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London, England, 1860-03-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGEN CE.—( This Duy)

SHERIFF'S COURT.
SINGULAR ACTION AGAINST A STOCKBROYER.-FUNNELL

V. SMITH.

Plaintiff is a market gardener of Brighton, and defendant
is an old member of the Stock-Exchange. The action was
brought to recover £lO, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Rodney called the plaintiff, who said that in. February
last he had £3OO to invest in the funds. Through a friend
he called uponidefendant and defendant counted the money,
giving a receipt produced for £3OO. There were 4 £lO notes
and 32 £5 notes, with £lOO in gold. In return for this
money plaintiff received an investment note for £290 only.
Plaintiff was sure he gave defendant £3OO.
Cross-examined by Mr. Jay—Do not know the number
of the notes. Counted the money last on the 6th February,
and called upon defendant on the Bth. Received a note
from defendant informing witness that there was only
£290. Defendant counted the money, not hastily but deli-
berately. "It was between twelve and one that I called
upon defendant, and I told him that if he invested before
one o'clock he would save 2s. 6d. in every hundred pounds."
His Honour thought the action could not lie as goods
sold and delivered.

Mr. Jay called defendant, who said that he certainly
counted the notes at £3OO, but the clerk made £290.
Charles Ford said he was clerk to defendant. Saw plain-
tiff give defendant a bag, and defendant handed witness
some notes. Witness counted the notes, and entered the
numbers on a piece of paper (produced) as £l9O. No one
could have taken away a note.

His Honour —Funnell must have made a mistake. Both
the parties ars highly respectable, and I am certain Mr.
Smith would not have come here unless he was sure.
Nonsuit with costs.

COMMISSION ON SALE OF I PUBLIC-HOUSE.-WHITE V.

JONES

This was an action to recover L 3 175., balance upon a
charge of £ll 19s. 6d. for commission upon the sale of a
public-house.

Mr. Buchanan, for the plaintiff, said this was a hard case
upon his client. He was to have had £l5 for selling the
house, and in the hope of getting his money he reduced the
claim to £ll 19s. 6d.

Plaintiff was called, and proved various promises to pay,
and his Honour ordered payment in 10 days.

LOSS OP BOOKS BY FIRE-GIVINS V. SAVAGE.

This was an action upon a tailor's bill, and plaintiff said
he was hardly in a position to prove delivery, as some of
his books had been destroyed by fire.

Mr. Buchanan, for defendant, said his client disputed the
delivery of the goods, and he should require proof.
Plaintiff was then cross-examined by Mr. Buchanan
upon the various items, and swore to the delivery of the
goods. Defendant was called, and as positively swore the
other way.
Mr. Buchanan then contended that the onus of proof
was upon the plaintiff, who was non-suited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

CAUSING THE DEATH OF AN AGED FEMALE BY CARE-
LESS DRIVING.--William Edward Cross, of 6, Rochester-
place, Rochester-row, cabdriver, badge 4,740, was charged
before Mr. Bingham with causing the death of Mrs. Jane
Burn, a female 80 years of age, (the mother of Mr. James,
licensed victualler, of King-street, Soho) by careless driv-
ing and running over her with cab 2,291.
Mary Ann Bailey, a young female, living at 23, Princes-
street, Leicester-square, said that on Friday last she was
looking out of window about four o'clock in the afternoon
when she saw the defendant driving a cab up the street at
a very quick rate—a gallop. An old lady was crossing the
road and the horse touched her umbrella and she fell, and
the wheel went over her arm.

