The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-26 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN,

THE GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWITII, AND
CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY.
A Court was held on Saturday for the purpose of
hearing and determing upon a complaint made against
brokers of the City of London. The proceedings,
which occupied the Court till six o'clock, attracted a
number of gentlemen who have been engaged in the
railway share market.
Alderman COPELAND presented the following memo-
rial to the Court:—
" The humble petition of Joseph Franklin Rose, of
60, Stamford-street, in the parish of Christchurch,
in the country of Surrey, Showeth,
" That on or about the 10th day of October, 1845,
your memorialist employed Messrs. Rochas and Son, of
No. 6, Bank-chambers. Bartholomew-lane, sworn bro-
kers, to purchase for your memorialist 100 shares in the
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway,
at the then market price, which shares they bought
accordingly, and charged your memorialist for the same
the sum of 3121. 10s., being a premium of 1/. 15s. per
share, as appears by the ticket delivered to your me-
morialist.
" That about the 14th day of October, 1145, your
memorialist again employed Messrs. Rochas and Son, to
purchase other 100 shares at the then market price, in
the same railway company, which they also bought and
charged your memorialist for the same the sum of 3501.,
being a premium of 21. 2s. 6d. per share.
"That your memorialists paid the above-mentioned
sums for the said shares in the said company, at the
respective times of the purchase thereof, and received
scrip for the said shares, in the belief that the purchases
were bonetfide made by the said Messrs. Rochas and Son,
as brokers, and at the prices charged to your memorialist.
"That your memorialist, subsequently wishing to be
informed of whom the said shares had been purchased,
made application both personally and by his solicitor, to
Messrs. Roches and Son, to produce their books, or
copies of the same, in which the purchases of the said
several shares were entered and recocaled. That not-
withstanding such application, the said Messrs. Rochas
and Son refuse to comply with the requisition of your
memorialist by withholding the information required in
respect to the purchase of the said shares, as aforesaid,
which information your memorialist respectfully submits
he is entitled to receive, and that the Messrs. Roches
aid Son, are bound to give, in pursuance of the obliga-
tion imposed upon them by the condition of a certain
bone given by the said Messrs. Roches and Son, to the
Corporation of the City of London, under and by virtue
of which they are constituted and empowered to act as
sworn brokers of the said City of London.
" That your memorialist, under the foregoing circum-
stances, is induced to pray the aid of your Lordship, and
Aldermen of the City of London, to compel Messrs.
Roams and Son to submit their book or books, contain-
ing the original purchase of the said shares in the said
railway company, for the inspection and examination of
your memorialist and his solicitor, and also to satisfy
them that the same shares were fairly and honestly pur-
chased by the said Messrs. Rochas and Son, and that
they were themselves not the holders and sellers of the
said shares, or any part thereof, and otherwise to aid
your memorialist in the premises as to your wisdom shall
seem meet and proper,
" And your memorialist will ever pray."
Mr. Rochas, jun., appeared at the bar to answer the
charge, and stated that his father, the head of the firm,
was in Switzerland, and that the duration of his absence
was uncertain.
Mr. Bramwell, the barrister, attended for the de-
fendants. Mr. Rose attended, with his solicitor, to
prosecute.
Mr. Bramwell, when the memorial was read, said
that in order to put an end to the business, and to save
the time of the Court, he was ready, upon the part of
the defendants, to let Mr. Rose examine the books, and
to give him all the information he required ; those books,
and that information having been withheld only because
the application had been made through an attorney in
the first instance.
Mr. Rose's solicitor said that both he and his client
had applied for the books and the information both per-
sonally and by letter, but they received no satisfaction,
and to the last letter
not even an answer was returned.
Alderman COPELAND said it was too late to make such
a proposition. The Aldermen sat in that court to see
justice done. The complainant had applied for what
the bend of Mr. Roches, sen., showed he was entitled to.
The court must proceed with the investigation.
Mr. Rose was then sworn and examined by the RE-
CORDER.—He stated in detail what the memorial con-
tained in substance, and stated that he employed both
Mr. Rochas. sen., and Mr. Rochas, jun., in the purchase
of the shares, and he paid for them on the presumption
that the purchase was a bonafide one.
The RECORDER, perceiving that Mr. Rochas. jun.,
had not entered into bond as a sworn broker, observed
upon that fact, and said that the tickets were signed
Rochas and Son, of which he desired an explanation.
Mr. Bramwell said it would be absurd to attempt to
conceal the fact that Mr. Rochas, jun., was not a sworn
broker. It was decidedly wrong in that gentleman to act
as a broker without being one ; but he had acted in
ignorance, and therefore, as far as that was concerned,
he was at the mercy of the Court. That circumstance,
however, had nothing to do with the subject of the
complaint, which was ready to be rectified by the ex
hibition of the books.

