The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-19 00:00:00

IliE tIEALTII_ 0 V THE QUEEN.

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' The British Medical hums/ says that lier Majesty
bas pawed through • trying and severe MOMS, from
which she is now happily tecouring. At the outset,
lier hisjssty sudertd,early in August when at Osborne,
frivi dislike of food, didurbsnou of rest, headaohe,
general moicist, and slight inflow:nation of the tonsil.
Ti. latter local tumble coon lubsieed ; but the heat of
Osborne and of Windsor proved very trying to the
Quint, and she did not satiafactorly ncovet ii. r general
health. The journey north war, however, borne lull,
and tier Majesty slept better on the road than for
several nights previously. On the 19t1, and for some
dais subsequently. the Queen suffered from very severe
Bore-throat, interfering both with speech and with
rower of wallowing. As the throat improved, the
Queen began to experience pain an I pa-riling a tittle
L.lO, the tight arm • the g..neral heal. h suffered
severely, and for days arm;
Majesty was unable to .ko
say Iced. On September the 411 Mr. La. r .p..•,... nu
abscess at the seat of selling ; It was of ounsiderahle
size, but the subsequent progress was favourable. Tbe
Improvralent in tier hlajesty's health during the put
three days bas been very &select ; but, although it is
with heartfelt satiafact.on that we are able to state
that H. r Majesty is now be-lived to be in the path of
ctmplete ri.c.ivery an announcement which will be
everywhere received with sympathetio and loyal
pleasure —it must be remembered that convalescence
from no severe a form of illness must be somewhat
Ledinus, and that some time must necessarily elapse
before the Queen can be as well as she was earlier in
the year.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING
TO SWINDLE BOOKSELLERS.
At the Middlesex Sessions, before Mr. SeijAant Cox,
Jaws Hitchman, 38, described as an author; and
Arthur Rickard &mon, 26, publisher, were trice on •
charge of conspiring together to obtain from Mr. C. P.
Chapple, of Ilminster, a cheque for the sum of £2 7s ild,
by freee pretences.
Mr. Begley and Mr. Kelly prosecuted; Mr. Montagu
Williams and Mr. J. Humphreys defended Stenson ;
Mr. Douglas Straight, M.P. (specially retained), with
Mr. Howse Brown, appeared for Heartily).
The care for the prosecution was that nu the 21st of
May last the prosecutor received • oommuniestion heal
a " Lady Scott," saying aide). hail been recommended
by • hived to obtain. copy of a book easel "Sunshine
and Shadow," and enclosed a trade cierular, stating
that the work might lee had of Messrs. Hamilton and
tiitetioners' Hall-court. Upon the atm u4th of this
Mr. Chapel° wrote to the defendants ordering teem
copies, enclosing I:2 To 31, but stopped !reverent of the
cheque before it had been crashed. The proms:tutor
said be would not have Sr tried the copies if be had
not believed that such a pereon as Ludy heott misted,
audio expected her to come to the town to pay • Malt
to some of the ntighb curing nubility.
Mrs. Elenor of 66, Waltonwtreet, • lady-like
person, sald she was a professor of foreign languages,
and in 0001 A quince of an advettisement which appeared
in the Daily Telegraph fur a lady to do writieg, she
wrote to the adtbeas given. and Stamen ealled upon her,
and agreed to pay her Itis per week. Ile gave her
envelopes arid paper with a coronet on, and told her to
write the Lady Scott letter (produce B. Menem called
for the letters when they were finished. tie sent her
a letter (produced), calling attention to some alterations
ho wanted in the letter she was copying. Ile did not
return one of the letters to bee. She never went to
his address, as he always came himself for the letters
and envelopes. After all the letters bad been written,
Stemma wrote her again, asking her to return the
directory he had lent her to copy the addrieses from,
and telling her to write no more letters. rho letters
were posted in the Strand. Witness knew him in the
name of liamilton, bec•use he gave her • card with
that name primed on it. Sue thought the address was
Stationers Hall, or Stationers' dell-court. She dealt
with bins as Mr. Arthur Hamilton, and offered to wait
upon him, but be always called at her house. Did not
pat
.any of the circulars into the envelopes, and of
cense did not know what was enclosel. She did not
not send out any letters without • coronet on them.
A '' Lady Scott" letter, posted at the General Post.
office on 22nd May, directed to Mr. Leicester, of High.
street, Wandsworth, enclosing • prospectus, was identi-
fied as being in her handwriting.
Mr. Montagu Williams complained of the injustice of
producing them letters without calling the people to
prove whether any insertions, and if any what, were
made in the letters. There was nothing at all to show
the contents of the envelopes.
Mr. Hetherington, stn.. of Uebridge, bookseller,
spoke to receiving • " Lady Scott" letter, containing •
prospectus. He read the letter as being an order !rem
Lady Scott.
By the Court: Witness did not read the letters, •
mere puff for a book.
Mr. Wallace Hetherington, jun., Mr. Lambert, Mr.
Henry Gabe,. Mr. Jame. Dancer, and Mr. William
Morley, all of Uxbridge; Mr. Weller, of Redhill, and
Mr. Ballantine, of Sheffield, gave evidence as to receipt
of similar letters.
Thomas Hanks, printer, of Crane-murk Fleet-street,
proved printing • portion of "Sunshine sni Shadow."
Knew both of the prisonen from having transactions
with them. He knew them as Montgomery and
Hamilton.
Mr. Norris deposed that Stepson called upon him
about taking • house iii Printiog Housewquare for
"Mears. tifenson and Sons, patent medicine twitters."
He gave Montgomery (H erbium) as one of the refer-
enact
Mr. Wm. Evans said be had known Hitahman sines
IS'ert. and had exposed the prisoners. as he believed
