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No. 433, Jtoy 10,1858. j THE LEADER. 657
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Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
appareL Several articles of furniture were also alleged to have been destroyed . The counsel for the defence stated he -would prove that there was nothing like that quantity of furniture in the house , and that Mrs . March was in the habit of going about without any stockings . A good deal of evidence was given on both sides , and finally the jury found a verdict for the company . No less than three cases of attempted suicide by women were brought before the Lord Mayor last Saturday . The first was that of a respectable-looking woman named Sarah Hurley , who attempted to drown herself by jumping into the Thames from the Custom House stairs . She was seen and rescued by one of the river policemen who happened to be on duty at the time near the spot , and was afterwards brought up at the Mansion House and remanded for a vreek , in order that she might have the benefit of the prison chaplain ' s advice . When again brought before the Lord Mayor , she said that she was intoxicated at the time , and , upon promising not to repeat the offence , she wa 3 discharged with a caution . — The second case was that of a woman named Sarah Bell , who attempted to commit suicide by leaping from the parapet of London-bridge . Two policemen , who saw her in the act of jumping , clutched hold of her clothes , fortunately in time to prevent her from falling into the river ; but it was not without great exertion that they succeeded in dragging her away from the spot . She afterwards attempted to strangle herself in the cell , at the police-station . One of the constables who rescued her stated to the Lord Mayor that she had often before been brought up at that court for the same offence , and likewise for window-breaking . The woman , who appeared very miserable , and who wept throughout the examination , had nothing to say in her defence , and was ordered to find bail for her future good behaviour , As the required sum was not forthcoming , she was committed to prison for a month . —The third instance was t . hat of a liasre-ard-lookina Irishwoman named Marcaret
Quale , who was taken into custody for breaking a square of plate glass at a public-house . Like the woman in the preceding case , she attempted to throttle herself in the cell at the station-house . She was ordered to pay 31 ., the value of tie broken glass , and , in default , was committed to two months' liard labour . Charles Steel , a carpenter living at Wandsworth , has been brought before the magistrate of that district , on a charge of unlawfully leaping out of a railway carriage while the train was still in . motion . He jumped from a second-class carriage just as the train arrived at the Wandswortk station , but missed his footing , and , before he could .. recover his balance , fell a second time , and only saved himself from , being crushed to death under the . ¦ wheels of the carriages by grasping the buffers with his hands until the train came to a halt . Steel acknowr ledged leaping from the train , but said that he did not know lie was doing wrong , a 3 he had seen many other people do the same thing . He was ordered to pay the sum of 9 s .. including costs . A fine of 40 s . might have
been imposed ; but the railway company , hearing that the man had a wife and family , did not press for an extreme conviction . A young man named William Alfred Brown , describing himself as a Doctor of Laws , has been fined 101 . by the Westminster magistrate for assaults in the Brouipton-road on a respectable tradesman and his wife , at twelve o ' clock at night . He had endeavoured to take liberties with hU wife , and , on being ; spoken to by the husband , he committed the assaults . Helen Broderick , a decent-looking young' woman , who has recently been in the service in a high family at the West End , was on Monday sent to the House of Correction for one month by the Southwark magistrate , for deserting her illegitimate infant , two cloys old , by leaving it in the Roman Catholic church , Parker ' s-row , Dockuis
