The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-28 00:00:00

His friend was also assaulted, but they both admitted
they were not sober at the time.
The prisoners denied the charge, and said they were
assaulted in the first instance, and as some doubts were
entertained by the magistrate that the complainants were
mistaken in the identity of the parties, he ordered them
to be detained until inveiries were made.
QUEEN-4'QUARE.

Thursday Michael Hughes, -W. Davis, G. Gilson, H.
lane, 11. Harding, T. Doling, tV. Meredith, J. Branch,
M. Cassidy, J. 'Wilson, and W. Addinay, 11 sturdy
young paupers, two or three of whom were under 16
years of ago, were charged with creating a serious riot,
and doing considerable damage, in the 'workhouse of St.
Luke, Chelsea, and violently assaulting Mr. Sutton, the
master.
Mr. Ry er, the chairman, and several others of the
Board of Guardians of the pariah were present, attended
by their clerk and solicitor, Mr. Lowland, who stated
that the conduct of the defendants had been of such a
character that he had received directions from the board
to pr.,seeute with the utmost rigour of the law.
Mr. Sutton, whose eyes were blackened and face much
discoloured and swollen, stated, that defendants after
being regaled on Christmas-day with roast beef and
plum-pudding became, with many others, so disorcerly
in the course of the afternoon that he found it necessary
to visit and request them to preserve more order, which
he did in the kindest way. At 8 o'clock in the evening,
the usual time at which the inmates of the house retire
to rest, he received a message, stating that defendants
requested leave to remain up another hour, which he
refused to give them ; and, in about a quarter of
an hour afterwards, he was informed that
they refused in the most positive terms to go
to bed. He then went into the day-room, where
he found defendants and others, and recommended
them to go to bed quietly ; observing, that if they did
not obey in the course of five minutes, he should feel it
his duty to send for the police and give them into cus •
tody, upon which they left the room and he followed
them. On arriving in the yard, Watson, a pau-
per, who had since absconded, made a dead stop, and
the others following his example, refused to move, when
finding it necessary to take some decided step, he or-
dered the watchman to lock Watson up. Defendant
Davis immediately rushed at witness and struck him a
violent blow in the face, observing, " I'll kill the
Witness laid hold of him by the collar and dragged him
into his dwelling-house, but Davis called for assistance,
and the other defendants surrounded the master, knocked
him down, and beat him in the most savage manner.
The blows fell so thick thati he was unable to say how
many struck him, but he recognised Hughes as being
most active in the attack upon him. Defendants at-
tempted to force him down some cellar steps, but he
succeeded, with assistance, in getting away from them,
and went for the police. On his return, he found that
the defendants had broken 97 squares of glass and three
sashes in 'the tailors' shop and their sleeping-room, and
had knocked out the panels of a door in their endeavours
to get into the old man's room Mr. Sutton in conclu-
sion said, that the whole of the defendants were actively
engaged in the riot, and that he had been considerably
injured by the attack made upon him.
Joseph Lamb, a watchman in the house, confirmed a
portion of the master's statement, and added that he
was preceding defendants with a lantern, to show them
into their bedroom, when Davis came np, and observing
" Here goes for the - lantern," kicked it oat of his
hand, and broke it into pieces. Defendants made a
desperate attempt to force their way into the women's
room, and behaved altogether in the most outrageous
and violent manner.
Another watchman, in giving a corresponding account
of the riot, expressed his opinion that, but for timely aid,
Mr. Sutton would have been torn to pieces.
Defendants denied having created a riot, struck the
master, or done anything amiss. Davis and Hughes
were loudest in their protestations of innocence, and one
of the other (Intendants said he had been drinking a
drop too much, and did not remember what occurred.
A lad, about 17 years of age, was called by one of the
party, to prove that he was in the sleeping-room at the
time of the riot, but he admitted, in answer to a question
from the master, that his father, who was upwards of
90 years of age, and who was maintained in the work-
house, had given him his pint of beer allowed on Christ-
mas-day by the guardians, which, with his (the boy's)
own pint, made him so drunk that he went to bed at four
o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. Ryder observed, that ho wished to offer an obser-
vationlon the statement made by one of the defendants,
" that he was drunk, and did not know what had oc-
curred." It was the desire of the board of guardians, in
common, he believed, with the ratepayers of the parish,
that the inmates of the house should be treated with
kindness and liberality, but at the same time it was their
earnest desire that they should not indulge in any ex-
cess. He had learned from the boy that he obtained the
drink by buying that belonging to other paupers. He
(Mr, Ryder) much regretted that the endeavours of tie
authorities to make them comfortable should be met with
so bad a return.

