The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BEN CH.-(THIS DAY.

CONCANNON V. GOODE.
This was an action for an assault; to which the de-
fendant had pleaded the general issue.
Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones, with whom was Mr.
Woollet, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Humfrey
and Mr. Wills conducted the defence.
Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES opened the case to
the jury, acd stated that it was one of a very aggravated
character. The plaintiff was a young lady moving in a
respectable sphere of life, and the defendant was the son
of an attorney. Under a promise of marriage the de-
fendant decoyed her from her mother's home; but it
afterwards turned out that ho was a married man, and
the assault in question took place while he was attempt-
ing to effect a compromise with the plaintiff to let him
off the promise be had made.
Miss Francis Ann Concannon, the proseeutrix, was
examined by Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES—She
said, I am 25 years of age, and at ono period I carried
on the business of en embroidress. In the spring of
1847 I was residing with my mother in Stamford-street,
and in April I went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden,
with a friend. In returning home I met the defendant
in Wellington-street, Strand, and he saw me home. He
said ho knew me, but I told him ho was mistaken, but
nevertheless I consented to make an appointment with
him for the following evening. I, however, did not keep
it. He afterwards met ma accidently, and said be had
been looking for me at least ten days. I told him I
dared not meet him, as a gentleman was paying hie ad-
dresses to me, and he asked me if I was going to be
married to him. I said yes, and he asked me if I would
allow him to plead for himself, adding that he was a man
of property, and at his father's death he would make
me his wife. I said I could not give him an
answer, and he made another appointment. I after-
wards met him repeatedly, and drove about with him
in cabs, until at length he said unless I left my own
home he was fearful I should deceive him, and marry
some one else, and I had therefore better take lodging
out at Stepney. I did as ho requested, and lodged at
Stepney from October till the December in the following

year. He visited me there almost every day, and paid
for my board and lodging; but no intimacy of an im-
proper nature took place between us, as I would not al-
low it. In December, 1848, I met him by appointment
in Stangate-street, Lambeth, when he said you must be
brief in your conversation, as he must be off ; but I said
I could not, as I had a good: deal to say to him. A gen-
tleman named Goldsmith then came up, and Mr. Goode
said he would only speak in his presence. We then
walked down Stangato arm in arm, and Mr.
Goldsmith offered me ten pounds to release Mr.
Goode from his promise of marriage, and 15s. a week for
four months besides. I declined to say anything in Mr.
Goldsmith's presence, and Goldsmith thereupon said,
" Oh, wrench her arm off," and with that Mr. Goode
wrenched my thumb and two fingers almost off.
He then pushed me and I fell off the pavement, against
the curb-stone. I was very much hurt. Goode lifted
me up, and called a cab, but I fainted after that, and I
can't tell what else passed. When I recovered I found
myself in the shop of a surgeon named Bromley, who
attended to my injuries. I was afterwards taken home,
and I was seriously ill for four months. I had received
an injury in the knee, and I was not able to leave my bed
for a long time. I used a crutch for nearly six months,
and I have since been under the care of three surgeons.
I have not been able to carry on business since. The

injury perfectly incapacitated -me for business of any sort
Cross-examined by Mr. HUMPBET—I was not a.
dresser at the Italian Opera at the time of this occur-
rence. I never was a dresser at the Italian Opera be-
fore this, but I had been at her Majesty's Theatre. I
went to the Italian Opera to dress almost immediately
after I met Mr. Goode, and I received 2s. a night. I
was living at No. 8, Church-terrace, Stamford-street,
behind Waterloo Church, on the night that I met Mr.
Goode. Ile knew that I was engaged in a theatre, but
he did not know in what capacity. My situation was
that of dresser and dress-maker, but it was not until
two months after I first met Mr. Goode that I told him
what I really was. I went to live at Stepney in the
latter end of October. I lived at Mrs. Mead's fourteen
months, and Mr. Goode used to visit me there, and we
passed by the name of Mr. and Mrs. King. He slept
once in the parlour, and I slept up stairs,
but Mrs. Mead never remonstrated with me about
it, nor did any one express astonishment that a man
and his wife should sleep in different rooms.

