Glasgow Courier. — 1861-07-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY BARON DE VIDIL. EXAMINATION AT BOW STREET.  -.Shortly after four o'clock on Monday, Baron Alfred Louis Pons de Vidil was placed at the bar before Mr Corrie, the Magistrate, on the clunge of feloniously cutting and wounding his son' Alfred John de Vidil, with intent to do hint grievous bodily harm. The Baron is about fifty years otr age, a thin, spare, gentlemanly-looking man. He arrived in London on Monday morning by the ten o'clock train from Paris, in charge of two of the French police, and was at once conveyed to Scotland Yard, when he was formally handed over to the custody of the metropolitan police. The prisoner' on being placed at the bar, appeared to be very agitated. He held his hand up to his face, and leaned against the front of the dock. At times he seemed so affected that it was thought he would have fallen. oisideruble delay occurred after the prisoner's arrival from Scotland Yard, and OVCII after the counsel- for the defeiice had reached the Court., to the manifest impatience of the crowd of persons in attendance to hear the case. The reason MIS not understood, but we (Tones) believe that the son of the accused, a tall, delicate-loolcing young man of twenty-three, declined to take any part in the proceedings, and positively refused to go into Court as a witness against his father, although ho was present when the warrant was applied for on Wednesday, and supplied the information upon which it was issued. by Mr Corrie. It also appeared that another difficulty had arisen through the midden and very seriWM illness of Rivers, the labourer who professes to have seen part of the encounter between the father and son in the lane near Twiokenham, and whose depositions it will probably be found necessary to take in the country. At length the case pniceedeil, Mr Pollock, instructed by Mr Ellis, appearing for the prosecution; and Mr Sleigh and Mr Orridge for the prisoner. After some discussion on points of form, Mr Sleigh said -After what has gone forth to the public I feel bound to state, on behalf of the Baron, that my instruction, point to a wholly different version of the affair from that which has appeared in the newspapers. The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday next. A letter from Paris says -"The BRVOTI is the son of a gloveinaker, who had shops at Grenoble and in Old Jewry, London. The glover advanced a considerable sum of money to M. de Mornay (not Morny), a gentleMan of high influence in the good old days of L Philippe. The glover could not recover his money, but he was ambitious -lie would like to sec his son a diplomatist. In those days the job was easily managed. Young Vidil, instead of being placed behind his father's counter, was sent off is attache to the French Enibansy at Stockholm, whence he was ultimately transferred to London. But as the glover became boisterous in his demands for his loan, with interest, young Vidil was converted into a Baron, and the crimson ribbon of the Legion of Honour fluttered from his button-hole. The emancipated glover threw down the gauntlet to society, and under these colours lie fought his way into English clubs and drawing-moms, and ultinuttely married Miss Jackson. In consenting to this union, Mr Jackson insisted on his daughter's fortune being settled upon her issue."