The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

ALLEGED DEATH PION THE BITE 07 At

MONKEY.

The following cue eame before the Sheriff Court,
Airdrie district, on Friday :—The pen suer, David Moran,
miter, Coatbtidge, lined John Leckie, auctioneer, Sennyelex,
Costbridge, for 1001., for ken, damage, and injury to We
feelings, to consequence of the want of dne care on the Fart
of the defender in allowing an ape or monkey belonging to
him to attack, bite, and otherwise lacerate the hands, face,
to., of the pursuer's son, Hobert Martin, • child between
two and three years of age, whereby the child was so se-
riously injured that it died in about • mouth thereafter.
After • prod being led by both parties, the sheriff substitute
(Southern) greenwood an interlocutor, going over the face
alba to the awl that on the 9th of September the
child led fast Mew by We monkey on the lip, cheek, tem-
ple, and left er, feet which it suffered much pain, but
which wound. wee heeled in little more than a fortnight
afterwards. The child, however, from the ants of the bite
became dell said derma la 'pints, and alter going about
for six or NOM days he recants bedfast, the nervous
symptoms beinesiag wane, exhibited in stare while sleep-
ing, suddenly waking up, OCCOlMiliff wildly and violently
oallmg out in tenor,` 'The =okay !" leaving his bed and
crawling below it, he Menge at night when lying in his
mother's bosom to tin free feces imaginary deign, and in
efforts to climb the we of the bed-place, in attempts to
gnaw his hands, be eamweele clutching of the bedclothes, Ia
convulsions, forming end bleeding at the mouth, latterly is
unoonacionenees, the whole eventuating in the child's death
on the 28th day of September. The shers oneequestUy
found, in point of law, that the defender culpably kept
the said monkey, known to be vicious, insufficiently secured
la a marque, having an open gateway and raised
well, by which children were enabled and tempted by the
presents of the monkey to come, and where, having come es
the occasion libelled, the monkey, from no as of the end do-
omed child Irritating or provoking it, was allowed to Meek
he chain, and to bound mid bite and wound the child; and,
in consequence, the defender is liable to the pursuer is
damages : Safe that, in the oircametance*, 201. is • widener
and reasonable ens he name of damages doe to the peter
inflicted by the laid monkey on the said child, and
meat of surgeon's expenses ; therefore finds the ddtnllr
liable to punter Ia said sum; bode the detainer also lishla
expenses. The owe wee appealed to Sheriff Alison, who ni-
Tared the decision dated' Southern, finding that the delft
of the child was not owing to the bete of the monkey, batten
trawahle to weir la the head; bet finding the defender liable
in half the costa, because be wee not altogether fro of bless,
as the uninkey should have been secured by a simmer aids.
—Biligebersob Owning.

RAILWAY THAITIC.—The traffic retarna of rail-
ways In the United Kingdom, for the week wading Or
raker 2, amounted to 623,2001., and for the correspemalli
114 of last yesr to 617,4601., showing an 11
period
The grosemeelpts on the eight railways ka
termini in the metropolis amounted for the week
above to 214.6271. • and for the corresponding meek ef
year to 216,8614, :bowing e decrease of 2,2/14 TM thireMs
on the London ad Nee* Western amounted to 7,436 L; 11l
on the London and Blaekirall to 331.; total. 7,669 L Est NM
!bin most be deducted the tamere on the Bantam Comfits ot
1684 on the Great Northern of 1,7771., on the (Molars
of 1,2311., OS the Lesdao, Brighton sod Snub of
7411., on the London rod Bondi Wwtent of 6291., sad OK de
South Rasters of 9121., together 6,4451. leaving tho deafen
as above 2,2241. The maims on the other lines is is
united kingdom amounted to 34,6731., and for Ibe comet
ins period of 1857, to 300,6091., showing en ineremed 7,
Mee-
in the receipts of those Mee ; from whiob most be
the decrease on the metro dm Mee, laming the fond M.
crease 5,7401. as with the emeepostalag weak dg
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