The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-09 00:00:00

CRIMEVAL COURT, July 8.

THIRD' COURT. - •
(Before the Recorder.)
John Nicholas Walters and Claude Edwards., 27,
both described as surgeons, were indicted for ob-
taining money by Rise pretences, and also with
conspiring to defraud divers persons.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted;. Mr. J. P. Doyle
and Mr. PDonnell defended.

The fist case gOne into against the prismiers was
that of a Miss Hanley, who stated that
,in conse-
quence of an advertisement which she saw she went
to Spring-gardens, to an establishment called the
Ear Dispensary. On the door there was a plate
with the name of Dr. Walters. The door was
opened to her by a footman, and she first saw Ed-
wards, who showed her in to Dr. Walters: She
told him she had come to consult him about a deaf-
ness under which she laboured. She at that time
wore trumpets, and he, after looking at her ears,
said she would not want them after the next day,
and that he had cured himself, and had that day
seen 60 patients. She was to give him £lO. She
paid £3, for which Edwards gave her a receipt.
She said to Edwards that if it did not cure her she
should call again; and. he said, " If Dr. Walters
says it will cure you it will." They gave her some
lotion, but it did her no good. She afterwards
called three times, but did not see Walters. He
said he would. send, but did not. They gave her
some more medicine, and wished her to give 305.,
but she would not. She saw a dark man that time.
At last she again saw Dr. Walters, and he said he
would send her some more medicine, but he did not,
and she sent him a lawyer's letter.

Several other witnesses were called, and proved
that they had been defrauded by the prisoners in a
similar way. To one of them the prisoner Ed-
wards said, " Our specific for ear diseases was a
Chinese remedy, which he had discovered when
over there." Another applicant he pressed to
become a life subscriber to their infirmary.
Edwards had also been a witness at these sessions
against a Mr. Ambrose Haynes, who was charged
with passing himself off as Dr. Walters, and who
was acquitted.
A quanty of the stuff sold by the prisoners was
produced in court, and sworn to be only soap and
urine, in some instances coloured with cochineal.
The evidence against the prisoners, which was
gone into at great length, most clearly established
the conspiracy, and the jury, at once found. them
both gailty.
It was stated that Walters, otherwise Watters,
had above twenty years ago been charged with
arson, and had suffered, six months' imprisonment
for making a false declaration respecting a surgeon's
certificate.
The Recorder sentenced them each to 18 months'
imprisonment.
(Before the Common Sergeant..)
Isaac Higinbotham, 20, French polisher, was in-
dicted for stealing a cashbox, six spoons, and £4OO
in money, the property of Elizabeth Sutton, in the
dwellinghouse of Frances Martindale.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Barry prosecuted; Mr.
Lilley defended.
The circumstances of this case were somewhat
peculiar. Frances Martindale is an old. lady of
one hundred years of age, and she lives with
two daughters in the Broadway, Plaistow. She,
as well as one of those daughters, is paralysed.
The prosecutrix is another daughter, and relate
at Hoxton. The money in question, some p
and the probate of a will were left with the
mother for safety, and used to be kept locked
in a chest of drawers in the front parlour of the
leftoentithnle g
y.
houselehouse at Plaistow. The prisoner is the husband
of a niece of the prosecutrix, and had been in the
then
velionlg
habit of
co f visitingafternoon,
Mrs.Plaistow.t suttol On nn theh e2r3pdaorfa
IyMay,paralysed
i
daughter were alone in the house, the former being
alone in the front parlour, when some one came in
dressed in a shawl and gown
street and
door
b to the
other daughter. The person so dressed went to
l
thhaesticly,
hessthuotftindgrawtheers
other daughter had by this time come in from the
back of the house, and hearing the
noise went into
the passage, where she found a gown and shawl
belonging. to her, which but an hour before she had
seen safe in the room b
a ove lying as if taken off in
haste. The drawers had
been forced and the cash-
box was gone.

Two witnesses swore to seeing the prisoner leave
he house at the time of the robbery.
He was found guilty, and sentence was deferred.

THE SEAL FISHERY.—LERWICK, July 2.—The
Sisters, from Iceland, arrived here yesterday, has returned
without success, and reports that the fishing has been a
failure.
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTES. Bills
brought in by the law officers of the late (Derby) Ministry,
Mr. Whiteside, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, • and Mr. Walpole, are
now before Parliament for the consolidation of the statute
law relating to-1, punishment ; 2, offence agaisst the
person ; 3, malicious injuries ; 4, personation ; 5, coinage
offences ; 7, criminal writings ; 8, larcency ; 9, public
justice offences ; 10, oaths ; and 11, forgery. They await
their second reading in the House of Commons, and are
already in print.

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