The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

hood, where defendant and the woman got into his
cab, and he was ordered to the Casino, in Holborn,
where the woman got out. Defendant then ordered
him to Hackney, and he was proceeding in that
direction when defendant stopped him at Holborn-
hill, and said, having changed his mind he would be
driven home to Vauxhall-bridge-road, via Millbank.
Complainant drove him there, and upon his refusing
to pay, conveyed him at his own request to the sta-
tion, where defendant would not pay more than ls.
6d., and a summons was consequently taken by com-
plainant for the remainder of the fare, amounting'
to 4s. for eight, miles of ground, and 6d. for waiting
while defendant 'was away from the cab 10 minutes
at Holborn-hill, which, with a delay of some minutes
at Tonbridge•strcet, made more than a quarter of
tan hour completed.

. _
Defenda\it said that this was a most extraordinary
and inexplatable affair. He found himself unex-
pectedly charged by complainant with being at
king's-cross, riding about with a woman, going to
the Casino, and doing all manner of things, which
he had never thought of.
Mr. Dayman inquired whether he was to under-
stand that the cabman did not take him up at
King's-cross, as described.

Defendant replied—Certainly not ; he had not
been to King's-cross these three months.
Complainant said the gentleman had been drink
ing very freely, and must have forgotten what oc,
curred.

Defendant most positively denied the assertion.
He said he started from the Post-Oflice, at
St. Martin's-le-Grand, on the evening of Satur-
day week, and meeting with a friend, proceeded
to the Castle Tavern, in Castle-street, Hol-
born, where he called a cab, and was driven to
his home. After he had been in the cab some mi-
nutes, he found complainant driving him a great
distance out of the way, and called to him, and in-
formed him so, but he was perfectly unheeded, and
driven through Leicester-square, Piccadilly-, and
St. James's-street, as the cabman's mode of getting
to Vauxhall-bridge, and ultimately 6s. was de-
manded for the ride.

John Hodgson, a map-seller, living at 20, Cursi-
tor-street, Chancery-lane, said he was with Mr.
Snowden on Saturday week. Met him at the Post-
office, and proceeded as described, to Castle-street.
Mr. Snowden then came out of the street into Hol-
born, called a cab, and as it seemed was driven home
by the complainant.
The cabman repeated, that instead of being en-
gaged in Holborn he brought the defendant there,
as he had described. He had since been to the ad-
dress where he was called to take up, and had seen
the woman who rode with the defendant. She was
at first rather shy, but when she found the gentle-
man's address was known she admitted she had
called the cab. The inspector at the station-house
could prbve the gentleman had been drinking.
Mr. Dayman thought it an extraordinary affair,
and said he could only surmise, after the evidence
of Hodgson, that the person hiring the cab at King's-
cross bad got out in Holborn, and that during his
absence the defendant got in, the driver mistaking
him for his original fare, drawing up to the spot
from which he was hailed, and opening the door.
Complainant said he did not put on the rank and'
inquired of defendant's witness whether the cab
came from the rank.
The witness did not observe, as he shook hands
with Mr. Snowden and left him the moment after
he called the cab, and before he got into it.
Mr. Dayman asked witness how long previously
to that lie had been with Mr. Snowden.
Witness said an hour and a half.

The case.was then adjourned to a future day, for
the attendance of the woman spoken of and the
police inspector.

WANDs-wor,Ta— PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
LICENSED VICT LTA LLERS.—THE TRAVELLER QUES-
TION AGAIN.—Mr. William Prebble, the landlord
of the Rose and Crown, Mr. Ellice Watson, of the
Red Lion, and Mr. James Yeoman Clipson, of the
Railway Tavern, all in the High-street, Putney,
were summoned before Mr. Dayman, for having
their houses open for the sale of wines, spirits, &c.,
between the hours of three and five o'clock on Sun-
day afternoon, the 28th ult., the same not being for
travellers or lodgers therein. •
The cases were taken separately, but his worship
postponed his decision in each until he had heard
the whole.

Mr. Prebble's case was taken first, and Sergeant
Blanchard, of the V division, deposed that he visited
the house about 20 minutes to four o'clock, and
found four persons in front of the oar, two of whom
were drinking ale. Ile drew the landlord's atten-
tion to them, and he answered they were travellers.
Knowing that two of them lived in the neighbour-
hood, the sergeant said, Not those ?" and the de-
fendant said they had been out for. a • walk, and
being in want of a glass of ale he served them. The
officer also stated that the doors were open as at the
regular times.
The defendant said he NV as not aware lie was break•
ing the law when he served them. They told him
they were on the road to London, and he did not
think there was any harm in giving them a glass of
ale.

