The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1851.

objected to by the solicitor for the prisoner. lle then said
his young man was in eaurt and could tell all about it.
Mr. liallantine--Theo he will bevaamitml hereafter.
The witness then refused to answer any more questions,
and apvealed to the court forgpmtection.
A solicitor, who stated that he appeared to protect Mr.
Attenborough, several times attempted to interfere on his
behalf, but was prohibited from doing so by the court. Tho
witness then stated that the transactions with lioyd com-
muted about May or June, 1849. He could not tell whe-
I ther he had received 10.000!. worth of goods without en-
, &mining his hooks. The greater part of the goods had
been sold by the order of Boyd—some to a Mr. Thorpe and
some to Mr. Drakeford, but about idol. worth was still in
his possesaion.
! Mr. J. Fawley, assistant to Mr. Attenborough, proved
that on the 17th May, 1651, 1201. was lent to Boyd on 660
I pounds weight of silk. The sum of 8,610/. had been ad-
, vaned to him on silks from the 14th June,lB49, to the 19th
! May, 1851, of which about 8001. 0rj.900/. worth had been
redeemed, besides the 1501. worth now in the possession of
Mr. Attenhorough. All the other goods had been sold. On
' the 27th May, 1851, 2,109/. is. 91 worth waseold to Messrs.
Drakeford at prices varying from 10s. to Vs.
Mr. Drakeford was called, but it was stated he was out
of town.
Mr. Jonah Robinson, of the firm of Drakeford and Co.,
Great Winehesteretreet, stated that he had transactions
with Boyd since 1819, but after January 17, 1651, they
ceased to sell goods to him, and the deposits began in the
February following. The account was closed when the
deposits began, because they did not approve of Boyd's
transactions with other persons, which they thought be-
yond his means. Between February and June, 1831, the
value of goods deposited with them by Boyd was 2,3301.
They had bought silks from Mr. Attenborough, but did not
know they were Boyd's, as he had told them that he had
some silks to sell for a friend on commission for cash only.
The silks were brought from Attenhorough, by Fawley, but
they did not know they were Boyd's ti,l he asked fora gua-
rantee for payment on delivery, when they asked the name
of the vender. lie at first did not believe the silk was
Boyd's, because the greatest part was unsuitable. fur his
trade as a manufacturer.

This being the ca..° for the prosecution,
Mr. Hersey urged, on the part of the prisoner, that how-
ever blameable and improper these transactions were, no
such fraud had been proved as was contemplated by the act
of parliament.
Sir It. W. Carden said he thou3ht that the act was in-
tended to check this system, which it was feared prevailed
to a great extent, and that the transactions proved were
within its provisions.
The prisoner was therefore committed for trial.
William Griffith Kemp, who has been several times ex-
amined for presenting at the London and Westminster
Bank a forged cheque, which he said was given to him to
get changed by another person, was again brought no, and
as it appeared that the prisoners account of himself was
true, and that he had hitherto borne a very good character,
he was discharged.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Shens, a weaver, was brought up fur mexantina•
tion, charged with so injuring his wife that she hail been
confined for several weeks past in St. Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal in a dangerous state.
The particulars elicited at the former examination were,
that the prosecutrix had been for a long time subjected to
most brutal treatment from her husband, who upon the last
occasion had kept her without food for two entire
days, and upon her asking hint for something to cat,
felled her to the ground by a violent blow in the
face, jumped with the whole weight of his body upon her
ribs, and beat her so severely on the head with an instru-
ment used in his trade called a " picking roller " that she
beianie perfectly senselesis, and remained in a state of
helpless exhaustion behind her bedstead till the followin;
day, when she was assisted to the workhouse of &this:si-
gn:en Union by a woman who had called in to see her.
There she remained an inmate of the infirmary for nearly
a week, when some of the parish officers sent her down to
this court, to prefer the Mame against her husband, in On
omnibus, the jolting and oscillation of which so seriously
affected her that a physiciau named Kemp, who acci-
dentally witnessed her agony, ordered the vehicle to be
stopped, and transferred her to the court in a cab at his
own expense. The only person sent with the woman upon
that occasion being an aged pauper, the magistrate strongly
observed upon the conduct pursued by the parish otlicerN
and after a short examination of the u'OlUall ordered her
instant removal to the hospital, from which itowland, the
warrant officer, shortly after returned, with an inti nation
from one of the surgeons that two of her ribs had been
broken.

