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for its removal, it was essential that the evidence should be • After a errs long investigation both prisoners were con-
tuse, or, it tat-e, should be me nelel with punishin.nt. The visaed, and Davies was 'entente.' to be transported for lite,
facts on which this chars' was fronded were the.: : On the and Denham fur ten years.
27th of March last there caw on to he tried in the next
court • cause called " Doc, on the demise of Thomas NORTIIEIIN etNiteurr.—ArPLEßY, AUG. 8.
!tethers's. v. Lewis I.ewie." It was an action of • jeetnient I isi Own r. Coes.%
len ucht by Thomas Itieharils to recover poultei•ni en certain ' laor. nest. Iltenecee min v
Ellu.vierfiEtt r. 4:Vaal:Sus AM)
leasehold premises held by the defendant. Mr. Philpotts °Tit
We'd on that occasion as the attorney for the plaintiff. 'lke This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession
premises in dispute were held under • lease granted in 1822 of a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Kirkbythore, in West-
to two persons, named Ithys Morgan and William Joseph. { moreland. It appeared that the chapel
and in in questil797 on was
In that action the plaintiff claimed through lthys Morgan, built towards the end of the last
century, was
and it was therefore necessary for him to show that t settled upon trustees by Thomas Crosby, the owner of the
' Morgan was the survivor of the two lessees, and that • ground upon which h was built. This deed was omitted
Joseph was dead ; and accordingly, in the course of the to be enrolled in Chancery., and in 1812, when Wale alters-
muse, the plaintiffs counsel pet in with that view a does- tions and improvements in the chapel were made, another
smelt which purported to be an office copy of the will of deed was executed by Thomas Crosby, which woe
William Joseph, and it was proposed to be read in eerier to duly perfected by enrolment. This deed was signed
chow that Joseph was dead. It was objected that this office in the presence of three witnesses. The chapel again
copy was not evidenee, and could not be read a, an office underwent certain improvements in 18'12, the expenses of
copy of a will in any shape or way. On this Mr. l'hilpotts, which, as well as the expenses of the previous improvenemela.
after communicating with his counsel, was called as a wit- were defrayed by public subscription. Subsequently, it
seas, and swore that he had compared that document with the year 18.8, a further addition was made to the chapel
the original will in the Consistory Court of Llandaff. It upon adjoining ground, part of a garden then belonging to
was then objected that this did not make the document Wm. Harrison, bet no conveyance of the new piece of
evidence, and the learned judge who presided (Mr. Justice ground wee. then obtained. This defect was remedied
Talfourd) said to the counsel who led for the plaintiff, "An 1819. In 1836 a dispute arose in the Wesleyan Society, and
examined copy of • will will not answer. You must have what was called the Warrenite secession took place which
the probate or act of probate." On which Mr. Philpotts effected the society at Kirkbyttiore. The seceding party,
swore that he had examined the document proposed to headed by Mr. Jas. Crosby, a grandson of Thos. Crosby,
read with the act-book and the act of probate in the Con- who was at that time chapel steward and held the key, got
sietoriel Court. This appeared rather strange. It was the possession of the chapel and refused the Wesleyan, the
strange that he should have examined that document with old body, the use of it. Several meetings took place with
the original will end with the act-book and the act of pro- • view of effecting • conciliation, which ended in the se-
hate. Accordingly, the counsel for the defendant in the ceding body, the `Wesleyan Association Methodists, as they
action cross-examined Mr. l'hilpotts very strictly, so that styled themselves, admitting the old body to the chapel
there should be no mistake in the matter ; and he repeated every alternate Sunday, which they continued to do until
distinctly, again and 'gain, that he had examined the 1819, when the chapel was closed against them. }fence the
document with the original will, and with the att-book, and present action.
i the act of probate; and on being sifted in cross examination, For the defence it was centended that the Crosby family
he gave the time at which, the place where, the persons with had had the entire pusseseion and management of the chapel
whom, and the eireurastanees under which he made the ex- for upwards of twenty yearn ; that the deed of 1812 was not
asaination. Ile stated that he went in the month of Fe- known to them to be in existence until 1828, when the
bruary last to the Ceensistorial Court of Llandaff, and ex- enlargement took place ; that the trustees under the deed
stained the document with the original will. and that there had never exercised any act of ownership nor interfered in
were present during the examination a Mr. Evans, one of any way with the management of the affairs of the society.
the clerks to the registrar of the court, and • clerk of his A host of witnesses were called to speak to these points,
own named Smith. He was asked shout other persons notwithetanding the frequent intimation by his lordship that
being present ; but Beau and Smith were the only persons they did not at all affect the title set up by the lessors of the
Mentioned as being piresent on the occasion. The whole of plaintiff. With respect to the new slip of ground the
the material parts of this statement would be proved to he defendants put in evidence a home-manufactured deed,
totally and entirely Use, and false to the knowledge of the dated November, 1826, from W. Harrison to John Crosby,
defendant when he swore them. It would he shown that but who, notwithstanding the conveyance, had afterwards
he did go on the; Bth of February to the Consistorial conveyed the same property to another person under whom
Court of Llandaff; that he asked to sec a copy of the will the lemma of the plaiutilf claim. At that time there wee a
of William Joseph ; that there is a book in which wills are term of 1,000 years in the premises outstanding in one Bell
copied ; that • cony of that will was found in that book by as mortgagee.
