The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-18 00:00:00

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'RE SB, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY IS, ISM.

LAW INTELLIGESCE.

Yr. Barker maid the dekadmint mat bs taught that he
maid sot do as he plemsd with him meter, sod then ma-
tsaosd him to be imprisoned sad kept to hard labour in the
limes of Correctloaor fourteen days. It would aim be as
well for him to know that he was liable to be seat to prism
for three earadar maths sad to bs whipped, if hi did not
ohm the lawful comosimads of his master.
The father at the defendant blend him seven] times.
mad mid it wee • great shame that his sou should be mud to
pism.
Mr. Ricketts said he hoped his father would tell his sou
to go book to his work whoa he came out of prime, or be
would reader himself liable to the *mere mashy =polkaed
by the magistrate.

BAIL OOUIIT.-J.tx. 17.

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Wings at NMI Prise.—(Baleen Mr. Junkie Woe and a
Omura Jury.)
PARRY P. PDX.
This was a part heard ors from yesterday, and was
reamed this morning. Previous to the ore for the defence
being cored by Mr. Keane the °Moir of the oourt spoke
to his lordship, and ups that his lordship, addreming
use of the juryman, regarded him to leave the box, the
pries having agreed to roomed with 11 retied of 12.
Mr. Erns then *peed the defendant's oar, sod called
the following withers':
Gawp Webb said he had been a builder in Pomeroy.
stoat, New-orese, for several years. The name,
Webb," oo the bill for 451. was not hie signature, He bad
known the plaintiff for three or four years. Ho drew
roe wither sometimes In adwance, for and osineat.
He always wrote secaptahose in full ; never signed
" Geo. Webb." H. row nothing of the bill till the
defendant wrote to him about it. He told Fox that it was
a forgery. Hoof suropeaMy celled us him. He (Hood)
mid Ist it be ever eo bad be sew forged. Wirer node
it too hot fur hiss, sod he left the borer (Laughter.) Hood
subsequentlHetold him about his having made himself a
bankrupt. rover maw Fox till be saw him about this
bill. The signer» is s fmry.
Orerermined—He would be a natural tool to scespi
bill. in bleak. He did sot owe the rums stated in the three
bills he reepted for Parry.
George Lowe, a surveyor, said he knew George Webb,
sad wan acqualated with his handwriting. He had milord
the bill in question how a number of other, believing that
it was not Mr. Webb's signature.
Cross-examined—There was • similarity in the word
" Geo." He should say that that signature (to a letter
admitted to be Webb's) was not Webb's. The'. W" was
somewhat similar to that on the bill.
Henry Webb, brother of the last wither but one, said be
was a detective at the Bank of and did Out believe
the signature
rouga n the bill to be his
Charles Mo rid he knew Wrb's handwriting. His
selected the bill from amongst• host of others. If. be-
Bred it to be a forgery.
Mr. 0. Fox. the defeadaat, was thou called and examined.
The bill la question WA brought to him :pd. He
received Letter
from Webb saying that the tare was
a forgery. He never spoke to Webb to rime to deny
his handwriting. Mrs. Parry arid him to prewar the
ne
bankruptcy if be could. He did t see any of the creditors.
He saw Mrs. Parry at the Bankruptcy Gout He wee
sleeted sesignee Mrs. Parry voted for him. He did not
ybe would to and supersede the bankruptcy._ Re said
be would to and oury out log views. lie did sot may at
Mr. Jarussa's aloe that he met be squared or made right.
He id
Mr. if h
J bad saything to do with the affair it mast be
righest. ens= did not rebuke him for trying to pt an
umiak advantage over the other creditors. He never said
King had perjured himself. He did not threat's to go
resod to the trade and expoes the
Orees-ormined—He never threat• sayer with cri-
minal proosedinp earn the bills were paid. The star-
rier made by Parry and Hood about threats were farm
He Itral bees as aselmsee ear Worm He did ant know
whetiler he had her ao coon, I
twine, thrice or four times
Wore. (Laughter.) H. dissousted bills ce other
Pe
than Parry. He was not a regular bill diaccauster.t
could only tell edible 100 or 900 how many bills be dis-
counted last year. He could sot say whether be director&
say last week. He did not think he did. He bad never
bees is parker diModties. He never we a bankrupt or
ineolret, sad herr called • meeting of his creditors.
The ease was then "drums&