Mrs. Graham corroborated the plaintiff's statement.
She had followed her at the request of a mutual friend,
who was apprehensive that the plaintiff, in her distracted
state of mind, brought on by the previous conduct of the
defendant, would get into some trouble, , _ _ _

Mr. Bromley, the surgeon, spoke to the injury which
the plaintiff received from the fall.
Cross-examined—The defendant and Mr. Goldsmith
seemed to treat her with remarkable kindness.

LAM'. HUMFREY addressed the jury for the defence,
and denounced the case as a barefaced attempt to extort
money. Tho plaintiff, although only a dresser at a
theatre, was an excellent actress, and, with the view of
inducing a belief that she was deeply in love with him,
she more than once alarmed the defendant by making
sham attempts upon her life in the most artistic style.
Mr. Goode, the defendant, a gentleman of enormous
proportions, presenting a singular contrast to the slight
figure of the plaintiff,Astated that when he met the
plaintiff, in 1847, she told him she was a 'ballet dancer.
He never promised to marry her, nor did he ever in any
way give her to understand that he meant to marry her.
He was in the habit of visiting her at Stepney, and on
more than ono occasion she had threatened to destroy
herself. Once she wished him to think that she was
about to throw herself out of the window, and on ano-
ther occasion she had locked herself in her room, when
be heard a heavy fall. Ho broke open the door,
and found her lying upon the Itoor seemingly
covered in blood. Ho was afterwards told, however,
that the blood was rouge and water, and that the attempt
at suicide was all a sham. He was not married at this
time—he bad been married, but his wife was dead.
When he met her in Stangate-street he offered her 101.
and 15s. a-week until the Opera opened, but she fainted
away, and he and Mr. Goldsmith carried her into the
doctor's shop. It was not true that Mr. Goldsmith sug-
gested that he should wrench her arm or injure her in
any way, and when they got into Mr.Broroley's shop she
made no complaint whatever of being hurt or ill-treated,
but She had not recovered before he left.
Cross examined—He was a married man when he
first met the plaintiff, and continued so for a year
afterwards. He never intended to marry her, but he
proposed to her that she should leave her home. Wit-
ness was studying at the Middle Temple for the bar,
and was 29 years of age. His father, to whom he had
served five years under articles, was an attorney in
llowland-street, and his uncle and brother were also
attorneys. He was, therefore, pretty well versed in
law. When the plaintiff left her home he had an idea
that she would live with him, but that idea never was
realised. She wanted to live with him as his mistress,
but he afterwards refused, because he discovered she
wanted to entrap him into a promise of marriage.
He went repeatedly to the opera to sea if she went on
the stage, but he never could discover her, and when he
taxed her with the falsehood rho said the manner iu
which she dressed her hair prevented her being re-
cognised.
Mr. Sergeant JONES—Why did you not leave her at
first? Witness—Because I found I had been entrapped
and could not get rid of her.
Mr. Sergeant JONES--It must have been a tolerably
large trap that caught you.—(Laughter.)
Witness continued—He gave her a wedding-ring to
deceive the landlady, and proposed the name of King,
because it was the first that came uppermost in his mind.
He never, upon his oath, made any promise of marriage
of any sort.
Mr. Goldsmith, who was formerly an officer in the
Lancers, confirmed the evidence of the defendant so far
as it related to the interview in Stangate-street. No vio-
lence whatever was used, nor was any suggested.
Mr. Sergeant JONES replied, and the Learned JUDGE
having summed up,
The jury retired from the box, and after an absence of
about half an' hour they returned into court with a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
The case of " Miller v. Alderman Salomons, M.P.,"
was fixed for this morning, but in consequence of the
trial of " Marks v. Hamilton" not having concluded yes-
terday, it did not coma on as appointed. The latter
action, which is brought to recover a disputed claim on
the Sun Fire-office, in consequence of loss sustained by
a fire, will probably occupy the whole of to-day, and
most likely the case of Alderman Salomons will be first
on the list for Monday.

