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WESTMINSTER SCHOLARS' MATCH.
A capital boat race took place yesterday morning,
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silver cups. It was a pair-oared race, in one heat, the
course being from opposite the Red House, Battersea,
down to Westminster Bridge.
Messrs. Lacey and Wright
Messrs. S. Fellowes and Hunt 2
Messrs. A. Williams and E. Williams
Messrs. E. Vincent and Terriff
Messrs. Green and Sommerville 5
Messrs. Armstead and Berens
A capital start was effected under the direction of Mr.
Upperton, who officiated as umpire, and all got away
abreast of each other. The Williams's took immedi-
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Messrs. Lacey and Wright, the other fourbectwoneteinnutinhge
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‘being passed by the
winners, were challenged by lellowes and Hunt, and
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bridge. Vincent and partner, in their turn, threw downthe gauntlet to the Williams's, and they continued lite-
rally oar and oar from off the Penitentiary to the finish,
at Westminster-bridge. Messrs. Lacey and Wright
continued their lead from the Millbank pier, and won
by half a dozen lengths. Mr. Wright is at the head of
the river, and as such is the holder of the Westminster
(School) Challenge Sculls—the floating symbol of aquatic
superiority.

finger now. The prisoner lived with Captain Picker-
ing, who was his grandfather. Hawler was six
weeks under a surgeon. The tendon of the finger
was cut across.

Mr. STONE contended that there was no intention
on the part of the prisoner to do any grievous bodily
harm.

A witness gave the prisoner a good character, but
admitted that he had heard that he had beaten a gir.
cruelly.

Lord CAMPBELL said it was a very distressing case
on account of the youth of the prisoner. The jury,
perhaps, might consider that he had not intended to
do bodily harm.
The jury found him Guilty of a common assault
only.

Lord CAMPBELL said—What am Ito do with him ?
I don't like to send him to a common gaol; and yet
he must not escape. He must be sentenced to one
month's solitary confinement.
The case excited great interest.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(More Mr. Justice Co-
LERIDGE and a Special Jury.)
FRANCIS V. LEACII AND ANOTHER.
_ _

Mr. Crowder,. Mr. Barstow, and Mr. Leigh were
counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Butt, Mr. Fitzher.
bert, and Mr. M. Smith for the defendant.

This was an action brought to recover damages
against the defendants, who are attorneys in this
county, for negligence.
The defendants had prepand a will for a Miss
Bondfield, who was tenant in tail of an estate, and by
this will she devised her estate and interest to the
defendants, in trust for the plaintiff. She subse-
quently suffered a recovery, barring the entail, and
acquiring the fee. This had the effect of revoking
the will. The testatrix then became lunatic, and a
commission of lunacy was issued, under which she
was declared to be a lunatic. Shortly afterwards she
had a lucid interval, and then republished her will,
and subsequently died. The plaintiff was all this
time abroad, and was a minor. The defendants re-
ceived the rents. The plaintiff came of age in 1835,
and in 1838, upon his marriage, a settlement was
executed containing a power of sale. The property
had been mortgaged. It 1848 the plaintiff became
embarrassed, and the estate was offered for sale under
conditions which did not contain any notice of the
lunacy, nor was that fact mentioned in the abstract of
title, though the fact it was presumed was known in
the neighbourhood. The purchasers afterwards re-
fused to complete the purchase, and the question now
was, whether this suppression of the lunacy was an act
of negligence.
For the plaintiff several attorneys were called, who
gave it as their opinion that it amounted to negli-
gence.

For the defendants it was urged, that as the fact of
the lunacy was well known in the neighbourhood,
it was not requisite to mention it in the conditions
of sale.

The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 2501.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 11.
The commission was opened on Ssturday. The
Court sat to-day at ten for the dispatch of business.
On the civil side there was an entry of fifteen causes,
of which five were marked for special juries. Of
these, one, which was expected to occupy several
days, has been arranged out of court. This was " The
Queen at the relation of Lovegrove v. Pruen," which
was a proceeding by quo warranto to try the validity
of the election of the defendant as coroner for the
Cheltenham district of this county, it last August,
on which occasion it was alleged in the declaration
that 300 freehold votes, of the value of is. each, were
fraudulently manufactured during the progress of the
election, and recorded for the defendant, who, how-
ever, by his pleas, denied the truth, of this allegation.
The private arrangement of this cause will, it is
thought, enable their Lordships to bring the assizes
to a close about Thursday. It is considered quite I
certain that the calendar will be disposed of by that
time. The number of cases in it does not exceed the
average, and is 63. Of these, lis charged with mur-
der, 2 with manslaughter, 6 with rap, 2 with assault
with intent to commit rape, 1 with bigamy, 7 with
robbery, 8 with burglary, 3 with forgery, 1 with
poaching, 1 with arson, 2 with forcible entry, 1 with
uttering counterfeit coin, and the,iest are common
larcenies.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Jusice ERLE and a
Common Jury.)

