The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

WATNIA 7'.

This ease was partly hetril yesterday, and the hearing
emititimsl this morning. It was an action to recover
share to the furniture and garden at the
I 11.,,liledon, whilst the place was iu the occu-
i.,twi, "t the defendant's family, which is principally
1,,•."u to tlw public by uleauo of one of its members,
• 1:• other lgoatius.
• • . _ _

".%11. serjvant Parry and Mr. Joyce appeared for the
; :an! 311. l'rice, and Mr. Long, fur the
d t. r dalt.

Jones said that she was formerly in the service of
Lynea, cook. and was with the family at the Lodge
41.:r111-4 the Litter part of that time. The kitchen utensils,
s she went there in July, Ito;:$, were very old, and bad
.h. numded from time to time. The dinner service
o set." but the other things were mostly odd.
I,lieved that one plate or so of the set was
during her time. Not half of the things
down in the list of ,Lunage were broken while
their. Many of the things had handles off when
lit there. The vase had been broken and mended
s itit ten.ent before she Liw it.

In crio.s.eviniination, she denied that any butter.bca;
btokru during her time. She did not believe that
.r. butter-boat. A, to the cm-11-scuttle none
th-in ev. r had any bottoms. (.t laugh.) A girl and
l.'iltions of the defendant. visited the house, but
wow,. did nut believe that they ever played at making
.w,rd..ls in the drawing-room.

Mr. Woodman mid he went over the furniture when
th, tense w.ui taken and also afterwards when it was left.
T. furniture was at the taking in a shaky state. The
whole damage to the furniture, during the defendant's
mation, exclusive of the piano and the vase, amounted,
r. aitness's judgment, to 101. or 12/.
crowexamineal—He went over the furniture with Mr.
Prchtnore, and Mrs. Watney paid bin..
Mrs. Lush, the charwoman, employed by Mr. Lyne at
the Lodge, said that when they find saw the house, six
months after Mr. Lyne went there, it was not clean. The
Larose was not clean when Mr. Lyne left it, but it was not
particularly dirty. She had been there assisting in re-
moving fur four days.
Press-examined--After Mr. Lyne left Mrs. Watney
imployed her for three weeks to clean the house. There
vvined to be a good deal of breakage, but then she did not
know the condition of the place when Mr. Lyne went
there. She .lid not tell Mrs. Watney that the piano had
ken injured by dower-pots being put on it. She did hear
that it had been injured.
lte•ensanined— Witness was employed by Mr. Lyne to
clean the house on his leaving, but she had not time to
do it.

This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Scrjeant Parry asked to he allowed to recall Mrs.
Watney to question her whether she had not paid 2/. for
•dilapidation in the garden, and IN. for the repair of some
citrus.

Mr. Justice Byles, however, declined to allow any fresh
brad of claim to be brought forward at this stage of the

The learned oonnsel on both sides addressed the jury,
each of them asserting that the only object of his client
was to get a proper verdict from the jury, and, in addition,
the learned scrjeant complained in strong terms that the
word " fleeced" should have been need in reference to his
client without, as he contended, anything to justify it.
Mr. Justice Bytes, in summing up, said that it was evi-
dent that there was a good deal of feeling on both sides, and
he much regretted that much irrelevant matter had been in-
tro laced, and that statements had been madeof which there
were no proofs. There was no proof that sand had been
taken into the drawing-room, nor that flower pots had
been put upon the piano ; and these overstatements ought,
he thought, to induce them to look carefully at the rest
of the case. It was agreed on both sides that there must
he a verdict for the plaintiff, and the jury would use their
beat endeavours to assess the amount at the proper sum.
The jury found for the plaintiff, damages, 20/.
Mr. Price said that his client requested hint to say that
It regretted that he had done anything to cause the
slightest rebuke from his lordahip.
Mr. Justice Byles said that his only anxiety was lest
th-defendant in his excitement should be betrayed into
&lying anything improper, which however, in fact he had
tot been.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN H 6 DAVID LIDVAND DEMI.
The bankrupt was described as a general dealer, of 43,
Lo btate-hill, formerly an auctioneer, of oxford-street.
TlN.Preiniaes in Ludgate-hill are well 'known as the scene
of -mock auctions," by means of which " Mrs. Brown " and
other more matter-of-fact persons have been brought to
gta4. Recently some proceedings were taken in a
erntinal court against two of the parties concerned in
tttese auctions; but it is right to state that the bankrupt
ots not implicated in the charge, he having merely sub-
let the shop to the parties against whom proceedings were
bkea.