the officer of the court; that he read it and asked for a Mr. Matthews having replied, his lordship summed up,
copy ; that this was hetwern 4 and .5 o'clock on Saturday. and the jury almost immediately found a verdict for the
the Bth of February ; that the officer told him that he could plaintiff.
not have a copy that day, as the office hours had nearly The ease occupied the court from the opening until seven
expired; that the defendant replied his clerk could make in the evening.
nne in ten minute., hut was told they never allowed LANCASTER, AUG. 11.
strangers to make copies of documents in the ecclesiastical The commission for the northern division of the county
outsets., and that if he wanted a copy one would of Lancaster wee opened on Saturday 'venire( before Mr.
be made out and sent to him on Monday morn- Serjeant Bliss. Mr. Baron Platt arrived at Lancaster the
ing; that he then asked what was to be paid for it, and was same evening, but Mr. Justice Williams did nut make his
told the sum, and paid it and went away ; and that the appearance until Monday morning. The calendar of pri.
act,WWI made on the Monday and transme materialos In eoners contains about the customary number of prisoners
then, was not a single pertion of the parts of hut the cues, with two or three exceptions, arc of a very
what he swore true. It should be added that the document light character.
wise till objects) to by the counsel for the defendant as in- The crown court opened on Monday morning at eleven
admissible, and the learned judge said to Mr. Alexander, o'clock before Mr. Baron I'latt, but the cases tried possessed
the counsel for the plaintiff, that he would Deceive it if no general interest.
pressed by the plaintiff. 'thereupon, the plaintiff's counsel
said he would withdraw it for the peewee That was
a circumstance which would be probably relied on by his
learned friends to show that the legul crime of perjury had
not been committed. But he submitted that the document
hying tendered in a Muse under judicial ineeetigatios and
objected to, and thee false evidence being given in oiler le
obviate the objection and render it admissible, the Lod
crime of perjury was that moment complete, whether the
demount was afterwards withdrawn or not, and that its
Is ing withdrawn made no difference in the crime. This
case was analagous to those in which perjury was assigned
on affidavits, the jurists of which were so defective that they
could not he need in court. Another ground of defence
might be that the defendant went to the court in the
month of October, and by mistake said Ft hruary for
October. but it would be shown that when lie went in
Oetnlier it was to 50 and see another will, and not that of
Wiiii4llllJ,"eph, cool that at no period whatever did he
compare the document in queetion with the original will
of William Joseph, or with the set. book or the act of pro-
hate. It would be shown that original wills were kept in ,
the nsaird.rivirn in the cathedral, which was a totally dif- I
terent place loan the office where Mr l'hilpotts had been.
The practice of the Llandad office was to keep wine in bun-
dle., at enrding to the date, and when after the trial at the
last adzes a march was made the original will of William
Joseph wee found in it. peeper place, never having been
exhibited to Mr. Philputte or any other person. It appeared
that, when a will was applied for, it was taken out ;of
the other in the cathedral, and taken to the registrar's
office, and there put in a bundle by itself and kept
there for a year or so, when it was replaced in its proper
place. Thew, were the facts on which the prosecution
rettrd, and be submitted that they eenstituttal the lewd
as wall as the moral crime of perjury. If the defend-
ant'. statement was false, it must be eei to own know-
ledge, for it must be (deserved that when lie !aristocrat the
document he stated that hi• had compared it with the original
will and the act of probate and the act book; whereas the
document was made out after he left the office and sent Or
him by post, and he never compared or examined it with
anything an that other. This statement was fully established
by the evidence in every respect, eseept that it was not
clearly made out for what purpose thu copy of the will of
Williaiu Joseph was tendered in evidence on the trial of the
action, the counsel for the prosecution now ein,tentling
that it was for the purpose of showing iieferentiallly
the death of Jooph, and the counsel for the defendant
',eying it could not have been any evidence of that
eircusustanc.•, and that it was to explain sonsethieg
in unother will, which, however, did not more fully
or otherwise appear on either the former or the present
trial. On the thee of the ease for the pnoteution, the
counsel fur the defendant submitted that the contents of
Vi illiain Joseph's will were utterly immaterial to the deter-
mination of the issue in the action of ejectment. His lord-
ship said that was clearly au. The learned counsel then eon-
tended that, as the contents of the will were utterly imma-
terial to the issue in that action, everything sworn by the
defendant in reference to them was immaterial, and conse-
quently could not he the subject of an indictment fur
perjury. The counsel for the prosecution. on the, other I
cuntenelnl that, though the contents of the will were
immaterial to the issue, yet the death of Joseph was most
mettle •I to it, and, as an examined copy of the probate of
the will wee some circumstantial evidence, however slight,
of his death, everthing sworn by the defendant in order to
get that examined copy admitted in evidence was sufficiently
material to sustain this indictment.
His Lordship arid that, though his own private opinion
was that the law ought to be that whatever was sworn in
the course of a cause in a court of justice should be the
subject of an indictment for perjury, yet he had not the '
least doubt that as the law now genet that which was the
subject of suet an indictment must be something capable of
supporting the issue. He would nut how determine this
question, hut re15.1,1,e it for the Court of Criminal Appeal, if
the verdict should be against the defendant.
Mr. Serjeant Allen then addressed the jury for the de-
fendant.
After his Lordship had summed up,
The jury deliberated for four minutes, and then returned
a verdict of Guilty.
The defendant was then admitted to bail till the next
assizes, in order that the poiut reserved may be decided in
the Court of Appeal.
