The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-14 00:00:00

ItE WAX SPIZOICI.

The bankrupt Was; and cap manufacturer, of
Camomile-street. He sought his discharge from debts of
7971., giving up assets of 701.
lir. Downing opposed for the assignee, who charged the
bankrupt with having vexatiously defended an action
brought against him by the assignee.
His Honour, being of opinion that the charge was wen
founded, suspended the order of discharge for 12 months.
!Before Mr. Commissioner Gou!burn.,
IN RE H. A. SINNONDS.
. .

The bankrupt ••as;ll7hOresal;l;;Crxid cap manufac-
turer and warehouseman, late in partnership with Frede-
rick Goodyear and Co., of Old Change, whose failure re-
cently created some excitement in the C.ty. The case
has been been brought into this court through the
bankrupt having executed • deed of assignment.
This was the sitting for examination and discharge. The
accounts disclose large liabilities. The bankrupt owes to

unsecured creditors, 6,7561. ; to these holding ',equity,
16,300/. ; liabilities on notes discounted, 19,600/. ; ditto
qi
' account of the joint estate of Goodyear and Co., 532,110.
By property heldas security, M,4201. ; dividend receivable from Heming's estate, 1,090/.; property given up. 4.001.
Mr. Phelps appeared fur the assignee' and said that it
would be necessary to have separate sad joint accounts also cash and deficiency amounts.
Hr. Graham, the official agaignee, stated that he bud
written to the bankrupt, pointing out the debris's:ars in
the accounts, and requesting his attendance, but he had
never looked near his office.
Mr. Howard, who represented the bankrupt, said that
he had been suffering from illness.
An adjournment was ordered till the 29th of July.
lii 86 ALICR RAY ()ILIA.
The bankrupt was a schoolmistress, at Bishops WA.
them, Hants. Debts, 1,0201. ; no assets.
This was the sitting fur examimition and discharge; bat
the solicitor for the assignees not being prene,,t,
Honour directed an adjournment and disallowed solicitor's
costs.

The same order was made in the rase of T. Jordan,
builder, of Redhill, whose debts were only 3241.
Afterwards both gentlemen appeared. Mr. Widter. of
Portsmouth, alleged as the cause of his absence an ac-
cident on the South Western Railway.
Mr. Jones, of New Inn, pleaded the well km.scl gifh.
culties of the " streets of London," owing to a hi,h
ba
transit from New Inn to Etasinghall-street, had be.% ay.,
ably varied by the route of Brook-street, liolhom, sad
Smithfield-market. (Laughter.)
His Honour acknowledged the cogency of both the pleas,
and rescinded the orders which he bad made as to the
payment of costa.

LAW COURTS' COMPENSATION COURT.
(Before H. Scott Turner, Es' q., High Bailiff of Weetininskr,
and a Special Jury.)
TUXFORD v. THE ROYAL CoMmuavioNEßA or TREED/ Lai
COORTB.—HEAVY COMPERmATIoN CLAIM BY A BEEP.
PAPER PROPRIETOR.
This case, which has been pending some time, sad
which created more than ordinary interest, was WM.
nienced this morning, and for which three days ba,,)
been set apart for the hearing. Mr. Tusfonl is the pro.
praetor of the Mark-lane Express and some sporting pubg.
cations, at 246, Strand, near Temple-bar. The claim was
between 30.0001. and 46,0001.
Mr. Lloyd and Mr. S.ulood appeared for Mr. Taxlonl
Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Day, and Mr. McMahon were foe
the Royal Commissioners.
The Jury went to view the property, and Mr. Lloyd pro.
ceede Ito open the case on the part of Mr. Taxford. No
other premises could be obtained for his business. ybe
claim was a large one, but the losses would be consider-
able.

Mr. Tuziord was the first witness called and examined
by Mr. Sargood. The case will occupy three days if not
more.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Recorder.)
THE TAILORS' STRIKI—CHARGL OF INTISIDATI.IN.

