The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Batore ➢Tr Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN RE G. IT. CULLEN—RUINED BY A RAILWAY.

This bankrupt was described as of the Duchess of Kent
public-house, King•street, Ramsgate, licensed victualler,
and this was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of

asaignees.

Me W. R. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, appeared to
support the petition presented on behalf of the bankrupt,
who attributes his failure ro the alterations aad increase of
the Ramsgate pier dues, the opening of the new railway
(London, Dover, and Chatham), which takes visitors in
another direction to his house, and general badness of trade.
The debts are about .09-1, and the principal creditors are
Messrs Crump and Co., brewers, £592 unsecured.
Messrs Crump proved their debt, which carried the
choice, and Mr Crump was nominated assignee, but it was
proposed that another creditor should be joined in the
assignceship, as certain property had been seized not long
before the bankruptcy.
Mr. Buchanan objected on the ground that no reason had
been shown for the necessity of such a coursa ; Mr Crump
was a well known and highly-respectable man, and there
was not the slightest reason to suppose that he would not
see justice done to all the creditors.

The learned Registrar said he would not decide the
question, but leave it to the Commissioners.
Mr Commissioner Fane was then applied to, and he con-
firmed the nomination of Mr Crump as the sole assignee,
and Mr Buchanan was appointed solicitor to the estate.

SHERIFF'S COURT,
(Before S. Joyce, E6q.)

LIABILITY OF ♦ GRANDFA.THEIL-HIGGINS V. BAILEY.

Tins was an action to recover £3, balance of an account
for the keep of two grandchildren. Mr Steadman appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr Cook (instructed by Mr T. Beard),
for defendant.

There appeared to be considerable difficulty in the way
of proving that defendant had made himself legally liable,
but Mr Steadman said he should prove a promise to pay,
His Honour ruled that a verbal promise to pay the debt
of another would not be sufficient,

Mr Look urged that it would be impossible for plaintiff
o prove his case against defendant, who had little or nothing
:o do in the matter.

Mr Steadman called a witness who did not carry the case
any furl her, and his Honour nomulted the plaintiff, giving
defendant costs.
BREACH OP WARRANTY.—CLAPHAM V. MARSHALL.

This was an action to recover damages for breach of
warranty in a watch.
Mr Jones, for plaintiff, said that his client had purchased
a watch at defendant's jewellery establishment at the West-
end. It was warranted in the usual terms, but plaintiff,
after using it a short time, found it to be worthless. Under
these circumstances, he came to this court.
Plaintiff was called to prove the warranty.
His Honour asked if anybody appeared for defendant,
and was answered in the negative.
Mr Jones—l have a witness here, a watchmaker, who
will depose to the value.
His Honour said that, as defendant did not attend to
dispute the amount, there was no necessity to go any fur-
ther. Plaintiff would have a verdict, with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW STREET;

FURIOUS DRIVING IN A PUBLIC THOROUGIZFARE.—A
man, named Brown, was placed at the bar on remand,
charged with furious driving, and thereby causing personal
injury to Mrs Fenwick.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor Mr
Ralph Fenwick, an artist, residing in Regent-street, said
he was driving his chaise along the Birdcage-walk, when
the defendant, who was drunk at the time, drove his cart
into collie on with the chaise, whereby Mr and Mrs Fen•
wick, and their two children, were thrown into the road,
the wheels of the defendant's cart passing over the lady's
leg. She was very much injured, and had been unable to
leave her bed since the accident.
Mr Lewis, who appeared for the defendant, said, on the
part of the defendant, he was prepared to make any reason-
able compensation.
Mr. Vaughaa said it was a serious offence for a drunken
man to drive a cart at a very furious rate through a public
thoroughfare. He should not consent to any compromise
in the case, as he should punish the prisoner for furious
driving, and make him pay for the damage ho had done.
Mr Lewis thought it would be satisfactory to all parties
to have the matter settled at once, as the proceedings for
the recovery of the money awarded for damage would have
to be obtained through the instrumentality of the County
Court, which would be attendant with trouble.
Mr Vaughan said the Police Act gave him power to
award " amends" to the prosecutor, and they could be en•
forced without pnceeding in the County Court. He, there-
fore, fined the defendant 40s, or one month's imprisonment,
for furious driving ; for the injury done to Mr Fenwick, ho
should award £3 3s; and for the damage done to the
chaise, £3 10a.

Mr Burnaby, the chief clerk, asked defendant if he was
prepared with the money ?
Defendant replied he was not.
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Mr Vaughan then directed that in the event of the de-
fendant not paying the "amends" ho had awarded a dis-
tress warrant should ba issued against the goods of the
defendant.

