The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

all IS DAY.)

CoUBT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
• ,•,,,•; Nisi Prins Sittings at Weetniineter.—(Defore
Mi. Justice Shee and a Special Jury.)
kr:anNrs r. MTOllks.
An action for false imprisonment, Ice., of a
• kahle character. The • plaintiff, Catherine
, ii of lawn the confidential servant of the late Ser-
, ks. :oul she brought this action against the de-
. I;• r Cccu s Storks, one of the deceased's
111,4a11y confined her in a French lunatic
•o this •lutie. INR, until the Inth of

',taut plr.i.lrd not guilty. and three grounds of

Q.C.. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., awl
\ th. were eelitisel for the plaintiff; the soli.
Heic.l. M.. Prentice. I and Mr. Hannen were
, —1 for the

1. op, an .1 (*.tan the opening statement of Mr. rtighy
. u that the plaintiff, who was a native of Ireland,
, .•. ;..1 into th,• service of the family of the late Scrjeant
~. :it I. n a.s a cook, but about two years after she
„, .• .• tie housekeeper, and in that capacity she remained
the late aerjeaut from that time until the :ith of
when she was incarcerated in prison by the
teens of the defendant. She enjoyed the confidence
~! :he family. and was up to that time the constant
,e 1 n t ott tile Lite .erjeant throughout his illnexa,and his
o mon when convalescent. The family when sheentered
t., the service consisted of Major. now Sir Henry Stocks.
I ttl• ;,,vernor of Malta, and the distinguished head of
the Jamaica l'ommission ; the Rev. Thommt Storks, who
.1 in 1 <At ; an only daughter, named Mary Ann, who
iaarrieil a Mr. Sweetieg, and secondly, Mr. Hoare ;
ci i defendant ; and. lastly. John, who died in 1549. In
I circomstancet occuried in the 1, 'ly which caused
conversations between the plaintiff and defendant relative
to the probable ilisposition of the setjeant's property which
the Lat. I 11.,1 ill.tiCate.l he had equally divided
la tweett hi. ,hildren. Lt Medi the serjeant died, when it
oi foutei that his will Mete date fah October, 18:99.
Th.,t will had since been published, and from its sin.
gthl brevity ;mil language had lately attracted public
attention from its having been published in the new51..1,1..
l..1,1.. The will was as follows: " I declare
tbo to be uty last will and testament ; and I
i • ',by revoke all that I have made. I leave to Robert
I:. .ves Storka all my property absolutely which is not
trically vise,l. I leave to Kearnes an annuity for
Ire of :"41f. p,, annnm. I consider Sir Henry and Mary
Ammo provOl. d for. or I should have done differently." It
to prevent this will front being:altered that the plaintiff
:O.ributt..l the strange conduct of the defendant in having
1,, r placed in a lunatic asylum.
11 n eonsoluence of the many minute details involved in
th, caw, and the period over which the transactions
e.tend, tic case is eapected to butt two or three clays at

( URT oF COMMON PLEAS.
Sittingl Prim, in Middimex.—(Before Lord Chid
Justice Bolin and a Common Jury.)
.... . _

r. JOHNSON.

The plaintiff in tin; care I;al;gentleman living at
14th. and in the spring of last year he was owner of 30
.h.tre, in the concern of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Li.
nand,. Ilia ea.: wan that in April he mold 10 of these
char. to the defendant, Aliu Arabella Johtsion,
:oat in the following August he was called upon
to joy a call of 101. a share to the account
of the official liquidators, and he now claimed to recover
1011/, of the sum (rote Miss Johnson, upon the ground that
sh.• ought to have registered her shares in her own name,
and thus love rendered herself liable for calls.
Mr. IluHen appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Phi Ulrich
ror the defendant.

Three witnesses Were called in support of the plaintiff's
Ca.".

The Lord Chief Justice, however, held that there wee
proof of a transkr of the gliares to the defendant, and
therefore he nonsuited the plaintiff.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
WINST ‘NI.EY WINSTANLLY.
Dr. Spinks, t).C., and Mr. R. E. Turner, for the pe-
titioner : Mr. Deane, Q.c., and Mr. 0. Browne, for the
iespondent.
This was a petition for a dissolution, on the ground of
cruelty and adultery, tiled by the wife of a farmer,
at Eirlscoln, in Essex. The case turned upon luestions
IA medical science, and was not of a character amiable for
publication. The marriage had taken place in lel9, after
a courtship of four yearn, and in spite of the opposition of
the lady's father. The cohabitation had lasted till 1865,
and there had been two children.
Thu trial had not concluded when our report left.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)
TUE CIIABGE OF SCUTTLING THE SEVERN.
The trial of the prisoners was resumed this morning.
Mr. All:ride, the partner of Mr. Frazer, the insurance
broker, was called to prove the circumstances connected
with the effecting of the different insurances, confirming
the te,tinitty of that gentleman. He also proved that
Holilsworth, after the loss of the Severn, handed to Mr.
Tl'llride the fictitious log-book and the other papers neces-
sary to make out the claims upon the different insurance-
offices. In cross-examination the witness said that he
always considered Hohlaworth acted as a broker in the
transaction.