William Jelly and John Hall, two respectabtelooking
men, surrendered to take their trial for misdemeanour, is
having unlawfully conspired together and with other per.
sons to intimidate and prevent a person named Margaret
Rattenbury from working at her trade as a taibaress.
Serjeant Ba'Undue, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. F. H. Lewis
conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Keane, Q.C., and Mr.
Ribton appeared for the defendants.
Serjeant Ballantine, in opening the ease, mid that
although this charge arose out of the strike at present
going on among the operative tailors, they had nothing to
do with the question in dispute between the master tailors
and their men, but the only point to be decided wis
whether the prisoners had been guilty of intimidation and
endeavouring to prevent the person named in the indict.
went from continuing at her employment.
Mrs. Rattenbury was then emunined, and the proved
that she was employed by Mr. Bowater, a tailor, in
Hanover-street, and earned 15e. a week, and supported her
husband, who was in the last stage of consumption, and
her family by her labour. On the 21st May the defendants
came to her house and remonstrated with her for working
for Mr. Bowater, and offered to give her 15s. a week, and
subsequently 11., if she would refuse to do so. She
declined, and various threats were made use of, and she
was so alarmed that she war afraid to go out at night by
herself. Several other men also applied to her and wished
her to give up her work, and she was told that she would
be marked if she persisted in going on with her work.
In cross-examination Mrs. Rattenbury said that Hall en
one occasion told her that if she was molested by anyone
she must complain to the committee, and they would im-
mediately interfere. He also argued with her, and said
that if the journeymen lost this strike they would, se she
herself had been, be dependent upon charity, and that if
the masters succeeded they would be sure to throw her
overboard.

The Recorder, at the close of the case for the prosecu•
tion, said he was of opinion that there was no case against
Hall, but the cue must go to the jury against thc ether
defendant.

After hearing Mr. Keene the jury retired, and they cams
back with a verdict of Not Guilty as regards Hall, and
convicting daisy of intimidation.
(Before Mr. Justice Willem)
_ CHARGC OP MANSLAUsaITIII...

Margaret Crowley, 47, surrendered to take litt trial oa
an imlictment charging her with feloniously Idling and
slaying Cornelius Crowley.
Mr. ilouston appeared for the prosecution, and stated
that the prisoner was charged with the manslaughter of
her husband, who it appeared had long been suffering
from consumption. They lived together in Baldwin's.
gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, and it seemed that ou the 21st
May a man named Sullivan called to see the deceased,
when a quarrel ensued between Sullivan and the prisoner,
who at last got possession of a poker with which she aimed
• blow at Sullivan, which unhappily, however, -truck her
husband, the effect being is knock out one of his eyes.
The husband. was immediately taken to the hospital,
where, after lingering a few days, he died, the proximate
cause of death being in the opinion of the surgeon the
pre-existing disease of phthisis, accelerated by the blow.
The learned counsel stated that in justice to the pri-
soner he must mention that the evidence would
show that prior to the prisoner using the poker she had
been set upon and very much dittoed, so much so that
she was bleeding from the head sn.l face, and farther
it was proper he should state that on the inquiry before
the coroner the jury had returned a verdict of "excusable
homicide."
Mr. Justice Wiles said he bad looked over the depo-
sitions, and he must say that the learned counsel bad
Hpaned the facts of the case with equal candour and truth.
e (Mr. Justice Wilke) was of moo that there could
not be any hops of obtaining • conviction, but if the jail
wished to go into the details the ens. should go on.
The jury conferred for • few seconds, .nod said they were
satisfied, and returned a verdict of X.!
By direction of the court the prior ner wan at once dia.
charged.

