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ASSAULT ON MR
A LD2RMAN
SALOMONS.

At the Mansion-house yesterday, Lieutenan t
Higginson, whose name a few weeks ago was pro-
minently .before the public in consequence of seve-
ral applications which he made before Mr. Alder-
man Salomons, at Guildhall, for a summons against
the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
whom he charged with deceiving and robbing the
public, appeared to answer the charge of having
assaulted the worthy alderman in the public street.
The case was heard before Sir R. W. Carden, the
bench as well as the whole court being occupied
by most influential and respectable persons, many
of them personal friends of the complainant.
Mr. Roy attended on part of the complainant.
The defendant, who is gifted with an extraor-
dinary flow of language, and who took copious
notes of the proceedings in shorthand, stood at the
clerk's table. He wore on his breast a silver medal,
which had been presented to him for having been
engaged in the capture of the French frigate Clo-
rinde, by the Eurota, on the 25th of Feb., 1811.
Mr. Roy said that on the 15th of Oct. last the
defendant applied at Guildhall, where Mr. Alder-,
man Salomons was the sitting magistrate, for a
summons against the company.
Sir R. W. Carden (interrupting)—I do not think
we have anything to do withthat ; we have nothing
to do except with the case of assault.
Mr. Roy—When you hear all the facts—
Sir R. WV. Carden—l have nothing to do with
any facts relating to any other transaction. The
defendant is here charged with an assault.
Defendant—In connection with the proceedings
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
Sir R. W. Carden—The defendant is here on a
charge of assault, and I do not want other questions
to be opened.
Mr. Roy—A summons was applied for by the
defendant against a company of great respectability
who were standing forward almost as a national
company in the attempt to connect the two coun-
tries by means of the Atlantic cable. Upon that
occasion the worthy alderman asked—
Sir R. W. Carden—That is exactly what I want
to avoid. I do not want to enter into what has
previously taken place. This is a case by itself.
Here is a charge of assault preferred against a gen-
tleman ; I must hear that. With what previously
occurred I have nothing whatever to do.
Defendant—l justify the assault on that account.
Sir It. W. Carden If you open that you open the
whole proceedings.
Defendant—l request that the whole proceedings
may be fully gone into.
Mr. Roy—l only want to address to you a few
preliminary observations, in order that the matter
may be perfectly intelligible. When the applica-
tion was made the worthy alderman requested that
the company should have notice of it. The com-
pany had notice ; they attended the next day, and
showed clearly that the information filed against
them had no grounds whatever, inasmuch as they
were relieved from theoperation of the Joint Stock
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do with that.
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in the way I think best. It is a charge of ayssdauutlty..
Defendant—Yes, sir ; but that is in consequence
of the very thing which this gentleman has been
stating. Will you allow me respectfully to ask a
question ?
Sir R. W. Carden—Let me see what the charge

im.
Mr. Goodman, chief clerk--The charge entered
on the sheet is assaulting the complainant in Bar-
tholomew-lane.
Sir R. W. Carden—That is the charge, and I will
hear nothing except with reference to that charge.
Defendallt—Will you permit me most respect-
fully to ask you a question ?
Sir R. W. Carden—Yes.
Defendant—I beg to ask if you are a shareholder
in the Atlantic Telegraph Company ; because if you
are I object to your jurisdiction.
sir B. W. Carden—l am not. I never have been,
and never intend to be, if that is any satisfaction to
you.
Defendant—That is satisfactory to me.
Mr. Roy—The question is whether what tock

