The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

REWARDS FOR BRAVERY.  On the 17th inst., at a meeting Qf the Royal Humane Society, the society's silver medallion was unanimously voted to Lieutenant R. C. Hart, an officer in the Royal Engineers, for saving Louis Cousin a Frenchman, at Bologne. Mr. Baker, late of the 60th Regiment, was awarded the bronze medallion of the society for assisting in the rescue. On the recommendation of the Lords of the Admiralty the silver medallion was also presented to Mr. Berry Norris 'West, R.N., navigating sub-lieutenant of her Majesty's gunboat Bustard, for saving John Arthur Kitt, assistant-engineer, who attempted suicide at Taken, China, on a dark night in November last. The bronze medallion was given to 'William H. Rowe for saving ten persons, whose boat was upset by a steamship in ;Plymouth Sound on the 28th ultimo; to Captain 11. C. Whitlock for saving two men who were carried out while bathing at Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Lancashire, on the 10th ultimo; to Patrick Doyle, for staving William Walsh, who fell into 14 feet of water at Lavitt's Quay, Cork, on the 17th ult.; to Henry Laird Jones and William Buckley, for saving' four persons who were overcome and rendered insensible by foul air in an engine pumping shaft 10 feet deep, at: Liverpool, on the 15th ult., to Lieutenant C. Laprimandaye R.N., of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden, who, with the assistance of Edwin Ryder (who received the thanks of the society, inscribed on vellum), saved 'William Keast, who fell overboard in Malta harbour ; to William Dow, an able-seaman of her Majesty's ship Penelope, for saving William Way, who fell into ) eight fathoms of water at Harwich, on the 2nd inst., ; to George Midland, a boy 14 years of age, for saving Frank Snierdon, whose boat was capsized in the sea at Semaphore, South Australia, on the 24th of June last year; and to Oliver Davey, for saving Mr.' Nicholas Lobb, who was carried out to sea while bathing at Bude harbour in from 15 to 20 feet of ' water, on the 21st ult.  THE "TERROR OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD."  James Richardson, a shoe-black, of 16, Mason's-place, Central-street, St. Luke's, was charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Cooke with assaulting Mr. John Boobyer, fruiterer, of 183, Central-street, St. Luke's. The evilence showed that the defendant, who is known as "the terror of the neighbourhood," and the captain of an organized gang of boys and youths who annoy the tradesmen, and assault and rob old and infirm persons as they pass, was on the night of the 16th in Central-street along with a gang of low fellows. The complainant's man, who was at work outside his shop, complained of some of the gang assaulting and annoying him, and when Mr. Boobyer went to see what was the cause of the disturbance that was going on the defendant abused him and said ho would be one , with him before the night was out. Complainant had I no sooner turned than the defendant threw at him a rotten onion, loaded with dirt, which struck him in the face, and soiled his clothes. He gave the defendant into custody, who on the way to the police-station, struck the constable, and was otherwise very violent. The language that the defendant and his gam.- made use of when the tradesmen asked them to go away is described "as dreadful in the extreme." Complaints have been made at the police-station, and although Mr. Superintendent Fidge has sent men in uniform and plain clothes to check the evil they have been unable to do p, as they are known, and intimation is given of their approach. The defendant said he had no defence to make. Mr. Cooke said the character the defendant had received was a very bad one, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for six weeks. 

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