The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-06 00:00:00

LAW INT:

—(This Day).

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)
CAMPLIN V. COUSINS AND ANOTHER.
This was an action to recover the sum of £2lB from the
executors of the late Mr. Cousins, a barrister, for attend-
ance and medical treatment given to the daughter of the•
deceased, who had been labouring undor a curvature of the
spine for some years.
From the statement of counsel and other evidence, it
appeared that the deceased had been under the care of
several medical men without deriving any benefit,and that
in July, 1863, the deceased consulted the plaintiff, a. surgeon
of eminence, residing at Old Burlington-street, and senior
medical officer of the Orthopaedic Hospital. Ho treated
her surgically for a period of two years, and she became
perfectly restored to health, and was since married. The
charge was made at the rate of £1 is. a visit, but the exe-
cutors refused to pay more than £122 35., being at the
rate of only half-a-guinea a visit, upon which the plaintiff I
instituted the present proceedings.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTEL LIGENCE, —This Day•

MANSION HOUSE.

THE ALLEGED FRAUDS UPON INSURANCE COMPANIES.
—James Arnott, Wm. Sedgwick, and Charles Thew were
placed before the Lord Mayor, charged with conspiring
together to obtain, and obtaining by fraudulent .pretences,
from the Royal Exchange Insurance and other insurance
and assurance companies large sums of money with intent
to defraud.
The charge proceeded with to-day was that the pri-
soners, all engaged at Merriton's wharf, sent in claims for
a certain number of bales of jute, nearly 1,000, to the in-
surance offices, alleging that the property had been destroyed
by the fire which took place at Merriton's wharf in
November last year.

Josiah Fay, a labourer at Barrey's Wharf.—Until re-
cently I was in the service of Messrs. Barrey Brothers,
Merriton's Wharf, Dock-head. I was discharged at Christ-
mas last. I left in consequence of the slackness occasioned
by the fire.. My duties were to take the weights of goods
landed or to do labourer's Ark. It was part of my duty
to assist in storing goods away. I have occasionally taken
the weight of bales of jute. I recollect in the summer of
last year the ship Onward arriving. I took the weights of
the goods (bales of jute) brought by the ship. I entered
the weights of jute in a landing book. The tallies were
fastened to each bale with a piece of wire. The marks on
the bales were the letter S above the letter C, with a figure
4 on the left hand side.

Mr. Sergeant Atkinson asked what Mr. Humphreys
intended to prove by the course he was adopting. He ob-
jected to asking fitness anything that could be proved by
the production of the property in court.
Mr. Humphreys said he proposed to show that certain
returns of jute as destroyed were made to the insurance
offices, which jute was now in existence at another wharf
at the present moment.
Examination continued—l took the weight of more than
500 bales ex the Onward, and I saw the tallies affixed to
the goods. The name of the ship and the weight of the goods
were marked on the tallies. Before the bales were marked
they were taken into the yard and stored. The goods were
not moved from the stack until after the fire in November.
After the fire on the Bth of December, I assisted in taking
down part of the stack. Mr. Sedgwick, the prisoner, gave
me orders to break down 200 bales for delivery. I was
assisted to do so by a man named Burgess. Burgess asked
Sedgwick if he were to pick out any particular weights.
He said, "No, take them as they rThe, this 200 will furnish
the ship, the rest are for us." I and Burgess took the 200
bales down. Sedgwick was our foreman. I don't
recollect seeing Arnot on that occasion, but some
days after the Bth of December I heard Arnott say to Sedg-
wick, as he was standing near the new warehouse, that
Mr. John was in a very bad way about the stock of jute by
the Onward being over. A few days after a man named
Callaghan and myself received some directions as to the
bales of jute from the Onward by Sedgwick. We were
told to take the tallies of the remaining bales of the On-
ward jute. We were to place them so as they could be
moved in a truck for re-storing. We were to be particular ;
we took the tallies off, and put them into a bag, and when
the job was finished the tallies were to be burnt. A small
bag was brought by Sedgwick for the purpose, and placed
upon some timber near the stack. We took down the
stack and put the tallies into the stack, as directed. The
bales were taken away and placed in another part of the
premises. Sedgwick was present during the whole of the
day directing the works. I saw Mr. Arnott and Mr. Alfred
Barry also present in the early part of the day. Later in
the day Dell came and "blew me up" in presence of Mr.
John Barry and Sedgwick about not returning some
" spanners" that had been borrowed. On the Friday
that I left I observed a great quantity of. that pro-
perty on the wharf. There were about 350. They then
had on them tallies marked "City of Dublin." They were
in the new warehouse. I went upstairs and saw them when
I went to get something I had left. When I came back I

asked Sedgwick what he had directed Burgess to ask me
what I went up stairs for. I asked him if ho thought I
was going to put a bale of jute in my pocket. I also saw
some of the bales re-marked as having arrived by other
ships. Just after I left the wharf I went on the 4th of
January and gave information of what I saw to the in-
surance officers. On the 11th of January I went to Merri-
ton's wharf. Arnett, Mr. Alfred Barry, Mr. Whiting, Mr.
Roberts, and Mr. Radnall wero there.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING A GENTLEMAN'S WATCH.—Henry Hart, ad-
dress refused, calling himself a commission-agent, and
Ann Stevens, an unfortunate, were charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold watch, the property of Mr.
Silicourt Antelme, of No. 15, Lansdown-crescent, Not-
ting-hill.

Mr. Antelme said, he was in the Haymarket on Saturday
night when he felt his watch pulled, and he was told by
some persons that it had been taken from him. He then
found it was gone, and his chain was hanging down in
front of him. The value of the watch was about £B.

Inspector James Thomson, of the Detective Force, after
proving that the female prisoner made three attempts to
rob gentlemen, the male prisoner being close by, he on
each occasion said, that being joined by Police-constable
Gordon, 33 C, in plain clothes, he continued to watch the
prisoners, and saw the male prisoner put his right hand
into the pocket of the prosecutor's waistcoat and take out
his watch, and with a jerk and a twist wrench it from the
chain. The male prisoner' then put his hand down, and
the female put out her hand as if to take something. At
this moment Gordon seized the male prisoner, and he
(Thomson) seized the female, and the watch dropped to
the ground. The prisoners were then taken to the station,
and while the charge was being entered the male prisoner
made a rush out of the dock, pushed a constable aside, and
made off, but was captured near the door and brought
back.

Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, Great
Marlborough-street, who appeared for the male prisoner,
said his client would plead guilty.
Mr. Louis Lewis cross-examined the inspector on be-
half of the male prisoner, but without altering the com-
plexion of his evidence, Mr. Tyrwhitt remarking that In-
spector Thomson was a very awkward person to handle
in the way of cross-examination.

Gordon, 33 C, having corroborated a portion of tho in-
spector's evidence,

Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate on the female pri-
soner's behalf, stating that there were no convictions
against her.

Inspector Thomson said that was not the case—ho be-
lieved there wore several, and that if a remand were
granted they should be able to prove them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoners for a week.