Be ittiLAUT.
I,'ranris Dories was indicted for a burglary on the 7th of
January, in the house of Miss Hannah B. Davies, at Usk,
aod Ann Denham for inciting him to commit the same.
Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Sulythies
the defeuee.
This case was remarkable fur the train of circumstantial
evidence by which the guilt of the woman was established.
The principal witness WAS a man named Clarke, who was
nude r sentence of transportation for another offence. Ito
stated that he had been a lodger is the house of a man
named John Denham, the husband of the prisoner, who
had hsvn an udteer of Monmouth gaol. and afterwards set
up
the trade of marine storettealer ; that he and the
and John Denham planned the burglary in ques-
rs
and that the priemer Auue told them that they would
and I gold watch on the mantel-piece and some %edge (a
event word for silver plate) in a short mind thing like a
desk In the house of Miss Davies, and described the house
10 thala ; that, fallowing her directions, Davies and himself
got into the house and broke open a celltret, which they
thought answered the description of a short round thing
like a stool, but found no plate in it; our din they find a
watch on the mtntel-pieee. but they found some plate in
steer parts of the house, and took it away, and also a stick,
which bad belonged to an old gentleman who had resided
fa the house, sad • puck of cards and a bottle of spiriee,
oven last they drank on the rued back, and which
' mob them intoxicated. They had used as a
ass* for forcing open a door a wooden mesh
ifte netting, and, in their harry, left it behind. Oa
Ink arrive' at Denham's. they the w mud against a window
as a sign for him to let them in, and he accordingly
ad se. Anne Denham, on seeing the stick, said, " Why,
like the old man's stick. What do you keep this fur?"
end beset it inunediately. Clarke further stated that
the next day to sell the plate,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE
HOME CIitCUT.--CItOTDON, ArGCST 11.
1A... Coots Irene. biers. ass A rric:AL trey.
One of the social jurymen who had been POlumontil
eo,aplaine i bo his lordship of what he coashlemil a went
goo, sane. lk add that by had been summoned to attend
that morning upon • particular case, which he now found
was fixed fur Wednesday. Ile wished to know whether he
ha 1 pia remedy
Ihe learned kedge told the gentleman that if he looked
round him he would see that the court was crowded w
had
ith
prraus, two-thirds of whom were petty j
y, urors, who
ben. compelled to attend sine.: last Fridaand would have
to do .0, in all probability, for Several days longer, without
being paid • farthing. lie hail not heard a single com-
plaint loon any of those gentlemen, and he should consider
which bad the most cause for complaint, they or himself.
The special juror made no further olasenaition.
JUNE, CVO °TREWS r. lIUOHEA.
This was an action upon a suretv bond executed by the
defendant, who pleaded, first, that the bond hail been ob.
tainoil from him by fraud and mivrepnvemtation ; and, se-
e ..... Ily, that it had been obtained fur the purpose of com-
pounding a felony.
'I he nominal plaintiffs in this action were the trustees of
a meaty called the Clerks' and General Benelit Building
Soriety, which was estahli-hed in IMIM, and of which a Mr.
Edward lievotatiire, • gentleman holding an appointment
in 'he West India liocks, was chairman and director. It
ailpeared that some members of the society had paid
1l r. Devonshire, on account of Phan, in the company,
considerable sum. of money, amounting to nearly 4001.
This money was paid to him at his olftet•, and it would
appear that he never accounted for it to the society,
mot at length at one of their meeting's the whole matter
was impaired into, and • motion wan made that unless
be paid the money forthwith, the solicitor to the company
should he instructed to institute a criminal prosecution
against him immediately. This motion was not carried, hut
a ro solution was come to that he should obtain some persons
to he sun ty for his taking up a certain number of shares,
and paying the calls glut upon them, 40 to place the es,
and
111 a position to recover eventually the money he had
. wee and appropriated to his own toe. The defendant,
who was en intimate terms with Mr. I hsonshire, was applied
to uplift the subject, arid he,,,snout to taT•tflle surety for
him provided another person could be found who would
join him 3n the hood, and neure him against losing more
than half the amount for which he became liable. Another
gentlemen dad, it appeared, hereme co-surety with him
but when the conditions of the bond were nut fulfilled, as&
the liability arose, it was found that he was not in a condi-
born to pay, and the retool was therefore brought against
the defendant to recover the whole amount.
Mr. I!handers, in his whites. to the jury for the dehaMiltda
begged that it might not he understood that the anagram=
of trawl which hail been set up on hie behalf applied in msy
manner to the respectable Itentlenten whose Sanaa appear
plaintoffs in the action, who were merely Unlaces fur the
INKIPty.IIII.I nett d such in its behalf. lie then proceeek4
to remark open the facts of the Gam, and the conduct of
Devonshire, which he submitted clearly
amounted ta a criminal offenire ; and he said that the bosh
h 'sing been given for the purple of preventing legal pro.
ce. dings Irving taken against hint in a criminal court, the
plea ti 4 fraud was made oat, and the deknalant was en-
tiled to • verdict.
