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

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Willi= Augustus Wilson, a young
gentleman, apparently about twenty years of age,
was brought before Mr. HALLS and Mr. ROBINSON
(a county Magistrate) charged with having ridden
over Henry Carlo, one of the toll-collectors of Water-
loo-bridge, whereby the life of that ind.vilual has
been placed in the most imminent danger.
Mr. Powell, secretary to the Waterloo•bridge
Company, stated that Henry Carlo, the porson in-
jured, was in the employment of the Complay as a
toll-collector. lie was unable to attend, from the
injuries he had received. The joint certificate of
Mr. Callaway, one of the surgeons of Guy's Hos-
pital, and Mr. Handy, surgeon, of Stamford-street,
Waterloo-bridge-road, had been obtained, and was
as follows :

" We have this day seen and examined Henry
Carlo, who labours under concussion of the brain,
and considerable bruises. He is better to-day, con-
sciousness having returned in some degree; but slit(
he must be considered in great dsngtr.

" T.—CALLAWA Y. Surgeon.

• Nov. 9. " JAMES HANDY, Su;geon."
Mr. Powell added, that Mr. Handy had seen
Carlo that morning, and had certified as follows
" I have seen Henry Carlo this day, November
10, and I consider him in much the same state as
yesterday." " JAs. HANDY."
Henry Tyrell, one of the toll-collectors at the
horse-gate at the Middlesex side of Waterloo-bridge,
deposed, that at about one o'clock on Saturday
morning last, a fruit-cart was coming across the
bridge from the Surrey side, when the prisoner and
another gentleman, both on horseback, came gallop-
ing up from the Strand. The gentleman who is not
in custody led the way, and the witness put up his
hand to receive the toll from him. The gentleman,
however, began to whip his horse, and rode across
the bridge in a gallop without paying the toll. The
prisoner, who was close after him, then came up,
and witness demanded fourpence from him, conceiv-
ing that he was in the company of the other gen-
tleman. The prisoner, however, whipped his
horse, and witness caught hold of him by the leg,
but he succeeded in extricating himself, and galloped
along the bridge after his companion. Witness pur-
sued them, and called out " Stop them ! stop
them!" The watchman of the bridge also cried
out stop them, and called to the toll-takers at the
Surrey side to shut the gates. Witness came tip to
the gate at the Surrey side of the bridge; he saw
Carlo lying on the ground in a state of insensibility,
and bleeding from the head. Witness at first feared

that he was dead, and, assisted by the watchmen,
conveyed him to the toll-house, and sent for a sur-
geon.
Mr. HALLS—Are you quite sure that the pri-
soner is one of the gentlemen whose behaviour you
have described ? Witness—l am quite sure of
your Worship.
James Rogers is emp'oyed as watchman of the
bridge. Hearing some person call out " stop," and
also the sound of horses galloping, he knew it was
what is called a " bilk," so he ran towards the
Surrey side, and called to those on duty there to
shut the gate. The gerelemen than passed him,
both in full gallop, and they continued whipping
their horses as they went by. Just at this moment
one of the gentlemen dropped his hat, which wit-
ness picked up, and now produced. When wit-
ness arrived at the gate, he found that there had
been no time to close it. Carlo was then lying ap-
parently lifeless on the ground, with his head rest-
ing on the curb-stone, and the blood flowing from a
cut in the back part of it.
Mr. Powell, if necessary, could bring evidence to
prove that the prisoner and the other gentleman
went to 'Footing after the occurrence by a circuitous
route, in order to avoid detection. It could also Ito
proved that the prisoner, on arriving at that part of
Waterloo-road which is near the Coburg theatre,
tied a handkerchief upon his head, having lost his hat.
Thomas Ford, the gaoler, from information com-
municated to him by Mr. Powell, proceeded to Up-
per Tooting early that morning, for the purpose of
executing a warrant against the prisoner and his
brother. Witness apprehended the prisoner in the
stable-yard of the Wheat Sheaf at u quarter before
nine o'clock. He told him that he had a warrant
against him, and prisoner said, " Oh, it is about
that affair at Waterloo-bridge, 1 suppose." Wit-
ness replied that it was, and the prisoner said he
was very sorry for it, and hoped the man was not
much hurt. Ile subsequently acknoa hedged that
he lost his hat in crossing the bridge.
Mr. Powell observed, that if it had not been fur

