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

A T.RAGEDY IN CINCINNATI.

(From the Cincinnati Gazette of Aug. 17.)
Last evening occurred one of those terrible tra-
gedies in real life which, for fearfulness of inten-
sity, surpass the conceptions of the dramatist, and
reveal the terrible earnestness which often exists
beneath an exterior the most frivolous and aban-

donpd.
We publish the facts in the order of their oc-
nrrence.
A young man, whose name it appears, from
papers found on him, is Thomas Eugene De Mar-
bais, has had a wife named Blanche, living in a
house of assignation in Plum-street, above Fifth.
From the papers and from his declarations to the
coroner, we learn that five times has he attempted
to kill both himself and his wife. It would also
Appear that he married her aware of her abandoned

life.
The following note on him shows his desire to see
her last evening :
" Send me word by the boy. May I come and
see you ? I await an answer on the corner. I can-
not exist without seeing you. Let me come—must
see you very soon. Oh, Blanche ! Blanche !
Blanche ! Blanche ; I am very repentant. Come !
come ! I cannot live without seeing you."
We cannot say whether he sent a duplicate of it.
About 11 o'clock last night he called at the house
in Plum-street, and desired to see her. She was up
stairs in bed. She came down to see him, and he
told her he wanted to walk out with her, and,
said he, " I am going to kill you." She said she
wasn't afraid, and they went out.
The next known of them, the reserve corps of
policemen in the Ninth-street' station-house were
startled by two pistol reports at the corner of
Plum and Eighth streets. They immediately
ran to the corner, and there saw De Marbais and
Blanche at the door of Brookfield's marble-yard.
Blanche was sitting quietly, while he was stretched
at full length on the pavement, apparently dead.
Mr. Wm. De Beck, of the County Auditor's-office,
who accompanied the police, caught a young man
by the shoulder, saying, " I've got you, sir." De
Marbais spoke up, " There is no one to blame but
me. I did it." Policeman M'Grew went to. Blanche
and assisted her to rise. She said, " I came out of
the house to die." Then she exclaimed in agony,
" Oh, my daughter. Oh, my daughter." M'Grew
asked her where her daughter was. She said she
was with the Marsh troupe, and upon being re-
moved to the Ninth-street station, she took off a
splendid jet cross, tipped with gold, kissed it, and
desired it to be sent to her daughter.
Upon examining them at the station-house, it was
found that she was shot in the left breast, just
above the nipple, and that he was shot in the right
ear. The policeman took from him two three-inch
pocket pistols, of Allen's patent, which he said he
• had purchased yesterday morning and loaded for
this express purpose.
As he was lying in the station-house Dr. Carey
informed him of the probability of his recovery.
He said—" If I live I want you to hang me for this
damnable deed—for shooting the wife I love so
well."
They were removed to the hospital, where he
said that before they came out of the house they
had taken 30 grains of morphine, divided it into
two portions, dissolved it in water, and drank it.
Blanche is a young woman of beauty and has a
sweet countenance. It is thought she is French.
De Marbais is a young man of short stature, and
we learn is or has been in the negro minstrelsy
business.
The following papers were found in his pocket
by• Dr. Carey. We think we have never seen any
letter belonging to the literature of suicide and
death more touching and remarkable than this
which we give first :
" Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1859.
"My dear Wife,—Should you survive what is
intended as your death blow, I trust you will for-
give me for not being a better shot. To say I have
loved you would only be to corroborate what all
who know me know full well. That I now love
you better than ever, this fearful, step I give as
proof. Death in preference to its being said I
caused you to live the life.you are leading. We were
happy until it was marred by intermeddling would-
be friends both in Philadelphia and this city par-
ticularly. I do not wish it to be understood
that this letter is in any manner to exonerate
me in the dreadful tragedy I attempt. It is
simply to enlighten the few thousands who are ready
to condemn unheard and untried the unfortunate
ones of this cold world. It is unnecessary here for
me to enter into the particulars of how we met and
were married, as the certificate among our papers
will certify to. I will simply say we knew and
understood the importance of what we were about.
When I could get work, I worked, and it was my
great pleasure to give you all my earnings,little as
they were. True, in the early days of our marriage
you were true to me, and like an angel you never
deserted me through greater misfortunes than want.
Now the public of this cold-hearted city refuses me
employment, and we are comparatively destitute.
" You prefer [here follow the words, 'No mat-
ter,' with a mark of erasure through them..—REP.]
My-dear, dear Blanche, God forgive me. But death
is now more preferable for me than life. Had 1
means we could and would have lived happily to-
gether. Ido love you, nay, adore and worship you
even now, one, two, three, four, or five hours pre-
vious to attempting this la 4 (I hope) fearful act of
my life. My God, would that I was able to take
you from where you are. I would do it even now.
There is one man holding a prominent (poor speci-
men of man) position who has promised to be my
friend. [A long flourish follovvs.-7-Iter.]
" The principal cause of my misfortunes in this
city is now a clerk in the [here follow the words with
a mark of erasure through them, ' principal store
(drug) on Fourth-street. His brains ought I have
blown out first. First drug store on'] finest drug
store on Fourth-street.
" I leave him and the balance of my enemies to
the remorse of conscience, which every true man
feels when conscious of a mean action. Mean actions
—their acts towards me are, and have been, das-
tardly, mean, and contemptible. 'Tis not because an
individual has erred in early days that he should
be made to suffer ever after. So goes the people of
Cincinnati. If a man does wrong once, not like the
good Samaritan, help him up again. No ; they
trample him down, down, and never give him a
chance to get a mouthful.
" If I succeed, our baggage will amply defray
all funeral expenses.
" My wife's child is in good hands—unnecessary
td mention where she is. Good bye, dear mother.
Forgive me, sisters dear. Sisters Clara and Ellen,
forgive me taking Blanche away in this manner,
but I am so jealous of her that I prefer her dead.
[Another long flourish.—REP.]
" Tuos..E. DE MARBAIS.
" All my family papers, dating back to the year
1794, my mother's .marriage certificate, and other
papers, will show for themselves. Adieu to all."
11.
" Cincinnati, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 1839.
"My dear wife Blanche,-1 hereby certify that
from this day I solemnly promise never to come,
go, or seek you, wherever you may be. unless at
your earnest solicitation.—You: husband until
death, and after if possible.
" THOMAS E. DE MARBAIS."
The following is the endorsement on the back of
this note : •
"6 52, Third-street. This is written at the soli-
citation of my own dear wife I love better than lite.
DE MARBAIS."