- - -
THE "GOLDEN" AGE 13 BEFORE US.—According
to current appearances, future little boys may come to see
gold almost as commonly as did the traditionary imp of the
school books, who expected to find the streets of London
paved with the precious metal. " Gold" is becoming the
commonest word in the language; every tenth man you
pass in the street, your neighbours in the omnibus, your
vis-a-vis at dinner, the fluneurs in the fashionable streets of
the West- end, are talking of gold mines, gold diggings,
lumps of gold. A short time ago we were menaced with an
" inundation" of foreign corn, by which all the ancient land-
marks of the constitution were to be swept away, and the
well-fed Englishman reduced to a miserable skeleton. Now
we are threatened with a flood of gold from East and West;
but nobody objects to be overwhelmed by the theoretical
pauperism which it suggests to profound minds. The hopes
which sent Raleigh on his last voyage—the glitter afar off
of El Dorado—now animate millions; and in the physical,
if not in the social world, the belief is pretty general that
the " Sid= AigQ Doi9re P."—keacler.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GOODWOOD 1853 AND 1854.
A new stake to be called " The Great North ank
SAith of England Biennial Stakes," of 10 Sovs. each,
h ft, is proposed for 1853 and 1854, to be run the first
year on the second day, at Goodwood, for horses then
two years old; and at York, on the first day the fol-
lowing year. 2001. will be added each year.
THE FORFEIT LIST.—The list of horses for which
forfeits are due occupies no less than eight columns of
tho Sheet Calendar, published en Saturday. These for-
feits must be paid before the horses are eligible to be
entered for any race.
NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING
MEETING.—FRIDAY.
The Puppy Stakes.
Third Ties—Bedlam Bess bt Highland Lass, Ten-
dresse bt Auerun.

The All-Aged Stakes.
Second Ties—Exhibitor bt Moyetsent, Rushlight bt
Florette, Jester bt Heather Jock, Dunksld ran a bye.
The Exning Stakes.
First Ties—Delight bt World's Fair, Madame bt
Exning Lass, Britannia bt Bird's-eye, Mopsus bt Racer
Jess.

The Rutland Stakes.
First Ties—Esquire bt Beesvving, Dart bt Rarity.
_ _ _ The Newmarket stakes.

Mr. Fyson' Factotum bt Mr. Inskip na Emigrant,
Mr. Inskip's Jeannette bt Mr. Hill's Heprietta.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Lord Henry Bentinek's hds., Mon. Burton ; Tues.
Bardney; Wed. Brant Broughton; Thurs. Haekthorn ;
Fri. Austacre; Sat. Sudbrook-11.
Y.:. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon. Dauntsey Gate; Wed.
Dyrbam; Sat. Shipton Moyne.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon. Stonesby Village; Tues.
Dry Doddington; Wed. Elton Manor; Fri. Little Ponte
—loi.

Surrey Hs., Mon. Blsek Horse, Reigate Hill; Thurs.
Albury Heath; Sat. Tho Rookery-10f.
East Essex hds., Tues. Steeple Barapstead; Thurs.
Messing Street; Sat. Gosfield King's Head-101.
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues. ElmstA Market ; Fri.
Newton Green-10i.

Essex Union hds., Wed. Asheldham ; Sat. Rottendon
Common-10i.
South Essex hds., Tues. Danton Blacksmith's-10i.
Worcestershire hds., Mon. Woodecote Green; Wed.
Crow's-nest; Fri. Radford Gate-101.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln
MARCH.
Liverpool Spring 3 ratterick Bridge 22
Coventry 9 Northampton 24
Doncaster Spring lo Croxton Park 3O
W arwick Spring