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London, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

tiff, who " unfortunately had no banker," but the
defendant did rot forget to pay in £6O on his own
Recount to the London and Westminster Bank on
the same day as that on which he was to lodge the
money for the plaintiff. The defendant and his
son-in-law quarrelled much, and the former
threatened to kick the latter out of doors ; " but,"
said the plaintiff, "he was so drunk that he fell
down, and I walked out," (Laughter.) The plaintiff
then went back to his father, and took the situa-
tion of carman--the vacant clerkship having in the
interim been filled by his brother—and his wife
contributed to their maintenance by shirt-making.
When the plaintiff had been with his father for
about six months, the defendant came to him with
overtures for a return, offering him a free lodging;
but the plaintiff did not regard this as "a great
pull," as he had free lodgings already. Then the
defendant promised that if he would return he
would redeem his promise, and " make a gentleman
of him," by giving him £5OO as a capital in a fruit
and green-grocery business. Acting on the faith
of these representations the plaintiff had given up
his situation as carman to his father, and returned
to reside with his father-in-law. But still there
was no peace. Ihe defendant kicked the plaintiff
twice out of his house, the last occasion being in
September, when the plaintiff's wife was lying in
bed after her confinement. The plaintiff's wife
went back to her father, and on the 13th of October
last he went to claim her, and was sitting outside
the defendant's house on some bricks, when the
defendant returned and asked him what he wanted.
He replied, his wife, and the defendant said he
should not have her. " Then," said the plaintiff,
"as you are so aggravating, I will ;" where-
upon the defendant struck him in the face,
and knocked him over twice, on which the plaintiff
took up half a brick and threw it through the sky-
light of the defendant's house.
Mr. lA.-xton, on behalf of the defendant, declined
to cross-examine the plaintiff, but submitted the
case had failed, first, on the ground that the pro-
mise as alleged was not in writing ; and as to
the second count, there was no evidence in its sup-
port.