s"cen minutes later.
" She tells me if I love her as I should I would
blow her brains out. So I will this very night.
" DE MAUBAIS."

111.
" Cincinnati! Ohio, Aug. 4, 1859
_._ . _..

"Dear and affectionate Sisters Clara, and Ella,—
F.re this reaches you we will have ceased to exist.
Dear.. -wife as well as myself have become tired—
completely disgusted with.this world. We there-
fore adopt these means of ridding- ourselves of our
enemies and our friends of a burthen.
" To Mr. Edward Scanlan my wife and self offer
our last thanks for his many acts of kindness, which
from time to time kept me in the vain hope of one
day being able to surmount our difficulty, instead
of whieh.l find my troubles daily increasing, and
no prospects of eyer getting up again. • We coolly,
deliberately, and without any liquor aboard, we
resgive to take that fearful step—suicide. Be it
' "nctly understood, not because we cannot live,
30,
through fear of any mortal enemy—simply be-
'kuse we prefer death .to a dishonourable life. All
honest means have been deprived me of gaining a
living by the infernal maliciousness and jealousy
of --, clerk to Suire, Eckstein, and Co., corner
of Fourth and Vine-streets. Our sincere thanks are
also due to Mr; -----•--, of Selves'-building, and Mr.
—. Iloill of these gentlemen have proved
.them-
selves men in every sense of the: word. I leave be-
hind me a few friends, but many enemies—enemies
without just cause, whom I have never injured by
word, deed, or act, unless it was by being forced to
become a debtor. My few creditors are the only
ones who will speak ill of me. Another gentleman
1 must mention here in the kindest manner possible
—Mr. —, formerly bookkeeper for George Lewis.
He came to my assistance.on several occasions, un-
walled and unsolicited. He is' now fast among his
friends and relatives. I would advise him to remain
%ere. I seek death because it is prefeyable to being
subject to the scorn and contempt that fallen great-
ness generally- is. Ido not wish to appear vain
when I apply the word great to myself. I wish it
simply to be understood in regard to the commercial
world, in which I once stood A No. 1. Again,
.death at this moment will be sweet, because I will

be joined, on the road to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns, by my most affectionate and
good wife, Blanche. Oh, Blanche, may God for-
give us, as we forgive those who have offended us.
"THOS. EUGENE DE INIARBATS
and BLANCHE his wife."
IV.
" Saturday, Aug. 13, 1859.
",My Blanche,—My own dear wife, good bye,
adieu—God bless you and protect Adele. I love
you both better than life. Employment has been
refused me, even for the pitiful sum sufficient to
sustain life from day to day.
" I have no friends. I feel I have lived too long.
May God curse the English hound, -- now
with Eckstein. Think of me in your happy mo-
ments —farewell, God bless you, you are better off
without me.
" Oh, Blanche! I love you, and you alone. I
have been true—true to you, and you alone. I die
hungry, but loving you truly and sincerely. Bye,
bye, mamma dear. Think of me occasionally. I
left you happy and contented."
At half-past two o'clock this morning the physi-
cians thought it possible that Blanche might re-
cover, but had no hopes that De Marbais would.

