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London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

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COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
'Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.)

JOSEPH 3 -T. A.BRAHAMS.

Sir C. Cresswell getve his decision in this case,
the facts of which were recently inserted in our
journal.
The Court was called upon to make a decree set-
ting aside the will of Mr. Abrahams, upon the
ground that, when the document was found, it had
an ink line drawn through several of its clauses,
and the names of the witnesses and attestation
clause, and also the attestation to a codcil written
on the back of the instrument, were torn off,
thereby mutilating the last sheet of the wfilf and
papers had been subsequently found referring, to
certain legacies which the testator intended to giv..l
away. The question raised was whether the act
of Mr. Abrahams was to be considered an act of
animo revocandi. It appeared he made this will in
favour of his sister, soon after his wife's death, but
that he afterwards quarrelled with her ; and,
looking at the papers, it certainly seemed that
nearly every clause referring to Mary Abrahams
had been struck out. Under the circumstances, it
appeared to the Court that the will was revoked
animo revocandi, and it must therefore decree ad-
ministration.

Trig SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1859.

first, and she came to me, and she lived as my wife.
We were afterwards married. She told me her
godmother had given her £lO,OOO, and used to drive
her about in a carriage. She said she had two
guardians who were trustees for her. I find we
were married in September, 1852. Upon my find-
ing men smoking at our lodgings at St. Lawrence,'
I determined to leave, and took new lodgings, but
my wife said she should stop where she was.
When my money was getting exhausted I thought
I had better go to my own house at Bath, and as I
thought Mrs. Stoate had £lO,OOO, I considered it
was not of importance that she should accompany
me. She followed me soon after that time, and I
took her in. She remained with us a few weeks,
but then she would go to London. In about four
or five months she came back, and upon my finding
her in my parlour I .said, as she had gone away
without my consent she should not stay ; and I took
:her in my arms and carried her out into the street.
I I; ever took hold of her by the hair of her head.
She isroke open my chest and took out my title-
deeds and plate. She also sold a houseful of furni-
ture, which I had at one time at a place near Mar-
gate. (Much laughter, which was excited by the
admission of the witness that the furniture com-
prised a bed, a bedstead, and a gun.)
The statement of the husband was not at all
strengthened by the testimony which was called in
support of the truth.
Sir C. Cresswell having gone carefully through
the evidence in his address to the jury.
The jury found that Mr. Stoate had been guilty
of cruelty towards his wife, and that he had de-
serted her for two years and upwards.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Jan. 3

NEW COURT.

(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Philip Coxford, 61, sawyer, a dirty, decrepid old
man, was indicted for unlawfully abusing Emma
Jane Bulwinkle, she being above 10 and under 12
years of age, and also attempting to know and
abuse Rose Bulwinkle.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted upon behalf of the Society
for the Protection of Young Females; Mr. Ribton
defended.
The circumstances attending the case were of a
most extraordinary character, and the evidence
given by the girl, Emma Bulwinkle, created great
excitement. It appeared that the prisoner has for
many years been in business as a lath-render at
Kingsland, and within a short distance of the chil-
drens' parents, who keep a newsvendor's shop, at
which the prisoner used to deal. In the early part
of last year the girl Emma was sent into the ser-
vice of a lady near her mother's, and after she had
been there about six weeks she stayed out all night.
The account she gave of her absence was that she
had met a neighbour who took her to the theatre,
and that when she got home she found her mis
tress's house shut up, and walked about the streets
all night. This neighbour she aftend'ards stated
was the prisoner, and that he met her several
times during her stay in that lady's service. After
quitting she went back to live with her mother and
stepfather, and assisted them in the news business,
but having some words with her stepfather she left
her home. About a week after that, she being on
London-bridge in company with a girl named
Cunningham, they were met by the prisoner, who
asked Cunningham, whom he appeared to know,
to allow the prosecutrix, Emma Bulwinkle, to go
with him to a house of ill-fame, and offered to pro-
secutrix a shillinc, and to Cunningham 9d. Cun-
ningham refused' to allow prosecutrix to go with
him, but at his solicitations went herself, and pro-
secutrix accompanied them to a house, and waited
until they came out. A few days after that prose-
cutrix met the prisoner again, and he persuaded
her to allow him to take her home, to which she
agreed. Upon their way home he induced her to
accompany him to a brothel in Whitechapel, where]
he seduced her, and afterwards took her home to
her parents' shop, and she stayed with them a short
time, and used to help in the business. While so
doing the prisoner used to meet her and get her to
rob her parents and give him the money. He also
said he would take her to live with him and allow

