The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1868.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)

LLOYD V. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a
student at the bar, for compensation for injuries
sustained in consequence of the negligence of the
servants of the company.
The plaintiff's case was that he was returning
from Greenwich on the evening in question, when
in consequence of the careless manner in which one
of the trucks of the company had been left on the
line, he received an injury from it that to an extent
disabled him from following his professional duties.
The company contended that the plaintiff
himself had caused the accident. He had been
dining with some friends at Greenwich, and on his
quitting the train he heedlessly pashed the truck,
and hence the injury.
The company, after the trial had proceeded some
time, agreed to a proposition of giving the plaintiff
£2O as-compensation, they at the same time with-
drawing all imputation against the plaintiff.

FOLICE IN TELLIGENCE.—This Day.

THE LATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER BY A LUNATIC.—James
Ncechdl, solicitor's clerk, was brought up at Clerkenwell,
on remand, on the charge of discharging a loaded re-
volver at Thomas Cba,tterton, with intent to murder him.
Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-
road, defended the prisoner.—lt will be recollected that on
the morn!ng of the sth inst. Thomas Chatterton was
walking along Compton-street, Clerkenwell, when the
prisoner; who is a solicitor's clerk, and known in the pro-
fession as " Mad Needles," went behiinl him, drew
a revolver, and shot him in the neck. Chatter-
ton then ran away, but was followed by the
pris,oner, Nir7io fired three more shots at him,
none of which took effect. ITe vats secured, and
thirty-seven bullets found upon him. At, the last exami-
nation it W.lB clearly proved that for some considerable
length of time he had laboured under the delusion that
he was being followed by a number of men. This
morning a certificate was receiveci from Mr. Smiles,
the surgeon to the House of Dettion. which stated
in effect that since the
.prisoner's incarceration a watch had
been kept upon him, and he appeared to be labouring
under delusions.—Mrs. Chatterton, th 3 wife of the injured
man, said she had seen her husband, and that he was still
unable to attend.—Mr. Ricketts said the bullet bad not
yet been extracted, and he had no objection to a remand.—
The prisoner was then remanded.

' ALLEGED BIGAMY BY A POPULAR SnmEn.—Mr. Levitt,
from the office of Mr. Cooper, solicitor, applied to Mr.
Burcham, at the Soiithwark Police-court, for a warrant to
apprehend Mr. William Thomas, a popular singer known
to the public by the name of " Lingard," for bigstnly.
He was in a position to prove that six years ago he mar-
ried Miss Minnie Foster, a popular actress at present
performing at an East-end theatre, and that on the 26th
of Juir., 1866, he married Miss Alice Ann Dowsing,
before the Registrar at Bristol, in the name of William
Needham. He (applicant) afterwards produced certifi-
cates of both =vines, and would bo able to produce the
mixing witness as soon as Mr. Thomas, otherwise Lingard,
was apprehended. Ho was hiding away, and they wanted
a warrant to enter the house they suspected him to be con-
cealed in.—Mr. Burch am: I shall not grant a warrant under
any such circumstances. You must give him into custody
when you can find him.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.