The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE VALUE OF A WIFE.—At the Gloucester AssTzes Hie
court was engaged in trying a case where Mr. Chandler,
a draper, residing at Swindon, brought an action for
damages against the Great Western Railway Company on
account of the loss of his wife, who, he alleged, had been
killed through the negligence of the defendants. It
appeared that on the evening of the 9th of
Dctober, the plaintiff's wife travelled from Woot-
'on Basset to Swindon by the defendant's line. The
evening was wet and dark, and on arriving at the station
Mrs. Chandler went over a level crossing by which the
public were allowed to go from the station in order to
meet the omnibus, when she was knocked on to the rails
by a milk van, and run over by a train that had been
" kicked off " so as to run by itself into the shed.
The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for £750 damages,
£5OO of that sum to go to the plaintiff, and £25 each to his
ten children.

DARING ROBBER:T.-At the Clerkenwell Police-court,
Thomas .Jones, a young man, was charged with an
audacious robbery. The complainant, Mr. S. Wilson,
said that on the previous night he was passing along the
Essex-road, when the prisoner asked him if he knew a
)crs on named Tyler, and before there was time for an
Answer the prisoner made a snatch at Mr. Wilson's chain,
)roke it, and ran away with his watch. The prosecutor
;ave chase, but soon lost sight of the prisoner. The
accused, who reserved his defence, was fully committed for

GAROTTE ROBBERY IN THE BOROUGIL—At Southwark
Police-court William Cochrane and William Smith, two
men who are connected with a desperate gang of
thieves, were charged with garotting Mr. John Gottlieb
Ulrich, and robbing him of a gold watch and pocket-book,
containing valuables. It seems that when near the
London-bridge Termini, about 12.45 on the previous
morning, the prosecutor was seized by the throat and
nulled backwards on to the ground. Cochrane was the
man that was guilty of this outrage, as the prosecutor
was enabled to obtain a good view of his face by the
gaslight. When on the ground Smith took the watch and
pocket-book out of the prisoner's pockets, who was so
seriously injured that he was unable to call out. When
he was trying to rise, with a view of pursuing the prisoners,
he was assisted by a man and woman to the station-house.
The prisoners were committed to Newgate for trial.

A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER CHARGED WITH FELONY.—
at Clerkenwell Police-court, Robert Heath, the proprietor
f the Express Coffee House, was charged with stealing a
cash-box, containing £llO, the property of Mr. Fielder,
chemist and druggist. The complainant swore that on the
2nd ult. he went to bed at the prisoner's coffee-house, and
could remember nothing that happened until the 16th,
when he found himself at the University College
Hospital. A medical gentleman said that the
witness had been suffering from delirium tremens.
A cabman proved driving a man from the pri•
Boner's to an ironmonger's shop, and afterwards to a
public-house, where he saw the accused, who, addressing
the other man, said, " Pay him (meaning the cabman)
well." At the time that the man came out of the
prisoner's house he had a cashbox hid under
his cloak. The ironmonger in question said he saw the
man referred to by the last witness, and he wanted the
lock of a cash-box picked. Witness could not pick it, but
unsoldered it, and saw that the box contained gold and
papers. When the man went away he left a statement of
accounts relating to a chemist and druggist, but after-
wards returned and took it away. This witness swore
that the box produced, which the prosecutor identified as
his, was the one he unsoldered. The prisoner was
remanded.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER OF A NAVAL OFFICER.—At
the Hammersmith Police-court, a rough-looking man,
named James Brooks, was charged with causing the death
of Augustus T. J. Bullock, a lieutenant in the royal navy,
and son of Admiral Bullock, of Teddington. It seemed
that on Saturday evening the prisoner came into Chip.
perton's beerhouse, North End, followed by the deceased,
and Brooks said, " My good friend, go away ; what do
you want following me ?" The deceased made some reply,
and immediately struck the prisoner on the forehead with
his fist, and he fell down. The prisoner lifted
him up, and the lieutenant again reeled and fell
down two steps on to the brick pavement in front of the
house. The accused then caught hold of the deceased's
legs and pulled him down another step on to the road.
The accused then jumped into his cart, in which his wife
was seated, and was driving in the direction of the
deceased, when his wife cried out, " He will drive over
him." Some person then caught hold of the deceased and
dragged him on to the path. The prisoner was remanded,
bail being accepted for his appearance.
THE LATE TAILORS' STRlKE.—Patrick Fitzpatrick, a
journeyman tailor, was charged with assaulting a fellow.
workman. The prisoner was a unionist, and the com-
plainant one who, in the late strike, refused to turn out ;
and the assault, it was alleged, arose out of a revenge-
ful feeling left behind by the recent dispute. A con-
siderable number of men worked in the same shop,
and were in the habit of hissing and groaning at the com-
plainant, and the accused on the day in question threw a
metal can at the complainant and struck him on the head.
Mr. Knox said that, stripped of its unionist surroundings,
the case would not be serious, but, as it was, he should
commit the prisoner for trial.