The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE VAGARIES OF A GERMAN BARON.—A motion was
made in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart for
the removal of Baron Von Almen as the next friend of an
infant plaintiff in a suit for the administration of his
father's estate, under the following peculiar cirsumstances.
A few years since Mrs. Phillips, the widow of a Welch
gentleman of considerable fortune, met the Baron on the
Continent, and subsequently engaged him as her courier.
After some time the Baron represented that by the death
of his brother he had come into an inheritance worth a
million sterling, and proposing marriage, was ac-
cepted. They cohabited after marriage, and had
one child; but the Baroness Von Almen sub-
sequently refused to continue cohabitation, on the
ground that she had discovered that her husband's repre-
sentations respecting his social position were untrue—
that, in fact, he was no baron at all. In the belief that
his statements were true, the supposed baron was ap-
pointed as the next friend of Mrs. Phillip's son, in the
suit named ; but the lady now applied to have that
appointment cancelled on the ground stated. The Vice-
Chancellor declined to enter into the accuracy or inaccu-
racy of the supposed baron's pedigree ; but believing that
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IMPORTANT TO MUSIC HALL PROPRIETORS.—On Thurs-
day, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Lopez, Q.C.,
moved on behalf of the London Theatrical Managers to
have a rule nisi in a case of Brown v. Macfub, granted in
order to have the question determined whether a music-
hall proprietor who has had a license granted by the jus-
tices for music is also entitled to have dancing in his
rooms under that licence. The defendant was the proprie-
tor of the Cambridge Music Hall, Shoreditch ; and the
plaintiff brought the action under the 25th Geo. 11. chap.
36, to have the matter determined by a Court of Law.
The verdict was entered by arrangement for the defendant
in order to have the point argued in the full court. Their
lordships granted the rule nisi to have the case fully
argued.

DARING BURGLARIES AT LEAMINGTON.-A man named
Henry-Moore, a painter, was charged before the Leaming-
ton magistrates with breaking into the house of Miss
Walhouse, and stealing coins and curiosities to the value
of £3OO, and a woman named Hannah Fellows, of Bir-
mingham, was also charged with receiving the same. The
prisoners were apprehended in Birmingham after a severe
struggle with the police, in the course of which Moore bit
one of the constable's fingers. The proceeds of four
burglaries were found upon them, and Moore admitted

that he was concerned in all. He appears to have carried
on his trade through making the acquaintance of servant
girls, and so obtaining a knowledge of the premises.

IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS-JEFFERSON V. RICHARDSON,
—This was an appeal heard in the Bail Court, for the
decision of the justices of South Shields, who had fined the
appellant for keeping open a license house for the purpose
of selling beer contrary to the statute. The evidence
shewed that on a Sunday night before one o'clock eight
persons were seen to leave the appellant's house, one of
whom was drunk. The defence was that seven out of the
eight persons were lodgers and that the eighth was the
barman, who was entitled to have beer after his work was
done as part of his pay. The court held that the evidence
was not sufficient to justify the conviction, and it was
therefore quashed.
CHARGE AGAINST A MOTHER-IN-LAW.-At Lambeth,
Maria Cockburn, a married woman, was charged with
assaulting her step-daughter, aged eleven, by placing a
rope round her neck to strangle her. Evidence was pro-
duced to shew that the child was not kindly treated by
the prisoner, and she was sentenced to fourteen days' im-
prisonment.

THE TICHBORNE CASE.—An application has been made
to the Chief Justice of Common Pleas to postpone the
trial, on the ground that there were seven material wit.
nesses in France, six of whom were in Paris serving in
the French army. After a lengthy discussion the trial
was ordered to be postponed until the 19th of May.

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