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London, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 24.

WALFORD V. WILLS.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, who was the
owner of a vessel called the Earl Morley, to recover from
the defendant, who had insured it, damages for the loss he
had sustained by the ship having been injured on her
voyage, and baying been broken up at Valparaiso.
The defence was, that the vessel was not seaworthy,
and that the plaintiff had withheld material information
from the underwriter.

Several underwriters were called—they stated that had
the letters from the Captain and crew respecting the con-
dition of the ship been shown, the premium would have
been much higher than that paid ; and many said they
would not have insured the vessel, at any premium.
At this stage of the case a compromise, each party pay-
ing his own costs, was recommended, and acceded to.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 24.

Inn, after a-coursing match, they were alarmed by
a fire suddenly breaking out in the stable and
out-houses. Such was the rapidity of the flames,
that two valuable horses belonging to the guests, as well
as a dog, which was tied up in the stables, and a number
of fowls, were destroyed. Almost at the same moment
another fire burst out on the premises of Mr. Spicer, a
maltster, about 400 yards from the Red Lion, where all
the out- houses, and a considerable stock of malt and barley
were also destroyed. Thed welling-houses in both instances
were preserved. No immediate cause for these acci-
dents could be discovered; but, on the next morning, a
bundle of paper matches, which had been dipped in brim-
stone and tied up in a rag, was discovered lying in the
road about the middle of the town, near to the premises of
Mr. Child, a mobster. This circumstance gave rise to a
suspicion that both fires and been caused wilfully; and as
it was well known that there were several discontented
labourers in the village, who, there was some reason
to believe, were the authors of the mischief, the
assistance of the officers in question was obtained.
On the arrival of Ruthven and Stevens at Larnhourne,
after making some previous inquiries they took up
eight men, to whom suspicion attached, and conveyed
them before the Rev. Mr. Hipsley and his son, Mr.
Henry Hipsley, who are Magistrates of the district. The
names of the nun were Robert Chivers, John Carter,
William Winkwortb, John Cox, William Perry, Joseph
Marshall, and Jonathan Povey; and it appeared from the
confession of Chivers and Carter, that they had met a
short time before at a public-house, called the Hare and
Hounds, in the Woodlands, and that after talking of the
smallness of their wages, they agreed to set fire to the
town of Lambourne in three different places at once, in
the hope that the terror occasioned by such a circum-
stance would lead to the increase of their pay. Carter
then proposed that they should first set fire to the Red
Lion, to which Chivers agreed, saying that he had been
assisting in taking in too loads of straw a few days before.
Carter then proposed that he should prepare the matches,
and that about the same time fire should be set to the
premises of Mr. Spicer, and Mr. Childs, maltsters, in the
town ; Carters saying he would set fire to the Red Lion and
Mr. Spicer's, while Chivers said he would set fire to the
premises of Mr. Childs. In pursuance of this diabolical
purpose, they set out on the night in question, when
Carter actually fulfilled his previous intention of setting
lire to the Red Lion and Mr. Spicer's ; but on Chivers
arriving at Mr. Child's, his heart failed him, and he
threw the matches into the road, where they were subse-
quently found. It further appeared, that two or three
days subsequent to this conflagration, the two prisoners,
Winkworth and Perry, went to a field in which Carter
and Chivers were at work, and after some conversation on
the failure of their first project, and on the little good it
had effected, proposed that Chivers and Carter should
snake a fresh attempt, Winkworth saying, when he saw
the flames, he would give them the price of a gallon
of beer, in which promise Perry acquiesced. Before
they could carry this new villainy into effect, how-
ever, they were all taken into custody. Evidence
corroborative of this confession being adduced, the
four prisoners (Carter, Chivers, Perry, and Winkwortb)
were fully committed for trial. The other four were
discharges'. About the same time an attempt was made
to fire the premises of Mr. Williams, of Baden, in
Wiltshire. It appears that on an afternoon stated, Mr.
Williams's brother, while passing some of the out-houses,
the threatened danger. To this place Ruthven and
Stevens also went ; and, after some investigation, suc-
ceeded in arresting three men, named William Perry,
Stephen Langford, and a man named Tucker, when Perry
and Tucker gave evidence against Langford to the fol-
lowing effect :—On the afternoon in question, they were
all walking down a lane which led past Mr. Williams's
premises, when Langford stopped at the cottage of an old
woman, and asked for a light, and was observed at the
same time rolling up a quantity of paper ; having ob-
tained the light, they all three proceeded down the lane,
when Langford having lighted a pipe, gave it to Tucker,
who, with Perry walked on leaving Langford behind. Ob-
serving Langford still with a lighted paper in his band,
they called on him to throw it down, which he said he
would do, hut shortly afterwards he ran after them, and
at the same instant they saw flames bursting from the
thatch of Mr. Williams's out-house ; they asked him if he
had put out the light ? and he said he had, and asserted
that he had extinguished it in some water. Upon subse-
quent investigation, however, the paper could not be found
in the place which he bad described, and there was no
doubt that when he lagged behind he had taken an oppor-
tunity of thrusting it into the thatch where the fire bad
been discovered by Mr. Williams. The prisoner was
taken before Dr. Meyrick, a Magistrate in the neigh-
bourhood, oiut
trehdo o
Langfordwi , uponfor a
furtherd i se! osu
examination,r e o f thes e a fnadc tst,(x,cko
the
personal recognizance of Perry and Tucker for their ap•
pearence before him on Friday next, when Langford will
be fully committed for trial.