The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY^ EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1862.

MARKETS---TIIIS DAY.

LAW---THIS DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE M. A. GAITER.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

This bankrupt is a Mrs. M. A. Gayter, a well known and
popular vocalist, and this was a meeting for last examina-
tion and discharge.
Mr. Sargood supported, Mr. Reed opposed, and, in an-
swer to his questions, she said that she was a married wo-
man, but had been living apart from her husband for six
or seven years. She had obtained protection from Mr.
Locke the magistrate, but she had not got it with her. She
had applied to the Insolvent Court in 1859, and then gave
up the paper, but it had not been returned. She sometimes
made Dt, £5, and £6 a week from her engagements.

Mr. Reed said that all the creditors desired was a cash
account for the last six months. She owed about £l5O,
and it was considered that she could set aside a portion of
h6r earnings. She had paid off all her creditors under the
insolvency.

The bankrupt said she could make out an account of
what she had received from her engagements, but they
were very precarious, and her expenses were heavy in car-
riage hire, &c., in going from place to place.
The case was adjourned for the account to be furnished.

CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
THE ALLEGED WHOLESALE POISONINGS.
The trial of Catherine Wilson was resumed this morn-
ing.

Professor Alfred Swain Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, was
examined—He went into a very minute description of the
effects of virulent poisons, and said, having heard all the
acts, he could not attribute the death of Mrs. Soames to
natural causes.

Dr. Nunnely, of Leeds, was of the same opinion as Dr'
Taylor.
Mr. Oppenheim then addressed the jury for the prisoner
The two points they had to decide were these. Did Mrs;
Soames die of poison, and was that polecat administered by
the prisoner? It was perfectly clear that no poison had
been found in the body of the deceased, neither had the
prosecution produced evidence *to show that the prisoner
had any poison in her possessicn previous to the death o
the lady, and those circumstances tended to render the task
they had to perform difficult in the extreme.
At the conclusion of the learned gentleman's address,-
the Court adjourned until to-morrow.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
A young man named Steele, a pot boy, was charged with
attempting to commit a rape on a child 12 years of age.
The prosecution was conducted by the Associate Insti-
tution for the Protection of Women.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of the minor offence,
and the learned judge sentenced the prisoner to 18 months'
imprisonment.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Pierre Le Rois, a French acrobat, Alfred Towers, son
of the lessee of the Victoria Theatre, William Charles
Allen, and Agnes Elizabeth Towers, wife of Frank Towers,
comedian and proprietor of the Victoria Tavern adjoining
the theatre, were indicted for misdemeanour in rescuing
the person of Frank Towers from the custody of Henry
Horrick, a sheriff's officer of the county of Surrey, and in
a second count they were charged with assaulting and ob-
structing the prosecutor and his assistant from recapturing
Mr. Frank Towers, who had contrived to make his escape
from the bar parlour windows of the above-mentioned pub-
lic-house.

It appeared that on Saturday, the 13th, the prosecutor
went to the Victoria Tavern, about four o'clock, for the
purpose of serving Mr. Frank Towers with two writs,
which had been issued against him for about £3OO, the
judge's order having been obtained on the ground that he
was about to leave the country. 'When the officer told
Towers what his business was he threw himself into a chair
in a very excited state. His wife began to scream, and a
scene of confusion ensued, in which Towers escaped, and
the prisoners prevented the officers leaving the place in
pursuit of him until it was too late to recapture him.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.