her a guinea a-week, and that she was to go out at
nights and meet gentlemen, and give him what she
received from them. After staying at home a short
time she again ran away from home and went to
live with Cunningham, and during that absence the
prisoner used to meet her and be on the closest
terms of intimacy. Finally, her mother met her
near the Victoria Theatre in company with Cun-
ningham, and took her home. The girl Cunning-
ham went with them, and at her mother's shop pro-
secutrix saw the prisoner, before whom she told her
mother how he had acted. Prisoner said it was all
lies; and upon the mother of prosecutrix threatening
to call the police the prisoner ran out of the shop,
and she did not see him again until he was in cus-
tody. That was on the 214 of last July. The girl
Cunningham had since then been got into a re-
formatory institute.
In cross-examination the prosecutrix gave the
following account of her acquaintance with the
girl Cunningham. She had, she „lid, a few words-
with her father-in-law. She cut" down the
Kingsland-road as far as Shoreditc ,'when the girl
Cunningham came up to her and asked her to take
a walk with her. Cunningham was about her own
age, 13. Prosecutrix said she wanted to go home,
but had been quarrelling with her mother and did
not like to do so. Cunningham then persuaded her
to go home and live with her, which she did. They
went to a house in Kent-street. It was kept by a
woman who had two daughters there. Other girls
lived in the house with them, and men used to come
and see them. The prosecutrix used to go out at
night with Cunningham, who used to meet men
and take them to brothels, and prosecutrix waited
for her until she came out. Cunningham took men
sometimes into Kent-street, and sometimes into
Smithfield. They did not have their meals in
Kent-street, but at coffee-houses. The prisoner
used to see her after she left home the second time.
She was away then about nine days.
The remaining evidence, which is unfit for detail
in full, proved that while the prisoner knew where
the girl Ann might be found, he visited the mother,
and at that
tehxep
absenceressed hei ssympathy,f
the
mother from the
time,and duringtoher
shop, criminally assaulted the younger sister, a
child about 10 years of age. As soon as the prisoner
found the police where after him he absconded, and
was not taken into custody until December, when
information was given to Inspector Langdon.
Mr. Ribton, for the defence, argued most ably
on the absence of proof to corroborate the extra.
ordinary narrative of the girl.
Upon the indictment charging the assault upon
the younger child the prisoner was acquitted, but
foupd guilty upon the other.
The Common Sergeant said the offence of the
prisoner was the most infamous he had ever heard,
and but for the prisoner's age he should pass upon
him the extreme sentence. He was then sentenced
to 18 mouths imprisonment and hard labour.
The case lasted until a late hour in the evening.

give me a shilling if I woilld go and steal the whip,
and I went and did it. (A laugh.)
The-Lord-Mayor—Have you brought the cabman
here to prove the truth of your defence ?
The prisoner—Not at all, my lord ; I didn't
think it necessary.
One of the policemen—l had him in custody here
last time for stealing a pair of boots which had
been hanging up at a door, and I ascertained that
he had just before stolen ie knife with which he
had helped himself to the boots. He has been for
a great length of time a sneaking thief, creeping
about in quest of plunder.