(From the Cincinnati Gazette of Aug. 18.)
THE MYSTERY CLEARING 13P—CRITICAL CONDITION

OF DE MARBAIS AND HIS WIFE.
We have very little to add to yesterday's ac
count of the facts immediately connected with the
tragedy of Tuesday night.
We learn that officer Mainster on Monday night
saw De Marbais sitting on the steps of the assigna-
tion-house on Plum-street, crying. He was asked
what was the matter. He replied that his wife
was in there, and was in the habit of going there.
As he appeared to be in liquor, he was advised to
go home, and he went off, saying that if matters
didn't change before the week was over there'd be
a murder.
To gratify the numerous inquiries as to the his-
tory of De Marbais, we present the following ac-
count, which -we believe to be perfectly reliable.
De Marbais' father was a Frenchman, his mother
an English or American woman. His parents were
married in this country, and he was born at Balti-
more. His father is dead, but his mother is now
living in New York, and was yesterday informed
by telegraph of the critical condition of her son and
of the tragic acts of which it was the result. He was
a druggist by profession, and understood his bus-
ness well. About 18 months since he married his
wife Blanche, in New York. She was at the time
reputed to have been the mistress of a wealthy man
in California, who had supported her in luxury and
ease for two or three years. De Marbais was aware
of her reputation, we learn, when he married her.
Sometime after his marriage he went to Phila-
delphia, where he was placed on trial for forgery,
but was honourably acquitted.
Disgusted with Philadelphia, he returned to
New York with the intention of removing to the
West. In New York he met a person who pro-
mised to find him a situation if he would settle in
Cincinnati. He accordingly came to Cincinnati
about a year ago, and was employed in Scanlan's
Drug store. Five or six months ago the person who
had found the situation forDe Marbais, being East,
learned that De Marbais had been tried there for
forgery, and upon his return he informed De Mar-
bais' employers that he should no longer consider
himself responsible for De Marbais' conduct.
This remark eventuated in De Marbais' losing
his situation, and from that time dated his misfor-
tune. Unable to get employment or the means of
subsistence, he would have starved had not his wife
by her shame earned their bread. It is said that
De Marbais had a regular fisticuff fight with the
" drug clerk" in the street, and charged his misfor-
tunes upon fiim. And it is also said that this clerk
followed De Marbais with an unrelenting vindic-
tiveness that kept him effectually out of work.
Whether Blanche's beauty had anything to do with
this we can't say.
Read in the light which this account throws upon
them, De Marbais' letters are of a comparatively
easy interpretation. The following sentence evi-
dently refers to his trial for forgery—" So goes the
people of Cincinnati. If a man does wrong once,
not like the good Samaritan, help him up again.
No, they trample him down, down, and never give
him a chance to get a mouthful."
A good deal of romantic talk was set in motion,
about this affair yesterday. It was said that he had
been exiled from France, &c.
But our account comes from a source which en-
titles it to full credit.
De Marbais and his wife lay at the hospital all
day yesterday without much change in their condi-
tion. They were kept asleep with morphine. To-
wards evening they grew worse, and at 11 o'clock
there was but little hope of their recovery.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 5.

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The September General Sessions commenced this
morning at the Guildhall, Westminster, before Mr.
Bodkin, Assistant-Judge; Mr. Creasy and Mr.
Payne, Deputies and the following magistrates
were present Gould, Mr. White, Mr. Dun-
nington Fletcher, Mr. Bashford, Mr. Beetham, Mr.
A. Harwood, Mr. A. Ballantine, and Mr. Bird.
The calendar contains the names of 111 prisoners,
of whom 99 aro charged with felony, and 112 with
misdemeanour.
The learned Assistant-Judge, in his charge to the
grand jury, called their attention to the state of the
calendar, and observed that it was with much sa-
tisfaction he could inform them, that though the
number of prisoners were unusually large this ses-
sion, it was not attributable to any increase of
crime, but to the fact of a longer period than usual
having elapsed since the last session. He would
avail himself of that opportunily to say, and it
afforded him a great deal of pleasure to be able to
mention the fact to the grand jury of Middlesex,
that he had perused the depositions in all the cases
which would come under their consideration, and
not one had reference in any way to the differences
at present existing, unfortunately, between the
employers and the employed in one of the most im-
portant branches of labour in this metropolis. It
might have been expected, not unreasonably, that in
so large a calendar at this critical juncture, when so
many* thousands of workmen and labourers were
thrown out of employment, there might have been
charges traceable to the strike, but there was not
one, which was a circumstance redounding to the
credit of all ; and he trusted that he should be able
to repeat the same observation so long as the unfor-
tunate dispute remained unsettled.
The grand jury then retired to their room.
Henry Thompson pleaded guilty to a charge of
picking the pocket of a female in an omnibus.
The Assistant-Judge said, having perused the
depositions, it was quite clear to his mind, although
the prisoner was not recognised by the officers,
that he was a person who had practised this sort of
robbery not for the first time in this instance. It
appeared that lie got into an omnibus and sat by
the side of the prosecutrix, whose pocket he dexter-
ously cut with instruments, and stole her purse;
fortunately he was detected. As the officers did not
know him, the probability was that he had but re-
cently come to London, in fact, his appearance indi-
cated that, and, in order to allow of inquiries being
made about him, the sentence would be deferred
till the next session, when, if anything. was ascer-
tained of his being previously engaged in this sort
of thibg, a, sentence of penal servitude would cer-
tainly be passed upon hiM. The public entrusted
themselves in these conveyances, and must be pro-
tected from being plundered by pickpockets. In
all such cases a severe example would be made ;
none but well experienced thieves attempted to
pick pockets in omnibuses.
Sentence deferred.

