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No. 415, Mabch 6.1858.1 T H E 1E A P E B...
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Attempted Suicides through Destitution.—...
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Court.—The Queen and ...
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The Assizes. A Case Of Bigamy Was Tried ...
unwilling to do so . Kumney had the best of it , and wanted to shake hands and be friendly ^ nth his adversary , but the other sullenly refused . The fight was then renewed , and at length Samuel Goddard pulled out a pocket . knife , and stabbed Rumney in the lower part pf his stomach . He rapidly sank , and died in a few hours . The seconds were Acquitted ; but Samuel Goddard was found Guilty , and sentenced to ten years penal servitude .
No. 415, Mabch 6.1858.1 T H E 1e A P E B...
No . 415 , Mabch 6 . 1858 . 1 T H E 1 E A P E B . 228
Attempted Suicides Through Destitution.—...
Attempted Suicides through Destitution . — The severe weather has produced its usual crop of attempted suicides on the part "f wretched women in a state of destitution . At the Mansion House , on Monday , Jane Simpson , a young woman , was brought up under these circumstances . A policeman found her in Leadenhallstreet , leaning against some railings in a state of stupor . He spoke to her , and she answered faintly . She then threw away a paper , which the policeman picked up , and found that it contained oxalic acid . In answer to the constable ' s questions , the woman said that she had taken some ; and she was therefore conveyed to a chemist ' s , where an antidote was administered , and was afterwards removed to the hospital , and then to the station-house . She stated that she had been with a
young man to the chemist ' s where she bought the poison , but that he afterwards left her . In answer to the Lord Mayor , she said she was a tailoress , but had been out of employment for six weeks . It appeared further that she had attempted to drown herself about a year ago , but had been dismissed with an admonition . She was now sent to prison , being unable to find securities for good behaviour . — A woman named Ann Bellingham was charged at the Southwark police-court with throwing herself off London-bridge during the night . She was rescued by the Thames police . In answer to the magistrate , she said that she had lately lived in Shoreditch , and she had applied to the parish , but they gave her nothing . She was driven to the last extremity , and , rather than walk the streets , she had attempted suicide . She had since regretted it , and prayed to God to forgive her . She was remanded for a
week . _ Garotte Robbery . —A man was examined on Tuesday at the Marlborough-street police-court on a charge of being concerned with some others ( now undergoing sentence ) in a garotte robbery of the landlord of a public-house in Bear-street , Leicester-square , about three o ' clock on the morning of the 28 th of July . The Facts have already appeared in this journal . The man now charged was remanded . Murderous Assault . —Three privates of the Coldstream Guards have committed a savage assault on James Seymour , a policeman . The constable found hem , at half-past twelve at night , outside the closed door of a public-house in North-street , Chelsea , trying to push it open . He begged them to desist ; on which
all three attacked him witli ferocious violence , one Striking him so violently with his cross belt that the top of one finger was nearly cut off , and indeed it was afterwards found necessary to amputate it . lie struggled with his assailants with great courage and determination ; but they knocked him down several times , and at length one of them held him by the hair of the head while the others beat him till ha became insensible . Assistance at length arrived , and the soldiers were secured , the most violent of them exclaiming that he Would serve every policeman the same way ; that he wanted to be discharged from the regiment ; that he had already received fifty lashes , and that he could stand fifty more at any time . The accused were brought up before the Westminster magistrate , and remanded for a week .
Murder near Liverpool . — James Morecroft , a Shoemaker residing at Sefton , near Liverpool , has been found dead in the canal at Lithcrland . The body was much bruised and disfigured ; and it is believed that the man ( who had been missing since the 19 th of January , when he left homo to collect some money ) has been murdered by some boon companions . The inquest has terminated in an open verdict . A . Suspected Murderer . —Alexander Clayton , a private in the 97 th Regiment of Foot , stationed in Colchester camp , was arrested on Tuesday by an officer of the Irish constabulary under a coroner ' s warrant , charged with the -wilful murder of John Reynolds , at Portadown , county | Armagh , Ireland . Keynolda was lulled about the close of last year , and Clayton enlisted immediately afterwards .
