, 1867-08-13

lodged there OF the lost ham, which also appears
from the following advertisement sent at tile
time (3rd july from the Confer district with q
request TO have it inserted in the newspaper,
"Found on the road a danish ham, apply to
Kings hill police office" This highly impor-
tant case thus reduces itself to this, that a BAN
lost from 4 carriage is found on the road and
delivered by the fiuder at the nearest police
station, that from thence a notice is sent to the
police ia Christiansted to be published in the
paper, but which had become superauous as the
owner was already known.
The case adduced by the honorable 1st Mem
Der for Christiansted's country district is of q
more serious nature, although not ia the sense
IN which he has taken it. 1t was this, that ia
driving to a performance of circus riders his
carriage came in contact with a woman, carry
lug q pail or tub containing m~olasses, which she
had stolen on the wharf, and which when the
horses were close to her, she threw down 10 such
a manner as to frightcn them, with danger Of
their running away, that he got out Of the
carriage, ascertAined the person, and as no
police was to be seen, "he had to act police him.
self"
In consequence of this public statement,
which was reported to me, | ascertained, that
the person referred to was a woman Of the
name of Sophia Mackery, blind on one eye and
weak.sighted in the other. On account Of her
infirmities she gets a small monthly donation
from the poor fund. Her statement to me was
to the effect, that she had earlier in the evening
carried water for a lady in Hospitalstreet, that
going to her home in Compensated she went
out of her way to listen to the music a. the
Circus, that while she was standing near Tho
scale house on the Wharf a carriage camo upon
her aud knocked her down, by which her pail
fell from her and she herself got undcr the
horses, but without injury to herself, upon
which the gentleman who had been in tho
carriage and who was Mr.. Radcliffe got out and
when be had found out that she wasthe right person,
went up to her and first gave her several blows
in the face with his fist and then fetched his
whip and struck her with it.
The lady for whom the water was said ia
have been carried, declared that Sophia Macke.
~ is in the habit of bringing water to her, but
could say nothing with regard to the particular
time. in question.
A very respectable man, sehoolmaster ty
profession, informed me that he saw from his
window a motion among a part of the people
collected by the performance, and on hearing
the sound of q whip went to the spot, where he
was told by those present, that Mr.. RatciiGe's
carriage had knocked down a woman and that
he himself had struck her. He, the ~lo!otor,
enqulred for the woman, who then told him the
same as she did subsequently to me. 10 his
enquiry she answered him that the tub had
been empty he himself saw no marks either of
molasses or any other liquid and he was suro
from his own observation that the ground was
quite dry. The people present called out, that
it was an advantage taken to strike the poor
woman, after she had been knocked down by
the horses.
One Fanny Martin stated, that Sophia
Mackery was going to move from the place,
when a carriage was coming. She, Fanny.
called out to her to mind herself, but at the
same time the horses came upon her, when the
pail or tub fell from her head and caused the
horses to shy and rear. Sophia had risen from
the ground when Mr.. Radcliffe came out oe the
carriage and asked, who the woman was. She.
Fanny, pointed out Sophia to him, expecting
that he was going to say a few kind words to
her, but instead of that be struck her in the
face.
The town jnilor who happened to be present
says, that he was near the scalehouse when a
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