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The Death of the Actuary of the Camden
Town Savings Bank.

Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle.
King's-road, Camden Town, on the body of Mr. Phillip
Nutkall King, aged 49, late actuary to the Camden Town
Savings Bank.
It appears that in consequence of the deceased's recent
habits the suspicions of the committee conducting the Cam-
den Town Savings Bank had been aroused, and on Tuesday
evening last they held a meeting, When they
discovered that
the amount of about £BOO. So satisfied were they of the
the actuary had been guilty of forgery and embezzlement to
fact, that they at once resolved
to give deceased into
custody. On Cook, a detective constable, going to his
eodliwcaittihonwhat he was charged, and
house in Hamilton-street he found, bthoethlatthteerdleyctenagseodn and
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assistant to Dr. Sutherin,
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took him to Platt-street station-house, where his manner
as described in his
evidence, he found him uproariously wt
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for,
and,
drunk, but discovered
he had got paralysis of the right side, The police, by his
directions, made him up a bed in front of the fire, and gave
him some hot coffee. He saw him again at five the next
morning, when, although sensible, he appeared very ill,
and, instead of being taken before the magistrate, was sent
rings) about, attributed
said
to the infirmary, where he died on Thursday.
The widow of the deceased, who behaved very strangely
while before the coroner, and kept fiotuishing her hands
(which were covered with massive
his death to what she called " the illegal conduct of the
police in taking her husband into custody.”
surgeon
Mr. Saul, the infirmary when deceased
was brought there he was in a comatose state, suffering
from apoplectic symptoms. Every possible remedy was ap-
plied, but he died the following day. Death had, in his
opinion, resulted from apoplexy induced by excessive drink-
ing. He being taken into custody might have had some
effect in accelerating it.
Mr. Edward Ingpen, a director of the savings bank, said
in answer to a question, that the committee were induced to
give deceased into custody, as they had a clear case of for-
gery and embezzlement against him to about £BOO. It was
wished to be stated that the depositors would not sutler a
penny loss, as the bond for deceased would be paid, and the
committee make up the balance.
The jury returned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy in-
duced by intoxication, and they wished to add, that in their
opinion no blame attached to those who had given or taken
deceased into custody on the charges preferred against;hitu

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Sittings at Nisi Priuo before Mr. Justice Byles and
Special Juries,)
HUGHSON V. WINDHAM.
This action, which was commenced on Friday
last, and which was brought to recover a balance of
£414 alleged to be due to the plaintiff, after giving
credit to the defendant for payments amounting to
£275 for extra services rendered by him while the
clerk of Messrs. Chappell, the defendant's attorney,
in frequenting night houses, getting up evidence in
the defendant's divorce case, and expenses incurred
in so doing, was resumed this morning.
Mr. Kerslake, for the defendant, summed up the
defendant's evidence, relying on the extreme impro-
bability of the defendant having entered into any
special contract with the plaintiff to pay him for
his services while he was the clerk of his attorney,
whom he had to pay for the same services, and also
on the improbability of such a contract being entered
into by the plaintiff, who had been an attorney,
without his making any written memorandum of it,
or making any allusion to it before the action was
brought: The contract rested entirely on the evi-
doce of the plaintiff himself, and was in no way
corroborated. He contended it was plain from the
letters produced that the £2OO, less discount, and
the £lOO claimed to be payments to him on account
by the plaintiff were, in fact, loans to him at his
pressing request, made by the defendant, that the
plaintiff'e claim was wholly without foundation,
and his services had already been paid for in
Messrs. Chappell's bill of costs.
Mr. Powell claimed to treat the transaction as
one entirely of business, and proposed to rest his
case on the
evidence, and to ask the jury had the
and had the expenses sought to be
der a special contract
work been done,
recoveredw ith the
defendant.
uNr roetd a
sought to be recovered bad been poi: tad out in
Messrs. Chappell's bill, nor had they dared ti. pro-
duce em of the charges
dace that enormous bill to show such to be the case. ,
He contended that there was abundant evidence
to show that the special night work had been done
with the knowledge of the defendant, and some of it
at his special request. It was also proved that the
plaintiff had spent from 15s. to £3 a night in his
expenses. Yet the whole of the expenses allowed
him by Messrs. Chappell did not exceed ss. a night.
As to the special contract depending on the credit
the jury gave to the plaintiff, its denial depended
on the credit they gave to the defendant. If it was
asked who was the plaintiff, he had been an attor-
ney, and Mr. Chappell had known him for 20 years
when he engaged him in this matter as clerk. That
was some voucher for his respectability. But who,
he asked, was the defendant P He was a yanng man
who a few years ago might have been said to We
the world at his feet—the descendant of an ancient
and respected family, with an historic name, and I
possessed of a princely estate, and what was he now
as they had seen him in the witness-box ? If their
judgment was to be formed on the existence of this
special contract on the respectability of the plain-
tiff or the defendant, he confidently placed his client
in contrast with the defendant. His friend Mr.
Kerslake, when speaking of the plaintiff's claim,
had spoken of the cloud of vultures ready to pounce
on the defendant, circumstanced as he was, and with
such an unfortunate notoriety, and that his friends
advised him to resist to the utmost such demands as
this. Who were his friends ? Were they Mr. Bugg,
his attorney? or Mr. Chappell, his late attorney ?
Talk of vultures, the plaintiff in his demand was a
sparrow-hawk compared with the attorneys in
whore hands ho was. He strenuously insisted that

