The Cook and the Dressmaker.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3101, 11 January 1889, Page 2

The Cook and the Dressmaker.

Recently in tha Edmonton County ( court, before Judge Abdy, Selina Mitchell, of Gloucester-terrace, Toil' n.er's end, Edmonton, dressmaker, sued Miss Elizabeth Beater, of 162| ( Bvering-road, Clapton, cook, for 12a 1 fid, for work done, and materials supplied. There was a countot claim for 14sj for damages done'to : material provided. Plaintiff deposed that defendant brought plush for a dress' bodice, which was properly made, and sent home to defendant, who approved the work, except that ; the bodice did not fit. The next day it was returned for alterations, and it was again sent home to the defendant, who then complained that there was a mark upon the plush, This, plaintiff asserted, was upon the material when it first came into her hands, and was caused through the plush being folded in a box. . Plaintain also stated that defendant wore a different pair of stttys 011 the second occasion to those she wore when she first tried the bodice on, and that made a difference in the fit.'—The Judge remarked that .if that wtso it was certainly wrong; bficme, according to a report of a recent meetin,* of the British Association, when there was a long discussion on the subject of staya, it -was thought that even one pair of stays was too much; but be was not called upon' $ settle that point.—Defendant; j wish your honour to understand that in the {rshVs'ancq tbg hpdice djf, not fit me at all. If produced'how it would not fit.—Plaintiff: I say it does -fit.—Defendant: I am sure it does not, and I, certainly ought to know. (Laughter.) Plaintiff ; Well your honour, you ought to know that' ,she told me she wanted a very fussy dress, because she wished to attract a. nice young man,' (Boars of • The Judge said the point was whether the article of areSS fitteflOrbot', Could not the defendant'gi iht6.a l privaffl'i'po!}i ; at on% and put it on? :: Defendant m m was quite willing to put' the dress off,' so that the Judge should see" her 1 in it. She told-the;, plaintiff' that the dress was not at all 1 suitable, aiid" "tfjft slid had spoilt the inateriais, .On tJiQ hodjej? roted.' lho Judge'bWeryed, tjis it was' a" very .Mliftiif c6lo l ur." ;! i witness was tfalled ;-iy; ttS/pltfintif, said {hat. defendant hail' fold her tlmt. glie : yaa' |iigh|y dpiighteel 'with"' £Ue 'sjfeeyes: fiplpnf(Laughter.)JJefendapt:: Ifigr' tljo it boijl4 hp. go phijptiffmijst bp tjjp-losgr. • thnipbpt flreggmftldng, th§ r number of it thjit he : had before him, but he really did not. Dcfenciahtsaid tbeMee did not fit her aoross the breast 'or at the waist, and that the -plaintiff had

made it worse by taking it iiv; .The Judge: JiYell, you had better go and Bit on. : (Laughter). This, is the "A'otst of a case of this kind. It is like a breach of promise case, in that it always causes a lot of foolish . fun. I do hope tliat if this good ladv tries the dress on and comes iuto the Court again, nobody will laugh at her, but I must have it'tried on.—Defend- ■. ant said that nobody Who saw tho bodice on would give tho plaintiff iiny . work as it did not meet by two inches. The Judge: Well go into 0110 .of the rooqjig and put it-G)i'. —The High Bailiff: I will tako her into my room* (Great laughter.)— The Judge: Is there any one in' Court who knows anything about dressmaking? There • was 110 reply. No; there is nobody. After the lapse of a minute or two defendant returned iuto court wear- : ing the bodice. It did not meet in front by some inches.—Plaintiff said , the defendant had placed some paper inside the bodice to make it appear 1 ': too stri® aiid tlmt she (defendant) had flannel bodices for the EadTpurpose. (Laugliter.)-Tho Juogp remarked that an extra flannel would not make the bodice too small to such' an extent as it appeared to bo.—Plaintiff: But she wore different stays at the time it was fitted. (Laughter).—The Judge obser/ed that the' bodice did not fit at all, and added (addressing the plaintiff): go and try and make it meet.—Plaintiff: Sho wont let me go near her. (Laughter).—Tho judge (peremptorily) : Go round at once,-Plain-tiff deolined to do so.—The Judge: Then let your witness go round.— The Witness: I don't understand it. (Laughter).—Two frionds, of tho defendant tried to get the bodice to meet, but could not do so whereupon the Judge said the dress did not fit, and tWHefendant was entitled to a verdioPßflaintiff said that she believed the dress had been tampered with, because when it was first . tried on it fitted beautifully—nothing could have been better.—The judge asked defendant if sho had altered the dress, and she replied, " Not at all. I only tried to get into it, and I could burst it if Hiked. (Laughter.) Iliave • or altered it at all,"—Judgments entered for defendant for both claim and counter claim.

