The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.)
CODRINGTON V. CODRINGTON AND ANDERSON.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr Baron Bramwell.)
KEEPING AN UNLICENSED LUNATIC ASYLUM,

MARLBOROUGLI-STREET.

This case was resumed this morning. It will be remem-
bered that on Saturday the case for the respondent closed,
after which, the Queen's Advocate summed up the evidence
for the respondent, and Mr Price, Q C., addressed the jury
on behalf of Colonel Anderson, the co-respondent.
Mr Bovill, Q C., this morning addressed the jury on the
whole case. He said that four months had elapsed since
this painful investigation commenced, and he congratulated
them that they were all well and able to give their best atten-
tion to the case, and on the approaching termination of their
labours. No one could regret that much time had been
devoted to the case, for every particle of evidence had now
been sifted, and had received every possible attenti n. It
would have been sad indeed if every opportunity had not
been given for thoroughly sNing every piece of evidence
that could by any possibility have been adduced fur the
defence. He thought it would be shown by an analysis of
the evidence that it must lead irresistibly to one conclusion
on the part of the jury, namely, that Admiral Codringtcn
had completely proved his case, He regretted that the
Queen's Advocate should have considered it necessary to
attack the character of every witness who had been called
for the petitioner. If cases of thin kind could only
be supported by such attacks of pi ivate character, he
scarcely knew where evidence was to be obtained, With
regard to Mrs Watson, he contended that the allegations
made against her by the Queen's Advocate were entirely
without foundation. She was in no sense the concoctor of
charges against Mrs Codringtcn. She said nothing about
Col. Anderson, and it was not until after the petition had
been filed that the name of Lieut. Mildmay came upon the
scene. When information of Mrs Codrington's misconduct
with Lieutenant Mildmay came to light an application was
made to make him a co-respondent, but it was opposed by
the Queen's Advocate, and the matter was not further

Mrs Sophia Leander, a married lady, the proprietress of
the Asylum for Lunatics, Turnham-green, surrendered
pursuant to notice from the Lunatic Commissioners, she
having been convicted under the Lunatic Protection Act of
keeping a house for the reception of lunatics, not being duly
licensed by law. At the trial the defendant was discharged
on entering into her recognisances and bail to appear when
called on for judgment, on the understanding that she gave
up the establishment, and would not receive any persou of
unsound mind. The defendant not hlviag complied with
the undertaking the Commissioners of Lunacy gave her
notice that an Inspector of Lunacy would visit her esta-
blishment to see if she had any persons under her care of
unsound mind, and on o,:tobet 19 they made such visit and
found persons inmates of her house, some of weak intellect,
and three others who decided:y, in their judgment, came
within the category of persons of unsound mind, upon
which notice was given to her to surrender.

Mr Giffird, on the part of the prosecutor, read several
affidavits, setting out the report of the Inspector of Lunacy,
and the correspondence that had taken place between the
defendant and the Connui.ssioners, from which it appeared
that the defendant was acting under the belief that she was
not evading the law in receiving women of weak intellect
only at her establishment.

The defendant, in reply to several questions put by the
judge, and his admonishing her she must nct disobey the
law, insisted that she acted in strict conformity with the
law, and was protected by Act of Pailiament, as she did not
keep the inmates for profit.
Mr Baron Bramwell said he would not pronounce any
sentence then, but he warned and urged her to take his
advice and comply strictly with the regulations of the Com-
missioners in Lunacy, who were a much more competent
authori, y than she was to determine whether she was dis-
obeying the law. She had been guilty of disobeying it, and
he warned her if it was found necessary to call her up again
she would be severely punished.
The defendant was then discharged on her own recog-

pressed, He urged the impossibility of the charge that
Admiral Codrington attempted to take possession of the
person of Miss Faithfull, at ter the lapse of seven 3 ears, and
came to the conclusion that it was a mistake on the part of
Mr Few, who thought he was authorised by Miss Faithfull
to put that allegation on the record. Miss Faithfull had
stated that she knew scarcely anything of the matter, that
all she knew of it was that Mrs Codrington had told
her so, and that she supposed she was only to confirm
the fact that Mrs Codrington had told her so,
It was wonderful that Mr Few, as a sensible man, could
have believed such a story, while no one complained of it
until the commencement of these proceedings. 'lhe whole
story was a concoction of Mrs Codrington's, and Miss Faith-

nuances,

THE CHARGE OF ILLEGALLY CONFINING A WIFE AT

P ECKIIAM.

