The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONI ON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE MAJOR JOHNSTONE.

This bankrupt, who ascribes his failure to heavy losses
on the turf, was described as, "commonly known as Major
Johnstone," formerly a lieutenant in the Indian Army,
now a prisoner for debt, and to day was appointed for the
first meeting. The total debts are £12,000, the following
being the principal creditors :—Mrs. Skinner, Jermyn-
street, £7,000 ; Mr. Padwick, Hill-street, Berkley-square,
£300; J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., of Annandale, £13,000
(secured on the bankrupt's reversion in the Annandale
estate). A day was named for the next sitting.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.
MARLBOROUGII-STREET,

CARRYING ON BUSINESS WITH AN EMPLOYER'S PRO-
PERTY. - James Barnes, a joiner, in the employ-of Messrs.
Rowney-, artists' colourmen, of No. 11, Percy-street, Rath-
bone-place, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing
a quantity of property belonging to his employers.
Mr. Lewis, sen., of Ely-place, appeared fur the defence.
Mr. Frederick William Rowney said—Having received
information that the prisoner, who was in our employ as a
joiner, was in the habit of nightly carrying away things
from our warehouse, I communicated with the police, and
last night, in company of a constable (Carter, 117 E) over-
took the prisoner in Ra,thbono-place. I told the prisoner
that I had been informed that he had been carrying away
goods nightly, and, after a little hesitation, prisoner
said, " Well Mr. Rowney, to tell you the truth, I did
take a few little things—part of a stretcher and some
pencils. The prisoner afterwards said he had taken some
T squares. He asked me not to press the charge. 'after-
wards went• by the prisoner's directions to his lodgings,
and found some other property there. The prisoner gave
me a card, from which it appeared that he was carrying on
business on his own account in our goods.
Mr. Lowis.—As the prisoner must be remanded, I have
to ask that he be remanded at once, and that bail may be

taken.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner, but will not
take bail.
A SAVAGE SCENE IN SE+EN DIALS.—John and Johanna
Hurley, husband• and wife, were charged with the follow-
ing savage assaults.
Mrs. Julia Riordan said that on Saturday night last she
heard that her finger had been bitten off by the
male prisoner. She went out and caught hold of the pri-
soner by the collar to detain him till the police came. The
prisoner kicked at her with all his might, and hurt her
stomach very much, and while he was still kicking her his
wife (the female prisoner) came up and struck her a vio-
lent blow on the head with something she had in her hand,
and she fell to the ground insensible, and was afterwards
taken to the Charing-cross Hospital.
Honorah Riordan, a girl, daughter of the last witness,
said that seeing the male prisoner about to strike her
father she went up and pushed him away, when ho seized
her finger, thilist it into his mouth, and bit it. She-
screamed out, and a man came up and struck the prisoner
in the face, and made him release his hold of her finger.
The prisoner then ran away.
Ann Sullivan, a young woman, corroborated the pre-
vious witness.
The male prisoner said that while fighting with Mr.
Riordan the girl came up and scratched his face.
Mr. Tyr whitt said the male prisoner had been guilty of
a cowardly and unmanly assault in biting a child, for
which he would be committed for 14 days' with hard
labour. With regard to the assault on Mrs. Riordan, he
(the male prisoner) had knocked her about without regard
to her feelings for her child, and he would have to pay a
fine of 205., or 14 days' for that. The female prisoner had
also been guilty of a brutal assault in striking Mrs.
Riordan as she had done. The poor woman might be in
considerable danger for what he knew—there being danger
of erysipelas setting in—and he should, therefore, remand
her to see what condition Mrs. Riordan was in a few days.