| Show tofy A r MR ANO SIRS EGYPT john bull was charged before the bench with having committed across assault upon mr egypt at alexandria on tho 11 ultimo the complainant a respectable look vi oman who said that she was the mother of a argo family of children deposed eliat not ver long ago her late husband who ft as unfortunately a man of very extravagant habits fell into the company of a gang of advertising bonev lenders knowing that lie was a substantial householder theao loin office keepers had persuaded him to taace loans at a most extortionate rate of interest langing at fion 13 to cpr cent only a portion of the sums bor rowed was paid in cash the remainder picture jewelry and other useless ai tides since the demise of her late husband she had ande the most ts to keep up the intall which due to the loin offic and hid even parted with the clothes of herself and her children chil dien in order to raia the payments I 1 lie loin office people had put in the defendant and others as kers men her sons had guaranteed the payment of the installment of the debt ant as they had not at the am time pai 1 the expenses of the men in possession tho defendant and thoe acting with him on the alth ultimo proceeded to male a wanton attack upon her property which had bi ought hei to the y vei ge of ruin she had resisted a well as she able but the defendant had committed a cruel as sault upon her in consequence the signs of which were manifest to all who wei c present in court I 1 he defendant a strong powerful man stated that ho was only acting in obedience to ciders ilo was wholly unacquainted with the circumstances in which abo debt in cuned and when the loan office people M ho connected with him by ties employed him to interfere ho had been careful to conform to the strict letter of the law he was sincee ely sorry for mrs egypt whose late husband had led her into lucli trouble by his reckless and extravagant conduct but he submitted that the legal chaim ibe peo lie upon whose behalf be acted was in one of tho magistrates here asked whether the defendant disputed the plaintiffs statement that the money had been lent at from 13 to ag per defendant replied that very likely it was true but he had nothing to do with that the had threatened his men and was about indeed to turn them out of tl house the assault occurred through his attempting to disarm hei and prevent her an mischief lie den led that he had used more violence than was necessary under the circumstances the bench said ethcie could be no doubt that the poor v okiu had beon most cruelly treated by theia scally who had tempted her husband to ins destruction iceie could be no moral justification for tho defendants conduct though he might have a legal defence the defendant would baie mandel in older to give him an opportunity to produce the powers under which he acted choso whoso validity would bo examined by the court he deeply sympathized with the pl katiff through no fault of her own she had been victimized by an set ot who bad run up cpr exorbitant claim the licater part of which acie |