Mr. BURRELL observed that he should send the case

to the sessions, when other evidence which Mr. Lowland
had been desirous of calling, but which was unnecessary
in the present stage of the proceedings, could be pro-
duced.

Defendants, who of course were not provided with
bail to answer for their appearance, were sent to prison

- WORSHIP-STREET.
Thursday Henry Willis, the driver of one of Wilson's
Holloway omnibuses, named the Favourite, was charged
before Mr. Dinghain with having, by furious driving,
caused serious injuries to I little girl ten years of age,
the daughter of a tradesman narna•l Powell, residing in
Gee-street, Goswell-road.

It appeared from the evidence of two witnesses, mimed
M'Allum and Thomas, that between eleven and twelve
o'clock on the preceding day their attention was at•
tracted by the rapid gamer of two omnibuses, which
were proceeding down the City-rogd at a most dan-
gerous rate, in the direction of Finsbury-square. At the
entrance of the square, the driver of one of the omni-
buses, No, 4,-241, belonging to the Paddington Convey.
ance Company, and which was on the wrong side of the
road, for the w perpose of ain I gentleman's chaise
immediately in front of if, urged hie horses on to the
footway, where the injured child and her brother were
crossing, and before there was a possibility of their saving
thensselree, both the children were hurled to the ground
and trodden under foot by the Conveyance Company's,
horses. As the wheels of the orembes were on the
point of passing over them, however, arm of the wit
nessjis rushed forward zed fortunately succeeded in
snatching them from their perilous position, and carried
them to the residers ee of Dr, Jeaffreson, a surgeon in the
square. At the moment of the oggereenee the vehicles
(lame into such violent collision that two of the spokes,
they said, were smashed out of the wheel of the pri-
soner's omnibus ; but, notwithstanding the serious mis-
chief they had produced, both drivers continued their
career in the same recklese PlNnner, and were soon out
of sight.
Sergeant Cuthbert, 17 G, stated that at 12 o'clock fie
was summoned to the house of Dr. Jeaffreson, where he
found the two children under the care of that gentleman
and Dr. Leeson, the divisional surgeon ; from the latter
of whom he received directions to convey there in a cab
to the residence of their parents. One of the children
was fortunately injured to only a trifling extent, but the
other—the little girl—leas ascertained to have received
several very serious contusions on the lower part of her
person, and both the surgeons were at first apprehensive
lest concussion of the brain should supervene, and fatal
results ensue, The sergeant added, that on leaving Dr.
Jeaffreson's one of the witnesses pointed out the prisoner,
whom was on his return journey to Holloway, as one of
the parties implicated in the transaction, and he imme-
diately took him into custody. He had previously dis-
patched a constable named Bailey to the Bank to appre-
hend the other ran, but MI the officer's arrival there he
ascertained that the driver had absconded to avoid the
consequences of his misconduct ; and their subsequent
efforts to capture him had been ineffectual.
A medical certificate Was put in, describing the nature
of the injuries the child had sustained ; and
The prisoner on being called upon for his defence, im-
puted the whole blame of the transaction to the other
driver, who he said bad lashed his horses into a gallop,
and driven with nigh violence against his vehicle as to
render his (the prisoner's) horses when), uncontrollable.
Mr. I.llxonAve said it was manifest from the evidence
of the witnesses that the prisoner was much less culpable
than the other man who had escaped, and he should,
therefore, allow him to put in bail for his appearance on
that day week, by which time it was probable the other
driver would.be in custody.