there was reliable evidence of the contract, that the
work had been done, and the expenses incurred,
and that the plaintiff was entitled to his verdict.
tits Lordship, in summing up, told the jury there
was no question that the plaintiff had received a
sum of £275, and whether that sum was treated as
a payment or as a set off, the question for the jury
was, was it enough reasonably to satisfy the plain-
tiff's demand, assuming him to have done extra
work for the defendant ? If they thought it
enough, they would find for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, on their return, found that
the sum the plaintiff had received was sufficient.
There was a verdict for the defendant.

His Lordship expressed his disapproval of the
manner in which the action had been commenced,
by causing the defendant's arrest, as a kind of ex-
tortion which ought not to have been attempted.

WELCH V. PASKE.

This was an action for a breach of promise of
marriage. The defendant pleaded that he did not
promise, and that the supposed promise had been
obtained from him by fraud when he was drunk.
Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Robinson,
and Mr. Palmer appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr,
Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Campbel:
Foster for the defendant.
It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the plaintiff that the plaintiff
was a young person, about 30 years of age, living
with her aunt at Croydon, who kept a baker's and
confectioner's shop, and that the defendant had been
an officer in the army in the East India Company's
service. In the year 1861 the plaintiff, while at-
tending in her aunt's shop, was frequently seen by
the defendant, who after asking permission to walk
out with her eventually wrote to her making her a
promise to marry her, and on the 6th of May, 1861
—"I promise you faithfully you shall be my wife."
After this promise the plaintiff had frequently
visited him at his lodgings, and once during an
illness had taken him some delicacies from the shop.
On the Bth of the same month of May the defendant
had written to Mr. Dennis, a grocer in Dorking,
and a friend of the plaintiff, telling him how much
he admired Miss Welch, and asking him to procure
a licence for him to marry her and also a wedding
ring. Miss Welch had lent the defendant £6 or £7,
and shortly after he chose to pay attention to a Miss
Slatter, the daughter of a linendraper in Dorking,
whom, to the great distress of the plaintiff, he
had paraded up and down before her aunt's
shop, and had afterwards married Miss Slatter,
which had been a heavy blow to the plaintiff. The
defendant, he should show, was well off, and after
the death of an aged relative he would come into
possession of £2,700 a year.
Mrs. Harriet Jones, the aunt of the plaintiff,
proved that her niece was about 30 years of age,
and sometimes served in her shop, which was a
confectioner's. The defendant in March, 1861, was
living in Dorking, under the care of a medical man,
and in April he came to her shop for almond cakes
and French rolls, and asked if Miss Welch was her
daughter, and if she might be allowed to take a
walk with him some evening. She replied," No,
not with my consent." He asked, " When did she
walk out ?" and she told him "sometimes in the
afternoon." He afterwards told her that he had
proposed to Miss Welch and she had accepted him,
and witness told him, "She was old enough to do
as she liked." He used to come two or three times
a day. He had written a letter to her niece once
in her house expressing his "disappointment at not
having been able to escort her, Such is life"—
and signed " yours ever."
Mr. Robinson pointed out that there were six
dashes under "ever."
Mr. Justice Ryles—Do you mean this is for ever
and something beyond ? (Laughter.)
Tho defendant had afterwards written the letter
containing the promise—,, My dearest
promise you faithfully you shall be my wife.—Yours
ever —." This letter her niece had. shown to ht :r
to satisfy her that the defendant's intentions were
honourable. About June the defendant ceased pay-
ing his visits and married Miss Slatter, the drapers
daughter, who was " pretty well as to respectability
middling." (Laughter.) The first time her nie.et
saw the defendant walking past tile shop with Miss
Slatter she nearly fainted, and was very iii in the
autumn in cceascquence of his neglect.
Cross-examined by Mr, Hawkins—The defen-

