The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

Sat anb Volict.

A MONEY-LENDER'S PROFITS are about as enormous
as they are iniquitous. This week a bankruptcy
case at the Liverpool Court presents a curious in-
stance of folly upon one side, and—" profit" on the
other. The bankrupt, one Tyson, a corn-merchant,
failed for some 50,0001, and it appeared that, while in
five years and a half of business his profits
amounted to 3,6351. 2s. Ild., he had during
that period paid to one Pemberton, a money-
lender, no less than 4,0721. 17s. 4d. for interest on
loans. He had been paying in fact 72 per cent.
per annum, and in one instance had paid 120 per
cent. The result of course was inevitable. In Pem-
berton's account appeared a series of entries such
as these :

April Ist, 1852. Lent you till Pith inst. 1001.; my
charge, Sl.
May 18th. Tent you till Ist June 1001.; my charge,
:11. 10s.

The bankrupt was then called and examined at
length by Mr. Bateson

SEPT. 13, 1856.

His HoNona: Did you ever object to any demands made
upon you by Pemberton? Bankrupt : Yes.
Mr. BATESON : Then, why did y3ll borrow money of him
after having objected to his charges for interest ? Bank-
rupt : Because I could usually get money of him when
wanted it. . _

Mr. Maxxsox : And you mean to tell us that it is true, Si
stated among your trade expenses, that in five years and a
half Mr. Pemberton has charged you 4,0721. 17s. 4d. for
interest on loans ? Bankrupt : That is correct.
By consent, the examination was adjourned for three
weeks. Mr. Bateson observed that there would not
be much difficulty in showing where the corn money
had gone to.

AN ELDNIILY MAN AND A YOUNG WOEIAN with a child
entered the parlour of the Malt Mill inn at Armley
near Leeds on Thursday about noon. Shortly after-
wards a younger man joined them. The old man
went out, and in a few minutes the landlord, hearing
shrieks of " Murder !" rushed into the parlour,
and saw the man and woman struggling on the
floor. Several persons hurried into the room at the
same time, and the man springing up escaped. The
poor woman's throat was frightfully cut ; medical
assistance was instantly sent for, but she died very
shortly. A hot pursuit after the villain was com-
menced, and in about an hour a man covered with
blood, but wearing a clean shirt over all, was arrested,
identified, and locked up. Au inquest will be held
at ones.

Ma. Barna, the drunken retired excise collector
charged with the murder of his with, has been dis-
charged from custody for want of evidence.
Da. MATCHAM, a surgeon.accoucheur, at Lowestoff,
has been committed to prison, charged with having,
by unskilful treatment in labour, caused the death of
pm Mary Jeekells.
THE HAMPTON CounT adjourned inquest upon the
body of the man Solomons, found dead in the Thames
on July 28, was resumed and concluded on Tuesday.
Beyond the medical testimony of Dr. Garrett as to
the result of the post-mortem examination, no further
evidence of importance was adduced. Dr. Garrett
merely stated that he had discovered eleven shots in
the left lung and body, and that the rents in the
heart supposed to be stabs were caused by the ex-
plosion of the firearm. Mr. Wakley then summed
up at length, declaring his conviction on the evidence
that Solomons was a madman, and his belief that he
had destroyed himself, for it was quite probable that
some one at Hampton, finding the body, had rifled
the pockets, and then tumble the body into the
river. For some time previous to his death the man
had committed all sorts of eccentricities, such as
biting a piece out of a tumbler and chewing the
glass, threatening to murder his sister and Mr.
Davis, and to take away his own life :
His own conviction was that the man had died by his
own hand, that he discharged the pistol himself deliberately,
and with a fixed determination to destroy his own life.
Then, it might be said, why did not the shot go through
the Guernsey shirt? In answer to that he would say that
there were such things done by madmen when committing
there rash acts that those peculiarities could not be ac-
counted for. Every now and then a man would leave a
hall-room, pull off his best clothes, and put on his worst to
cut his throat. Another would carefully bleed himself to
death in a washhand basin, because he would not spoil the
carpet or table-cover. There was no accounting for
this ; it was quite possible that this man had lifted up his
shirt with one hand for the purpose of placing the pistol
nearer the heart, with a view to a more certain death. He
(the coroner) therefore did not think that there was any-
thing peculiar in that. There was another circumstanoe
somewhat remarkable in the man's conduct—namely, that
he had left his waistcoat and watch at home, and Mrs.
Arnold had stated that he had never done so before. It
appeared to him (the coroner) that the deceased had lett
his watch with a determination to commit suicide before
his return. It was a relief to one's mind that there had
been no murder committed at all.

The jury, after considering the evidence for some
twenty minutes, returned a verdict, " That the de-
ceased had died 'rota wounds inflicted by a pistol-
shoi,, but whether such wounds were self-inflicted
or inflicted by some other person, there was not
sufficient evidence to show." The matter, under
these circumstances, still remains open for farther
inquiry.
TITZ GAROTTE MEN are not particular in their
choice of neighbourhood, but they evince a par-
tiality for archways and mews. On Sunday night
141. Sapseid, a tradesman in Charles street,
Grosvenor-square, while on his way home, turned
down an archway in Bruton-street. In an instant
he was seized by a couple of men:—

prisoner Garrett caught him round the throat,
and dragged him down, compressing the throat with so
much force as to prevent him from calling out or doing
any snore than groan. The other prisoner, Murphy, came
up to him, and beat him about the face with his fist,
cutting his mouth and making it bleed. The prisoner
Murphy then laid hold of the Albert chain attached to his
watch and tore it awsy. His groans fortunately attracted
the attention of the police, who hastened to the spot, and
the prisoners ran off. The prisoner Garrett squeezed his
throat so tightly that he was all but strangled, and he was
still sutlering from the injury indicted upon him. His
watch was not taken, but the Albert chain, worth about
was taken away, and had not been found.