place was the mere impulse -of the moment, or
whether it was a premeditated assault. • -
Defendant—Exactly so. .
Mr. Rov-:,-Upon the matter being put as I have
stated at Guildhall, a sumnions W 3,3 not granted.
From that time to the prcsetrt defendant has been
pursuing a course of communication with Mr. Al-
derman Salomons, who, with his usual courtesy,
has regularly replied to his letters, and who con-
sidered that he had given every explanation which
one gentleina:n- ought- to give another .filling the
position of ,Lieutenant Higginson. To Mr.
Alderman- Salomen's surprise, upon walking out
of the London and 'Westminster Bank yesterday;
the defendant addressed him and asked hint if his
name was Mr. Alderman Salomons. Upon being told
that it was, he said, " You haveaccused me of being.
a madman?' :-“No," said Mr. Alderman Salonions,
"I have not. I consider you are acting under de-
lusions." The defendant retorted, " What do you
mean by acting under delusions ?" Mr. Alderman
Salomons said, "-You -are acting under impressions
which are not correct." Mr. Alderman, Salomons,
who was accompanied- by his brother-in-law, Mr.
Cohen, ha-d not proceeded very far when the de-
fendant placed-himself in front of him; and in a
threatening _attitude, with a stick in, his hand,
stretched out his handto commit some personal vio-
lence' and he then applied the stick. Mr. Cohen
immediately rushed forward, seized the _defendant,
pinned-him to a wall, and a crowd collected, Mr.
Alderman-Salomons all this while -remaining quiet,
satisfied that however much Mr. Higginson might
believe he was sane himself, he was actually then,
as he was throughout all this proceeding, suffering
from delusions, which I will prove. He said that
the- Atlantic Telegraph Company had bought-up a .
book and siippressed it for £l,OOO. I have the com-
pany' hem to say that they never gave the publisher'
£1,060 for the piireliase erhis'book. It is monstrous
that a gentleman cannot walk about the public
streets without molestation of this description, after
he has acted- in his magisterial capacity. The de-
fendant has a notion that the Atlantic Telegraph
is a mere farce and bubble ; that a weight can go
no further down in the sea—
Sir R. W. Carden—l have nothing to do with that.
Mr. Roy—The defendant states that the cable
can only go down 20 or a certain number of fathonis,
whdn the water is so dense that it supports it. He
is going- against the common stream of intelligence,
and therefore you cannot imagine that he can be a
sane person. Ido not treat this as a common as,
sault, but call upon you to protect the public from
the acts of a man who is labouring under this one
delusion, however, sane he may be with respect -to
all other matters.
Sir R. W. Carden—Let us now have the evidence,
and any further observations you may think it ne-
cessary to make can follow afterwards.
De enclant—Do pray let the learned gentleman
go on, because all this is of vital importance to me,
I assure you.
Sir R. W. Carden—l do not wish to enter into
this.
Defendant--This gentleman has imputed to me
insanity, and it is necessary that all these thingl
should be gone into. lam perfectly sure that you,
as the presiding magistrate, will take care of my
interests.
Mr. Alderman Salomons was then sworn, and
said—l am an alderman of the City of London, and
reside at Tonbridge Wells. Yesterday afternoon,
about 4 o'clock, I left the London and Westminster
Bank for the purpose
,of proceeding by train to
Tonbridge Wells. As I crossed from Lothbury to
Bartholomew-lane a person accosted me and said,
" Are you Alderman Salomons?" I said I was. I
looked at the gentleman and said, " Are you Lieut.
Higginson ?" He replied, " Surely you remember
me ?" I did not at the moment, and I said " No."
He then said, " You say I am a madman." I replied
" No, I never did to knowledge, but I have said
you are under delusions." Upon which he said,
" What do you mean by delusions ?" I said, " I
don't know exactly, you must put your own inter-
pretation upon it," or words to that effect. My
brother-in-law, Mr. 'Cohen, was on one side of me,
and the defendant, who was on the other; rushed in
front of me, and tried to take hold of my nose. I
raised my arm. I then saw him raises stick, which
I had not seen before, and he attempted violently to
strike me with it. Mr. Cohen threw himself round
the
_defendant and pinned him against the wall,
and a crowd collected. I desired he should be held
till an officer could take charge of him. Defendant
was rather violent in his language to Mr. Cohen.
A gentleman of thanatne.sofeMill,--wksm I had not
before the pleasure of knowing, said he witnessed
the assault. To the best of my. recollection I never
uttered one word of an offensive character to the
lieutenant, because I pity him and believe him to be
subject to a delusion. An officer arrived and took
charge of the lieutenant, and I accompanied them
to the Bow-lane station and made the charge. Itiug-
gested that they might take the lieutenant's own re-
cognisances to appear to-day. I never saw the
lieutenant since I saw him at the Guildhall till
yesterday. I have received letters from him which
were answered, it being my invariable custom to
reply to all communications, whether from the
highest or the poorest, either by myself or through
my secretary. (Applause.)
Sir R. W. Carden—Lieut. Higginson, do vou
wish to put any question in cross-examination ?.
Defendant—Oh yes, sir; a good many. (To
Alderman Salomons.) Did I inquire why, having
chosen to adjudicate at Guildhall in your own case
as an admitted partner in the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, you had debased and perverted the judg-
ment seat on the succeeding day by having Alder-
man Rose as the second sitting magistrate, under
the pretence that he was impartial and disinterested,
when in fact he was likewise an active shareholder
in the Atlantic Telegraph Company ?
Sir R. W. Carden—You must put your questions
in conformity with law.
Defendant—l am doing so.
Mr. Goodman—l can take down nothing that is
irrelevant to the charge before the court.
J)efendant—l assure you I wish to be most re-
spectful, but if you will not allow my questions to
be put and answered I don't know how I am to
proceed. Is that question to be put down ?
Sir R. W. Carden—lt is not usual for a defend-
ant, to ask whether questions can be put down
or not.
Defendant—But I want some record of these
questions and answers.
Sir R. W. Carden—You may put any question
you like, and the clerk will take down what he
considers relevant.
Defendant--I insist upon being heard in my de-
fence. I insist respectfully upon justice being done
to me.
Sir R. W. Carden.--I never allow any
defendant
to insist upon having justice done to him in his
own way.
Defendants--I will, have
my questions put down.
Sir It, W. Carden—
There shall be put down
what I like. We have only one mode of doing
business here.
Defendant (to Mr. Alderman Salomons)—Will
you swear that I did not make use of words to that
effect ?
Mr. Alderman Salornons—l will.
Defendant—Did I say that such a dishonest
packing of the bench was a disgrace to the judicial
integrity of the City magistracy?
Mr. Alderman Salomons—Nothing whatever
passed from the time I met you till you were given
into custody except that which I have stated.
Defendant—My course is to justify what has °c-
oined.
Sir R. W. Carden—Nothing in the eye of the law
justifies an assault. You may state extenuating
but nothing can
circumstances,-Justify a man tak-
ing the law into his Own
hands; therefore, suppos-
ing all you state to be true, you are not justified in
committing an assault.
Defendant--I am not attempting to advocate my
cause after the decision at which you have arrived
not to allow me to put my questions. My object is
to get you to send this case to the sessions, where I
shall have an opportunity of getting it properly
adjudicated upon. --
Sir R. W. Carden—lf I cannot keep you in order
I shall adjudicate upon it.
Defendant—The complainant has deposed to
something before you, and I wish to cross-examine
him upon that statement. Surely lam eiajed
in
common justice to. that. This gentleman as de-
posed to a certain.fact, I want to cross-examine him
for the purpose of testing the truth and accuracy of
his statement. I should be very sorry indeed to
give you any offence, but I must maintain my posi-
tion. I merely want the truth to be arrived at and
understood.
Sir It. W. Carden—Any other question ?
Defendant--Oh yes.
Sir R. W. Carden—The assault has been proved.
I have told you before that nothing justifies an
assault.
you.
Defendant—l want to lay the facts before
Sir R. W. Carden—Do you desire this case to go
to the sessions ?
Defendant—Yes.
• crinson I must
Sir It. W. Carden—Lieut.
bind you over in your own recognisances in £lOO,