LAMBETH.
Mr. Henry TompWm. chief clerk in the Mealy
Societies Registration Offloe node, Mr. Tidd Pratt,
&Waded before . Elliott, and made the following dis-
closures tweetinMrg " The English Life Allillra2Cll and
Advance Company (Limited)" fruit :
Mr. Tompkins said that having read in the papers of that
morning the particular* of an appikatios trade to his wor-
ship on the day before by a poor widow, and published
under the heading of " A Hard Ow," be felt it to be his
duty to attend sod Worm his worshi et what had come te
his knowledge tweeting the company. Is the
month of April last a poor widow, then living at 14, South-
vine, Wandsworth-road, applied to the Mace, 28, Abbas-
dos-street, Westminster, for *doles. She misted that bee
Lie hoeband had boss insured in " The English Life Amur-
ante sad Advapce Cowes" (Limited)" for Ul. b., but she
applkatiose
could not get the mow, tMaO alte had made severs'
for its payment. °mooning her tam to be
ens of great hardship, he (Mr. Tompkins) inbreeded himself
sad begged to state to his worship the result of that inter-
ferers'.
who
that aceerrion he ailed es and SSW Mr. J. E.
Mooing, who was agent and collector to the orenesay. at
him ners-chandler shop, 2, Beckford-row, Maltreat's, but
whose pleas of tandems was at Hanford, in &r:—es that
time the so-ealled company had what they salted an rdloo
at 18, Queen-street, CLeapside, but it merely coanned of e
small back 1410 M oa the fast door, in whisk a few hooka
were kept—end after a gnateffort he sueseedsd in getting,
through Mr. Iloring. for the pour widow 51. 10a, out of the
W. 2a. Whilst this nerottatios wee gran on he (Mr.
Tompkins)) bed written to aced geatiscoes whose names
appeared on the punted prospectus of the ecintpany as
trines., charms°, deputy-chairman, auditors, baaluee4c.,
sad he brigiall to place before his worship the semen he
reedited from some of those gentlemen.
The first was from Admiral Sir Henry Ledge, ILO.B„
who was set down as one of the trustees, and the following
was the reply of that distinguished amour :—" United Ser.
vies Club, lbty 13, 1854.-814—I have received year letter
of the 11th inst. lam sot in any way onesseted with •
society beaded the Wish Life Animates Cantinny or
Society. If I was it weld afford me more pleasure in
wing the poor woman's you speak of (Mrs. Bagpat's/ deka
paid. There must be some gum mirtake la the women's
statement as far as my name is caniereed. If yea will do
me the favour to forward me the same of the watt, I
will endeavour to god out to what moiety Mrs. Begirt
refers, sod I hope she will not be allowed to saw.—l
sir, your &disci serveat, Herat J. Loin.—To
Hoary Tompkins."
The next letter was from Dr. Christopher Heath, who
was also described so a trustee :—" 31, Seskville-etreek
May 11, 1884. —1314-1 Iwo received your consmunioanon
of today with great surprise, inasmuch es rives Weed
till this moment of the English Life Asuman Soddy, end
moot entail:ly have never bees contented with it is any
way. I cannot imagine how my same son lave beta or-
meted with the °Moe in question, and shall boiled b know
how I oest most effectually disclaim it. I regret that 1
shall be prevented by ether engagements francs/Hsi on yen
until after one o'clock tomorrow, when I shall hops to have
a personal Interview with you on this anplemmat bedew.
—Yours obediently, "Ceram. Herm—Hoary Tompkins,

