The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

F. EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1883.

THE COURT-MARTIAL Oh 00L. CRAWLEY. o'clock tomOfrOW mot uing, *hen other evidnote will he pen
needed with.
Amongst the visitors today were Earl Dudley, Major-
Gement' Lockwood, Lieuteuant.Ueneral J. Scott, Colonel
A. C. Bentiock, Colonel Simmons, Colonel Shute,
64th, and W. H. Russell, D.C.L. The number ol
the genersl public present was greater than upon any of the
preceding days, the female element in dm seats reserved
for distinguished persons being largely predominant

(nos ova owx attroirxt.)
ELEVENTH DAY.
ALDERSHOT,, Nov. 30.
Celone] t. I 'tractor' Shute, 4th Dragoon Guards, having
beets Aloe h letter by the prosecutor, be seknowleged it to
be in his handwriting, end said he had so objection to ita
being reed I t was to the effect—"l knew the late Sergeant-
Me ,or Lilley from the date of his joinieg the 6th Dragoons
till the period of my leaving the regiment, between two and
a half end three years ago, sod I consider him to have bee°
a thoroughly ocher, well disposed, good man.—(Signed)
C. CAMEBON SHCtS, Colonel 4th Dragoon Guards, Nov.
16, 1865."
A question in writing was here handed to the court by
Colonel Crawley, upon which, before allowing it to be put,
the court retired to consult. On their return Colonel Craw-
ley was allowed to put the following to the witness :
Did you receive a letter from the Horse Guards, dated
50th June, le6o, from his Royal Highness the Commander-
io-Chief, a cement upon you, as colonel of the 6th Dragoons,
for the condition of the regiment and the officers under
your command
The prosecutor submitted that this was a question which
ought not to be put in that form. The proper course was to
put in the bands of the witness the letter itself, as certified
copy of it, and to ask him if he had received such a letter,
which, if be admitted that be had, would then become
evidence.
Colonel Crawley urged that the prosecution here repro.
seated the Home Guards, and the letter io question was in
the custody of the authorities they represented. Ile (Colonel
Crawley) called upon them to produce it, and undertook, if
they would do so, to make it part of hie evidence.
The Prosecutor—The prosecution are not aware that any
inch letter exists. Colonel Schub) is only here as a witness
to character, and that he would be culled at all was not
knows until a few days ago. if any such letter exists the
primmer can apply for it to the adjutant-general, and if he
consents to produce it the witness can be examined upon it
on a future day if the court thinks it relevant.
The President—The court doss consider it relevant, and
it is for the prieoser to call for it if he pleases.
Colonel Shute—l am not here exoeptas to chancier, but I
am prepared to give snob replies to any questions that may
be asked se will probably render the production of the letter
anneosseary. I can have nu objection to do so, for I feel
that I am not here on trial.
Colonel Crawley then formally made the application for
the erode/Sim of the letter, and the witness was directed
to be is attendant,' one future day to be examined upon it.
J. Nerdy, late a aormant in the 6th Dragoons, now a
warder at the convict prison at Portland, certified to a
letter written by him, as follows :
" Portland, Nov. 26,1863.
"TO Sir A. H. Horeford, K.C.B.—Sir,— I bet ttinfeem
you that I have knows the late Sergeant-Major from
the time of his joining the lonitkilling Dregooos um I left
the corps in Id6o. He (the serjeuatisajor) wee always a
very steady sober soldier and nonoemminiosed Aker, sad
I believe was never known to be drunk or in liquor during
the time. I believe that I had more opportanitise of
knowing the habits of the said eergeantmejor than mast
men in the regiment, as I served in the same troop as a
private sod eon-osouniasioned Abate the chief part eel say
service. I also know him in the Crimea, where I wee
acting quarters:Limier-sergeant of the regiment. I know
that he dal sot drink there, not even his ration of rum, as
he did not draw it from me and could not get any other.
I was in hie company almost every day. I also kept the
aergeenta' mess in Jodie for about 15 months, sod had fre-
quent opportunities of seeing the sergeant-major at themes
and in bit bungalow at all hours of the day and sight. noel
frequently boa with Sergeant-Major Lilley the chief peat
of the might at private parties in his quartets end ebeeriewisi
on those occasion I sever saw him exceed his second glue el
grog. I make this statement not for any favour or affeeMeei far
the -late Sergeaat-Major Lilley, buts, an ant of justice lothe
memory of as honest, sober, sou-commissioned officer sad,
soldier.— l am sir your obedient servant, JoaN HARD; I
Alliataat Warden, I'. P."
Lieutenant IL Davis oroes-examined by Colonel Crawley—
I have no recollection of Burma Turnbull making say ap-
plication to me, melees or verbal, to oak Colonel Crawley
whether he wished to bare a coroner'e inquest on the body
of the late Sergsaatelliajor Lilley. I never remember telling