Thomas Butley, of Peter-street, Wardour-street, said he
heard the defendant call out to the old lady, but too late.
He went after him, he still driving at the rate of six or
seven miles an hour. A gentleman stopped the defendant,
who offered to take the old lady to the hospital in his cab,
but she preferred going to her home. •
Sergeant Fenton, 4 C, said the female was taken to the
Middlesex Hospital, where she died on Monday last, and
there would be an inquest held to-morrow (Friday).
Defendant said he had nothing to say.
Mr. Bingham said he should remand him till that day
week to see the result of the inquest.
CARRIAGE ROBBEItY.-IVilliam Cronin, a lad of about
15, was charged before Mr. Bingham with being concerned
with two others not in custody in stealing a leather bag,
containing a silver card case, &c., of the value of £5, the
property of Mr. Charles B. Findlay, of 15, Conduit-street,
Hyde-park.
Sergeant Charles Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous
afternoon, at four o'clock, he saw the prisoner, with two
others, in Hanover-square, and after watching them for
some time he saw an elder boy take the bag from a brougham
standing at a door in Hanover-street. On accosting the
prisoner in Poland-street, and asking what he had got un-
der his coat, he said—" Don't show me up, Mr. Cole ; if I
had seen you I should not have taken it. Don's ' buff '
against me (give him a character)." The bag, which ha
took from under his coat, is that produced. He knew the
prisoner well, and he had been convicted at that court

before.
Mrs. G. C. Findlay identified the bag and its contents as
her property. It was safe in the carriage just before she
missed it.
Prisoner, who said he did not wish to say anything, was
remanded.

THAMES.
COUNTERPEITING FOREIGN MONEY.—Edouard Wil-
helm Bird, aged 52, cigar maker, Clara Lohmann, 35, and
Mary Ann Lohmann, her daughter, 14, were brought up
on remand, before Mr. Selfe, charged with having in their
possession .537 pieces of counterfeit coin, made to represent
Prussian silver money.

The prisoners were taken into custody ox Friday last, at
a house in Morgan-street, Commercial-road East, by Mr.
James Brennan, an ex-inspector of police, who is employed
by the authorities of the Royal Mint, and 537 pieces of
counterfeit money, made to represent third-sixths and
twelfths of thalers, Prussian silver money, were found
upon the male prisoner, and in the room where he was
arrested with the other prisoners. He said that he had
committed a great crime, and that the females were inno-
cent. He also said that he had manufactured the coin at
a house in Tait-street, Spitalfields, whether Mr. Brennan
proceeded, and in a room, formerly occupied by the male pri-
soner, discovered indications that the process of manufac-
turing base coin had been carried on there. Mr. Brennan
also discovered a knife in the room, with white metal used
in the manufacture of base coin adhering to it.
Since the first examination of the prisoners, Mr. Bren-
nan, a moat intelligent and persevering man, has been pur-
suing his inquiries, and has discovered that large quanti-
ties of counterfeit silver money has been sent over to
Prussia, and is in circulation there. The male prisoner
intended to leave England for Prussia on Saturday,
for the purpose of carrying on his nefarious traffic
there. His certificates, enabling him to obtain a pas-
port, were signed by Mr. Clive, M.P., the Under-
Secretary of States for the Home Department, and
by Mr. Jardine, one of the magistrates of the Bow-street
police court, on the recommendation of M. Mocheur, a
foreigner, and professor of languages, who had occasionally
acted as interpreter in this court. The counterfeit money
produced by Mr. Brennan is executed in a very superior
manner, and with a harder and better metal than is gene-
rally made use of by London centers of base money. Mr.
Brennan described the weight of each counterfeit money
to be "within a shade " of the genuine silver money of
Prussia. Three original
pieces of good Prussian coin, from
which the dies had been cast for the spurious coin, were
found on the male prisoner.
Mr. Bittany, from the office of the Solicitor to the Trea-
sury, said that before he completed the case against the
prisoners he wished that further and more important in-
quiries should be made concerning them. The case was in
the hands of Mr. Brennan, and was one of no ordinary
magnitude. The officers expected to make other discoveries
and to trace more of the gang engaged in the manufacture
of foreign base coin. He respectfully solicited another
remand.

Mr. Selfe felt no hesitation in complying with the request
made to him on the part of the Crown, and again remanded
the prisoners until next Tuesday.