The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-01 00:00:00

LAW INTEUIGENCIC.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE COVETENAT.

This was an application for leave to issue execution,
notwithstanding the registration of a deed.
Mr. Riech supported the deed ; Mr. Chipperfield ap-
peared for the creditor.

His Honour, in giving judgment, said that the creditor,
Mr. Spurr, was a livery-stable-keeper, and the debt was
for the keep of the debtor's horses. He brought an action
and obtained a verdict againt the debtor on the 9th of
August, the deed being executed on the 20th. On the
22nd the debtor filed a declaration of insolvency, and
was made bankrupt by a friendly creeftor ou the `_'3rd. Oa
the 2t;th the plaintiff signed judgment in his action,
having no notice of the deed of the bankruptcy ; on the
4th September he issued a writ of li. fa., and the sheriff
seized the two horses which were in the plaintiff's po-ses-
sion. On the 6th the petitioning creditor claimed the
horses; an interpleader summons obtained by the
sheriff was made returnable on the 13th, and on
the same day the deed was registered—the bankruptcy
being annulled on the 18th. On the 20th the interpleader
summons was heard and the sheriff was ordered to with-
draw. There was no evidence to show that the deed was
unreasonable or invalid ; and under these circumstances
his Honour held that the creditor was not entitled to issue
execution. The question of costs was reserved.

IN RE W. D. MCNRO._

The bankrupt was a mist salesman Warwick-lane and
Page-Green, Tottenham. Against debts of 1,026/. there is
property held u security of 2251. ; bad debts due to the
.

Mr. Dona appeared for the assignees, and Mr. R. Grif-
fiths for the bankrupt.
The order was granted.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.

ArrawrrEn SUICIDE THROUGH ♦ HUSBAND'S BRUTALITY.

Mary Ann Edwards, an interesting young woman, of
22 years of age, was placed at the bar before Alderman
Hale, charged with attempting to poison herself by taking
laudanum.

George Grigg, 323, said that last night about
10 minutes past 10 o'clock, the prisoner came
to him at the corner of Ironmonger-buildings and she
sad she had poisoned herself with laudanum. He
questioned her as to how much she bad taken, and why
she did it, and she replied that she bad taken one penny-
worth. She said she bad been married only three months,
and she was driven to it, because her husband knocked her
about so. She bad then two black eyes, which she said
her husband gave her on Friday night. He took her to
the hospital and the doctor who saw her said she had not
taken much—not enough to destroy life.
The mother of the prisoner, a very respectable person,
here stepped into the witness-box, and, in answer to the
magistrate, said her daughter had been married to a lazy
brute of a fellow who would not work and knocked her
about when she could not give him money. Since she
had been married she had pawned all her clothes for him
and yet he could not treat her well. On Friday last he
gave her two black eyes, and on Saturday he struck her
on the nose and made it bleed. _ _ _

Alderman Hale said she should have come to this court
for protection, and the mildest course that would have
been adopted towards him would have been to bind him
oier to keep the peace.
The mother said her daughter did not know what to do,
she wu so much afraid of him.

Alderman Hale thought it was quite time that he was
put into the dock to answer for his conduct. He asked
the mother if she would t►ke ch►rge of her daughter and
bring her up on a future day.
The mother said she would.
Alderman Hale then directed the prisoner to make the
neoessav depositions, and issued his warrant for the ap-
prehension of the fellow Edwards.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COMPLAUCT OF INSUFFICIENT POLICE PROTECTION IN

REGIENT-h:REZT.

Wet. Harris and Abel Cornwell, two young men, were
charged before Mr. Knox with an assault.
After the evidence had been heard,
Inspector Bowles banded Mr. Knox a book, and it ap-
peared from it that Han:, had been convicted of larceny
and sentenced to four years'penal servitude, and that he was
in possession of a ticket of leave.
Harris said that he had been endeavouring to live
honestly ever rice he bad been at large, and he hoped
the magistrate would give him a chance.
Mr. Knox said that he was not going to do anything at
present. There was nothing one would not do to help him
Morris) in his unfortunate position, but with such a
character as he had got he ought to know that
he ought not to be walking the streets at
such an hour. The case bad a very serious
look about it as nothing was more common, as was well
known at that office, than for women to stop men, and if
the men resisted their demands, for fellows connected
with the females to walk up and attack and rob the men.
He should order strict inquiries to be made respecting the
course of life Harris had been pursuing since he had re-
ceived his ticket, and also respecting Cornwall. The pri-
soners would be remanded.