Mr. Douglas, another insurance broker, gave similar
testimony, and he also said that Holdsworth appeared
merely to .t us a broker, and he was considered a respect-
able Juan iii the City.
Couzens, a Liverpool detective, proved that he was ac-
quainted with Berwick and Holdsworth at Liverpool, and
that after the loss of the Severn he made inquiries but
could not find either of them. He also stated that the
first time he went to Ifoldsworth's office there were a great
many papers lying about, but when he went again they
were all gone, and fragments of burnt paper were lying
about.
Webb, the officer, was the next witness, and he proved
that he made a search for Berwick and Holdsworth, but
could not find either of them. Berwick at first denied
that he knew anything about the Severn, and refused to
go without seeing the warrant, but he afterwards said he
supposed he Lad better go, and he then inquired whether
the captain was in custody, and whether the officer knew
',there Holdsworth was. When he was searched 23/.
were found upon him. It appeared that when Lean was
apprehended he declared that he was innocent, and said
that all he had done was done b 7 the direction of Holds-
worth, and that he expressed his readiness to tell all
he knew about the matter, and that after the for of
tic Severn he Wet him in St. Paul's Churchyard
and he told him that there woo a great row about the caeca
of firearms, and that he must do the best he could fur
haevalf. Evidence was also given of the apprehension of
Webb, anal that he said he was innocent, and that he had
lost 170/. by the sinking of the vessel, and also of the ap-
prehension of the prisoner Holdsworth at Basle, in Swit-
zerland, and that he expressed hie willingness to go back
to England, and declared that he was innocent of the
charge made against him.
John Mark Bull, another detective officer, proved that
he searched Hoblaworth's private residence at Bayswater,
and that he found a diary in the water-closet, in which
there was an entry of Holdsworth's having been at Newport
on a particular day in company with Lerwick and Captain
!Ryland.

( hie ur two other witnesses, whose evidence was not very
il, were then eawniined, and this closed the case
for the prosecution.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

WORSHIP STREET.
florlPPrtr or A
rro.i.wr H.isperh, clerk to Mean. Hincks, the well
kiewil solicitors of King-street, Finsbury, was charged
with r!ealing the loonies of his employers.
Mr W. T. Marriott appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Vinn defended the prisoner, who was brought up in
th, c Istody of warrant officer Haines, O division. The
eolinsei having stated the outlines of the case, oh-
r‘ad that the present proceedings were conducted purely
upon public grounds.
Mr. John Steer Hincks then gave evidence fully sup-
P.rt,l by witnesses from which it appeared that prisoner
.! ken in his service since February, Irsil ; that his
principal duties were to serve subprenas, and pay the con-
dict money to witnesses - that in the early part of
f''"",oo r last witness had the conduct of • case
"Hr-blew v. Slobie," and that prisoner was in-
F','.4.4 by Mr. Ganiiile Sheppard, the mng
to serve suhpenas in that cause ;that
such purposes he received on the 2-Ith of
's'eniles- pending the trial, 2/., and on the 2Gth,
; that the list of names were in his handwriting, as
the dates• with one exception that on the 27th he
in an account of the money alleged to have been
liuu, and returned It. :is. fel. as the balance of the
Suspicion of the prisoner's having withheld
that he ought to have paid as mentioned was first
by Mr. Hincks receiving a letter on the very eve of
tr.al from a lily witness named Ablett. Prisoner was
2,;!,1 to explain, and he pointed to her name in the list.
; • :":. " Why, she is paid you have her receipt."
° ciry was nevertheless instituted, and it became maul-
!. that several other important witnesses had been
1p lavc'l I'v prisoner to sign the list and receive their
-Ir • na without payment of the conduct money—in most
21s. Various subterfuges and excuses were
to effect this, but the prisoner, on being shown
Al.h tt." letter, node all haste to repair his fault, by
-'::he witnesses the money lie should have given them
sul.poii, and begging that the delay might not
to his master ; in one instance, however, he
Late to pay before the trial, yet, having aacertained