The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-11
BERGH's ENGLIsHMAN.

His Peculiar Views ON Evidence-How He
Went To Cock Fight, and How He Was
Sud.
AL about haIf-past ten O'Clock yesterday morning
Essex Market Court Room usual full Of men
anu women with grievances" Suddenly the door
opened and In salked three extraordinary looking
beings. OF type seldom encountered IN that vicinity
Ihey entered In Indian file. these three like the
three na0usquetaifes OF Dumas They seemed,
IRON their appearance, to deem themselves men OF
might ana power In the land. The assembled null
tnde looked bewildered, the officers stood aghast,
ana Sergeant Thompson remarked to Sergeant
Marcus, 'Wnat, In the name Of goodness 10 up
nOw?n
Sergeant Marcus answered, az don't know they
are the queerest looking ANIMALS | ever saw.
guess they are from mold Hingland you know,
Notwithstanding the gaze OF the multitude the
aforesaid three marched boldly forward The first
one was blonde, busnlng, blue-eyed blonoe with
long, dropping light mustache, HAIR parted in the
centre ana c0mbed straight down. He e.
bowed his way through the crowd until he
got Immediately opposite the presiding magistrate,
Justice Shandey. He held III one hand what IS
sometimes designated as 'Patrcks Day nat. - OF
antquated shape aud brushed IL nervousy with the
other. The Judge looked M at the strange appari-
ton and the appariuon bowed; IN fact he made
prousion OF bows quiet sml,e stole over the
features OF HIS Honor as ne made the usual inquiry
"Well, Sir, what can 40 Tor your
tive OF the good Mr.. Bergn, VINO. believe, Your
Muship MS haware, hts the President OF the Society
for the prevention OF cruelty 10 mammals.
Judge-Yes, SIR L happen TO be aware OF II.
SECoND APPARITIoN--l bear letter from Mr.
Emery Bcrgh masking for the harresJ Of ha Mr.. Jef
Carpenter, proprietor OF the COCK pit nat No. De-
lancey street.
The apparition then drew from the capacious fold
OF his strapped London overcoat an envelope,
| inside OF which was the episte referred TO, and
| which read as follows
To Justice sHASpLEy;
at @ SO soen place e. ssss%s
known to me ! communicated the fact to Police Head
the Of the
% PARTIES Of s ~n Ss s witch G soZs
OF the ARRAY in the blood and feathers everywhere
there and the whom would ask for against
that there IS special law to reach him ana hope you viii
Srlnns Inn Justice Insss these villains
gems must have the Of the mag;trsSy M ao
rested. Respectfully, ~ ' HENRY BERGH.
| The Judge perused the missive the same genial
ir as Mr.. Bergn remarks in his letter. to assert the
law, and mean to do So. What evidence have you
| to offer tnat the law has been volateds"
| STRANGE ArPARnIoN--Hi Went nnto that place
Yesterday. ha most vie, 'vle. III ana two hotners
| were fourteen hother men, who halso drank
beer and 'card a man hask when the cock hght
was coming non. lad haready lad information
Of the COCK fight, so hi went harouna to Captain
| Davis and hi masked him for force OF men. We
| went Jnere, Dub Wncn We got Oack nj COu tue pro-
pretor that HI wanted to go hup to the cock
| fight. He Unanswered there was none | then
hasked for the key OF the room and he said he did
not ave IT. that 1t belonged to Mr.. abbott, OF New
Jersey. went up and looked through the panel.
hand saw blood and feathers and seats ranged
haround the room, and hail the 'phernalia OF COCK
fight repeat IL Jour wushuD, all the pnernalla OF
cockdght.
STRANGE APPARITIoN-That IS hall the hevidence.
| know 1t is only clreumstantial; but, to my mind,
JUDGE-And do you come here to get man ar.
rested on such evidence as that2
STRANGE APpARlTloN-I know, know. Your
Worship IL Is clrcumstantal, you know, but now
that HI would be willing to swear there was cocx
fight there that haternoon.
JCDGE- We'll, you are O pretty good qswearer.
would not ike to have you swear against me. Why
you en- go over to the market there and nnd
'phernalia, as you term it, and you might as we'll
swear there was cock fight there. VIM al due
Difference Mr.. Berln and his society, must de-
! clue to issue warrant on such testimony.
The tnree mousquetares then reformed In line
and departed not so majeSticay as they ha'l come,
but with aowncast eyes, IN sorrow and IN sadness.
The reporter met The representative oi MT. Bergh
| ut the door,. lie bowed and the latter bowed.
| KEPORTER-Mlght have the nonor OF your name,
| SIR
BERGHs REPRESENTATIVE (empha,icallv, mo,
SIR you shall not sir II, ham Mr. Bergh's super
intendent Sir, ana that Is NAH SUFFICIENT ior you tt
| know, sir.
Shortly afterwards visit was paid TO the scene
OF fridays exploits. The reporter found there
/ NO. Delaney slreet-a small Darroum containing
! four i've tables, at which parties were seated
drlnking lie told the proprietor that he wished tC
see the place which haa been 80 graphically des
| cribed by Mr. Beigh's agent
Mr.. Carpen'er showed INN UP stairs to q room on
| the second story. 1t was an ordinary apartment
nor very large, battered walls and dirty floor look
Ing as II 1t had not been tenanted for some time
Mr.. Carpenter stated that the room had been hired
py one Mr. Abbott, OF New Jersey, for what purposes
he knew not that Mr. Bergns agents mad come there
/ In u summary and mperious way ana conducted
| themselves highly Cnensivc manner, even
going so far as TO hurst In the panels o, the door
Wnen unable 10 obtain the kew. lie stated that he
knew OF no law warrantln2 their action, and vet no
! method OF cnecKng their insolelce. And so
ended the great cooking main IN Delaney street
| and the raid oil Mr. berShs doughty Supern.
tendeut.