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~. r,►! ." ~ r • -- 111 that they pa:chased some other trilling articles at two other haberdashers' shops in the immediate • -- - neighbourhood of Mr. /linking's .shop, at each of COURT OF CHANCERY, JANUARY 15. which' they passed a forged £1 note. In all these INJUNCTION. transactions Wicks acted as the principal. The Jury DAVID LATOUCHR, RNLI. V. THE REV. JOHN ANtIIRDIE. Mr. HART stated, that this was a motion for an retired fora short time, and then returned a verdict, finding Sarah Wicks—Guilty, and Ann Pitcher— injunction to restrain the Reverend defendant from Not Guilty. circulating and negotiating certain bills of exchange, ' Henry Wicks and William Paley, were also con re the amount of £.5000. accepted by the plaintiff. The circumstances of the case are , th at the plaintiff victed of uttering forged n otes. John Pool was capitally convicted for breaking being a very young man, only twenty-three years or and entering the dwelling-house of William Butteriss, age, thought he was in want of the sum of Ls' "- - -, ' and stealing two shirts, three coats, acc. and having some knowledge of the Reverend de- Mir Lamer was capitally convicted for assaulting fendant, he mentioned the circumstance to him, Jane Cox, on the King's highway., and taking from when he offered to aegociate bills to that amount for her person divers shirts, shifts, Ice. value £lO, and the plaintiff, on his receiving £5OO as a reward for upwards. his trouble. The plaintiff accordingly, on the 9th of William Frith was indicted for breaking and enter- Deoember last, accepted four bills for £lOOO each, ing the dwelling-house of F. Gregg, Esq. and stealing and two for 4500,, in favour of the Reverend de- therein Bank notes, gold coin, plate, Bcc. to the fendant. The transaction came to the knowledge of amount of £7OO and upwards, partly the property the plaintiff's mother, the Right Honourable Lady of the Skinners' Company, to which Mr. Gregg is Cecilia Latouche, and she applied to the Reverend clerk, and the rest belonging to Mr. Gregg himself.' defendant to deliver up the bills, which he refused.F Fr i th ha d b een servant to Mr. Gregg for some years, and threatened to negotiate the m. This was an ex- and he afterwards procured him a situation in the, parte application, and it was grounded on the youth Custom-house. After this robbery was discovered,' and inexperience of the plaintiff, and that it was im- suspicion fell on Frith, who used occasionally to visit , possible he could have been aware of the conse- Mr. Gregg's servants. In consequence of this sus quences attending his accepting the bills. If he really picion, his lodgings, in the Hackney-road, were was in want of £5OOO, it was well known that it searched, and several guineas, half-guineas, seven would be furnished to him -by his relations, who shilling pieces, and a scent-box, part of the property were persons of the first rank and respectability in stolen, were found in them. After Frith had been the country. lie, therefore, had no doubt but his fully committed for trial, he made, in Coldbatb- Lordship would grant the Injunction ; it could not fields Prison, an ample confession, that he had been be injurious to the Reverend defendant, as, if he had excited to rob his old master by a fellow named any good ground, he could move to have it dissolved. Kemp, who lived in the Kent-mad; that he long The Lorin CjiANCV.LOR—Take your motion, and resisted, but at last consented; that he got over the, let the order of the Court be forthwith served on the area rails, and into the house, where he concealed defendant. —Injunction granted. himself until the servants went to bed; that then he' RICHARDaON AND ANOTHER v. CLARKE. opened the door, and let his companion in; and that This was a motion on an ex-parte statement, .pray- after they had plundered the house of all they could, ing the Court to grant an Injunction to restrain the the property was taken to Kemp's lodgings, from defendant horn receiving or paying any money on whence he (Frith) brought only eight or ten guineas account of the partnership .concerns. The plaintiffs away. The other was in consequence taken into ens ure eminent dyers, and the defendant applied to todr, and his lodgings searched ; but nothing ap them to be adniitted a partner, pretending that he pearing, or being found to eliminate him, he was, had a famous chemical secret, which