them to lii swindlers, lie had written in steward te•pers
against them, hut they had not in any way r ito
It.—Croerexamined : Mr. Gould, cioucerned ii tills case,
bad mewed him in getting up the pamphlet, Ile ad-
mitted having once altered hie name; also having at
one tim • addreesed Hitchtuan as "Dear Mont."
A geutleinan from Mtwara. Adams, Hamilt en, and Co.,
raid a great number of the "Lady Scott" letters had
come to Lien. Shot.
Mr. Goodman, hookseller, of 407, &rend, geld he let
the upper pert of his premises to the two prisoners in
September last year. Teeny left in June of the present
year. The agreement was signed by iiitchman in the
name of Montgomery, and Stenson signed as • witness
le the name of Hamelin). A great many inquiries were
made for them, mid for Hamilton and Co., druggists.
A gentlemen from the Herald's office proved that
them was no Lady Scott entitled to use • Countess's
coronet.
Mr. Straight said the fdemi-mon le e-tifrees ei I so.
Mr. Williams remarked, that " ledira" under t. e.r ••
tection of gentlemen, froluently used the perms of
noblemen or gentlemen.
Mr. Seeley proceeded summed up the cam fir the I
prosecution. Me. Gould sued those who worked with
hint had sur plied • public prosecutor. The prisoner
Bachman assumed the names of Viacount Gordon do
Montmorency ant Percy de Idontgotnery for the pup
pose, of fraud, and denied that his name was ever
Hitehmen. lie alio slammed the name of Hamilton.
Alewire. Hamilton, Adam., and Co. had carried on
bummer as booksellers for half a century, probably a
century. In more of time the partners died out, but
the business was carried on by their suctimeorr under
the old and we 11-koown name. The pti,oners had
assumed the name of • wellicnown firm for the purposes
of fraud. There WOA no pretence) for saying that they
ever succeeded to • business carried on under the name
of Hamilton and Co. The prisoner Hite:thwack WOO CIO
son of • working tailor, in Oxford-street, and had been
carrying on a system of fraud for years. The trade
had been cautioned against the trielts of these prisoners l
by cards and circulars ; and yet, although.the statements
In them would be gross libels if nit true, the prisoners
had not dared to take any proceedings against the
writers. The Moreieg Adrerliar, • paper of wide
simulation, and quite able to pay damages, had written
of the prisoner Blitehman thus :—" All honest persons
should join in hue and cry to hunt down a monster of
deception who has been fattening on his unwary prey
throughout by the must remarkable tissue of fraudulent
misrepresentation. blasphemous hypocrisies, and
Impudent pretenoes, ever we should imagine,
perpetrated by one man." This was • gross libel
If it were not true ; yet the Morning A,lrertinr
Sad not been preecuted• The reason was that
under Lord Campbell's Act, which had been In existence
for thirty years newspapers were privileged in publish-
ing what was true for the benefit of the public, and it
any action were taken against them no jury would
return • verdict against thAn. Fur whet remelt did
the Kiernan insert an adwortisement in the Daily
TchgrapA to secure the services of a lady to write these
letters? Not bemuse it would be cheaper than having
them lithographed, but to deceive the persons to whom
ther were sent, and to lead them to believe they were
Imid fide nrds "from Lady Scott." No doubt it
would be said that a printed dip was sent with the
Letters In explenation, but, if so, why was not the
printer produced who printed it, or one of the
numerous booksellers who received it I It was possible
Chat such & slip might have been printed since these
pea:mediaes were commenced. If it was • straightfor-
ward transaction why have • coronet on the
paper? The original "Lefty Scott " letter had
been prodnood,and it was found to be in the handwriting
of Simeon. lie was " lady :Mott.' It might be said
by bid learned friends that it was only the Dopy of
eeeeestteng, but where was that aoinethiug It bad not
been produced, neither could it be. It might be asked
whether these letters deceived the booksellers. Ile
contended that • bookseller must have been • wonder.
ful man not to have been dem ivad. On, ot tee wit'
flosses mid he not only balievel it to be an order, but
felt honoured at receiving an triter from Lsdy Scett.
J t might be said that there was only a little fraud
perpetrated. But it was no lash of the prisoners that
At was early discovered and stopped, mere won,
reasons to believe that they intended to carry it on to
a large estent. Another lady had been engaged (in
addition to Mrs. Lonati) who wrote the L ely S.ott
letters, although, fortunately for tte prisoner., she had
not some forward; and why mime two butte., unless
It were to manufacture letters as host as p optb6? It
was intended, undoubtedly, to get rid of 3.000 core,s
of this work ("Sunshine and Seadow"). not by *mild.
ing to the public or applying to Butte's. who largely
subscribed to works of any worth, but by unfair and
fraudulent means.
Mr. Montagu Williams then addretsel the jury for
the prisoner Stenson; and Mr. Straight followed in
belied of this other defendant. They urged that the
Lady Scott letter was nothing more than a "novel
and rather ingenious way of advettising:"
Mr. &deans Cur having summed ul. the time.
The Jury returued • verdict against Stenson of
llteapting to obtain and obtaining money from the
promoutot, and Guilty as ageiest both prisoners for

conspiracy.
Sentence vu deferred.
additional bail vu asked for and produced, smiths
deleudants were liberated until judgment shall be pra-
t:manned, which will be when the points of law reserved
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err eeciii,ci.
TneUle t 'Cita great interest, and there were many
numbers et ittluentral bookselling firma present during
the trial,

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