COURT OP PROBATE AND DP7ORCE.
JAI. 17.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
OODBINGSOII e. 00D1121C111)11 AIU:1 ANDSILSON.
In this thee the petitioner, Admiral Cod:Witco, bed ob.
pined, s will be reeolleoted, a verdict spinet his wife on
plena chart* hie with adultery with Lieutimant•Oolosel
Amhara and Lientethat Madras,. He had also defeated
the reetiminatory allegstions of the reepondeet @barging
him with cooduet conducing to adultety.
The Woe's Advocate. on behalf of the respondent, now
moved for a rule nisi for a new trial, as the round that
the Judge Ordinary had imperfectly the jury,
and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence.
The keened civilian complained of the manner is which the
Judge Ordinary had spothe of the draft letter found in the
respondent's desk. The tweed judge, theses pointing out
that the document did sot contain use word involving
adultery, bad said that it carried the court three parth
the way in the proof of the pstitionses case ; in rlts
which he (Sir R. Phillimore) 000teeded that the
judge had attached too peat importance to the letter,
especially ea it sustained expressions that were really in-
ambient with the hypothesis of guilt.
The Judge Ordinary—Suppose that WWII so, I 11111•111
heard that, because a judge is his comments upon the
evidence went too far or not fax enough, there ought to be a
new trial oo the ground of misdirection. The argument is
a perfectly sew one.
Sir B. Phillintore oonteacted that the evidence had in no
one particular been such as the jury ought to have relied
up on as proof of the alleged acts of criminality with Colonel
Anderson. As to the other chugs, it bad rested entirely
upon the evidenos rd Yrs. Water*, who bad deposed to a
confession which the said the respondent bad made to her.
But that evidence was ia Meal wholly inoredible, and it
was completely sautvelimd by the witosee's subsequent
conduct towards the respondent. Besides, Mrs. Watson
had daily contradicted herself. She had declared that she
bad never mid or thought that lbs. Oodrington was •
poses of wmind, or that she (the respondent) had
surged himself with 11611518 which had no *airtime except
is some hallucination. Nevertheless, • letter of the pod-
ticmer to his father-in-law had beta produced in which he
had transcribed end thus explained a letter from
Kra Watson, in which she alluded to what was
virtually • coeferion of Mrs. Codrington to her,
that else had committed adultery with Prince Albert ; sad
Ma Waimea mid it would be • eansolittioa to her (teepee.
dent's) diimg mother to know her opinion that her daughter
wee really in such • state of mind no not to be re-
sponsible for her word& Again, there wee bat one point
epos which Kra Watson could be confronted by "Wapiti-
dent evidence, and in that respect she had been contradicted
by Mae Horn. He (Sir R. Phillimore) contended, there-
fore, that there ought to be • sew trial.
Yr. Price, Q.C., for Colonel Abdomen, also moved for a
Estonia, on the posed that the verdict had been against
the weight of evidencey as well nice that of misdirection
and iniareeeptiou of evidence- The leered counsel objected
to the reception of the draft Letter se against his client ;
but his lordshiphed told the jury that to regard that letter
as evidencesport Km Oodnagton, and not as evidence
as against Colossi Anderson, would be calling on them to
perform an imposaible function.
The Judge Ordinary—And to it would. Every day's ex-
perience in this court shows that it is impossible to get a
jury properly to appreciate evidence which wee admissible
t the party aod Inadmissible against another.
Price—No doubt it would have been impossible to
have got a jury to have looked la a proper manner at the
dim in the awe at " itobineoe v. Robinson and Lane."
The Judge Ordinary—No doubt ; and there is, theretore,
much to be said in favour of your client, in considering
whether there ought to be a sew trial ; but if I had talked
to the jury for an hour in your favour, I could not have
prevented them from attaching weight to the draft letter.
XL Price—But I would rather have had your lordship
talking an hour in my favour than a quarter of an hour
wines me.
The Judge Ordinary—Not against yea.
Yr. Price—No, but upon the strength of the documentary
evidesce.
The Judge Ordinary thought that there ought to be an
affidavit from Colossi Anderson, showing that he never re-
Indeed the draft letter. If he bad nay received it, thin
had been no injustice done him.
Yr. Price °Distended, upon the authority of "Tatham v.
Wright," that if he had received it the letter would not
have been evidence epithet him, otherwise every man would
be at the mercy of any woman of flighty or wicked imagine-
tion that might choose to write him an absurd letter. The
learned counsel, in conclusion, strongly contended that
there had been a manifold, miscarriage of justice, and that
there ought to be another trial.
Sir J. Y. Wilde said the ease had been very ably argued,
mid he would consider his judgment.

