The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-04-24 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

THE DETENTION OF EMIGRANTS.  'Mr. John Bennett. jun., a shipbrolree in East India ' avenue, Leadenhall-street, has appeared before Mr. Alderman Finnis, at the Mansion-house Police-court, , M answer to a summons, obtained by Captain Forster, emigration agent for the port of London, charging him with infringing the 4Sth section of the Passengers' At Amendment Act, and calling upon him to refund a min of £l2 125., paid to him for a passage to Australia by the Victoria steam ship, beltinging to the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company. Mr. Cumberland attended as counsel for the Board of Trade, to prefer the complaint, and Mr. H. W. Nelson, solicitor, for the defendant. The evidence went to show that on the 29th March a farm labourer, named Dennis Coakley, went to the office of Mr. O'Meara, an agent of the defendant at Cork, and paid him £6 65., half the charge for a passage to Australia by the Victoria, and on April Ist the remaining £6 6s. Coakley then came to London and went on board the vessel in the docks on the sth of April. From that time till this she had not sailed, nor was there any likelihood of her sailing. He had applied frequently to the defendant for the return of the money, but in vain. Before Coakely paid the passage money at Cork to Mr. 0 Meara, the defendant's agent, O'Meara, had been appoitited to act as the agent there also of the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company. It was a pint in the case previously that on the passage ticket, by the authority of the defendant, O'Meara had written over the name of the company the words, "Agent, John Bennett, jun.," and 0' • .ra being called as a witness, said he received me money in question on account of Mr. Bennett, and not of the com„,any. For the defence Mr. J. 11. Bennett, defendant's clerk, proved that the £1.2 125., which had been remitted to the defendant's firm was paid by him into the bank of the company, • in aeeordance with instructions hem that company, with other money, in all amounting to about £750. , Witness that the defendant was not in any way connected with the company, beyond being their broker. For the defence Mr. Nelson submitted in effect that e.. 77 defendant was not liable and that the company were responsible to the complainant for the repayment of the money to him. He added that the money at the company's bankers had been attached by order of the Court of Chancery, and that these claims would no doubt be eventually paid out of those funds. Mr. Alderman Finnis said he was clearly of opinion that as the agent of the ship the defendant was liable to refund the passage-money to the complainant. He directed him to return the £l2 12s. to the emigrant, and to pay £5 besides for sustentation money, consequent on the delay in the vessel sailing. Mr. Nelson intimidated that he would appeal against the decision to the Court of Queen's Bench, seeing that it involved his client, taking other cases into consideration, to the attest of £2,000.  Alfred Thomas Heap, who was convicted at the last Liverpool Aseizes of the murder of Margaret Ileliivett, at Manchester, by procuring abortion, has been executed. In finding him guilty of murder, the Tim