Elward Hammond, Emily Wakeman, and Elizabeth
Allen, the two latter female servants in Hammond's ser-
vice, surrendered to answer an indictment charging them
with unlawfully assaulting and confining in a room Eliza-
beth Hammond, the wife of the male defendant. There
were several other indictments for continuous assaults.

Before the defendants pleaded,
Mr Sergeant Ballantine said ho appeared for the defen-
dant Hammond, and on looking at the depositions he felt
bound to say that he could not cmsistently struggle against
the charge, and the defendant, therefore, unaer his advice
would plead guilty.

full had shown there was no foundation, and that she had
unwisely placed reliance in Mrs Codrington's representa-
tions. (The learned ccunsel read several letters which
passed between the various parties, contending that it
was impossible that two ladies could have written such
letters atter so gross an outrage had been committed.)
lie thought, therefore, they might dismiss Miss Faithful'
and that part of the charge. In 1858 the Admiral and Mrs
Codrington proceeded to Malta, and evidence had been
adduced that Admiral Codrington treated his mile in the
kindest possible manner, as had been proved by Dr. Peck-
thorne, the medical officer there, Emily Miller, who was 10
years in the service of the Codringtons as nurse, and many
other witnesses. But what was the course of life Mrs
Codrington pursued ? The admiral held a high official
position, and being obliged to rise early in the morning he
was anxious to go home early at night. When they went
to the opera, dinner parties, and similar places, they went
home together; but when she went to balls the admiral
could never get her away, and was obliged to leave without
her. Dr. Pickthorne and others remonstrated with her on

THAMES.

Mr Huddlestone, who appeared for the prosecution, said
he should not object to the course proposed.

Tho defendant Hammond then pleaded guilty.
The two o; her c efendants, Wakeman and Allen, pleaded
not guilty to all the indictments.

Mr Iluddlestone said, on the part of the prosecution he
did not propose to offer any evidence against the female
defendants.

The jury then, under the direction of the learned judge;
returned a verdict of not guilty,

The female defendants were then discharged,
Mr Sergeant Ballentine asked the learned judge to post-
pone passing sentence until next Session, in order that
time might be given for the preparation of certain affidavits
in mitigation.

Mr Baron Bramwell said he knew nothing of the case or
of the defendant, but he could not deny that he hid read
something of the case in newspapers. [le would look over
the depositions and say to-morrow whether judgment
should be respited to the January Sessions, when •he
would be in Court. The defendant in the meantime could
be admitted to bail.

the subject on family considerations, and on the score of
her health, but all remonstrances were unavailing. And
what was the state of the admiral's household ? In the
morning he collected his household together, and where
was Mrs. Codrington P In bed, Never at family prayers,
and systematically attending to her duties. For her own
self-indulgence she neglected her family by staying out to
three or four o'clock in the morning, with whom would be
shown in the sequel. If she did not come home with the
admiral with whom did she come? Why, with Col. Ander-
son and Lieut. Mildmay. Whenever she went home with
either of these gentlemen the gondola get out of trim, but
the waterman declared that the boat never got out of trim
except when Mrs Codrington was accompanied by one or
other of those gentlemen. Tiro gondola was a large heavy
boat, rowed by four men, and not a little craft that would
soon be put out of trim. The witness Duck had been
sneered at, but he held a respectable position as butler to
a banker, and resided in the banking-house, a position
which he could not be likely to obtain without a very high
character. Besides this, witness after witness spoke to the
same facts, and it was absurd to suppose that they were all
to be disbelieved. On arriving at home Lieut. Mild may would
go in the house, stay an hour or two, and sometimes the ser-
vants never saw him go out at ail. Therefore they formed a
pretty clear idea of what Mrs Codrington's habits were. The
first charge of adultery in the order of time was with
Lieut. Mildmay, and it would have been supposed that it
these statements were untrue, or were to be explained,

The same bail that was taken by the magistrates was
,ben accepted for the defendant Hammond's a[pearance

:0-morrow.

WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO MURDER.

John Howard, a prisoner in the Middlesex House of
Correction, was indicted for assaulting, with intent to
murder, Henry Green, a warder in the prison.
Henry Green, said the prisoner was in the tailor's shop
of the prison, and being occupied in cutting he asked for
a knife, which was at once given Lim. He (witness) then
turned round to go away, when the prisoner sprang upon
him and inflicted a wound on the back part of the neck.
A brother warder came to his assistance, the knife was
taken from the prisoner, and he was secured.

The surgeon said the wound, although not of a serious
nature, was in a very dangerous part.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of assaulting, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor at this moment was passing over the
dock, when the prisoner in the most violent manner
threatened and attemp'ed to strike him.
3f.r Baron Bramwell told the prisoner ho was a perfect
stranger to him, and all he hal to do was to administer
the law. He w)uld, however, before doing so, offir a
few words of advice to him ; but from what he had just
seen in the dock he was afraid that the day would come
when ho would stand in the same position on a charge of
murder, and that ho would end his career on the public
scatl'jld.

MARKETS---This Day.

Lieut. Mildmay would have appeared before the com-
mihston to which he was invited. Why was he not here
under the peremptory orders of the Horse Guards to clear
Mrs Codrington. He could not believe that Lieutenant
Mildmay, unless ho were lost to all sense of honour, could
not have come at all hazards. if he were innocent, to vindi-

cate the character of Mrs Codrington and his own. Ad-
verting to Mrs Watson's evidence, he remarked upon that
portion of it in which she spoke of the unfortunate at-
tachment Mrs Codrington had formed for Lieutenant
Mildmay, and her efforts to bring her to a better mind.
Foul charges had been made by Mrs Codrington against
Mrs Watson that she had passed whole days with the admiral,

Prisoner—l will if I get a chance at him (po!nting to
Green.)

Mr Baron Bramwell—Very well, then. I will do what:l
can to prevent it. I therefore sentence you to 20 years
penal servitude.

Prisoner (who on leaving the dock behaved in the most
violent manner) —Ps no more than I expected.

although the queen's Advocate had since stated that it was
never intended to impute immorality to Mrs Watson, but the
statement had bean placed upon record, and what inference
were the jury to draw from such an allegation. The fact of
such an allegation being placed upon the record could only
bear one interpretation, and he had felt bound, painful as
the trial had been, to place Mrs Watson in the witness-box,
in order that she might solemnly deny so gross a charge.
Tho statement that Admiral Codrington was unduly
familiar with Mrs Watson was as untrue as that
ho had attempted the virtue of Miss Faithful!.
Something had been said of the manner of Mrs
Watson in the witness-box, but the jury would hot be
surprised at some indignation being exhibited
by a lady against whum so foul an insinuation had been
launched. lie justified Mrs Watson's evidence, contending
that Mrs Watson never expressed her own opinion that
Mrs Codrington was more suffering than sinning, but merely
said that Mrs Smith, Mrs Codrington'a mother, would find
it some solace to her in her closing moment, to believe
that her erring daughter was more suffering than sinning.
Mrs Watson throughout seemed to have acted with the
most Christian kindness towards Mrs Codrington in con-

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

Michael Cocklin and Thomas Linscott were indicted for
robbing Thomas Hind Varney of his watch and chain.
The evidence showed that the robbery was a most daring
one, the prosecut or having been to a certain extent garroted
near to Southwark-bridge-road.
The jury acquitted Linscott and found Cocklin guilty.
Six previous convictions having been
proved against

him,
The learned judge sentenced him to 10 years' penal ser-
vitude.
The prisoner seemed astonished at the sentence.

