The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-20 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On Saturday, Mr. Wm. Austin, the landlord of the
White Bear public-house, in Little Newport-street,
Golden-square, was summoned for refusing to receive
and afford accommodation to Win. Galahar (a recruit in
the 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards), duly billited
up!in him.

William Bale, corporal in the 2cl Dragoon Guards,
stated, that about seven o'clock in the evening of Wed-
nesday last he went to the defendant's house with the
recruit, and presented a billet for him for one night.
lle handed it to the defendant over the counter, who
having read it, threw it down, and said he would have
nothing to do with it. On being remonstrated with, he
said he had had a billet about two months ago, and he'd
be d—d if he would have another, and witness might go
and do his best and worst. The billet was, in conse-
quence, returned to the inspector of police from whom
it had been obtained, and another procured for a differ-
ent house.

Sergeant E. Fagden, of the 3rd, or Prince of Wales's
Dragoon Guards, corroborated the foregoing statements.
The defendant said this was a most gross conspiracy
against him to extort money. The facts of the case
were as follows :—The complainant and his witress,
with three or four recruits, entered his house, all of
them in a very intoxicated state, and complainant, pro-
ducing a paper, said, " Here, landlord, give me change
for a 5/. Bank of England note, all in silver mind; let's
have none of your light gold." He declined doing so,
;:nd the whole party directly left the house without a
word being uttered about a billet, or indeed was a syllable
mpoken but what he had mentioned.

Mr. HARDWICK—Can you expect me, for one moment,
to entertain a defence so utterly at variance with all
probability?—it is perfect nonsense. You might as well
tell mo that a party came into your house to billet a
soldier, and that all they did was to stand upon their
heads.

The defendant said that a respectable tradesman, a
customer of his, was standing at the bar at the time,
and would, if the case was allowed to stand over, come
forward and prove what he had stated to be correct. He
would have attended 'then, but he was obliged to go a
short distance out of town on particular business.
Mr. HARDWICK—I certainly shall not postpone the
case on any such preposterous statements.
Defendant—The informer and his witness were beastly
drunk.

The sergeant and corporal both stated that they were
perfectly sober.
Police-sergeant, No. 8 of the C division stated that
the sergeant and corporal applied to him for another
billet a few minutes after they had been to the defend-
ant's house, and that they were then perfectly sober.
Mr. HARDWICK (to the defendant)—You are making
your own case worse by throwing out these unfounded
imputations ; and, taking the whole of your conduct
into consideration, I feel it to be my duty to inflict the
highest penalty the law allows—namely, 51.
The defendant said he was constrained to abide the
Magistrate's decision, however unjust it might be.
After some further consideration, Mr. Hardwick mi-
tigated the fine to 3/„ and the defendant not having the
amount about him was detained until he procured it.
The complaining party in these cases is entitled to one
moiety of the fine.