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... L AW. LIEN ON A SHIP.-T aHE BRITISH EMPIaE SHIPPrIO CO11rxxNY V. SOMsaS BROTHERS -In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 26th ult., judgment was given in this case, which is one of great importance to shipowners. It was a special case for the opinion of the Court, and the question was whether the defendants were entitled to retain 5671., charged by them, and which had been paid to them ...

ACTION TO RECOVER THE SALARY of a Prima Donna

... ACTION1 TO RECOVER TaE SALARY I of a Prima Donna. GUILDPiORD ASSIZES.-AUOGUST 14. Casixeera v. BorzAtx.-Thia was a, action to recover from the defend. ant, who was formerly ballet-master at the Italian opera, and who is also director of the National Theatre at Turio, the balance duo to the plain. tiff under atn agreement for her to sing as prima donna at the last men. tioned theatre. Sergeant ...

Published: Sunday 22 August 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1783 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

The Stevenage Murder

... HERTFORD ASSIZES, Mhorn ii. The trial of Jeremiah Carpeniter, for the murder of John Starkins, the policeman, at Steverage, was resumed this morning, at nine o'clock. The last witness examined on Friday night was a eaonty policeman, named Quint, who, it appeared, rode with the prisoners in the van that conveyed them from the eourt to the gaol, and he swore that at the rising of the Court on ...

Published: Sunday 14 March 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

GOWN RIOTS AT CAMBRIDGE

... A war is evidently raging between the University students and the police. The Cambridge Police-court was crowded on Wednes- day by undergraduate members of the University, who, actuated by the esprait dee corps, were anxious to hear complaints investigated which had been laid against five students of Trinity College, by a member of the borough police force, who charged them with assault- ing ...

Published: Sunday 12 December 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Law Intelligence

... Lab) Intglat. U NOTICES-THIS DAY. L BANOKRUPTCY COURT.I)ASINGHALL-STREEIT. I Tespoac. 3a. CommisniOB F~vn.-T. G1. Gabrell, now choice of as- Il altueeI a' ?? Bayles lest examitnation, at 11-J. Syred. audit, at tj ~~l, cbstce of ass~~~gnees at 1.co o INSOLVBNT DIO~OB0 OOURT. PRTUGAL-TltiONT. C AT IL-awoazOais~Ce~esss~cea L~w-llueties: Et. WV. WAt- son. . Dye. L A Otike. JGrant IV.Turer, J. A ...

A LADY CONVICTED OF OBTAINING TWO HUNDRED AND RIGHTY POUNDS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES

... .A LADY UOZVV1CIED OF 011TAINING TWOI IHUNDRED AND EIGHTY POUNDS UN.DBB FA.LSE PRTBNTEVRS. (on Saturday, in the Court of Quarter Sessions at Bath, a lady of respectable connexions was tried upon tbq charge of having fraudulen~tly obtained by false pretences the sum of 280g. The prisoner, Mary Weston 1>oMGhie is thirty years of age, daughter of the late Mr. Edward Vernon Goodell, a solicitor, ...

Law Intelligence

... Llb IntlltgetnceI NOTICES-THIS DAY. BAiNKtUPTCY COURTU. BA5IYG@ JBEALL-STBREE 0. Siebel, Nerw Srsai-stxeet, iiachanctc aitoaru- a elwaUurstoia, at 11 -A. Campbeli, audit, at 11-0. II. Sellars, adjoarncd ecrtijicate, at 11- 3). B. Seers, Siali.atoy, iseerhuat, audit, a~t ll-4. W~ais i-, vere street lstit-seiier. Isat examinaxtion, ai 12-Rt. cavu Winldier, LThiaceger,ye chodee of s d ignees, at ...

Law Intelligence

... Lawd -i. I tigepn, I 1. ? I, I OIUST OW' CHANCERY. L1NCO0LN!S-INN. Al 104l`BHiOBI Tzz LouD C55ASCELLOR,-7Appeal: Wythes T. Labouchere. part heard. -AT 10j. - ABoas mors 2.00s Jusriiss.-Appeals, IL. Wood V, Mriorlbak~s. PaR-thealrd-Taytor v. Taylor.. LLS CORT AMCEBY-LANE. AT 10.-Petiflonsj(mlopposod case, 31P lton .Short Canse: rar~eaees Y. Huint-Stor v.Stonor-PeksV. Stottl- hurt, oart leard. ...

Law Intelligence

... saw Irdelliomm NOTICBS-TIIIS DAY. coni COURT OF OHANOBRy, LINpOl otin :R-imde Ar ?? TR~ LORDS JUBIORSrr.-Apa Appeion: Rogers V.11 Oxford Worcester and W~lerbaWPtlnBa~wAY. ApelSAtony lienernI 4.RT.snsANCEYOLAXE thsi AT 10.-OaUgses. &c. Mdo ltoisv. fdmn zds.pot hcrrd-M&a0serohv., q OasMphell-Auagefl V. Hpln~omple . BtIls-Pole v. Joel Clayton, . LJohn-korris v.p ?? embuoinpltway v. ViawnyaP ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUBT. _ OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) E Mafry Elliott, 49, was indicted for misdemeanour, under I the recent statute introduced by Lord Campbell relating to X the sale of obscene prints and books, for haviag a quantity oft articles of that description in her possession with intent to i sell and dispose of them. I Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson conducted the prosecution; I Mr ...

THE SHOREHAM POISONING CASE.—INQUEST ON THE BODIES

... THE SHOREHA . 1'OISONJ6AB ON THE BO.DIEy. - al On Monday an inquest was held at the :B AsrmisosInn, Shoreham, before Mr. F. H. Gall, coroner f, East Sussex, upon the bodies of Esther Puttick, maeli woman, aged 37, and her stepson, F rederick Puttick, agli who came by their deaths in the manner and undert . cumstances described in the following evidence: The jury having viewed the bodies in the ...

THE POLICE COURTS

... THE POLIGE O CBTS. *MANSION-HOUSE. soeim WJilliam Wallace Thornpson, who was charged at the the a beginning of last month with having embezzled several sums BreV of money, the property of his employers, Messrs. C. J. Jones of A and Co., of;Leadenhal1-buildings, Gracachurch-street, was at I brought up for final examination. chest Mr. Wontuer appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Hum- appli phreys, ...