The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

THIS DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTC
2170118 161. 00111111.1111111 TIOLWYTD MID MIL

Forimmor.
In all &MIT.
This was the day appointed for bearing an application on
behalf of the bankrupt Start (one of the partners in the bank
of (hham and Slim, at St. Alban's, both whose certificates
were recently refused) for • re•heating of the ease, so far as
he waa concerned.
Mr. Hawkins appeared for Start; but, after briefly stating
the grounds of the application, applied for an adjournment,
upon the ground that he had not bad time to make himself
acquainted with the case.
Alter a conversation, the cam was 'dimmed accordingly,
bat r.o rpecific day named, Mr. C.:mmiseloner Fonblanque
expresslug a strong opinion that nv reason existed for dis-
turbing the judgment given by his brother commissioner.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
Emma Ma. holm. cluserue.
THE CHAT M{ OP ATTEMPTED PARICIDE.
Louisa 'Swan llartky, 19, was indicted for feloniously
administering to Joseph William Hartley a quantity of
44,14 Nihon, called vitriolic acid, with intent tomuder
Hr. Parry eashasted the persiontiml. The prhoner,
throuzlo the Imams intervention of the shseifh, was
defend d by Hr. BeLantine.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and the
prosecutor, who steed in t•-• relation to ecca other of father
and daughter, coeusi i. d a room in the Hope public-house,
Gravel-lane, 8 :nthwark, and the phone, was engaged in
attending to the domestic concerns of the prosecutor, and ohs
was in the hacit of getting the breakfast reedy every morn-
kg before her father "tent out to his work. Oa the morning
of the 16th April the prosecutor was asleep in bed, and the
prisoner awoke him and toll Lim that breakfast
was ready. and she at the same time handed him •
etip of coffee and some hre.d aid hotter in a small tray.
1.:.0n tasting the coffee the prosecutor discovered • sharp,
burning taste, wid he c.ceused the prisoner of having put
fr isoa into his coffee. She denied haying done so, and he
tasted it a second time, and again felt the same sensation',
and the prisoe.er was again unused by him if putting poisou
is the liquid, but she repeated that she had not, and took up
the cup and emptied it into a wash-hand baron, in which
there was some soapy water, and she then went to the fire-
p:ace, and rinsed the cup and wiped it with a towel. The
pre:saw:l then got up and put the contents of the baton
into •jug. and took them to Guy's Hospital, where they
were examined by Dr. Taylor, the eminent profamor of che-
=hazy at that establishment ; and the result of the analyris
to which they were subjected was the discovery of about
half a Caspoonfull of vitriolic acid; hut it was st.,ted by this
gentleman that the effect of this quantity of acid being taken
Imo the stomach, would nut hove been to destroy life, but
that the results would have been merely temporary, and
would have entirely ceased after the lapse of a few hours. In
addition to this evidenc.: it was shown that the prisoner had
reptateely complained of her father having beaten her, and
that she had upon one eccasion thresteeed to butts his
clothes with vitriol, sad afterwards put some for him to take;
and at another she s id that rather than her father should
lock her up, as he had threatened, she would cut hie throat
while he we. ask ep, and put the razor upon his bed to
make it be believed that he had done it himself.
It tamed out in the ek urse of the case, that the prosecutor
appeared to hays talon very great pains to get use the case
Mt•aillit, his daughter, and there HMS ECM titCUCLUMUICtiI
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tending to thr,w suspicion upon his endeacnur.
Mr. Dalian:ins addressed the jury tor the prisoner at some
length, towendieg that the evidence failed to make out the
charge against Err.
Mr. Jurice Cresstrtil summed up the ease very favourably
for the prisoner, and the jury almost immidiately returned
a verdict of .V(.4