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alarm / and when the door was brokeiropen it was found SETthe woinan was quite dead . There was a rope fastened tightly round her neck , and a wound upon the riffht temple . The name of the deceased was Susannah Beed and her age was about forty years . Her husband , Henry Reed , has recently served four years of penal servitude for a house robbery , and since Whitsuntide , when he was discharged , he has obtained his living by selling sand . On Wednesday , the Ueeds-and some acquaintances were drinking together . Reed Tvas drunk when he went to bed ; and on the following morning he was still in liquor . He , however , understood what was said , and replied that she had done it herself ; she had tried to kill herself once before . He also said that she
had not been to bed the previous night . He was then taken into custody . At the inquest a neighbour said the deceased and her husband were drinking and fighting every night . About three o ' clock that morning witness was awoke by a great noise in the prisoner s house . She heard three successive heavy falls down the stairs , and then a female cried out , but she could not distinguish what she said . The surgeon ' s evidence described a wound on the forehead , but the cause of aeath was strangulation , which had not been caused by the deceased herself . The deceased was in the habit of drinking a great deal . She was pregnant . The prisoner said that his wife had done it herself , and had tried to strangle herself twice . before . Verdict , " Wilful
Murder . " . Bkeaketg into a Prison . —On Friday * veek the prison ot Edinburgh , situate on the Calton-hill , was broken into , as is supposed , by some of its former inmates , for the purpose of plunder . On the clerks coming to the office they found that forcible entrance had been made , and a desk broken , open , from which about 20 / . in notes and gold had been abstracted . Two of the city detectives-were able to make out some traces , and apprehended two persons whom they had reason to suspect a 3 being the perpetrators . One of these was Robert Campbell , who had only completed his period of imprisonment for housebreaking on the 18 th , and the other James M'Gowan , who had for some time been on » of the prison warders , and had only left his situation a fortnight ago . The prisoners were on Monday remitted by the police magistrates for examination .
Alleged Murder . —As an Irishman , named Philip I > bnatty , was proceeding to his work on Thursday morning , after breakfast , at Agar Town , he was furiously assailed by three or four of his own countrymen , and struck and kicked in such a manner that he expired immediately on being removed to his own house . The ruffians who perpetrated this brutal murder have not yet been apprehended ; but as they are all well known they cannot long escape detection . The reason assigned for the attack is that they had all been quarrelling the previous evening in a public-house , and the unfortunate deceased had given his cowardly murderers some offence .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Thb authorities of St . Margaret ' s Workhouse will have no half measures , as appears from the fact that they refused to receive the lunatic wife of an unfortunate man unless he also took up his residence in the house . The husband sought the advice of Mr , Paynter , at Westminster police-court , and represented that he was willing to remunerate the parish for his wife ' s support , and that it was absolutely necessary , from her dangerous state ,. she should be under control . The magistrate gave orders for the matter to be inquired into , . Francis John Beckford , head clerk in the bill office of the banking-house of Messrs . Smith , Payne , and Smith , of Lombard-street , and who has been thirty years in their service , has been brought before the Lord Mayor , charged frith embezzling to the value of 4501 . The prisoner acknowledged his crime , but was remanded for a further investigation of the cose . On ttie 26 th of July , Mr . Kilbura , a retired tradesman living at Peckham , left his house at three in the afternoon , leaving his aged mother at home . He was absent but twenty minutes , and on his return found a man holding his mother down in a chair with a cloth over her head . Two other thieves were wp-stairs rifling the place . The householder grappled with foe rascals , but after a severe struggle , in which he was much hurt , they escaped over his garden wall , in their retreat combining insult with injury by pelting him with his own flower-pots . They had not time to make off with any property . One of the men has been identified this week , and committed for trial .
