The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-07 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 6,
WORTHINGTON V. GRIMSDITCH, M.P.

This was a rule obtained in Easter Term last year, to show
cause why the verdict for 1,2081. 4s. 10d. obtained in this cause
should not be set aside, and a verdict returned for the defendant on
the issue raised on the plea of the Statute of Limitations.
Lord DENMAN delivered the judgment of the Court. This was
a case tried at the Chester Spring Assizes in 1844, when a verdict
was given for the plaintiff. The rule was obtained to set aside
that verdict on the ground that certain evidence which took the
case out of the Statute of Limitations had been improperly left to
the jury. It appeared that,the defendant was solicitor and cousin
to two old ladies, and held a sum of money in his hands be-
longing to them. Instead of paying interest to them, he
paid an amount equivalent, or nearly so, for rent due by them in
each year, and the question was, whether this payment was on ac-
count of interest or not. It appeared to the Court that the rela-
tionship in which the parties stood to each other had much to do with
the question as to what account the payments were upon, and the
statements in the hand-writing of the defendant showed that al-
though the: first payment of rent was not made by au.
thority, the second, and some subsequent payments, had
been distinctly charged against the interest, and although
the interest account in late years had disappeared, still the account
in respect of which the payments were made, and all the circum-
stances, formed matter of fact rather than of law, and had been
properly left to the jury. They had found that the payments were
made for interest, and thus taken the case out of the operation of
the Statute of Limitations. The evidence had been properly ad-
mitted and the rule must be discharged.

SECONDARIES' COURT, June 6.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMRII,)
TEED V. KERSHAW.
This was an action for a balance of 201., for goods sold and deli-
vered. The plaintiff is a wholesale grocer in Bishopsgate-street,
and the defendant a country grocer.
The little interest, and arose from a dis-
Puted caseacco possessed very
account. The defendantvy had claimed a deduction of 201.,
alleging he had paid that sum beyond the amount given credit
for. This, however, was denied by the plaintiff, who, after the
dispute, sent stamped receipts for the different payments, defendant
having threatened to set proceedings in motion against the plain-
tiff for using receipts on unstamped bills. The 201. still remained
unpaid.
The jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict for 191. 19s.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAIN' SION-HOUSE.

A journeyman carpenter, named Thomas Young, was
charged with having attempted to destroy himself.
A policeman stated that he :cm the defendant fling
himself into the water from London-bridge, and on going
down the steps he found that a waterman had picked
him up. The defendant expressed his sorrow that the
waterman had bean so officious, and said that if he had a
chance he would try to cut life again.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the unfortunate
man appeared to be intoxicated.
The policeman replied that there was no symptom of
intoxication at all about him.
The defendant's wife said her husband was a man of
most sober habits, but the difficulty of getting work had
made a serious impression upon him, and his fear of
starvation had evidently overpowered his understanding.
The defendant said that if the Lord Mayor would
be so good as to allow him to go home with his wife he
would never again make any wicked attempt of the kind.
The wife said her poor husband had been singularly
unlucky, for since his marriage, which took place two
years and a half ago, he had had but six months' em-
ployment.
The LORD MAYOR thought he could rely upon the
promise of the defendant, and discharged him.
It was stated that the defendant had very nearly fallen
upon a steam-boat which was passing under one of the
arches of the bridge, at the time crowded with pas-
sengers.

Jeremiah Leary, a bricklayer's labourer, was charged
with having mounted upon a scaffold in a state of
drunkenness, and endangered not only his own life, but
the lives of others who were engaged in the labour.
A policeman stated that he had been applied to
by the men employed in the building to which the scaf
folding was attached, who considered that they were all
in danger. The defendant was not only unfit to go
upon a scaffolding, but actually unable to walk upon the
pavement, and if he had fallen he would have been killed
upon the spot. It was with some difficulty he was re-
moved from his perilous situation.
The defendant said he was quite sober enough to go
up a ladder with a hod to any height, and that he ran
not the least hazard in going to the work to which he
had been accustomed. Ile had taken but a drop of beer,
too, so that he was as sober as a bishop, and stood in no
more danger of falling than gentlemen of that per-
suasion.
The LORD MAYOR —I must prevent, as much as is in
my power, these dangerous experiments, to which
drunkenness invariably leads, by punishing drunkenness
itself. I fine you ten shillings.
The defendant—The d—l a mag I have in the world,
so you must send to the foreman for the amount. It
sbows that people know but little of me when they think
a drop of beer would tumble me off a scaffold.—(A
laugh.)
Two men were fined in the penalty of five shillings
each for having carried several persons in boats on Sun-
day last without being duly licensed by the Watermen's
Company.
The LORD MAYOR said, that loss of life had been fre-
quently caused by the unskilfulness of persons who
took upon themselves the responsibility of rowing boats
without being duly authorised, and that he was deter-
mined to fine in every instance, and when the defendants
could not pay to imprison them.
LAMBETH. •

