The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS.

KINGSTON, OCT. 31.
(Before Mr. E. Penhryn, Chs.irinan, and a Bench
of Magistrates.)
The court was occupied to-day in hearing applica-
tions for the renewal of music and dancing licenses.
Upon the application of Mr. Knapp a license for
music and dancing was granted to the Royal Gar-

dens, Vauxhall, but with the restrictions that there
should be no baloons and that the gardens should
be closed at 12 o'clock.

A similar license was granted to the Royal Surrey
Gardens, the same conditions being annexed to it.
Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the
license for music for the Flora Gardens, Wyndham-
road, Camberwell.
Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division
of Police, informed the court that although a license
had only been granted for music for these gardens,
dancing was constantly carried on there, and a regu-
lar dancing platform was erected.
Mr. Knapp said that the present proprietor of
the gardens, Mr. Hallwell, only came into posses-
sion of the premises in April, and Ira was not aware
that he was doing wrong, and, under these circum-
stanceY, he trusted the court would renew the
license, upon the understanding that there should
be no dancing in future.
Mr. Hallewell said that under the former proprie•
tors there had always been dancing, and he conse-
quently thought that he was justified is having the

same sort of amusem3nt, particularly as no com-
plaint or caution had been made by the police.
The Chairman, after consulting with his col-
leagues, said that the license would be renewed on
the present occasion ; but it would only be on the
understanding that no dancing should be permitted
in future.

Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the soner. The writing and figures on the two 501.
license for music for toe Surrey Canal Tavern, Old notes I believe to be that of she prisoner.
Kent road. Mr. W. Todd, cle k in the i.sue el, partment of the
Superintendent Lund informed the court that in Bank of England, proved that the one 100/. and tee
this ease also dancing had been constantly going on two 501. notes had been exchanged at the Beak for
in the house, although Mr. Gilham, the proprietor, gold.
was perfectly aware that he had only a license for Mr. R. Farley_..] live inNewcastle-street, Strand.
music. He had kept the house for a great many The endorsement
years, and "must have been perfectly well aware on the back of one of tee 50/. notes
'nine was not made by mee ner was
that ho was infringing the law. purporting to be
it written my authority. About a month since
The Chairman said the court considered that in thep by
prisoner entered my coffee-shop, and was sup-
this case there had been a wilful infringement of plied with a rump steak supper, which he had no
the license, and they would therefore not grant a money to pay for. 1 took Off his cap, and detained
renewal.
_a shilling and paid f r his re pad.
License refused.
Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of thecoffee-house-keeper, of 24,
it tillrri;
ghit_ec.rsoeTsnhst_ofriaoTrpi,soe
fi,
license for music and dancing fur the Manor House for three weeks, and left on the 6th ult, in my debt.
prisoner s eyed at my house
Tavern, adjoining the Royal Surrey Gardens, He passed by the name of Fred. Ru- land. (This
Wal worth. was a name in which several suits of clethes had
Mr. Lund also opposed the granting of this li- been obtained by the prisoner, the bills being made
cense, upon the ground that the place was resorted out "Fred. Rutland, Esq.") He also passed under
to by prostitutes and other disorderly persons ; the same name at Ryde, where he manage I to
that it was kept open to unreasonable hoary, there- victimise several hotel-keepers, at whose establish-
by annoying theinhabitants of the neighbourhood ; ments, however, he had previously spent large
also that the groundshad been used for the purpose sums of money, the produce of the forgery, when he
of holding an illegal fair, and that the proprietor, visit- d that fashionable wateriug-place for the pur-
Mr. Wale, had been fined for assaulting and ob- pose of counteracting the affects of the debeuchery
strutting the police. in which he had been revelling in the Heyinarket.
Mr. Knapp, in addressing the court in support of Hugeett, the detective offic-r, who apprehended
the application, said he was iestrueree that there the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Farringdon-street,
really were no grounds for the opposition to it produced a letter he found on him, signed " Fred.
made by the police, and that the real object of the Rutland."
course that Lad been taken was to benefit the The prisoner, who declined putting any questions
Surrey Gardens, which were close adjacent to the to the witnesses, an I said he should reserve his des
premises of Mr. Wale, and give them a monopoly. fence, was fully committed for trial.
With regard to the complaint respecting the fair, As the prisoner was in the act of leaving the dock,
all that was done was to have what was called a a tailor, whose name did not transpire, entered the
fancy fair—a proceeding which took place every box and said—" My Lord Mayor, prey what am I
day, and which was patronised by some of the to do for my money? I mad' the prisoner the
highest and most respectable portions of the corn- middy's uniform he now wears, and I have never
munity; and, although Mr. Wale was summoned been able to get the money for it, though it fits him
before a magistrate by the police fsr having this fair exactly."
upon his premises upon the suppoeitiou that it was The Lord Mayor—The clothes appear to fit him
illegal, the magistrate at once dismissed the corn- very well ; but I think you must wait till we have
plaint. With referenceto the assault and obstruction done with him at the Central. Criminal Court.
of the police in the execution of their duty, he was (Laughter.)
instructed that all that was done was that Mr. The applicant bowed, and retired.
Wale refused to allow tho inspector to go out of a John Briley and James Pritchett, who had been
private door, and detained them for two or three several times remanded upon the charge of felo
minutes ; and although, of course, he would not at- niously receiving a case of bristles, of the value of
tempt to dispute that the magistrate was justified in 801., which had been stolen from the premises of
deciding that this amounted to an obstruction of Messrs. Joseph and Turner, bristle merchants, in
the police in the execution of their duty, still he St. Mary-axe were brought' up for final examina-
submitted that it really was a very trifling matter, tion.
and that there were no grounds for refusing a re- Mr. Wontner appeared for the prosecution ; and
newel of the license. Mr. Lewis, jun., for the prisoners.
Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division, It will be remembered thee Briley is a green-
and an inspector named Worels, and a sergeant grocer in Kent-street, Southwark, and Pritchett,
named Coppen, were then summoned by the court, who lives opposite him, carries on a very ex-
and they stated that the gardens of the Manor - tensive business as a brushmaker. Briley received
horse Tavern were constantly resorted to by pros- the property of a man named Harding, and
titutes, and that they left at one or two. o'clock in took it to Kent-street, where it was purchased by
the morning, and that they wore frequently very Prichelt, at ale nit half its value. From informa-
noisy, and that the inhabitants had made repeated tier which reached the police, two offic.rs, accom-
complaints to the police upon the subject. panied by Mr. Cohen, the prosecutor's clerk,
-In answer to questions put by Mr. Knapp, the visited Pritchett's premises, and asked him whether
officers admitted that amusements of a similar ea- he had in his possession- the stolen bristles. He
ture.had been carried on at the Surrey Gardens, declared he had not. The offic-rs were not satisfied
but they said that the audience attending those with his denial, and upon making a search they
gardens always left at a much earlier hour. found Pricheet's foreman in the act of burying a
Mr. Wale, the proprietor of the tavern, was then tub in the earth at the rear of the wan ehouse. This
sworn, and he stated that he hadalways endeavoured they forthwith exhumed, and upon breaking in its
to conduct the establishment in a respectable man- head discovered about 351. worth of the bristles
ner, as he had laid out several thousand pounds upon which had been stolen from the prosecutor's
the premises, and it was his interest to do so. He premises,
had been offered money by the proprietors of the M. Auguste Cheville Lodde, a manufacturer of
Surrey Gardens for his premises, and because he bristles, living in Paris, was yesterday called. He
refused the offer they were endeavouring to destroy identified the samples produced by the officers as
the property, and he asserted that they were the part of a case of bristles which he had forwarded to
real parties who were opposing him on the present the prosecutors.
occasion. Charles Brown, constable, No. 654, corroborated
The Chairman, after consulting his colleagues, the evidence of Watkins, 660, with respect to the
said that the Court were of opinion that the police discovery of the tub in the hole.
were only doing their duty in giving information toi This being the whole of the evidence.
the magistrates in reference to these matters, and they Mr. Goodman proceeded to read the lengthy
were of opinion that Mr. Wale had not quite con- depositions of the witnesses, and the prisoners, who
ducted his establishment in the manner he ought to said they should reserve their defence, were fully
have done. They would not, however, go to the committed for trial to the Central Criminal Court.
t xtent of depriving him of his license altogether, I
Mary Cane, a
woman who bore the appearance
but would restrict him to having music only. of having had her legs amputated at the hip joint,
A license for music only was accordingly granted. tnd who carried a child in her arms, wee brought