text: Mr. Fox cross-examined defendant as to the character of the house he conducted, and Mr. Minter was about to call another witness, when His Honour told Mr. Fox it was quite impossible for any judge or any court to give relief to his client without being armed with the testimony of the joint occupiers of those rooms. They ought to have it on oath that no one of these joint-occupiers had taken the money.
  Mr. Fox:— The remedy would be worse than the disease — for the men are now probably scattered throughout Germany, they having returned home.
  Ann Hall v. James Rigg:- The defendant in this case, the landlord of the "Plume of Feathers" public house, Limekiln Street, was summoned for assault upon the complainant, an unfortunate. The defendant pleaded not guilty.
  The complainant having been sworn, said - On Wednesday night I was in the company of two young men in Limekiln Street, when the defendant, who was standing outside the door, came up. Both young men were the worse for liquor, and one, a little fellow, particularly so. The little fellow offered to fight any man, and Riggs, responding to the challenge, took off his coat. He first struck the other man, Hedgerly, and knocked him down, cutting his head open. He was then about to strike the other, who was the more drunk of the two, when I stood before him and said, "Don't strike this one, Mr. Riggs." Riggs then said, "Get out of the way, or I will strike you," and with that he struck me a blow in the eye, causing the bruise it now exhibits.
  The defendant said he had been much annoyed by persons congregating near his house, and that complainant and the other men were making a noise underneath his window when he went out and removed them. He denied assaulting the complainant; but there was a general scuffle, and he might have got injured in the course of it. He called