The Press. — 1857-01-03 (London, England)

JANUARY 3, 1857.  collector, with committing frauds to the extent of 13,000/. upon the Union, was captured on Tuesday night by Detective May, in the neighbourhood of Hackney. The committee of investigation have presented their report on the frauds to the Board of Guardians. The committee recommend the dis. missal of Mr. Gibbs the auditor, Mr. Rowsell the clerk, Mr. Hampton the ledger-keeper, and Mr. Eldred the assistant clerk, for gross and culpable neglect of their duties. The prisoner (Paul) was taken before the Lord Mayor the next day, charged with having on the 2nd of September stolen a cheque for 3781. 15s. 81., and with having on the 19th of November forged a receipt on the part or . _  Messrs. Payne and Smith, the bankers, for 2901., both of which sums, instead of applying to their proper purposes, he had paid into his own private account at the London Bank. Ev►dence was gone into to substantiate these charges, and the prisoner was remanded for a week.  AN OLD Womaas, one Maria Beckett, living with her mart ied daughter at Wing Bucks, in a flt of insanity last Tuesday, after threatening to murder the whole of the family, snatched up a carving. knife, and before any one could restrain her, seized her daugh• ter's infant sleeping in the cradle close by, and with of • :ash almost severed the head from the body. A WomAii, one Mrs. Bradley, a farmer's wife, of Liverpool, while in a fit of monomania after child birth, poisoned her infant last week with a dose of laudanum. When questioned as to her object for committing so horrible a crime, she said that she had herself committed the unpardonable sin, and as she did not wish her sin to be visited on the child, she had sent it to heaven whilst it was innocent. She wanted to send her baby to heaven in its  purity. THE BANK AT GODALNING was robbed on Tuesday night between mideight and daybreak. The watch dogs gave no alarm, and those placed to take care of the bank were not disturbed, though considerable force must have been used to break open the iron safes containing the cash and securities. The ourglars possessed themselves of 2901. in silver, a small sum in Bank of England notes, and some valuable securities. Fortunately the iron safe containing gold and Bank of England notes to a very large amount, upwards of 15,0001., resisted their efforts, and it is supposed that, irom being disturbed, they desisted, carrying off merely the ally. r and the notes.  A Cuatous CASE OF ALLEGED ABDUCTION came before a jury in the Bath County Cuurt yesterday week. The plaintiff in the a tion was the Rev. Morris Yescombe, a clergyman, residing at Ore, npark Buildings, Bath ; and the defendants were Mr. John Webb Roche, a gentleman of fortune, living in Queen square in the same city, and Mrs. Eliza A. Madox, his mother-in-law, who resided with him. The damages were laid at 501., arising, as stated in the particulars of demand, from the defendants having unlawfully enticed away a young lady named Louisa Koch, a governess, who was at the time in the employment of the plaintiff, and after so enticing her away harbouring and employing her at their house. The circumstances of the case were simply these :—Mr. Roche had paid Miss Koch marked attention while in Mr. Yescombe's house. Mr. Yes. combo remonstrated with him. Mr. Roche promised to do so no more, but in three or four days aas found by Mr. Yescombe in the schoolroom with Miss Koch. Mr. Yescombe turned him out of the house; and after two or three similar occurrences Miss Koch finally took up her residence in Mr. Roche's house, and hence the action for loss of services. Mr. W. S. Landor, who was subpoenaed as a witness, put in a very characteristic declaration, saying that be could not endure a crowded room, and praying to be excused giving evidence. He declared also that he could neither substantiate nor rebut charges against Mr. Roche, and that be had a firm belief in the integrity and veracity of Mr. Yescombe. The hearing of the case was resumed on the 31st at Bath, when further evidence was given in support of the plaintiff. Mr. T. W. Saunders then addressed the jury for the defendants, and called Mr. Roche, who made a general denial of the statements of the witnesses for the plaintiff. The defendant became much excited towards the close of his examination, and charac• terised several of the statements made by the plaintiff and his witnesses as " infernal lie.L" When cross• examined he gave a direct negative to all questions put to him. The further hearing of the case was adjourned till Friday. MARTHA BACON, a respectable married woman, was on Tuesday brought before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police-court, charged with murdering her two children, the one about fifteen months, and the other about three and a half years of age, by cutting their throats from ear to ear, and also with inflicting some wounds on her own throat, with the intention of committing suicide. The prisoner, in a vacant manner, said that she did not do it. " A man got in at the window at eight o'cl, ck the previous night, murdered the children, and cut her throat as well." The evidence of a neighbour who first made the discovery, and of the police constable who took Mrs.