The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Bindersley.)
RE THE EI!RoPILW BANG—IIPARTE 8t1f1.14.
An order having been obtained for tie voluntary wind-
ing-up of the bank under the supervision of the court,
Mr. Baylis as a petitioning creditor applied for his costs
out of the estate. It appeared that Mr. Baylis had
on deposit with the company at the time it stopped par
meat, but an action bad been brought against him in the
Lord Mayor's Coart by the Financial Discount Company
for a sum of &if., and the money due to Wm from the bank
had been attached.

Mr. Hadden supported the application.
Mr. Glues (with whom was Mr. Roxburgh), on the part
of the company, opposed,
cu and contended that as six peti-
tions for the win ' -up were presented on the 19th of
May, this petition, which' was not presented till the 22nd,
was wholly unneoessa7, even if Mr. Baylis were not pre-
cluded from petitioning by reason of the attachment.
Mr. Roberts, for a number of shareholders, and Mr.
G. N. Higgins for the first petitioner, at whose instance the
interim liquidators were appointed, also objected to the
motion.

The Vice-Chancellor said the question was whether sup-
posing this had been the only petition, the court would
upon it have granted the winding-up order. The order
would certainly have been refused on the ground of the un-
certainty of the applicant's interest, and therefore he must
refuse Ws motion with costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY..
(Before Mr. Registrar Pews.)
IN RI W. JEFFS.
The bankrupt was a foreign bookseller, of the Burling-
ton Arcade, residing in Avenue-road, Regent's-park. He
ascribes his failure to want of capital to carry on his heal-
ness—eerere illness, pressure of creditors, and law ex-
penses.
This was the first sitting. The proceedings were of the
usual formal character.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
A NEW CABE UNDER THE TICIII,OF-LICAVE RTEITKM.

Eliza Taal, a ticket-of-leave woman, was brought before
Mr. Vaughan, charged with a breach of the conditions of
her license.

Pohoe-constable F 71 statedßiat on the 31st May, the
prisoner came to the station-hotise, in Bow-street, and re-
ported herself as having been liberated from prison that
day. She stated that she was going to live with her sister
at No. 10, Chancery-lane. Subsequently it was ascer-
tained that the house No. 10, was empty, and had
not been inhabited for nine years. On Ilaturday
last she came again, and applied for her conduct money,
of which she had V. 9a. to receive. Acting upon instruc-
tions he had received, he then took her into custody for
not reporting herself accenting to law, inasmuch as she
had given a false address. She said she found her
sister had left Chancery-lane, but must have moved
after she (prisoner) was sent to prison, which was
in 1861. She added that she was living in Bed-
ford-street, Brighton, and was getting her living honestly,
but her friends would have nothing to do with her because
she had turned Roman catholic. She added that she was
under the protection of Father Stiles, a Roman catholic
priest at Brighton. Upon this she was brought before the
magistrate, by whose orders witness took her to a respect-
able lodging, where she remained till Monday. Further
inquiries had been suede, and it was found that these
statements also were false.

Mr. Vaughan asked if the printed form, setting the
conditions to be observed by license-holders, was given to
her on the find occasion.

Sergeant Hill, 1, IS, who was duty as acting-Inspector at
the station-house on the 31st, and to whom she reported
herself, stated that there were no such forms
for women, as they were not subject to the
same restrictions as men. But they were bound
to report themselves every time they changed their resi-
dence. He told them that at the time. On Saturday,
when she said her sister had removed from Chancery-lane,
he asked her why, upon discovering the fact, and deter-
mining to go to Brighton, she did not give notice of her
new address to the police. The address she gave him
was not Bedford-street, but Warwick-street.

The prisoner repeated the statement she had made to the
constable. She did not know the present address of her
sister, whose name was Wilson. Then, correcting herself,
she said it was Williams.

Mr. Vaughan said she must surely know the name of her
own sister.

Sergeant Hill said Williams was the name she had given
him.

Mr. Vaughan committed her to Millbank, to undergo the
remainder of her sentence, but told her if she could urge
any mitigating circumstance to memorialise the Home
Secretory.

CLERK ENIVP.I.L.
TA RAW ING VITRIOL.