PAGE V. COSTINS.

Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. GrN for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Cooke for the defendant,
This was an action for adultery with the plaintiff's
wife ; plea, not guilty.
Henry Watkins—l live in Cheltelham. Was for-
merly a fly proprietor ; now in no )usiness, I have
known plaintiff for fifty years ; he vas a brickmaker,
but has left off business. His former wife died some
years ago. His present wife was servant in his family
some years before his first wife's derth, and continued
so after her death. The plaintiff ruffled her about
three years after the death of the first wife. I was
present at the marriage, which tookplace at Dedding-
ton church, in Oxfordshire. I hav3 been in the habit
of visiting them since. Have lived in the same town,
about a mile from them. They I,ved happy, so far
as keeping a very good house, and having everything
in it. They lived, from the time of their marriage,
in a cottage in Clare-street, on the Bath-road, till
December, when they removed to Francis-street.
Cross-examined—l am a gentleman. The plaintiff
is about 73. She is about 22. Never heard before
the marriage that they cohabited. Have seen marks
of violence on her arms.

Did he not knock out his first wife's eye ?
His LORDSHIP—What is the object of this in-
quiry ? May it not be possible that, though un-
kind to the first wife, he may be very kind to the
second ?
Mr. CooKE--That may bo possible; but the object
of this inquiry is to ascertain what is the plaintiff's
notion of domestic happiness.—(A. laugh.)
Witness (in continuation)—Page told me that he
and his wife spent a day happily together a fortnight
ago. He told me she called one day, but not that
she stopped there. He first denied she had been
there at all, but afterwards admitted she had called. I
kept putting it at him, and then he told me.
Re-examined—Never heard of any scandal respect-
ing the plaintiff and his wife before the marriage. The
mark on her arm was three or four years ago. Never
saw any ill-usage on his part; they always seemed, so
far as I saw, very happy and comfortable. If he did
anything, it was not in my presence.
Henry Dinham—l am brother to Mrs. Page. I
have lived as servant to Mr. Page for four years.
Remember being with him last harvest in a wheat
field that is near defendant's brickyard- Had seen
Costins at plaintiff's house frequently before that. Mr.
Page sent me to Mr. Hollis's for powder and flint. I
called at plaintiff's house as I came back. Mr. Page
told me to call and have my dinner, and I called. As
I passed the window I saw Mr. Costins kissing Mrs.
Page in the kitchen, standing up with his arm round
her neck. I went to the bre whouse window, and I
saw them go into the parlour. I went back to the
parlour door and kneeled on the mat and looked
through the keyhole, and I saw my sister and Costins
there. (The other details are unfit for publication.)
They got up in about fis'e minutes, and I went to the
kitchen fire and sat down, and he came out and said
to me, " I have been to the parlour to see the shells."
I said " I suppose you have," and she catched me up
and said, " Yes, we have. I had my dinner and re-
turned to the wheat field, and said nothing to Mr.
Page. I remember, some days afterwards, being sent
home again, and seeing her and him again in the
kitchen on a big easy chair.
MS LORDSHIP here interposed, and suggested that
it was not necessary to go into further details; for if
the witness was to be believed as to one transaction it
would be sufficient.
To this the plaintiff's counsel acceded.
Witness (in continuation)—I first told Mr. Page
about it after she left.
Cross-examined—She left five or six months ago.
I have seen her at Mr. Page's within the last Sunday
or so, in the kitchen. Another girl (Marianne
Barber) fetched her to the house. I did not hear
Mr. Page desire Marianne to fetch her. I did not
see her in the parlour that Sunday. I was not
there that Sunday. She was gone before I Mlle
back the next morning. I saw her in the house
about half-past five o'clock the next morning.
I slept that night with ,Mr. Page, and she did
not. She was there on the Sunday evening. I
meant that I was not at home during the day on that
Sunday. She came the next Sunday. Mr. Page
went for her to Mr. Redcot's house. She was in the
kitchen. There was a tablecloth on the table. She
slept there that night in the arm-chair in the kitchen.
Mr. Page went to her. I have not heard from Mr.
Page lately that she was walking with him in the
Bath-road. I know Mr. Giles, a baker, who lives
in the Bath-road. When she left that Monday
morning Mr. Page went with her to the gate. He
has continued to be very kind to me since my sister
left. I never told Giles that I had not seen Costins
kiss Mrs. Page.
COUNSEL—Did -you tell Mr. Chesshyre, the lawyer,
in the presence of Giles, that you had seen Costins
kiss Mrs. Page ? Witness—No, I did not. I was
asked whether I had seen him kiss her, and I said I
Wald not tell anything about it. When I SAW them

