The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-16 00:00:00

LAW INT

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins bef;re Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
and a Special Jury.)
PERINAWSKI V. FREEMAN AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a tailor at
the West-end, against the defendants, who are house sur-
geons at St. George's Hospital, for alleged improper treat-
ment, to which the defendants pleaded not guilty.
From the evidence of the plaintiff and some of his wit-
nesses it appeared that some months since he was suffer-
ing severely from piles, and he obtained admission into the
hospital, and was placed under the treatment of the defend-
ant. He was forcibly subjected to sitting over scalding
water according to his statement, and he sustained serious
injuries in consequence.

The case was Proceeding when Nvo went to press.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Bcforo Lortl Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.)

BRIDGMAN V. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action brought by the husband, who is en-
gaged at a wharflnger's, and lives at Cornwall-road, Lam-
beth, for injuries through the alleged negligence of the
defendants' servants inflicted on his wife. The defendants
paid £lO5 into court, which they pleaded was ample com-
pensation for the injuries of Mrs. Bridgman.
It appeared that Mr. Bridgman was returning to London
last August by an excursion train of the defendants', and
on reaching Colney Hatch station.the train came into col-
lision with some waggons that were being shunted on the
line. The defendant and her mother, who also has an
action against the defendant, were dashed with great violence
against the front of the carriage. Mrs. Bridgman became
very ill a few days after, and was for some time under
medical care, and the inquiries of which she complained
were described as very serious, and from the effects of
which she was not quite recovered.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £3OO
damages.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
CIIARGE OF MURDER.

Helen Forester, GO, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Helen Ann Venables alias Sloman, by making use of
instruments to procure abortion.
The evidence was of a nature which it is not desirable
reproduce.
The important point in the case being whether the de-
ceased's statement amounted to a dying declaration, and as
the evidence was not conclusive on the point, the learned
judge directed an acquittal.
The prisoner and her daughter were then again indicted
on the coroner's warrant, but no evidence was offered, and '
the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
This te,rminated the busjiness of the session.

POLICE JNTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ABUSE or KlNDNESS.—Elizabeth Moulder, a charwoman,
living in Tom's-court, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, was
charged before Mr. Knox with wilfully breaking a pane of
glass of the value of £4 10s.
Mr. John Henry Hubert, of the Barley Mow, Duke-
street, Grosvenor-square, said that on the previous even-
ing the prisoner, who was very drunk, came into his house
and requested to be served. She was refused, when she
made use of very disgusting language, and took up a cus-
tomer's pot and drunk out of it. After ordering her seve-
ral times to leave the house, or ho would have to put her
out, she went out and tried to break a largo pane of glass
with her fist, but as she was unable to do so she got a stone
and smashed the pane of the value of £4 108.
Mr. Kuox—The prisoner was brought before me yester-
day charged with being drunk and disorderly, and finding
that she bad done no harm to any one, and that she had
been locked up all night, I discharged her. It is no use her
appealing for mercy a second time.
Sergeant Rowe, 3 C, said the prisoner, who was drunk,
told him that she throw the stone, but did not intend to
break the window.
The prisoner said her husband bad been on the drink
soma time, and they had had all their things taken from
them. She hoped the magistrate would be lenient.
M. Knox-You are a drunken, dissipated woman. No
sooner are you let off, through the mercy of the court,
than you get drunk again, and not only get drunk, but
smash a pane of glass of the value of £4 10s. If you think
I will have the property of respectable persons in this dis-
trict destroyed in such a way you are mistaken. You will
go for two months, with hard labour.
CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—William Drury, of Fulham
Fields, waste collector, was charged before Mr Knox at
the instance of Mr. Love, of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a horse by
working it while in an unfit state.
Smith, an officer of the society, deposed to seeing the
defendant in Piccadilly driving a horso attached to a cart
containing a large wash tub. Observing the horse to be
in a most wretched state, ho examined it and found it to
bo very old and poor, and to have a very bad sore with

the crupper pressing into it.
Mr. Knox ordered a summons to issue against the owner
of the horse, the defendant's mother, and took the defend-
ant's recognisane,e",to appear on the day fixed for hearing.
When the case was again called on the defendant appeared
in answer to his recognisance, but in such a disgraceful
state of intoxication that Mr. Knox remanded him, and
adjourned the case for a fortnight, to see if the horse was
fit for further work.

On the defendant, Mr. Drury, coming up again, Mr.
Knox, after remarking in .strong terms on his improper
conduct in attending a court in a state of intoxication,
fined him 205., or 14 days, stating that the defendant had
better take care and not use the horse until after the sum-
mons was disposed of.