The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
stittanp at NM Prim at Wearaianter.—(Ba(ars the Lard
Mar Baeo. sad a Special Jury.)
THE REV. MR. HATCH'S CASE.
HAM. r. LEWIS MID MIDS.

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ig W.l, an action brought by the p..
laintiff, the Rey.
IL .1 Hebb, it,.otinst Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, the attor-
ney., .4 Ele . pie... Holborn, for negligence in the discharge
.4 their 'heti. • to defewlim him no his trial at the Central
Prito...al .'port oo au indictment charging him with bade-
, vet ........lt• ..... child, Mary Eugenia Plummer, and ret
w hob he ea. eouvietol. The defendants pleaded " Not
i;uiliy.'•
M, NI I'h olden, Mr. Serjesnt Parry, Mr. C. Allen, sad
Mr. I:arth acre counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Serjeant
sly, Mi. Lush, and Mr. Charles Pollock represented the
iil bohoo..
Mr. Chambers having opened the rase on a previous
oession. alien- in c.m.equence of the indisposition of the
lord Chief Poron, evioklLCO up Lchalf of the plaintiff was
ram Adored,
Mrs. Hatch, the pliintiff's wife, was first called. Having
staled the fret.. that, her husband her; then the chaplain iff
Wandsworth limo. of Correction, the two children of Mr.
Tlee. Pluntmer, Mary Eugenia and Stephanie Augum, had
1,..11 phicol is their charge to educate with their adopted
.1 0141iter Lucy- to the charge of Mateo:lit Amide preferred
.....-Assast her hod...rid—and to his surrendering and sure-
.,-tent exanunation At Wand.worth police.odies, she went
..ii to Nay —I went to the .lefendents to consult them
about the case. Mr. Lewie said, " You must tell
me in strict .oufidetee whether your Maslowd is
guilty." I said, " N.. he is not guilty." Mr.
Isms sail he would attend at Woodororth police-
rice, and ...e tle• witnesses earl me hodorel before
the ere some ..n. He did ant cogne there till 11/o'clock and
weeds o ,peat hurry. My boyhood won committed for'
trial, and Mr. Lewis soil I must bud hail, which
was need at :SAS. sad two amities for 'OW. each. I °Quid
wit do so and my husband was committed to llomenmager-
lhoe gaol ..a the Pith of November. I saw Mr. Lewis as
the following day. On my wee ti. his office I called at
Field's. the detective, sad told Mr. L.wie so. Ho
sob!. "tab. rbllld is a fool. I will mad down a
better non to make isquiries about the Plum.
men." 1 west to Mr. Lewis several times, sad wasted
hie. t. see my husband and to call vitamin,
11.. told no he would sot can witemes except a• to chat-
re -ter. awl I watt to get as may colours, malom. member*
.4 oultom ut, and clergyniea as I could get for that pur•
1........ I ...I if I me Serjeuill Balloatioe he would
allow me to nil warms. He mil I mill not
b. *omit Balla:dine —it would sot be regular.
lie .oil it too $. rrant &Haitian'. object to have the last
wool. awl be *our not mu witnemeo Mr. Lewis mid to
me .er sad over aorta my reamed war me to be
osouttol Mr. Lewis. jots.. when opening the door
be me, mid he MI known many persons who bad
been urprimesel for two or three days come est
loiter awl fatter than KIT. (laslghter.) I had say
mother. Mrs Howe the gmemem Lacy Hatch, at=
two servants at the trial, sad I implored Mr.
to call them. He mid "Trey may all go home
I .1.41 wait them -don't tether me. I use
worst at the trial of Eugenia Plummer for perjegy.
I oca Mr. Lem, who said "I have bees into wort to de
vat • berme.' I rod " What Irvin can you do for an
He mid " I wept to tell them It wee not your fault that
worms had pot been .•alled —that it was flegjenat Bile
lantines." When my hoelead was marred Mr. Lewis
mot, " Well, if soar busload is 'Why, Mr. Hat* ws
1 meal pray to fue,pim him." I said "He is net guilty."
Cronivamined by Serjemil lam—l wan steerW to ray
robaad is lohl is Nyasa. ia Australia. There Rome were
loopier people until this_ badness. He had se morels
Nat me until he received • letter from the Bishop of Wis.
chaster. I sem ham of say charge spier liks. He did
sot *bow ms ire leiter at erase. We wars at break(ast.