from the keyhole in the parlour they were on the
floor near the fireplace. I do not know when this
happened—whether last year, or the year before, or
what year. Ido not know how many harvests ago
this happened. Two, I think. It was before the
wheat was cut. The second transaction occurred
about two or three days after the first. lam now 14.
Mrs. Page did not seem angry when she left. My
sister threatened to beat my brains out if ever I told
any one about it. This was the next day after I had
seen them. She knew I had seen it. I was in the
kitchen, and she came and said she would beat my
brains out. I had not been talking to her about it.
Have seen her with a black eye. Never saw them
fighting.
Re-examined--They could not see me pass the
kitchen window. It was after the second time that she
threatened to beat my brains out. When Mr. Ches-
shyre, the lawyer, spoke to me I said "No" twice,
meaning I would not tell them anything about it.
Marianne Barber—l am employed as an occasional
servant by Mr. Page. I remember Mrs. Page
coming to his house one Sunday evening about nine
o'clock, about a month ago. She knocked. I opened
the door and asked her in. She saw Mr. Page. He
did not ask her in. He was not in at the time. He
was down in the garden, and came in and said to
her, as she was standing at the door, " What do you
want here ?" She answered that she came on busi-

ness. He replied, " I suppose you are come to tor-
ment me." She then came into the kitchen with me

and sat down. She had been there in the afternoon
before this. The first time she came to the door was
about half-past one. She saw Mr. Page then, and
came into the parlour, and sat down. Mr. Costins
Came in half an hour afterwards, and asked if Mrs.
Page was come there. I answered the door, and
Mrs. Page said, " Please to come in, Mr. Costins."
Mr. Page got up and told him to go out. Mr.
Costins then said, if he did not see her there, he
would see her somewhere else, and went away.
She stopped about an hour the first time, and
went away. She came; as far as I know, of her
own accord. About a month ago she came the
first time—about three weeks the second time.
She stayed all night, one way or other, talk-
ing. When I asked her to come in, she
would not unless she was asked in by the master.
When he came up and asked what she wanted,
she said she came to catch her brother unawares, as
he was put out of the way before. As she was in the
kitchen, the boy came in and she got up and boxed
him. The plaintiff interfered, and told her to get out
if she was going to kick up a row. She asked leave

to sleep in the chair all night, and Mr. Page said he
did not know, but afterwards said she might if she
behaved herself. It as then about twelve o'clock at
night, and she said if he was in dread he might fetch
a policeman. She said she would go about half-past
five. The boy slept that night with Page. There was
another bed, but it was not Blade up, and she slept in
the chair. She was to be at the railway station, two
miles off, at six. _ _ _

Cross:examined—l did not offer her part of my
bed. I did not sleep in the house. I left at one
o'clock. I left her in the chair, and Mr. Page there
with her. She was then dozing. Mr. Page and I were
awake. She was:in the kitchen when I came away.
The boy was gone to bed. The first time she came
sho said she came for her best clothes and shawls, and
he said she should not have them. She said she
came from London to see her lawyer, Mr. Packwood.
She called him a jealous old fool, and said there was
nothing between Costins and her, and said her brother
was a little liar. Costins came in and said "Is Mrs.
Page here ? " I said " Yes." He said, " I want to
see her." She called and asked him in. When he
came in, he said, "I want to know what this is which
you have got to say against me ? " Mr. Page inter-
fered and ordered him out of the house. Mr. Costins
has a wife, and a number of grown-up children. It
was since Christmas she went away. She had a black
eye before she went away. Was present often
when he beat her. Did not see him beat her with
the bell-rope. She used often to be backwards and
forwards for two or three years before she went
away. _ _ _