head , one had been soaucea ay a murneu man , - carded by her relatives , and apparently driven to despair . An examination meeting took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday in the enso of Robert Leslie , merchant , of 19 , A . bchurcli-lane . The debts amounted to 105 , 000 ? . ; the assets to 30 , 000 / ., some of which are doubtful . An adjournment was ordered , to allow time for investigating the bankrupt ' s transactions with Messrs . Swaynoand Bovill , in whoso favour he incurred liabilities to the amount of 30 , 233 / . on bills of oxchange . A Mr . Burgess , a manufacturer of asphalt , has , by means of an action in the Court of Common Pleas , obtained 85 OZ . damages from the Great Western Railway Company on account of an accident which happened to him on their line . He was waiting at the Twyford station on the 27 th of last October , for a train to London . He naked whether there was time to get a glass of alo at the neighbouring hotel , find , being told that there was , he wont there . The train cum © up almost immediately , and Mr . Burgess ran towards it in the durk . The result was that he ran into a siding three feet deep , whicli -vitkH unfonccd and not properly lighted , and broku _ ¦ a a k ^ h B » V PSl ¦ ft A ueicnco
^ the small bono or ono ot im leg * , xno was that the plaintiff * had previously been shown a nnfo way by ono of the portors , and that ho liad negligently gono another way , but the jury , as already indicated , ^ voro not satisfied with this excuse . Signor Mattioli , an Italian singer , has brought an action in the Court of Queen ' s llcnch against another Italian , Signor Galliotti , to recover 3500 francs . Tho
defendant , who is a theatrical agent , wished , in , June , 1857 , to make an engagement Avith the plaintiff to sing at Rio de Janeiro . The latter pleaded a previous engagement at Turin ; upon which , Signor Galliotti said that , if Signor Mattioli would pay 3500 francs , he thought lie could cancel the contract . That sum was accordingly paid , and a bill was given for another sum of 3600 francs in payment of commission . Signor Mattioli received 28 , 000 francs , and went to Rio , where he sang on one night . He then received ( as he alleges ) a letter from Signor Galliotti , informing him that the contract for Turin could not be cancelled , and recommending him to go to that city . This lie did , and fulfilled his engagement there . The plaintiff afterwards returned to Paris , where Signor Galliotti made an arrangement between him and Mr . Lumley that he should sing in London . He received one month ' s salary in advance , and came to London , but did not sing here . Mr . Lumley informed him that he was no longer manager of Her Majesty ' s Theatre , and said he might go . This was the plaintiff ' s case : the defence was a set-off , and a contention that , according to the usage among theatrical agents , commission is never returned . It was suggested that the manager of the Rio theatre was dissatisfied with Signor Mattioli ' s performance , and that that was the reason of the plaintiffs leaving Rio . The defendant , on coming to London , was arrested at the instance of the plaintiff . The jury returned a verdict for Signor Galliotti . John J-. loyd Lenson , a person who has been in custody at Marlborough-street several times , was charged on Tuesday at that court under singular circumstances . He went to a lodging-house in Half Moon-street , Piccadilly , kept by a Mrs . King , and asked for apartments . Rooms were shown to him by the servant , but , as Mrs . King was out , aio definitive arrangement could be come to . However , he was allowed to wash his hands , and was furnished with refreshment . On Mrs . King coming
home , sh e requested the stranger to give her a reference ; to which he replied , " Ob , Sir Charles Forbes is my reference ; I am related to him . " Subsequently , upon being further questioned , he became very abusive and noisy , threw up the window , and called out loudly to the " passers-by . A mob collected ; and at last the intruder w . as given into custody . The ' magistrate' told him he must provide two sureties in 507 . each , and be himself bound in 100 Z ., to keep the peace for six . months . Thomas Clark , a seaman belonging to the American ship Southampton , lying in the East India Dock , was charged at the Thames police-office on Tuesday with stabbing James Trainer , another seaman staying at an infamous house in Elbow-lane , Shadwell . The assault took place in the open air , and was the result of a previous quarrel and a desire on the part of Clark to revenge himself for a beating received by him from Trainer . The latter , indeed , appears to be a profligate and brutal fellow . Clark was fined 31 ., or one month's imprisonment in default . : ¦