Mr. Baron Bramwell held the objection to be
fatal, and

The plaintiff was nonsuited.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENO.E.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 19.
Mr. Justice Crompton sat at 9 this morning.
Richard Peet, James Heathcote, James Skidmore,
George Hirst, and Richard Hall were charged with
the offence of night poaching in a field in the occu-
pation of John Richardson, in the parish of Warsop.
Mr. Boden conducted the prosecution; Mr. Bris-
towe appeared for the three first-mentioned prison.
ers ; Hirst and Hall were defended by Mr. Manson.
It appeared from the evidence of Joseph Allcroft,
gamekeeper to Major Welfitt, of Langwith Lodge,
that he was on the night of Sept. 15 out with two
other men, named Moody and Candlin, watching
in the field in question, and lay at the bottom
end of the field. About a quarter to one on the
morning of :the 16th Allcroft observed a party
of seven men coming down the field, near a
path whieh ran beside a wood upon the left ;
they were setting nets along the wood side, and
one of the party as soon as the net was set ran from
the rest with a line, " technically termed a " dead
dog," for the purpose of sweeping the field and
driving the game into the net. In so doing he ap-
proached to where Moody lay, and, as the night
was bright moonlight, though occasionally clouded,
Moody, who lay nearest the wood, saw him and re-
cognised him as Peet, whom he had known before.
Moody called out, and the whole of the party of
poachers immediately turned and ran up the field,
pursued by the keepers. Peet, who was hindmost,
called out to his companions that there were only
three, saying " Pellet them !" Stones were taken
by the poachers from their pockets and thrown at
the keepers, one striking Candlin in the stomach,
and another Moody on the forehead, slightly.
Candlin retreated, and several poachers pressed
against Allcroft, who was struck down by Skid-
more with a hedge-stake, while others pelted him
with stones. Allcroft cried " Murder ! ' and en-
treated the poachers to do no more, and not to kill
him. One of them said, " Hell not rise again."
Skidmore stood over, him some minutes with the
stake uplifted, and then the party of poachers left
the field, going up it by the hedge and carrying off
their nets. Candlin returned to Allcroft, and
Moody was met and despatched to Mansfield to give
information to the police. The superintendent on
duty at once set different officers and assistants at
the various avenues into the town, and about three
o'clock the five prisoners were met entering the
town by the Warsop-road, with nets wet, and rab-
bits in bags, which each carried. They were told
by those who met them that Allcroft had been
almost killed in Harrison's-field at Warsop. They
said they had been out poaching at Pleasby, to
which place the road they were upon led, as well
as, to Warsop, which they said they had not been
near. Their clothes and boots were marked with
soil like that of Harrison's field, and one of them,
Peet, had in his pocket a souwester hat, such as
one of the poachers had been seen to wear.
At the police-station the prisoners all repeated
their assertion that they had been together poach-
ing at Pleasby. Skidmore, Heathcote, and Peet
were severally identified by Allcroft and his com-
panions as three who took part in the fray, and an
impression of a foot seen in the field was compared
with'a boot of Skidmore's, with which it was found
to correspond: A stake like that used by Skidmore
was found stuck into the fence at the lower end of
the field, and had then one or two spots of blood
upon* it.
Mr. Bristowe and Mr, Manson having in turn
addressed the jury,
The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and
the jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
Skidmore was sentenced to three years' penal
servitude, Peet to imprisonment for 18, Heathcote
for 12, and first and Hall for 9 calendar months
respectively. •
John Lamb was charged with feloniously shoot-
ing at his wife with intent to kill and murder her
on the sth of October.
Mr. Boden conducted the prosecution ; the pri-
soner was undefended.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
and his wife had been separated, and that in Octo-
ber last she had taken out a warrant against him.
On the sth the prisener went to the house of Mrs.
Halford, sister of the prisoner's wife, who lodged
there, taking a couple of pistols, which he had
purchased just before. Mrs. Halford and a man
named Bell were there as well as the prisoner's
wife, Mrs. Halford bbing upstairs. On coming
into the house the prisoner said "Here I am, and I
mean to do it." Upon that Bell seized the pri-
soner's arms and held him, while the prisoner's
wife ran upstairs to her sister. Burrows and four
other policemen then came to the house door and
attempted to enter, and at that moment a bucket of
water was thrown on the prisoner, but by whom did
not appear. He immediately discharged a pistol at
the policeman and rushed upstairs to the door of
the room where his wife and Mra. Halford were.
The door was closed,•and having lifted it off the
hinges, and so got into the room, he made to-
wards his wife, Mrs. Haltond endeavouring to keep
him off. He succeeded, however, in reaching her.
She seized the pistol in his right hand with hers,
and with her left his wrist, and a struggle occurred
in the course of which the second pistol was dis-•
charged, the bullet it contained being flattened
by the wall without injuring any one. He had been
seen to load the pistols with ball, and the locks
were so stiff that considerable force was required to
discharge them. It was also proved that very
shortly before he had gone to Bell asking him to
take a glass of brandy-and-water with him for the
last time.
The prisoner, who looked a stupid man, was very
deaf, and did not speak when called on to make his
defence, but signified his wish that a written state-
ment put in by him should be read. From this it
appeared that he was jealous of his wife's conduct
with the man Bell.
His Lordship having summed up the evidence,
The jury found a verdict of guilty of shooting
with intent to do grievous bodily harm; and
The prisoner was thereupon sentenced to 10
years penal servitude.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, Dee. 19.
Nisi Prius Court---(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)

BRAGATO V. CAMULICII.
This was an action for work and labour, for pri-
mage and commission, and to recover damages for a
wrongful dismissal, in which the plaintiff claimed
£67. The defendant pleaded a set-off for mainte-
nance of tho plaintiff's wife and for passage-money,
and paid £lO into court, beyond which sum he
pleaded that he was not indebted.
Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Assheton Cross ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Edward James,
Q.C., and Mr. Birnie for the defendant.
It appeared that Pietro Bragato, the plaintiff,
was master of the ship Azor, of which the defendant
was owner. She was an Austrian ship, and was
cleared out early this year for a voyage to Alex-
andria, but her destination was suddenly
changed by the defendant for Constantinople,
with instructions to the plaintiff as master to pro-
ceed on to-some port on the Danube to seek a freight.
He got to Ibraila early in March, and at the owner's
suggestion he had taken out his wife_ with him. On
arriving in the Danube the war broke out between
France and Austria, and in consequence the plaintiff
was unable to obtain a freight. the vessel being an
Austrian one and in danger of being captured. The
defendant appeared to have attributed the plaintiff's
want of success in not obtaining a cargo to his at-