party
Mr. Edlin prosecuted, and Mr. Cole defended.
It appeared that the prisoner was a coal and
timber dealer. Some time in the early part of this
Year he gotinto difficulties, and made an assign-
ment by deed of all his goods,and effects and book
debts, and it was alleged that he had received the
two sums after the execution of the deed, being
moneys which had been debts due to him before
the execution of the deed, and it was then alleged
that he had not accounted for those sums. After
the prisoner had executed the deed, he had been
employed by the trustees at a salary to conduct the
business for the benefit of the trustees.
Mr. Edlin having opened the
Mr. Justice Byles suggested that there was a
difficulty in the way of the prosecutioh ; he there-
fore thought the best course would be that the legal
matter should be discussed before the merits of the
case were entered upon.
Mr. Cole then submitted that, as in point of law
the debts due to the -prisoner before the assignment
being choses in action, could not be assigned in law
but in equity. The moment he received the money
he was, in fact, receiving his own money, and he
could not be indicted for embezzling it.
Mr. Edlin submitted that on the receipt of the
money it became the money of the trustees under
the deed, therefore the prisoner was rightly indicted
for embezzling it.
Mr. Cole urged that, unless the money could be
ear-marked, he could not be indicted for receiving
it ; and, if ear-marked, it was the debt assigned,
and so could not be assigned at law, but only in
equity.
Mr. Justice Byles said the difficulty was to make
out that, in point of law, the prisoner was a clerk,
or servant, or acting in the capacity of a servant,
within the meaning of the statute. It was clear
that these debts were not assignable in law ; they
were choses in action, and the deed would only bind
him in equity. The moment he received these
moneys they were his own moneys—he received
what, in point of law, was his own money. How,
then, could he be held liable for embezzling ; or
how could he be said to be clerk or servant to the
trustees? He could not, in point of law, pass the
property in the debts due to lira before the deed
was executed. His assignees were only equitable
assignees ; they could only sue in his name. The
deed could only pass that which he actually had in
his possession at the time the deed was executed.
Under these circumstances the indictment could not
be sustained.
The prisoner was, therefore, acquitted.
THURSDAY, DEC. 23.
The same prisoner was then indicted for embez-
zling a bill of exchange.
The same counsel were engaged as in the pre-
ceding, case.
Mr. Edlin said, that after what his lordship had
said yesterday, he had given the case the greatest
consideration, and he, therefore, thought it right
not to offer any evidence, his friend agreeing that
the bill should he given up.
The Judge said he could not be a party to any
arrangement.
Mr. Cole said he should submit that the prisoner
had not committed any offence ; for the bill was
not endorsed. A great deal of odium had been cast
upon the prisoner, which he wished to explain.
The Judge said, in his opinion the prisoner was
no more entitled to the property than he was. The
only question was, whether he had brought himself
within the statute ; he thought he had not. If the
prisoner had been convicted he should have reserved
the point, which would have entailed great expense
on the prosecution. It was quite clear that the
prisoner was neither a clerk nor servant within the
meaning of this act of Parliament. As no evidence
was offered, the prisoner would be acquitted.
Verdict, not guilty.
Several prisoners pleaded guilty.
This circuit will close to-day.

