The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-{THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Alk.l l'oin Nisi Trius Sittings at Wptniinster. —(Before
Lord Chief Justice anti a Special Jury.)
I I •K aLLau n WHITEIII.IIB2 AND OTEDOIB.

I.:, N I • an action for libel against the Doily Telegraph.
d, f. cd.ont. pleaded not guilty.
bl, te.int Parrs*. Mr. Butler Rigby, Mr. Baker
14,11. Fllbi Mr. 11. Dimply were coinage' for the plaintiff ;
)!r Odes Mgt.. Q.C., Mr. Seijeant Ballantine, Mr. H.
„ Mr. Montagu Williams represented the de-

o •stti
the first day of the after term nisi Arius sit-
trgs, ti tlw proorodings cominruced with the trial of an
est:milder:try action of libel against the IMily
:i•i,:g art of the now notorious trial of Rink Allah in
A ievr yearn since• for the murder of his wife and
fled .!,,, for forgery. The court was alenacly crowded
..ogliort the whole of the day, anal great interest pre-
, ,1641 Araaipt the audience. _

ieant Perry. in opening the plaintiff's ease said
It i• n, . duty to 4i to you one of the moat extraordi-
it:lit:dives ever li.teued to in a court of justice. fertile
•.• they:i:e in all countries in interest and romuum. flu the
.:rd October, 1866, and on the eight following days, the
i.;.'sit;fl was t riedat theeity of Brussels, in Belgium. for the
army of murder mid forgery. In our country he
;id only have been tried for one of these crimes at
: use ; boat by the law. of France and Belgium they are
• 'Haar and cognate, and the public prosecutor ran state
oi the art of accusation as many crimes as he pleases
:.gaiir4 an accused party, and he can he put upon
les bird for all thou', crimes, however dissimilar
in their character ; and such was the fate
of the plaintiff, but after an investigation, width
lasted altogether *lined:iv., 1 the examination of seventy
tritzessies—after the production, I mar say, of innumerable
documents, the plaintiff was triumphantly acquitted, not
inertly by the verdict of the jury alone, but in the con-
sciences of the judges who tried him, and the general
npjmroval of the people who heard the trial. A trial of
this kind excited Altman naivetesl interest, and the press
of France and of England were represented at Brussels,
and the defendants, who are the proprietors of the body
Tr/ogreph, were mpresentod there, and the plaintiff
C..rnplaulell that the defendants had, in a series of letters,
which their special correspondent wrote from Brussels to
t Lit jolirnal in London, from the beginning to the end.
assumed the guilt of the plaintiff, and suppressed the
..:neat bulk of the evidence that was given in his favour,
making no allusion to it ; and that even when winlielled
.fade ,one of the evidence given in his favour, they did
everything they could to destroy its force. The plaintiff
c•miplains that the reports were altogether unfair,
i•irtial, end one-sided. He complains also, that, during
it,, trial, the grossest litsis and calumnies were circa-
tr, lid against him, and tlist, after these lettershad appeared,
when" the trial was over, and when—(l say so as ad-
and emphatically as I con)—the plaintiff was
tiiiimphantly. acquitted and his innocence demonstrated,
ie,,,hrig article appeared in the defendants' paper miter-
• •.ng all the charges, not iu au honest and bold statement
!!;:d the charges were true, but a statement which by
oration and inuendo declared the belief of the writer
the plaintiff was a niunlerer and a forgerer. I have
out: ,:y considered the course I ought to take in stating
tilt, (-3. t• to you, and I have come to the deterini-
i• +tint, that I will first tell you the whole of what
cern.' upon the trial of the plaintiff, and then I will
:rad the articles complained of. and point out to you its
nitwien.. its suppressions, and its libellous, defamatory,
coal I.:antiunion!' statements. At the outset it may be

:..kid who the plaintiff is. He is by birth a Seriian.
was born in the district of the Lebanon. He passed
the greater part of his youth in the cities of Beymut and
bsturset.s. He was educated for the church, two of his
r. !Atom,. an uncle and a grandfather, being priests of the
thiet indicating the fact that the plaintiff war
01 a good and respectable family. His intelligence
Au- acted the attention of the government, and he came
over t. this country patronised by, and at the instance of,
the Turkish Govenneent, to study medicine, and he
walked the hospitals here. He underwent an examination
A the College of Surgeons, and received his diploma and
s he a cis tithate of associate of the medical school at King's
t ;41..0. When lie obtained his diploinahe was appointed
I...tioisry surgeon to the Turkish embassy, and in 1854,
w hen the war in the Crimea broke out, he was appointed
br the Duke of Newcastle. the then Secretary of State for
Wsi, sod became a tn.-die...l "fritter upon the staff of Omer
He went t.. the Crimea, and performed his duty
there with considerable success, and upon the close of the
war, har:ng on one occasion distinguished himself on
II e fichl. he received from the officer in command