Esc."
A third letter he reosired from the solicitor of Dr. J.
Palfrey, whose came amazed in the armpit:tea =
the stroogest. teems the docior's keowisdo d or
with " The English Company," so that tje» was 110 &AS
on his (Mr. Tompkins's) mina that the eximpsey wee eds.
Wished for the purposes of fraud. Mr. Tompidas added
that the name of Geode Ward Challis appeared in the
prospectus as the chairman and banker, and he in souse.
qualm had writtse to Mr. Alderman Oh.LLis, bat received
no answer. He did not. however. for one moniect suppose
the respected aidermais could be lame; as his maw was
' Thomas Challis."

THAMES.
Mary Ahearn, whose she it would be difilealt to tell, bat
who maid she wee 10, wee brought before Mr. Paget testae&
with steeling two new bathe, valued at 3e. Ed, from the
shop of Mr. George Booth, tin-plate worker, of 70, High-
street, Hhadwell.
The Khmer bas rendered herself perfectly repalsive by
seams drinks, diesipatios, videcoe, sod dime,. Her noes
was a perfect grog-hkeeorn, her face was disfigured with
costumes, her mouth was cat, sad the rondos of the few
teeth in her mouth were black. In • voice husky with gin
she kept up a running commestary co the endows.
The prolocutor said a poor sad respectable woman esme
into his shop on Mendsy mealy, and said the pri-
soner had struck her and robbed her d • shawl, and, sta-
tioned the woman, I think she ;has robbed you, for she
bee two new tin ktties in her bands. He looked shoot
the shop sad mimed two kettles. He went after the pri-
mmer and overtook her with the kettles in her pOSOOIIIIOO.
Illas them made a furious attack upon him sad boat him for
a quarter of an hour.
Mr. Paget—Beat you, whet did she best you with !
Mr. Booth—With her shoe, your worship. I never met
with each a desperate sad furious woman in my life.
The prisoner —Oeh, you murtheriag_villain. You wanted
to take advantage of me makers. He did, yet banner's
tranship. (Laughter.) He asked me to go and live with
him, sod mid he would furnish a naps little parlour for me,
pots, kettles, sad ell. (Laughter.)
Mr. Booth, who is • respectable married man with a
family, looked satoonded, and said there was not a wad of
truth in what the rimier said.
The misooer—Ooh, fit hear that. You villein, didn't
c lsuaal me to take • new kettle, and didn't I take the one
the other you gave me!
Mr. Booth—Nothing of the kid
The primmer—Didn't you pve me • pint of gin!
(laughter.)
Mr. Booth—Certdolv not.
Mr. George Booth. j 93. a respectable young DUD, emw
firmed the evidence of his'father in every particular.
The psieooer sow altered her defence, and said she was
drunk on Moodily, and the " little dhrop taken" put the
kettles into her lands.
James Stack)), a police oonetahle, No. 164 IL, said he
saw the primmer besting Mr. Booth. Sis• was • most der
perste woman.
The deposition having been read over by Mr. Bowdler
the clerk, the prisoom said. "Do as you like with me. I
wee stone blind drunk, and didn't know what I was doing."
Mr. I shall commit you for tell.
The Do what you like. Be in. sow). I met
Mrgin.
Mr. Paget—Yon will have DODO here.
The wiener was beginning to abuse the vitamins whim
the gaoler removed her to the lockup.

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