At the Hatton Garden Office, on Saturday, an Exciseman was
charged with assaulting a Policeman, who had prevented him from ill- treating a woman. The Exciseman positively denied the truth of the charge; but the Magistrates, Messrs. Rogers and Bennett, fined him ten shillings. The defendant then said that he bad a witness : but Mr. Rogers refused to hear him, as the case was decided ; whereupon the following discussion ensued.
Mr. Bennett—" If you have a witness, I certainly will hear him." Policeman Brodie was then called, and stated that it was Archer the Police- man and complainant who behaved with violence to the woman; which made the accused cry out shame, and threatened to report him."
Mr. Rogers-11Do you mean to swear that he did not collar Archer ?" I : all he did to him was in taking his number, and then he slightly touched his collar to seethe figures."
Archer—" You refused to lend me any assistance." Mr. Rogers—" I don't believe this fellow" (Brodie). To defendant—" You are fined 10s."
Mr. Bennett—" I cannot assent to that, now I have heard a Policeman con- tradict his brother officer." Mr. Rogers—" Then I shall order defendant to find hail. What Archer has said I give credit to ; he is an old and valuable officer." The defendant was locked up in default of bail.
[This is a fair specimen of Police Magistrates justice. 1VhyWas not one Policeman as good a witness as the other, whose feelings had been excited by resistance to his authority?] The limbs of the woman whose mutilated body was found in the Edgeware Road, were discovered on Thursday, enveloped in a coal- sack, in a field adjoining Coal Harbour Lane, Camberwell. Two men employed in cutting osiers made the discovery.
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