THIRD coURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
EIIIBEZZLEMENT.
John Tawn was indicted for embezzling various sums of
money, the property
of his employer, Alexinder Gordon.
He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
FORGERY.
Theodore Ralfe, 17, clerk, was indicted for feloniously
uttering a certain bill of exchange for £3, bearing thereon a
forged endorsement, with intent to defraud.
The Common Sergeant sentenced him to one years'
imprisonment.

cealing her folly, her frailties, and her wickedness, and it
was Mrs Codrington who had turned round to inflict a
sting in the most vital part of a woman's character.
(The learned gentleman had not concluded his address
when we went to press.)

FOURTH COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
FELON lOUSLY WOUNDING.
George White was indicted for feloniously wounding
George Peers, with intent to resist his lawful apprehen-
sion. He was also indicted fur stealing a pair of trousers
the property of Frederick Moses, he having been previously
convicted.

The jury found him guilty.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said the prisoner
seemed to have made up his mind to pursue a course of dis-
honesty. As he had already suffered three terms of impri •
sonment, for three, six, and nine months, he was prevented
from passing any but a very severe punishment. fie then
sentenced the prisoner to be kept to penal servitude for
seven years.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Byles.)
Charles Eaton do Witt, merchant, and Duncan M'Lean
Wright were ind cted for conspiring together and by false
pretences obtaining from Melchor Lopez divers dock war-
rants and orders for the delivery of wine,
the property of
Manuel Garcia Robot and another, of the value of £4,722,
with intent to defraud. There was also another indictment
charging the prisoners with feloniously forging and utter-
ing seven bills of exchange for the payment of money. with
intent to defraud the said Manuel Garcia Rubet.
The case is not expected to conclude to-day.

ALLEGED MURDER IN KE Yesterday d-
wardeSnatturday night last. It ap-
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11 causing the death
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William Staples and James Turner, excava-
tors, were charged before Mr Berens and Mr Waring, two
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deceased left the Artichoke public-house, at Orpington, a
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wnee Saturdayrd night, and when outside
hby Jones,
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a constable of
the R Division of Metropolitan Police, .to remark to the
prisoners that he had been engaged on the line of railway
near that neighbourhood fifteen years ago. This led to
an angry feeling, the prisoner Turner denouncing the
deceased as a liar, and the deceased, who had threatened to
strike Turner, pushed him violently. The constable and
another officer who cause up during the altercation then ad-
vised the deceased, who lived at Bromley, to go home, and
he proceeded to do so, at the same time bidding the con-
stables "Good night." The prisoners, who stayed behind
some time, were afterwards observed to start off hurriedly
in the direction the deceased had taken. Both officers fol-
lowed, and when some distance off they heard some one
calling out "Get up, you —," and on proceeding about
100 yards further ou they found that Turner was holding
the deceased by tho neck, while Staples had hold of his
legs. In answer to the constables, Turner, making use
of a coarse expression, said the deceased had fallen down,
and they Were picking him up. The deceased was then in-
sensible, and his face covered with blood. Tho prisoners
wore at once secured, and on Mr Fulcher, surgeon, of Or-
pington, Icing called to the deceased, he found him bleeding
from a wound over the left eye Ole orbit of which was coin.
pletely destroyed), rand also from the nose and mouth! the
injuries having evidently been inflicted by violent kicks.
The deceased remained insensible up to the time of his
death, which took place late the previous night, the injury
over the eye, in the opinion of the medical man, being suffi-
cient to account for death. The prisoners were remanded
pending the inquiry before the coroner of the district.

rHE SUN, LONDON, WERNESDAY EVEMNG, NOVEMBER 23, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,---This Day.

OBTAINING GOODS BY MEANS OP FORGED ORDERS.
—Edward Williame, described as "a porter, no home,"
was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with obtaining a quantity
of cloth from Mr James Platt, woollen draper, 78, St.
Martin's -lane.

Brighten Fuller, an assistant to Mr Platt, said that on
the 22d of October the prisoner called with an order which
he said ha hqd brought from Mr Wolfe, of Old Bond-street,
for some cloth and doeskin. As the order purported to be
signed by Mr Wolfe, and Mr Wolfe had been a customer,
he gave him the goods of the value of XI 18s.

