The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-25 00:00:00

LAIN INTELLIGENCE'.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OP CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
THORNTON V. JOBSON. '

This was a petitionto strike out a claim of £1,500 against
the estate of. John and t Robert Jobson; by their bankers,
under articles of indenture by which they considered they
had a preferable claim on the joint and separate estates of
the bankrupts.

Lord Justice Turner was, of opinion that the claim of the
bankers could not be allowed, and referred, to the Commis-
sioner in Bankruptcy to .decide whether the appellants
should have their costs of suit.

Lord Justice Knight Bruce concurred. •
APPEALS-PRIDE .V. FOOKB-7IIDGMENT.

Lord Justice Knight Bruce, in delivering judgment, said
—The controversy in this case is as to the due construction
to be put upon the residue bequest in the will of the late
Mr. Thos. Webb in 1805. The testator died in Dec., 1808.
The contention in this case arises between the testator's
great-grandchildren and the children of his widow by
her second marriage and the heir-at-liiv, as to which of
them was entitled to the residue of the testator's property
under his will and codicil. His lordship was of opinion
that the testator had not disposed if the residue of his pro-
perty by his will, and that there was an intestacy as to his
residue, and that the . heir-at-law was entitled to take
the residue in preference to the present claimants, the
grand-children of the testator.
Lord Justice Turner said—This case comes before us
upon two appeals from a decision of the Master of the Rolls
finding that, according to the true construct the tes-
tator's will, his great. grand children were entitled to take
the residue of his property, amounting to about £33,070
in. Bank 3 per Cent. Annuities. His lordship, after consi-
dering the terms of the bequest; and referring to several
other clauses in the will, seine to the same conclusion as
Lord Justice Knight Bruce;that there was no bequest of
°the residue of the testator's property in the events which
happened ; that there was an intestacy as to the residue of
his personal property taken by his heir3-at4law.
The order of the'Master of the Rolls was discharged.
Qf consent of next Of kin, costs to be paid out of the
funds.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This,Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Baron Brasiwell.)

EVADING THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS.

Lewis Lewis, 38, draper, was badicted for feloniously
;omitting to surrender himself after being declared bank-
rupt, and also for removing and concealingrhis books.
The facts of this case have repeatedly appeared in The
Sun while the prisoner was under examination before the
magistrates.

The jury had not returned their verdict when our repor-
ter ,left.

NEW COURT.
(BeforO Mr. Jugtice Hill.)
THE TURKISH PIASTRE CASE.

Antoine Aime Hugon and /Ikon Reverdy, 'the former
described in the calendar as a traveller, aged 26, and the
latter, a merchant, aged 46, were indicted for unlawfully at-
tempting to make coin resembling, and with intent that
such coin should resemble and piss as the copper coin of a
foreign prince, to wit, the Sultan. of Turkey. •
Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr..p9land conducted the pro-
secution, and Mr. Robinson mid 'Mr. Sleigh defended the
prisoners.
• Mr. Sergeant Parry having Stated 'the case to the jury,
called ,