An action has been brought in the Court of Queen s Bench against the South-Eastern Railway Company by a Mrs . Search , to recover damages for a serious injury sustained by her in the fatal accident at Lewisham last summer . The jury found a verdict in her favour , and assessed , the damages at 1500 / . The case of the Queen v . the Mayor of Rochester was decided on Monday in the Court of Exchequer . The Court of Queen ' s Bench had issued a mandamus to the mayor , calling upon him to revise the burgess roll of the voters of the city , to which a return was made that the Mayor was not elected at the time the burgess roll of 185 C should , according to Act of Parliament , have been revised . The previous Mayor had refused to rovise the list on the ground of informality , nnd the result was that several hundred voters were virtually disfranchised . In ^¦ h ^ f _ _ .. . . _ J 1 _ _ ___ A _ _ * ... . ^ k _ ¦ - . _ . „ l . .-. 4 , * - ^ ^ b &« ^ % « k ¦ . % 1 ^ f c i \ «• 4 \ * k " % M I iuiu iiui i
^ * wovemuer , me reiuru wua luinuu u . s { v ^ -mv , uuu , after a lengthened argument , the Court of Queen ' s Bench gave judgment for the Crown , holding that tho new Mayor was bound td have revised tho list , and against that decision the present appeal was made . A majority of the Judges in the Exchequer Court were in favour of the judgment being affirmed ; which was accordingly done . The Lords Justices of Appeal have delivered their judgment in the caso of Denton v . Lord John Blanners . The appeal was from the decision of the Master of the Rolls that tho bequest in the will of Lucius Graham Kindorley , deceased , of his rcsiduury estate , was invalid , as fulling within the prohibition of the Mortmuin Act , 9 Geo . II ., c . 30 . The gift was "To Lord John Manners , ov the secretary for the time being of the Association for Buying Incorporate Tithes and Vesting tlicm in tho Church of England ; " nnd in the same clause of tho will the tuututor directed that , in case nt liia tleuth any part of his property should bo invested in real estate , or railway shares , or any other aecurity which would mnku a gift to a charitable use void and invalid , such property so invested should bo applied towards payment of his debts and other liabilities , and his pure personal
cstutc be applied to the . above-mentioned charitable purposes . Tlioir Lordships -were of opinion that upon the true construction of tho words of the gift , its intended purpose was for "buying up impropriatotithes and vesting them in the Church of England , " nnd that such a bequest was within tlio prohibition of tho Mortmain Act , nnd , consequently , invalid . Tho appeal wna theroforc dismissed .
¦ A case has occupied the Court of Queen ' s Bench . portions of two days , though the facts may be related in two minutes . Mr . Richards , the plaintiff , feeling a little heartburn one day after dinner , went to the shop of Mr . Cocking , a chemist and druggist in great Portland-street , and asked for a certain amount of fluid magnesia . Mr . Cocking handed him something in a glass ; but , the moment it touched his lips , he found he was swallowing some burning , caustic fluid . Taking up the bottle from which it had been poured , he saw a label on . it , with the words " Sir " William Burnett's Disinfecting ; Fluid . " Mr . Richards asked to be allowed to sit down in the private room ; but Mr . Cocking -would not let him , and he went back to an hotel where lie was staj'ing , and was very ill . A great deal of antagonistic evidence was received , and Mr . Cocking swore that all he gave was a solution of Epsom salts , or sulphate of magnesia ; but the jury found a verict for the plaintiff , and Mr . Cocking will have to pay 757 . damages . The affairs of one Jane Lawrence were before the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Tuesday . On a former occasion , the insolvent swore she was married to her late husband , Mr . Lawrence , at Slough , in May , 1850 . She was cautioned on the subject , but persisted in the statement , saying that she was " married on the sly , " and that her mother burnt the certificate , ns she was not married according to the Jewish ceremony . Hex mother ( Mrs . Nathan ) also stated that she believed she had been married . The case stood over on a question as to a bill of sale given to Mr . Furber , on which there was upwards of 200 / ., and a question was raised whether Mr . Furber was not entitled to his full claim . Since the hearing , inquiries bad been made respecting the marriage , and Mr . Reed , who appeared for the insolvent , now admitted that there had been no marriage , though the woman had lived with Mr . Lawrence . On this , i 3 Mr . Commissioner Murphy said that there was an end of the petition , as it had been iiled in a false name .
