The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-06 00:00:00

LEWES V. AMOR.

This was an action tried before Mr. Sergeant Arabin,
to recover the amount of attorney's bill. The defendant
pleaded—first, never indebted; second, that th• defend-
ant had got rid of the debt by a bankruptcy, subse-
quently to the contracting of it ; and third, that it was
contracted for an immoral purpose. On the last issue
no evidence whatever was offered. The existence of the
debt was proved, and it was likewise shown that the
plaintiff had been employed by the defendant in March,
the bankruptcy having taken place in the February
preceding. The verdict was for the defendant in all the
issues.

Mr. JERVIS now moved for a rule nisi for a new trial.
Mr. Justice PATTESON—Have you Mr. Sergeant Ara-
bin's notes ?

Mr. JERVIS—No, my Lord. We have paid for them,
and they were to have been sent to your Lordship yes-
terday, but as they had not arrived, I abstained from
moving. In other Sheriffs' Courts the usual practice is for
parties to pay ss. to the Sheriff's clerk, for which the
notes are supplied to the parties ; but the practice
adopted by Mr. Sergeant Arabia is, that each party pays
148. to the clerk, and the notes are supplied to neither
of them, but are sent to the Court. _ _

Inquiries were made whether the notes had been sent
by mistake to the other Court, when it was found that
they had not yet been furnished.
Mr. Justice ParrEsoN—l ought to have the notes be-
fore me. liowever,l think you have shown enough to
entitle you to your rule, even without the notes.
Application granted.

INSOLVENT COURT, Nov. 5.
IN THE MATTER OF JAMES HIGHWAY.

The facts of this case were rather singular, and oc-
cupied the Court from its sitting, at ten o'clock, until
past six. The wife of, a person, named Bromley, had
separated from her husband, and accumulated about 5001.,
which she gave, at her death, to her cousin, the insol-
vent's wife, for the benefit of a sister named Gage. By
the verdict, in an action brought by Bromley against the
insolvent, tho latter was required to refund the 5001.,
which he refused, and was, in consequence, taken in
execution, and now appeared in Court, on his petition, to
be discharged, on the grounds that he had expended all the
money, and was at present without property.
Mr. COOKE, on behalf of Bromley, the opposing
creditor, called a number of witnesses, from whose evi-
dence it appeared that the insolvent had invested the
money in the funds at various times, and who likewise
proved that the money with which he purchased the
stock was the same as what he received on account of
Bromley's wife, and that stock to the amount of 2551.
was still held in the insolvent's name.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said, in this case, if the
money had been all expended, he should inflict the ex-
treme penality which the Act allowed for fraudulently
making away with property ; if, on the other hand,
there was stock or Exchequer bills to the amount of 2551.
in the insolvent's possession, which he gave up to the
assignee, Mr. Bromley, he might go out of prison to-
morrow. lie should, therefore, enter a conditional dis-
charge upon the books of the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
G UILDHALL.

CAUTION TO TAVERN AND COFFEE-HOUSE-KEEPERS.
—Anne Linder, alias Payne, alias Creasy, a respectable-
looking female, apparently about 25 years of age, was
placed at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie, on a charge
of swindling a host of tavern and coffee-house-keepers,
and other tradesmen. A man named Payne, who at
one time passed for the prisoner's husband, also attended
on the charge, but not in custody.
It appeared from the evidence of upwards of 20 per-
sons, whom the prisoner had " victimised," that she re-
presented herself as daughter of a gentleman named Finden,
who died some years since, and left her property to a vast
amount, situate in Tottenham-court-road, Fitzroy-market.
and various other places, together with a quantity of
stock and property in the funds. The man Payne and
she lived at the different taverns and coffee-houses as
man and wife, and in many instances she succeeded in
borrowing money to a large amount.
One of the victims, Mr. Clarke, of the George Tavern,
Castle-street, Leicester-square, in a half-comic, half-
serious style, informed Sir Peter that the female prisoner
told him she was the owner of the " Castle" at Tooting,
and after borrowing some money from him invited him
to come there to spend a few days with her. When he
went, instead of the lady who favoured him with the in-
vitation, he found a jolly red-faced landlord, who knew
nothing of her.
From two or three of the witnesses she borrowed arti-
cles of wearing apparel, which she never returned.
Mr. Thomas Finden said he resided in the New-road,
and the person whom the prisoner claimed as her father
was his brother. She had been frequently with him of
the subjeet of her imaginary claims, and he had also
been visited by Mr. Birch, the solicitor to the Southamp-
ton estates, on the same. subject. He (witness) was the
executor under his brother's will, and there was not the
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and some education, made a long statement, asserting
that she was the daughter of Mr. Finden, s brother, who
died worth a deal of money, the whole of which vas to
come to her in the event of two other children? death,
which had since occurred.

Sir P. LAURIE said no man was safe if such claims
as the prisoner's could be made with impunity. He feared
he could not treat dealings with the persons appearing
against her criminally, but he would remand her to next
Thursday on the charge of stealing the wearing apparel.

BOW-STREET.
Two respectably-dressed young men, who gave their
names as Johnson and French, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Jardine, on a charge of having violently as-
saulted, on Thursday evening, Mr. Baker, a tobacconist
in Fleet-street, and Mr. Henry Page, a tradesman re-
siding in Clare-street.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainants,
that while walking down the Strand, at about half-past
ten o'clock on Thursday evening, they came in contact at
at
the corner of Southampton-street with the prisoners, who
were at the time " waltzing" on the pavement with some
..
women of the town. The prisoner French immedlatelY
struck Baker across tho head with a stick, an
din thee.
scuffle which ensued both complainants were. very. vi
lently treated, their clothes and perso9s being
l to compensate
'The prisoners, who expressed star
slight have done
the complainants for any inj.urvred Y
,i they had been the
injured.
them, stated that they consicilnstance.
On meeting the
aggrieved parties in the first
complainants they
knocked down by the com-
Johnson said he bad been
had been pushed about by them, and
plainant Page.
the time the outrage took place,
loon, osedthat the prisoners had evi-
dentlythat they were surgeons, turd
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his address at Portman-square.
The M.kdisTitATE, after commenting on the violence of
their conduct, sentenced them each to a fine of 61. •