would mate- discharged. The Jury, without hesitation, found, rially improve their business, provided they would Frith Guilty, capitally; and he was told not to de-; advance some money. They did sa, hut soon after ludo himself with any hope of pardon. found that his discovery was a mere pretence, and MIDDDESEX SESSIONS. that they had been deceived. They therefore had no Saturday, Abraham Von Bremen, Who has, during alternative but to apply to the Court for protection, the last ten days, occupied so much of the attention to prevent the defendant drawing bills on them, and of the Police-Officers, in tracing the many frauds hel receiving accounts to a large amount. has practiced throughout the Metropolis by mea ns of ; The LORD CHANCELLOR—I hope this will tea c h a variety of specious artifices, was put to the bar , a n d ' the plain.iffs and others " nimirou ne crede co l or s, . arraigned upon three indictments, for defrauding, and they may therefore take the Injunction.—Mu- by false checks on Bankers, a number of tradesmen Lion granted. at the west end of the town, and among them Mr. COURT OF XING'S BENCH, JANUARY 15. Carbonnier, the Messrs. Rivingtons, Mr. Houlditch, Sufis AND OTUIERS v. CRUDE:4. together with many others, from whom he had oh This was an acti:nr upon a bill of exchange for rained property :to a considerable amount, on the 3:1275, accepted in the names of Ly burn and Thomp- faith of his credit at Bankers', where he had Inge son, with uhorn the defendant was a secret parner nuity enough to persuade them he had credit. at the time the bill was drawn. This trial occupied hut a short ume, as all the It a,. peared in evidence, that in the year 1810, ar. . facts were immediately proved against him. tides of partnership s' ere executed between Lyburn, The C o urt Aj.,. ',rd Mr. Von Bremen, that he was Thompson, ;tad the defendant, to continue during too clever a ma.. ior a permane resi.itnce in this the ter in of ten years, for the purpose of carrying on country. He was therefore ordered to take up his the business of marine provision-merchants, at residence, for the next seven years of nis lire, in 80 , Gravesend. The first two names only were publicly (any-bay. The prisoner, who is a dashing-looking announced as composing the firm. Two offices were fellow, received his sentence with perfect composure ' opened fur carrying on the business; one at Graves- Job Durham, and Jams Gladman, were indicted, end, where Thompson conducted the business con- under the 57th of the King, for as-aulting some; netted more immediately with shipping ; and the gamekeepers in Bushy Park, on the 7th of December. l other in London, where Lyburn managed the me- It appeared that the prisoners, with two others, were, tropolitan department. 'the bill of exchange in discovered in the Park, in the middle of the night in .qix:fAion was drawn by the plaintiffs upon the firm, question, by the keepers, under strong suspicious and accepted by Lyburn in London, as appeared on circumstances, and, on the keepers attempting to the face of the paper, fur provisions supplied to the take them into custody, they resisted, and beat the firm. The bill was afterwards dishonoured, and Ly- keepers seirrely with sticks or bludgeons. They were barn and Thompson became bankrupts. After the .both found guilty, and the Court sentenced Durham death of the latter-mentioned person, it was disco- to transportation for seven years, and Gladman to vered. by reference to the partnership deed, that the six months' imprisonment. defendant was a secret partner with Lyburn and Thompson, and the present action was brought against him upon his alleged liability. The defence set up was, that the bill was drawn by the plaintiffs, and, accepted by Lyburn in the name of the firm, and not for any partnership ac count, but for consideration moving between him and the plaintiffs individually, and that the statement on the face of the bill, that it was drawn for provi sions supplied by the plaintiffs to the house of which the defendant was a partner, was false, for that no such provisions had ever been supplied. To sustain this defence, negative evidence was produced, for the purpose of shel.ving, first, that the house at Gravesend had never been supplied with provisions by the plaintiff; and, second, that Lyburn had ad mitted, in different conversations had with him, that the bill was accepted by him, Air different sums of money advanced by