THZ POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
THZ LATZ TALL or UOUNIES IN
Mr. 11nm:m, inspector of the F,:tsi•su of police,
traduced the Rev. T. G. Littlecott e sitting turf**
trate, Mr. Flowers, for the purpose et ni.sing au /POI"'
tion under the following cireumetann, .
Mr. Brannan said theta number of :•. • .1- persons, hiehtd.'
ing about fourteen families and al
had been rendered homeless and 1. pr,,,,1 of what little
furniture and effects they had beet. :.....eased of by the
recent fall of the two houses in 'I .I,ent'sdane, where
they had been lodging. Some sort . • • umorary shelter
had been found for them by homer • ,•m, by kind per-
mmmisaicotinmom%
ifthme
mcoomviumfissmimone:e. • thmemndbuedt!ainne:
which have lately been cleared wit!, •
tins
to their de.
si
law courts. This, however, was , temporary expe-
dient, and they must as soon a. p•,- • provide th
of
em-
selves with some other dwelling pl ,• The difficultY
doing an was aggravated by the wart r,:rniture.
The Rev. T. G. Littlecott said it .rolvoed to get ul
subscriptions, chiefly in the parish ueighbourhood o
Sc. Clement Danes, and several gent:e.,,, ~,,f local staudmg
were willing to subscribe. The objc.-t • the present inter-
view was to ask the magistrate to h. , 'hr list
Mr. Flowers, after some considerat consented to gi.•
a sum of td. from the poor-box.

WORSITIP-STREI, r.
ATTEMPTED 8U1C11,1:.
A** Dryer, 50 years of age, was enar.led with attempfe
ing to commit suicide in the river
Frederick Askers, • young boatman on that river, said—
About half-past 12 o'clock yeatenlav naming I saw this
old lady take a run right into the wat, r and strike out like
a man swimming. I got a boat and a. nt after her, but
she would not be saved. I held out t'.•• .Lolls, as I have
to others before, and in that way a." ' them, but ne she
would not catch hold of them, so wa, to get: bee
to shore with a boat-hook, and then she bloomed me up
for it.

Mr. Newton—What did she *y?
Askers--Wliy, that if 164,1 lei 1.. r alone she should
have been comfortable as a biddy teat time. I toes
know what she had been doing. 1 a r body was black
and blue all over; and sho said that tried to choke
herself two days before.
Defendant would not assign any re • • to the magistrate
for the attempt, and the police a 1.,. .1 that she had not

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!..m.• or any person belonging to her ; her husband
s ; 6c had been a market gardener in a large way.
N, wton remanded her, and kindly ordered the boat-
,. f the 1...01,1,0x as a reward for his determine-
t, • .11111 1.• •raeverattee its savinria life. which feeling, he
wou:d It, shared and further rewarded by those
s!,• Lead or read of it.

NO rit KR ATTEMPT.
Ina The. a man of 'angular appearance, and about
gr. of age. w.t3 charged with hating uulawfully

..7lrylor, ill N;sairl at about h: !f 10 o'clock last
this man came to me in the Paragon-road, Hackney,
;,• " I have swallowed poison; this bottle contained
it. meting that he wa, really very bad, I took him to the
when• a quantity of laudanum was ejected from his
.• , , by emetics. All that could be now elicited from
•, repe.tted assertion of his having quarrelled with
I.- f.ahr r.
Mr. Newton directed a remand in this case also.

WANDSWORTH.
(..1' y.I.F.GEI) CRUELTY To A

Bbn.'„ a cooper, of No. 3, Rosetta-
t. South Litois tb, and Ilaionjh Rpfewl, his wife,
their bail to further answer the charge of
!Ly to to.. 111 Lk boy, aged 7 years, the son of the nude
~-..err by a fainter wife.
:11. West, front the office of Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe,
I,..,lleitors to the Society for the Protection of Women and
('lol lien. attended to prosecute ; the Mitnmis of Towns.
10 lel. the president of thu society, being also present.
Mr. M.t)o now Molded the prisoner.
,!.te Norman, .0 W, who found the wretched
boy locked in the w.usit.house, was re-called, and stated
he found a rope in the pocket of the male prisoner,
who told him that !!e chastised his children with it.

