The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 20.

'Before Air:clif. 13URC11ELL and a Common Jury,
HARRISON V. COUNT REVENTLOW AND ANOTHER.

This was an action for assault, in which judgment
was allowed to go by default, brought by Ann Har-
rison, a widow, against Count Alfred Reventlow, the
late Danish ambassador, and his butler, Thomas
Bottley. The damages were laid at 2001.
Mr, CLaassoN, in stating the case to the jury, said
there had lately been an important change in the law
relating to evidence. It was a most important and
advantageous change, and, hut for that change, he
should not on the present occasion have been enabled
to put the unfortunate plaintiff's case before the jury.
The Learned Counsel expressed his regret that the
action had come before the public. The late Count
Reventlow, who was the representative of the Danish
Court, was most deservedly respected, and he was
sorry to add that since the proceedings the Count
bad been found dead in his bed at Glasgow. He could
not help expressing his sorrow that the family had
permitted the action to come
.before an English court
of justice.
The plaintiff Ann Harrison and a policeman named
Dignam were called. It appeared that the plaintiff,
who is 44, was cook in the service of the Count in
Wilton-terrace. She had game sent to her from
Scotland by the family to be dressed for the servants.
The other defendant, Bottley, who was butler, claimed
the game for himself, and a disagreement arose. The
young Count, a mere youth, gave her notice, and
some time afterwards a new cook was engaged. On
Saturday night, the 4th of October, about half-past
10 o'clock, she (the plaintiff) retired to her bedroom,
and when undressed she heard some one at her door.
Thinking it was the new servant she opened it, on
which the Count and his butler, with another person
whom she had ascertained to be a policeman in plain
clothes, came into her room. The strange man made
her dress in his presence, and told her that he would
turn her out as she was if she did not dress her-
self. She put on her things, and the man dragged
her down stairs, the defendants helping him, and
when he got her to the door he pushed her into
the street, and told her to go to the devil.
She had no lodging to go to, and it was
a very wet night. She was taken by a policeman to
a shelter in a mews, where she remainedwuhnetriel
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o'clock, when the policeman went off duty. She then
went to her friends, and for three days had been con•
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fined to her bed from the cold she caught. She was
attended by a surgeon. Dignam, the policeman, said
he saw the plaintiff in the street between eleven and
twelve o'clock. She told him what had occurred, and
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shelter. The night was very severe, the rain pouring
down in torrents. It was certainly not a night to
turn any woman into the streets.
Mr. CLARKSON said he had no other witnesses.
No person appeared on the part of the defendants.
The UNDER-SHERIFF laid the facts before the jury,
telling them to give such damages as they thought the
plaintiff deserved for the violent and inexcusable con-
duct of the parties towards her.
The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, as-
sessed the damages at 501.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

John Roberts was charged with assaulting M. Louis
Dufort, a pastrycook, of Smithfield-bars.
It appeared that complainant, who has frequently
been the means of bringing pickpockets to justice, was
passing the end of Field-lane adjoining Saffron-hill,
when prisoner and twelve other " vagabonds," as he
described them, attacked him with their fists and
stones. Prisoner struck him a blow just under the
right eye, leaving the mark of his knuckles. Tie gave
prisoner into custody, who threatened to "do for
him," when he came out of prison again, for getting
him a fortnight's imprisonment some time ago.
Moss, a detective, was present at the station, and
heard prisoner threaten to give witness " something
on his:eye that his mother should not wipe off." He had
prisoner in custody in January last, when he tried to
thrust his eye out with a tobacco pipe, and the lest
time he was in Bridewell he promised Moss, when he
came out, he would give him some vitriol in his eyes.
Prisoner alleged that complainant strp,ok him Orst