The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

locked up three hours returned a vordict of guilty.
Sentence, one month's imprisonment.
The learned Judge expressed a hope that prosecutor'i,
wife would give him a severe lecture when he got home.
C.tSC OF MISTASEN IDENTITY.
Rebecca Greenash, an elderly woman, was charge
with obtaining 12 yards of long cloth and 12 yards 0t
flannel from Mr. Dyke, draper, at Brecon, by false pre-
tences.
Tee prosecutor stated that in April the prisoner ob-
tained the goods from his shop, by representing that she
had been sent by Mrs. Brereton, wife of an officer iu the
Royal Brecon Rifles, and that in June, on receipt of a
bill by Captain Thereto!), it Lad been found that she had
not been authorised to fetch anything of the kind,
Some questions put by Mr. Lazenly, governor of the
county gaol, on behalf the prisoner, elicited the fact that
a daughter of the prisoner had been brought before the
magistrates, and before the grand jury at the previous
quarter sessions on the same charge, but had been dis-
missed in consequence of Mr. Dyke stating hi'S'positive
belief that she was not the woman, but that hereernother
was. It, was now shown that the daughter had admitted
the offence to several peNone, and had begged a'inagis•
trate to allow her to pay for the goods, that the prisoner
was confined to her bed by illness at the time the goods
were obtained, and that she had borne an irreproachable
character for 40 years during which she had resided in
the town. It was also shown that her daughter resembled
her in general appearance, and looked older than she
really was, from the effects of habits of intoxication.
The jury acquitted the prisoner without heeitation, and
the judge thanked the governor of the gaol for his ku
mane interference. •
There was one case of bigamy, and two of housebreak.
ing, but they did not present any features of interest.
(Nisi Prim.)
On this side there were four causes entered for trial,
but one was withdrawn. In an action against a surety
of a highway surveyor, whose accounts presented a de.
ficieucy, a verdict was taken by consent for 1001., the
sum claimed being 1671.
MORGAN V. MORGAN.—SEDUCTION.—SPECIAL JURY.
This was an actio❑ brought by a widow named Mor
gan, keeping a small farm in L'andefalley, near Brecon,
to recover compensation for loss of the services of her
daughter. The defendant was also the son of a widow,
keeping a larger firm in the same neighhourheod, and
it appeared that he had been received as the honourable
suitor of the plaintiff's daughter fer more than three years,
and during that time hal been in the habit of visiting her
at her mother's house, and escorting her to and from th
chapel. In the cour•e of last summer, however, it was
discovered by the plaintiff that her daughter was preg
cant, and on calling upon defendant for an explanation
of his conduct and intentions he said that he could net
marry during his mother's lifetime without her consent.,
and proposed that the young woman should be sent a'
his expanse to Aberystwith, and that the fact of her con-
finement should be kept secret. The mother indignantly
refused to accede to this proposition. The child wa-
born and was affiliated, the defendant sending a friend
before the magistrates to admit the paternity, and to
offer a weekly payment.
Mr. Grove, Q.C., who appeared for the plaintiff, con-
fined his address to a plain statement of the facts, re
marking that any high-flown appeals addressed to a spe
cial jury would only recoil upon him-elf.
Mary Ann Morgan, a very modest-looking and rather
pretty girl, stated the circumstances of the courtship, and
deposed to repeated promises of marriage.
M. Giffard, who appeared for defendant, objected t,
any evidence of promises of marriage being received.
His Lordship ruled that they were evidence so far a-
to show the nature of the intimacy between the parties.
and the means used for effecing the .eduction of the
plaintiff's daughter.
Mr. Ginn!, in Lis address to the jury, ridiculed the
i 'ea of an action of the kind being broupht against a man
who stood in the position of a farm servant. He said
that the proper course had been taken in affiliating the
child, but the matter ought to have stopped there. Great
as had been the misfortune of Mary Ann Morgan, he
considered it less than it would have been had she been
brought to miserable poverty by marrying his client,
when he had no means of his own to support a family.
The jury having retired for an hour and a half, re-
turned a verdict for plaintiff—damages 401.
Another special jury case related to an encroachment
on a common ; and after occupying several hours re-
sulted in a special verdict subject to the opinion of the
courts above.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

'Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., AssiNtant•Tudge, and a
Bench of Magistrates, at WoatninAer,
• —.terday to hear three ,appeala by op

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Benjamin Skarpe appealed against a conviction by
Mr. B. J. Armstrong and Mr. J. Montgomery, for an
offence under the Nuisances Removal Act.
Mr. Bodkin appeared in support of the conviction,
and Mr. Hodges for the appellant.
After a short discussion it was arranged that, on an
appointed day, the assistant-judge should visit the spot
near Hanwell, where the alleged offence was committed,
the parties then to abide finally by the directions he
should give, after hearing the counsel on each side.
Thomas Strange appealed against a conviction by Mr.
Selfe, police magistrate, for an as.nult.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Metcalfe appeared
for the appellant ; there was no counsel to support the
conviction.
The complainant, upon whose evidence the appellant
was convicted, was a constable of the City police force,
named Monger, and the case was that one day in June,
the appellant, who is a grocer ih Houndsditch, coin,
witted an assault upon him in a carriage on the railway
between Fenchurch•street and Stratford of an indecent
nature. The magistrate convicted the appellant of a
common assault, and inflicted a penalty of 51., and the
present appeal was against that decision.
After the learned serjeant had addressed the court a
great number of witnesses, including two magistrates
and a barrister, gave the appellant the highest possible
character for morality and general good conduct for
forty years.
The magistrates retired to consider, and on their return
The Assistant Judge said the question they had ti,
determine was, whether in law an assault had been corn-
mitted on the prosecutor. The appellant had been con•
victed of a common assault only, and the opinion of the
bench was that that conviction should be affirmed. Tht
appellant was not convicted of an indecent assault, and,
therefore, the court had no-, to deal with that question,
but, as the court was satisfied that the evidence made
out a common assault, the conviction would be con.
firmed, with 40s. costs.