The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-30 00:00:00

DIARYLEBONE-OFFICE.

Mr. Chamberlain, a tradesmaninthe vicinity of
this office, applied to Mr. HosKINs, the Magistrate,
for his advice under the following circumstances :
the newspapers a report
Bloomfield on a charge of
swindling, he had discovered that the prisoner was
the person who had given him a bill of exchange
of He
the stated,
e examination
thatita t
iroen reading f,
for 10/. lls. for goods furnished. The bill was
drawn by John Toms, of No. 40, Chapel-street,
Grosvenor-square, 'and made payable there to
Bloomfield's acceptance. The complainant had in-
quired several tunes lit the address, but was in-,

Formed Mr. Toms was in France, and not expected
for a month, and that Bloomfield's address was net
known to them.

Mr. HOSKINS directed a summons to be issued
against Mr. Tome, and informed the complainant the
pr►soner stood remanded for Tuesday next, so as to
allow other persons to come forward.
Mr. Chamberlain could bring twenty other trades-
men who had been defrauded in a similar manner.

George and Rockingham, two captains of Pad-
dington canal barges, Atterbury, the driver of the
towing horses, Tibbs, Masters, and Golding, three
boatmen, were charged with a brutal outrage on
two of the new police men, on Saturday the 21st
instant.

John Collins, serjeant, No. I, division S., stated
that going his rounds with William Warlters, a
private, near the Paddington canal, on last Saturday
morning about nine o'clock, he observed the pri-
soner Atterbury cruelly beating one of the towing
horses; witness warned him to desist, but was
answered by the foulest abuse, and the prisoner con-
tinued beating the animal over the head and ears
with the butt end of his whip. Witness, with his
companion, waited till the barge had passed through
the tunnel, and then enquired of the captain (George),
to whom the horse belonged; the reply was in the
grossest language, and all the prisoners, excepting
Golding cried out " they are policemen ;"
George and some of the other prisoners jumped
ashore, and commenced a brutal attack upon witness
and his brother officer. George struck him a tre-
mendous blow on the face, and the point of a boat-
hook was thrust through Warlters's upper lip, and
finally they were thrown into the canal, when the
other Captain (Rockingham) struck at them with
a boat-hook, all the prisoners in horrid terms cheer-
ing each other, with exclamations of" Murder them
—drown them." Witness and Warlters now cried
out for mercy, but the prisoners passed onwards
with their barges, leaving witness and Warlters to
get out of the canal as they could. On recovering
themselves, they went to the lock-house, and learned
the names of the prisoners.
William Warlters confirmed the above statement.

Two gentlemen who reside adjacent to where
the transaction took place corroborated the evidence
of the policemen, and described the outrage as one
of the most desperate and brutal they had ever
seen. They were fearful of assisting, from the wel -
known violence of the boatmen.

The Magistrates, after consulting together, said
the offence was of a most aggravated description.
Upon George and Rockingham, the two captains,
they should inflict the highest penalty, as sending
them to prison would not make them better men.
They, more especially, ought to have controlled
tileir men instead of aiding them. The sentence
was, that they should pay a fine of 51. each, and
enter into bail for one year. Atterbury to pay 405.,
and 20s. for cruelty to
.the horse; and Masters and
Tibbs to pay 20s. each, and all to be imprisoned
till such fines were paid. Golding was discharged.