SenneTtow.—.Miss Mary Ann Salisbury, the daughter Of
a Dissenting minister at Bath, was charged with attempting to
commit suicide on the preceding night.
Frederick Godfrey, a servant in the employment of the
London and Westminster Steam 'boat Company deposed, that
on the preceding night he observed the prisoner on the steps
leading to the Company's pier, on the Surrey side of West-
minster-bridge, and knowing that the boats had ceased to run
for the sight, he asked her what or who she was waiting for?
She replied nobody. There was something about her manner
which induced him to watch her closely, and perceiving that
she was approaching the water's edge he;followed her, and again
asked her what she wanted? At this time she appeared to be
praying, and did not reply to him for some moments, when she
drew a letter from her bosom, and requested he would put it
into the post-office. She then said that her lover had jumped
off,London-bridge on Sunday or Monday night, and he hoped '
she would do the same. She then made towards the edge of
the water, and was in the act of throwing herself in, when
he (witness) caught hold of her clothes and held her until
assistance came, and she was handed over to the care and
charge of a policeman. The witness added, that after saving
her, the prisoner told hisa he was very unkind for interfering
with her, and asked him several times to let her do what she
wanted, but she appeared in a state of distraction at the time.
The witness, in answer to a question from the magistrate,
further said that on the same ( Wednesday) night a young man
had thrown himself off the London-bridge, and was picked up
alive, as he heard, by one of the Watermen steamers.
Police-constable Bovill, 140 D, deposed that on her way to
the station-house the prisoner told him she was the daughter
of a clergyman, at Bath, and had come away from there a fort-
-night ago with a young gentleman who had since deceived her.
She also said she lodged at 2, Edward-street, Blackfriars-
road ; but he had since called there, and no such person as the
prisoner was known there.
The prisoner here said, the name of the street she now re-
collected was King Edward-street.
Sergeant Arnold, L 8, said that after the charge had been
taken the prisoner stated to him, that the young man with
whom she had come from home had taken from her her valu-
able gold watch and rings, and had got from her all the money
she possessed.
The prisoner, who is not 21 years of age, and who was
evidently deeply affected, made the following statement : —Her
father, she said, kept a boot and shoe warehouse at Bath, and
carried on a very extensive business, and was also minister of a
Dissenting congregation there. For some rears past, Mr. A.
Bertram, with whom she had been brought up from
childhood, had paid his addresses to her, but for some reason
or other her father had set his face against their marriage.
A short time since Bertram was on a visit to his father,
who resided in the Royal Tork-crescent, and assured her he
had got a license for their marriage in London, and promised
that if she accompanied hint there the ceremony should be
at once performed. Believing his representations, and
confiding in his honour, she consented to leave her father's
house unknown to him or any part of her family. The time
chosen for her leaving home was on the night of last Tuesday
fortnight, and while her father, her mother, and the family
were engaged in a prayer meeting at their own house, she
isanaged to hand a small trunk containing a part of her wearing
apparel to Bertram, and immediately after left herself and ac-
companied him, Bertram, by the railroad to Londor. They
arrived in tosrn at an early hour on the following ( Wednesday)
morning, when Bertram took her to a house opposite to Drury-
lane, which he said was his aunt's, and where he wished her to
stop, but observing so much of what she conceived to be gross
misconduct going on there, she refused to remain beyond that
morning, and the following night she slept at the Bull and
Mouth Inn.
Mr. NORTON—Do you know the name of the person who
keeps the house near Drury-lane, to which you had been taken,
and who Bertram represented as his aunt? Prisoner—l do
not, Sir, there is no name over the door, but merely the
initials H. S., the H being large and the S
The prisoner proceeded to say that, after sleeping at the
Bull and Mouth one night, she took a lodging in King Ed.
ward-street, and continued to occupy it up to the present
time. She was visited there by Bertram, who promised her
clay after day to produce the license for their marriage,
but who put it off from some excuse or other. On Friday
night last she reluctantly accompanied him to the house of
his aunt, as he called her, where he kert her to a late hour,
when be told her that her father had offered 20/. for her ap-
prehension, said the officers were searching for her in all
directions, and that the only security she had for her personal
safety was to sleep there that night. Under the peculir cir-
cumstances she consented to atop, and a bed was ordered for
herself alone. Previous to going to bed Bertram prevailed
upon her to take a tumbler full of what he called " Temperance
cordial," and after taking it she felt her head quite giddy, and
it subsequently produced a stupifying effect. While in bed
she heard Bartram in the room, and seeing him about to take off
his boots she threatened to scream aloud if he did not at once
retire from the apartment. He did so then, but subsequently
returned and got to bed with her without her being
then aware of his presence. In the morning she was so ill
that Bartram had to send twice for a surgeon to see her. On
the same morning Bertram handed her what he called a saline
draught, and desired her to take it. She drank a small por-
tion of it, and found it so nauseous that she refused to take any
more, and what she had taken had made her so ill that she
was obliged to discharge its contents. Bertram was at this time
in the room reading a book, and having got up to go to the win-
dow, she took up the book, and found under it a paper, which
had evidently been recently emptied of its contents, and upon
which was written the word " Poison." She spoke to and asked
him how the paper came there, and what it had contained? And
he replied, nothing, and endeavoured to get the paper out of
her hand, but in the struggle for it it got torn. As soon as she
was able to be moved, he took her home in a cab to her lodg-
ings, and from that time to the present she had not seen him.
On Monday evening last, however, she received a note from him.
the purport of which was, that by the time she received it he
would be no more, as he had jumped off the bridge, and he
hoped she would follow his example. This, of course, made
her wretched and miserable in her mind, but she had no recol-
lection of going near the water, as had been stated.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Norton, she said that the
father of Bertram was a gentleman of good fortune, but his
son being somewhat wild, he was sent to sea, and was at
present the mate of a ship. Some days after she had come
from the country, she had overwound her gold watch, worth
201., and broke the mainspring, and Bartram said he would
get it repaired, and took it with him for that purpose. He
subsequently told her he had left it to be repaired at the shop
of Mr, Mott, in Cheaßside, but since Monday she called there, I