The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-08 00:00:00

IN RE EVANS, HOARE, AND CO.

These bankrupts were wine, beer, and spirit merchants,
and distillers of Great St. Helen's, the failure having taken
place in 1857. The liabilities are £84,000. A dividend of
tenpence in the pound has already been paid, and a further
dividend of twopence in the pound was declared to-day.

PDLI:2I INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SERVANTS' REGISTRY OFFICE FR/MM.—JAR W. Smith,
agent, and Adolphe Chas. Wattez, traveller (the manager
and secretary of the " Cavendish Institution" Servants'
Registry-office, Mortimer-street), charged with unlawfully
conspiring together to obtain and obtaining from several
young women the sums of ss. with intend to defraud,
wero brought before Mr. Knox, by Rosekilling one of the
warrant officers by whom they were taken into custody.
Mr. West, from the office of Messrs. Shaen, prosecuted
on behalf of the Society for
,the Prevention of Women
and Children ; Mr. Lewis Lewis appeared for Smith ; and
Mr. Wontner for Wattez ; and Mr. Levy, from the office of
the Society, was in attendance.
One case against the prisoners, it may be remembered,
was taken last week.
Mr. West said ho was prepared to go into a second
case.

Mr. Lewis said he was instructed by Miss Barns of the
Blue Post, Haymarket, to state that the young woman
Shaw, who gave evidence last week, never lived at her
house, and therefore the statement she made that she left
after two nights was incorrect, and was calculated to do
her (Miss Barns) some injury.
Mr. West said it appeared thera were two houses in the
Haymarket, the Blue Post and the Grapes, both kept by a
person of the name of Barns. He had spoken to the young
woman, and she had informed him that it was the Grapes I
that she went to, and not the Blue Post.
Mr. Wontner, on the part of Wattez, said that he only
filled a subordinate position at the office, and that although
called the secretary he was only paid as clerk 15s. a week
and a small percentage ; and that as soon as possible
after he found out the character of the prisoner ho left, he
being chiefly led to take this step through Smith re-
questing him to take an office in the City, and to employ
his (Wattez) own wife to go to Norwood and to write
letters, pretending she wanted servants. Before Wattez
could 190 convicted on the present charge it must be shown
that he was acting fraudulently with Smith.
Mr. Knox said the case was one of so much importance
that he should like the opinion of a judge to be taken on
the point raised by Mr. Lewis. He considered an abomin-
able system of fraud had been practised towards a number
of young women.

Mr. West said he was prepared to go into another case.
Marian Shaw, of 20, Gough-street, Gray's-inn-road, then
gave evidence, and said that she went to the Cavendish
Institution on 3rd March last, paid Smith os., tolling him
that sho had seen an advertisement for a companion to an
elderly lady. Smith took the money, and gave her a
receipt for it. He then gave her au address, " Madame
Duquesney, St. Omer, France." She wrote to the address,
but got no answer. She went to the institution again on
the Gth March, and saw the prisoner. She told Smith
that she had received no answer. He asked her if she had
addressed and stamped her letter correctly, and she said
she had. He then gave an address at Barns's, the Grapes,
Haymarket. Here she stayed ono or two nights. She then
went to the institution again.

Mr. Knox asked whethor the caso could go on after that,
as they actually got the young woman a situation ?
Mr. West said the evidence certainly was very weak ;
and as he understood that Mr. West wished for a remand,
he should grant it, his object being to obtain the judg-
ment of a superior Court as to whether persons could
arry on such a system of fraud as had been pursued in the
present case with impunity.
The prisoners were then remanded, Smith in £5O bail
and Wattez in £3O.

The prisoner Wattez is said to be respectably connected,

THAMES. •
3funnEnous ASSAULT.—Cornelius and Michael Driscoll,
Irish labourers, father and son, were brought before Mr.
Paget charged with assaulting and wounding Catherine
Lanning, a young woman.

The parties live in an Irish colony in Well-street, Poplar.
Yesterday afternoon the complainant's husband prosecuted
a man for wounding him with a brick, which was thrown
at him, cut his mouth fearfully, and loosened three teeth.
The case was adjourned until this afternoon. Mr. and
Mrs. Lanning were leaving the court and were threatened
by the prisoners and their faction. They were again threat-
ened near home by the prisoners, and Thomas Lanning,
fearing he should be killed, went to the Poplar station-house
for assistance. On his return to Well-street with a police-
constable he heard that his wife had baen grievously
wounded and removed to the hospital. Her husband no
sooner left her than Michael Driscoll struck her on the
forehead with a poker, inflicting a severe wound, and the
elder Driscoll struck her on the back of the head with a
heavy bludgeon and stunned her. There was a large
surgical plaister on her forehead, and another on the back
of her head. She lost a good deal of blood, and was very
pale and weak. The evidence of the Lannings was con-
firmed by a woman, who said she had been, ill-used by the
prisoners. On the other band six IrishwoMen were callod
or the prisoners, who said there was a general row in
Well-street, that several persons were on the ground tear-
ing each other's hair out, kicking and fighting, and that
the Lanuines took part in the riot: which they most dis-.
tinctly denied.
Mr Paget said he required the evidence of the surgeon
who dressed the wounds, and the inspector of police who
thetooki
charge, befnoerr.
eahe finally disposed of the case. He
remandedtharegper,so

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A GIRL.--On Wednesday
the stepfather of a girl named Mary Davis,
aged 20, a ser-
vant at the Bull's Head Inn, Oldham, called upon her there,
and requested that she would return home with him. She
refused, when the man throw her down, cut her windpipe
slightly with a razor, and also attempted to stab a man who
went to her assistance. He was drunk at the time.
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under the presidency of the Earl of Dalhousie. Several
witnesses were examined, and to-day his Royal. Highness
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the Duke of Cambridge will give his evidence before the
commissioners. This will probably cohclude the inquiry •