Re-examined—When she said she was come from
London, she said she was going back the same night.
When she boxed her brother, he said he told nothing
but the truth. Before Mr, Page beat her she had
thrown things at him—tea-things. She once threw
a kettle of boiling water at him. On the occasions
that he hit her she first threw things at him.
Samuel Harris—Lived near Page when he lived at
Clare-gardens. Costins lived then a quarter of a
mile off. I lived opposite the entrance to Page's
house. Last summer I saw Costins go frequently to
Page's. The plaintiff's house had walls six feet high
around it. I used to see Mr. Page leave his home at
a particular time of the day. I used to see Costins
standing out in the Bath-road, and going into Page's
after he had left. That was frequently the case. I
used to wonder what he wanted there. Mrs. Page
used to come out and look about, and go back again.
Cross examined—Could see only the roof and part
of the walls from my shop. I could see the house
from my front door. I could see his door from my
front door. I saw this last June, July, August, Sep-
tember, and up to November. Costins works at a
brick-yard which belongs to Mr. Page.
Sarah Barber—l have worked once a fortnight for
Mr. and Mrs. Page ever since their marriage. They
lived happy and comfortable for the first few years
after their marriage. For the last three years they
have looked cold on each other. When I have been
there I have seen Mr. Costins there. He used to ask
was Mr. Page within, and if he was not, then he would
ask if she was .1. Sometimes he used to come
in—sometimes not. They removed to Francis-street
in December. Was at work there on the 3d January.
Costins came—Page was not at home. Mrs. Page
went to the door. He came in—into the kitchen.
She went with him. They shut the door. I was in
the brewhouse, washing. I could not see into the
kitchen from the brewhouse. They remained to-
gether three-quarters of an hour. I went into the
kitchen. Mr. Costins was standing by the fire-place,
and Mrs. Page was sitting by the window. I asked
" Are there any more towels to wash ?" He said,
" Are you to see what we be at ?" I said, "No, Mr.
Costins," and turned to Mrs. Page, and asked, " are
there any more towels to wash ?" Heard him accused
of stopping out too long, and leaving the house with-
out any one.

Henry Rosser was employed at the theatre at
Cheltenham from December to March. Costins was
a check-taker, and he passed Mrs. Page in once or
twice without paying, saying she was a friend of his.
Saw them in the gallery, but not together. Saw them
together one night after the play was over, walking
up Montpelier-street, side by side.
Cross-examined—That was his way home. I do
not know whether it was her way. Costins' daughters
are grown-up young women, and they and his wife
were frequently passed in.
Mr. COOKE, in addressing the jury, said if this case
involved merely a question of damages, he could not
suppose that the jury would, after the evidence they
had heard, give the plaintiff more than one farthing
out of the sum of 1001. at which he estimated in the
declaration the loss of the society of his wife. Were
he disposed to dwell on the disparity of years of the
plaintiff and his wife, he might quote the answer of
the young lady to the wooing of another old gentleman
of the same age as the plaintiff—
"lf from Page' you take the letter P,'
Why that makes ' age,' and it won't do for me."
But he did not go on any such ground. He was in-
structed to deny most emphatically the truth of this
most disgraceful charge against Mr. Costins and
Mrs. Page, and he trusted that the jury would scout
it with scorn. The Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to comment on the evidence, and to contend
that noneofit, except that given by the boy, was at all
calculated to attach the slightest suspicion to the con-
duct of the defendant or Mrs. Page, and that the evidence
of the boy was unworthy of credit. The plaintiff had so
ill-treated his wife that she could no longer live with him.
She had gone to London to endeavour to live without
him. There was no pretence that Costins sent her,
or encouraged her to go there; and when the de-
fendant found she was determined to live apart from
him then he bethought himself of this action, not with
a view to damages or a divorce, but to annoy a re-
spectable neighbour, disgrace his unhappy wife,
and to prevent her from ever claiming any allowance
from him.

