1846-12_ChargesAgainstGatekeeper-Report-p1_1831_034_006

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The Com^ee appointed to inquire into the
charges made by W^m Ward Esq against Mr Hyde the
Gate Keeper at the M^t Auburn, have had on hearing of the
parties & beg leave to report

That in relation to the first charge of the refusal to
admit Mr Wards carriage, Mr Ward seemed to be
aware that he was not entitled to enter the grounds
with his carriage, & complained, not so much of his ex
clusion, as of the manner in which it was done. It
apeared in evidence that Mr Ward represented the
hack as a carriage belonging to Mr. Henshaw, but [their?]
no ticket, & on being refused entrance, threatened that
he "would make trouble" for Mr Hyde, for present & past
offences. Mr Ward had no right to drive into the
gates, & was very properly excluded. It is not impro-
bable that Mr Hyde finding that an imposition
was aoaut to be practiced upon him, & supposing
that Mr Ward would order the carriage to be driven
in, shut the gate with, what appeared to Mr Ward,
an "offensive allacrity," but it does not appear
to your committee that it was done "in a manner
rude, cruel & uncalled for "or that any blame
attached to Mr Hyde on that occasion

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The Com^ee appointed to inquire into the
charges made by W^m Ward Esq against Mr Hyde the
Gate Keeper at the M^t Auburn, have had on hearing of the
parties & beg leave to report

That in relation to the first charge of the refusal to
admit Mr Wards carriage, Mr Ward seemed to be
aware that he was not entitled to enter the grounds
with his carriage, & complained, not so much of his ex
clusion, as of the manner in which it was done. It
apeared in evidence that Mr. Ward represented the
hack as a carriage belonging to Mr. Hensham, but [their?]
no ticket, & on being refused entrance, threatened that
he "would make trouble" for Mr Hyude, for present & past
offences. Mr Ward had no right to drive into the
gates, & was very properly excluded. It is not impro-
bable that Mr Hyde finding that an imposition
was aoaut to be practiced upon him, & supposing
that Mr Ward would order the carriage to be driven
in, shut the gate with, what appeared to Mr Ward,
an "offensive allacrity," but it does not appear
to your committee that it was done "in a manner
rude, cruel & uncalled for "or that any blame
attached to Mr Hyde on that occasion