The Lord Cho (Justice. in summing up, said that the
ope ittun tnvolnal in the enquiry wan tine of very consider-
able import:atm, herause, at the pia sent period. u very large
emount of mom y was innattol in owieties of this descrip-
tion. Ile then preverbal to explain the nature of the
see em, gad ohaerved that there Inns great deal of difficulty
in getUMi alp pneseutions against inumir, connected with
meet Anrieltm, who were deftultert, by bream of their
staisdiak%in the position of partners, and he instanced the
tare of 'ans. the rbirk to the Globe Insurance Company,
ahe was roinlitted of stealing, a pol, of paper, when, in
peat of tam, he had robbed his eniployer. of a very large
sten of money, it being inapoesilde, °avian to the h wal
ilttlieulties of th.• caw, to peeve any other charge against
him 11.- tilt n an opinion that, before the jury
randel had a verdict for the defendant, upon the
plea albeing that the lemil had bees obtained to com-
rowel a teloity, they must he satisfied that at the time Mr.
I ft .level th.• money In• intended hi emlgarle it,
mil appropr, tic it 10 his own one. This would alone
los is Inv charged with embesxlement or lams",
and it tee 'my wen. not ,iiti•tivol upon the point, the
libtlIallfl• tat IV entitled to meaner.
'for jurv, an, r a short di liberation, returned a verdlet
r.,r the plaintiffs, thus negativing taint the• pleru of the de.
lendant.
for s\Ma. Paust4 tell taro,. Anna 1),111,11M1 Jr.?,
fil reM obi 111 I, l'aie.rei nos GliAliAll r. Jong
1 it. en AS 1. not f
'this w as an indietment tor a conrpiracy preferred against
John Whit, head, senior, John Whitehead. junior, and
George Wyatt.
Mr. Clarkont and Mr. 11.elkineorelueted the renovation.
Mr. Itallatilint. and Mr. Pendia defended John Whitehead,
envier, who alone appeared to take his trial.
The offence impulsed to the defendant was that of hav-
ing ettorpired unlawfully together to obtain freM
Mnior
iraham, and* gentleman named Mead, the sum of filteen
bewared pound., by falsely pretending that the plant and
other property in a distillery at Lambeth, which was car-
ried est by the defendant.. tinder the firm of Whitehead
and Co., was their town property, and that they had conse-
quently the power to mortgage it for that amount. It ap-
areil. that shortly before the month of June last, the
young. r Whitehead entered into cmatuunitation with
hlajer 13r:thank upon the subject of a loan tit bi• advanced by
that gentleman, upon the security of his lean and the
plant, horses, waomons, &v., eimneetrel with the. di ... acre ;
and the defendant reprereuted to Major Graham that
the prole ny wax worth lint• or six thou-and pounds, and
that he bail eepended a large sum in improving it. At first
Malt Gr.tliatii was otlteitial to become a partner,
hut this he declined to do, and at length an
arrientennatt was enteral into by which he agreed
to ads ale e. tilti en hundred ponii.il* to the defend:outs •
alma their vaemiting a bond and hill of sale, by which they
agreed to pay forty pounds a month for the loan of the
money for • period .4 five year. It seemed that Major'
trahaon am at first steads with the liberitlitv of the lute-
terest th it was to he paid, but the younger Whitehead got
.over ht. difficulty by telling him an eatraonlinary tale of
the quantity of spina th..t would be purchased with really
-y, by which they should rave three-pence a gallon, and
afterwards make a meth larger profit by it when it was
worked up into differo on spirits and compounds, and at
leugth the bend and bill of sale were drawn up
by Mr. Sandtlands, the attorney for Major Graham.
TM. gentleman. it appeand, hail no money of his
and the amount was ad.ancril to him by 31r.
Mem'. a gentleman of fortune, with whims he was acquainted.
Very wino atter the. money haul been advanced it was meet.
taineil that the attendants Wilt' merely the holders of the
lease of the premiers. which haul only two years to run, and
that they had nu title whatever to the plant, and that the '
burs. and nine used in the haricot* were merely hived.
and that the property, iu fact. belonged to a lady named
and in the commencement of the mown' year the
firm became bankrupt. The evidence against the defendant.
John Whitehead, sun., and George Wyatt merely went to
show that after the money had been advanced they had
countenanced the assertions that had been made by
the. younger Whitehead, and hail stated that, siteOrd-
ilia to the• valor of the property, 2.000/. more ought to be
advanced ups it. t pot the cruise-examination of Mr. Sandi-
Ntijor Grah.un's attorney, that gentleman admitted
that although he was aware of the exietence of a lease he
did not take the trouble to look at it, and it also appeared
that he had handed Offi a considerable portion of the money
to the defendants before the. bond watt eaecuted. ulnae their
pronnesory note ma security. It also appeared that the ilt-
twailant. had bceu In negotottion with Mrs. Sinclair for the
purchase of the plant, he., of the distillery. and that a euns
of 1,1001. had been agreed upon to he paid for it.
but the untsdiation went uhf, because they could not
raise the amount. It likrafiaCapptltml that although, during
the whole id the time the negmiatione and the inquiries non-
elected with the parabola of the defendants wen• going on,
a person connect., with Mrs. Sinclair was upon the distil-
lery. not a single question was ever put to him either by
Major Graham, or any other person with reference to the
ownership of the property.
Mr. liallustine addressed the jury at some length on be-
half at the defendant, contending that the legal offence of
compiracy lad not hem established, and also commenting
arm the want of proper caution that had been ealsibited
not only by Mr. Graham, hut also by his attorney, Me.
Smodtlande.
