The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

ADVEBTISING MONEY LENDERE.

Mr. George 8. Mackennal, money-lender and
financial agent, Avenue-road, St. John's-wood, and
Edward Tiddy, his clerk, were brought before Yr. Knox,
at the Marlborough-et:est Police-court, on a warrant,.
charging them with to obtain money. by hood.
The prisoner Ilackerinal, it be recollected, is the lams
person charged at this court about two months ago with
several drawee of the same nature, and committed for
trial, but as there was no prosecutor he was &whinged.
Mr. Morris appeared for the prosecution; Mr. George
Lewis, 'un., for the prisoners.
J Mr. ohn Lewis Hayard, of Islington-green—l am a
Finn:. About
.the 3rd of April, 1867, I required some
money cndappkW at the office of the prisoner canal,
at 63, Pimidaly. I went there in consequence of swing
an advertisement. The prisoner liddy was at the desk.
I told him I wanted 200/. without publicity. and be said I
could have it if I gave • bill of sale and paid Si. 3a., which
I paid him. I " I 'oppose it is all right 7 and that the
money would be returned," and he said, yes, if your
statements true the money will be granted at ones, and
the money will be sent up to-morrow.' A person called
a surveyor called upon me. I sent invent team to the
office, but never got the moue . I was told that I was
to find another nourity. I for the money on my
my plant at first. did not say that he had a
brio account. The surveyor said it was all right, and
that I was to have a cheque the next mornin&_ 'free or I
four persons were in the office the first time—Ellis, Tidily,
and others being there.
Mr. James John Narroway, of Talbot-road, Westbourne-
park, a clerk in the Colonial-office, said :—dome time ago
I required money, and saw an advertisement in a news- ,
paper, and called at the office of Mr. Mackennal. I told
him I required the sum of 60/., and inquired the terms on
which he would let me have it. He inquired what I was, '
the amount of my salary, and I gave him the information,
telling him I was a clerk in the Colonial-office, and the .
amount of my salary. He asked if I had any outstanding
bills, and I said that I bad none. He said that it would
be necessary for him to make inquiries, and if all
correct he would lend me 601. on my promissory note at
7 per cent., conditional on my paying 2/. He inked me •
whether I could name a security, and I told him that I
was not prepared to do so, but wanted to borrow on my
promissory note. After I paid the 2/.—placing it on
the table, Mackennal's brother and another person bring
present—he said that it would be necessary for him to
make inquiries, and be produced a document, which I was
to sign. I was to call on a subsequent day, and told that
if my representations were correct, he would lend me the
001. I called again, but ilia not see Mackennal, but a
person I believe to be his brother, Mr. Patrick Macken-
nal. Late in the day, the 11th February, I called again, '
and saw the prisoner Mackennal, and he said he would
" settle the matter at once," end after turning over a
great many papers and books, he said that he could not
find the paper his desk had left him, and that on his
clerk's return he would send me a cheque to the Colonial-
office before 6 o'clock that day. That promise pd having
been kept, on the 12111Febrwary I called and askedhim for
a fulfilment of hiepromise, and he declined to do so. On
arriving at my office I found a letter from him.
Mr. Knox—Can you swear to his handier:4W 1
Witness--I cannot.

Mr. Hnor—lt is written by a clerk pro procuration.
Mr. Lewis—lt is for the office, and I make no objec-
tion.

---ikitness—l wrote an answer in reply to the letter. On
the 13th a person called on me, and said he had come from
Mr. Mackennal, and in oaneegnence of what he said I
went on the 14th and saw Mr. Patrick Mackennal in the
office._
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By Mr. Morrie—l never got the inquiry money back,
nor the loan. The person I saw at the office was Mr.
Patrick Mackennal. Mr. Mackennal did not—that I am
certain of—say he bad a banking account, but he pro-
mised me a.chNue. - _ . - - _

rot 4ssilma eyidoace of the

sae

Mr: Morris—Not to-day, but I shall have plenty more
on a future occasion.

Mr. Knox—Then the prisoner will be remanded, and I
will take the same bail as on the previous occasion for
Msckennal. _

Mr. Leis—As to the other prisoner, I am instructed
that he is in a verry different position. He has only been •
clerk in Mr. Maclennal's employ, and has been out of
employ ever since this affair; and although 1 do not
edge myself to it, I am told that there is a mistake in
first witness's evidence, and that ho was not in the
office at the time that he went there.
Mr. Knox—l shall As the bail for Mackennal himself in
6001., and two sureties in 260!. ; and fur Tiddy himself in
1001., and two sureties in 601. each.
Mr. Morris said lie should be prepared on a future
occasion with numerous other cues.

A SHOCKING Svconv.—At an inquest held yester-
day, by Mr. Richards, at Mile-end, on the body of a child
thirteen months old, which had been found dead in its
father's house, the mother, Caroline Albrecht, a German,
but long resident in Ragland, and the wife of a muter
baker, made the following satraordinary statement:—" I
am the mother of the child. She was sickly from her
birth. When the was seven weeks old I went away to
prison for throwing a knife and accidentally cutting a
hole in my husband's forehead. I took the child with me
and we remained in prison twenty-one days. The root of
my failings is drink; I take to drink when my husband
hits me. The doctor saw the child every day when we
were in prison. I have had thirteen children ; nine were
born alive, and three of them are now living. I am a..
married woman, but my husband tore up the ourtiikate..
He has torn up the hospital papers which I had
to show that I took this child to the hospital.
On Thursday week I was unhamy. I had en •
altercation with my husband, and he said to me, •
• Tou must not show your face hers any more.' He beat
me on the back of the bead. All that arose about his
stopping two hours longer than he bad promised. I took
the ,en oat, the whole three of them, and gate them
their dinner. I went into so many public•houses that I
don't know where I went, I was so unUppy. I pledged a
akirt to get money' but I only spent Id. on drink, for I
talked more than I drank. At tuff-past Wee o'clock I
lett the public-house and went Mid sat on the doorstep of
my husband's shop. I Leonid, end Ms baker and, All
tight,' I waded till four o'Oock in the maroon& I ,
thought my hishand or Ins looker would op pi the doer -
1 foot es, and I waited and waited. At four o'clock my hus-
band came out, but he did not speak to me till a policeman
tatne up. I was then led by some one into the shop-
,. pieriour, and I laid myself dowq, on the sofa. At half-
C= I got up, and I was led- home
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ilsittesisd's lodgixidin It es:street. I wee,
drink. The were not drunk for I sem -
pre them beer. I got home I went to bed with
thli eldhlo but net bi the ewe/ way, I got in at the toot
'et Um bed sad not at taw mid*. Lo in the nierning I
.• found the child dead at the foot of the bed. The l .
were drawn up and the hands were clenched." The
coroner - laid that the mother's own stateliest made
the case very serious indeed. The question arose whether •
it would not turn. out to 'be one of manslaughter. Mr.
John Jacob Atheeeht was test for by the coroner, and be
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never re-enter the hones. He said that he ehil.
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of for drink. He "would not say. anything awned his wifes
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He had been oat of seven shops tbrngh her, end 'rim heel . -
sold even the bedclothes for liquor. .some other evidence
was 0.1" on hoarin whichthe coroner skid he win
arena tt would be useless to send the wathestee trie
honeys, the wite might be legally, there was, net
child's
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