STONE THROWING.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2630, 22 July 1871, Page 2

STONE THROWING.

To the E<Utor. S r,— l see by your local that the police have promised for tho future to put a stop to stoue throwing by boys in tho streets. It is high time some of cur functionaries took the matter in baud, for it has become an intolerable nuisance. The police of late have shown a cool indifference to bring these ciues of wanton mischief perpetrated by incorrigible boys and lads to justice, I my

self have to pay 13s for a pane of glass broken by a young scapegrace Had they done as I wished them, 1-might have got satiafacti n for the loss sustained but all the advice I got was " you must punish the Boy yourself.” Are we to bo heavily taxed to support the police in their efficiency, and then, when our property is destroyed, to b' told with cool indifierence, you must see into the matter yourself. Ought not a man’s property to lie protected as much from being destroyed wantonly as in the case of it: being stolen. Who are the real custodiancf property but the police. Several cases have come under my notice of late of deter mined wilful annoyance and destruction by boys in certain localities where the Corporation have ignored the comfort of ratepayers in dark corners where t here is no lamp. Respectable people state it is impossible to endure it. What with throwing lumps of mud at the windows, filling tin cans full of stinking abominable wates slanting ways at the doors so that when the door is opened they get the contents, stench and all, cast into their houses. Some few weekago, in Great King street, just after th opening of the Christians’ Meting House the boys and lads regularly stormed the entrance with mud and stones one Thursday night, and nearly broke the lamp with then filthy missiles. JSot only that, but they disfigure the paint with abominable writing. Several can bear testimony that the stonethrowing on the roof was likely to prove_ bo dangerous, that on one occasion 1 went but and told them to go away from the doors. They answered that they would not unless I fetched a policeman. 1 walked up and down George street, but could riot succeed in finding one. Unless these evils are put down with a strong hand, they will result in something very serious happening before long. I am, &c., Ixdioxaxt Sufferer,