The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-29 00:00:00

scribe, and Mr. &urge paid ‘s. re prove,.
tuns for subscriber, printed by Mr. Gilpin.
[A copy was put in and read., and set forth the purees.
of the Barone' to publish, under the title of o The
Story of her Life," the leading incideuts in her ch. (meted
career.]
• Elimination of witness continued—l lied male the
acquaintance of a Mr. Hill, in Birmingham, who nitro,
duced me to Mr. Dawson. I asked Mr. Dawson to allow
me to introduce the Baroness von Beck to him ; desired
me to take her to him' and I did so. Mr. Lawson sgrsed
to subscribe for the book, and paid 11 is. fur it. The
mosey was wrapped up in a piece of paper. He said,
That in the payment for the subscription." I think that
is the sense of hie words. I translated what he said to
the
Baroness; she thanked Mr. Darwin, and requeatt d Met to
assist her in getting subecribers. Mr. Dawson awed about
the first book, and the Baroness seat it in the evening to
his house. Afterwards, we were ievinel to Mr. Deeson'a
house. I think that gentleman is a Lecturer and a clergy.
man. I think he is • clergyman at a new church.
Baron Aldenon—He is a lecturer at a &wanting chaptl,
I suppose.
Examination of witness continut Barone, was ill
at Mr. Dawson s, and after we returned to the leer .1:e
was ill all night. She did not solicit subscriptsen. after-
wards. We arrived in Birmingham on the 4th of Ammo,
and the Sunday afterwards, the loth, we dined at Mr. ley.
tun's. The neat day 1 called un Mr. Daw.on, and Asked
him to recommend a physician. Ile w stt his brother in-law,
Mr. Crompton. The Baroness continual ill, and ee the
Tuesday attervrarde a lady fetch, it her to Mr. Ty, dew,.
Mr. Peyton sent his carriage for that purpose. I atom.
palsied her to Mr. Tyndall'', but returned to the hoed,
Afterwards 1 removed to Mr. Tyndall). huuse, le. lady
haling begged me to do so. The Benin's' continued %my
ill. I remember the evening of the 211.1, of Aumed. Mr,
'Tyndall was not at home on that day. Ile was seared, at
home for four or five days. We played Front, private
theatricals on that evening, and w. re to do won the mat,
There were present Mr. and Mrs. letweeti, Mr. 1'.2 ten, Mr.
and Mrs. Ryland, Madame Jacob, M. Itasougi, and eth„.
At the time I was sitting at the piano, Mr. Tymeill mine
and touched me ton the shoulder; he raid that a
wished to speak to me outside. Ile said so in his send
kindly manner. Mr. Tyndall heal never asked use hew I
became acquained with the liatolleSti. When I not out of
the room two pslicemen came to me ; tie y gave me my hat,
and by force put me in a cab and t edc in, to the statien.
I was searched in a public room before the Mteetire
oflitere. I objected, but Mr. Tandy insisttil. and I wee
obliged to submit. Down to that time I lead re sec beta
told what the charge was. I asked Mr. 'Lindy in the "'T-
riage. He insulted me, and said I was a thief.
Baron Alderson --linable improper, no doubt ; het teat
in no way elf, eta the defendants.
Examination continued—l was Imiced up in a cell ht
Mon-street all night; there war only a lunch to the pace.
The cell-door was maned in the usernieg. I ae. aisato.4
to the washing-place in the certider. I then me sea
Baronies in her prison. She said, '• We are •eu., d
al
tieing impostors afterward she asked for a plipician
and for water. On my way kilo the court at !. era
pas,.. .1 the Baroness, who 11%.*. WI Si chair. She app. ate) to
be dying. Tb y took me to the coact ; a etaisteAt steed
by my bide. There were sttle r pr,smit rs standsne near. A
p rson mode a statement about me. I have ben Mr. Da,.
eon write. The signature to the depaition is in M. heed.
writing. Mr. Deletion and Mr. Tyndall were pre. nt, and
examined before the magistrates. 131 r. Ity lend was peasant.
Afterwards I was discharged. I have always been on
fritudly terms with my lath' ran 1 mother. I have re-
ceived money from them. The Rev. Mr. Wingate brougLt
me mon. y and litter*.
Baron Alderson—When's the information on which the
warrant was granted 2 I have only the depositions Le.
fore Me.

Mr. Gem, the magistrate's clerk, said—.My lord, the de-
positions produced are those• on which the warrant was
granted. I was not present at the time they were taken.
Baron Alderson—Where, I say, is the information ?
have nothing before me but the detioNitions of Isar peeves.
Suppose John Smith prefers a charge or asks for a warrant,
he gets nelson, to make a statement in support of it. Is
your declaration, brother Miller, you say that without rea-
sonable and probable cause the plaintiff was taken into cus-
tody, and that under false pretences the 1/. 4*. was obtained.
from Mr. George Dawson. Now I ask aaain for the infor-
mation. The thing is most irregular as it stands. Give
me the warrant. Were these p' moos taken to preeu with-
out a warrant ? If so, an action should have been brought
against the magistrate.
Scrj. Miller—lie is dead.
Baron Al•lerson—Then bring en action against the con-
stables. You ace we have nothing but four depusiti..ns;
my present impression is that tins won't do. Mr. Gem,
how was thin case brought on ? One would think Pout• thing
like the forms of justice would be observed, even in Bir-
mingham.
Mr. Gem—The case was called on, my lord, and the
charge stated.
Baron Alderson—Was it not reduced to writing?
there no warrant read ?

