Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-11-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WARDS TS-CRAINCERY. A motion has been heard in the Chancery Divisiot for the discharge from prison of Captain :lemmas. who was committed to Holloway gaol four months ago for contempt of court in marrying Miss Wall, a ward of court sad a lady entitled. to property of the value of over 42,000 a year, in direct defiance of an ordes forbidding him to have any communication with her. The lady was only 19 years, of age, and the husband, who held a commission in the army, *as a man qf mature age, being over .40. He had a very small income of his own, and he did sot propose to make any settlement upon the lady. The latter had always been brought up a Protestant, and the gentlemare was aßoraan Catholic.. Directly after the order was made. sad after he had received notice of it Captain ;Samson induced the ward of court to go before a registrar and secretly marry him. Then • he took the lady away and concealed his residence. and it was .not till after. application had been made to commit his brother because he would not disclose his whereabouts that he surrendered 'himself to the jurisdiction of the court. In giving judgment the judge said it was difficult to eonceive any more flagrant instance of contempt of court. The jurisdiction the eourt exercised in protecting-wards was one of the most difficult, the most painful and disagreeable which a judge could possibly have. Without meaning the observation to apply to this gentleman particularly, it seemed most important that adventurers of the class who would induce wards of court to elope with the ,in defiance of a positive order of the High Court, • should know that this was an absolute rule of that oourt. He thought it was a salutary rule, and be considered that this was a case in which the settlement should be as strict as possible. He therefore directed that the settlement should exclude the husband from any interest the lady could otherwise give him by will, and he ordered the wife to execute such a settlement. At present he did not think it right to release Captain :iamson, as he did not consider his contempt had been purged, but he hoped the parties would be so well advised in the course they took that there would be no difficulty in renewing the application for his release. The motion must stand over generally, with liberty to apply,  At Greenwich three men and two women have been charged either with committing no less than 11 burglariesw the district of the court, or receiving the stolen property with a guilty knowledge. The charge against one man and one woman was withdrawn, and they were discharged, the other prisoner" being c..mmitted for trial.  Lieutenant-Colonel Junes' . V.C. of Wrexham, was walking along a road in that neighbourhood, accompanied by a collie dog. The latter was attacked by another dog, and the colonel, in his efforts r»iepartge them. was bitten on the leg below the knee. He went into a blacksmith's shop and had the wound cauterised with a red-but iron. He aterwards proceeded to town and placed himself in the hands of his doctor. On Friday the coroner for the county of Cheshir.• held an inquest at Saughall. near Chester. oe the body of Robert Jackson. aged 67. Mr. Trelawny and a number i)f gent eman were shooting nye: Saughall Covers,, the residence of Earl Grosvenoi, when they found the deceased suspended by his neck to a it, • He had heen missing three weeks. A verdict of suicide %%lade in all utisoune -taui f masa was returned • i It iz statea that tueiwoposed New Guinea expedition poinoted by Mr. Maclver has collapsed for want of funds. At the Warwick assizes Urialt Culverwell, a baker of Aston, Birmurghatn,.has been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for setting fire to his business premises. Culverwell had heavily insured his stock, and it was stated that fires were discovered in five different parts of his establishment. •  Mr. Tomkin, &gentleman living at Maidstone, wh.. a month ago, in SI tit of temporary insanity uns4ccaudally attempted to cut his wife's throat, and when discovered severely wcsinded himself, has just died in the hoepital. At an early hour on Saturday messing the Darling. ton Theatre Royal was bursted to tee ground. Owing to the rapid action of the flames nothing whatever was saved. The theatre was recently rebuilt on a mai dmaalete wale.