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1148 THE LEADER. [No. 297, Saturday
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MISCELLANEOUS. Railway Accidents.—Three ...
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Our Civilisation. Dishonest Bankrupts.—T...
used her Tiolently , and who , having taken away her clothes and the small sum of money she possessed left her naked on the beach . Her story excited great interest , and much sympathy was manifested , The constable , however , was determined to ascertain the truth of her statement , and he visited Exeter , but could find no such persons as those whom she had represented as her relatives . Efforts were made to secure the men whom she had accused , and policemen were sent into various towns after them ; but they were not found . The woman then took her departure , and nothing more was heard of her till the examination of Alice Gray at Wolverhamptou , when the police officer of the Kenton district , near Exeter , obtained a daguerreotype likeness of that notorious character . It was then ascertained beyond all doubt that she was the woman who was found , naked on the beach .
Juvenile Delinquency . — Mary Ann Scales , a child of about seven years old , and a young man who gave the name of William Johnson , but who proved to be the girl ' s brother and a ticket-of-leave man , were charged at Bow-street with uttering counterfeit coin . Two or three cases were proved against the child , exhibiting an extraordinary degree of depravity , cunning , and impudence . It vas stated that she had been already charged repeatedly at other policecourts , and when accused by the searcher of having been also at Bow-street ,. she replied that . it was her sister for whom she was often mistaken , and laughed outright at " the joke . " It appeared that the child had two brothers , one of them being the young man Johnson , who supplied her with counterfeit halfcrowns , shillings , & c , and sent her with them to different shops for such trifling articles as " a penny sheet of paper , " " a twopenny cake of blacking , " & c . When
the experiment failed , owing to the detection of the bad money , she represented that a gentleman sent her with it ; and , in one instance , the prisoner Johnson having been referred to as the gentleman , he was called upon to explain the occurrence , having been found waiting outside . He assured the shopkeeper that he received the money from his employer , a pianoforte maker iu the Tottenhanicotivt-road , and volunteered to accompany the girl to the police-station to explain the matter satisfactorily to the inspector on duty there . Ilia challenge was accepted , and _ all the parties were on their way to Bow-street , when- Johnson contrived to escape , leaving his sister to her fate . The depositions in each case having been taken , Inspector Mackenzie informed the magistrate that Johnson was out on ticket-of-leave , which the prisoner did not deny . Mr . Jar-dine committed him for trial .
An Unuhateful . Cashier . —Mr . Bulmer , the cashier of Mrs . J . C . Ewart , Myers , and Co ., brokers , of Liverpool , after being respected for thirty years as a highly honourable man , has been recently discovered to be a systematic plunderer of the firm to the extent of about ^ £ 300 a-year , amounting altogether to no less a sum than . £ 9 , 000 . His conduct is rendered still worse by the fact of his having enjoyed an annuity of £ 200 a-year left him by the will of one of his late master * . For some unexplained reason , the case has not appeared before the public in a judicial form .
Cruelty to a Horse . —Joseph Burgess , a carxnau , was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment , with hard labour , for dealing on the head of his employer ' s horao so tremendous a blow with a heavy piece of wood that he fell down and died immediately . The provocation to this execrable cruelty was that the horse would not stand still . Dr . Vauohan . —Three true bills for felony have been found by the grand jury at the Central Criminal Court against the Rev . Dr . Yaughan . It was agreed that the trial should be postponed until the next session ; but the doctor will remain out on bail , and it is said that the Attorney-General has been retained for tho defence .