him that Colonel Crawley considered a coroner's inquest un-
necessary. Daring the time I was orderly officer I never
received any complaints from Sergeant-Major or Mrs.
Lilley.
Did you ever aa orderly *Soo ask filergeast-Major Lilley
whether he bad any complaints, sad if so, what reply did
be make?
The Priseeutor objected to the question, and it was put
ilWeia thus :—Did you as orderly officer oak Sergeent-Major
Lffiey wheels( he had any complainte—Always.
(less-examieation contioued— Whoa I first became act-
ing-adjutant I took over the orders respecting the arrest
of Sergeant-Major Lilley from the adjutant's order-book. !
While acting madjutent I never received any complaints from
Sergeant-Major or Mrs. LAW. I wan present at a Wad-
'scion between Surgeon Trumbull and Colonel Crawley at
the orderly room is the colossi's bungalow ng ser-
geant Major Wakefield going into hospital, bruetaroLl not 're-
member what it was now—it is so loog ago.
Assistant Surgeon Barnett recalled by the prosecutor, sad
through the court the following question was put to him
You have stated in your cross-examination that you made
inquiries from Mrs. Lilley as to the amount of brandy said
to have been consumed by Sergeant-Major Utley, and that
yon received information from bee about it. Tell the
court what Mrs. Lilley's actual words were?
Colonel Cawley—l object to that question. lam advised
that this evidence cannot be admitted, and that the proesoo-
We cannot be allowed to play fast and loose with the laws
of evidence. It is neither fair to the prisoner nor respect.
tel to the court, and if it were permitted, the Oswego's.=
would be that the prosecution would, by objections of this
mature, first endeavour to shut out evidence that they
thought might tarn in my favour,and afterwards en-
deavour to get in that which hey thought might
damage me. Either they were wrong Wore or they are
wrong now. I protest such a method of con-
ducting a solemn a proceeding the this trial. I strueskei
to get in this coaverealies is the aroarexaminaball,
the prosecution refused to allow me, and declared that
it was contrary to law. They menet be permitted to
blow hot and cold in this way ; by every rule of fair
dealing they must he boned by their own cosdoet. Their
preset mimes entirely Weir, wed unprecedented in say
COUP{ of instils".
The President—l am notaware that the court ever ex.
pooped any °Maisie as to that evidence.
The Prosseutor—The pecessution wish the moieties to he
put to the witness, because the misuser, by the irregular
form in which a question was pat in crose-examiestios, suc-
ceeded in getting oat evidesee which is is satelsace Deemer
lint the actual words of the kessesy woe est elated, and the
court not being la possessioa of the salsa words of Mrs.
was uuable to judge of their ideal manias. It will
be recollected that I objected to the evidence at the time.
Tim prolocutios regret that the primmer has been advised to
make remarks GO this subject whisk I think the court will
me are quite uswansated.
The court retired to consult, and on their return
The President maid the court withdrew the question se
coming from Miasmal's% hatwould permit the prosecutor to
pat it. Hams' teacloths,* remark I have to coaveyto Colonel
Crawley their °vision of the tesemer in which the objection
has bees made, and the tone sad meow is which it has
boa seabed. Seek ea:premiss. as " blowing bob and cold"
and play* fast sad loose am sentaluy to all military usage,
and they beg that they may sot be repeated.
Colonel Orawley—l am regemelnd by my weasel to state
that he considers kimealf solely responsible for the language
of the protest, and wishes the censure of the court to attach
to himself only. Me begs to add, that be bows to the ex-
pression of the opinion of the court.
Colonel Honford (the prosecutor) then repeated the gnos-
tic, he had previously put to the wituess through the
wart, as to what were the Retrial words used by Ma.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ISLINGTON.

Upon the return of the jury from viewing the bodies
yesterday,
Henry Pearce identified the body of one of the desseesd
se his brother. He had left a wife and six children.
George Peake ideutitied the other deceased u his son,
George Peaks, who was 31 yews of age, and wise carpenter.
He wu not married.
Thomas Wm. Haul, a medical man, said he wu called to
the place of the aocident on Thursday morniug lut before
the bodies were recovered. When they were got out they
were both dead. The skull, of each were broken in, widen
was sufficient to cause immediate death—the jaw of Peaks
was dislocated.
By Mr. J. Atkin.oo—He was present when the bodies
were taken out, and it was the • temple bones" of the
skull that were smashed. Doe of the men was lying on his
beak sod the other on his face.
By a Juryman—Witness did not think it was possible
that the pulling down of the side wall after the tint fall
caused the fracture of the skulls.
By the Foreman—He did not know bow long the bodies
were node, the ruins.
Dr. Riley said he had nothing to add to Dr. Hasti's
evideooe.