Wm. Harris, 22, was indicted for stealing a prin-
ter's composing stick, value 6s. 6d., the property of
Joseph Carter Wood and others, the treasurer and
trustees of the Reformatory Institution in Smith-
street, Westminster, of which he was an inmate.
He was found Guilty; and
The Assistant-Judge, after severely ailmonisbing
him for robbing so valuable an institution, the-ad-
vantages of which he was receiving, sentenced him
to three months' hard labour.
Wm, Box, 63, wood-turner, was indicted for
stealing 36 pieces of willow timber, the property
of Thos. Gardner.
Mr. Metcalf. was for the prosecution. The prisoner
defended himself, and exhibited a good deal of in-
genuity and cunning.
It appeared that some timber was consigned to
the prisoner from Swaffham, and while it lay at the
Eastern Counties Railway he sold it to the prose-
cutor for £l5 17s. 6d. He induced him to allow it
to remain in his name, and then went and sold it in
portions to other persons. The prisoner endeavoured
to make out that if responsible at all, it was civilly.
not criminally, as when he sold the wood it was
still in his name as the consignee, although he had
Previously sold it. or agreed to sell it to Gardner.
The learned Assistant Judge told the jury that if
they were of opinion that there was an absolute
sale to Gardnero odb
hisy, the subsequent dealing with the
w
owntlie prisoner, putting and his the proceeds
into
pocket, amounted to larceny. If the
prisoner were the bailee of the timber, his disposing
of it would make him liable to this charge under
the recent act.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the As-
sistant-Judge sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Henry Holy.land, and Thomas Emmerson
labourers, were indicted for stealing 70 lbs.of sugar,
the property of the -East and West India Dock
Company.
The prisoners were in the employment of Mr.

Fairclough, a carman, and were engaged in carting
sugar from the dock to Messrs. Goodhart's, Hooper-
square. The charge against them was that they
brake the bulk of one of the bags, and abstracted
about 701bs. of sugar. The case was rather compli-
cated, and Mr. Metcalfe, the counsel for the Dock
Company, opened it as one in which there was an
absence of absolute and positive proof of guilt.

The jury acquitted boih prisoners.
Mr. IVletcalte was for the prosecution ; Mr. J. P.
Doyle defended Holyland ; Mr. Langford defended
the other prisoneL
Henry Ellis, 19, and Thomas Jones,. 18, were
convicted of stealing a handkerchief from the per-
son of a female unknown, and assaulting and beat-
ing two police officers.
Jones had been repeatedly convicted.
The Assistant-Judge sent Jones to three years'
hard labour, and Ellis to :31X months' hard labour.
A great number of cases of larceny, chiefly from
the person, were disposed of.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 5.

