The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

NEW TRIALS-STRATTON V. MACDOUGEL.

This was an application for a new trial, and Mr. Jones,
for the defendant, urged that hie abort caw fhA cause a long
way down on the list, and so went away ; when he returned
it had been decided against him.
Mr. Buchanan—lt is set down for hearing at ten o'clock.
His Honour—Defendant must have a new trial; but in
all these cases, unless strong reasons are shown, costs must
be paid.
Mr. Buchanan—lf your Honour orders costs I shall not
object.
New trial ordered.

POLICE---THIS DAY.

WESTMINSTER, THIS DAY.

ROBBERY OF TAB FRENCH COMMISSIONER OF THE ;
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBTION.—George Bedford, a la,
bourer, of 10, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, and
Frederick Hodges, potman at the Hoop and Toy, Cromwell-
road, Brompton, were charged with stealing a hoisting-
jack, the property of the French Commissioner at the In-
ternal Exhibition.
Police-constable Harvey, 121 X (on duty at the Inter-
national Exhibition), said that last night between 11 and
12 o'clock he received information that a lifting-jack used
to raise heavy pieces of timber had been stolen. He
went to the Hoop and Toy and asked him what he had in
the shed. He replied, " Nothing at all." Witness ob •
served that there was a jack there, and asked him who had
brought it. He said he did not know. Witness made
further inquiries, and was subsequently induced to take
Bedford into custody. He (Bedford) on being apprehended,
stated that he had borrowed it of a person at the hotel of
the French Commissioners.
A person from the hotel, who was stated to have lent the
jack, denied having done so, and remarked that he did not
know the prisoner.
The prisoner (Bedford) said that he must have misunder-
stood the witness, who spoke to him in French.
A witness named Carpenter proved having seen the pri-
soners in company with each other in the shed or coach-
house, and put the jack in a corner.
Pietro Medon, foreman to the Imperial Commissioners of
the French Depadment, stated that the jack was left in his
custody by an exhibitor. It was deposited at the French
Hotel.
Harvey, the constable, deposed that he thought he should
be able at the next examination to produce a person to
whom Hodges offered the jack for sale.
The prisoners were remanded to Wednesday.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION.

An application was made on Tuesday last to the
Brighton bench by a labourer, named Coe, for
magisterial advice, under the following extraor-
dinary circumstances :—lt appeared from the state-
ment of the applicant that his daughter, a girl of
seventeen, had been living at Brighton for some
months in the service of Mrs. Tremenheere, a
lady who removed from this neighbourhood about
two years since. At the beginning of last week
week Mrs. Coe, the girl's mother, received a let-
ter from her daughter, informing her that she
had heard of a situation in a Roman Catholic
family, and begged her mother's consent to an
engagement. Mrs. Coe immediately replied, and
expressed her dissent from the proposal. An-
other letter from the daughter, received on Satur-
day, informed her parents that she had entered
upon the duties of her new situation. The
receipt of this news induced the father to go to
Brighton on Monday, with a view to take his
daughter home. He told her his intention, and
after shaking hands with her father, the girl ex-
prossed her willingness to accompany him. At
this juncture the mistress of the house appeared,
and bade him leave the area door and go to the
front one. Here he waited for about a quarter of
an hour, and was then informed by the mistress
that his daughter was not willing to return with
him, another interview with him being then re-
fused. The girl's father then went to the Inspector
of Police, who told Coe he dare not interfere. The
father then returned to Dorking, and on the follow-
iag morning started again for Brighton, this
. time accompanied by his wife. , Both parents
went to the house visited the day before by
- the father. On this occasion the latter was
denied admission, but the mother obtained an
interview with the girl's mistress ; a Roman Ca-
tholic priest, formerly a curate in the neighbour-
hood of Dorking, and a young gentleman being
also present. Mrs. Coo was assured that her
daughter was not there, that they did not know
where she was, and that she had left the house
frightened because her father had been ta fetch her.
The priest inquired why she wished to take her
daughter home, and on the mother's replying be-
cause she did not wish her to become a Roman
Catholic, he angrily retorted that she was old
enough to choose her own religion, and added, e'You
can't take her, she is not here." The magistrates,
on hearing this statement, directed an inspector to
I accompany the girl's parents to the house of the
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that she was ignorant of the girl's where-
- mistress.abous, and Thwisas not
- house. The inspector desired to see the other
servants, and this, although at first refused, was
afterwards consented t 3. The domestics, like their
mistresses, denied all knowledge as to where the
girl then was. Mrs. Coe thereupon begged permis-
sion to take away her daughter's clothes, and the
request being acquiesced in, both persons returned
to Dorking on the same evening. A letter from the
Brighton Chief Constable was received by the girl's
friends on Thursday morning, informing them that
up to the date of writing no trace of their daughter
had been discovered. The whole affair is enveloped
in mystery, the only key to its solution being that
the missing young female may be ensconced in a
neighbouring convent, and such a supposition is
favoured by her having paid, while in her previous
situation, several visits to a Roman Catholic Chapel
not far distant.— West Surrey Times.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Thursday morn•
ing, the sth inst., a desperate poaching affray took place in
the preserves of Mr. J. T. Edge. at Strelley, about three
miles from Nottingham. Between 2 and 3 o'clock several
keepers belonging to Mr. Edge were out watching, and,
having heard several shots fired, they concealed the
behind some trees, and almost immediately two poachers
came up. The keepers attempted to capture the wen, but
a violent resistance was offered, and the poachers com-
menced throwing boulder stones. one of which struck a
keeper on the head and inflicted a very severe wound. A
close hand-to-hand fight then took place, the keepers being
determined to capture the poachers as speedily as possible.
The struggle lasted some time, and the fight was a very
poachers and keepers suffering consider-
able Eventually the superior force of the keepers
andsperyeevraienilieoudnr,ieesb.h both
the men were appreiended and conveyed to
the Nottingham county gaol. Their names are John Howerd
and James Swincoe. They had guns in their possession
when taken into custody. During the day they were take
before the county magistrates end remanded until to-day.n