Ti.rki h decoraticn. After the war he was soot
Sinop, and Tretizond, where he attended 10,000
olosiso t mops, receiving 200 Napoheimarom the Bay of
mi. for his services, and two orders brim that country.
fir a!-,t icecieed from the Sultan the Order of the Medijie,
•ial the (*intim' medal from the English and Turkish go.
arremeiil. and with these honours lie returned to this
^. entry shout 1856. Atter his return to this country, he
rams a.•.tuainted with a widow lady, named Mrs. Pan-
t, tt Lewis. and alter au interval of about a year.
mriii.-.1 her in December, 1857. There was connected
with Ord holy. a veung men named Charles Regally, other-
weie W 1,:. m Joint :Macey, a natural child, which the
p!ictilat lei:aired was not, and still believes so, the natural
hill of b., wife, but probably of her sister. The child
Ilrl le., t and the plaintiff uncle, and the wife's
irime being Read hence the child's name,
cl!t. The boy was quite young, at the time of
mirr.s',vr. Mr.. Lewis was in the potsession
• I 0..4 20.000!. or 25.000/. at the time. of
1.... 111411 Inge, and by the settlement 5,0004 was settl. d
the boy; 2,000/. to be paid to him on his attaining
in . maa,rity in the wife's lifetime, and the 5,000/. if that
iint happened after her death. The plaintiff and
I wife lived in London with the child, and the plaintiff.
be. had a speculative tu' of mind, dealt in stock, and
-bares. His wife, who bad become ailing in 1859, went
to Paris, the plaintiff being at that time in C
:-.lantinople. and on hi. receiving a telegram scat.
ing her illness. he hastened to her. lie after.
wends brought her to London, and took the advice
of some of the most eminent physicians, and amongst
• 'hers, s,r William Fergasson and I)r. Itamalxltona, in
%thaw house he stayed 3or 4 mouths. Their advice was
1.. take her to Gentian y 10 drink the fiennen wetter% and
se took her tip the Rhine by way of Rotterdam, but at
.he died. It wa• intimated that be had murdered
his wife, and it was so stated by the public. prosecutor.
'I pla;ntiff was called upon to explain and he
'id so, said it was certified that she had died
:I.te a tumour of On liver, but it was reiterated in
!la libel. After her death, the plaintiff came into ponce-
of her property. She had made two wills. The first
.i.privisi him if any iiitereat in her property. but by the
0,10 will he was to take all except the 5,11100/. given to
boy. After his return to England in 1863, he renewed
acquaintance with a gentlemarenamod Bingham. whom
had known in Malta in 1852. On the death of
:list gentleman in 1864, it was found that he had
....le two wills out in favour of his wife, said another in
...o of his 10•11. Out Of will. several ...nits arose
in Probete f'ovirt end an action against the plaintiff
teferetiet. to some share transaction.. between them, but
It..- result was that, after the plaintiff's cross-examination
in the mud in Chancery. all the other suits were cempro-
rii,id upon the bask that all the imputations should be
r. ithdrawn as against him, and payntent of his costs. is
li:inn-vv, the impudent and scandalous accusations
ise stn ask out, but they were brought against him at
littes.ele. In 1861 the plaintiff was appointed by the
• oert nt t hancery Charles Readly's guardian, and he was
150/. per annum for his maintenance. The boy
welted to go to sea, and accordingly he went to the Snot
len that had been made a charge against plain.
tin, elthough lee seal. the bey there tal the hope
of improving his health. In 1863 the be. was
,toying at Spa, and whilst there Ise
gummed with a Mrs. Atkins, to whose daugh-
ter he was very nurser attached. The courtship
went ma for some time, and during that time the young
man was very extravagant in his habit... He was rather
addicted to gambhnr, and he exceeded his income.
During the whole othl, connection with the plaintiff
they were much attached to each other. In
the early part of 12934, Charles Itcadly came
to Antwerp, where the uncle joined him. In that year
Mrs. Aikin discovered that Charles Readly was subject to
spileptie fite, and that he had exaggerated his insane
.ed ors the 9th March, 1E45, when this young man was at
Antwevp, never dreaming that the communication be-
tween him and the object of his affection was to be
biaken off, he received a letter from the mother
'I Out young lady calmly informing him that
lii coo siquence of his illness it would be has
pesaile tor her to allow him to marry her daughter, and
!.ent.st out to him that be had not desk fairly towards
Oro with mold to hi. income, which was mucli less than
•he miprwed ; but I believe the real cause of breaking OR
the matill was that this young man was subjected to
of the most tenible and dreadful maladies
thnt inn afflict hemauity. In reply to his
biter the another weds, IWll4lwr, probably in
tzongrr language, insisting that he mast never
"gain we her daughter, and that the matter must be broken
R. He ea, not satisfied nit]. the another's lettese, awlat
his request the daughter wrote to him in tonehing lan-
guage. imploring hint never to see her again. That letter
wade a deep impression on him. Such then was the
-lute oh mind of this young man tip to this_ period.'the plaintiff treated hint with affection, dial it had been
tlnresperidesl to in the strongest was, by Charles Warily.
the morniug of the 30th March, 186-'5, this young mew
had an epitntite fit about '2 o'clock in the afternoon.
She plaintiff went to him, and other advice. wan
. idled in. and the tit was assuaged. Ou the
nilluwing morning, shout 9 o'clock, the y g
man Was nein.' dead in his bail, having been shot, the
'IOA having passed frem the lilt jaw to the right ear. It
Alpe:tied final ut 7 o'clock that morning the clunk/bee-
maid had gone into his mom, or had looked in and saw
iLe prune man asleep. At half-past 7 o'clock the plaintiff
was seen to come down stairs and go out of the betel,
and did ail /than until just baton 9 o'clock. The hurls