the plaintiffs for his individual purposes, and not in any way connected with the partnership transactions. The plaintiffs Counsel attempted, by evidence in reply, to spew that the consideration of the Bill was given for and on account of the partnership transac, tions, in which the defendant was interested ; but the evidence not turning out so satisfactory as expected, Mr. SCARLETT, in consequence of the opinion ex 4 pressed by the Chief Justice upon the transaction as it now appeared in proof, consented to be non-suited. - OLD HAI LILY SIMMONS. Saturday, W. Saul was indicted for uttering. a forged £1 note, with intent to defraud G. Best. The prosecutor was a cheesemonger, in Goodge-street, Tottenham Court-road. The prisoner came late on a Saturday evening, and bought a piece of pork at the prosecutor's shop, and tendered a£l note. The prosecutor having taken a similar note the same day, which turned out to be bad, and having been a great sufferer by forged notes, he suspected this one also, and said it was bad, and that he would detain him. The prisoner immediately darted out of the shop, threw away an umbrella, and took off his great coat to lighten his flight, but he was secured and brought .back. An Inspector of Bank-notes proved the note td be forged.—Guilty. • . Sarah Wicks, and Ann Pitcher, were i nd icted for uttering a £1 forged note, with an intent to defraud Haskins. The prosecutor is a linen-draper, in High-stilet. Shad well, and the prisoners purchased some Isish linen at his shop, in payment fur which they tendered a £1 note, and gave a false name and address. It was sent out to be changed, when it was discovered so be forged.' It was also proved, Tta Pr VENCE. BOW-STREET.—Friday evening, a Gentleman ap peared before RICMA RD al RNI 2, Esq. and stated, that he attended in consequence of the case that wa, before him last Tuesday evening, respecting Mr. Lee,. schoolmaster, of King-street, Covent Garden, and Parish Clerk of that Parish, who had hurried a Lady, the wife of a Gentleman belonzing to the Treasury, from the front of his house, wliere she was waiting for her husband, to Covent-Garden watch-house. Mr. Lee had agreed to make an apology to the Lady, and to her husband.—ln a short time afterwards, all the parties, with a number of their friends, entered, when Mr. Lee, f y way of apology, said, that what he had done, in having the Lady taken to the watch house, arose through mistake, he believing, at the time, that she was a very different person from what aftewards appeared, and that he was sorry for what had occurred.—The par ties then left the Office, appa rently satisfied. MA R LBO nOUGH-ST MM.—MISTER lOUS CA E.— On Saturday afternoon, au investigation, which ex cited the greatest interest, and laird till a very late WIC, came on at this Office, before J. E.:CONANT, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate. Elisabeth Barnes, a girl of sixteen years of age, was brought up in custody of Plank, the Officer, charged by Mr. John Wright, linen-draper, of Foley-place, Mary-la-bonne, on sus picion of having, at several times, set fire to his house and furniture ; she was also charged with having, by some extraordinary means, set fire to the wearing apparel of Mrs. Wright, at various times, by which her clothes were burned of her back, and injured her so dreadfully, that her life is despaired of. The Office was crowded to excess. Mr. Wright stated, that the prisoner had been servant in the house for ' some time past, but they never suspected her of any thing wrong until they were induced, from the fol lowing most extraordinary circumstances, to enter tain an idea that she had intentions of destroying the house and family :—Wednesday morning, January the sth, about half-past eight o'clock, his mother was sitting in the parlour by herself, and the prisoner was in the shop alone; his mother was seriously alarmed by a fire which broke out in the shop, which did considerable injury, and it commenced, by some means, in one of the drawers in the counter. Fri day, the 7th of January, about eleven o'clock in the morning, his mother was sitting by the fire in the kitchen, the prisoner being the only person with her, and, oh rising, she had not gone as far as the door before all her clothes were. on fire; and, had it not been for speedy assistance in putting, eat the UM" commendation to .prmente. or. nett tti proseeme, if' a prosecution was already determined