3 Mr . Furber was clearly entitled to his claim , and the insolvent would be indicted for perjury . Just before the rising of the Bankruptcy Court , on Tuesday , Mr . Shepheard , solicitor , of Moorgate-street , procured an adjudication in bankruptcy against Alfred Skeen and Archibald Freeman , of No . 15 Old Broadstreet , tiniber-brokers . Tbe petitioning creditor is Mr . Hnnry Bateman , of Sun-street , Bishopsgate , timbermerchant . The aggregate amount of debts due by the bankrupts is stated at between 40 , 000 / . and 50 , 000 £ ; the assets at about C 000 / . The last examination meeting in " the case of Reuben lElley , ' of "Wol . ve ' rfcon , Buckinghamshire , innkeeper , and of Wicke . , Northampton , innkeeper and butcher , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday . It has been discovered that the bankrupt clandestinely removed i \ van of furniture in the night to Church-road , Chelsea ; that he had disposed of a brougham , a cart , nnd some ' . horses at Aldridge ' s , and , after disposing of some valuable pictures , went off with his wife to Australia , and lias since ot lie uui not
nothing oeen nearu mm . as surrender , he was proclaimed an outlaw , and is therefore now subject to penal servitude or transportation . A suit has been instituted before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart by a Mr . Helling , who claimed to be entitled to box No . 124 of Her Majesty's Theatre , against Mr . Lunilcy , as the sub-lessee , and Lord Ward , as the principal lessee , of the house . Tho circumstances of the case are somewhat involved and technical , and do not contain any points of general interest . The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in favour of tho plaintiff , the defendants to pay the costs of the suit , and the decree to be without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to compensation , should it appear that he Itad lost tho benefit of the actual enjoyment of the box ; through the acts of the defendant * . itTnadivi . Wltitfinlil nml Cn .. hnnlcnr . q nt T-P . wes . lmvc
brought an action in the Court of Queen's Bench against the South-Eastern Railway Company , to recover compensation in damages for injuries sustained by them in consequence of the defendants having sent Ly the tole' graph on their railway a niesstigo to tbe cflbct that the Lewes Bunk had stopped payment . There were counts for slander and curclessnesa . The person who sent tlie message was not mentioned during tlie trial . Tho jury gave a verdict for the plaintiffs ; damages , 2000 / . In the Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday , Messrs . Davidson nnd Gordon , the colonial brokers , & c , of West Hani , whoso names were so much before tho public a few years ago , passed their last examination with tlio full concurrence of their assignees and of all the creditors . Two trials for breach of promise of murringe , on Wednesday , gave the usual amount of amusement to tho Judges , counsel , and listeners , in tlie Court of Qucea's Bench mid Common Pleas . In tlio llrdt-mcntioned court , tlie plaintiff was a Miss Ami Rend , und' tlio defendant was a corn- morchuut named W « 1 Ih . Tho peculinrity of tho caso was that , after a time , the fair Ann was courted by Mr . Wells ' s futhor « it tho aiiino time that . « a . 9 l' |> ... « k ¦ . iiil « iii > i 4 ^ v iinirn llu ¦
* tlio soiiH suit was progrosaiiiK- > = > u . v \ k **\* •« »«»« given tlic old gentleman no sort of encouragement ; but tlie unfortunuto circumstance of that individual intruding his own attentions on tho young lady scorns to have , led to tlie breaking off by tho son of hit * engagement—for which faitlilessiicss ; tlie jury have mulcted him in 000 / . —Iu tho other ca » e , the charmer is tlio daughter of an Innkeeper at Thorlcy , Essex , named Hugger ; whilo tlio swain , is
No. 433, Jtoy 10,1858. J The Leader. 657
No . 433 , Jtoy 10 , 1858 . j THE LEADER . 657
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10071858/page/9/
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