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London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 20.

Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and
Special Juries.)
TAI .ATTORNEY-GENERAL r. SCHULTZ.

This was an information filed by the Attorney-General to
recover penalties for a breach of the Customs-laws. It ap-
peared that certain parties had purchased twelve hogsheads
of brandy in bond for the ostensible purpose of exporting
them to Valparaiso, by the Rosalind, but, instead of having
them conveyed on board that vessel, empty hogsheads were
sent on board, and the twelve bonded hogsheads were con-
veyed to llnngerford market, and from thence to Mark• lane,
to a wine-cooper's, where they were tasted and bottled off,
and disposed of according to the orders of one of the principal
parties concerned. It was now alleged against the present
defendant that in his capacity as an officer in the Customs
he had facilitated and connived at the completion of the
fraud, and that he was to have received a sum of money out
of the profits proportioned to the share lee had taken in the
transaction. _ _ _

Mr. Chambers, with whom was Mr. Pigott, was about to
address the jury for the defendant, when he was stopped by
The LORD CHIEF BARON, who said that there was not
sufficient evidence to go before the jury to connect the de-
fendant with the alleged fraud.
Mr. Jervis then withdrew the record.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Chief Justice TINDAL, Baron Rm.-T.; and
Alderman THOMPSON.)
Dr. James Elie surrendered this morning to take his trial,
and was placed at the bar, indicted on the coroner's inquisi-
tion for manslaughter, in the case of Richard Dresser, who
died while being subjected to hydropathic treatment under
the care of Dr. Ellis, to which charge he pleaded Not
Guilty.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Huddlestone were retained for the
prosecution ; Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Clark-
son for the prisoner.
Mr. BODKIN, in laying the case before the jury,
said they would be aware that it had features in it
peculiar to itself —that a system of treatment for
disease had been introduced from Germany, which was very
popular in that country, and which was known as hydro•
patliy, according to which, water is applied to the surface of
the body by means of saturated cloths wrapt round the per
son, and over them dry cloths, which prevent evaporation,
and so excite great perspiration, which, in the belief of many
r emn tol month
t h
curedo
effects great good. The deceased died, however, in conse-
quence of this kind of treatment. Richard Dresser, he would
show them, was an accountant in Eastcheap. He was, about
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establishment!4 ate
a deep-seated pain in the region of the kidney. Mr. Dresser,
being acquainted with Dr. Ellis, proposed putting himself
under his treatment, and did so on the 29th May last, on
Tuesday after, June 2, the patient Park,vs/oa:iibreceived as a patient at Dr. Ellis's
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Richmond, and
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13nuteehotas it was, evinced
which evening
to consider whether the treatment,
other,
either, on the one hand, a felonious'
such gross ignorance as would put the patleenrt:'sealitfhe
gel. Mr. Bodkin having referred to the Act of Parliament,
under under which the case, happening in Surrey, but investigated
by a London Coroner, came here for trial.
Mr. COCKBURN gave the Court notice that it was his in •
tention to take the opinion of the Court on that point,
The COVRT was of opinion that this might be better done
at another stage of the trial.
particulars whichappear address to the jury,
in evidence, de-
tailing the
diagnosis of Dresser's case, written after the death, by Dr.
Mr. BODKIN proceeded with his
ignorance as the diag-
Bodkin) hoped, however, to
Ellis, who attributed the death to diseased liver, ending in
suppuration. He (Mr. . be able
disease in the liver, and
of
that the death arose in co. sequence
.congestion. The jury
prisoner guilty of man-
to show the jury.
then would inquire w
the deceased, coupled with
nosis evinced of the disease of
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slaughter.
n said he was a lighterman
Thomas Hubert, being swor ,
treatment applied, would infer the
Richard Dresser.
He coal-merchant, and knew the deceased,.
.e complained
He saw him on Friday, the 29th of May. when n
of rheumatism, from which the witness knew he had suffered
before. Witness knew that Pr, Ellis had been sent fur, and