on, it would be much better to resort to that pmeeedlog wit;oeut any further delay. deter mined, Kimpton x p a e t nse fits s t t o sai hi ti vin he se p wcoirebit be fully as j d b e i ter ec o t of consideration. Afterwardi, however, being in formed that the Court, upon application, !night al low -them. .and •at all events that they could not be great, he said hie determination was to t ooceed. In consequence of some questions as to the state of the deceased, before she was removed-fn out the P:l4 ilk of St. Luke. it was stated by Mr. Kinyton, tlnr there was another witness, his sitter, who had seem the deceased a few days before her le::.oval. Miss Kimpton being sworn, requesteti, on account of not hearing very well any questions which might be asked, to deliver a written statement, tontainms all she knew relative to this subject. She alleged, int this ststement, that she, in company with her brothel William, had seen the deceased on the Sunda) price to her death ; that s:ie was in It cleplora . ble statei greatly distressed for want of food, and that wit- ness's broiher adatiaiaered to her a little wine. She recovered a little, and addressed the witiies• tti the following p u n p W ill on, my dear Miss Kimpton, apply to the Overseers and.get me passed? Do be sure and get me a pass, for they will ito, ad mit me without one. 1 will not be done by them Mix time. lam sure they will hurry my poor fire away, I have had great trouble in applying to them iOr re lief, and never could pet any. She then burnt into a flood of tears, and sho: try after said—" They do know me at the Parish of St. Geinent's ; they turned over :he backs, and-found my name, whtn I once applied before; but now I will nut stir w ithout a pass, for I know they won't take me in wilmut one: She then desired witness to apily to Mr. Hoidborough, in Clare-street, Clare-market. Elizabeth Payne, in answer to sever al questions, 'stated, that Mr. Phillips must. have known the de ceased's situation on the Tueiday prim to her re moval, for it was impossible to have looked at her, without observing it. The same rest aalt.was after wards made by Miss Kimpton. • . Mr. Powell, the medical gentleman employed at st. Clement's Won khouse,. observed . , that 'he • had never said anything as to the time the diceased was likely to live. Ile was of opinion that were was no immediate apparent danger at her dissolution, and that, under all the circumstances of the case, she was capable of existing for tecon , iderable period.-- ] She was, undoubtedly, ,under severe disease, arid not likely to he restored to health. ; 'but her removal then raised nu tear with him oilier immediate disso lution, or. that it would naturally accelerate it. -With respect to her ileath, there were tither circumstances to be taken into consideration her tem,iini T , after wards at the Woi khouse door, in the coacl. so long; her removal thence to her lothi s ings—ai.ii - her re• mos al from her lodgings to the Workhouse o. Ste Luke, at seven o'clock in the evening, and nothing being administered to her after that period. He never gave any opinion as to the number r f hours she might live. Mr. M AINIVA RING observed, that the state of this woman appeared to have been obvious to all who saw her. I: was scarcely necessary for any rational mat to ask the advice of any one. If the.Coi,ee of Physicians or the College of Surgeons were to tell him, •that a woman labouring under a disease .ike her's, of a pulmonary nature, could be removed LI the way that she had been, when the Wert:a:meter was twenty degrees below the fieezlng voila, he could hardly believe it. Mr. Shepperd, in explanation of his conduct, said, that he had guided himself by the directions he re ceived at Bow-street. However, instead of takis the advice of one, be had taken that of two mediCi gentlemen. They were of opinion that she might 1_ removed back to St. Luke, but they never intimated any likely time of her death. He further stated, that it was a quarter to one o'clock when Mr. Kimr ton came to him ; though he was not the relievi: Overseer, he did attend to Mr. Kiropton's represent. tation, and went to the Workhouse, where he found she had been sent by Mr. Phillips; and, conceiving this to be wrong, he went to Bow-Street, and there he received those directions which led him to guided by the advice of two medical gentlemen. Mr. Phillips, jun. was also heard in explanation k his conduct. He