Baron Alderson, in summing up, said the question the
jury had to decode was whether the defendant had wilfully
consented with the other two persons whom names had
been motioncd, to make the false representation that they
were the proprietors and owners of the plant of this dis-
tillers. in order to obtain the motley of the prosecutor. Ile
cola not help expressing his ...intrust that a gentleman in
the patitana of life of Major Graham *hook' have been a
party to a transaction, which was certainly of • most
usunous character, and how he could have been foolish
enough to suppose that it could be • honest transaction in
which be was to receive 63)1. a year for • loan of fifteen
hundred posads. There embl be no doubt that the
representations which had been made by the defend-
ant.% with respect to the property were false. but he
must say that there had been • greet want of caution
evinced, not only by Major Graham, hat that Mr. Saadi-
lands had acted vary carelessly and halsendentlr, when be
knew that a leme was is existence, in not asking to too it,
for if done so he would have see." in a moment that
the representations of the defendant. John Whitehead, aff.,
false. - • •du - •of the distiller, "NA is reality

WESTERN CIRCEIT.—iIitIDGEWATER, Ass:. 11.
THE BATH SHOOTING CA,E.
W. Boucher, a respectable-looking man, was charged
with shooting at John Birley, at Bath, on the 'Llth of April,
with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Hodges and Mr. Saunders prosecuted, and Mr. Stone
and Mr. Allen defended.
Mr. Hodges said he had looked through the depositions,
and he had come to the conclusion that the charge named
in the indietmcnt could not be sustained, and he should
therefore only proceed against the prisoner for a common
assault.
Mr. Stone said it was impossible for him to resist that
charge.
Ertl, nee was then adduced to show that the prisoner woe
cashier in the service of Mr. Tucker, a draper, and the pro-
secutor was in the service of Messrs. Jones and Co., who kept
another drapery estabishment next door. There had been
a great deal of lurking between the young men of both CA-
tablishinclits, and on the night named the prosecutor had
been throwing water over one of Mr. Tucker's young men.
In retaliation it would seem that the prisoner, who was
described as a sporting character, retired to his bcdsroom,
and having loaded a pistol with shot, discharged it in at the
window where the prosecutor was. The prosecutor was
struck Icy one the shots in his forehead.
The jury j.ound the prisoner guilty of a common assault,
and land Campbell said the law must mark its high dis-
plc asure of the ollence.
The prisoner was then sentenced to a month's imprison-
ment.

CUTTING AND WOUNDING HY A Boy.
J. Jenkins, a very respe:ctuble-looking boy , appsrently
about 14 years of age, woo indict.' for rioting ad wound
ing James Howler, with intent to do hint grievous bodily
hum.
Mr. Hodges prosecuted ; Mr. Stone defended.
It seemed that the prosecutor was in the belfry of Nemp-
nett Church, ringing the bell for a funeral, when the boy
came up, and perdsled in teasing the prosecutor. After-
wards, he threw dirt nt two little children wko were peep-
ing into the grave. When remonstrated with, he threw a
stogie at the prosecutor, who gave him a cuff on the head,
on which he put his hand in his pocket, took out his knife,
and with an exclamation stabbssl Howler in the band,
drawing the knife afterwards across the hand, and separat-
ing one of the tendons.
The prisoner, who lived with his grandfather. a retired
officer, received a good character for sobriety and good eon.
duet ; but it transpired that he had grievously assaulted a
young woman.
The jury found him guilty of a common assault.
Lord Campbell—Now what am 1 to do with such a lad as
this ? lie ought to be saved from the contamination of a
gaol, and the best thing I think would be to hand hint over
to his grandfather for a sound Moving.
His lordship, after some consideration, sentenced him to a
month's solitary confinement, observing that that would
afford him an opportunity of repenting of the wickedness

ut his conduct. _
This tenni:244:d the business of the assize.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Miry Page, a young man of respectable appearance and
aildnois, was brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody
of City policeman Feinting (40), charged with having tired
a loaded pistol at John Francis Roche with intent to kill
and murder him. The prisoner appeared to be excessively
depressed in spirits, and often sighed heavily during the
investigation.
John Francis Ilache said I am a boohnaker, and carry on
business at Boulogne. lam now staying at the Monument
hotel in Fish-street hill. I came to town on Saturday
morning at ten o'clock from Boulogne in the Seine steamer,
and arrived at London-bridge wharf, and I went to transact
the business I came about, as I intended to return yes-
, terday morning. I returned to Lon,lon-bridge wharf at
a quarter to six in the evening of the day B arrived to
fetch away the key of my portmanteau, which 1 had for-
Mullen, and and was cowing back to the Monument hotel when
I the prisoner at the back of the church. Re came
up and shook hands with me, and asked me
how I was, and I returned the compliment. I then asked
him it he had any news. I do not recollect whether he
replied or not. %%e walked together about 20 yards, and
I suppose he stood behind a yard or two. I then hurling
that he was not alongside of me, looked back to see where
be was, and I saw a pistol in his hand, which lie on i e-
esibily tired at me. I observed him after he had tired aim
tbs putol at me, and then 1 was more frightened than I
went first.
Tin Lord Mayor—Blow long have you known the pri-
mmer?
The prosecutor—l became acquainted with him sonic
Sine about Christina* last, when we were living at No. 37,
fish-street-hill, which is kept by Mr. Cusworth, and where
I am in the habit of resitliug when 1 come to town.
The Lord Mayor—la he a married man ?
The prosecutor—l know nothing about him but from
king occasionally iu the house No. 37, which is a coffee-
The Lord Mayor—Bare you had any quarrel with him?