This was the sitting for examination and discharge. The
:e..ounts, prepared by Messrs. Dubois and Newstead,
4" debts of C,llil. ' • wets of trifling amount. One of
the largest creditors is Mr. Parkins, electroplate mannfac.
titer, of Sheffield, whose debt is 2481. On a previous
examination, the bankrupt stated that he had sold clocks,
j..w,ilery, and electroplated goods at the shop in Ludgate-
till, but not by auction. He had sublet the shop in
Lbruary and March last.
Br. Bagley, for the assignees, stated that a private exa-
inination of the bankrupt had shown great inaccuracies in
the accounts, which would necessitate an adjournment.
He repre-ented himself to have had large transactions
'nth one Bryant, who turned out to be a fictitious person.
L'ing required to account for some goods, he at first
4egeti that he bad bought them at Berlin, then at
Hanover, then at Hamburg, and those goods had not been
~..oen up to the assignees.
After hearing Mr. Reed for the bankrupt,
His Honour directed an amendment of the accounts,
,14 adjourned the case for that purpose, with liberty to
ae assignees to tender requisitions.

IN RE J. A. lIOTHIL.
The bankrupt was a linendmper, of Bishopsgate-street
7-sthout. This was the sitting for examination and dis-
r4e, but no accounts had been tiled, and it was stated
the bankrupt bad absconded. The debts proved at
brat sitting were 2,131 W.; amount of assets uncertain.
.lr. Walker, for the assignees, stated that no accounts
:ad Ann filed, and the bankrupt was not in attendance.
ie u es ordered to be proclaimed at the usual hour.

IS Be SPENCER.
The leutlcrupt was mathematical master in the Unirer-
itl vulle,• School, Upper Gower-street. Against unse-
up,ll debt+ of 2,3971., due to tradesmen of different
load,. and contracted during the last nine years—the
acre stated at 1001. only.
1,1, the application of the assignees, an adjournment
t.-4• entered for a cash account.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

representations were true. Shortly after this
the defendant appeared to have gone away from Chelten-
ham rather hastily, leaving a great many creditors for
articles he hail obtained, and after this he seemed to have
found his way to Plymouth, where he personated • noble
lord, and was received and entertained by the officers of
the garrison in that capacity, and was also invited to a
banquet un board the Royal Adelaide. Ile remained at
Plymouth until he had run up debts to a oonsidendile
amount. and he then decamped, leaving his creditors
in the lurch. Subsequently to this he appeared to have
made an application to Mr. Gladstone in the noise of
Mrs. Dorothy Drummond Hay, for assistance to aid a de-
serving family who were desirous of emigrating to
Australia, and he received a sum of money from Mr.
Gladstone, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, for
that supposed purpose. The story was discovered to he
false, and the prisoner was taken into custody, but on his
expressing the most sincere penitence, and declaring that
he would never again commit such an act of dishonesty,
Mr. Cladstone consented not to prosecute and the prisoner
WAS discharged. In onler to show the sincerity of the
prisoner's penitence, it appeared that be wrote to the
officer who bad the charge of the case, and told him
that if he wanted any information as to where Mrs.
Dorothy Drummond Hay could be discovered, she
would be found in the family vault at Kensal-
green Cemetery, and probably in an advanced stage
of decomposition, covered with a tombstone, upon which
her many virtues were recorded. (Laughter.) The prisoner
then appeared to have gone to Sheerness, and he was ap-
prehended at that place on the charge of obtaining goods
from tradesmen by false pretences, and was senteuced to
three months' imprisoament ; and at the expiration of that
punishment the present charge was preferred against him.
When the defendant was called upon to say whether he •
had anything to urge why sentence should not be passed
upon
him. he addressed the court, and said that he denied
in a n:ost positive manner the truth of a great many of the
allegations that had been made against him. He admitted
that his life had been a most adventurous one since his j
return from the Crimea ; but he denied that he had led ,
the life of a swindler. lie said that he belonged to a !
family of distinction; but for some reason or oilier j
different members of his family were desirous of getting
rid of him. With regard to the charge of obtaining money
from the Earl of Derby by forging the name of Mr..
Chisholm, he said that although he hail aided in that
transaction he was not the originator of it, and he believed
at the time that Mrs. Chisholm was dead. _

The Common Serjeant, addressing the prisoner,
that he had pleaded guilty to two indictments charging
him with obtaining money by fraud, and another which
charged him with forgery, and by his own admission, he
hail also been guilty of conspiracy. This was not the first
occasion on which be had been guilty of defrauding the
government and obtaining money by false pretences front
the royal bounty, and there was no doubt that he wa,
most dangerous person. The sentence upon him therefore
would be one of penal servitude for 10 years.
The grand jury have returned true bills against all the
prisoners charged with scuttling the ship Severn.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGILSTREET.

