The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-07 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER COURT, Ds' 6.

JUPP V. PItATT.
hiS was an action against the defendant for an alleged
infringement by him of a patent obtained by the plaintiff,
for an improved kind of eNparftling The defendant'
pleaded the general issue ; that the invention was not the
invention of the plaintiff; that there was no infringement ;
and, lastly, that the specification was defective, as making
too large a claim. The patent and specification were put
in and read.

His Lordship summed up, and the Jury found for the
plaintiff upon all the issues.—Damages Is., subject to the
point reserved upon the third plea. Actions of this sort, it
will be percei% ed, operate merely as an injunction.

Peter Czirsinven, alias Thompson, alias Peters, Was
brought up for a third examination, charged with having
defrauded numerous tradesmen of goods. A number of
shopkeepers attended during the investigation, in the course
of which it was stated that a gentleman who has been for
many years a clerk in the Ordnance-office, had aided the
prisoner in his schemes by the loan of acceptances.
A tradesman, named Warman, had, upon a former exa-
mination, produced a bill of exchange for twenty pounds,
which be had received from the prisoner in payment for
some goods. This bill of exchange purported to be the
acceptance of a clerl: in the Ordnance Department, and
when Warman found that the prisoner was a common swin-
dle•, he naturally suspected that the securitybehad received
was a forgery. '

To the surprise of many in the Justice Room, the Ord-
nance Clerk appeared, and relieved the prisoner of the im-
putation of forgery, by admitting that the bill was his I•L'
ecptance.

Mr. Flower—The bill will be due on the 15th instant.
Have you ever denied that it was your acceptance? Wit-
ness—l never saw . the bill since it was passed tkiat I can
call to memory, and this is the first time I was ever asked a
question about it.

Mr.' Flower—ls it an accommodation bill ? Witness—lt
is. I accepted it for a specific purpose, and Ilever received
value for it.

The LORD MAYOR—What! you, in a Government
office, give your acceptance to a person of such a character
as this man is!

The prisoner's solicitor—The most respectable men in
trade in London may do just five same thing with their bills.
The LORD MAYOR-1 supliose the bill will be paid when
it becomes due ? The pti;oner's solicitor—lf not he must
take the consequences,
Witness—l have lleen a clerk in the Ordnance these 30
years, and can. bling proofs of the respectability of my
character.

Mr. Fkmer—Have you ever accepted bills in any other
nIIMO ?

11'.0 prisoner's solicitor—Do not answer that question.
Witness—l have. Ido not doubt that the bill will be paid.
Mr. Flower—My Lord Mayor, I fear I have no definite
case against the prisoner ; but I submit to you that you
ought to hold these bill-dealers to bail as common cheats.
Mr. llobler—All the gaols in England would not be
large enough to hold the cheating bill-dealers.
The solicitor—lt is too bad to charge my client
as a person guilty of forgery, and 1 think he ought to
bring an action against Mr. Warman for doing so.
Mr. Hobler—So strong is the disposition of the trades-
men of London to do business that your client, I dare say,
will be able to get business to-morrow.

Ilit; bill connection between the prisoner aml the Ord-
nance clerk was, in the answer tg this chaTge, must clearly
established.

Mr, Flower said that when persons holding good situa-
tions under Government lent themselves to swindlers, or
rather joined a nest of swindlers, tradesmen who acted
with the utmost can:Lion were liable to be plundered. In-
deed, in such eases there could not be said to be any secu-
rity at all, however circumspect men in trade might be.
The Loan MAYOR admitted that the chances of plunder
were increased vastly, and regretted that he was obliged to
discharge the prisoner.

The prisoner and the Ordnance clerk were immediately
arrested on the spot, and conveyed to Whiteeross-street.

MARLBORQV GIL S TR EET.
Benjamin North was yesterday brought before Mr. Co-
NAikrr for final examination, charged with having defrauded
a number of persons by means of forged checks. There
were, it was reported, a considerable number of similar
cases against the prisoner, but the above being complete he
was fully -zommitted on.them, after having declined to say
arithieg, by the advice of his solicitor.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Amelia Shafer, • a smartly-attired young woman, vas
placed at the bar, charged by Mr. James Linden, of Pier-
point-row, Islington, with having df::serted her child, ten
months old.

The prosecutor, being swor.), stated that yesterday
Morning the prisoner called at 'his house and left the child
in the passage, saying that, it was his,
and she would not
support it any longer. 1.3.0 pursued her and gave her into
the custody of a policroaan.

Mr. BENNETT--Pray have you ever lived with her as a
wife ? Pupscutor—l certainly have. _

Mr. BENNETT—And does the child belong to ••ou ? Pro-
secuto.---Sbe has said so ; but I doubt it.
Mr. BENNETT—Then I shall discharge the prisoner.
not
csiulipidpo brtol it.
Mr.
? She Sae then quitted the office with the child ; but. shortly
afterwards she returned and begged the advice of Mr. Ben-
nett, saying thatshes
i‘,otas ablethe to
Mr. BENNETT—When
re-
plied, in February last.
Mr. BENNETT said that it was subsequent to the Poor
Law Bill being passed. He could do nothing for her ; but
she ought to apply to the parish officers, who would, no
doubt, take her and the child into the workhouse ; but
they would do nothing for her or the child, if it was found
that she was able to support it.
She assured him that it was out of her power to do so,
and she did not know what to do.
Mr. BENNETT told her she could apply to the sessions ;
but he would recommend her to go to the overseers of her
parish.

She thanked his worship, and left the office with the in-
ten'tion of adopting the advice.
John Connor was brought up, charged by Bridget Stack,
aged seventeen, with having intermarried with her, his first
wife being alive. Inspector Penny, of the G division, pm-
duced certificates of both marriages. The prisoner, who
ebawr•assirneilnilnanded for further evidence.
sretonocde, aatntdh
he g, treated the matter with indiffe-
rence,

IVOR SHIP- STREET.
Yesterday Maria Dennis, a very good-looking woman,
ar a 20, was placed at the bar before Mr. TWYFORD, the
sitting magistrate, on a charge of having wilfully set fire
to the dwelling-house of her master, Mr. Thomas Joseph
Hancock, of 47, Clifton-street, Finsbury, whose youngest
ehi,ld, an infant ten months old, had been burned to death.
I Eye
,case excited very considerable interest in the neigh-
bourhood. The prosecutor is of the firm of Hancock and
Cheese, wholesale druggists, whose premises are situate at
ter of Clifton-street and Earl-street, at a short distance in
the rear of this office. The fire occurred in his dwelling-
houe, and was fortunately discovered before it had made
progress or spread to the warehouses immediately conti-
guous, and filled with highly inflammable materip.is, the ig-
nition of which must have been productive of very disas-
trous consequences to the neighbours.
Mr. Hancock, who was the first witness examined, ap-
peared before the Magistrate in a very agitated state, and
had sustained much personal injury. This bands were en-
veloped in bandages, having been severely burnt, and he 4ex-
bilked other injuries, the effects of the fire.
It appeared from his evidence, that about. half-past eight
on Monday evening,tthe alarm was first given to him by
some neighbours, who bad observed flames in the firs:t floor
of his house, and he, of course, ran up to his bed-room.,
put to bed some time prev}_
the infant had been
ously. He found that the bed was in flames, and, havir,g