The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-31 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

RISK ALLAH AND HIS DAMAGES IN THE RECENT
LIBEL CASE.—At the Lord Mayor's Court, the Recorder
gave judgment in an application which bad been made to
discharge an order for attaching the £9OO which had been
awarded Risk Allah in the action for libel against the pro-
pr;etois of the Daily Tehy.-apit new3paper. 'the plaintiffs
were the City Offices Company (Limited), and it being
averred C:at tie defendant, Risk Allah, was indebted to

the company, it was sought to attach the amount of the
damages in the hands of the garnishees, the proprietors of
the paper. The defendant contended that this ought not
to be done, as judgment had not been signed. The learned
Recorder refused to make the order.
THE MURDER OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. —After
an examination which lasted the whole of the day, the grand
jury returned a true bill against George Harris, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of a commercial traveller,
named Barnard Zusma.n, at Stirehley, on the 15th of Novem-
ber last. Since the committal of the accused additional
evidence has been obtained. which will be forthcoming at
the trial, which it is expected from the complicated nature
of the evidence, will last at least two days.

FORGING t POST OFFICE SAVINGS' BANK RECEIPT—
Rosetta Birley was charged at the Manchester Assizes
with forging a Post Office Savings Bank receipt for £35.
In being called upon for her plea, the prisoner said that
what she had done was done under the unfluence of her
husband. Prisoner bad been lodging with a man who
passed as her husband at the house of a woman named
Mary Boucher, at IVaiham Greenwith. They disappeared
from their lodgings, and at the same time a large amount
of property was missed belonging to Miss Boucher, includ-
ing a post•ofiice savings bank book. Subsequently it was
ascertained that the prisoner had presented the book at
the Knot Mill Branch Bank, Manchester, and obtained
the money on a forged order. Being found guilty the
accused was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.

SHOOTING A TENANT AT SCARBOROUGH.—At the York
Assizes, Thomas Lee was indicted for shooting at William
Constantine with intent to murder him. The prisoner
was landlord of some houses at Scarborough, one of which
was inhabited by the prosecutor, who owed some arrears of
rent. On the 4th May the prisoner threatened the pro-
secutor, and on the 30th rushed into his house and
demanded the rent. A dispute ensued as to the repairs of
the premises, and the prisoner cried out, " I'll settle you,"
and Constantine, being alarmed, rushed into the next
apartment, but was quickly followed by the prisoner, who
fired a pistol at his tenant, and severely wounded him.
An alarm was at once given, and Lee was taken into ens-
' tody, but not before he had endeavoured to put an end to
his own existence. The jury found the accused guilty,
and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
DAMAGES FOR SHOOTING A MAN. —At the same assizes
an action was brought by the widow and children of the
late George Bulmer for damages sustained by his death,
which took place as alleged through the negligence of a
youth, named Harris. The deceased was a master builder
living at Middlesborough, and the defendant is a boy of
about 19. One day last autumn the deceased, the defen-
dant, and four friends were engaged in pigeon shooting.
The deceased, who was waiting for his gun, was standing
behind the line of shooters, about 31t. or 41t. from them, and
3ft. or 4ft. from the.boundary fence of the field. A pigeon,
which was slightly wounded, flew behind the shooters, and
when it was quite in the rear the defendant fired at it,
and in doing so shot the deceased through the head,
causing instantaneous death. The defence was that the
deceased contributed to the accident by standing where he
did. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 22;.70.
ALLEGED EXTENSIVE-FRAUD.—At Marylebine
Police-
court, Henry Bedwell, described as the secretary to the
Foreign Girls' Protection Sccicty, of 20, Pelham-crescent,
Brompton, was brought up in custody charged with
fraudulently obtaining possession of a horse and brougham
from Richards and Co., Phenix-yard, Oxford-street.
The prisoner, it appeared, went to Messrs. Richards and
produced a prospectus of a society having the above head-
ing, and said he was to engage a horse and brougham, by
order of the committee, for the l urpeses of the society.
Since the hiring it was ascertained the society bad no
and the pris,ner was given into custody. A
second case was gone into where prisoner obtained five
hair brindles, as he stated, for the girls in the " Htme."
The prisoner pawned them the same day. As it is expected
a number of cases will be bronght against hint, Mr. Mans-
field remanded him.

THE BENI.LOCO-Zorc A nAps.—At the Southwark
Police-court, Hadji Ali Ben labommed, the sheik of the
Beni-Zoug-Zoug Arabs, performing at the Cry6tal Palace!,
was summoned by two of the troupe, named II adj Abdallah
and Mahommed Ben Ilmsein, for unlawfully detaining a
quantity of wearing apparel and cos: uJi e 3, their property.
The complainant had been engage,l with the rest of the
troupe to come from Morocco to perform in London, nd
their engagements having expired, they demanded their
apparel, which the defendants refused to give up. The
case was adjourned in order that the consul may attend.