The poor woman was now in attendance, but still in a
state of extreme debility and personal suffering, and Mr.
Bestow, the relieving overseer, accumpunied by Mr. Van-
denberg, one of the medical officers., Bali Mr. Mt rick, the
master of the union-house, also appeared to render an ex-
planation on behalf of the parish authoritit A.
Mr. Bestow now stated, that since the former examina-
tion, the whole facts of the case had been thoroughly inves-
tigated by the boerd of guardians, who had desired him to
state that they were most anxious to du everything that lay
in their power tor the poor woman's bent lit, or that the
magistrate himself might desire. lle siucerely regretted
that the resident medical officer, Mr. Ager, who had been I
in attendance upon the complainant, was precluded from
attending by severe indispositiou ; but, on behalf of that
person, he might state that ho hail been attached to the
parish iu that capacity for thirty•tive years. and if, as
appeared by the report made by the hospital surgeons, the
woman's ribs were really broken, and a mistake in her
treatment had therefore been made by their medical officer,
it was the first and only time that such a circumstance, he
believed, had occurred. The facts, as far ss their union
was concerned, were, that the woman in reality, did not
belong to their parish ; but, upon seeing the shocking man-
ner in which she had been treated by the prieauer, he not
only at once cuuseuted to relieve her, but himself brought
her down to the court, that she might procure a warrant fur
her husband's apprehension. She at that time declined to
enter the house, hut again calleil upon him the next day,
when, upon finding that she had had no medical assistance,
he furnished her with an order upon Mr. Vandenberg,
et ho was now present, and who attended to her case ; and
upua her entering the workhouse, two days afterwards,
she was placed under the care of Mr. Apr, and
remained iu the Infirmary until the day when
the warrant was to be heard against her husband ; permis-
sion was given her to attend and prefer the 'charge, with
the condition that she wier to ride there, and the readiest
means were therefore resorted to to facilitate her objcet.
Mr. Sydney. Vandenberg, out-door surgeon to the Beth-
nal-green Union, stated that the prosecutrix called upon
hint ut his house about eight in the evening of the 2,ith ult.
with an order for his attendance upon her from Mr. Bes-
tow, and she then complained of having been very much
iliused by her husband, and intimated her suspicion that he
had broken her ribs. Ile requested her to undo her dress,
and having examined her ribs carefully and separately, he
told her distinctly that none of her ribs had been fractured,
' but that she had been very much contused by the illusage.
Ile could now distinctly swear that none of her ribs were at
that time broken ; the muscles were very much contused,
i but without a fracture, lie prescribed same muliciuo fur
her, which he directed her to take, and to go home and
apply warm fomentations to her aide, and told her that if
she got worse she was to send for him and he would see her.
She called again the neat (Sunday) morning at 10 o'clock,
and she then told him that she obit much relieved. The
witness added, that he was present when Mr. Ager, the
medical officer of the house, nude his statement before the
hoard, and would repeat it, if the magistrate would permit
him. - - - - -

Mr. Ilammill, however, said that that could not be legally
received, and having read the certificate from Mr. Langdon,
the house surgeon of the hospital, describing the woman to
be labouring under the effects of gent isy, following a vio-
lent blow, but not adverting to the statement made by one
of the hospital surgeons to Rowland, the warrant officer,
that one it not two of her ribs were broken, asked the wit-
ness, as implicating the prisoner, if the contusions he had
seen upon her person were likely to conduce to that die.
ease, • question which he decidedly answered in the
affirmative.
Rowland here stated that one of the surgeons distinetly
told him the woman's ribs had been fractured, and even
Mr. Langdon, when he handed him the certificate that
morning, intimated that he was still not prepared to say that
such was not the tact.
The prosecutrix, who was seated in a chair in front of the
magistrate, was then examined, and after detailing the par-
ticulars of the ill-treatment to which she had been sub-
jected at the hands of her brutal husband, and which ex-
hibited features of much more atrocity than she had pre- 1
viously related, added, that when in the infirmary of the
workhouse she had not boon examined by the medical
officer, and that although she had complained to him of the
agony she was enduring from the pain in her ribs, he had
only prescribed a warm plaster fur her the whole time she
Rai there.
Mr. Hammitt said that had been his impression through-
out, as he could scarcely believe the woman, who exhibited
' such dangerous and painful symptoms while at that court,
could have been properly examined without a discovery
being made of the serious injuries that had been indicted
upon her. The magistrate having inquired if the hospital
• sargeon was then in attendance, and it having been inti-
mated that he was not, but would be if the case were re-
manded, Mr. liansmill ordered the further proceedings to
be adjourned fur that purpose, and, in pursuance of the
directions to that effect train the surgeons of the hospital,
directed the warrant officer to convey the prosecutrix back
in • cab to that institution as speedily as possible.
501.:111WARK.