The Lord Mayor said that, as the prisoner had
been so frequently guilty, and seemed so deter-
mined to keep himself in practice, an interval of
honest employment should be granted to him, and
sentenced him to imprisonment for three months,
-with hard labour.

The occupier of a house in Aldgate High-street
was summoned by the Commissioners of Sewers for
not having paid due attention to the notice of the
Court by taking down the house, which was repre-
sented to be in a dangerous condition.
The surveyor of the district had, it appeared,
surveyed the house, and pronounced it to be unsafe.
He had sent notice to the occupier a considerable
time back, but that gentleman merely " shored" up
the building, and it was the belief of the surveyor
that if the shoring were removed the building
would in an instant be a mass of ruins.

The_ extraordinary defence of the occupier was
that his wife was so unwell he could not think of
removing her from the house. (A laugh.) He begged
that the Lord Mayor would grant him some more
time in order to get out of the premises with con-
venience.

The Lord Mayor said the defendant was bound
to consider that his wife's life was in imminent
danger, and that the safety of the public was also
jeopardised by the condition of the building.
The Defendant—lf I thought there was any
danger it is not to be supposed that I would stay
in the house myself.
His Lordship could not be prevailed upon by the
appeal of the defendant to withhold the order,
which was thereupon signed, and which directed
that the house should be taken down within one
week, in the event of non-compliance, by the sur-
veyor at the charge of the occupier, who was
ordered to pay the costs of the present proceedings
on the spot.

MARYLEBONE.—James Davison, a middle-
aged man, of rather short stature, and respectably
dressed, was brought up on remand, charged with
endeavouring to obtain money from charitably
disposed persons under false and fraudulent
pretences. _ _ _

Mr. Broughton asked if there was any further
evidence against the prisoner. He understood that
on the last occasion a gentleman stated that he had
received a memorial in a similar handwriting, but
he believed the prisoner was not the person who
left it.

Houie, the officer, stated that such was the case.
In the course of the examination of the witnesses
it was elicited that a paper, purporting to be a
memorial, was found near St. Mary's Church.
House produced the paper, which was to the
effect that it was proposed by a few friends to enter
into a subscription on behalf of John Taylor, who
carried on the business of a carrier for several
years between Marylebone and the city, by which
means he had supported a family in respectable
circumstances. On the evening of Saturday, the
Ist of January, he met with an accident while in
his cart by coming in collision with a waggon,
when his horse was killed, in consequence of which
he was thrown from the cart and received a com-
pound fracture of the arm. He was taken to St.
Mary's Hospital in a dangerous state. Appended
to which was the following :

" I have been solicited to draw up this statement in
order to raise, by voluntary contributions, a sum sufficient
to enable his family to carry on the business as heretofore,
and take on myself the responsibility, knowing the case
worthy of sympathy. The loss is estimated at £lO.

" WALPOLE EYRE GRENFE LL
"Dated at the Vestry-room, Marylebone, this
4th day of January, 1859."

There were several names attached as subscribed
to the object stated in the memorial, among which
were those of Mr. -Yardley, magistrate of the
Thames Police-court ; Mr. Broughton, magistrate
of this court ; Mr. Paynter, magistrate of West-
minster; the Rev. Mr. Gamier, rector of Trinity
Church, Marylebone, &c. The signature of the
last name was denied by a rev. gentleman in court
to be in his handwriting.
Mr. Broughton remarked that the signature to
the memorial was a very good imitation of his
handwriting, and only by seeing his name attached
to such a memorial he was convinced it was a
forgery.
Evidence was then given showing that a memo-
rial to a similar effect 'to that produced had been
sent to some other, persons, and
Mr. Pares stated that he believed the memorial
was the one which was in the note given to him by
the prisoner, and 'which lie at his (prisoner's) re-
quest returned to him.

Mr. Broughton now remarked that he saw in
court Horsford and Freer, two of the Mendicity
Society's officers, and he wished to know if they,
or either of them, had any information to commu-
nicate about the prisoner.
Horsford-1 know he has been in custody before.
Mr. Broughton—Has there been any conviction
against him ?