A long cross •examination of Mr. Rose was then com-
menced by Mr. Bramwell upon the particular transac-
tions which had taken place.
Lieutenant-Colonel Bateman stated that he accom-
panied Mr. Rose to the office of Roches and son, and
gave a detail of the conversation which took place
on the subject of the purchase of the shares, and refusal
to give the necessary information, or to show the books
containing accounts of the dealings.
Ultimately the Court came to the following decision
—" That the City solicitor be instructed to put Mr.
Roches', sen., bond in suit for permitting his son to act as
broker without having him admitted, and for refusing to
g •
i the information which he was under obligation to
re
give by his bond, and in accordance with the duties of a
sworn broker, on the application relative to the shares ;
but that the question of Mr. Roches', sen., suspension
or dismissal from the office of a broker be postponed until
that defendant should have an opportunity to appear
before the Court. And, also, that the City solicitor be
instructed to proceed against Mr. Roches, jun., for hav-
ing acted as a broker without having been admitted."
The case, as might be expected, excited a great deal of
interest and curiosity.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

On Wednesday, the 30th dirnthe county of
ofSeptember last G
°hilesrbfather's house, at that place, a
a
Lincoln,,ee
Healey,re r, of Gourgehatt Go
girl named Mary Hill, aged about nineteen, who stayed
with him there till Thursday, the Bth instant, and on
that day, during his absence, she left the house. On
finding that to be the case, he left home the same even-
laboub r t
ing, saying he should be back in an hour and a half,
tut never returned. On
then following Tuesday morning,
he 13th instant, informwas given to th
Sleaford, about fourteen miles from Great Go e police at
nerb, that
a man had poisoned himself at a beer shop therey called
the Plough, and an inquest was held on the body on the
following day by Mr. George Kewney, one of the coro-
ners for Lincolnshire, when the deceased was identified
as the George Healey before named ; and from the evi-
dence it appeared that he had come to the Plough on
Sunday evening very wet and without a hat, and said
that his hat had blown off in Belton fish-pond, which is
twelve miles from Sleaford, and he had fallen into the
water in trying to get it out. He stayed at the Plough,
and on Monday was a good deal in bed, but came down
occasionally ; and at various times of the day employed
different little boys to fetch Lim two pennyworths of
laudanum, which he put into a sodawater bottle which
he had borrowed, saying he was going to take physic.
In the evening of Monday he was sitting with the com-
pany in the house, drinking and amusing himself, when
three boatmen came in, and one of them said to one of
the company, " That's the fellow we pulled out of the
river last night ;" on hearing which he withdrew from
the room and went to bed, and in the morning was dis-
covered dead, and the sodawater bottle under the mat-
tress with the remains of the laudanum in it, and a small
phial which he had sent for the poison, to disarm suspi-
cion, in his pocket. After hearing the evidence, the
jury returned a verdict of fele de se; and the Coroner
directed the police to look out after the girl, as the man
was a very bad character, and she had not been heard
of since she had left her father's house. On Thursday,
the 15th instant, the body of a woman was discovered in
the river Witham, in the lordship of Harroby, close to
Grantham, and immediately adjoining the garden of Mr.
Kewney, the coroner, fourteen miles from Sleaford, which
turned out to be the body of the woman in question, and
had evidently been in the water some days ; and an in-
quest was held before the same coroner on Friday, the
16th instant, when the most remarkable circumstances
were brought to light. It appeared that after Healey
left his father's house he went to Lincoln in search of
the girl, and not finding her there he returned on Friday
to Fulbeck, about 11 miles from Grantham, where he
discovered she was with an aunt. He then went to the
constable's house, and in his absence borrowed the con-
stable's staff and handcuffs, stating he was the constable
of Great Gonerby (which was totally false), and was
going to take a woman into custody for stealing silver
spoons and sugar-bowls, at Great Gonerby. He then
charged two respectable persons in the village to assist
him in the Queen's name saying he expected resistance,
and went to the house where the girl was, where by main
force he took her into custody on this pretended charge,
and conveyed her in the Lincoln carrier's waggon to
Grantham, where he took her to a respectable public
house, the Blue Man, gave her supper, and had her
all
locked upnight, stating he should take her before
the magistrates in the morning. Accordingly, in the
morning of Saturday, the 1 ith, at nine o'clock, he
requested the landlord to take care of the hand-
cuffs and staff till his return, and left the house
with the girl, saying he was going to Mr. Mariner's,
the clerk to the magistrates. Instead of this, which
of course he never intended, he called at the Blue Pig,
another public-house in Grantham, where Mr. Morris,
the constable of Fulbeck puts up, and left word that
Mr. Morris would find the staff and handcuffs at the
Blue Man, where he had left them for him, and thence
he and the woman were traced to the field through
which the river Witham runs, where the body of the girl
was found, and where they were seen to take the river
side instead of the footpath ; and at 10 o'clock Mr.
Botherway, the occupier of such field, picked up out of
the river, within 10 yards of the spot where the body
was found, a hat with a glove and handkerchief in it,
which, on the inquest on the woman, was identified as
belonging to Healey
; and between 10 and 11 o'clock on
the same day Healey was met by a person who knew
of
i
him, on an unfrequented road, in the direction
Sleaford, without a hat and wet up to the waist,
end he said, on being asked the reason_
oof
being without a hat, that it had blown off. in Belton
fish-pond (through which ho had Fowl ut his road

