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London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

LA vv i,v l'ELLilit-NUE.
SECONDARIE' COURT. Aug 8.
(Refere Mr. Secondary JAMES )
FIELD AND ANOTHER V. MEADER.
The plaintiffs in this action are brewers, and the defendant
was landlord of the Ship Tavern, Essex-street, Strand. The
action was brought to recover the sum of 101. 15s. 61., the
balance of an account to which defendant claimed a set-off of
91. 15s. 6d., and paid I/. into court.
The case occupied the whole of the morning. and the ques-
tion was whether the defendant was bound to pay for the
writing of the names of the plaintiffs on the sign hoard. The
ease entirely rested on the credit of the witnesses. The
plaintiffs' agent swore positively that he only gave an order for
work to be done to the amount of 21. os. On the contrary, the
painter deposed that he was in the habit of working for plain.
tiffs 'generally • that he was told to do anything defendant
ordered, but defendant said he would not give any orders. The
agent then said he must do anything wanted, and he did so, and
was paid by defendant by order of Sivewright.
Witnesses were called and recalled on each side to bear out
the alleged conversation, still leaving the case in the same
doubt.
Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defendant, urged that it was
ilifenly improbable that. the painter would, if he swore falsely,
th so for the defendant (who. in all probability, would never
have the necessity of again employing him) when he was the
employ of the plaintiff; besides, the defcndant left the house,
but the board remained, and still would, until the house was
out of the plaintiff's trade. it was, therefore, clearly a work for
their beaefit, and being paid for by the defendant, he was en-
titled to deduct the amount.
The plaintiff's selicitor said, that on the evidence of his wit-
nesses the plaintiffs were entitled to a verdict, which the jury
might safely give, and if the witnesses had sworn falsely, they
might be indicted for perjury.
The SECONDARY recapitinated the evidence, and eorrmen•ed
on points which 'eight possibly reconcile the centred coons, but
of er the jury having for the third time had the painter in the
b tit, the Secondary earl it really becaem a question who spoke
the truth ; the evidence was irreconcilable.
Verdict for the defendant.

ASSIZE tNTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Coventry, Aug. 6.
ftefore the CHIEF BARnw )
FokoraY.— Thomas Tanfield and Thomas Pollard were
inilicted, he one for forgery, and the other for urocurin and
uttering a bill of exchange tor 3 1., knowing the saute to be
forged. with intent to defraud William Coleman.
Mr. Waddington and Mr. Spooner were for the prosecution ;
Mr. Miller defended Pollard, and Mr. Willmore, Tanfield.
Tne facts were these :—Pollard was a silk dyer at Coventr,
Tanfield acting as his clerk and accountant. On the 2lst of
February Pollard paid an account to Mr. Coleman, a manu-
facturer of Coventry. •.vith an ac, eptance of 3t)l , purporting to
he dra en h 1 otiltard upon Mr. Leeson, accepted by that gentle.
man, and payable. at Jones Loyd and Co., London. Tn.' bill
was en,iorsed by Coleman, and was paid into the Coventry and
Warwickshire Bank, tint u;itin becotniug doe was dishonourech
Mr. Leeson upon being (tailed stated that he could not
write ; it followed of course the endor.‘eini tit on the no-c was
not his. 'l3,ing in a large way of business he authorised his
son-in.law. Jaycocks. to draw and accept bills en his account,
but he swore most distinctly he never autborised any one else
to accept or draw for him.
Mr. Coleman stated he received the aceeidance in question,
and paid it into banker's, but on becoming due it was dis-
honoured.
Mr. laycocks, the son-in-law, swore the words " James
Leeson" were not in his handwriting.
Several pers,ins ware then cated, who proved the body of
the bill, the signature " Pollard." the acceptance " James
Leeson," and the en lorsement " were in
the handwriting of Tanfield. Before the bill became due
Pollard thought fit to quit the country.
The prisoners were found Guilty, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Carlisle, Aug 6.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before_ Mr. Baron Rotrr.)

HIGHWAY ROBBEAY.—john Henry Wrigley and Nicholas
Allison, two labouring men, were charged with the offence
of assault with intent to rob. This case was tried yesterday
afternoon, but was not concluded until some time after the
post closed.
Mr. Grainger and Mr. Ramshay appeared to conduct the
prosecution.
The prosecutor, William Bushby, a man of about fifty-
four or fifty-five years of age, is a farmer and maltster,
residing at Prospect, a short distance from Cockermouth,
and farms about 1,000 acres of land. He stated that on the
2d of September last he was at Cockermouth market, and
there, during the day, received SOL He received 691. from
John Carter, at the Woolpack Inn. Believe-1. the prisoner
Wrigley was present at the time. Left Cockermouth at
about eight in the evening to return home, on foot, and he
would have about two miles and three quarters to go. On the
way he met one of his labourers who was corning to meet him,
bringing a mare for him to ride. He got upon the mare, and
that was at about three-quarters of a mile out of Cockermouth.
• After proceeding some distance on the road, he saw the two
men, supposed to be the prisoners at the bar. They came out
from under a hedge, and one had a gun. They again retired,
and the one having a gun gave it to the other, and then crept
along under the hedge for about 100 yards a-head of him (the
prosecutor). This induced him to put the mare into a canter.
On coming towards the spot where the nearer man was, that
man came out into the road w►th the gun, at a few paces be-

