The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-15 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CHARGE OF MURDER.-At the Central Criminal Court,
Louis Midson, the landlord of a public-house, near Har-
row, was tried for the murder of his wife. The jury
found him guilty of manslaughter, but recommended him
to mercy on account of the provocation he had received.
Sentence was deferred.
THE ENGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK. —At the Central
Criminal Court, on Wednesday, before the Recorder,
Mr. Samuel Greenway Finney, formerly general manager
of the English Joint-Stock Bank, pleaded guilty
to the indictment char-ging him with having
appropriated to his own use the sum of £666 13s. 4d., the
property of the company. Other counts charged him with
appropriating sums to the amount of £5,000, and with
having published false statements of the company's affairs.
The counsel for the prisoner said that he had pleaded
guilty at his own instance, rather than from the advice of
his counsel. He had always been held in high estimation,
was advanced in years, and had a wife and eight children,
and he trusted the court would exercise mercy. The
counsel for the prosecution said that the acts of the
prisoner had caused suspicion to rest upon innocent
persons. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment.

MANSLAUGHTER BY A BOY.—At the Central Crimina.
Court, on Wednesday, a boy, named Joachim, 12 years of
age, was indicted for the manslaughter of a boy about his
own age. A quarrel arose between them about a lobster
which lay in the shrp, where the deceased was errand
boy, and the prisoner caught up a knife on the counter
and threw it at him, inflicting a mortal wound. Sentence,
seven days' imprisonment.

CHARGE OF FRAUD.-At Bow-street Police-court,
George Beck, Charged with defrauding the National
Sunday League, was brought up for final examination,
and committed for trial. He was accused of obtaining
false signatures to a parliamentary petition, and declared
in his defence that he had done it openly, and the secre-
tary of the Sunday League must have been aware of it.
Mr. Vaughan said there was not a tittle of evidence to
support such an imputation, and committed him for trial.

DISEASES IN FOREIGN SHEEP.—The collectors
of Customs have received an official notification to the
effect that sheep-pox is raging in Stettin and surrounding
districts in Prussia, and that several cargoes of infected
animals have been shipped for the United Kingdom. The
Customs officers are directed to exercise the utmost vigi-
lance in the examination of sheep imported from the dis.
tricts referred to.

A MARRIAGE ARRANGED BY A JUDGE.—At the
Leicestershire Assizes, on Wednesday, a farm servant,
named William Shields, 23 years of age, was charged
with perjury, the case arising out of an affiliation case, the
prisoner denying the authorship of several letters written
by him to the complainant, Mary Burt. The case had
not proceeded far when the prisoner said he was anxious
to marry the prosecutrix, and she observed that she would
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have married him had he behaved properly to her. The
.Chief Justice (to the prisoner) : Are you ready to marry
her? Prisoner : Yes, 'my lord ; I'll marry her the first
opportunity. (Loud laughter, in which the judge heartily
j,ined.) The Chief Justice : But what does Mary say to
that? Prosecutrix :I am quite willing. The Chief Jus-

tice : I think there must be a conviction, and, perhaps,
the best plan will be to respite the sentence till next as-
sizes, and if in the meantime they settle the matter by
marriage that will be the best way to settle it. The con
duct of the prisoner has been most gross and wicked, but,
as he is now sorry, this will be the best way to settle the
case. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the Chief
Justice said : Prisoner, you must be bound over to come
up for judgment at the next assizes, but I hope you will
not be called upon. Prisoner : Oh, I'l4 marry Mary I:Tfoxe

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