MANSION-HOUSE.— ALLEGED MISAPPRO.
PRIATION OF A BILL OF LADING.—Mr. Nicol, o:
George-yard, Lombard-street, was re-examined be
fore the Lord Mayor and Sir R. W. Carden, upon
the charge of having converted to his own use a bill
of lading for 148 chaldrons of coal, which had been
entrused to him as a bailee, by Messrs. Fowles and
Co. of Water-lane, Tower-street.
Mr. ,Humphreys appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Sleigh for the defence.
At the request of Mr. Sleigh,
Mr. Henry Hunter, a partner in the house of the
prosecutors, was called into the witness-box, and to I
further questions in cross-examination gave the fol-
lowing additional evidence :—Mr. M'Gregor is a
clerk and traveller of ours ; not a partner. Before
I handed him the bill of lading to the defendant, it
was Mr. M'Gregor that had the dealings with the
defendant. I had seen the defendant once before
about this transaction. I had heard that the cargo
by the Eagle was sold, and was intended foz Cher-
bourg. Mr. M‘Grego.i went to the colliery district
with reference to their business, not with reference
to the cargo by the Speculation. He had no posi-
tive instructions in reference to the Speculation
cargo. I did not agree that the bill of lad-
ing for the Eagle cargo should be made out
in the name of John Nicol and Co. I did not
telegraph to Mr. M'Gregor. I gave Mr. Nicol
his address. I am not aware that the
coals by the Speculation were inferior coals. I be-
lieve there is a difference in the price of heap coals,
from ls. to 2s. less than nut coals. I have been in
the coal trade about two months. I have only one
partner, Mr. Francis John Fowles.
Mr. Nl‘Gregor was then called into the witness-
box and sworn, but was not questioned by either
side.
Mr. Sleigh said that his client, of whose respecta-
bility after what had been admitted so readily by
the Lord Mayor upon the first examination, it was
quite unnecessary to say a word, was prepared to
place in the hands of his lordship or Sir. R. W.
Carden the amount of the value of the coals, and to
abide by the decision of the Bench as to the claim
of either party. That offer had been made at the
commencement of the inquiry, and no hesitation
would take place if the Bench would consent to the
suggestion.
Mr. Humphreys said if the defendant chose to
hand over the money to the prosecutors, they would
have no objection, with the consent of the Bench,
to withdraw the prosecution. They had come for.
ward from no motives of a vindictive nature, and
wholly relied upon the justice of their case.
The Lord Mayor said the Bench could not pay
attention to the proposition for any arrangement of
the kind. •
Mr. Sleigh then contended that there existed no
pretence for the charge against Mr. Nicol, who
having been done once, was determined not to be
done again, and adopted such measures as he con-
sidered necessary for his own protection. It was
true the defendant had taken the law into his own
hands, but that he was the aggrieved party there
could not be the shadow of a doubt, any more than
that he had not committed any act approaching to
fraud or false pretence. Such a case would not, for
a moment, stand before a jury. ,
The Lord Mayor said he had a plain and painful
duty to perform, and considered that the case
clearly came under the act upon which the prosecu-
tion had been undertaken. The matter must
therefore be taken before a higher authority.
Mr. Nicol then addressed the Bench in the fol-
lowing terms :—I have simply to say that the
statement of Mr. Hunter is utterly untrue as re-
gards the conversation in Finch-lane. The bills of
lading were given to me on the express under-
standing that they wei e to be handed to Mr. Wig-
dhal, to enable him to send them to Cherbourg
that evening. Mr. Wigdhal had telegraphed to
Mr. M'Gregor to obtain the bills of lading, and
was ready to pay any extra expense there might
be to get them that afternoon. It was never un-
derstood that they were to be returned to him (Mr.
Hunter) in any case, and he well knew they were
sent off that afternoon. He gave them to me to see
if all was in order, .and if all was in order only was
he to come up at three o'clock for a settlement. I
have only to add, that I acted under the advice of
my solicitor in retaining those bills of lading, and
I only protected myself against what I considered
a common swindle, and I most indignantly deny
any intention of fraud.
The defendant was then committed for trial, but
his own recognisance for £l,OOO to appear at the
ensuing sessions, was accepted. •

MARYLEBONE.—ASSAULT AND HIGHWAY
ROBBERY.—John White, a very old offender, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with
having assaulted Wm. Byne, a plasterer, living at
9, Desborough-street, Harrow-road, and stolen from
him a silver watch, value £5.

It appeared from prosecutor's evidence that on
Saturday night last, while walking along Edge-
ware-road, the prisoner, who was accompanied
by
.another man, seized him tightly round the
waist, and asked him to " stand" some. drink.
He refused to do so, upon which the prisoner and
the other made off. Prosecutor, who had been
robbed of his watch, followed, and in the Marv-
lebone-road, seized hold of the prisoner, wlio
gave him a desperate blow on the head and
effected his escape. He pursued his assailant for
a long distance, crying " Stop thief" as loudly as he
could ; and he was at length captured by police-
constable Berne, 178 D, by whom he was conveyed
to the station-house. He was there searched, but
the watch was not found upon him.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re-
manded, in order to afford time for the officer to
trace the property, till Saturday next.
ASSAULTS ON THE POLlCE.—Charles Dean, a
labourer, and Mary I)ee, a prostitute, were charged
with being drunk and disorderly and violently
assaulting two constables, 343 D, and 371 A, while
in the execution of their duty.
For each of the assaults Dean was fined 15s. or
10 days, and Dee was fined 10s. or seven days in
the House of Correction.

SOUTHWARK.—BURGLARY AT A JEWELLER'S,
AND ATTEMPT TO STRANGLE A POLICEMAN.—
Humphrey Delorey, alias Daddy Windy, a despe-
rate character, well-known to the police, was
brought before Mr. Seeker, for final examina-
tion, charged with breaking into the dwelling-
house of Mr. John Gaisworth, jeweller, Etham-
place, Kent-street, and stealing therefrom four
watches, a card of rings, two silver spoons, and
other articles ; and William Mains and Elizabeth
Mains, were charged with rescuing him from the
custody of a constable, who was nearly strangled
by the man.
The prosecutor said, that at ten o'clock on the
night of the 18th ultimo, he fastened up his shop,
leading everything safe in the window. Shortly
afterwards he retired to rest, but about two o'clock
he was disturbed ty hearing a smashing noise in
the shop. He immediately got up, and proceeded
there, when he perceived two shutters down. He
raised an alarm, and then procured a light, when
he missed the articles above-mentioned from the
shop window. Two of the shutters had been forced
down, and a large thick square of glass broken.
He had since seen one of the watches at a pawn-
broker's.