His Lounsnir summed up; and
The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 101.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Baron MARTIN.)
Emanuel Hill, 27, was indicted for having, at
Bledington, on 26th June, maliciously maimed and
wounded a gelding, the property of Captain Jodrell
Leigh, lt.N.
Mr. Cripps prosecuted and Mr. Powell defended
the prisoner.
The prisoner was a horse-breaker, and was em-
ployed by the prosecutor to break in the gelding in
question, which was described as a quiet, good-
tempered two-year old, and valued at 1201. In pass-
ing a mill on the road the horse became restive, and,
after rearing for several times, fell sideways into a
ditch. The prisoner, however, retained his seat, and
got out of the ditch, but the horse remained restive,
and as he could not control it to his pleasure, be, after
several lashes with the whip, struck it twice on the
head with th butt•end, which heid on it 16 beery icon

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handle. After the second blow the horse seemed
stupified, and blood was observed to flow from the
eye, upon which the prisoner dismonnted, and ex-
claimed that he had cut the horse's eye out, and he
would rather have given fifty pounds than it should
have happened. On examination it was found that
the ball of the eye was broken. The witnesses also
said that he requested them to say they had seen the
horse fall into the ditch, and that the accident
happened there from a thorn ' • but on cross-exami-
nation they admitted they had the next morning
told a policeman the prisoner was not at all to blame,
and had not made a different statement, until Captain
Leigh had told them he would give 10/. to know
the truth of the matter. Neither of the witnesses
called had seen the horse until it was got out of the
ditch, and the defence suggested by the cross-exami-
nation was that which the prisoner had stated to his
master, namely, that the accident did happen from a
thorn in the ditch, and that he did not discover it
until he struck the animal on the bead in the manner
mentioned.

At the close of the prosecutor's case,
Mr. Baron MARTIN said that if the case for the
prosecution were unanswered, it appeared to him that
the evidence would not sustain an indictment for ma-
liciously wounding the horse, and that he thought the
injury was rather an accident, occasioned by the pri-
soner's striking the horse with the butt of the whip-
handle when in a passion, than from any design on
his part to do it an injury. His Lordship, therefore,
directed an acquittal.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARY LEBOIVE.
Denis Hayes, an Irish labourer, was re-examined
on the charge of having brutally attacked, and
seriously injured, two police-constables, and who, in
consequence of the violence exercised towards them,
were for many days pronounced to be incapable of
doing duty.
It appeared from the evidence, which was gone
into at some length, that on Monday afternoon, the
4th inst., there was a great riot in Conduit-street
East, Paddington, and that on Harewood, 160, and
Trevethan, 444 D, going to the spot, they saw the
prisoner and another man engaged in a most desperate
fight, surrounded by many of their fellow-workmen.
They (the officers) interfered in order to put an end
to the disturbance, when, after being knocked down
in the road, they were kicked down an area fifteen or
sixteen feet deep, and before they could get up pri-
soner jumped into the said area, and kicked and beat
both of them with all his might. They were injured
upon the body and other parts of their persons to a
considerable extent, but they at length succeeded in
securing the prisoner, whom they ultimately con-
veyed to the station-house.

The prisoner's answer to the charge was that he
had a row with a brother workman, and that seeing
some constables coming he leaped into the area,
thinking that he should thereby avoid getting into
trouble ; they, however, jumped down after him and
took him in charge. He denied most positively the
serious outrage imputed to him.
The MAGISTRATE sent him to hard labour in the
House of Correction for two months, being one
month each for the two assaults proved against him.
He was then locked up.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Daniel Nahan, a middle-aged man, described as a
hawker, was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
upon the twofold charge of indecently assaulting a
respectable married woman named Jane Hawkins,
and also with dangerously cutting and wounding
her husband, who interfered for her protection.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor
and his wife had spent the evening at the house of
some friends, and 'were returning home at eleven
o'clock on the preceding night, when, upon reaching
Cambridge-road, Mile-end, the female complainant,
who was a few steps in advance of her husband, sud-
den ly encountered the prisoner, who, without utter-
ing a word, sprang upon her, assailed her with the
grossest indecency, and grasped her with such violence
as to completely swing her round. Her screams at-
tracted the notice of the prosecutor, who saw his wife
struggling in the arms of the prisoner, from whom she
at last succeeded in " wrenching" herself, as the woman
described it, and her husband, on finding that she had
not been personally injured, contented himself with
giving the prisoner a smart slap on the face and or-
dering him to go about his business. The prisoner
still did not say anything, but after moving a pace or
two thrust his hand into his pocket, and, drawing out
some sharp-pointed instrument, rushed upon the pro-
secutor and dealt him three stabs in rapid succession
with all his force. The first stab was aimed at the
man's face, but the prosecutor caught sight of the
action, and, drawing his head on one side, received it
upon the upper part of the cheek, close to the temple,
the instrument penetrating as deep as the bone would
allow it, and the prisoner, on finding that that blow had
not taken the intended effect, immediately dealt him a
second and third beneath the left ear. The blood
poured from the wounds in great profusion, but he
grappled the prisoner with great determination, and
after a violent struggle between them succeeded in
depriving him of the weapon, which turned out to be
a large bradawl, with a sharp-pointed blade four
inches in length, and a constable coming up at the
moment, the prisoner was secured and taken to the
station.

