The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

throwing out scandal against the party for whom
I appear.
Mr. Parton John Rains was then called, and said
—I am a pharmaceutical chemist and letter re-
ceiver at Highgate. I have also the appointment
to the telegraph. I purchased the papers of the
30th of July and the sth of August from Mr. Cut •
bush (The Highgate Express). There is no truth
in them with the exception of the girl. There is
no truth in the birthday article. • lam a single man,
n ighgat, and went
I have some recollection about the affair of the girl.
I had been out one evening
into the smoking parlour ati thHe Angel,e and found
several people there. The servant referred to
waited on them, and there was a deal of laughing
and joking going on.
Mr. Mansfield—l do not know whether it is any
good going on with these questions. It would not
justify the publication of such an article.
Mr. Lewis—l think it would for the public good.
Mr. Mansfield—M., no. Suppose a member of
Parliament, after he has delivered a speech not iu
harmony with a certain party's views, would they
be justified in libelling that man ?
Mr. Lewis-0 yes ; I think so, sir. It has been
set right where a doctor has misbehaved himself.
Mr. Mansfield—l think not, Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Lewis—l have seen it in the papers.
Mr.Mansfield—Thsnk God, the newspapers per-
form very important functions ; but they cannot be
taken as the law.
Mr. Hammond—l like to be right. I have only
two or three more questions to put.
Mr. Heins continued—Highgate is the hamlet
alluded to in one of the papers. lam the receiver
for the letters deliverable in Highgate. The others
do not pass through my hand. I have never been
guilty of opening letters, and gumming them up
again.
Mr. Hammond—ln reading that little paragraph
in the local news, who should say who it refers to ?
Mr. Lewis—l object to that question.
Mr. Mansfield—That is matter of opinion.
Mr. Hammond—We will take it another way, as
a matter of law. A man who goes to libel another
does not put his name to it, and this baffles the law ;
but still, after all, this is matter of opinion only as
to the party publishing it.
Mr. Mansfield—What is the sentence here ? It
is "how to manage the business of a hamlet.
Mr. Lewis—And there are thousands of persons
managing hamlets.
Mr. Hammond—Bring them here.
Mr. Mansfield (after looking at the article) said
said it might refer to anybody not living at High-
gate. It was quite unintelligible, and seemed like
the writing of some madman.
That part of the case concerning the Post-office
was then dropped.
Mr. Heins was cross-examined at length ; after
which the case was adjourned for a fortnight to see
if an arrangement could not be come to.

HAMMERSMITH. ANOTHER ROBBERY AT
MR. WINDHAM'S.—AmeIia Reeves, aged 19, a ser-
vant, was placed in the dock before Mr. Ingham
charged with stealing Gibs, of loaf sugar and 61bg.
of moist sugar, value ss. 3d., the property of Mr.
W. F. Windham, of No. 3A, Upper Westbourne-

