The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

Walsall; Mr. Roger Dawson, a solicitor, of North-
ampton ; Thomas Chapman, an innkeeper; George
Billingham, a furniture broker, of Nort:.ampton ;
and Freierick Walter Ventris, clerk to Messrs.
Quilter, Ball, and co., the accountants, were fur
ther examined relative to the charge of conspiring
together to defraud the creditors of the bankrupts,
and, with the exception of Mr. Dawson, with hav-
ing committed wilful and corrupt perjury in the
Court of Bankruptcy.
After a long examination of witnesses, the de-
fendants were remanded until Friday, the same bail
being accepted for ali the accused who have
hitherto been allowed to put in bail. Ventris and
Poole remained in custody.

BOW-STREET.—William Ballan, aged 15, late
•
errandboy to Mr. Day, of the .Strand, trunkmaker,
was charged with embezzling a sum of £lO, being
the change of a cheque on the Union Bank, with
which his master had sent him to the Temple-bar
branch of that establishment, where he has an
account.

On the 16th inst. the prosecutor handed the
cheque to the prisoner, with instructions to take it
to the bank and get £lO worth of silver. He did
so, but instead of returning to his master, he ab-
sconded, and no more was heard of him till Sunday
last, when Roger Dillon, a policeman of the M
division, 162, being on duty in Duke- street,,London-
bridge, was called to a coffeeshop in that street to
take him in custody for stealing ss. from another
boy. _ _

He offered no defence, and was committed for

trial.

SOUTHWARK.— BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN
AGED WIFE BY HER HUSBAND AND HIS PARA-
MOUR.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—William Daley,
a smart-looking old man, a tailor, and Catherine
Wilcox, a widow about 20 years his junior, were
charged with committing assaults upon Harriet
Daley, a very aged female, under the following cir-
cumstances :

The complainant, who exhibited a severe bruise
on the left eye, and another on the chin, said she
had been married to the male prisoner 30 years, but
for some years past he had ill-used her, and kept her
almost in a state of starvation, while he and the
female prisoner enjoyed themselves. They all lived
in one room, and she was not allowed to touch any-
thing. On Saturday night while at supper the
female prisoner struck her, and then her husband
actually held her down while she beat her over
the head, and caused the bruises on her eye. On
Sunday, while they were out, and had locked every-
thing in the shape of food up, she searched. about
the room and found a few stale potatoes and a small
piece of fat, which she cut up and put in a frying-
pan. While she was cooking them her husband
came home, and, after making use of disgusting
language, he took the fryingpan from the fire and
threw the food away. He then knocked her down,
causing the bruise on her chin. She got out of the
house as soon as she could, and proceeded to the
police-station, when an officer returned with her
and took the prisoners into custody.
Mr. Burcham —I recollect you. You came to
this court a few weeks ago with your husband, and
then it was shown that he lived with this young
woman in the same room with you, and you were
forced into the coalhole to sleep.
Witness—Yes, sir, that is true. We all sleep and
live in one room, and the female prisoner sits on the
board with him while I am iilused and starved.

Mr. Bureham—How many beds have you in the
room ?

Witness—Three, sir. Their beds are on one side
of the room and mine is up in a corner. I dare not
say anything; if I do they beat me.
Mr. Burcham—l suppose, then, you are jealous
of the female prisoner ?
Witness—Oh, no, sir ; not I. I want to get
away from them, bat I cannot without his allowing
me something to maintain me.
Mr. Burcham—How long have you lived in this
frightful manner?
Witness—Oh, a long time, sir.
Mr. Burcham—Then I think you have acted
wrong in doing so. The conduct of your husband
and his paramour is disgraceful.
The female prisoner here denied that anything
wrong was carried on. She was a poor widow, and
worked for Mr. Daley, and he allowed her to sleep
in the same room, but she did not sleep with him.
Mr. Burcham—You are a disgusting woman, but
that has nothing to do with the charge before me.
What have you to say for knocking this poor old
woman about ?

Female prisoner—She called me names, and then
I only pushed her, and then she fell down and hurt
herself.

Male prisoner—That is true; I never touched
her.

Mr. Burcham—She says you held her down
while your paramour hit her, and on Sunday you
attacked her again because the poor creature was
preparing a little food. You are a brutal and dis-
gusting old man.
- - - - - - - - -

- The complainant here informed his worship that
two years ago they knocked her about so that her
left arm was broken.

Inspector Reed stated that he understood that
the complainant was entitled to considerable pro-
perty in Chancery, and that the prisoners ill-treated
her and neglected her, in such a manner as to make
it appear that she was insane, so that the man
could put in a claim on the property.
The male prisoner &dared that he wanted to
have nothing to do with his wife's property. She
was a dirty, drunken beast, and he wished she was
away from him.
Mr. Burcham told the prisoners that he had no
doubt as to their brutal violence towards the old
woman, who appeared to have suffered much, both
in mind and body. He should, therefore, commit
them both under the Aggravated Assaults Act,
and sentenced the man to two months' and the
female to one month's hard labour.

THE SERVICES AND THE PRE ''S.

A non-commissioned officer of Engineers at Chat-
ham invented, or professed to have invented, a new
form of gabion, known as the iron-bound gabion,
and this invention, both as to its intrinsic merits
and its proper paternity, became a subject of great
interest and hot discussion among the non-commis-
sioned officers and men in the Engineer quarters.
Corporal James O'Hanlon, who is reported to us
as being a man of superior intelligence and great
zeal for his profession, took a warm interest in the
controversy, and when at last the discussion reached
its inevitable result—namely, the appearance of
the controversialists in print, the corporal was at
once fixed ,upon by the authorities as the
man who had committed the dreadful mili-
tary offence of giving the public the benefit
of his practical experience in the making
of gabions. An inquiry was ordered by the offi-
cer in command, and, without, as we are informed,
a tittle of evidence to prove that Corporal O'Han-
lon had committed the offence alleged against him,
that non-commissioned officer was found guilty,
deprived of his stripes as a corporal, and forthwith
reduced to the ranks. We have been furnished
with some details respecting the manner in which
the court of inquiry was conducted, the sort of
evidence on which reliance was placed, and the
efforts which were used to induce Corporal
O'Hanlon to criminate himself, which, in the
absence of more exact documentary evidence, we
hesitate to publish. All we shall at present do
shall be most earnestly to entreat the Commander-
in-Chief and the Minister for War to call for full
particulars, in older that they may judge for
themselves as to whether this inquiry has been
conducted according to the rules of the service,
the law of the land, and the principles of common
justice and English fair play. We shudder
when we read of the iniquities of the Spanish
inquisition, we exclaim against the French mode
of criminal procedure ; but let us take heed that in
this enlightened 19th century, and in this free and
constitutional England, we cto not ourselves tole-
rate proceedings which may rival the cruelty of the
one, or outdo the unfairness and injustice of the
other. One would have thought that it would have
been the delight of any sensible commanding officer
andof Engineersfasoines, to
andsee
shisna
scaling-ladders,
anddiscussing gabions
-appears
that
other appurtenances of their important branch
of the service in Chatham it but
that an entirely different view is taken of
such proceedings, and that if a non-commissioned
officer is anxious to be professionally ruined he has
only to be a little more intelligent and scientific
pubFc.'some information on matters
than his military brethen, and to be anxious to
give the civilian
in which they take a very natural interest, and for
which their pockets are made to suffer so severely
in each year's estimates.—United kk ervice Gazette.

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