Horsford—Yes, Sir ; four times. Each time for
three months.
,On the last occasion it was for
making use of one of the seals of the House of Com.
mons for the purpose of obtaining charitable contri-
butions.

Mr. Broughton—Vas he ever indicted at the
Sessions ?

Horsford—No, /Sir ; each conviction was sum-
mary.
Mr. Broughton observed that he should send the
prisoner to the House of Correction for three
months. He directed that a record of his convic-
tion should be obtained.

Riehary Frowley, a bricklayer's labourer, was
brought up on remand charged with cutting and
wounding John Bourke, on Saturday, the 22d, at
the White Lion, Edgware-road, when he was con-
veyed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he still remains.
Inspector Mackerel, D division, produced a certi-
ficate from Mr. Cruikshank, house surgeon _of the
. .

institution, in whiCh the nature of the wounds were
described.

Police-constable 272 D, who took the prisoner
into custody, said that he had seen the house sur-
geon that (yesterday) morning, who informed him
that the man Bourke was proceeding favourably,
but he was not out of danger.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, bail not
being accepted.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Matilda Symonds, a
well-dressed woman of 40, with a gold watch and
gold chain, and with five gold rings upon her fingers,
was examined upon the following charge :
Mr. E. Lloyd, a draper in Shoreditch, said—l
have known the prisoner for a considerable time as
a customer of mine, but in consequence of a disco-
very I had made with regard to her I lately gave
directions to my shopmen to tell me when she next
called. My reason was that on each of the last two
occasions on which she had been there she had made
some trifling purchase, and each time had paid for
it with a £5 note, both of which I afterwards ascer-
tained to have been stolen. On Saturday evening
she came again, purchased goods to the amount of
about 35., and again tendered a £5 note in payment.
On being apprised of this I asked her if she had no
change, as it was inconvenient to me to give so much
gold and silver for such a purchase ; but she said
she had not a farthing with her but the note, or she
would not trouble me, and I then asked her into the
counting-house. I sent one of my people for a con-
stable, and while he was gone I challenged the pri-
soner with having been twice there before and passed
notes whish I found had been stolen, and said I
therefore had very strong doubts whether that she
now tendered had not been similarly obtained. She
said, " I don't know anything about that, but this,
I hope, is a good one. I told her there was no
doubt about that; the only question was, had it been
honestly obtained P She said the note had been re-
ceived from a man whom she knew by sight, but not
by came, who came to her house with a woman ;
that she herself had a husband, that her name was
Saunders, and that she lived in Weymouth-terrace,
Hackney-road, which name and address I wrote on
the note. I then demanded of her whether she had
not more notes, and she at length produced another
the numbers of these last two being 09,581 and
09,582. She also said she had had the notes 15 or
16 days, but the constable arrived by that time, and
I then gave her in charge, that something might be
ascertained, about the notes.
Goddard, 222 H.—l lodged the prisoner in the
station, but as I was leaving it to inquire about her
in -Weymouth-terrace she called me back, and said
I' need not go there, as she did not live there, and
that she lived in Mansfield-street, Kingsland-road.
I found she did not live in Weymouth-terrace, -and
no person named Saunders was known at either of
the houses she mentioned in both streets. A young
woman at the last place told me the description I
gave her of the prisoner exactly corresponded with
that of a woman named Beavan, who had lived
there, and, if the prisoner is remanded, 'shall be able
to establish another charge against her of passing a
£2O note under similar circumstances to these.
Mr. T. Garland.—l live at Madras-house educa
tional establishment, Hackney, and on the 7th inst,
my house was broken into by thieves, who stole a
£lO Bank of England note, eight £5 notes, 50 so-
vereigns, and brooches, rings, and other jewellery,
altogether to the amount of about £l2O. Ido not