considered himself as labottrin) under severe censure for the steps he had pursue towards the deceased. It was, however, very extra* ordinary, that both Mr. Kimpton and Elizabeth Payne had admitted that they knew the situation) the deceased before her removal, and that they were desirous she should be removed, and yet now the contended that her removal ought not to have taken, place. With respect to himself, it was impossible that he could know her situation. Mr. MAINWARING thought that this CaSe could not be disposed of satisfactorily, without going to a Jury. They, the Magistrates, could have no decision on the subject ; if necessary, they could have held the parties to bail, but their respectability was quite sufficient to secure their appearance. Ile was at all times anxious that parties should prove their in nocence ; and, in just consideration towards every one, there was sufficient ground to send the matter to trial. Mr. SWAIM; jun. also delivered his opinion. In his judgment, justice could not be done.to the mutts of this case, without going to a Jury. He would recommend to Mr. Kimpton, the propriety of taking the best legal advice as to the correct mode of draw ing up an•indictment against Mr. Phillips. and Mr. Shepperd. The country required justice; and, if innocent, their acquittal must be satisfactory to themselves and the Public. Indeed -it was desirable on.the part of Mr. Kimpton, in order that all doubt may be removed from the evidence, in which he, the Magistrate, saw nothing but a spirit of humanity. ahe would have bees Want to -death ; she was burnt dre cl a oc af ei l n the y.Th mo e m ne ing, next day (Saturday), about ),t house, he about twelve o' had not been long in die house before be was alarmed by the dreadful screams of his mother, who was in .the kitchen ; he proceeded there, and again found her enveloped in flames; be suc ceeded in p utting them out; there was.scarcely any fire ia the grate at the time; the prisoner was the only person with hell. and when her clothes caught fire, his mother was, more than eight feet from the gr ate. No sus p icioal was at this time formed against the prisoner, and she was ordered to protect his mother. On the Sunday, he was in the parlour, and his mother and the pri soner were in the kitchen together, but being alarmed by her screams, he ran down stairs, and timid her o t v h e e r m ed o w ut i , th aagndainpuctover p h at e r r t , of her clothes were burnt to cinder, and her flesh by ila w m h e i s ch 4 he he sa p v u e t d a he ru r g lite. was materially injured. The pi isoner had Just left the kitchen at the time this happened, and when his mother was crossing the kitchen, she tound hen self again in flames; her clothes were burned off her back; she did not knew by what means she cau g ht file, but was fully confident that no spark flew. on her ; she thought something supernatural attended he:. She described, when the flames touched her skin, that she felt it like knives crossing her. The prisoner, when this happened, burst out laughing at his mo ther, althcugn her life was in peril. The suspicion on his mind was, that the prisoner had thrown some thing on her to cause the burning. On the Sunday, his mother was placed under the protection of his sister; but happening to go into the kitchen, where the prisoner - was, her clothes, by some unknown means, again caught fire ; her violent screams alarmed Miss Wright,- who went down stairs, and found her clothes all in flames ; she tore off her clothes as well as she could, but she was injured so. dreadfully by the fire, that she was put to bed ; they left her ap parently asleep, but in a short time after, they were again alarmed by her screams, and, on going up stairs, they.found her in the bed, surrounded by fire, the bed and the curtains being all in a blaze, and she. attempting to extinguish them ; the house and pro perty were much injured. The prisoanr was after wards sent up stairs, and she came down again, say , ing she room was all on fire. They went up stairs, and found the room all in flame-; and they were with much difficulty put out. The nett alarm was on Tuesday evening, at half-past eight o'clock; when he returned home, his sister met him, and said the place had been in the utmost confusion, and again on fire; the counter, a fixture, was literally destroyed, and the place was filled with smoke and fire; there were two drawers belonging to the counter, the