The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THZ BUILDON

ING (ASE.

DARLINGTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
This melancholy case was revived to-day in the County
Court, before Mr. Stapylton, by. an action brought to re-
cover 161. 12s. 6d., the charges of Dr. Jackson, for attend.
ance on the deceased Mrs. Wooler.
Mr. Newborn appeared for plaintiff; Mr. Steavenson for
defendant ; and the case was tried by a jury.
The court was crowded by an audience who, notwith-
standing repeated remonstrances, persisted in applauding
everything that appeared to go against the defendant:
- -Plant- deposed-to-haviiig aupplietttlie Medicines charged
for, and to having attended 40 times, at 3s. 61 each jour-
ney. He was then cross-examined for upwards of two hours
as to his mode of treatment, which he said was consistent
with the varying character of the syprutoms, but princi-
pally as to his qualifications. •He-liad, it appeared, styled
himself "Jackson, surg,on," on his door-plate, for 20
years, though he bad irever'pited the coilege ; describing
himself as an •:" M.D.' -on the antliOrity of a diploma,
obtained without residence, from Bavaria. Prior to the
trial at Durham he had read up preparatory to giving evi-
deuce, and his knowledge was, therefore, greater now7than
formerly. He further admitted, as upon the criminal
trial, that he had kept back hissuspicions from Mr. Wooler
and the medical men called- in to consult with him, and
that he did not act upon his suspicions by giving an anti-'
dote, though the iron so given could not have done harm ;
also that there might be errors (perhaps 150) in his copy of
prescriptions: ' Questions were put as to his having ex-
pressed a wish to see Mr. Wooler hanged, and entertained
vindictive feelings, to which he returned a direCt negative.
Mr. Jobson and Mr. Richardson, surgeons from neigh-
bouring towns, w'ere called to prove the reasonableness of
the charges, but this was not disputed. On cross-examine.;
tion they said they thought Dr. Jackson would have acted
more properly if he had confided his suspicions to Dr.
Haslewood when first called in.

Mr. Steavenson, for the defence, contended that plaintiff
did not bring a reasonable a d competent knowledge to the
case ; that if he had it, he did not use it; that he did not
act fairly by defeuih.nt, but cheated him by "liviuga lie,'
and pretending to be what he was not; that his ignorance
and carelessness rendered his attendance inoperative; and
that (as stated in "Chitty on Conti ante), by assuming the
character of a physician, he had made it impossible to re-
cover fees as an apothecary, in which character this action
was brought. The learned gentleman declared Mr. Wooler's
intention to pursue this matter on every opportunity until
the inOividuals who (if at all) administered arsenic to his
wife were brought to condign punishment, and said that
if he had been his adviser the medical gentlemen should
have answered for their conduct long before now.
The Judge left it to the jury to say whether Mr. 'Jackson.
had practised ns a medical man or as ageneral practitioner,
without reference to his door-plates and signatures, and
whether he did practise in the latter capacity in this case ;
also whether the withholding of suspicious was in their
opinion such a violation of duty as to disentitle him to his
charges.

Ttie jury almost immediately gave a verdict for the full
amount.

Defendant declared he would not pay a farthing. It
was his wife's blood-money.
1-I:intiff was drawn home in a carriage, from which the
horsey were loosed, amidst shouts of triumph.
Great excitement prevailed.
[On reference to the Medical Directory we find that Dr.
Jackson is a licentiate-of the London Apothecaries Com-
pany, and therefore legally qualified to practise in Eng-
land.]

SINGLLAR ESCAPE OP A FEMALE CONVICT.

On Wednesday afternoon a female effected her escape
from the custody of the gaoler of the Southwark Police
Court in a most 'Ander manner. The woman in ques-
tion, who is named Mary Aim Leonard, is known to be
connected with a gang of housebreakers and omnibus
thieves in and about the metropolis. She was tried at the
Surrey sessions in AugUst last for picking the pocket in au
onibinus of Mrs. Sully,' the wife of the printer of the
Weekly Times, of a purse. containing 1/. 10s., and former
convictions being proved. against her, she was sentenced to
six years' penal servitude. She was then kept in the cus-
to y of the governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and in the
early part of February was placed in the infirmary to
attend upon a lady named Rider, Who droWned her child
in a pan of water, while under temporary insanity. The
unfortunate lady was allowed • to see her friends, and on
the 19th of February, the prisoner succeeded in disguising
herself in some of their outer garments, and escaped. She
successfully evaded the vigilance of the authorities until
Monday evening last, when she was discovered in a lodging-
house at Liverpool, with aftnian whom she called her-hus•
band. It was ascertained that they had both taken their
passage for New 'York, and would have sailed on Tues-
day morning. The prisoner was brought up to London
by the officer on Tuesday afternoon, and charged be-
fore Mr. Combe, at the Southwark Police Court. After
being committed for trial she was locked up with other
females by Downes, tee gaoler, is one of the cells at the
rear of the police-court. During the afternoon s-veral
of her friends entered, and requested to b allowed to see
her in the gaoler's room. Tho gaoler conseeted, and
brought her out of the cell, and carefully locked the door
lea, dug backwards. While they were conversing he was
suddenly called into court on business, and on his return,
after an absence of a moment or two, he was surprised to
find that his 'prisoner had made her escape. The court was
rather fell at the time, and it is a mystery to every one
connected with the court bow she could have gone through.
A. number ot_bad characters were seen about the court
during the day; consequently, there could be no doubt her
escape was previously planned. Information of this second
e: a tpe has been Sent to every police-station iu the king-
dom.