Sergeant Wise, 12 M, said he was on duty in
Hunter-street, shortly after two o'clock in the
morning in question, when he heard a smashing of
glass close by. He ran into Kent-street, and saw
the prosecutor at his door, when he informed him
of the robbery. Having heard footsteps pass to-
wards the Bermondsey New-road, he turned down
Russell-place, having previously sent constables in
other directions. Witness said that he saw two
lads in a van, and as soon as lie approached, one of
them called out, "It's not me that did it, ?but
Daddy Windy," meaning the prisoner, and' Goosey
Harris." That lad was now in court as a witness,
in answer to a summons to compel him, but he (the
serge ant) was positive he had been tampered with
since the prisoner had been in custody. He was
apprehended on the day of the robbery, but rescued
from the officer with great violence. He was after-
wards retaken, after same resistance, by Clark and
Hunt, of the M division.
William Webber, a shoeblack, who had been
summoned to give evidence, on being sworn, said
he was found in the van by the sergeant, but he
never told him that the prisoner and " Goosey
Harris" did the robbery. He saw two men rush
out of the place, and as soon as they saw him they
ran back again. Neither of them was the prisoner.
Mr. Seeker asked if he did not tell. Sergeant Wise

that the prisoner " Daddy Windy" and " Goosey
Harris" did it.

He replied that he did not. The officer men-
ioned their names.

Mr. Seeker asked if there was any further evi-
dence against the prisoner.
Sergeant Wise replied in the negative.
Mr. Seeker—Then he must be discharged, but if
any positive evidence could be obtained against
him, he would again be apprehended.
William Mains, a rough-looking , fellow, and
Elizabeth Mains, his wife, were then charged with
rescuing him from custody.
George Hall, police constable 164 P, said he beard
of the robbery, and on the same afternoon he saw
the prisoner just discharged in Lock's-fields, and
the two prisoners at the bar were near him. He
told Delorey what he was charged with, and took
him into custody, and' after walking a little dis-
tance, he called out to Mains, who ran up and
seized witness with both hands round the throat
from behind, and nearly throttled him. He was
rendered incapable of holding Delorey any longer,
therefore he made his escape. He then had a
violent struggle with the male prisoner, who was
supplied with a knife by the female, and they both
attacked him. The man would have injured him
with the knife, only witness was too powerful for
them, as after about twenty minutes' struggling,
he succeeded in apprehending them.
• Mr. Seeker sentenced the man to three months'
hard labour, and the female to one month.

LAMBETH.—IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Jeremiah
Cavanagh, a cab-owner, and who was said to be a
member of a highly respectable Irish family, was
placed within the felon's dock, before Mr. Elliott,
and charged with the following daring robbery :
Sergeant Bell, 39 P, deposed that on Thursday
last he received information that on Thursday even-
ing before a cabman had been engaged to take a
gentleman from Grove-road, Camberwell, to the
London-bri3ge station, that while passing along
near the Elephant and Castle the driver drove his
-vehicle against an omnibus, thereby causing a con-
siderable collision, and on the gentleman jumping
out in a fright drove off without him, and with a
portmanteau, containing wearing apparel and other
property to the amount of nearly £5O. The pri-
soner, who was the driver, being without a badge
he found much difficulty in tracing him, and it was
not until last Saturday he could get any tidings of
him. On that day 'ho found him in custody at
Marlborough-street on a charge of drunkenness, and
there arrested him. The prisoner at first denied
having taken any fare from Camberwell, but subse-
quently said he knesy where the missing property
could be found, and on searching his house in Kings-
ford-street, Islington, he found the missing port.
manteau, with the lock and 'fastenings torn away,
but the whole of the contents, so far as could be at
present ascertained, safe.
Elizabeth Wright, servant to Mr. Landean, in
Camberwell-grove, said that on Tuesday week she
called the prisoner off the Camberwell stand, to take
Mr. Landean, who was going to Germany, to the
London-bridge station. The portmanteau produced
was placed on the cab, and some time after her mas-
ter returned, saying that the prisoner had driven
off, from near the Elephant and Castle, with the
property ; the consequence was that he was obliged
to start for Germany at great inconvenience, with
only a few things.
A cousin of the prosecutor said he had been to
Scotland-yard, and most of the police-stations in the
metro Polis, to inquire for the property, but could
hear nothing of it.
Mr. Lewis, jun., who attended for the prisoner,
affected to treat the matter with perfect indiffer-
ence. He said his client had acted stupidly, from
the effects of liquor, and of course made himself
amenable to a penalty under the Hackney Coach
Act, for notdelivering the property up to the police.
Mr. Elliott took a different view of the affair ;
and it having been statedthat another portmanteau,
with the lock broken off, was found in his house,
The prisoner was remanded for a week. •

