The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN Irtrem BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—In the Irish
-loud of Queen's Bench an action for breach of promise
:o marry was brought by a Miss Sarah Persse, of Galway,
tgainst Captain Rupert Brady, of the 2nd Regiment.
Cie case was, however, amicably settled on the defendant
oromising to pay over the sum of £2OO to two charities to
3e named by the lady, that he should my, all costs of the
solicitors, and that the conditional promise suggested by
'e defence should be withdrawn.

STRANGE CHARGE OF LIBEL--At Bow-street Police=
zourt, Mr. Albert E. Elsworthy, solicitor, and Messrs. C.
and E. Wyman were charged with publishing a pamphlet
iontaining a libel on Mr. Thomas Cannon, journalist'.
the first named was charged with writing and publishing,
and the others with printing, a malicious libel, which
was contained in a pamphlet entitled " The Persecution
)f a Solicitor." The defendants Wyman maintained
that they had simply received the document in
the course of business, and bad printed it in
entire ignorance of its contents. They offored a full
spology for their share in the publication, but Mr.
Elsworthy refused to retract any of his statements. The
:omplainant, moreover, would not consent to receive an
vology. Mr. Vaughan sent the case for trial.

WIFE CHARGED WITH FORGERY.—At Marlborough-
:treet, Catherine Allen, the wife of a cattle dealer, and
Charles Prince, a butcher, were charged with forging
xn order for the payment of 002 9s. 3d. The prosecutor,
who was the bust:land of the first-named prisoner, had nO
reason to expect an improper intimacy between
ais wife and Prince until about a week ago,
shen they eloped, and it was subsequently discovered
:hat a large quantity of proper 4 ,r was missing. A short
ime previously the prisoner had £9OO in the London and
Westminster Bank, but after the departure of his wife the
deposit note was missing, and on inquiries being made it
vas ascertained that the money had been withdrawn, the
)rder bearing IV;lliam All,n's signature. Information
was given to the volice, and the prisoners were appre-
hended just a 5 they were leaving Queenstown for America.
On the female tirisoner a large sum of money was found,
which included six £lOO notes which were identified as
those received from the bank. Other articles found in
possession of the prisoners were identified, as belong-41g to►
prosecutor. A remand was asked for and granted.

ACTION FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED.-At the Oxford
Assizes, Mr. Haslam, an auctioneer, residing at Reading,
)ronght an action against the Great Western Railway
Company, to recover damages for injuries received at the
defendants' station. T plaintiff was walking quickly
across the defendants' platform at the Castle Carey sta.
Lion, when he fell over a trolly that had been left in the
way, and was so injured that he had to be
attended by a medical man for nearly three months. For
the defence it was urged that the platform was well
ighted, that the trolly was not in the plaintiff's
way, and that he must have diverged from the straight
course to have come near it. The jury awarded 40s.
damages, but the learned judge refused to certify for
costs.

VIOLENT ASSAULT BY GAMEKEEPERS.-At the same
assizes William Teale and Isaac Waters were indicted
for wounding Henry Rolfe, at Inkpen, on the Ist of
January. The prisoners were keeper and underkeeper
respectively, and Rolfe was an innkeeper at Inkpen. On
the afternoon of the last New Year's Day Rolfe went to
Hungerford on business, and returned to Inkpen in the
evening. At about quarter past seven o'clock he
was standing at the gate of his father's garden,
when the two prisoners drove by in a dogcart.
Rolfe ran after the cart for the purpose of having
company into Inkpen, overtook it, and put his
hand on a wing stretching over the wheel. Teale
turned and asked him who he was. He said "Rolfe." This,
however, was denied by the prisoners. Teale was said to
have known Rolfe, and to have been at his house some
twelve months before. Teale, however, took up some
weapon—probably a life-preserver--and struck him on the
side of the face, and then drove on. Rolfe followed and
again overtook them, and then the dog-cart was stopped,
and the two prisoners got down, and Teale again struck
Rolfe severely. The defence was that the prisoners did
not recognise Rolfe, but thought that some person intended
to rob them. Waters was acquitted, and Teale having
been found guilty of unlawfully wounding, was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.

STRANGE CASE or ARSON.-At the Hertford Assizes
John Monk, 18, and v ohn Saville. 17, were indicted for
wilfully setting fire to a malthouse, a barn, and other
buildings, occasioning a damage of £1.500. Saville had
previously been employed in the service of Mr. Wm. Stacey
Spencer. The prisoner had left on friendly terms. Such
being the case, suspicion never fell on him till some time
after the fire, when a man named Dednem said that on the
night of the fire Saville said that he meant having a
good blaze before going home, and soon afterwards
;he fire broke out. When apprehended Saville said
that the other prisoner set the thatching of the
malthouse on fire with a lucifer. Monk was then
apprehended, but charged the other prisoner with the
commission of the offence. When the prisoners were
under examination before the magistrate they both
declared that they were innocent, and each threw the
blame of the transaction upon the other. There was this
additional piece of evidence in the case, that the prisoners
appeared to,have taken a box of lueifers from the beer-
shop where they had been during the evening, and th!e
box was found floating in a pond close to the scene of tb•
conflagration. The jury found both prisoners guilty, and
Mr. Justice Willes sentenced Saville to ten and Monk to
seven years' penal servitude. The prisoners left the dock
laughing.

COMBINATION OF Wronx-mEN.—A bill has been
laid before the House of Commons by Sir T. F. Buxton
and Mr. R. Young, to repeal and amend the laws relating
to trade societies and combinations of workmen. The bill
declares that certain existing Acts and the common law as
applicable to combinations which it proposes to repeal are
prejudicial to the interests of workmen and restrictive of
the right of free association. It therefore provides that
personal violence or intimidation with the object of
enforcing conditions upon which labour service shall be
rendered shall be punishable with three months' imprison.
ment and bard laboar. The mere fact of a combination
for trade purposes is not, however, to be deemed a conspi.
racy. Trade societies are, indeed, to be legalised when
their object is mutual relief, and they do not seek to
(=Pose penalties of a restrictive character respecting the
terms and mode upon which service shall be rendered.
Provision is also made for the punishment of offi2ere coin.
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