James Hopkbes, apprentice to John Barnwell, wood.
turner, in Little Qui1.11,911-,treet, Southward was brOU'Pht
sip on remand, charpa with wilfully attempung to set Are
to his master's pruniscr, and committed for trial. The
facts have already appeared.

LAMBETH.

The Marquis de St. Mauric.s, accompanied by his solici-
tor, Mr. J. Owens, attended before Mr. Norton, when the
latter applied to know by what authority his client (the
marquis) had been taken into custody, and undergone
seven days' imprisonment, on a charge of giving a (Also
character to a man named Wardell to Mr. Hayden, the
banker, at Guildford, the particulars of which charge
appeared in the daily journals when the marquis was des-
, charged. He made this somewhat unusual application be-
cause Mr. Ilaydon had denied having ever made any charge
against his client.
Mr. Norton observed that when Wardell was first brought
up on the charge of attempting to defraud the South-
Western Railway Company, there was strong reason to
suspect that he (Wardell) had obtained the situation in the
establishment of Mr. Hayden by a false character, and one
of the constables believing that a warrant had been applied
tor, and obtained, against the writer of the charnator,had
taken the Marquis de St. Maurice into cutody. When
in custody, Mr. Hayden attended, at the request at tie
911107, to give evidence. From what had dase transpired

he, Mr. Hayden, acquitted the marquis of any intention
whatever of doing wraug ; and his, witness's, like that of
his, Mr. Norton's, opinion was, that the whole affair arose
from the generous and kindly disposition of tho Marquis,
and hoped that as far as he, Mr. Norton, was concerned,
that every reparation and justice had bean done to hnn.
But the ease was one oi thaw to which the most respecta-
ble were liable.
The Marquis acknowledged the fact, and hero the matter
terminated.
John Mason, alias Blind Jonny, and Eli: Beth Thomas
nontaa, who with a second female named Ferrite (who
was too ill to bo brought up), uaderwent another exami-
nation.
In addition to the large sums already proved to have
been received by the prisoners by the most infamous
manoeuvres and tricks, Mr. Robert Parris, a surveyor,
residing in South Lambeth, deposed that, in the month of
July last, the female prisoner Thomas called on him, and
producing • letter, which she said she had received from a
solicitor at Bath, relative to the sale of some landed pro-
perty there, requested his opinion as to its value, and
said she had been strongly recommended to him by
:11r.:,Wright. He told her it was impossible he could
give any estimate of its value until he first
saw the laud, and she then requested him to write to her
solicitor, Mr. Thomas Henry. Wood, of Royul.cresceut,
Bath, to ask the amount then due to her on account of the
property. Ile did write, and in • day or two received an
answer dated 13, Royal-crescent, Bath, and signed T. 11.
Wood, saying that 14!. odd was due up to that time, and
that he should forward it in Post-office orders in three or
four days from that date. The letter also stated that her
(the prisoner's) aunt ut Carlisle was in a dangerous state,
and recommended her to lose no time in going to see her
it she wished to fled her alive. The prisoner, who had a
second letter to a similar effect, lamented that she could not
start for Carlisle until the arrival of the Post-office orders
from Mr. Wood, and witness unfortunately gave her the
141., expecting to receive the Post-office orders, but in this
ho was disappointed, and found that he had been victimised.
Mr. Parris hail since been to Bath, and found that no such
person as Mr. Beery Wood lived then or at any other time
at 13, Royal-crescent there.
l'he prisoners were then remanded.