Mr. John Baker, 56. Hatton.garden, a retired builder, maid
he was passing, or rather about to par, at the moment the
accident occurred. The bricks fell over the heads of him-
self and a friend he bad met, whose daughter, a little girl,
was knocked down by them. He turned round, sod •
' second afterwards beard • tremendous crash. He thought
at the time that it was the archway of the Agricultural
Hall that was falling. Both he and his friends ran away as
fast as thej could. He subsequently raw three men takes
out of the rubbish and sent to the hcepitaL He went to the
back of the building and there saw one poor fellow calling
for assistance. and after • great deal of effort—sawing away
timbers and so on—be was rescued alive. This was about
as hour and • half after the accident. He then saw Mr.
Cunha with others endeavouring to pull down • stack of
chimneys which were in • dangerous state, bat he interfered
and prevented their doing this till the buried man was got
out. He remised as the spot till the deceased men were
takes out, and they seemed to have as much rubbish under
them as there was above thew
By • Jo:plum—He believed that both the men must
have hese deed before the second lot of rubbish tell.

By Mr. iTibt7loe--Hs only sew IlTeWoi ooe of the
d bet be could sot anytheig of the other de-
oe= see 1
the tobbiel2 was erfoved.

By Mr. BraalsngbiHe did nut bow Mr. Williams, the
architect _ .

—By the Coroner—He knew the builder, mad MAW him

-13-i•ltr. BeadLomb—The chimney and well required bat
little faros to pull them done. He was not aware that
great fume was required, and that holes were knocked is
the wall at the bottom before it could be palled down.
By a Juryman—Wiliam could only see one leg of the
deceased Fiske, bat both the men were nearly does to.
gather.
Yr. Thomas Rundel, 12, Pioint.road, said be was pre.
seat when the accideat happen He was oa the opposite
side of the road, and bearing the mash ran acmes. and saw
several men in the ruins. He picked me up. The trout
wall of the banding had !allay but the beck walls were
abiading. Then was a hoarding in hoot at the buildil
bat Me dibris did not fell beyond the boarding ; it f
however, close against 36 on the Maids. He remained
the deceased men were taken out Peeks was the last man
taken out He believed the men were both dead before the
party-wall fell down. The second part of the party-wall
was m dangerous that the men were fearful of going under
it; and it WY not until the second portion fell that they
mak' remove the debris.

—By idr.Aildasoii—ilie men were literally doubled up
whoa they wars discovered.
By • J There was • brestatunmer but witness
would not le the sire of It—it was a large piece of
timber "bolted and plated."
By Mr. Bradlaugh—He was much costumed, and did not
stein say Won ties, nor could belay which end of the breet.
swasase

ByT-a-isuyats-- -a-- A brestanuater was a piece of timber
miaow betwesotbe two party walls to support the (root.

Mr. Jobs HoManhood, journalist, said he need the
building about ten unnutee atter 12, and law the maffoldin
in front barging at a very deageress angle. He thee saw
about fifteen men at the owner, near the Agricultaral
Hall, removing the rubbish. 'ime same men wen
subsequently called off to pa and hap to pall down the
chimney. He maw the first pen of the chimney fall.
There was no one under it, but it fell, as far she Gould
en immediately over the deemed man. After this be
beard that the men had gone to dinner, but this he did
not believe, as there were 5,u00 people manifest/as the
deepest satiety for the lost men. There was se far ea be
(witness!) could see, no one giving directions. Mr. Chapman,
the builder, might have been in front, but he certainly was
not in the back part of the building. About an hour and •
half after the first fall the bodies of the deceased men were
discovered.