A BERKSHIRE JACK •SHEEPARD.—In the report pre
.tented t, the couety qearter cessions, on Monday last,
by the visiting justice.. et Reading Gaoi, was recorded
the fact of an a' tempt having been te ice made by a
Government cep vict to effect his escape from that estab-
lishment. Hie ,neme is Th_lnse Hirone, he is a native
of Keen'. Green, Henley 'in- Arden, and was for a time
in the 26di kegiinent of F of. The fir-t that can he
a ceeairied of his criminal course is tl at vn the night of
the let of May, last year; in company, with three
o there, he broke into the dwelling house of Mr.
Timms, Little Barferd, near Banbury, Oxon. Each of
them either had his face blackened, or covered with a
veil, to avoid detection. Kee wine that there was cth
eiderehle property iu the, house, they first proceeded to
Mr. l'unitis's bedroom, and hound Line and his wife to
the bedstead with cords, and then went to the room
occupied by Mr. Timme'e sister and servant, and tied
them also to the bed-tear) in a similar mariner, telling
all of them they would blow their brains out if they
made any noise. Thy then ransacked the house,
carrying away with them a qoantety of plate, a
101. Banbury note, and 71. 4r 8/. in gold. Oo
the following inort.ing they changed the bank-note at
Warwick,' and this led to their apprehension in a few
days. On the 13th of that anode Hiross was lodged
in the Banbury lock-up, but he Contrived to effect
his escape ; he was, however, recaptured, tried with
his comrades at the Oxford summer assizes, and
sentenced to fifteen* year.' tranepertation. About
Angust last he was removed, with otner Government
convicts, to Readine Gaol, and during his irmarcera.
lion he made two
ingenious attempts to HT ,ot his
escape. • The first occurred in September last, when be
pulled the easpipe hooks from the wall of the cell,
and being iiiider instruction in shoemaking, he took
advantage of the stone placed for his use and rubbed
the ends of each hook, so as to form' a screw driver,
with which he unfasten-4 the plate forming the trapdoor
of his cell. He %yes speedily detected by the warder on
watch, and the result, was that he was removed t'-
another n irt of the gaol. In order that be h4l Id
have less toils at. his service, he was next placed to
learn, tailoring, but here his ingenuity enabled him to
make use of the most simple things in ai I of his object.
A pair of scissors was tied up with the materials riven
him to work up et as a tailor, and in the 'absence-of his
instructor he broke off the blades ; to prevent detection
he fastened the handles to a portion of a wooden 'sPoori,
tied them up with his work at the close, and, being thus
exposed no suspicion was excited. He then placed
one of the blades in apiece of wood, which he wrenched
from the back of the cupboard, and bound it round with
what is called a " wax-end," making it as firm as if it
was the best manufactured knife. A steel thimble he hat]
also beaten open, and.converted into a knife, and of a,
magnum boeurn pen be had made asm dl saw. With
these implements he again applied his energies to open. his
cell door, on a Sundey in February last ; but the noise,
though slight, attracted the atnaiition of the warder, and
he was stopped at hiii'vvork ; riot, however, Lefore he
had succeeded in rerunVing a large square piece of wood
from his door to get at the lock. An iron plate at this
point was an eff -ctual barrier to the ecc impii-brnent
of his object. When -visited and found hard at work
to release himself from cenfinernent, the remark was
merle to him, " What, you have bsen at your tricks
again !" He coolly replied, "Yes, I can't help it ; I
tnwit- be doing something." Li consequence of this
second attempt being reported to the Secretary of State
an order was made for ‘Hirens' removal to the convec,
establishment at Portsmouth, whither he was conveyed
a short time since. It appeare that there t-,e soon became
acquainted with the general routine ef the plane, and
succeeded in making his escape on the Bth of the pre
sent mOnth. We hear that by some means he got a
soldier's uniform, in which he dressed himself, and thus
he walked quietly out of the establishment, passed thesentinel, an got clearly off. A reward of 51. is offered
for his recapture, but nothing has yet been heard of
him.—Readipg Chronicle.
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