A Miscarriage of Justice m England^ A very remarkable case of miscarriage of justice has just been brought to light (says a Home paper), and is attracting wide attention. Ibo two men who hova been in penal servitude since 1879 for an offence; of which they are now alleged to have been innocent are llicliaol Brannigan (forty-four), and Peter Murphy (twenty-two), both laborers. TheJgrglary and attempted'murder for njgh they were sentenced to penal servitude for life were committed at the vicarage of Edlingham, in' Northumberland, in February, 1979. From an account of the affair given by the Eev. M. H. Buckle, the ■ vicar, in alettor published in the Alnwick Morcury of February 22nd, 1879, it appears that at about one o'clock on Friday morning, the 7th of the month, lie was awoke by his daughter, who told him that there were men in the house trying to break open the drawingrooß door from the insido. Mr Bueffl, having armed himself with a sword, descended the stairs and found two men in the dining-room, 0110 of them having either an iron bar or a single-barrelled gun, which he held slantingly aoross his legs, • Beaching the foot of the stairs the candle which Mr Btickle held was accidentally extinguished. "In the darkness Lnade at the rihht-hand man, and -not lunged at him about once or twice when he fired, and I felt myself hit on tho right shoulder by what I supposed to be a pistol bullet, I made at the fellow, again, wishing to disable liim "before" ho could fire tho other shots of his revolver, ,as I thought it to be. At this moment, the other man ran against me, ana expecting 'every moment to feel the sensation of a cold knife in my side, I ran my sword three or four inches into his body, undor the breastbone, as I thought from its softness, To my great astonishment, the man neither fell back nor sank down, but coming on, so that I had to recede Btep by step in order to keep him outßide my sword point. In this manner he slipped by me ii.to the drawing ; room, while my daughter, catohing a glimpse of him by the fai&jßght of the window they ht,d brok&ajkb/, clutched his hair, callings, "You-scoundrel!" As I was groping my way baok into the dining room to deal with the man who had fired, I felt myself pinioned by my daughter. She begged me to come back, and I Bhouted to her to

let me go, ■whirling-round- and round 'jn the -darkness, and' doiiig the utmost to' disengage' myself, while I distinctly heard the fellow ramming down a' second charge into his gun, for such it now evidently was, and I kiiew that the only chauce was to assail him again before he had timo to finish reloading," While Mr Buckle was hurrying his daughter upstairs to be out of harm's way, the remaining bijfglar decamped. Brannaghan and/Murphy, the men who are now. declared to be innocent, were suspected of .having been the burglars, and they were promptly arrested and charged with the offonce before Archdeacon Hamilton. Thp ptooeedings, ivliioh were conducted faith closed doors, occupied seven lioursmd a' half. Plaster casts of fq&ints found in the garden were ina'd^aud'they were alleged tooorreBptjid with the boots and clogs worn byllurphy and Branuaghan, Ono of the burglars appears to have fallen forward in making his escape from the vicarage, and the cord trousers trousers worn by one of tho prisoners were alleged to; correspond with the indentations. On this and other circumstantial evidence the prisoners were committed for trial. The trial took place -at the Northumberland Assizes before Mr Justice Manißty, two -months later. •' The prisoners fee -.defended by Mr Milyain, who • pointed out the danger of accepting the circumstantial evidence, and in. Btanced the - well-known' citse of Habrcn, He also pointed out that though Mr' Ml 6; while' lunging with the sword felt the sensation as letneitheloftte prisondi's bore apy sword mark; that'their clothes bore ho marit which could' be 'attributed to ilr puQklo's use of' tjie sword, land thai pjiljeE t)io giih'iipr m of the qn'il)em.' fhejuiiy &MBree hours consultation deliyffejl a vpi'dipt of guilty, am] tlio prispners p'e seutejiced to jeiial ppfvitudeforii'fo,'" Circumstances, as the Home Secretary had stated in the' House" singular and unprecedented,, 1 .have ; jftanspired to indicato that tho men \m» innocent. Two other persons are 'Sjleged. to have ayowed M9Mmltcs

guilty of the crime. Their avowal is stated to have been given ; unconditionally, and most circumstantially. One of the men, after being severely, tested, avowed to the liev. J. J. M. Perry his complicity in the burglary, Jund his'stafement was taken in writing. by|Mr Charles Percy in November of last year. I'lm man stated that he and aiiother man broke into the , Rev. Mr Buckle's vicarage 011 tho [night of the Oth February, 1870, effecting an entrance through one of the windows. Ho described very [minutely tho duel with Mr Bucklo, and said that a watoh which they found iu tho house wa3 taken by his partner in the crime to Nottingham, where it was sold. The second 1 man's confession, it is alleged, bears [out in every important dotail the statements of the first man. It states that the gun went off by tho purest accident, and that it was not pointed at Mr Buckle or aimed at him. The attention of the Home Oflico having been drawn to the confessions, an inquiry was instituted, and tho two men have been released on a license.

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