In the case of'Mr. Watson, Sergeant Blanchard
visited the house, which was opposite the other,
about a quarter to four o'clock. The doors were
closed, and in the parlour he found three men sit-
ting and smoking, and upon the table before them
glasses containing spirits and water. In an up-
stairs room he found four others smoking, and they
had spirits and water before them. The defendant
told him that they had all dined at his house, and
were having a glass of grog and a pipe afterwards.
The officer did not know any of them.
The defendant., in answer to the complaint, said
the gentlemen in the parlour were those who dined
at his own table' most Sundays, and those upstairs
were his lo.lgers and their friends. They had all
dined at his table about half-past two o'clock, and
when they' finished they went to the rooms in
which they were found to enjoy a glass of grog and
a pipeth. .
In e third case Sergeant Blanchard said he
visited the house about Of-past four o'clock. lie
found the door open, and in front of the bar there
were upwards of a dozen persons, who were being
served by the defendant as fast as he ,was able. In
the parlour he found three others. The defendant
said he believed every person in his house was a.
traveller. _ . _

Constable Cole was called; and said he saw- a
• man come out of the front door, as he entered with
the sergeant, carrying a glass of spirits and water,
and he Was an inhabitant of Putney.
The defendant, in reply,'said his house was oppo-
site to the station, _and upon fine days hundreds of
persons came by the train, and he was often called
upon to serve them. On this occasion the train had
just come in, and he believed that all the persons he,
served were travellers. He also complained of the
officer not telling him at the time that he intended
to summon him ; for, if he had done so, he could
have obtained the names and addresses of all who
were found in his house. He then called
Thomas Mortimer, a young man, to prove that
he was in the parlour at the time, and had come
from town with two others, one from Paddington,
and the other'from Woolwich.
Mr. Dayman said the Legislature had not satis-
factorily defined what was a traveller and what was
not. It was.quite idle to suppose that persons coin-
ing down by the railway a journey of only about
ten minutes or a quarter 'of an hour required re-
freshment, and' were to bd considered travellers.
The object of the act was to make exceptional cases.
on behalf of those who were really bona fide tra-
vellers, who were in want of refreshment for them-
selves and horses. If they were allowed to open.
their houses for all persons who might say they
were travellers, then there would be an end
to the act. However, he should not stretch the act,
and therefore he should dismiss the summons
against Mr. Clipson. He would give him the •
benefit of the doubt, as he was not satisfied. He
did not know he was doing right in dismissing the
summons, as he really did think the act did not
apply to those persons coming down short dis-
tances. With regard to the second case he had no
doubt, and he should dismiss it at once. He thought-
the case was made out against Mr. Prebble, and he
therefore fined him 20s. and 2s. costs.
-The money was immediately paid.

A GENTLEMAN RIBBED OF £1,200 IN A BANK.--
A robbery to tho above serious amount took place in one of
the Manchester banks on Friday. A little before two o'clock
in the afternoon, a gentleman representing a firm in }loch-
dile, came to receive some money, and met the gentleman
who was to pay it at the bank of Sir Benjamin Heywood,
St. Ann's-street. He received twelve £lOO Bank of England
notes, which he,nit into his pocket book, then incautiously
placed the latter in the outside pocket of his coat. Both came
out of the bank together, and when only a short distance
from the bank, the gentleman discovered that his pocket-
book had been sto!en. He returned to the bank, and stated
u hat had occurred, and information of the robbery was
communicated at the d,:tective, office. The numbers of the
notes al-el:flown, and .officers wee promptly despatched in
various directions, and other means adopted with the view
of obtaining some trace of the expert thief.
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THE LEEDS MURDER.-STARTLING
DISCLOSURES.