terrace, Paddington.
Mr. Sayre, from the office of Mr. E. Lewis,
Great Marlborough-street; appeared for the prose-
cution; and Mr. Martin for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence tnat the prisoner
had been in the service of Mr. Windham, as house-
maid, for two months. On Monday Mr. Chattell, of
Upper Seymour-street, who had served the prose-
cutor with grocery for the last three months, sent
some goods to Mr. Windham's house, amongst
which were two parcels of sugar. On the same
day a little girl, who worked for Mr. Wind-
ham's charwoman, went to the house to inquire
for her mistress, and the prisoner answered
her. She told the girl to wait, and she brought
up the area steps the two parcels of sugar
and gave them to her, requesting her, at the same
time, to fetch a cab. The girl thinking something
was wrong declined to go for a cab, and remained
inside with the sugar. Mr. Windham had his
attention draw to the transaction, and he called
a constable, who went to the girl and took the
sugar from her. Mr. Windham informed the
constable that he had discharged the prisoner,
and she was about leaving his house. He gave
her into custody, and the prisoner told the offi-
cer that she had ordered the sugar of a grocer to
take home to her father, and that she always took
him something when she went home as a present,
and he returned it twofold whenever she left her
situation. At the station a large bunch of keys was
found in her pocket, and she afterwards stated that
Mrs. Windham gave them to her to throw away.
Mr. Sayre said the keys opened every place in
the house, and that since this charge had been made
other things had been missed.
The prisoner said Mrs. Windham never locked
up anything from her. She also said that when
Mrs. Windham went to the theatre she never locked
her jewel box, and if she (the prisoner) had wished
to be a thief she had every opportunity of being one
before. She denied having been discharged, and
said she gave notice to leave.
Mr. Chattell was called to prove that he sent the
two parcels of sugar as part of the order for Mr.
Windham.
Mr. W. F. Windham was sworn, and he stated
that his wife engaged the prisoner about two
months ago. He had suspicions of her, and had
communicated his suspicions to Mrs. Windham.
His new servant informed him that two parcels had
gone out of the house, and he then called a consta-
ble. Since the prisoner had been taken into cus-
tody he had made an examination of his house, and
had missed plate and a number of different things.
The keys found upon the prisoner opened his plate
chest, the different drawers in his wife's room, and
amongst them was a duplicate key of his cellar,
from which he had missed wine.
Cross-examined.—I believe the prisoner acted as
lady's maid to my wife as well as being housemaid.
I never interfere with the women servants. The
prisoner was in the habit of receiving grocery and
other things for the house.
Mr. Martin—Mrs. Windham was very kind to
her_ I believe she gave her a gold watch ?
Mr. Windham—A watch worth £6 10s., for which
I paid. She was a great deal too kind.
Mr. Sayre—This is the way she rewards the
kindness of Mrs. Windham.
Mr. Ingham—Looking at the keys, I must re-
mand the prisoner fora week. I shall not accept bail.
Mr. Martin—The keys were given to her by Mrs.
Windham.
Mr. Ingham—Her defence is that Mrs. Windham
gave them to her to throw away, which is not a
very probable story.
The prisoner then asked Mr. Windham to become
bail for her, but he declined.
As she was being removed from the court, she
called out to Mr. Windham that he was mad.

SHOCKING OCCU
BURY. .RRENCE IN BLOOMS

Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex
coroner, held an inquest at the Lord Wellington
Tavern, University•street, Tottenham-court-road,
touching the death of Wm. Henry Wilson, a tailor,
aged 28 years, residing with his mother, a lodging-
house keeper, at 26, Duke-street, Bloomsbury.
Mrs. Mary Wilson deposed that deceased was
her son, a young man of intemperate habits. About
two o'clock on Wednesday morning she was awoke
by the ringing of the street-door bell. She went
down and opened the door to her son, who followed
her upstairs and entered his bedroom, as if going to
bed. Shortly afterwards, hearing no movement in
deceased's room, which adjoined hers, she was in-
duced to go in, and found him absent. Wondering
where he could be, she was suddenly attracted by
a voice at the front door, and another voice imme-
diately following it from the top of the house, say-
ing, " Shall I?" She recognised that voice as her
son's. The two voices appeared to come from the
outside of the house, and she opened her bedroom
window, and again she heard her son say,
" Shall I?" two or three times, the last time
louder than before. She then heard a man from
below in the street answer "Yes." Directly the
man from below answered " Yes," she saw the
deceased throw himself from the third floor window
to the ground below, a fearful height. She rushed
into the street, and seeing her son lying motionless,
she became insensible.
Frederick Slater, a pianoforte maker, of 1, Kirby-
street, Hatton. garden, said that on the night in
question he accompanied deceased, who was in an
intoxicated cordition, to his home. Deceased parted
from him with the understanding that he (witness)
was to wait on the pavement, as he was coming out
to join him again almost directly. Immediately
afterwards ha saw deceased at a third floor window,
and heard hiti say, " I am coming down," and wit-
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