THAMES.—ATTEMPTED SIIICICE BY AMARRIED
WOMAN —Anne Marshall,' a married woman,
living with her husband at 2, Alfred-street, Cam-
bridge Heath-road, was charged before Mr. Selfe
with attempting to commit suicide by hanging
herself with a cord. _

Henry Chefoner, engaged at the Effingham
Saloon,'Whitechapel, said that about twelve o'clock
that day he was passing the house in which the
prisoner resided, when he saw a large crowd in the
front of it, and he was told that she was hanging
some of her children in the kitchen. He looked
between the railings of the area and there saw
her with a rope round her neck, which she was
attempting to attach to a nail. He went into the
house and succeeded in preventing her carrying
her intention into effect. (The witness produced
the rope.)
Richard Marshall, the prisoner's husband, stated
that he was an engineer, and that when he left
home in the morning he stated that he would be
home at the usual time. He was sent for that day,
it being stated to him that his wife had attempted
to e mmit suicide.

Mr. Selfe—How can you account for her attempt
to destroy her own life?
Husband—She is full of jealousy. I cannot go
out but she is always following me, whether I go
to work or to have a pint of beer.
Prisoner (to her husband)—Let me be at liberty.
I will not do so again.
Husband--Only a short time ago she swallowed
some poison, when I took her to the London Hos-
pital, where she recovered.
prisoner—Forgive me this time, and I will not
do so again.
Mr. Selfe (to the husband)—Are you willing to
take her back ?
Husband—l will, sir, and hope she will not
offend again.
The prisoner was then discharged.

WOOLWICH.—DARING ESCAPE AND ROBBERY
BY ARTILLERYMEN.—Five artillerymen, named
James Waters, Wm. Hawthorne, 'Wm. Atkins,
James Johnson, and Wm. Williams, were placed at
the bar on remanded charges of stealing a large
amount of valuable property from the store-room
at the garrison, the property of various officers of
the Royal Artillery.
The four last-named prisoners made their escape
from the cells at. the Royal Artillery Barracks on
the night of the 27th ult., and on being captured
were delivered over by the military to the civil
authorities to be dealt with for the felony. The
following evidence was taken at thiseand the pre-
vious examination.
- Police-constable Looker, 295 R, deposed, early on
the morning of Sunday, the 28th ult., with the as-
sistance of another constable, he apprehended the
prisoner Williams in the Lower-road, Deptford, and
found in his possession four silver spoons, four sil-
ver forks, a silk scarf, and a purse containing trin-
kets. After he was in custody the prisoner said,
" It's a good job there are two of you, for I would
have settled one," and on being searched a life-
preserver was found in his possession.
Police-constable Watts, 70 It, proVed apprehend-
ing Johnson at Blackheath, on Sunday, the 28th
u' t., about noon ; and it was also proved that the
prisoner then gave up an officer's gold lace belt.
Police constable 235 R, deposed he saw Atkins
and another man near Lewisham village, and with
the assistance of a civilian he captured Atkins,
whose companion escaped by swimming across the
Ravensbourne. Atkins had in his possession an
officer's belt, two silver spoons, a gold ring, and a
satin scarf.

Police-constable APPherson, 50 R, proved appre-
hending. Hawthorne about 4 o'clock on the morning
of the 29th ult. He was in company with Waters,
and had in his possession three bottles of spirits.
On his way to the station-house the prisoner told
witness that hu was one of the men who had broken
out of barracks, and that he was a ticket-of-leave
man.

Mr. Turner, landlord of the Director-General
Tavern, Wellington-street, Woolwich, identified the
bottles of whisky as his property. He was aroused
by the police, and informed that his cellar flap had
been broken open, and he then found that his Cellar
had been entered, the fastening of the flap being
somewhat defective.

The evidence against Waters proved that he had
on his feet a lair of boots which had been stolen
from the Railway Tavern, King-street, Woolwich,
and which were now identified by the landlord, Mr.
Robert Bayee, who stated that his house was en-
tered by means of raising thA cellar flap; and the
thieves had endeavoured to enter the bar but were
unable to remove the bolts, although- a lock had
been taken off.