...-...-
Mar9nrrt AturpAy, aged tt, who described herself as a
domestic servant, residing at 23, Eden's-buildings, Brent-
ford, Middlesex, was charged before Mr. IYEyncourt, on
remand, with throwing a quantity of vitriol over the per-
son of Maurice Murphy, alabourer, of 2, Suifolk.place, Ber-
mondsey, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. H. Allen, from the Associate Institute for Iniprov•
ing and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women,
watched the case.

The facts of the previous examination have been already
reported, and the prosecutor, whose head was still en-
veloped in surgical bandnes, having deposed to the fact
that he was coining out of the House of Correction when
the vitriol was thrown over him, and signed his deposition,
additional evidence was received.

Mr. D'Eyncourt asked the prisoner if she hail anything
to say in answer to the charge, at the aune time caution-
ing her that what she did say would be taken down in
writing, and might be used as evidence against her at her
trial.

The prisoner, who had a well-dressed and clean infant
in her arms, said—On the day he left me, he had come
to see me on the Sunday night; he said " We will
soon marry. Being cousins we will go to America
as soon as we can get money enough, for it will not do
for cousins to marry in this country." He asked me
if I had no way of getting rid of the child, as it would
make a gentleman of him, and a lady of myself. That was
about the let of March last. He has been married about
two months. I asked him how he could think I
should do such a thing, as I would as soon make
away with myself as the child. He answered me
and said, " How did Fanny do it !" Fanny is the
name of the wife he has got now. I answered him
back, " If she did it, she could not expect any luck for
doing it." It was reported that she had done an, but I
cannot say whether truly or not. He drew a knife out of
his pocket and kept edging it, or sharpening it, on an iron
trough. His colour changed, but he did not make any
attempt with the' knife. We parted on that night, and
on the following Thursday he came and said he
had assaulted the police, that I was to do the best I could,
and that in a month he should return. He told me that I
should have a letter on the Sunday, but I did not
get it till the Monday. The girl he is now living
with wrote it, telling me in three places that
he had gone to Ireland, and it begged me ;.o
write to him and he would let me know what to do. I,
having no money, went into Stepney union, and I gave a
woman my supper for a whole week for three-halfpence
and went very hungry, and wrote to him in Ireland
hut never got an answer. I also wrote to my sister
in Ireland but could hear no tidings of him. I
came out of the workhouse but could not go after him
because I was in the family way. Three weeks after the
child was born I went to Bermondsey and saw him talking
to his wife. He left her and came out to me, and said, "If
lam married lam not married to her for ever. What shall
I do!" I said "You had better go away with your wife or
I shall do something that you will not like." Upon that I
said, " What shall Ido with my child !" And he said, I
might eat it, or iloas I pleased with it. After that he said
"If I had 9s. I would not go home." He then walked
with me as far as Hammersmith, seeing me part of my
way home to Brentford. He went home and accounted
for being out all night by saying that be had been to a
wake. When I got home I dressed my baby and brought
it where he reaided at Bermondsey. He was not in and
his wife told me to go away with my bastard in my arms,
for I had enough to do now to carry that about.
Mr. D'Eyncourt here asked the prosecutor if he was
married about the same time as the prisoner was confined,
and was answered in the affirmative.

The prisoner continued -I stopped and saw the com-
plainant come home, and then spoke to him about the chill,
and ho, with an oath ,said it did not belong to him. He got
in doors, and would not see me. I asked him to come out,
but he would not at first, but when he did come out
he took hold of the child and endeavoured to throw
both it and me down the stairs. After that be hit me
two violent blows on the head. He was then sent away,
and all his people came out and assaulted and abused roe,
and I could only compare them to a lot of dogs in a kennel
—(a laugh)—calling my child a bastard and other bad
names. I then took out a summons against him, and his
address was found, and he was locked up and sent to prison
for assaulting the police. His a :fe very much abused me,
and I did make use of languale that I should be ashamed
to repeat before the gentlemen in this court, but my
temper was up because they called my child a bastard.
I told her she bad worked hard to get him, but I was
afraid he would turn out • rogue to her as be had done to
me. I went to speak to him when he came out of prison,
but ho would not, and his friends would not let him. If
they had allowed him to speak to me or had he even looked
kindly at me I should not have thrown it upon him. That
is all I have to say.
Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the prisoner)—When was your child
born

The prisoner—On the 18th of April last.
Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the prosecutor)—And when were
you married
The prosecutor—About two months since.
The prisoner—He married, the cur, when he found that
I would not go after him.
Mr. D'ilymourt then committed the prisoner to the
Central Criminal Court for trial