Charles Kempton, another assistant of Mr Platt's, said
that on the 27th of October the prisoner called and presented
an order stating that he had been sent, by Mr Wolfe, of
Old liond•street. As the order was signed "J. B. Wolfe,"
and Mr Wolfe had been a customer, he gave the prisoner
the goods of the value of £l. 33. On the 12th of November
the prisoner called again, and with a similar order obtained
more goods of the value of £, 63. Having heard from Mr
Wolfe that he had not sent the orders, on the prisoner calf•
ing yesterday evening with another order, which ho said
be had brought from Mr Wolfe, he was given into custody
by ➢lr Platt.
Mr Samuel Benjamin Wolfe, tailor, of No. 45, Old
Bond street, said the orders produced had never been sent
by him, and they were forgeries, He had not dealt with
Mr Platt for two years, and knew nothing of the prisoner.
Police-constable Kelly, 53, said that on asking the pri-
soner whether he knew anything of the orders, he replied,
" Yes ; I wrote them all."
The prisoner was committed for trial.

DEFRAUDING TURF SPECULATORS.—James Baker, of
40, Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, appeared be-
fore Mr Tyrwhitt to answer a charge of unlawfully obtain-
ing, by means of false and fraudulent pretences, from l‘lr
Robert East, of Sloane-street, Knightsbridge, the sum of
Li, with intent to cheat and defraud him of the same.
It appeared from the evidence that Mr East is a specula-
tor upon the turf, and that defendant called upon Mr East
and represented himself to be a Mr Johnson, a person to
whom Mr East owed LI for a bet upon a horse called the
Tartar, for the Liverpool Cup, obtained the money, and
so defrauded Mr East, the fraud being discovered upon the
real Mr Johnson calling for his money. The practice havicg
been carried on to some extent, and Mr East being deter-
mined to check it, took the present proceedings againet
the defendant.

In answer to the charge, the defendant said he made the
bet himself, for which he received the money, but this was
denied both by Mr East and his clerk.
Mr Tyrwhitt committed the defendant for trial,

SILOPLIFTING.—Mary Ann Willia►ns, who said she was

19 years of age, and looked much older, calling herself a
hawker of fruii, and John Sullivan, 33, were brought
before Mr Paget, charged with stealing a coat from an out-
, fitter's shop.
Richard Barker, foreman cutter to Mr Thomas Bell,
outfitter, of No. 7, Portland-place, Commercial-road, said
the prisoners came into his master's shop last night, and
directly they entered it he suspected they were shoplifters,
and determined on watching them. The rcr.le prisoner said
he wanted to buy a coat. He took down a bundle of coats
to show to the prisoners, and soon missed one of them. He
saw the female prisoner put a coat under her shawl,
and he spoke aloud to Mr Brill that a coat was
stolen. The woman heard what ho said, and
she dropped the coat on the floor. Her companion
picked it up and put it on the counter. A coat was tried on
Sullivan, and he was told the price of it was 28s, which the
woman said was too much. They then left the shop. He
followed them until he met with a police-constable, and then
caused them to be arrested. Only 9s was found on the two,
not enough to pay for a new coat.
The female prisoner, in a rich Munster brogue, said she
alone was guilty, and Misther Sullivan was as innocent as
the babe that was never born, It was her first offence, and
she hoped it would be her last. She begged for mercy any
how.

Sullivan—l know nothing about this, yer hanner's wort-
chip, at all. It's quite innocent I am. I was to the fore
when she took the coat, but I did not see her, yer hanner's
wortchip. Shure, now, I am brought like a sheep to the
slaughter.

A police constable said he believed the prisoners were
regular shoplifters. They told a let of regular, different,
round-about stories—(laughter)—that he could not make
head or tail of.

Mr Paget said he should remand the prisoners., and be
directed inquiries to be made about them.
Inspector Hayes, of the K division, said the prisoners
would not give any address. He believed they were man
and wife.

Mr Paget—Do the best you cm with the scanty informa-
ion you have. The prisoners are remanded for a week.