The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OP SWINDLING.—At the Central
Criminal Court, before the Common Serjeant, Edmund
Maude and Herman Meyer, or Liddell, two respectably-
dressed men, were indicted for conspiring together to steal
five dock warrants, each for the delivery of a pipe of wine.
Maude was also charged with stealing the warrants, and
Meyer with feloniously receiving one of them knowing it
to have been stolen. The circumstances of-the case were
of a very peculiar character. The prosecutor, Mr. Hal-
ford, who was not regularly engaged in business, bought
five pipes of wine, and the warrants were delivered to him on
the 16th October last. On that afternoon he saw Mande turn.
ing out of Cannon-street, and the latter told him that he
was a partner in the firm of Garment, Nunns, and Co.,
Water-lane, and said he would buy the wine and give a
bill for the amount, as he could not pay cash. Prosecutor
said that was of no use to him, as he wanted cash, and he
replied, "I have friends in Hatton-garden who will dis.
count it for you," alluding to the other prisoner, Meyer,
who was at that time carrying on business as Liddell and
Co., at BG, Hatton-garden. The parties subsequently
met, and it was arranged that the prosecutor should go to
Hatton-garden and get the money, Maude te'ling
him that " Liddell and Co." were first-class people.
Next morning the prosecutor met Maude at the ci-irecir of
Hatton .garden, and the latter told him that he had just
been at Liddell's, who was not in, but that he should ho
bnek in a hour, and suggested that they should go to the
Bull public house. They went there, and Maude asked
Lim if he had got a receipt, to which prosecutor replied in
the negative. In half an hour Maude went away, and after
an absence of twenty minutes he returned, saying
"It is all right, Liddell is in now," and he
i-roduced a receipt stamp and asked for a re-'
ceipt, which the prosecutor refused to give to
him until he bad seen Liddell. The prosecutor then
went to Liddell's for the purpose of getting the money,
leaving the warrants lying on the table, but be was nol in.
Prosecutor, however, met him hi the passage as he was
about to leave, and Liddell told him to come back again
in an hour. Prosecutor replied that Mande told him he
(Liddell) would give him the cash immediately, awl-
asked him if he had seen Maude. Liddell did not reply
to the question, but asked, " Where is Maude ? " and
prosecutor told him he was in the Bull. They
then went to the Bull, but Maude and the
warrants were gone. It subsequently appeared that
Meyer sold one of the warrants while the
_trait..,etiens
narrated above were taking place ; and that at the Cute
he had only a few shillings at his banker's. Tie- ;:try_
found both the prisoners guilty, and Mande was set.' eeee 1
to eighteen months' hard labour, and his compattioi it
was on the preceding day convicted of fraud) was or td:
to be kept in penal servitude for five years.
THE WEST-END DRESSMAKERS. —At the Marlborourii.
street Police-court, Mr. John Venice, milliner and dress.
maker, George-street, Hanover-square, was summon
before Mr. D'Eyncourt by Dr. Allis, medical officer oil
health for St. George's, for unlawfully employing certaid
women after half-past four o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Aldis, as the medical officer for St. George'Ass
Hanover-square, had summoned the defendant for an in-
fringement of the 4th clause of the Workshops Regulation
Act, by allowing women to work after half-past four o'clock
on the 2nd of May. He had twice 'before complained to the
defendant that he had infringed the Act, and had reported
the circumstance to the vestry, but proceedings were not
instituted because the defendant promised to comply with
the Act. Another complaint baying been sent to the vestry
he went to the defendant's house, and having heard what
several young women in his employ had to state, he instf+
tuted the present proceedings. Witness said that the
premises were large and well ventilated, the young
women appeared to be well taken care of, and be had only
to complain of this breach of the Act. Mr. D'Eyncourt
said the Act was intended to prevent heavy and undue
work being done by yeung, women. In the present case
the witnesses appeared to be in good health and well
treated, but still there bad been a breach of the Act. If
the defendant would promise it should not occur again ho'
would only inflict a nominal fine—viz, ls. and the costs.
ACTION AGAINST MR. TORRENS, M.P.—ln the Court of
Common Pleas, the case of Tommey v. Torrens was heard,
It was an action against Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, M.P.
for Finsbury, to recover damages on the ground that he
had improperly detained some documents entrusted to
him for the purpose of presenting a petition to the
House of Commons, praying for inquiry into
some proceedings in the House of Lords in reference
to an appeal 'in which the plaintiff was interested.
At the trial before Mr. Justice Byles, the
plaintiff was nousuited, and the question now was
whether a rule should be made absolute to enter a verdict
for the plaintiff for nominal damages.—Mr. H. Williams
appeared to Flew cause, and the plaintiff appeared in per-
son to support it.—Mr. Justice Keating said that the
court had listened to the notes of the evidence taken at
the trial, and they had also heard what Mr. Tommey had
to say. The conclusion which they had come to was, there
was no sufficient or reasonable evidence of wrongful deter!,
tion on the part of the defendant that would justify then,
iu entering a verdict as prayed by this rule.—Rule
charged.

A meeting of the Liberal party of the University
of London has been called for Wednesday next, at the
Freemasons' Tavern.

WIFE MURDER. —A farmer named William Hay-
ward, residing at Compton, near Martock, Somersetshire,
shot his wife whilst she was busy churning before the fire
in the kitchen of his house.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME.—Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Mary Adelaide has promised to open the
additional wing which has been added to the Home at the
expense of Mr. John Parson, and the Infirmary, the funds
for which have been subscribed by the readers of the
Quiver. The opening ceremony will commence at three
o'clock on Wednesday, the 3rd of June.

MRS. HOWARD PAUL.—This lady, after devoting
several years to. " entertainments," has returned to tho
stage, and has appeared with marked success in Birming-
ham and Liverpool, in Offenbach's opera of " The Grand
Duchess." Her vivacity as an actress, and extraordinary
capabilities as a singer, peculiarly fit her for that class of
Comic opera which is now so popular in Europe.
. _ _

Her l‘ll' accompanied by the
junior mell
crossed over from
Osborne to Gosport on Friday afternoon in the Alberta
lieestY Royallle Queen, accompanied
royal steam yacht, Staff• Commander David N. Welch.
brs of
The Queen left the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard at
Gosport for Windsor in a special train, at ten minutes
past four. The royal party reached Windsor Castle in
the evening.

Lord Chief Justice Bovill has, we learn from the
Solicitor's Journal, appointed his son, Mr. William Bovill,
to the clerkship of assize on the Western Circuit, vacant by
the death of Mr. Thomas Edward Chitty. The Chief
Justice was senior judge on that circuit in \he spring, and
it is in that capacity that the gift of the clerVship of assize
has fallen to him. Had the office not been vacant until
the commission for the summer circuit had been made
out, the senior judge at the approaching assizes would
have had the appointment to dispose of.

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