The prosecutor—No.
The Lord Mayor—llas he ever threatened to do you any
wary ?
The prosecutor—lle hassnot threatened me in my pre-
sence, but he has threatened me to several other panics.
Last Saturday week, when I lauded here from Boulogne, I
was told something of the kind would happen ; but I did
not take any notice of it. 1 did not apprehend any such
thing.
'fbe Lord Mayor—There must have been some cause fur
such an act.
The prosecutor—l heiieve it to have arisen fromjealousy
about a young woman sir.ho is living at No. 37, Fish-street-
bill. It is jealousy with, rut a cause.
The Lord Mayor—Do y, nt mean that he suspected you
were paying too much uftention to a young woman to
whom he was paying his ashtresses ?
Tile

o'clock the same evening. I went, accottlingle, to her at 6
in the evening, and then she told me she had changed her
mind, and would rot keep the engagement. I Own went
Ito the prisoner, and told hint what her deters ii itt atioon was,
and we spent hour hours together that night. Ile 5.1.i,1 to
ore that she W. playing with both of 111. 1 said to him-
-De not mention both of us. I ant wit in the sane plod-
din you are in." Ile wished me to have half an hour's
Minsvisation with her as to a promise which he said she had
glade to him. I have not had that conversation with her. I
went on that Sunday night to see my father who W. at No.
37, Fish-street-hill. The prisoner came about a quarter of an
how afterwards. She was then taking her supper, and I
had supper at the same table with her. I said to her,
" Why do you not ask hint to have some supper i" and she
said she would ; but whether she did or not I do not know.
He was at the bar for a little while, and he suddenly dis-
appeared, and I never saw hint since that time till Satur-
day last, as I have mentioned.
The Lord Mayor—What is the lady's Christian name ?
The prosecutor—l do not know. She is, I believe, the
daughter of Mr. eneworth and a widow,
The Lord Mayor—Did the prisoner, when the pistol wan
discharged, make any observation to you ?
The prosecutor-1 do not know whether he said any.
thing or not. After he discharges' the pistol, he threw it
at me, and we came in contact, and the policeman then
came up. (Here a coat was produced, in the skirt of which
there were two holes.) I had that coat on when the pistol
was fired at me. and there was no bole in it when I had
put it on that day. I believe the holes to have been
caused by. the explosion of the pistol.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to
ask the prosecutor any question, replied in the negative.
relining (•565)—At a quarter before 6on Saturday even-
ing I was in Lower Thames-street, opposite to London-
bridge Wharf gateway. I heard the report of a pistol,
and upon turning round I saw the prisoner standing with
a pistol in his band. There was a great deal of smoke. I
ran down the gateway, and the prisoner threw the pistol
out of his hand into the road. I laid hold of him, took
him into custody, and picked up the pistol. The barrel
was warm. 1 searched the prisoner at the station-house
and found upon him two bullets, seven percussion caps,
and some powder, and also the portrait of a lady. I believe
the portrait is that of the lady in question. Ile had also
about him these keys and a knife, and Pal. in money. Ile
did not speak at all. There is a percussion cap now on the
nipple of the pistol, which appears to have been expluded.
The Lord Mayor desired the prosecutor to look at the
portrait and say whether he knew the original.
Tlw prosecutor. —lt Kthe portrait of the lady.
The Lord Mayen—Have you had that portrait in your
possession ?
The prosecutor.—No: but I saw it in his possession on
the Sunday before last; and I also saw in his possession a
parcel of letters which he wished mr to read, but I declined
doing so. The lady is, I believe, called Madame Thourin,
and she has a eon, hut I do not know his name.
Fenning, the policeman, here produced the following
letter, which he found in the prisoner's pocket. It was
addressed.
" Madame Elizabeth Thourin, at Mr. J. rusworth's,
37, Fish-street-hill, London-bridge.
" London, Bth August, 18.51.
" Dear One,—For the abominable and atrocious act I am
on the verge of perpetrating, you, false one, and you alone,
will be held responsible. Althoough fully aware of my in-
tentiun, and knowing that but one kind word would soothe
my wounded spirit, and change the frightful ideas I enter-
tain, you prefer braving me to the commission of a deed as
repugnant to my feelings as it is offensive and criminal both
in the sight of God and man, to stretching forth au arm to
save me from that gulf which is now preparing to receive
your wretched victim. You have nothing to palliate the ex-
tent of your perfidy; still professing the warmest affection
for me,—an utter indifference, in fact, dislike—for the
person for whom I have been discarded, you
still from caprice, or I know not what, decline giving me
any eplanation of your conduct. What am Ito think
How uni Ito act? After feeding my passion with sorry encou-
ragement for more than a year, now to find myself thus
forsaken is more than niy imperfect and weak system run
bear. Could you but assign the slightest motive tor coarig-
ing your sentiments I might even support this cruelty with
some degree of calmness; but no, even now while your
letters, actions, and words reiterate the same warm ce-
rt....ions of affection you have always appeared to enter-
tain for your devoted friend; while tam satisfied from your
own lips that the new obje,ot of your choice is disagreeable
and even loathsome to you, you still decline giving. me your
remote, for thus desiring abruptly to mover the CilllrseX miew hich
has so long and so agreeably existed between us, anti which
during my residence in England has been the only tie which
en.ibleigine to support my humble position, in the firm hope
of possessing your hand and heart. You it Was who, by
favouring and cncouruging these pretensions, have de.
stroyed my pence of mind and prospects for ever. I my
again it is all your doing. Instead of the golden dreams
which have hitherto floated before me of wandering wee.,
thee through life as partners in pleasure or in pain, you
suddenly unveil my lolintlnces, and reveal the abysm into
which you have plunged a too confiding heart, whose only
crime was that of loving too deeply. I ask again, why—
why this inexplicable, thin extraordinary mid mysterious
conduct? I cannot, after racking my brain to the utmost,
account for it. You invite me day after day to see you.