THE MAN WITH SIX WIVES.

At the Clerkenwell police court yesterday Glou-
cester Gale, 32, a collector of rents, residing at 5,
Brook-green terrace, Hammersmith, was placed at
the bar on remand before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged
with feloniously intermarrying with Celia Maria
Wye, his wife Eliza Cecilia being then and still

alive.
Mr. H. W. Cattlin attended to prosecute on
behalf of the Associate Institution for the Protec-

tion of Women.
Mr. Tyrwhitt should like to know how it was
that the case was brought before him ?
Constable Green said that the prisoner was taken
to Vine-street, and from thence to Marlborough-
street, where it was proposed to go into two mar-
riages, one at St. George's, Hanover-square, and
the other at All Souls', Langham-place. None of
the facts were gone into at that court, as it was
found that the first illegal marriage took place in

Islington.
Mr. Tyrwhitt could not see why the case was
sent from Marlborough-street, considering that
Clerkenwell had plenty of business of its own.
Mr. Cattlin opened the case, and stated that the
matter was first brought under the notice of the
Lord Mayor by Mr. E. H. Coleman, clerk to the
registrar of seamen, who stated that numerous
inquiries had been made at his office for a person
describing himself as a master of a merchant ship.
The result of that application was, that the matter
was placed in the hands of the City police, and
although the prisoner managed for a length of time
to evade their vigilance, he was apprehended on
Sunday last. by Inspector Leonard and detective
constable Green. Too much praise could not be
awarded to the officers for the assiduity they had
displayed in apprehending the prisoner, and to Mr.
Coleman thanks were due for the active part he had

aken in the matter. It appeared that about ten

years ago the prisoner married his cousin Cecilia Gee,
but about two years since he became less attentive
to her, and left his home. In consequence of
the exposure in the press of Mr. Coleman's appli-
cation to the Lord Mayor several females called at
Mr. Coleman's and stated that they had been mar-
ried to the prisoner, and he, with the assistance of
Mr. Inspector Leonard and Green, the detective
officer, after several months oftinsuccessful inquiries,
apprehended the prisoner on Sunday morning last
at the residence of the second wife, Marble-hall,
Eghain. This was the lady who had the money,
and which thb prisoner hairused for so bad a pur-
pose. When the prisoner was apprehended his
second wife was at church, but he left her a letter,
of which the following is a. copy,—" My sins have
overtaken me at last, sak a goo wod for me."
Xfter going at some leng speak
into thed caser Mr. Cattlin
called
Mrs. Rowena Pearce, who stated that she was
the sister of the prisoner. She was present at
Turnham Green Church when her brother was
married to Miss Gee. She saw her alive at her
mother's last week.
Celia Maria Wye said she lived at Marble-hall,
Egham-hill, Surrey. She was married to the
prisoner at Islington Church on the 30th Nov.,
1857. The prisoner married her in the name of
George Gore.
Lydia Birch stated that she was married to the
prisoner, who went by the name of George Thomas,
at Trinity Church, Chelsea, on the 3d Jan. this year.
He left in Feb., pretending to go a voyage. She
then saw him in April, after he had taken apart-
ments, and sent for her from the country. After