By the Cosner—He did not know if the oleo were dead
before the Naiad portion of the wall was polled down, but
be thought there were two other directions in which the
wall might have been pulled down.
The Coroner here inquired bow the men woo wbo are ha
the hoppitel, and Inspector Judge said that four had left
the hospital that dry, but the remainder were very bad in-
deed. especially the man Smith.
Charles Gregory, 27, Grange-street, Hextew, piseterer,
add he was at work on the scaffolding. and three minutes
before the solidest occurred all the plasterers were called
a the scaffold, and when they got down Mr. Wallace, the
forams, said titers was something the matter with the
frost, sod " Yea had better go away for sit boar." They
did so, mad had scarcely got five doors towards
Church when the building feU. Whiter instantly=
sad saw the aides all down. He meshed the injured we,
end helped to get out the decessed aim. The wall fell in s
heap, but there appeased to be more rubbish inside than
outside. There was some sheet hod (the piths) and Por-
tioos of timber over them. There was about a too weight
of rubbish on the men.

By • Juryman—Witness wee on the seeoed-floor scaffold,
but noticed so crack in the building. He had only been
employed since Wednesday.
By Mr. Bradlaugh—He saw men " butting " at the walls
with scaffold-poles.
By the Cormier—The deceased men were at work fixing
the window trainee in the Est floor.
By the Foresesa—They were inside the house ; witness
was outside.
By a Juryman—Witnem was called five or six times be-
fore he left the scaffold.
By the Omoner—Mr. Wallace went up and told them all
to go off the scaffold, as there was something the matter.
By a Juryman—Wallace walked away with the ple-
tens% and left the other men in the building. Witham
thought the order to leave the building only applied to the
*steers.
Mr. Atkinson said that Mr. Chapman wee very anxious
that every point should be thoroughly investigated, sad on
his behalf he would offer every facility for doing no.
Mr. Bradlaugh said that Mr. Willem*, the architect,
was equally anxious that the circumstances shoukbbe tho-
"mtlYrns, into.
(lereser then suggethed as adjournment, but one et
the *pees mimed ea objection to the adjournment till the
piano mad apecikations al the building had been produced.
Mr. Bredbmgh said they were is court.
A keg discussion them took Ames as to whose custody the
plans and specifications should be left, and it wee ultimately
decided that they should be printed, and each juryman be
furnished with • copy.
The procesdings were then adjourned till Moos* next.

--dritonel Crawley again protested against the question
being attained, as the grounds already stated.
The Presideat—The court SILUCtiOIIB the question being
put, subject to any legal objection that may be raved
apnea, it.
Colossi Crawley entered Lia objection, formally repeating
his MM.! almost in the same words, adding that the pm-
secatioa had waited to consider the effect of the gist answer
ore they decided epee retailing the wittier, tad there wan
way nano to believe that had it not ben so they would
not have asked him se to the aetaal words Mrs. Lilley had
and. He welded to know whether the prosecution '
elated upon their statement io the crossexamination of the
tritons that this wee the wont form of hearsay 'eidetic.*
The prosecutor replied that the prosecution was quite
estimated that tho question might be legally asked, and
they smartened the strongest conviction that it ought to
be answered. An irregularity had occurred that was sari.
only prejudicial to the interests of justice. The reasons
already given were those epos which they founded their
right to put it. The matter was so sorb a that the pro-
secution suggested for ocaaideration whether, if the court
entertained any doubt, the opinion of the JudgmAdve-
cate-Geoeral should be taken opal it, inasmuch as any
irregalerity might render the proceedings of this court-
menial null arid void. The oresecutin objected to
the queetiou when it was originally put by the prisoner
in his ereesciamination of the witness, but the
answer was severtheleas recorded, ea be °attended al-
svWwly, sad the oxrurt had therefore upon its record
w that osght out to have been received. It wee this
evidence that the prosecution Masted they had the right
to illy.' explained, sad put into a roper and legal form.
Colo el Crawley was advised that Hispanics pot by him
la craw amminatioa, after the objection of the proariention,
WM perfectly justifiable, aed that the answer given to it
was is accordance with the strictest la of 'midair*. He
mesquite wiling that the opiates of the Jades-Advocate-
Camera should he takes as to the question lie put to the
withem, "at fees wham the wittier received the informa-
tion,. sad to which he answered. " Mrs. Liffey," bong
Dingell &dried that it was perfectly legal, aid until this
=adtioe of the legality of that question sad assent was
be rapectfully pretested against the evidence being
• prolweded with furthee.
The Yreseenter—lt is for the court now to decide ; we
ham nothing owe to say.
The Comet win retinal to amerilt, after 'bah
The Preesideat maid there le so Anal differeace of °plain
an the (patio° as sow proposed that the wart have all.
mind to refer It to the Jadge-Advorata-Geoneal (whisked
*nom The apart will therefore ageism meg tea

tab) *1101141,m.