To what cud It would appear as if it were only to
add torture to my present sufferings, or to laugh
at and mock my weaknesses—to tell me continually
that you are about to become the wife of a man
whom you hate, of a man who has resorted to a hundred
cowardly and contemptible schemes to injure me and un-
dermine the good opinion your father, until his interliir.
cote, always entertained of me. lie, too, W. the principal
actor in the scene which obliged me to quit your dear pre-
sence, hut retribotion is at hand, and, you false um', mark
my words, whatever pleasure my suffiinngs may afford you
to-day. you will, at wane future period, sorely repent thus
trilling with a too sensitive and forgiving friend—l say for-
giving, because my infatuation is such that, notwithstand-
ing the suffering you have forced me to endure, iny affec-
tion is not in the least diminished, and, as I betide ob-
served, but one word of explanation, was it faeuurable
or otherwise, would have prevented the commission
of that fault which my maddened brain stung
to the quick by your perfidy has prompted rue to summit.
In fact l am urged by some power to this tleed, and I must
follow the decrees of fate. May Gott forgive you this std
all those errors into which toy deep-rooted love may have
involved you. May he bless you with life to atone the
past, and shower upon you and your dear little Auguste
(whom I had hoped to have called son) all those blessings
of which this life is susceptible, and hereafter, with those
mercies which he extends to all those who truly repent.
This is the prayer—the fervent prayer—of your wretched
victim, yet still devoted friend and lover-11E8m."
John Itubidge, coachtuaker, said, I live in the George-
street, Bloomsbury, model. lodging-houses. The prisoner
did live in the same house. Ott Friday I went with the
prisoner to a shop in New Oxford-street, where lie bought
a pistol. He bought one for 75. 6.1., which was like to this,
but I thought the barrel of the pistol he bought was a little
longer than the barrel of this. He also bought there some
percussion caps and several balls. Previously to going he
asked me in the kitchen whether I was a judge of pistols.
I mid, " No; but I should know whether a pistol was a
good or • bad one." lie told me lie wanted a pistol to shoot
at a mark, and I thought as he was an American that it was
very probable.
The Lord Mayor, having given the usual caution to
the prisoner, ;raked him whether it was bit wish to say
anything ?
The prisoner—l have only to say, my lord, that the indi-
vidual who stands there (pointing to the prosecutor) has
been the ruin of me completely. Ile his by twenty dif-
ferent means resorted to measures calculatcu to injurc me
and undermine me in the opinion of those who respected
me and whom I have respected, and he has rained and
blasted my prospects for the future.
The prisoner was then committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court upon the charge of shooting at the prom-
cuter with intent to kill and murder him.
It was stated, but not openly iu the court, that the un-
fortunate wretched man attempted at the station-house to
strangle himself with his brace*. He has been for came
time an interpreter, and it wail said perfectly understood
seven or eight languages.
GUILDHALL.
Sir Peter Laurie and Alderman Sidney ae^ompanied two
Italian gentlemen to this court to apply for a summons
against an omnibus conductor under the following eircum.
stances:
The two gentlemen hailed an omnibus at Charing-cross,
wishing to go to the City, and one entered the vehicle,
while the other, preferring the air, mounted outside. The
fair was ed., and before the termination of the ride each
gentleman without the knowledge of the other paid td.,
the fare of himself and friend. On meeting atter leaving
the carriage they discovered the double payment, and asked
the conductor to refund the money which he had improperly
taken. Ile refused with great effrontery, but finding that
they persisted in the demand tendered id. each, pretending
that the tare was fi'd., although he had just twice accepted
Bd. for two. As they insisted upon justice the conductor
turned round upon them with abusive language, struck one
in the face, and called to the driver to go on. The gentle-
men then complained to the policeman on duty, but he
neither understanding their language nor having witnessed
the assault only told them to stand out of the way. In this
ditticulty they went to their bankers, who recommended
them to the gentlemen by whom they were now accom-
panied.
Alderman Wire granted the summsns for the overcharge
and the assault, and said the ease should not be adjourned
on any pretence whatever.
CLERKENWELL.
Simon Hill, a middle-aged man, was churl by Eliza-

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the property of Mrs. Sinclair, and that they nothing
1 and ea hia return divided the between himself.. The Lord Mayor—llave you had any words with him Lech Lowe, a married woman, residing at Nu. Three
whatever to do with it. Kings-court, Whitecrosa-street, St. Luke's, with daring
The joy, dee, dahherasiag a short time in the boa, 1 Clarke, and Davies. A few days IltrrOardll. to an in about her.
tam.,
..ria ic, ; they
were absent ai,,pas hall." wain by Patrick Cusack, a very sharp and shrewd police.. The prosecutor—No ;we has, no words. Yesterday week committed a murderous assault upon her.
said as to how the mud had got on the window, Anne lie sad I met, and spent much of the day together. We ite.srusecutrix, who was in a state of extreme weakness,
hour, anti they that gave • Terdilt of Nor Gwitty.
said that two drunken men had flung it there. Cusack at were friends all day. Ide that on Saturday evening, about 6 o'clock, she was
i the same time seeing a perk of cards in the house, took them Ike Lord Mayor—And you wen talking about the lady, liner apartment on the tint floor when the prisoner entered
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Moumorrg, Aungeg 9.