dant was living with Dr. Curtis, and had also a
lunatic brother living in Dorking. The defendant
at first used to go to her shop to buy almond cakes
twice a day. The first time she saw him he had two-
pennyworth of almond cakes, and he asked to be
allowed to go into the back sitting room to eat
them. He had two almond cakes for a penny, so he
ate eight almond cakes a day—(laughter)—and
sometimes he had two French rolls twice a day.
She did not know whether her niece took him port
wine when she visited him, or whether the £:7 the
defendant owed her niece was for port wine. She
had brought an action against him to recover that
slim. She could not tell when nor where this action
was commenced.

Francis Head Dennis, grocer, of Dorking, proved
having received the letter from the defendant asking
him to procure a licence and wedding ring for the
defendant on the Bth of May. He did not get them.

Mr. Velly, of Chelmsford, the attorney to the
trustees under the late Mr. Haylefoot's will, was
called to prove the defendant's means and expecta-
tions under that will, but this evidence was objected
to and rejected. The defendant had changed his
name to Haylefoot. It was attempted to put in the
Royal licence obtained to change his name, which
recited his expectations under Mr, Haylefoot's will,
but this was also objected to as a copy and rejected,
his Lordship saying, if necessary, he would adjourn
the case to give time to obtain the requisite evidence.
Mr. Debenham, au attorney, who had served the
defendant with a copy of the writ in the action, was
called to prove a conversation in which the defen-
dant said, " They think because I am entitled to a
large property they will get something handsome,
bat they will be disappointed. Mr. Parke was in a
great passion, because he had served him with the
writ, and said, " His wife was a lady, and in the
position of such." (Laughter.) He did not know
that this action was a speculation of Mr. Young,
the attorney for the plaintiff.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Chambers then summed up, and

Mr. Hawkins was proceeding to address the jury,
and said this action " was a warning to all gentle-
men wii.9 had a passion for almond cakes"—(a
laugh)—whon the junior counsel, who for some time
had been endeavouring to effect an arrangement, at
last did so, and _ _

Mr. Joyce announced that it had been agreed be-
between the parties that there should be a verdict
for the plaintiff for £2OO damages, the judgment
not to be enforced until three months after the death
of Mr. Haylefoot, the tenant for life of the property
to which the defendant is entitled.
Verdict accordingly.
Mr. Justice Byles said the plea of fraud ought
not to have been pleaded, and had his strong disap-
probation.