Frances Johnson , aged eighteen , a girl of interesting appearance , threw herself into the Thames , from London bridge , in March last . She was rescued from drowning , but was found to have dislocated , her hip , and was taken to Bartholomew ' s Hospital , where she has been under treatment over , since , . On being brought before the Lord Mayor tills week <; o answer the charge of attempts ing suicide , she said she had been driven to the act by the cruel conduct of her fathor . She Is still very ill , and her appearance oxoitos groat pity . Inquiries whioh have been made by the police confirm tho poor creature's statement . Johnson her father a cutler In
Graoechurch-street . On the day of the attempt at selfdestruction , a policeman was sent to tell him that his daughter was lying at the hospital . He demanded by what authority he was troubled on the subject , and flatly refused to go near her , or to do anything for her . fehe has always beena well-conducted girl . The defendant s sister , addressing his Lordship , said , "He is not like a father . He has deserted all his children , and there are seven of us , and we have no mother . " The Lord Mayor — " And is there no intelligible cause for his conduct f " I know of none whatever . He deserted his family conduct
before my mother's death , of which I believe his was the cause . When asked to contribute towards our maintenance , his uniform reply has been that he would do no more than the law would compel him to do . uns girl added , that to one of her sisters he recommended " the streets" as an alternative to starvation . The . Lord Mayor said he had learnt from a trustworthy source that a more respectable family does not exist than that of these seven children , and that nothing can be more praiseworthy than their efforts to maintain themselves since their mother's death . The defendant then , accompanied by her sister , hobbled out of the justice room , and was convVyed in a cab to the inlirmary of the City of
London Union . A singular charge under the Scottish game laws was heard before the Justice of Peace Court at Paisley on Friday . William Forfar and his son were charged under an act of George III ., known as the " Close Time Act , with carrying a hare on the public road , not being qualified to do so . The statute in question enacts that every person not qualitied to kill game in Scotland , who shall have in his or her custody , or carry at any time of the year , upon any pretence whatever , any hares , or other game , without the leave or order of a person qualified to kill game in Scotland , shall be subject to penalties of 20 s . for the first , and 40 s . for the second offence , and to imprisonment in default . The defence was that the act had gone into disuse . The Court discharged the defendant .
On Saturday night a man named Waring , residing in Westminster , was awoke from sleep by his wife attempting to strangle him with her apron . By the gentle suasion of a blow on the eye he induced her to release him from the disagreeable pressure , and soon after betook himself once more to slumber . A second time he was aroused by the vigorous application of a stbno bottle to his head , laid on by the bands of his loving wife . He went to the hospital and had his wounds dressed , and the assailant was brought before the magistrate and committed for trial . . It seems difficult to stop the mischievous practice of throwing stones upon railways . On Wednesday a boy was fined 4 . 0 . a . for committing that offence at the Piuilico terminus of the Crystal Palace line .
At the Guildhall , on Tuesday , a serious charge of conspiracy was preferred by Messrs . Christie and Co ., spirit merchants of Liverpool , against Mr . liiky , a general agent , and Mr . Thurgood , a surgeon . Riky was employed by the above firm as a sub-agent , aud it was alleged that he represented Thurgood as an opulent London merchant , and on that representation obtained for him a considerable quantity of spirits , the theory of the prosecution being that the two had conspired together to defraud Messrs . Christie .
The fortune-telling profession is decidedly in a flour ishing condition at present . A s w ^ thy female was brought before the magistrate at Worship-street , a servant girl being the prosecutrix , who stated that she had received a visit from the prisoner who , after assuring her of a speedy marriage , and all the desirable etceteras , carried away 80 s . worth of wearing apparel , " that it might be covered with mould in the churchyard , and receive a blessing . " A number of pother charges , similar in nature , are expected to bo brought against the prisoner , who is remanded .
Sarah and Ellen Newson , mother and daughter , were charged , the latter with stealing , and tho former with receiving , a box of jewels . The prosecutor , a gentleman of Bristol , stated that he had been on a visit to a friend at New-cross , where the youngor prisoner was servant , when ho lost the property in question , and tho girl leaving her situation soon after , suspicion fell upon her . A search being made , part ; < of tho jewels were found in possession of tho daughter , and part with the mother . Both prisoners are committed for trial . A man named Lewis Lewis , formerly a draper , of
Clerkonwell , was brought up on a warrant , at Guildhall , charged with not surrendering , after haying boon legally adjudgod a bankrupt . Huggett , a City detective , spoke . to the identity of tho prisoner , and stated that after tho adjudication , which took place in May , 1857 , he went to New York in pursuit of the prisoner , who there delivered up to him 850 / . ; but as no international law applicable to the cuso oxlatod , ho opuld not bring tho prisoner to this country . Subsequently , the defaulter had returned of his own accord , and was apprehended on Monday night , It was found necessary to adjourn tho casebail being refused .