A Tiuef von the Sake of his Mother . —A youth of seventeen , named Morris Naeh , was indiotcd at tho Central Criminal Court for forgery and uttering an order for the payment of £ 1 . 17 s . 6 d ., with intent to defraud his employers , tho Electric Telegraph Company . It was tho course of business with the company , in all the oases where tho telegraphic messages were overcharged , to repay the overcharge by an order signed by tho soorotaiy , which was payable at any of tho stations of tho company . Nuah had taken advantage of his knowledge of tho mannor in which
these transactions woro conducted to writ © fictitious applications for the restoration of money that had been overcharged , and he then drew up orders for the amount that was claimed , to which lie forgod tho signature of tho noorotavy , and by this moans obtained tho naonoy . On his trial , ho put in a written statement , in which ho alleged that ho gave tho whole of his salary ( £ 1 a week ) to his mother ; aud tho mother , who was in court , aud who appeared in deep distress , admitted that this was the cuho , aud that sho mqrely allowed him a small sum for pookot-mouoy . The Rooordor deferred passing sentence . Attempt to Murder . —A shot was fired through a window in the house of nn old man , a farmer at
Snareston , Leicestershire , at his grandson , to whom he has left a large proportion of his property . The young man was struck in the head , and is not expectedto live . Suspicion has fallen on his uncle , who had felt aggrieved at the property being left to his nephew . This individual is now in eustody . Monomania . —A case was heard at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , which singularly illustrated the power of monomania . Joseph Berridge , an elderly man , surrendered to take his trial , charged with threatening the life of the Rev . William Brown , rector of Leatheringset in Norfolk . Mr . Brown had known Berridge many years previously ; but all intimacy had ceased for a considerable lapse of tune . Berridge was manied ; and , although Mr . Brown had
hardly ever seen the prisoner's wife , an idea entered into the head of Berridge that his children were the offspring of his former friend . This opinion he afterwards modified ; bat he then charged Mr . Brown with knowing who the father really was , and he threatened to shoot him in the pulpit if he did not divulge the the person ' s name . One Sunday , as Mr . Brown was about to officiate , Berridge was seen to enter the church . He was stopped and searched , and some bullets together with percussion caps were found on him . He had a bag in his hand ; but this waa evidently brought iu mistake for another , which was found at his inn , and which contained a loaded Minie * istol . On the trial , the prisoner pleaded guilty ; but , having entered into recognizances , he was discharged .
Commercial Moralitt : —" Salting" Invoices . — During an action in the Court of Exchequer , it came out that the wholesale traders with Australia were recently in the habit of inserting in their invoices a fictitious price , much lower than that really charged , the customer being fully given to understand that the sum mentioned was the real sum . This piece of trade " cuteness" was poetically designated "salting the invoices ; " but the chief Baron called it by the more homely name of " obtaining money under false pretences . " The witness who revealed this mystery excused his own participation in it by saying " it was the general custom . " Alas ! how much trade immorality is pei'petuated by that soothing reflection"It is the custom ' "
Extensive Fbatjd . —Mr . Maude , of the firm of Covington and Co , lighternieu , of Nicholas-lane , was summoned before the Lord Mayor on a charge of having defrauded Messrs . Kemp and Clay , bill-brokers and bankers in the city , of nearly £ 800 . In the course of a lengthened evidence , it appeared that the prisoner had , together with his clerk , Mr . Whitby , induced the partners of the above-mentioned firm to discount for them certain accommodation bills , under the false assertion that they were bonajide trade bills . Maude had moreover stated to Messrs . Kemp and Clay that he had four partners in his business , whose names he mentioned ; but in fact he waa the only surviving partner in the 'firm . Last April , Maude
brought several bills to Messrs . Kemp and Clay to be discounted . In answer to a question from Mr . Kemp , as to whether they were genuine trade bills and not bills of accommodation , Maude said , with an appearance of surprise , that they never drew accommodation bills . Believing Maude ' s whole statement , and knowing Covington and Co ., for whom they had been in the habit of discounting bills for several years , as respectable tradesmen , carrying on an extensive business in the city , Messrs . Kemp and Clay made advances from time to time , to the amount of nearly £ 2 , 000 , upon certain bills . They continued to discount bills for the firm until the 22 nd of October , when they discovered that the bills were
accommodation bills , and that the whole transaction was a fraud ; in consequence of which , they did not discount any more bills . On the 2 nd of November , Maude ' s clerk , Mr . Whitby , in whose name several of the bills hod been accepted and paid , called at Kemp and Clay ' s office , when one of tho partners asked him if he was the acceptor of thoso bills which he had , at difforent times , brought to them from Covington and Co . in the above name . He at first denied that he had anything to do with thorn , but , on being further interrogated , confessed all , and asked whether Mr . Maude had not already told them that he had been accepting bills as clerk to Covington and Co . Whitby had been repeatedly to Kemp and Clay ' s counting-house , but they had no notion that he was the acceptor of ooveral of the hills which thoy had discounted for
Messrs . Covington and Co . Mr . Gane , whoso namo had appeared as the acceptor of some of tho other bills , identified Whitby as olerk to tho firm of Covington and Co . Gauo had been in the customs , and had also built some houses , but had been out of business for some months . There had boon a money account between himself and Maudo , and ho had aooeptad a bill for £ 148 14 b ., which he believed was to meet a previous bill . Ho had had tran . mct . ion 8 with one of tho partners at Messrs . Covington and Go ' e . over Binco tho years 1851-52 , when ho purchased BOino ground belonging to tho Freehold Land Building Socioty , for whioh ho gave sovoral bills of exchange . These bills , ho believod , had boon repeatedly renewed at different tlinos , inconsequence of whioh there had boon a running account between the firm aud himself
for some years . There was a balance between Mr . Gane and Maude , but the former did not know in whose favour it was . He did not , however think that he owed the firm any money , or , at least , not so much as £ 148 . On Friday week Maude ' s solicitor , Mr . Sleigh , contended that the charge of conspiracy and fraud against his client was unfounded , and that he had become acquainted with Messrs . Kemp and Clay , and got them to discount bills for him , in the regular way of business . He therefore hoped that Maude would be discharged . Mr . Poland , for Whitby ( who was summoned together with Maude ) , represented that his client had been merely acting as clerk to Maude , and had accepted the bills for his employer . Alderman Wire , in the absence of the Lord Mayor , dismissed the summons against Whitby * but committed Maude for trial . Bail waa accepted .
