hooper, house surgeon at St. George's
Hospital, s tid the wowan was brought there on the
night of the 28te ult., suffering from three scalp
wounds, one on the forehead, one on the tip, and
the other ou the back of the head. The one on
the front had a piece of the bone chipped out, and
the bone was exposed in the wound on the back.
They were very serious wounds, and must have
been inflicted by three di-tinct blows. The unfor-
tunate woman was in danger for three weeks, and
was still an inmate of the hospital.
Prisoner, who made no defence, was committed
for trial at the Central Criminal Court.