Mr. Gem—No, my lord.
Baron Alderson—[ suppose yin can't do things regularly.
You see here I am in a ditlle,ilty because we have neither
information nor warrant. I think these courts in Birming-
ham require some of that reform that we hear M much
about. Here are persons taken into custody and brought
before the magistrates at Birmingham and nobody knows
who makes the charge against them. This i 1 very, very
wrong._

Mr. W. 11. Gem the 111 rig istrat N clerk, re-examined—
At the hearing before the nmei.iratis a gentleman from
London made a statement about t pr,,ent plaintiff-hating
obtained 11. 4.. from Mr. Dawsnii, tor %hem he appeared.
M. Constant Dern re-called—l heard Mr. Smith make
the charge against me in the Court at Birmingham for
Mr. Dawpon.

Baron Aldenon—You see we have mailer the informa-
tion on which the warrant waii gr.int‘.l nor the warrant,
nor the person who executed it.

tierjeant Miller—My lord, the person here .10
took the plaintiff into cumody ; we auppo.ed, of course, !hat
he had the warrant, and, now it turns out that he mitt
had it.

Baron Alderson—Well, I erm't help you.
The deposiuons of MOSUL Dewsou and Tyndall were ben
read.

Baron Alderson—Those depts. tionv arc oaths of credulity
—nothing ns,re. Mr. Dawson s he ves the woman
was not what she pretended to he --outding more. It's only
his belief.

M. Derra cross-examined by Mr. Macaulay—lf the event
had not happened, we should have returned to London on
the Saturday or the day after. I don't know how many
subscribers we got with the assistance of Mr. Tyndall and
Mr. Dawson. I do not think we not a hundred subscri-
bers. The arrangement with Mr. Gilpin was that he was
to receive the expence of printing and publishing only.
I left the army because I was going to be married. I in-
tended to live on an allowance from my father. I came to
England to see the Exhibiti in. I h uve been here eve?
since I arrived in April hut year. I have not spoken to
Mr. Bentley, except incidentally, on the subject of this
trial. An Irish gentleman named Hart recommended me
to my solicitors. The Baroness nev, r spoke French to me.
The letter you put into my hand, writ:en in French and
signed by her, is not written by her. Meat Austrian ladies
can speak French ; but the Vainness you Beck was between
50 and 60 years of age, and educa•ion was nut so spread in
her time. She spoke to me in German, and spoke
the Sclavonic language like a native. I do not
streakCou"rt myseor IlufiennSaheduwrinhig thee re'hme had residedigneuithe
astt
three
Emperors; she never told me in what capacity. She told
me that she had married the Baron Von Beck in the north
part of Hungary. I did not know him ; I have never met
any one who did. I met a gentleman named Ceryoni at
the Baroness's lodgings, in Dean-street, Soho. I met other
gentlemen there as well. Atter I was liberated I received
my money, which I bad left at Mr. Tyndall's house when
I was taken by the police. I rip:died to Mr. Tyndall for
the money on account of the subscriptions Ile did not
give it me, but said he would guarantee Mt when the
first volume appeared. I never applied to M. Ilejnik for
money.
The learned counsel was about to croon-examine the
witness relative to the evidence respecting him given by
M. Ilajnik in his evidence before the magistrates at Bir-
mingham, but Baron Alderson refused to take any cog-
nizance of M. Hajnik's evidence, on the ground that that
person had not signed his deposition; lie said that this
was another specimen of the irregular manner in which
proceedings were conducted in the Birmingham police-court.
Mr. Macaulay—You see, my lord, when the proceedings
dropped Mr. Gem thought it was unnecessary to complete
the depositions or to get them signed.
Baron Alderson—Then, I say, that's disgraceful. I shall
put down no depositions taken.
Ills Lordship retired to consult Mr. Justice Coleridge.
On his return, he said that his learned brother was of opi-
nion that notwithstanding the irregularity or the loose notes
of M. Ilajuik's depositions had been prepared by Mr. Gem,
M. Derry might be examined respecting it.
the exiunination of AL lutist int Vern was then re-
sumed by Mr. Macaulay—l did not say in the court
at Birmingham that General Vetter had cautioned
mo against the Baroness von Beck, for that she
wan an adventurer. I never heard that Mr. 1 oulinin
Smith was a member of the Hungarian committee.
I heard Mr. Smith read letters in the Birmingham court—
letters which he s id were from Hungarians. I never heard
the magistrates say that they would have proceeded differ-
ently if the two bad been living. I only heard people say
I was discharged." I did thank M. Ilajnik at the Birming-
ham court, but in a sarcastic way. I said to him that I del
not think a countryman would behave as Kind as he dud.
(Laughter.) I did not hear Mr. Toultnin Smith say to the
magistrates tl.at he haul only laid the ease before them to
show the grounds on which the parties bad been Maw into
custody.
Me examined by Mr. Serjeant Miller—l had no reason
to doubt the baroness being other than she represented her-
self to be.

The notes made by Mr. Oern, the magistrate's clerk, of
the evidence of M. Ilajnik in the police-court at Birmingham
were then read by the l'ormer. 'the purport of it was that
the &cooed was a spy named Itaeidula, and not the Ba-
roness Von Beck. In croay.examittation Mr. Gem said—
Mr. Toulmin Smith told the magistrates the, the unto.
tunate event having happened, they desired to do no more
than lay before them the circumstances under which the

prosecution was oomotenctd. I don't remember the magi-
strates using that the parties had only done right to ap.
preltendiup Mix person and the Il.none,s von Beck.
•

'the evidence of Measro. Dawson and Tyndol bvi'ore the
magiotrates was also read.

Mr. (lent—There were only three witnesses examined
before the magistrates.
M. Xneter Gorski was then sworn and examined through
the medium of an interpreter-1 was a lieutenant under
General Bent in the Polish legion of the ligueriaa