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London, England, 1837-03-27 00:00:00

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This was an action brought by a servant against her late
master, a Clergyman, for false imprisonment. On the part
of the plaintiff, evidence was given to show that the dekn-
dant having missed fifty pounds in Bank-notes, suspected
the plaintiff of having taken them, and sent for a constable
to search her rooms and boxes. The constable made the
search, but could discover nothing tending to throw suspi-
cion on the plaintiff. While this search was going on, the
plaintiff was locked up in a room in the defendant's house,
and, at the suggestion of the defendant, her person wars
subsequently examined by a female, in order to ascertain
whether the missing property could be found upon he'r.
The defendant then discharged her from his service, and
afterwards wrote her a letter, in which he exonerated her
from all suspicion, and stated that since be bad left his ser-
vice he bad discovered the money at the bottom of a carpet
bag, in which he usually kept linen which was about to go
to his laundress.

Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, the Jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages,2o/.

THOMAS V. POWELL.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a working
carpenter in Hereford, to recover from the defendant, a
very old and infirm man, compensation in damages for a
false imprisonment. On the 18th of February last the
plaintiff came up to the defendant in the Poultry market
and demanded payment of a small debt. Defendant said
he owed him nothing, and, after some words had passed
between them, the plaintiff was given into the custody of a
constable named Cooke, by whom he was taken to the sta-
tion-house. He was, however, in a short time liberated, no
one attending to prefer any charge against him, although the
defendant came shortly afterwards for that purpose. It ap-
peared on cross-examination of the plaintiff's witnesses that
the defendant at the time he gave the plaintiff in charge,
complained that he was continually annoying him by de-
manding payment of a debt which did not exist.
Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW, for the defendant, said the plain-
tiff's conduct reminded him of a story told of the celebrated
Jack Johnstone. A man named Brown was continually
annoying Johnstone by demanding payment of a small debt.
Johnstone was very celebrated in a song, the chorus of
which was " Hey, derry down," and whenever that song
was advertised Brown invariably took his seat in the front
row of the gallery, and used to roar out at the conclusion of
the chorus of " Hey, derry derry," " Pay me, Jack John-
stone, my ten and a penny." Johnstone, in that case, would
have been justified in taking the man before a Magistrate,
and so was the dfendant here.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
five shillings.
Mr. Baron PARK said that this was an action which
ought not to have brought, and he would therefore certify
to deprive the plaintiff of his costs.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—Ex-11mi, Maw 25.
HILL V. FROUDE.

This was an action for trespass and assault. The plain-
tiff is a farmer, residing at Knowstone, in this county. The
defendant is the Vicar of the same parish, and enjoys a high
repute as a keen and experienced sportsman. On the 12th
October last the plaintiff called on the defendant and found
him at dinner, after his return from hunting with his hounds.
The plaintiff called for the payment of the way-rate,
and at the time of his call was a little fresh with
liquor, having been round to many of the parishioners for
their rates, and received their hospitality. The cloth was
about to be removed from the Vicar's table. Two or three
friends had been dining with him. The Vicar asked the
plaintiff if he would have a glass of beer. The plaintiff said
he had had a glass of grog in that house before, upon which
the Vicar poured him out a glass of pure brandy, part of
which he drank clean and part with water. The plaintiff
then sat down, and, after taking another glass, sang a song,
which a witness described as " rummy." The plaintiff
soon after demanded of the Vicar his rates, who told him
that he was not fit to take them, and that if plaintiff should
lose them, he (the Vicar) would have to pay them again.
The plaintiff brandished a short stick in the Vicar's face,
who therefore ordered him to leave the room. Not doing
so, the Vicar caught hold of him and pushed him to the
door, then, wresting his stick from him, he laid it about his
back, and left, as the surgeon proved, some marks of a
severe thrashing. The plaintiff went cursing and swearing
to the kitchen, where the defendant followed him, and,
after a further scuffle, the defendant was finally ejected
from the house. On his reaching home, besides the bruises
on his back and shoulders, the plaintiff had a serious cut
over his eye, but it did not exactly appear how that was
occasioned.

The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 50,

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—CAMBAIDGII, Meßut 24.

INFANTICIDE.—EIizabeth Sallis, aged 16, was indicted
for the murder of her child, at Ely, on the Ist of February
last. The unfortunate prisoner had fallen a victim of se-
duction to the practices of her master's son soon after enter-
ing upon her service. In process of time she left Cambridge
without any suspicion having been excited as to her situation,
and though at home observations were made she evaded
them, and finally succeeded in escaping detection, and no more
notice was taken of the circumstance. Shortly after her re-
turn home her father quitted his cottage, and having left it in
a dirty state, one Neale, the new tenant, set himself about
to clean up the premises, and amongst other places deter-
mined on emptying the privy. He had not proceeded very
far in his occupation when, to his horror and surprise, he
discovered the head of quite an infant severed from the
body, which, on making further search, he also turned up
enveloped in an old fragment of, a petticoat. Information
was given to the authorities, and on looking narrowly into
the house itself there was found an old rusty table-knife,
tightly wrapped up in a portion of a pair of stays. Suspi-
cion falling on the prisoner she was taken up, and, when
before the Coroner made a full statement, in which, after
detailing the little history of her fall, she declared that feel-
ing herself very ill she went to the privy, and was there
delivered of her baby. She then said that she immodiately
left it there, and going into the house procured an old
knife, with which she cut the little creature's head off, and
having so done, flung its remains, wrapped up as Neale had
described, down the privy, and then added a tile upon them
to keep them covered.
In addition to these facts two surgeons were called, who
deposed to professional points, and who admitted, on cross-
examina,ion, that they could by no means swear that un-
der the circumstances of the case the child was born alive,
or was alive at the time its head was severed, neither was
it at all probable that any female could have been capable
of such exertion so soon after her delivery, which, in their
judgment must have been attended with considerable pain
and difficulty.
His LoRDSHIP sentenced the prisoner to the longest
punishment allowed by the Statute, namely, two years' im-
prisonment.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-TVA RWICI, FAID4r.

Both the Learned Judges went into Court to-day at two
o'clock, after being at church. There were 28 causes and
one indictment entered for trial before Lord Abinger, and
his Lordship disposed of about ten isfhe course of the day,
nine out of the ten being undefendff There was nothing
worth notice to the public done in either Court.
SATURDAY.—Lord Abinger sat at nine o'clock this morn-
ing, and was proceeding with the trial of an indictment for
a nuisance from Birmingham, when, about eleven o'clock,
Lordship was seized with illness, and was obliged to retire
from the Bench to his lodgings. The Jury was discharged
as to the trial then before them, which is to be gone into
again next Monday.
Mr. Serjeant Goulburn presided in this Court during the
remainder of the day, and after disposing of some undefended
causes, proceeded then to the trial of prisoners.
There was no case of any interest before him up to his
rising at half past five o'clock.
George Williams, aged 36, and Fi ederick Armond, aged
28, were indicted for having forged a note for 201. of the
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, and put
off and disposed of the same in Birmingham, on the Ist of
February last, with intent to defraud George Perton. Ano-
ther count in the indictment charged the intent to be, to
defraud James Beck, who is the manager of the bank. The
indictment contained several counts, laying the offences in
every possible way, but the evidence applied substantially
to the two offences above stated. The prisoners made a
respectable appearance.
When Counsel had been heard, the-prisoners, after an in-
vestigation which lasted from 11 to 8 o'clock at night, were
found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life.
Lord Abinger, we are happy to say, was, upon inquiry
this evening, at nine o'clock, said to be better, and he will
be able to sit in his Court here on Monday.