;up and said, " Cards were loot out of Miss Davies's house, I suppose, to the none of your con.remation ? I abruptly, and addressing her, said, " So you are here."
The avian closed Isere today at four o'clock.
Grown. Q.c.. miim.g 7.,,,,,,,dy . tryint, p i,. s cm, n . jill i I and therefore! shall take these." Anne thereupon cried, and The prosecutor—Tlac conversation of the whole day was • She was ironing at the time. She re..lied, " lam, but my
begged of him not to do so. This pack was identified as the about her. He told me he supposed that I wag going to i husband is not." ii,, then struck her a vioient blow on
the Wallace',
_.,_____.with thusneentian___,__°l th. fu.,__ll."lll_,„...ebagg:lif one last from MisaDavies's. It was proved that on the night marry her. I told him that I had no in tenti°o of the hind, I side of her head, seized her by the hair of the head, athnd
Petee.Y. WM 'n".."' laa '''''''s' ."` '''''' esm --' of the burglary a stick belonging to an old gentleman was sad that I was ready and willing to g.ve him any proof ; dragged her down stairs. She struggled with him and en-
act disposed et till des late fee poet.
.taleu from the house, and that about foar years age dam i with which he might be satisfied that .1 meant no such dcaroured to escape into the room of a neighbour,
Cana awar.—threna Na. lorries Eats. as a dressmaker in the house, and had Wm a thing. where he struck her repeatedly, knocked her down
-.it or Panto IT 80111XST as erroanse. w.ie working
....., pa4,ooa. worm .u. law toes abarged gold watch on the mantel-piece and the plate in the cadent i The bard Maloe—Do 5.00 believe that he .tonsidered you and while she was down jumped several times upon her,
..... minted willed end wrap( 'perjury at the and Out in neither case were watch or plate kept in them
,wanted to supersede him in
.his affections ? and beat her about the head and arms with a brass candle-
ogees, but merely happened to become that ammules, The The Erosecutor—l do believe so. stick (now produced), which was broken by the violence of
IM. !lodinates* twedeeted the mesh left behind at Miss Davim'smalabeil woo a made n. bird Mayor—Are you paying your addresses to the blows. Be then seized a chair, and continued beating
her with it and kicking her until she bled profusely and he
east Allen sad Mr. Gray the found at the prisoner Daviall'a MOW. • centeebit, her ?
proved 40 'belong to Davies, fitted the Ulm bond in the The preareutor—Not after what I found out. came insensible, when she was taken to St. Bartholomew's
opealagithe ease far the Maiseastioa, alter door. The tenkceper
eof the chala•hridge at Usk primed
--- - end Lap, of the
pe !ring of perjury that a person notch Ilk pared that bridge, which is ! the lady sine, ? that were it not for the interference of the neighbours who
who ha 4 moo ea about a mile from the scene of the burglary, about two The prosecutor—On the Sunday week after the converse- were alarmed by her cries of " Murder," ' the prleomr
:111Zot. orogrposog Ware before the time that the burglary was committed, and tion with him, the prisoner wished me to go to her to would have deprived her of life.
ea tbe wood ww‘„ is taking his change tossed his heed away Bova the light, induce her to come Yin meet him, and chew that what I Mr. Tywhitt asked her the cause of the ' son attack
illienity, ad tanianti his as if to avoid escapades. said was correct. I did so, and she agreed to coals at six upon her ?

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arsieGrild=arilial sad earraübeae~.a"aptw'pewrisl alsaegea
ary at the and Out in neither case were watch or plate kept these ',wanted to supersede hint in his affections ? ana beat'
•darn dia wail.. ogees, but merely happened
_tobewe ma that mensies., TM The xresapitar-1 do believe so. stick (ow
Mr. =eating, Q.C., sad M. MaddMadar mediated the mesh left behind at Mist Davila% =Melted Mb • alidie The Met Mayor—.kre you paying your easkeetee to the blows
; and Mr. set east Miss sad Mr. Gray the found at the prisoner DlOl/711.1 ledgingt. • iteMehlt, her ? her with
proved to 'belong to Davies, feted tae beim bond in tke The promoter—Not after what I found out. came nue
Mr. Meetsng. in apaiimaitha aseo MM. Plawatitian after door. The tellketpro of the ekala-beiege et Usk pawed Tba Lord Mayor—What conversation have you had with Hospital,
ma, maadquiggßiare of the atm, aperjery that a person Rauh like MOW pared Net Midge, whisk the lady since ? that were
=ymidossaboascamaba is about a mile from the mew of the burglary, about two The prosecutor—On the Sunday week after the censer's- were afar
se agnisseg home before the time that the burglary was committed, and non with him, the prisoner wished me to go to her to would ha.
as_ atamrllloCHlM mow km= in Man Ms change tamed his Mad away tram the light, induce her to come NM meet him, and thew that what I Mr. Ty
Ilesswlt:trog engsgig kis as if as mid rotopitiss. said was correct. I did so, and sits agreed to come at six upon has