Corporal Thomas Morley, Royal Artillery, de-
posed, on the night of Saturday, the 27th ult., he
had charge oral' the prisOners, except Waters, and
at. 11 o'clock he saw them safe in a cell, with three
other, but at four o'clock the next morning he
found they lisd made their escape. Near the cell
door he found the blade of a table-knife, which had
been forwed into a saw, and with this instrument
a portion of the door post had evidently been cut
away, and the bolt thus released.
Evidence was then produced proving that the
stolen property belonged to Colonel Graydon, now
in India, and other officers.
The prisoners were now committed for trial. ,

WESTMINSTER.--VERY SINGULAR CASE.—
Mr. George Snowden, of 10, Vauxhall-bridge-road,
was summoned for a cab fare. . _

William Solomon, the complainant, said that at
a little after eleven on Saturday night week he was
called off the rank at King's-cross, by a woman, to
take up at 10, Toubridge-street, in that neighbour-

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•street, made more than a quarter of
an hour completed.

i
Defend: nt said that this was a most extraordinary
and inexp 'cable 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•
curved.

Defendant most positively denied the assertion.
He said he started from the Post• Office, 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 prove the gentleman had been drinking.
Mr. Daytnan 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 had 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 call
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 ca', and before he got into it.
Mr. Dayman asked witness how long previously
to that he 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.

WANDSWORTH. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
LICENSED VICTUALLERS.--THE TRAVELLER QIJES-
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
tra idlers or lodgers therein.
The eases 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. He 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 defendan t said he was not aware he 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

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 contnining 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 lolgers 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 pipe.
In the third case Sergeant Blanchard said he
visited the house about half-past four o'clock. He
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 detned what was a traveller and what was
not. It was quite idle to suppose that persons coin-
ing do xn by the railway a journey of only about
ten minutes or a quarter of an hour required re-
freshment, and were to be 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 RibBIIED OF £1,200 IN A BANK:
A robbery to the above serious amount took place in ono of
the Manchester banks on Friday. A little before two o'clock
in the afternoon, a gentleman representing a firm in Roch-
d ale. to receive some mtMey, 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 put 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
what had occurred, and information of the robbery was
communicated at the dTtective office. The numbers of the

notes are known, and officers were promptly despatched in
various directions, and other means adopted with the view
of obtaining some trace of the expert thief.

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suit the feeblest frame or strongest woman. This ointment
and these pills are applicable in every disease peculiar to
females, whether in youth or at the critical period. They
operate by purifying the blood and expelling all noxious
substances likely to p-oduce disease. They give tone to
the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and regulate every tuna-

THE LEEDS MURDER.-STARTLING
DISCLOSURE&

Some startling information has come to the
bliowledge of the Leeds police. On Saturday night
J ames Smales, a collier, from Whitwood, near Nor-
mtantown, went to the shop of Mr. Barrass, the
p awnbroker in Dyer-street (the shop where the
'atch of the murdered man Broughton was pledged)
a; ad tendered a ticket for the watch. Mr. Barrass
at: once took him to Mr. English, the chief constable.
Y esterday morning Mr. English went over to
Whitwood, and saw John Fawcett and Andrew
Battye, both colliers. They stated that on
t he Monday after the murder they met a young
can at Castleford, named Charley Norming-
ton, in the street, and adjourned to a beer-house.
Normingtorr said he came from 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 pact 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-
proached 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 toes ; has a round 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 a
brown cloth cap, with peak ; and a pair of don
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 AGAINST' A SUR
LEON.--EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

On Saturday last Mr. Charles Alleyne Chevasse,
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 case 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 previously to appear and
give her statement, and Mr. Chevasse having had
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 ago she entered the
service of Mr. Chevasse, no other person besides
herself and this gentleman being inmates of the
house. When she had been there about three
months Mr. 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 investiga-
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 one of the out-
rage, and on the last Sunday in May Mr. 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
some worse, but gradually became weaker and
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 Smethwick, 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 sal'
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
and Mr. Tovhsend, 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 Mr.
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-street,
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. Chevasse 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 immo-
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 woman, 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.
Green, 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 Mr. Chevasse s
conduct to his servant. He (Mr. Allen)
had,
also prepared to show that if Mr. Chevasse
as Harriet Gill required, advanced her money to
o
set herself up in a mall way of business
charges,notihng
whatever would have been heard of these
which so deeply affected the character and posi-
tion of a medical man. Thistraitin theee ctahsee evinced
a degree of cunning antagonistic
monomania. Finally, Mr. Allen asked of the
magistrates to give Mr. Chevasse credit for the.
solemn denial he made of the shocking Flinger
raised against him.
After consulting with Mr. Thurstleld (Wednes-
bury), who acted for Mr. Hebbert, and with Mr.
Bodington, Mr, Sharp said that so far as their
opinion went Mr. Chevasse stood free from charges
which effected hi o so vitally, The matter as
against him must be amassed. Of course if the .

charges were persevered in, Mr. Chevasse Would
take the course he might be advised.
Mr. Cheasse and his friends, accompanied by
Mr. Allen,v then bowed and retired.Birminghant
Post.