00IIRT OF QUREN'S BENCH.—Noy. 3O

After Term sithimp at Nisi Prins, si Wernininstar.—(Hdors
Lord Chief Junkies Cockburn ands Special Jury.)
11711111 V. MAUR AIM CADS CHI ALUM=

LUNACY.

Yr Black. who was muse to the plaintiff, described the
drunken habits of the latter, and said she (witness) would
sot have stopped in the house if Shears had not been there.
Richard Sheen spoke generally as to the state of the plain-
tiff, the room, and the various circumstances already de-
tailed by former witerre..

Dv. &rues wee ailed—My sister accidentally be-
mane acquainted with the plaintiff at Scarborough. I was
called in to cousultation on the 27th December, 1861; she
wee then in a high state of delirium tremens of a marked
character, from the use of aloohoL I approved of the define-
dents' treatment; watching was a most DOCC•lary part of
the treatment. I told the plaintiff the attack was from
drink, and that she must abstain from drinking. She ad-
mitted having drunk to a certain extent. She said she
had suffered pain from her knee, end drink was the only
thing that gave her relief. It was imeresery for her to be
constantly watched. On his mooed volt, on the 3rd Janu-
ary, she wee lying outside the bed clothes, with her poison
exposed, and in a state of utter intoxica, Mo. I found she
had bees drinking rum. I told her she must leave off
drinking, and I spoke sharply to her brother, who was in
the room, riot to give her drink. 1 endeavoured to make the
brother, who was almost as rational as the bed-poet, under-
stand that be should not get her spirits. The house was in
a had state, and he desired Forth to look after her. I took
my sister away, and told her husband not to let her go
there again. She was cold, exhausted, and half starved,
barley; bad no tire or anything to eat during the night she
was in the house.

Croes-examined by Mr. Chambers—Quarrelling women
noontime pull hair the same as when under dello= tre-
mens, but I only get my information from the streets. Me-
dical men sometimes make mistakes, but I have made no
mistake in this me. I did not recommend the plaintiff 'a
removal to a lunatic asylum. I have bad great experieeee
is delirium tremens in the Dreadnought Hospital ship.
By a juryman—Could the symptoms have been mistaken
for travelling gout?
Dr. Berine-1 think sot.
. . . _ .

Dr. Ogle, ssdstaat•pbysician to St. Georges Hospital
Dr. Tweedy, consulting physicias to the Fever Hospital,
sad forty years a member of the weiheidon sad Dr.
Reemm•-
skill, gate evidence in support a the delendaate opiainat
with regard to delirium tremens sad its symptom.. There
were. however, attacks which might be mistaken for deli-
rium tremens but no experienced man would make such s
mhoiake. Tr;velling gout did not attack the mind.
This was the defendants' MO.

Knight, weasel for Lienkesat-Colonel emuley, but the
judge ultimately toads the ceder, the plaintiff uudertakiog
cot to use the austral, or allow them to be used, before
the court-martial ■ow sitting at Aldershott.

Yr. Bedstraw, in summing up the defendants' ore,
said that with to this unhappy lady there could be no
death she was under delirium tremens occasioned
by.tbe supply of stimulants by her evil Regius, her imbecile
brother, sad had no knowledge of what occurred during the
terrible period of her Moor so that the question was
neither flat nor any other perjury r put forth by the
other side. The reel issue was w the delsa&ate,
who were called in suddenly to see the plaintiff, had
rightly appreciated the disease aoder which she was mar.
in, and had treated her according to the beet of their judg-
ment. If they had put the attendants into the bones the
learned counsel oonteoded they would only bream» their
duty towards this unfortunate looms& The learned serjsant
then referred to the details of the MO, and in alludes to the
minute cormisszninatioa by Mr. Clambers of the deftod•

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

eats' wits.. upon what this learned mejeant desenbed as
immaterial points, sail the learned counsel had lived after
his age; that he ourtit to bays lived in the antediluvian
ate, when the patriarehe lived to the age of a thousand years,
when be would have bad ample time for the longest sand-
sada:. (Laughter.) The plaintiff had suffered no injury
except personal restraint, sad that was absolutely aeossemy
for bee safety.
Mr. M. Chambers replied en the whole case, and in doing
so defended the manner io which be bad put the ore before
the jury. He proceeded to show what he &smiled as the La-
eassirteucy of the Meads's"? ease and the paltry subterfuge
of the dog to account for the man attendant to protest Mrs.
Taylor. The usual practice was to amass the cat if any
accident occurred in • family, bat there being so sat in thin
bone it bad hems pat upon the dog. The study examistemt part
in the defeedants' case was that the lady was ant in so de-
eided a state of violent deliriums tresses as they wished the
IrlZto
bartnmar,e'onor twhhyttbleterViltsgsth. be:
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The defewlanta had the Sable
their ere with regard to
be dress sad her dirty eta* sad he cautioned the jvy
against relying too coatideatly on a policensees bar
meet of druuksomea, a lamentable indasse bowleg
lately oesurred in London of the pollee baring
allowed • man to die from exhaustion, beteg umber
the impression that he was suffering from Wont-
elation. The case, he said, was of as great importance
to the public as to the medical profession. Babstatitially
the plaintiff had told the troth, and the defendants were
liable in this action for their conduct.