from the field before mentioned), and he had tumbled in r
in trying to get it out. On the same day, Saturday, he
sold his coat at Sleaford, and in the pocket was the tellow
glove (quite wet) to the one found in the hat taken out
of the river by Mr. Botherway. Under all these circum-
stances there can be no doubt that Healey had murdered
the woman by drowning her; but, as he had anticipated
justice by committing suicide, and as there was no direct
evidence of the manner in which the girl got into the
water, the jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned."
What makes the case more remarkable is the fact,
that it was in open day that the deed was done, and
within ten yards of a hovel in which Mr. Botherway and
some of his men must have been within a quarter of an
hour of the girl being drowned, which hovel is close to
the river's edge.
From the circumstance of Healey having appeared wet
on the Sunday evening, it is conjectured that he contem-
plated suicide by drowning, but was prevented by the
boatmen.

SPORTING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Those who took my advice for the last meeting
at Newmarket must have profited considerably thereby,
as my fancies for the Cesarewitch, Clearwell, Prender-
gast, and Steppingley Stakes carried me through trium-
phantly—not one missing the mark. I have good rea-
son, therefore, for anticipating a large portion of success
in the meeting which commences to-day. I shall dis-
pose of the subject in as few words as possible. The
winner of the Cambridgeshire, in consequence of the
late rains, will spring from the outside division—most
probably one of the following :—Evenus, Bst 91b—Garry
Owen, Bst—Kesheng, ist 101b—Peasant, 6st—Sister to
Pergularia, sst 101 b—and Tour de Force, sst 101 b. Of
these, Evenus, Kesheng, and Tour de Force are the
best ; to this trio I look confidently for the winner.
Should Van Tromp go for the Criterion, which it
seems is not 'very likely, he will win to a dead certainty,
otherwiseh e
Glasgow Mr. hIo
Stakesstyn will pocketprodu produce
the
uexciting stake.
excng strug-
gle between the Goodwood and Danebury stables, which
I should not be surprised to see end in favour of the
latter, with Mathematician.
The matches, I presume, will come off as follows:
Missed Stays will beat Ferina.
Ennui will beat Physalis.
Discontent will beat Esther.
Biphop's cob will beat Secundus.
Lady Wildair will beat Remorse.
Roper's Daughter will beat Bro. to Nottingham.
Huff will beat Chance.
Vert-Vert will beat Discontent.
Oakley will beat Wolfdog.
Captain Phebus will beat Paultons.
Eiselle will beat Bethphage.
Leopard will beat Lycurgus.
Idas will beat Traverser.
Miss Sarah will beat Traverser.
Conspiracy will beat Brocardo.
Alarm will beat Sorella.
Apricot will beat Atropos.
Sir Francis will beat Secundus.
Physalis will beat Isis.
Sotades will beat Conspiracy.
Free Lance will beat Paragon.
Tarantella filly will beat Miss Whip filly.
Cynyr.ion will beat Esther.
Jumble will beat Captain Phebus.
Humdrum will beat Wolfdog.
Ides will beat Baron.
Vanity will beat Phoenix filly.
Jack Cade will beat Mentor.
Free Gift will win the 100 sovs. stakes.
Saddle or Extra the 50 sovs. stakes.
Crozier the 200 sovs. stakes.
In haste, your obedient servant,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.