Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER- 7, 1857.

COURT OF QUBEN'S BENCH.-YESTSRDAT.

A MiTRI3IO)TIAL SPECULATION.

SCOTT v. CANNON,—This was an interVe der action brought on
Thursday in the Ball Ceurt, (before Mr. Justice. Crompton and a
common je y) to try whether certain goods seized, by the Sh-riff ef
3111clesex, under an execution against a young man named Al en,
formerly carrying on business in Regent•street as a bill broker and
agent, for the ban of money on mortgage, were the property of the
plaintiff as ege'net the defendant. It appeared from the evidence
th-t up and previous to 1853 Mr. Charles Janice Allen resided in
Gloucester-row with his stepmother and sisters, keeping a brougham
and phaeton, and the neces.ary servants for an es ablishment of that
kind. In Slay, 1853, he got into a .ch difficultisa that he had to
apply to the pia ntiff, an attorney, and who, it was understood,
wa; his guardian, for an &tram° of .t 503, which was granted him
at 5 per cent., and paid by a cheque made payable to the stepmother,
Mrs Sophia Allen, or bearer, the plaintiff taking as security Allen's
bond, with Mr. Roger's, of Regent-street, as recurity, with a penalty
of doubie the amount in case of failure. In the curse of 'he follow-
ine, year Allen male an unfortunate marriage, through the Ins' rn-
mentalite of a matrimonial agency office in the Adelphi,
the particulars of which we will shortly relet-, and which
shows that erten truth is stranger than Better]. To enable
him to get ma•rled, ha had to apply to the dsfendant fcr
the means, which he advanced him. After h's marriage he to k a
tour with his bride, and aft'r spending a happy honeymoon, *eturned
to his home in Gloucester-row, when in consequence of presser° on
Allenfer his wife's debts, the plaintiff ere judgment and execution on
Allen's goo's, and a bill of sale aas executed and reg's'ere 1 for
39518 s 91, which was given to the stepmother to h old, she being
allowed the nee of the furniture es the felon lof Mr. cot!. bhe
afterwarisremoved, with the furniture, to Grose-place, Primrose-
squire, Mr. Allen going to Scotland and obtaining a Seotsh
sequestration. The devendant being un able to r, et his m ney, put an
execa ion noon the p etni;cs for 330/, advanced by hm to Allen for
I.is marriage, which was met by the bill'ef Bale, price the validity
of wh ch the p esent action was br medit. From the we de ce of M •
C. A. Allen,sa young men of rather simple ma' ners and appearance,
it appearel that he carried on liuslee,e as above de reribed, where he
tad diseountel bills at GO per ten', thoneh he new complained of
having teen charge! 4', GO, and 80 per cent tor simienr eccommr-
d ttion. In 1551 he got int ) difficulties, and was amebas to redeem his
position and amengst other teirg; he thought of doing s.) ty
m ,rriaee entering his head ; and at last, in the winter of 1054. he hit
-upon the exeedient of repairing his fortune through a metrimo ial
ag ncy office situate in John- street,. Adelphi. He nrcerdingly
waited on the proerietor, and informed him what lie wanted,
whet he was tole that his wish could speedily be gratified,
for he knew of a 1 .dy with six thousand,, who was dasireus
of changin t• her state, and at the same time he 't ok from a
erawer, where they are kept t ) preserve them from atmospheric
influence, the photogrteh likeness of the young lady ;mid to be
worth tie above amount. The gentlemen, enamoured probably
more with the reputed fort ine of this 'air one than the lady :emit
expressed hi; admiration of her charm), an: begged 'o be introduced
to her, but before that could he do ie he we; infermed that his
photograph must first be submitted to the lady to ascertain whether
she would- he agreeable or not to a meeting. The likeness was
accordingly snpp led, and ultimately Mr. Allen went to Cheltenham,
and had an intetiisw with the lady, whom he foncd living in
excellent style in one of the fashionable neighb Inrhoods of that
place, with her lady's-maid, treughem, Sic., with which she dished
about the town, but which very soon afterwards turned out to be a
hired vehicle. In the course of conversation with the lady, she
informed him that she was possessed of X 6,003, and also delicately
hinted that she was partially engaged to a gentleman to be married.
Fearing to lo e the lady and her fortune, Mr. Allen applied to the
defendant for an advance of mosey, informing him for wh t he
wanted it, and ell:wive t on the piece of good luck that was about
to befall him, when that gentlemen advanced him £lOO. So iager
was Mr. Allen to obtain the £6,000, that he male no inquiries
of her reatives as to what her property consisted of, and to
prevent the " partial-y engaged gentleman" from walking cif
with the lady, he propose: a sudden and pri ate rear-liege,
which, after a little persuasion, she consented to, the lady letting
without taki g any Invitee with her, to disarm suspicion, and give
tie affair an air of elopement. They woe accordingly married,
and w.nt to Peris, to a sister of,; Mrs. Allen's, but they did not find
her there, and; as Mr. I ilea remarked now, he did net bell ve she
had ore. They then returned to Tunbridge Wells, and as the
money was running short Mr. Allen had to make another application
to the defendant, which was successful, and on Mr. Allen's return
home, after flee week's absence, he hal hut four sovereigns left cut
of about ee2so. On arriving at his stepmother's house, ehe
info med him that a writ was waiting for him from a person at
Cheltenham, for the hire of a brougham by his wife before her
march 'g', which she said was &Lae, remarking, " What a wicks
world it is that people should come to the boo e and faVicale such
falsehoods," and shortly after left the house, lever again to return.
She however, on a snbsequent occasion, " tendered herself " at his
office in order that she might sue him for alimony. He had
broil ht an action of trim. cm. in whiee his a ife was concerned,
and obt -hied da naps, but they were ulti ,nately reduced to
£lOl. He hid since his m tr.lage been mach pressed for his wife's
debts. he defence w is, that the claim was a fraud and a juggle
to prevent the creditors from enforcing their demand. The learned
Jude() havine cerefaey sum not UP, the j ery returned a verdict for
the plaintiff m watch the le arnee sedge expresseu ens concurrence.
Th- court was conva.sel with laug iter during the hearing of the

A GANG OF mom POACHERS CAUGHT NEAR
BRADFORD.

At the Bradford West Rid'ug Court, on Thu'sday, two men,
re,iding near D ,r'ingtoa, named Silas Bolling NJrtla aid Isaac
Ha nswirth, vino chargA with having Vaal t °aching in a wood
adjoining Tong-11%1i, the property of Colonel Tempest. Atoat
half•paet two o'clock, P. S. Land, and P. C. Baldwin, hearing a shot
fired in the wood, instan'ly went up in the sapposed direc Ln. At
a place called Cross Roads, they parted in diffaren' dire2tions. On
their way to Drighlington, Btldw:n followed Hamswortb, and
approaching him, telling him he was well loaded, when Haa.swortia
said. "Yes, we waut2d a hare, aim° been a sup of ale to get to-
night." He then followed him into his own house, and to:k from
his pocket a h are newly. kille I, and a pheasant. Sergeant Lund
a'so roan] in the pockats of liollingwarth, whom be captured, and
who carried a gun, a hare and blateel note. The pris3 .ers made no
plansiale deence, arid were sent to the House of Co rection for
three months.