one marked A, and the other B; the fire commenced iu the drawer .A, which was injured; and that marked B, without the least symptoms of fire in it, was given to the prisoner to take into the coal vault; she tes.,lc it down, but shortly returned, saying, the vault was all on fire; on proceeding thither, lie found the coals 4il oar fire; engines arrived, and it H as put out; the drawer was lying there; the family were now in a serious state of alarm, and Mr. Edon, a neighbour, proposed sitting up all night to watch the house. The .prisoner was ordered to go to bed at eleven o'clock, at which time she went, but she shortly re turned, begging them to go up stairs, that Mr. Ban.; nister% (one of the lodgers) room was on fire ; they went up stairs to Mr. Bannister's room, andlound him about going to bed, and calling out fire. -Witness then opened his sister's bed-room door, whed he was nearly knocked down by the , flames and smoke rushing upon him ; the room was filled with a dense smoke, and•was all in a blaze. He then went to a mahogany chest of drawers the day after, all of which were lucked except one, on opening which the flames rushed out on him, and the drawers partly were burned to a cinder. At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, another fire broke out in the same room, although firemen were employed to stay in the house, and had stopped up the preceding night. The following morning, about eleven o'clock, another fire broke out in an apartment up stairs, and did consi -.derable injury. The prisoner, on the discovery of the fire, was seen close by the door, under very suspi dents circumstances ; and he ordered her instantly to quit the house. He spoke to Mr. Lockie, of the Fire Office. The officers of this establishment were em ployed to make every inquiry, and since the prisoner had quitted the place, they had not undergone the least alarm. His mother was confined to her bed. and was under the care of a surgeon, without the least hopes of recovery. Miss Wright attended in a very weak condition, and corroborated every thing her brother had stated. Plank, the officer, here stated, that he had made every inquiry into the characters of the lodgers, which were • very good. Mr. Bannister, one of the lodgers, said he was porter in the employ of Mr. Irwin, hatter, of Oxford street. On the night of the fire he heard some person walking. in the apartment over his, and afterwards heard them come down and enter Miss Wright's chamber. He thought it was the prisoner. Shortly after he was alarmed by hearing the chamber was on fire ; it was adjoining his apartment. Mrs. Bannister corroborated the above. The prisoner, in her defence, denied the charge, and said her mistress's clothes caught fire acciden tally. She knew nothing of the other accidents. Mr. CONANT said, of all the cases he had ever heard ot; he never knew of one to equal the above in atrocity, and he had no doubt but the prisoner was guilty of something which he was afraid could not be brought against her, without the attendance of Mrs. Wright ; the evidence was defective unless it came from her own mouth. She being unable to attend, and taking the prisoner's youth into consi deration, he would order her to find bail to keep the peace towards her, Ulna Mrs.Wright.was able to at tend herself. Mr. Wright assured the Magistrate that be would use every entreaty to make her come forward, hot her situation at present was most dangerous. WORSHIP-STREET.—ANNE YONDER TREMINO---ID pursuance of adjournment on Friday, this case came on again on Saturday. Mr. MAINWARING suggested, that if a prosecution was intended -against any of the parties, it' would prevent delay by an immediate presentment to the Grand Jury, and the question might thswbe decided upon an indictment for a misdemeanour. Mr. SWANEY, pin. was also of opinion, that as a further investigauou before them would cad is a rp. BIRTH. Wednesday, at Woodford, &sex, the wife of the Rev. H. WI Roos Birch, of a son. MARRIED. The Rev. William Thompson, of Queen's College, Oxford, to Easily, eldest daughter of C. Pentland, Esq. of Cork. DIED. - • - In his 81st year, the Bev. John Hawkins, M.A. WOW at Barton-Clay, Bedfordshire. Thursday se'nnight, at Beeehweed, Berta, Gertrude, youngest daughter of Sir John Sebright, Bart. Wednesday, in the 64th year of her age, Mary, relict of late Mr. Robert Parry, surgeon, of Mold. 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