DanielJLordan , weaver , has been found Guilty of tha murder of his wife , and sentenced to death ; but the jury have recommended him to mercy on account of provocation . The facts appeared in The Leader of Sept . 22 nd .
1148 The Leader. [No. 297, Saturday
1148 THE LEADER . [ No . 297 , Saturday
Miscellaneous. Railway Accidents.—Three ...
MISCELLANEOUS . Railway Accidents . —Three men have been run down and killed on the London and North-Western Railway while at work on the line ; one man on the North-Eastern ; and a woman on the Hull and Selby line . In the first and last cases , trains were passing in opposite directions on different Iine 3 , and the deceased persons were confused and unable to escape . — A breaksman has been killed on the Great Western Railway by the collision of a coal train with a goods train at the junction of the West London branch of the London and North Western Railway with the Great Western at Kensington . Besides the death of the breaksman , several carriages were destroyed , and the rails were torn up .
Mormonitb Manners at Worcester . — Elder Wheel ock , a Worcester Mormonite , was holding forth a few Sundays ago , when a woman in the congregation thought fit to dispute with , him on the subject of polygamy , and put him to considerable embarrassment on the ground of hia Scriptural authorities . Subsequently , some one turned off the gas , and a horrible uproar and fight ensued . The women , amid shrieks and outcries , struggled for the door ; and the police who were present did not interfere . The matter was brought before the Town Council on the Tuesday following ; but the Mayor said that lie could do nothing in a matter of opinion . —A parish overseer at Hougharn , near Dover , has been committed for trial for disturbing a Mornionite congregation , and using disgusting language .
Gunpowder Accident . —Lord Gleutworth , son of the Earl of Limerick , was inspecting a powder-flask by candlelight , when a spark from the candle ignited the powder , the flask exploding violently , and so shattering his right hand , that the thumb only remained attached to it by a shred of the skin . His lordship ' s other hand , and his face and chest , were also injured by the explosion . Lady Emmbline Stuart Wortley . —Lady Emmeline Wortley died at Beyrout on the night of the 29 th of October . On the 1 st of May , while riding in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem , her ladyship had the
misfortune to have her leg fractured by the kick of a horae Notwithstanding , however , the weakened state of her constitution , Bh . e undertook a journey from Beyrout to Aleppo , returning by an unfrequented road across tho Lebanon to the former place . Sho reached Beyrout on the 26 th of October , but , in spite of the unremitting attentions of Dr . Saquet , tho French Government physician , and two other medical gentlemen , her frame was so weakened and exhausted by the excessive fatigue of tho journey that sho gradually sank . We arc glad to hear that her ladyship' )* daughter , Miss Stuart Wortley , who was also very unwell , having been attacked by intermittent fever ,
ia considered out of all danger . Stirling Cabtle . —A fire has taken place at Stirling Castle , whioh , we regret to say , haw terminated in tho destruction of some of tho most ancient ana historically interesting parts of that famous structure Tho portion reduced to yuina . was that known «» "Tho Governor ' s House , " and comprised the colcbrated Douglas Room . Tradition says that tho odifico was ereoted by tho Picte in tho ninth oontury . Cabinet Changes . —Sevoral changes have taken
place in the composition of tho Cabinet . Tho Diik " of Argyll , as , has beon already stated , ha « HuecoerU'd Lord Canning as Postmaster-General ; and Lord Harrowby , vacating tho Vioe-Chn . ncellorsl » ip of tho Duoliy of Lancaster , will take tho Duke of Argyll ' s sinoouro placo as Lord Privy Seal . Mr . Bainos , who rotirca from tho Presidency of tho Poor Law Board at tjio end of the laet session , becomes Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster , with a Beat in the Cabinet ; ana Lord Stanley of Alderloy , tho President of tho JJoam of Trade , has also been appointed a inombor oi tJio
Cabinet . AttOIIDUAOON HALK AND MIS GlUVKYAIlU lH ® ° - Hi KB . —Our readers no doubt recollect tho eloquent apology for overcrowded gravoyardH , pufcroiiio aon ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 1, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01121855/page/8/
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