Mr. David Davis who said—l am a machinist, and carry
on business in Collingwood-street, Blackfriars. I first saw
Hugon in July. Aime, the yoanger prisoner, asked me if
I could make a coining press, and he showed me a copper
coin as a specimen of what he wished it to produce, and
asked the number the press would make per minute. I told
him with sufficient power it would make 60 per minute. I
showed him a model of a press in use at the. Royal Mint. I
asked him £3OO for making the press. He Offered £250, but
I refused to take that sum. No agreement was made at
that visit. They offered.£loo ia money and £125 in bills.
They left with the impression that if I found the bill to be
good in the City I would take them. The coin they showed
me was a copper one, a little larger than our penny. In two
days after they left, they returned, and I told them I would
not take the bills. Boiserollo (who is not in custody) was
indignant at my determination, but ultimately an agreement
to make the press was drawn out, and I was told to take
it to Chatham-place, where it was to be signed. On going
there, I saw Reverdy for the first time. Boiserolle signed
the agreement. in presence of the two prisoners. It set forth
that the press was to be made in six weeks; the sum to be
paid was £270, £lOO of which was to be paid down. The
£lOO was broirght to me at my residence the same after-
noon. As I proceeded with the work, Afine called to seo
how I was getting on. Reverdy never came with him. I
made some die blocks for Aline soon after taking the order
for the press. I made sixteen ; he said he should want a
great quantity of them. I delivered them to the die-sinker's
by Aime's orders. I received some of the dies back in a
-state- for coining. After the dies were returned, I saw
Aime very often; indeed, so often that it became quite an-
noying. On one occasion .I asked him if the engraving did not
represent the Turkish Sultan's signature. He said no, and
produced some gold coins, and made some explanation,
which I did not understand, to show that it was not the
Sultan's signature. I had not finished the press on the
10th Sept., but seeing he did not understand the working
of the machine, I,had it fixed temporarily to show that the
work was right. I told Aime .I should want some pieces
of copper to try it, and aalied him to get some cut out by
their own machines. I received some copper from him
through a Mrs. Kemp, Soho. It was good enough to make
coin. I wished to try the machine to see whether the work
was right. I ultimately communieated with the Turkish Am-
bassador. The press never left my premises. I gave the
dies to the police in consequence of directions I received from
the Embassy. The dies before rue are the same. They
only required hardening to be fit for use.
Examined by Mr. Robinson—l have made coining presses
for the Royal Mint for exportation, but never for private
individual?. Everything I told to Boiserolle he repeated
to Aime, and he told me the purport of his observa-
tions. I did not understand a word Boiscrolle said. I went
to the Turkish Ambassador before I received any infor-
mation. The reason I went to the Embassy was in conse-
quence of the circumstance that took place in Birmingham.
I don't know anything about Turkish coins. When Aimo
showed me the gold piece I saw there was a difference
between it and the copper one, but I did not understand it.
Examined byMr. Sleigh—l havemade manydies for foreign
coins. I only make the plain steel faces, but then they are
taken away to be engraved. I have made dies of foreign
coins for private individuals. I have made dies for the
purpose of making Mexican and Peruvian coinage, but
I did not get the orders direct from the Government. I
received the orders from respectable parties, who had en-
gaged as die-sinkers for years in this country. I don't
recollect saying aword to Aime about making the Mexican
dies. Never showed him my book with any entries
relative to the Mexican dies. It wasinine or ten days
before I went to the Embassy that I made the remark
about the die representing the Sultan's signature.
M. Thomas, the die-sinker, was the next witness ex-
amined. His evidence was to the effect that Aimo repre-
sented to him that the dies he wished him to engrave were
to replace others that had been broken in the ordinary
course of work. Boiserolle was introduced by him to me as
an agent of the Turkish Government.
From the number of witnesses to be examined the case
will occupy the whole of the day.

POLICE INTELLIGRYCE.(This Day.)

MARLBOROtTGII-STREET.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON A MOTHER BY HER SON.
—Charles Radford, 29, a seaman, wearing a Crimean medal,
was charged with violently assaulting Mrs. Louisa Rad-
ford, artitVial flower-maker, of 23, Burlington-arcade, and
also with breaking several valuable looking-glasses and
other property.

The prosecutor (who could scarcely give her evidence from
emotion),said she was a' widow, andthe prisoner was her son.
She had brought him up respectably.,•and given him a good
education. He had lately returned from sea, and last night
he came to her house, smashed open the door, made a blow
and a severe grasp at her mouth, smashed three large look-
ing-glasses, and otlier property of the value of £5O, and
then got her in a corner of the stairs and prevented her
from calling for assistance by holding her mouth.
Butcher, 137 C, said that on the previous night ho was
on duty near Burlington-arcade, when the man at the gate
told him there were screams of "murder" at 23, and when
he got to the door he found the 'prisoner with a poker
which he had broken in three pieces, at his feet. Before ho
(the constable) could secure him he seized a pair of tongs
and smashed a valuable glass. The prosecutrix's mouth
was scratched. On taking the prisoner into custody he said
he would do something worse the first time ho had a
chance.

Mr. Bingham asked the constable what state the prisoner
was in ?

The constable said he had been drinking a little, but was
not drunk.

The prisoner, in his defence, made several charges of an
infamous nature against his mother, and then said he had
been out all day looking for work, and on coming home
found the door shut, and certainly pushed it open, and as
soon as he did so his mother cried out "Murder !" and he
put his hand on her mouth to prevent her causing a dis-
turbance. What else he did ho did not know, for he got
nearly mad.
• ..Mr. Bingham said he had been now nearly 20 years in
his:Painful occupation, and had seen in too many cases the
extent to which human nature would degrade itself, but in
his long experience had never seen a powerful man who
would so assault a woman, and that woman his mother, and
then aggraVate that offence by uttering such things as pri-
soner had done. Unfortunately the damage was out of his
power, but for the assault on his mother he should at once
commit him for two months for an aggravated assault on a
woman.