Mr. human, laceman, of Regent...street, and whose house
is at the corner of Chapel-court, stepped forward and said
that he bad to complain of the insufficiency of police pro-
tection at night in Regent-street, such outrages as the one
he had heard detailed being of frequent nightly occur-
rence in Chapel-court. On the present occasion all the per-
sons in his house, principally females, were woke up by
screams of "murder' in the court. Being a householier and
a large ratepayer, he considered that something ought to be
done to stop the nuisance.
Mr. Knox said that Mr. Isaacson's complaint should be
attended to.

THAMES.
THE TIRE KING AND HIS RIFF.

A respectable woman named Caroline Fonnansky, a
native of Germany, has made several applications at this
court, with a view to obtain " separation allowance" from
her husband Rell Muell Formansky, the celebrated Fire
King, who has been for some time exhibiting in the
provincial towns and cities, and showing hie defiance of
the most powerful of the elements by walking into
fires, applying lighted torches to his frame, and perform-
ing other and more daring salamandrine feats.
Mr. Benson said she was entitled to a maintenance, and
advised her to consult Mr. Simmons, one of the relieving
officers of the Stepney Union, in whose district she lived.
She now came before Mr. Benson and said the parish
allowed her 4s. per week, and wrote to her husband
who remitted her and the parish would not continue
the allowance of 4s.

Mr. Benson thought the pariah were perfectly justified
in withdrawing the allowance of 4s. per week if his
majesty had sent her 25a. He could not control the parish,
and she had better make another application to her hus-
band.

Mrs. Fomanalry.—He made 10/. last week at South-
ampton, and be threatens to leave me and return to Ger-
many.
Mr. Benson could not compel the Fire King to settle
an allowance on his wife, but if she became chargeable
to any parish or union he could be ►pprehended on a war-
rant if he was in England, and compelled to support her
and his children, and in default committed to prison.
Mrs. Formansky said her husband was a man of fiery
temperament.
Mr. Benson—l should suppose so. He may cool down,
and a reconciliation will, I hope, be effected.
Mrs. Formansky then retired, and said she would seek
the Fire King in the country.

The democratic clubs and politicians of New
York are making arrangements to give General M'Clellan
a grand reception on his return from Europe in November.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHATHAM,
AND Dotes RAILWAY.—Last evening a man of the name
of James Webb, flagman on the permanent way at the
Walworth station, met with a shocking death. It wax
deceased's duty to signal the main-line trains, and it is sup-
posed he was in the porter's box on the metropolitan
extension line when he saw a main-line train coming up,
and rushed out to signal it, not noticing that at the moment
the 5.13 Loughborough-road express train was coming at
full speed from Ludgate-hill. As he attempted to cross
the line the train caught him and sent him a distance of
300 zards, fracturing his skull in a frightful manner, and
cutting off his left arm near the shoulder and his left leg
below the knee. E. Mills, porter at the station, imme-
diately ran to his assistance, and took him to Dr. Hunt,
of Bereaford-street ; but life was extinct.
Ma. J. A. SMITH'S SUNDAY CLOSING BILL.—
Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P. for Chichester, attended a meeting
last evening, in Christ Church schoolroom, Carter-street,
Greenheys, for the purpose of explaining the provisions
of the amended bill which he is about to introduce into
parliament early next session, relative to the sale of drink
on Sunday. The Rev, Dr. Garrett presided. Mr. Smith
said he would make it absolutely illegal for any public-
house in England and Wales to be open for the pur-
pose of enabling people to drink on the premises. But
he would allow them to be open two hours in the
middle of the day, and two hours in the evening in order
that people might purchase beer over the counter to be
consumed otherwise than in the public-house. Then as
regarded the metropolitan district, he proposed that those
who kept eating-houses might give beer and spirits to
those who came for • meal ; but special care would be
taken to provide that no publican or beer-house
keeper should be considered as an eating-house
keeper merely because be might keep buns and sand-
wiches for the convenience of his customers. He should
much have preferred that the government had introduced
this or some bill on the subject ; but as they refused at
the close of last session to give any pledge on the subject,
be felt bound to premed with his project. He had con-
milted with Mr. Barley, Mr. Raines, and other members,
and their unanimous opinion was that it was best to in-
troduce a bill of as moderate a character as possible. A
discussion ensued on the chairman's invitation.