STEALING TRINKETS BY A JEWELLER'S SERVANT.--
Mary Ann Stanford, a respectable-looking servant girl, was
charged with. stealing several brooches, rings, and other
trinkets, to the value of £7 and upwards, from the shop of
her employer, Mr James Jones, silversmith and jeweller,
Lowther Arcade.

John Laban, assistant to Mr Jones, stated that the pri-
soner had been in the prosecutor's service about a fortnight,
and during that time several small articles had been missed.
On the 23d inst. she went out, and on her return he noticed
that she wore a silver brooch, which struck him as being
very like one that he had noticed in the stock.
He accordingly searched in the stock and found
his suspicion confirmed, as the brooch in question
was missing, On Thursday he asked her to let him look at
the brooch, and she at once handed it to him, but as the box
and glass had been removed he was unable positively to
identify it. Still this very circumstance—the absence of
the portion which could be identified—tended to strengthen
his suspicion that she had stolen it from his master's stock,
and that it was the one which he had missed. There had
been a photograph in the box. He called in cue of the
beadles of the arcade, and desired him to search the pri•
soner's boxes. He did so, and found two brooches (one
steel and the other silver), two gold rings, a pail' of gold
ear-rings, a gold watch chain (with gold key, seal, and
swivel), and several other articles, worth in all about 17.
They were all tne property of Mr Jones, and had been
stolen from the stock. Semi of them still bore the private
mark, but from others it had been removed. The prisoner
said " I hope you won't giva me into cuatody." He, how-
ever desired the beadle to take her in charge.
Thomas Scott, the beadle, confirmed Laban's statement
as to the search, and added that he asked her what had
become of the box of the first locket? She replied, " I
took it out."

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr Vaughan committed her for trial.

MA.RLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE THROB OH JEALOUSY.
—John Williams, a saadler, residing at No. 20, Brewer-
street, Golden-square, was charged before Mr Knox, by
Inspector Wilson of the C Division, with feloniously cut-
ting and wounding his wife, Annie Williams, with intent to
murder her.

William Conquest, 169 C, deposed—While in Leicester-
square last night about half-past 10 o'clock I saw the pri-
soner and a female (the prisoner's wife) standing together
near the Alhambra Palace. When I approached within a
dozen yards of them I saw the prisoner go close up to the
female and place his hand on hc.,r throat, as ii shaking her.
Before I got close up the female extricated herself from the
prisoner's grasp, and ran into the Sab:oniere Hotel. The
prisoner ran after her, and caught her by the shawl just as
she was in the doorway, and the shawl came off. I then
followed the female into the hotel, and found that she had
been stabbed in the neck. I then went into the smoking
room of the hotel and took the prisoner, who had walked
into the room, into custody. On the way to the station the
prisoner said, " I am glad I have done it, and shall now die
happy-1'

Mr Knox—Was the prisoner in liquor ?
Conquest—He was not—he was quite sober,
Mr Knox— Was any knife found upon him at the station ?
Conquest—Part of the blade of a knife or instrument was
found on the pavement, ebout two yards from the entrance
of the Sabloniere Hotel, by a young man, and handed
to me.

Mr Knox—Then you believe she was stabbed about that
spot?

Conquest-4 do, when the prisoner put his hands to the
female's throat. On searching him at the station in Vine-
street, a ticket and a few other articles were found upon
him. lie there said that he had had only one instrument
upon him.

Mr Knox—Did he say why he had done it?
Conquest—He did not. •
Mr Knox—On what part of the throat is the wound?
Conquest—On the left side (near the jugular vein).
Mr Knox—What became of the female ?
Conquest—After the wound was dressed she was taken
home in a cab.

Inspector Wilson, C Division, said, last night about half-
past 10, I was in the reserve room at the Vine-street Police
slation. I saw the prisoner holding up a locket (containing
a prtrait of the prisoner, and having some blood upon it).
['he prisoner exclaimed, " This is my portrait—the portrait
>f a man who has cut his wife's throat. See the blood on
:ny hand ; I hope she is dead." There was blood at tilt
.ime on the prisoner's hand.

Sergeant Lees, 9 C, said, last night I went into tht.
sabloniera Hotel, in colissquence of information given me.
1 there saw a female lying on a sera. She had a wound on
:he left side of her neck. Shortly after a medical man
4ttendekl and partly dressed the wound, but subsequently
the female's Ntherf Mr Cuteliffe, a mrgeont residing at