OXFORD CIRCIIIT.-07.701tD, Nov. 30.
(Before Mr. JmitiorOrsespton.)
The trials of the prisoners cesseseseed tbia morning at
10 o'clock, sod the businem of the wise was concluded by
4 o'clock in the aftemoos. The majority of the owe were
for burning ricks ; newly all these ptomain pleaded guilty,
end were menteaced to six yaws' penal servitude, his lordship
expressing hire regret that in the present state of the law it
was not within his power to order corporal punishment,
which he considered would prove the best corrective of this
broreseing crime.
John Jonas ShrimMoii, formerly relieving officer at the
Thome Union, wee convicted of forging nod uttering certain
receipts with intent to defraud George King, and was un-
tamed to ten months' impriscament with hard labour.
Heath liariland Chaneirer, who repremoted that he had
bete a lieutenant and a espi min the sad was the son
al • m4strate, in the county of Devon, *mid guilty to
the charge of obtaining the cam of 54, by maillll of • false
cheque, which he had gives to Xt. J. Veaabke, !Radioed of
the Nit o Hotel, Oxford. The primmer had been previonaly
convicted of • similar offence at Nottingham, where he was
sentenosd to six months' hard labour.
For this last offence the Judge sentenced him to nine
months' hard labour.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIL QUM •. THE =V. XR. DISCS.

At this Wage of the wee the court adjourned.
The Lord Chief Juatios will rum up the first thing this
morning.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nov. 30.

Bil Map at Nid PAO/ after
Spada ORM —(Bedore Mr. Baron Martin
and Juries.)

The court was ocenpied during the greater part of the day
with the cue of Outer e. Cusiewis, which was an satinet to
recover the vales of certain hones, bat pretested no feature
of public interest. It was ultimately agreed that there
should be a Terdiet for the plaintiff for 16/., subject to a
referees as kothepsidne of the plaintiff's claim..

Upon the application of Mr. Po/and, who appeared for
the prosecution in this case—which, as oar readers are
aware, is a charge of libel, and which Ma been removed to
the Court of Queues Bench by a writ of certiorari—the re.
of the witness.' for the prosecution were re-
:7tldatOMe next seesicm as it was stated that the prosecu-
tion were not prepared dials present session.
Wininst Peat Harm,' • respectable-looking man, gar-
rendered to take his trial upon a charge of stealing • rot.
Bank of England note, the property of John William
Abrahams. . . . .

The enamel for the plaintiff were Mr. Buddleston. Q.C.,
and Mr. Barnett ; and for the defendant Mr. Serjeant Sbee
and Mr. D. KIWI&

This wee as action to recover 53J. 17e. 6d., the amount of
millisses WI.

Iliadlestrie, Q., C., and Mr. Roll were counsel for the
tiff, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Gage for the
defendant.
It appeared from the minis; statement of Mr. Huddleston
that the plaintiff, Mr. Levilly, carried on with his wife the
boriasis of a dressmaker sod milliner, is Georg•-street,
Hamner squire, and that the defendant, William Money,
was a captain in the English army. In June 1860 the de-
fendant married Miu Turner, the daughter of a banker at
Worcester, who had a fortune of about 7,0001., and lived
with her for twelve mooch'. He then returned to
hie regiment, which wee in Canada. leaving Mrs. Jimmy
in this country. He came back to England in June, 1862.
and in July following started with his wife on a continental
trip, but before doing so got pcoseuion of nearly all her pro-
perty. No soccer had they left this country then he cos-
monad to treat his wife with systematic cruelty. He streak
her in the thin, and at Dieppe palled her out of bed sad
beat her, in a state of nudity, with the leathern strap 61 bin
portmanteau. Retook her to Paris, and beat h-r again In
a very cruel manner. At Havre be basted of having
treated her with all the cruelty in his power, but maid
that if she did not sign a paper which empowered
him to live apart from her fettling years, on her receiving
a stipend of 1001. a year, he would treat her with as
of erueltice, and get her locked up as a luestic. She
signed the document, and Captain Massryiett for Honfleer,
leaving her at Havre. During his sheen she wished to
recover the paper, and broke open his desk for that pur-
pose. She discovered not ouly the object of her search, bat
also a diary in her huabaad's handwriting, from which it
appeared that he had been carrying on an illicit
intercourse with a person whom he described as
"Nally," whom be bad bens in the habit of
driving about at Canada. Mrs. Massey immediately re-
Weed to England and sued for a divorce, which she *h-
elloed in June. 1863. The present claim was for goods sup-
plied to Mrs. Massey from November, 1861, to October,
1862. _ _