The prie.ollvl.- I did not say that. I said I usssl it to
chastise the other children. I :liver touched the boy
with it.

The witnew, in continuation, said he found holes in the
roof of the wsslthouse, through which wet was dripping
on to the chill as he was lying on the chairs. It had been
raining that day, and the, boy's clothes were wet. The
waelehouse i., about two yards square, and between seven
and eight feet in height.
Itlr. Mayo You speak about a stench in the place. Is
tier,• any sink '1
Witness I did not see one. The place is full of things,
ii there is one it unu.t have been covered over. Thu
,•111 VI, of a per-on slt..ping there for a long time, and of
.ii•t as well. The only ventilation was through the holes
is the roof. Thu child was lying on a nine bottom seat
upon two chairs. naked, with the exception of an old piece
of root round him. His clothes, a woollen frock and a thin
....Let, were over him, and an old piece of chintz quilt on
head.

Mr. Mayo—Quite sufficient for this kind of weather.
Th.. constable—\o, they were not. It was a cold night,
aril the child was shiveriug. lie did not complain of the
cold until I pulled the clothes off.
Mr. Dayua.lll—What time was it?
Witness—limb past II at night.
Mr. Mayo —Are you aware there are ten children?
Witness--I saw bevel. besides the boy. The male
rri-oner add the boy was of dirty habits, and that was
tie reason he put him there. There was room in the
Wns . for the buy.
Palice•constable Lansdale, No. 259 W, gave confirmatory
evidence. and added that he weighed the child after be was
dressed in his wet clothes, and found that he weighed
That morning he weighed the boy again. He was
ilre.‘eil in the same clothes, which had been washed and
the filth removed from them. He then weighed Nibs.,
v. that he had increased albs. in weight during the week.
Whet' first taken to the station some bread awl butter was
given to him, when he ate the food ravenously.
Mr. James Edmondson, a surgeon, said he was called to
the station at half-pant 11 o'clock at night to see the
chill. Ila made a careful examination, end found the
clothes extremely wet, dirty, end his body also was gene-
rally dirty. Ills body was cold. He was shivering, bloodless,
and a.m.!. There was a bruise on the right leg that
hail been done either with a strap, cane, or rope. He
found no disease to account for the emaciation. The boy
was sound in his lungs, and was not suffering from any
mesenteric disease. Witness considered the boy was in a
very emaciatel state. A child of seven years of age ought
to weigh fully 601 b. That was the weight for en ordinary
sized child.

In reply to the magistrate, the witness said he bad not
seen the washbouso.

Mr. Dayuian told him that it would be aa well for him
to see the place.
Mr. Mayo said there might be a great many holes in the
roof that did not exist when the child was found, as •
number of stones had been thrown at the house.

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Mr. Daynian wished to have the opinion of the nurgeon
as to whether the washhouse was a fit place for the child to
be kept in.
Mr. Eilmondson further said that the child's health was
not permanently injured. He had no doubt that the treat-
ment the boy received had injured his health.
It y Mr. Mayo—The clothes were wet from rain.
Eliza Appleton, nurse at Lambeth Workhouse, said that
when the child was brought in he was in a filthy state.
He bad been under her care during the week. She found
him a perfectly clean child, bad an amiable disposition,
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and playf ut
Mr. Dayman then remanded the prisoner for another
week, for the depositions to be prepared, and for Mr.
Edmondson to inspect the wsuihhouse, which is situated
from the house. The magistrate said he would enlarge
the bail.

The prisoners' security now declined to be bail again.
The female said she would rather not have bail, and
would prefer going to prison as she had no home.
The male prisoner said he had lost his situation which be
'lad held for 30 yearn, through the case, his home had been
,i-stroyed by the neighbours, and he would ha Ire to go to
the workhouse.
The prisoners were then removed to the cells.