, John Owen , a shoemaker , was charged at Westminster police-court with having administered oxalic acid to his daughter . It was , however , urged that she know the nature of the potion , and took it of her own accord . The woman wns removed to tho hospital , when antidotes wore used ,, and she is in a state of recovery . Mr .
until his daughter shm . u be able to attend . ° Ould A ticketTporter , named William Hill , attached to tha Borough-market , while in' a state of intoxication on Saturday night , struck his mother a blow on the fore head with his list , when she fell down and soon after expired . The unfortunate woman also , it is stated was drunk at the time . At the inquest , a verdict of " ilan slaughter" was returned . . . . ' - " At Birmingham , a serious charge was preferred against a Greek , named Antonio Culvocoresi , carryiiig on an extensive business as a merchant in Lloyd-street , Manchester . In March last Mr . Calvocoresi came ' to Bh >
mingham , and waited upon Mr . Ralph Heaton , of Bath , street , who supplies the greater portion of the English and colonial copper coinage , and is also extensively engaged in the same way for some foreign states . ]\ fr Calvocoresi intimated to Mr . Heaton that he wished to have manufactured some dies , from which Turkish piastres could be struck , and at the same time stated that a large order for tlie coins would be given . Mr . Heaton however , refused to have anything whatever to do with the transaction ; ' and thinking , probabl y , that Mr . Calvocoresi was not aware of the illegality of his proceedings , ho pointed out the clause in the act of parliament
upon the subject . Mr . Calvocoresi then left Mr Hcato . n ' s , undeterred , however , by the result of the interview from prosecuting his design , as it appears that immediately afte . rw . ards he put himself in personal communication with Mr . Pipple , a manufacturer , in Great Hampton-row , and made a similar application to him . In this second attempt he was more . successful . Mr . Pipple undertook'to make the dies , and also to supply the coin . Those were being made when the detectives obtained information , communicated with the Turkish embassy , ami arrested the prisoner , lie . was remanded . - —Jfancfiesti-r Cnurdinn . ¦
The man Bandy , who is charged with having murdered Sarah Fnm . ll , a woman with whuni lie cohabited , by throwing her out of a window , lias undergone . a final examination before the Westminster police magistrates . The prisoner acknowledged that he had quarrelled with the deceased , but declared that , she flung herself out of the window . An important piece of evidence , in addition to that already elicited , was furnished by a woman , who swears to having heard , the prisoner threaten to murder the deceased only- about an hour previous to his actually doing so . The prisoner was fully committed for trial .
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FllAXCE . ( From our vwn Correspondent . ) l ' Aurs , Thursday , 0 i r-. sr . To-day expires the decree which suspended the law of 1832 , and allowed corn to enter France free . N ' o announcement has been made in the j / onitcur yet , but the Constttutionnel aflirms that the decree will not be extended . It ia true that not much weight can be attached to this journal , although it pretends to be inspired . M . J . liurat , who makes this affirmation , and does in relation to the paper the business which corresponds with what is called , in theatrical parlance , heavy or generalhas the especial ofticc of making nwertions
, which aro likely or liable to bo contradicted , 'lhorefore , it would not at all be surprising if to-morrow's JA »« i <««' should announce the extension of tho decree or nn early period when the sliding-scalo shall bo definitively abolished . The whole history of the State's iutorltoenco with the corn trade is tho most farcical that can be imagined wore it not for tho misery it lias caused . Nnra the corn crops first faded , some harvests buck , out , eumo two decrees , one prohibiting tho exportation of corn , anu the other authorising its importation . This selfish policy , which was thought very clever , produced oxnotiy i «« contrary effect anticipated . Instead of corn tto * wb in to Havre and Marseilles , it went to Louden , wliow « was suro to bo free , and might bo re-exported WP highest markets . Tho consequence wns , that upi w to 1
Of six millions sterling hud to bo expended I" ™"" food for tho people . Tins w »» bad enough , gut what camo next was worse . The docroo l ^ »» Wul g tho exportation of corn was allowed to roinaiu forco , with the idea Unit it would lend to Uio » cumulation , of stock * , but when ft goou ' .. rfces . camo , as last year , corn full below rom «» lorotl , ni ^ ulas it could not bo sold out of tho country , nnu «* , » . „ turibfcs wore threatened with ruin . They could noii their corn , and to moot thoir liabilities they wow oblige ^ to sell thoir uuviiiga and iuvcwtmontH of past ) < u ' % Bourse waattoodod with public aoouriuos ; all uoio »« and this oven during tho comm ercial erJaw . matters became so bad that dovoruuwnt wtfi « J"B £ rf allow tho . too exportation of com . al ^» Xnd <»» rollof'Q ' amo tpo latu-raftor tho , granari es ol ¦"" " « ' \\ t , olaowhoro hud boon flUgil from America . *«« btherefore , of interference with truclo '" VV' ^ Jn loss of fugtory . It has ouuNod tlio ngriou turnl Intou » i 'J ^ Wpwa , rds of olghloou million * starling . ^ ' * "jJ dluB-So « lo , after to-morrow to tho wutnuftotlai of tUo » iw »» tf
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02101858/page/6/
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