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fore tne mare's head, and endeavoured to stop her, saying,

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" Deliver up your money, or welt shoot you." -Wttness said,
" It's all nonsense, I've left it at the bank." He then put the
mire into a gallop, and went towards the other man a-head.
That mt.n was the prisoner Wrigley. Had known him before,
and he is called " Proofer," from being a hat-proofer.
Wrigley then came running in a desperate way, sloping
towards witness, seizing the mare's bridle with the left
hand, and grappling with the rght to get witness off.
He told witness to delver up his money, or Viet he
'h'uld have hi, brains ho an out. The mare swerved to
one side, and went against a stone wall. Wrigley had
hold of the bridle, but with se struck his hand with a
stick, and so disengaged the hand of Wrigley, at the same time
calling out to him, " Clear the road, you beggar." Wrigley
appeared to fall, and witness then galloped on home as fast as
he could. At about eighty or ninety yards from where he had
left the first man there was a gun tired. Witness did not know
Allison that night at all. He told the fanny at home what
had happened, and deser,bed to then •• Proofer" as one of the
men. A servant noticed that his hand was bleeding; it was
found to be scratched; aad the neat morning, on going to the
spot where he had the struggle overnight, he found There was a
brier, by which the scratch, as he supp set, was made. His
brother w s rai a visit to him same days after, and he showed
the spot to ham, and had a conversation with him respecting
the occurrence. Did not go before the magistrates till the 231
of last June; but on the 18th of June .sas with Mr. Hoskies,
the magistrate. about this matter. On the 4th of June Est
witness was at. Cockermouth cattle-marke , and went with Mr.
Thomas Bird to the Ship Lin. Wade there, at about three
o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Allison came in. Alli-
son asked witness if he knew him. Witness said he did not.
Allison then went on to say that he had once saved bis
( witness's) life, and explained how. He said that en the
night referred to he and Wrigley were out poaching; that
they saw him (witness) coming on the road from Cocker-
mouth, when Wrigley said that he ( witness) had got 100/. ;
be had seen him get the 1001 that day ; and that if he k Alli-
son) would take the gun and shoot witness, they would divide
the money betwixt them. " 8u.," said Allison, " 1 rued--
I thought that Wrigley was that sort of marl that if anything
was said about it he would inform. and I would either be hung
or transported " Allison added, " he's a bad 'un ; we got nine
hares that night, and he sold 'em, and told me he never got
paid." Allison came into the house a second time that day,
and repeated the same story, except that in one case he said it
happened six months ago and in the other nine months. Wit-
ness was at Cockermouth fair on the 18th of June, and saw
Wrigley in the street. Went before Mr. Hoskins, the magis-
trate, on the 19th or 20th.
In answer to the question from Mr Ramshay, why he had
not told sooner, the prosecutor sod that " but one of the men
was known by him; that he thought it would be a great neat
of trouble to prosecute, and that he was much excited at see-
ing a man remaining in the town who had attempted his life,
and hired another man to shoot him."
Mr. Wilkins appeared for the defence of Wrigley, and Mr.
James for Allison.
The prosecuter, upon cross-examination, admitted that he
had at, first told Afr. Hoskins that the occurrence was on the
23d of December ; but he found, after looking at his bank-
book, and a memorandum there, that he was wrong.
Other witnesses were called, who corroborated the evidence
of 6r. Bushby in certain particulars.
John Coulthard, gamekeeper to General Wyndham, had seen
the prosecutor on the road on the night in question, and saw
two labouring men near the same spot.
John Robinson, landlord of the inn at Cockermouth, heard
the tale told by Allison as above repeated, and this witness was
-confirmed again by Mr.. Thomas Bird, the prosecutor's compa.
nion upou the occasion.
Thomas Barton, a blacksmith, said that Allison had come to
witness on the 7th of last September, and related a similar tale
to him. He came to get a lock mended. A meniorividum of.
,the Ipek being mended was written in a book (now produced);
There was the date of the 7th of September apparent ; but so
written, that it was contended for the defence that there had
been an interpolation in making the memorandum. This wit-
ness said he had not mentioned the matter earlier, because he
ivas a tenant under them (the family of the prisoner Allison),
.and did not feel obl,ged to do it.
;tie. WILKINS and Mr JAMES addressed the jury for their
several clients, and the pri-oners were both acquitted.
HiS.LORDSHIP refused to allow the expenses of the pro-
secutor.
CHARGE or Mimosa.—Jane Crosby, against whom a bill
for murder was found at the las assiz -s, has been acquitted.
The trial lasted all to-day, and has finished but a few minutes
before post time.
It will be remembered that the charge against the prisoner
was that of burning her own daughter (a child of silt years of
age) to death upon a fire.
The principal witness for the prosecution was another
daughter of the prisoner, a child of eleven. At the last assizes
Mr. Justice Coltman thought this child not then fit to be a wit-
nesr, from the ignorance she discovered touching the nature of
an oath ; and the case was accordingly postioned in order that
she might receive instruction.