The above statement was fully established by the
evidence of several witnesses, who described both
attacks as gross and malicious in the extreme, and the
prosecutor exhibited the wounds to the bench, which
were of such a description as to render it somewhat
surprising that they had not been attended with far
more serious results.

When called upon for his defence, the prisoner, in
a whining tone, accounted fur his possession of the
instrument by saying that he used it to perforate
medals he sold in his trade, and stoutly denied every
allegation that had been made against him ; but
Mr. D'EYNCOURT considered the charge conclu-
sively established, and ordered him to be committed
for the formal completion of the depositions.
A powerful fellow, named Richard Ransome, was
then charged with feloniously cutting and w
wounding
a young woman named Johanna Driscoll, with intent
to do her grievous bodily harm.
In this case it appeared that on the preceding night
the prisoner entered into conversation with an unfor-
tunate outcast in the street, named Margaret Neale,
and proposed to accompany her to her lodgings and
make heir a handsome present out of two sovereigns
he said he had in his possession. After remaining
some time in her company, he attempted to leave
without performing his promise, and on her en-
treating him to do so, he struck her a violent
blow in the face, and commenced such a brutal
attack upon her that the woman screamed loudly
for assistance, upon which the prosecutrix hastened
upstairs, and upon entering the apartment, found
Neale engaged in a struggle with the prisoner, who
was grasping her so firmly by the throat that she
appeared upon the point of strangulation. On seeing
the prosecutrix enter the prisoner relinquished his
hold, and turning fiercely round upon her dealt her a
heavy blow upon the temple, which partially stunned
her. Before she had time to recover herself the pri-
soner pulled a large clasp-knife out of his pocket,
and, dashing the candle out of her hand, made a stab
at her face with the weapon, and in warding off the
blow with her arm, the blade descended with such
force upon her hand as to inflict a frightful gash se-
veral inches in length, severing some of the tendons
and extending down to the wrist. The prisoner then
rushed out of the house, but was pursued by a con-
stable who had been attracted by the screams of the
women, and transferred to the station, while the in-
jured woman was conveyed to the hospital, where her
wounds were dressed by the house-surgeon.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner in
general terms asserted his innocence, and denied
I having a knife in his possession.
Mr. D'ETNCOURT, however, considered the case had
been completely mado out, and the prisoner was or-
dered to be committed for the depositions.
SOUTHWARK.

Henry Scully was brought before Mr. A'Beckett,
charged with being concerned with another, not in
custody, in stealing a gold guard chain, a silver one,
a silver watch, a gold ring, a brooch, and 31. s°:
in
silver, the property of Thomas Knight, an omnibus
driver, under the following singular circumstances .7
Emily Knight, the wife of the prosecutor, stated
that she resided in St. George's-place, Martin-street,
a very low neighbourhood near the Borough-road,
and she knew the prisoner by his associating with
some loose women in Martin-street. On Saturday
night, a little, after nine o'clock, she sawhherproperty
safely locked up in a box in her room. Half an hour
afterwards she ran out without her bonnet to pur-
chase some things at a grocer's, and on the
was stopped by the prisoner,. who begged hard
for her
way she
to accompany him to a pubhclouse. This she stoutly
refused, and he left her and proceeded towards her
house, while she went and completed her purchases.
On her return she found that her room had been en-
tered, and that her box had been forced open and
robbed of the contents mentioned in the charge.
She immediately suspected the prisoner, and having
informed a constable of the circumstance, he was
taken into custody about four hours afterwards. She
had every reason to believe that while he was detain-
ing her one of his companions committed the robbery,
and
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