Some startlinc, inforn, ation has come to the
knowledge of the Leeds police. On Saturday night
James Smales, a collier, from Whitwood, near Nor.
mantown, went to the shop of Mr. Barrass, the
pawnbrOker in Dyer-greet (the shop where the
watch of the murdered man Broughton was pledged)
and tendered a ticket for the watch. Mr. Barrass
It once took him to Mr. English,the chief constable.
Yesterday morning Mr. English went over to
Whitwood, and saw John Fawcett and Andrew
Battye, both colliers. They stated that on
the Monday after the murder they net a young
man at Castleford, named Charley Norming-
ton, in the street, and adjourned to a beer-house.
Normington said he came frep. the York-road, in
Leeds. The new friends had some beer together,
and subsequently Fawcett employed Normington
as his hurrier in the pit at Whitwood. Norming-
ton worked part of the day on Monday, and was
in the pit also during part of Tuesday. On the
Monday night he offered to sell a ticket for a Ger-
man silver watch to James Worsman, and he sub-
sequently managed to sell it on the Wednesday
night for ss. to Smales. Normington said that the
watch had been in pawn previously for 265., and
he told another witness, Betsy Fawcett, that he
had previouSly offered it to Mr. Topham, pawn-
broker, Leeds, as that gentleman stated in his
evidence before the Leeds magistrates. Mrs.
Dixon, the woman with whom Normington lodged
at Whitwood, observed him on one occasion in the
act of washing a handkerchief, but when she ap-
t preached him he appeared confused, and thrust it,
! wet as it was, into his breast. The water in which
he had been washing was very much discoloured.
His shirt also bore several marks, as if it had been
stained with blood and had been hastily and in-
efficiently washed in Cold water. On the Thursday
morning Normington disappeared, leaving behind
him the shirt in question, and this is now in the
possession of the chief constable of Leeds. Nor-
mington stated that he had previously worked at
Messrs. Lassey and Wilcock's, of the Rock Col-
liery, York-road, and this is only about a mile dis-
tant from the scene of the murder. Normington
is a native of Bradford, but has been residing for
some years with his father in Leeds. He is thus
described by the several witnesses from the colliery
village, and it will be observed that the description
exactly tallies with that furnished by all the wit-
nesses who have been previously examined in the
case :—He is twenty-two years old, about five feet
in height, strongly built, round shouldered, stoops
forward in walking, is bow-legged, and turns in
his tees ; has a rotind full face, a small mole on
one cheek, with a few hairs on it ; has light
brown hair, which curls a little on each side;
has a good set of teeth, and talks quickly
and distinctly. He was dressed in a faded black
cloth coat, short cut, with a black cloth patch
on each elbow, sewn on by grey thread ; a dirty
pair of black and white check trousers, with stripes
down the sides, tight from the knees upwards, but
slack at the bottom of the slops, and has several
patches on the seat of the trousers. He wore
brown cloth cap, with peak ; and a pair of clogs
were on his feet, adorned with two rows of eyelets.
There are stripes on his back where he has been
flogged. He told Fawcett that he left Leeds on the
evening of the murder, and slept at Wakefield on
that and the following (Sunday) night, and walked
over to Whitwood on the Monday morning.
The Leeds magistrates, at a meeting held on
Sunday afternoon, determined to augment the re-
ward, and only stipulate, in a placard which ap-
peared yesterday, for the apprehension (not the con-
viction also) of the suspected man.

SERIOUS CHARGES AG AIIVVIT A SUR,
GEON.-EXTRAORDINARY VASE.

On Saturday last 31-r. Charles Alleyne Chtzo.'ssot
a surgeon, who has for many years practised At
Smethwick, appeared before the magistrates sitting
at the public-office, "West Bromwich, in answer to
a charge of having committed a rape upon and sub-
sequently administered poison to a young woman
named Harriet Gill. The ease was first heard on
Saturday week, when the prosecutrix, a young wo-
man, apparently about 27 or 28 years of age, accom-
panied by her mother, and both dressed in mourn-
ing, came into court. The defendant was present,
having engaged the services of Mr. Bayley, solici-
tor, Wednesbury. As we understood, Harriet Gill
had stated her intention preyiously to appear aL.d
give her statement, and Mr. Chevasse having hat):
an intimation that such a course would be taken

attended the court. From the appearance of the
young woman it was evident she was in a very ill
state of health—her face and even her lips were as
pale as marble, and she spoke in such a low feeble
tone of voice as to be at times inaudible. _