I Mud bias to row It to me, end be did bead
to Fae in a few miners I could MI amieestaad it. My
lowtaad dad not make inquiry of any of an et the breakfast
tare elm he reseird the brie. With reform to the
royal of Eugenia Plummer end her walking with Lacy
Hatch end the plaintiff in the gears, he hewer. Mwelme
to kis awsherics, spoke to any of us about
it. He weld eat toll me. I wish he had ,he send. "It in
a Medial thing they have said sliest me. I can't tell
yen. I did ass know of it till the last. Hs thought '
socking of the use, that it was a ridiculous charge. He
ma is pecuniary difbrultass. When at Poplar be
mei sot to speak about it. He was very
maim about it of course. On the kith October 'I
mom Illm. Plummer. (The letter wan read by the teamed
',rowel, and wits to the following effcct :—" I write almost
dastracted to ask and ;my you lot to press natter.
farther towards my husband, who is goes away
. dotractoL I am here a poor delicate wife, with-
- oat a farther, with • mother abject to epilep-
tic fits and a helpless little child. I appeal to you
an to your Hod to have pity on roe. I has. sot what Isse
roarreeL but something ha. drives him distracted. Ho
L. peen up his Otuation, and I have nothing in
the world if he is taken from as. I hop yes
will have mercy oo us. Write to me sad my so .I . have
toiler left ia the world, and shall be starving. What-
ever he has el ess, myself and husband have been sufficiently
paired, *ad I hope you will not peer emitters room. You
would sot have hmd or ao affectionately if you had not •
illart to pity me ismy forlorn state. I have lo my how
4.134,1101 am almost diatnicted.") My husband sever told ms
he i.e.! Eugenia Plummer in my bed. I don't remember
hi. doin4 .... He might have mid so, hut I don't room.
ler she was not in the heel as much ea • quarter of an
1 hour of a morning. She was titers whilst I was washing
• Li, Hatch. She was only had in two or three minutes to
may the mother. The servant knew the child woe had in
tie bed in the morning, and so did Lacy Hatch. I
ilit lea know the details till the trial for perjury. He did
too have Lucy Hatch with him at Poplar for two or three
.hy. to speak to her about it. I took tie child to him
bemuse he ma so miserable. She was ,seemed on the
perjury trial, and is here to-day.
liwesuriteed —lt was in consequence of M. Pfmaiser's
molting her to be petted as she had been at a former school,
sail the money of the children being of onneequesoit to on,
I consented to the child coming to our bed of a marsiat for
a few reissue's. I was about to discontinue it in • few ya.
After mine further question.,
The Lest Chief Baron said-- I understand Mr. Flerjesst
1411C•III1011 sot intend to throw any suepici. in upon the plaintiff,
bat that his object merely is to show that there were cir-
ennodanees oisseetol with his defence which compelled
Mr. Lewis to exercise great dieerstion.
Mr. senleant Sites said that was so. He did not lotted
L. throw the slightest suspicion on the plaintiff's condnet.
He was not going to call Mr. Hatch.
len Lucy Hoch, a child aged bins yearn, the adopted
4c.chter of the plaintiff, brag called.
The Lord Chief Baron mad be hoped it was not proposed
to ter the retire rase of Mr. Hatch over again.
Mr. rterkant Shen sail he wished it to be distinctly on-
thistool that he did not proper to fix Mr. Hatch with
ott:t.
Mr. Garth said it was important to show what this wit-
s...mill have proved, if she hadbeen called on Mr.
Hash's trial. If oho could hove given material evidence,
t'.- defesinats were booed to have called her.
lie lordship diving consulted with the loused lodge
ihom Chasoell) who tried the charge of perjury preferred
''toast &wait filmgoer, returned into court and said that
A the me of so young a sitars it was Natural she would
*Mt sow what she would have stated if she had been called
is lerßody 4 Mr. Hark.
lb. ihrjaant Slice mid in the me of this wittier be
mull anent that her depositions at the trial sod before
Ike make court should Le read, instead of her being eta-
reel tried veto.
Aber gene recession, the shorthand writer's notes of
the 'Mimes et Lure Hoch, riven in the ilihetineet
fend Envois Plummer. wen, MIL
At this was .4 the promdtcp
he Lied Chief Baron mid —I anderetanel on. party or
-ober km solipeased her Majery's Socretary of State
' Home Llepirtniesit. Will be be required to attead
thirtli—No, my lord. Twincetow will do. Ws
' 'on to predatr the petition.
Lord Chief Barite . Hat his retary on do that
' I i•Ttil-.M411 may want to sok lb. Hioeeury of Mote
a recommended Mr. Hatch for pantos.
• Lord Mr Baron - But suppose he says he will ask
• -r may
' 'both— I should like to hear him my that. Therein
•s us why he should refuse os the ground of public pee
al tits ismer mar la of great importer, to Mr.
and aurifA affect any other moon Is the comma-
seeker
hops Brie—Eseept the defendaots ; and they are
ody, I
moms preneedini whoa we west to preasj.
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401 to make an Wart 611 all ihorillfs of Lawton,
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MI hoes takes is eou ention. after mike of the pre.
•ei of a petal., few t, or in &fart of
an mho of right he made..
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• .. otoottly is fame of the right of the creditors
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• 41......., he amid devise to make as order,
I mi• the meths to these ordinary remedy by
hail was for the petition, and M. Pries for the

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