that circumstance it was more than probable that
the prisoner would never have been discovered.
The hat had the name of Mr. Norval, the hatter, of
Cornhill, inside of it, which was the only clue that
could lead to the detection of the owner. It proved,
however, upon applying to Mr. Norval, that he was
not the maker of the hat., but it had passed through
his hands a short time before, he having put a new
lining in it by direction of the prisoner. In order
to olrain the name of the owner, he (Mr. Powell)
represented that the hat had been found upon Wa-
terloo-lnidge, and was supposed to have belonged
to some person who had thrown himself into the
river. Mr. Norval caused his shopman to look over
his book containing the names of those gentlemea
whose hats he had lately newly lined. Amongst
the number was that of the prisoner, and the shop•
min immediately observed that it could not be Mr.
Wilson, as he had been at the shop that morning
arid purchased a new hat. This circumstance im-
mediately continced him (Mr. Powell) that the
prisoner was the owner t f the hat, and upon subse-
quent inquiry his suspicions turned out to be correct.
The pri.oner did not attempt to deny the charge,
but said that his brother and himself hal dined' hi
town together on Friday, and afterwards went to
the play. ot wishing to remain in town that
night, they determin 41 to return to Toothig, where
they resided, a nl mounting their hor,,e•, were pro,
c'-'vl6"g to Waterloo-bridle, when a. cab, 4vi!ig got

upon the pavement, occasioned some confusion, and
both horses being very high-spirited animals, ran off
in the direction of the bridge. He (the prisoner)
could not say whether or not his brother intended
to pass through the toll-gate without paying ; but
he (the prisoner) called to him more than once to
stop, an 2 he answered that he wished he could.
When passing through the Surrey gate, a man was
standing in ;he carriage-way, and the her-c which
big brother rode pushed up against him and knocked
him down ; but neither he (the prisoner) nor his
brother supposed that the accident had been attend-

ed with any serious consequences.
Mr. HALLS should remand the prisoner for the
present. The offence might possibly amount to
murder, and could not be less than manslaughter.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Mr. Thomas,- the superintendent of police, came
before Mr. MiNslltrut. in the course of the morning,
to complain that the parish-officers of Sr. Martin's-
in-the-Fields had declined to prosecute the woman,
Mary Lucan, whom his worship had held to bail
last week for having seduced two little girls, mere
children, into bar brothel, for the purpose of profiting
by their prostitution.
Mr. MINSIMLL asked upon what grounds the pa-
rish officers declined to act ?
Mr. Thomas replied, that they told him the evidence
was not sufficiently strong, and that at all events the
expense of a prosecution would he so great, they
were determined not to risk it. it Thomas added,
that it would be in vain for the police to exert them-
selves in endeavouring to abate the nuisances which
existed, unless they were properly supported. There
were at the present moment a great number of houses
of ern_i very worst character in White-hart-yard and
its vicinity, and unless the police were aided by the
parish authorities those houses in which robberies
and outrage were of nightly occurrence could not be
put down. Mr. Thomas added,• that in all those
houses female children of the most tender age were
harboured for the purpose of prostitution. Mr.
Thomas soon after retired, and Mr. Rawlings, clerk
and solicitor to the parish officers of St. Martin's-in-
the-fields, entered the Justice-room, when Mr. Mts-
SHULL took occasion to acquaint him with what Mr.
Thomas had just stated, and expressed his surprise
that the parish officers had refused to take any steps
in the prosecution of such an infamous woman us
Lucan had proved herself to be.
Mr. Rawling3 observed, that the evidence was not
suffcient.
Mr. MlNsituld. observed that the facts of the
present case were so strong, that he really must re-
quest of Mr. Rawlings to reconsider the subject
with a view to a prosecution.
Mr. Rawlings would attend to the Magistrate's
stotgestion, and consider how far the evidence
would warrant a-prosecution.