She said that some two years ;;;;;11eentered the
service of ' Mr. Chevasse, no other person besides
herself and this gentleman being inmates of the
house. When she Shad been there about three
months M,, Chevasse threw her down on the draw-
ing-room floor and committed a rape upon her
person.
The magistrates at once said—Why has not so
serious a charge been made the subject of in vestiga-
tion before now ? We cannot go into this matter.
Harriet . Gill went on to say- that her master
threatened her life if:she told any the of the out-
rage, and on the last Sunday in May Chevasse
gave her some medicine, and she had not been well
since. He went on to administer
physic to her, a
dozen bottles full, and some days she was better. and
•
somo worse, but gradually becante weaker ar:d
weaker. Three weeks ago her master came at night
into her bedroom with a razor in his hand, and
threatened to take her life, but subsequently said,
" Murdered blood will answer for itself." She had
subsequently (as we understood a few days ago) left
his house and gone to her mother's, who is house-
keeper to a gentleman named Whitehouse, at
Bil-
ston. In answer to questions put to her, Harriet
Gill said that she had had one bottle of medicine
from Mr. Allcock, surgeon, of Smethwielc, within
the last week, and had also two boxes of Whelp-
ton's pills during her illness.
Mr. Bayley then said, on behalf of Mr. Chevasse,
that that gentleman had no specific charge to
answer, and it must be left with the Court to say
what ulterior steps, if any, should be taken.
At this stage Mr. Chevasse volunteered a state-
ment, to the effect that Harriet Gill was of unsound
mind (monomania), that the medicine he had admi-
nistered to her • was quinine, she suffering from
worms, and that she had been seen by Mr. Davis
arid Mr. Townsend,, surgeons, who had thought her
faculties impaired.
After some conversation, in Which the magis-
trates, Mr. Hebbert and Mr. Chevasse joined, the
matter was adjourned for a week, Mr. Chevasse
undertaking in the interim to have Harriet Gill
examined as to her state of mind " by the best me-
dical authority in Birmingham," Mr. • Chevasse
pledging himself to attend the court the ensuing
week. As this matter was heard privately; under
the circumstances we did not publish it in our usual
weekly police report.,
On Saturday last this strange affair accordingly
came before the same • bench of magistrates, and
Mr. Chevasse, who attended, had the professional
services of Mr. W. S. Allen (firm of Hodgson and
Allen, Birmingham). When, however, Harriet.
Gill was called, she did not appear. But after .M r.
Allen had ably addressed the court on behalf of his
client, a young woman came into the room and

handed in to the magistrates a certificate, signed by
,Messrs. Cooper and Gilbert, surgeons, High-strefn,
Bilston, and dated September the 3d :—" We cer-
tify that Harriet Gill is suffering from hysterical
fits, and,unable to attend the court to day."
Mr. Allen then read to the bench a copy of a
notice served upon Harriet Gill, to the effect that
Mr. Chtvasse would attend at West Bromwich

police-court this day to answer any and every
charge which she (Harriet Gill) might prefer against
him. The learned advocate then went on in a clear
and emphatic way to deny, on the part of Mr.
Chevasse, the truth of any of the statements made
against him. The rape and the poisoning (for to
that extent the charge went) Mr. Chevasse solemnly
denied. He had never acted with the least in‘mc-
rality- towards Harriet Gill, -nor administered her
other than simple medicine for a trifling complaint.
He had never threatened to take.her life, nor en-
tered her bed-chamber ; and, in fact, he gave the
most solemn and unequivocal denial to her state-
ments. It was true that she, a single woe/inn, and
he, a single man, lived alone in the house ; but he
had numerous witnesses, who came to the house
frequently, to state that they never saw the least
immorality on his (Mr. Chevasse's) part, towards
Harriet Gill. - Mr. Allen went on to say that Mr.
Omen, the able medical officer at the Birmingham
Lunatic Asylum, was now in court, prepared to give
evidence as to the state of mind of Harriet Gill.
Mr. Nicol was also present to give his evidence
of an exculpatory character as to Afr. Che:-a3se's
conduct to his • servant. Ire (Mr. Allen) was
also prepared to show • that if •Alr. Chevasse had,
as Harriet Gill required, advanced her money to
set herself up in a small way of business nothing
whatever would have been heard of these charges,
which so deeply affected- the- character and posi-
tion of a medical man. -This trait in the case evinced
a degree of cunning antagonistic
iee
monomania. Finally, Mr.
asl_ed of the
magistrates to give Mr. Chevasse credit for the
solemn denial he made of the shocking slamler
raised against hint.
After consulting- with Mr. Thursfield (Wednes-

Jury), who acted
..for Mr. yebbert, and. N. with Mr.
Bodington, Mr. Sharp said that so far as their
opinion went Mr. Chevasse stood fiee.from charges
which effectedhiso vitally. The matter as
against him must be dismissed, Of course if the