A CLEVERAMATEI It I.ETECTIVE.7-RoBRINI. A SAILOR.

Jane Emily Watson, a showily-dressed young woman,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwlutt with stealing • gold
watch and chain of the value of .101., the property of
James Thompson, a sailor, raiding at bhingford, &sex.
William Sherer, a young German, residing in Broad-
street, Golden-square, and who has several times brought
offenders to justice, said—A little after 12 o'clock this
morning I was in the Haymarket, and saw the prisoner in
company of a gentleman the worse for liquor. I watched
them, and saw the prisoner take the gentleman to the
White Bear public-house, in Piccadilly, where the gentle-
man gave the prisoner something to drink, and paid
for it with a half-sovereign, and received the
change. The prisoner then took the gentleman
down the Haymarket, and put bins into a hansom cab, and
got in herself, and told the driver to go to Compton-street.
I jumped up on the back of the cab and went with it to
Compton-street, where the prisoner stopped the cab and
get out, and went with the gentleman into • house in
Dean-street. I waited outside the house, and shortly
after the prisoner came out in haste having
a beer jug in her hand. I asked her what
she had done with the gentleman, and she said
that he was asleep on the sofa, and that she was
going to get him something to drink. She asked me
to go and have something to drink with her, and so as not
to lose her I did so ; and as she did not ask for the beer, I
asked her whether she was not going to get some. She
then raid that she was going to Foley-street to get some
broth, and she went towards that place. I followed her,
and on her seeing a constable in Great Port-
land-street, she spoke to him, complaining of my
following her, and asking the constable to get
rid of me. I then went up and spoke to the
constable, telling his that I suspected she bad robbed
a gentleman in Dean-stmt, and while I was doing so the
prisoner tried to get away by getting into • cab. The
constable then took the prisoner to the station, and upon
her the watch and chain were found. The gentleman they
belong to is in court.
Prisoner—Did you not say you were a detective?
Witness—No.

James Thompson, the prosecutor—l am • sailor, and
reside at Cbingford, Essex. I do not remember any-
thing that occurred to me last night. The watch and
chain are my property, and of the value of 301.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—You are lucky to get them back.
Police-constable 113 G-1 took the prisoner into cus-
tody, and the prisoner, on Sherer speaking to me,
handed me the watch and chain, stating that a gentleman
she left on • sofa in a house in Dean-street told her to
take care of them. _

Sherer—The prosecutor was very drunk last night. I
went to the hotel, and brought him here this morning.
The prisoner preferring to be dealt with by the magis-
trate, Mr. Tyrwhitt said he bad no doubt about the case
whatever, and committed the prisoner for three months
with bard labour.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HAYDON4QUARE

GOODS STATIO.V.

INQUEST.HTHIS DAY.)

•
This morning, Mr. NV. Payne, the deputy-
coroner, held an inquiry at the Committee-rooms, Foun-
tain-court, Minories respecting the cause of an accident at
the Haydon-square goods station of the London and North
Western Railway, by which Robert Mason was killed, and
another man was seriously injured.
William Kenna, gatekeeper at the London and North
Western Railway Goods station, add he was on duty at
the premises in question on Saturday last, at a quarter to
1 o'clock. The deceased and two other men were
cleaning bricks near the ruins of the warehouses that
were lately burned down. They were standing
nearly under the archway of the old warehouse. One
the men suddenly gave a shout, " oh, Bob, it's falling in."
The man gave a jump back, and a part of the building fell
with a loud noise. Two of the men were instantly buried
under the drbris. Witness saw a little con-
crete fall before the flooring, bricks, and beam
that were on the top of the archway gave
way. The archway formed the gateway into the ruins.
It was used at the time of the occurrence by carts. A
horse had passed through it just before the accident.
There was a great quantity of rubbish on the top of the
archway. It had been left there since the great fire which
bad occurred at the wool warehouse. The archway had
not been shored up after the fire. The rain water had in.
creased the weight of the rubbish on the top of the arch-
way. The basal fell on the buried men.
After hearing other evident*,
The jury returned the following verdict :—" Accidental
death, and the jury recommend that the railway company
should take steps to employ a professional person, to
have the premises that are now standing on the site of the
late warehouses burned by fire properly secured ; and by
so doing increase the public safety."