a second count of the indictment the primmer ens
charged with feloniously receiving the note in question,
knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Best ea Mr. J. E. Palmer conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. &Mon and Mr. Harry Palmer appeared for the
defence.
. . . .

The eircumetonato of this use were somewhat singular,
sad it created some Inter= on account of the respectable
leMitiOD of the poisoner who had for a great many years
carried on the business of a tailor at Brautfoed. The pro-
secute* wee the ehopman to an alums in the same place, and
it appeared that in April, 1862, be went to lodge in the
house of the primer, and at that time be had in his pos-
ersion the sum of 501., the moult of his savings, and which,
in the shape of • 501. Bank of England note, be had kept in
a pocket-book, le which he bad also entered the date and
Dutcher. After he had takes up his abode at the primmer's
house it appeared that he kept the pocket-book coetaisseg
the 50/. cote in a wardrobe is his bedrooen,aed in coasequau
tilde having lost some trifling article he secured the door of
the wardrobe with one of Chubb's patent locks. The pro.
muter did not seem to have made any examination of the
peoket-book for several weeks prior to the 6th October, but
on that day he opened it, and to his surprise discovered that
the 501. note had been abstracted, and that in its place there
was a 51. note, upon which was endorsed the word "Cole,"
sad that an attempt had been made to obliterate the
number of the 501. note in the pocket book and soother num-
b= substituted. It should be stated that the lock to the
wardrobe did not appear to have been picked or tampered
with, bet the doors seemed to have been opened by foreleg
the bolts that were upon cue of the doors, whdttriremagerf-
=ore: it aearmecel d that the sto their properlen 501 note the 26th
cached
at at the Bank of Eugload, and 451. in gold and 51. note
even for it, and it bore upon it the endorsement " W.
0001, Staines," and the strongest facts Assiut the prisoner
were, that the 51. Oct. found in the pocket-book was the one
paid is exchange for the 50/. note at the Bank of Ragland,
and that the endorsement upon it, mid also the =Lam
the 501. note, were in the handwriting of prisoner.
this, it wu proved that, in the month of March of the pre-
emit year, the prisoner bad applied to the prosecutor to lead
him some money, sod that he refused to do so, and that a
few days after the stolen note had been changed at the Beak
of Ragland, the prisoner took up a tall of exchange for
381. 10•, which was not then fully arrived at maturity,
at Yawns. Ball sod Wilson's, drapers, in St. Martin's-
Use, and that be paid a couiderable portico
di the amount in gold. Several other minor facts
were adduced in evidence that tended to strength=
the ease for the prosecution and the prosecutor in his
eromaxamination admitted that: a great number of penny
were in the habit of visiting him at the prisoner's house,
led that consequently others had an equal opportunity with
the prisoner of committing the robbery.
Kr. Ribton made ea seargetio address to the jury on
behalf of the primed*, and he said he felt bound to admit
at the =tut that if they were satisfied the endoesemests
upon the two notes were in the handwriting of the prisoner
there was an end of the cue, and there could be no doubt
that he was guilty of the offence with which he was charged.
He submitted, however, that the evidence upon this point
wee not conedruave, and be at the oar= tiros said that if the
girt:really did steal the 50/. note, it was an act of sheer
him to put his own writing upon it, when there
was not the slightest necessity for it, and could only tend to
lead to his detectioe. He then proceeded to coon-
runt upon the other facts in the case, and urged the =au-
bility that the robbery might have been committed by some
other person, end that the heodwriting of the prisoner wee
counterfeited to divert suspicioo from the right quarter.
A great many most respectable witnesses, some of whom
bad known the poisoner for more than twenty years, gave
him a most excellent character._ _ _

The Recorder having Dimmed up, the jury, after a abort
deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Gotity.
Thoma 4 Burch, 59, a respectsbhulooking grey-headed
man, desenbed as a law clerk, pleaded guilty to as indict.
meat, charging him with felooioludy f an endorse-
ment to as ceder for the payment of 141. Se., with intent to
defraud.
Mr. H. Giffard was Instructed to prosecute.

