The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

BIBLE 0111017.LATING AI tRAOILDLYART.

At the Glasgow Sheriff Small Debt Court oa
Wednesday, lleasre. Lochhead, publishers, sued • *lnc
sawed Alesender ll'lntyve for the price of a t. Bootee
Fatally Bible," to be delivered in monthly parts, oonfousably
to en obliged= to that t ffsct obtained tram the denuder by
the pureuers book•esnvasser. The obligation, which was
• peneilled eenverser's subscription slip, signed by the
defender, wee produced by the pursues, and founded on as
cionolusive of dude claim.

—Mr. W. M. Wilson, who appeared for the defender, ad-
mitted that his client had subscribed the slip, but pled that
as an obligation it was invalid in law, in respect it had teen
fraudulently obtained by the Farmers' renewer tram the
defender while order the halal:KV of liquor, width the can-
vaster had induced him to umulge in.

Stieriff—Then )oa must prov; that.
Mr. Wilma-1 am prepared to do so.
The ()enemas: was then adduced, sad, befog examined by
Yr. Wilma admitted that he had no acquaintance with the
defender before the night of subeceiptten' when he met
him, between 10 sod 11 o'clock at night. mending at the
head of Jamaica-greet, where the mimosa, introduced him-
self to the defender, and invited Ulm into Rutherford'.
public-houee, and there treated him to repeated gimlet of
ale, after or daring the consumption of which the subscrip-
tion was obtained. _ . .

Canvasser—look at the writing, my lord. Is that tha
wridag of s drunken meal'
Sheriff—lt I. Hepatitis for me to distinguish; some man
write ita well when drunk as sober.

Mime Robertson, daughter of the deffnder's landlady,
wee then adduced, and deponed—The (Wender. Wlntyre,
lama lodged with my mother for three years. We were on
terms of intimacy. He frequently confided him personal
suits to me. He never on any occasion intimated his inten-
tion of getting • family Bible. He is not • family man.
(Laughter.) He has • pew Bible. I tun sure he would have
expreseed each an intention had he esterteined it. I have
seen him with a deem in his heed. On seek occasions he is
very stupid, and easily led. I recollect the night of Friday.
the 27th of May. He left our house about 7 or 8 o'clock
sober, and returned home between II and 12 quits mussy.
He wee in • state in which he could have been mealy
wheedled into anything. Next morning he said nothing
about a family Bible, and we knew nothing of it till
the canvsser came in the afternoon end kit the three
first numbers in M.lntyree absence. On his return
horn work we spoke about them. He then appeared for
the first tines to recollect the matter, and declared he
would have nothing to do with them, as he had been
wheedled into it. When the nenvawier returned In the
early part of the following week, Il'int)re told him that be
bad wheedled Mtn into the subscription through drink, and
gave him back the three nutubere. The (wayfarer refused to
take them Mr k. _ .

The defender himself was then examined, and deposed—
He left his lodgings on the night in question between seven
and eight o'clock. Hid no inhantun of speculating in a
family Bible. Met some friends in the course of the even-
ing, end become hearty. Wm standing at the head of
Jamaica•ettte,, when the canvasser met bias. Had never
seen bits beim. The cenraseer invited him into Ruttier-
ford'es and celled for one and then another glees of ele,
foe which the canvasser paid. While they were drinking
in a box by thetntelvei, the canvasser—who spoke low, as
If afraid of being heard—spoke first about chains and
jewellery, and then about timbers of booke, and intro-
duced the subject of Boott's Bible, end brought out a slip
and • pencil, end told lain whet to write, and he signed his
name to the sip. He wouid not hays dote no had he been
sober, Lied no recollection of the feet tied next day, when
the numbers were shown to him In his lodgings, when he
hod a taint recollection of the incident. He refined to accept
the numbers, and told the ,auvesser this next week when he
called.
By Consumer-1 went straight home from Rutherford's.
W. left at about 11 o'clock.
Mr. Wilson—ln shod, you went away when you were
turned out.
Ca:teatime—Allow me, sir, to tell you Ives never turned
out.
Mr. Wilson—All are turned one, good end bed.
The defender's agent this addressed the court, contend-
Mg that, thongh than will no absolute drunkenness proven,
it wee sufficient for his case that the canvasser, haviag
Reduced the defroder into intoxication, hod wilily Armed
the subsoription hoes him in that suite, and quoted authori-
ties in wpm% of this position.
The Sheriff held that he could not give effect to the oblige•
don founded on by the misname. Them could be no doubt,
lee said, but that the pursuers' canvasser took the defender
into the public-house, and got him to fill up end eien the
obligation when his mind was not quite clear end unclouded.
I end assollziod the defonder.—/forth British Mail.

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