Madams Lenity proved the supply of the dresses.
Miss Caroline Barak Tamer, formerly Mrs. Massey,
a very ladylike person, wu then called, and deposed to the
venous acts of cruelty as the part of Captain Mary. whose
wish she Raid was to keep the marriage secret. In additioe
to the °Deduct mentioned by Mr. Huddleston, she said he used
the most indecent language to her. sang obscene sous in
her presses, spat I. her fees, and pinched her. In fact,
she added, ha did everything to persecute and 11l treat her.
(Various entries from her husband's diary, in which be MD-
tinually 'poke of "Dear Nally" of paying her bills, meeting
her, of bra being unwell, and in which he once alluded td
his wife as "C. 8. T., the devil," were reed. It fur•
ther appeared from the diary that be was frequently in the
habit of writing to Nally at the same time be did to
his wife. and that be had taken his boy from Mrs. Massey
and placed him ander her care.)
Ica arees-exanziaatioa she said she believed that Captaia
Massy was the nephew of an Irish peer, but he bad no pri-
vate tortoise, and his pay was *oily 2001. a year. She said
that his cruelty at Dieppe began when he found that she
bed made known the 'ferriage.
Mr. Hawkins said that oe the part of the defendant be
admitted the adultery, but not the cruelty.
The witness, in reply to the hafted judge, said she had
only consented to keep the marrkige secret on certain
conditions.

The prisoner had been far a great many years in the set
wins of Messrs. Janson and Co., solicitors, Bssinghalletreet,
and it sea stated that he had been carrying on • regular
system at plunder upon his employers for the last ten years,
and daring that period he bad robbed them to the extent of
nearly 1,0001.
The prisoner was sentenced to six years' penal servitude.
Thomas Williams, 20, pleaded guilty to a charge of bur.
g cry in the dwelling house of Frederick Henry Lest, and
sting twusilver spoons, his property.
Mr. H. Gifford was rustructed to prosecute ; and Hr.
Cooper appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor in this cue is a member of the firm of
Lest end Co., warehousemen, Old Change, and who has a
country residence et Norwood. It appeared that at an
early hour in the morning a police minable was peening
the prosecutor's boom, when, from observing the shutters
open, he went in end foetid the primer steadies upon a
chair, and in the set of opsaing the back door, apparently
with a view to molting his escape. The constable seized him,
sad a violent struggle took place between them, but Mr.
Leaf mine down from his bedroom, and with his tiali/iILIKA
the prisoner was meowed. During the struggle the coo.
snide inflicted • good deed of injury upon the prisoner
with his staff, but the latter did not seem to have need any
more violence than was mesesary to endeavour to effect his
escape. A thick heavy stick was found in the prosecutor's
dieing room, but the prisoner did not seem to have attempted
to make use of this weapon.
Mr. Bushnell, an inspector of police, informed the court
that the prisoner had bees convicted as a rogue and raga.
bond, and he had also been charged with attempting to
commit a burglary, arid with having housebreaking Ml*.
meats in his possession.
The Recorder said that if the prisoner had committed
say violence, or had attempted to do so, be should have
pawed a very different sentence to the one he was about to
do. He then ordered the prisoner to be kept to hard labour
for eighteen months.

Mr. Baron Martin said he was of opinion that, it • wife
discovered that her htuband was living with another woman,
she was justified in leaving him.
Mr. Hawkins said if that were hi opinion be would ant
contest the point as to her right to have him ; but Mire
would be a dceal and painful contest of testimony as to the
cruelty.
The learned counsel then submitted that the charges In
the plaintiff's bill were extravagant, and also that many of
the articles supplied were nosecessary.
The learned judge ruled that the wife was justified in
the credit of her husband after her discovery of
ado ; sod
The Mry retuned • verdict for the plaintiff for the
auteeat elsheed.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS. —Nov. 28.
(Before Mr. Justin Williams.)

WAICI7I.IILD O. CRAWLET.-111 LINT,COLOMIL CRAWL=T.
This was as application by Yr. Pridasoz, on the put al
the plaiatiff, who la oat, of the owpaant•inaloti imp-hood
at Mimi,. in the Bombay paaryt by Liscitanata.
Cokes& Crawley, dtuias the program a/ tie trial d Pay-
master &risk kw an ardor to administer intamosatorint
to the ildowhint nnlar tin 001111•011 Law Peseatiwo A.
The applimatlat ens mad ainonwasky railed by Mr.