Aw Incident in the ' Marshalsba ' . — -George Wesson and David Knowles , two labouring men , have been examined at tho Southwark police-court on a charge of nearly murdering John Shaw , the doputy-keoper of a large model lodging-houao in Angel-court , High-street ,. Borough , which was formerly the chapel of tho old Marshalaea-prisonr' - © nrtho-28 th—of ~ January ,- "Sliaw ^ dranlc till he was insensible , and waa carried to bod in that fltate . While lying there , tho two prlsonors , who wore lodgers at tho house , fell upon tho drunkard ( for what p auso it is not clearly apparent ) , and , while one kicked him on the head repeatedly with tho iron heels of his boots , the other struck him across tho noso and eyes with A heavy piece of wood . Ho was frightfully mangled ; but his drunkenness waa such that ho did not seem to bo conscious of his wounds . A lodger , however , hoaring ( be blows , went up , and tried to Interfere , but was
threatened with the same treatment if he meddled . He then went away and told the landlady , and a policeman was ultimately brought to the place . Shaw knew nothing of what had happened till two days afterwards , when he recovered his consciousness in St . Thomas s Hospital . He stated that on a previous day he had heard Weston and Knowles say " they would do for him , because he would not join them . " That is the only light which has been thrown on the motive for the act . The prisoners were committed for triaL
Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Some proceedings took place in the Court of Queen's Bench , before Mr . Justice Erie and a common jury , in connexion with a writ of error to reverse a proceeding in outlawry . It was incumbent on the outlaw to appear in person ; but he did not do so , and Mr . Justice Erie said he felt so certain as to the necessity of his doing so that he refused to hear Mr . Collier on the point of law . The case , however , went before the jury on the facts . Mr . Collier , in addressing the jury , said Mr . Rawlings , the plaintiff , a country gentleman in Hampshire of some property and great respectability , was placed under peculiar circumstances . By representations which were utterly false , he was induced to join a bank in Winchester . It was represented that the bank was in a most f lourishing condition when it was hopelessly insolvent , and there had been falsifications in the books and accounts . When the exposure came , Mr . Rawlings was saddled with liabilities to such an amount as almost to overpower him . The defendant ( a Mr . Hunt ) was the representative of the Hampshire Banking Company , who were creditors of the bank , and had obtained judgment against Mr . Rawlings for a large amount . Mr . Rawlings believed that in a little time he should be able to discharge all the liabilities that had been thrust upon him . He had already obtained judgment against one partner for having induced him to join the bank , and had taken proceedings in Chancery against the estates of the other parties . Upon the 11 , 000 / . judgment he had only received 300 ? . ; but , from the result of the suit and his own private property , he had every reason to believe he should ultimately have means to meet every liability . When the defendant ' s judgment was obtained , the plaintiff was unable to meet it , and at once left the country . Mr . Rawlings was very desirous to liquidate all his liabilities ; and he believed this proceeding to set aside the outlawry would assist rather than retard the final payment of Mr . Hunt ' s debt . The jury having found that Mr . Rawlings was abroad when the outlawry -was declared , and Mr . Justice Erie having remarked that the plaintiff might be keeping away from motives which were justifiablea verdict was found for the plaintiff .
, The case of G . H . Guest , a young man who had been a clerk in the Military Store Office at the Tower , with a salary of 126 / . per annum , came before the Insolvent Debtors' Court last Saturday . He had joined a fellowclerk named Spain ( discharged by the same court a short time since ) in raising money upon bills of exchange , the result of which had been tho dismissal of both from the public service , and the necessity of appealing to the court for liberation from custody . The insolvent's liabilities exceeded 400 / . The opposing creditor was a person named Martin , who had charged at the rate of sixty per cent , for discount , but who now had the confidence to complain of the system by which young men in public offices are enabled to raise money on accommodation bills . Mr . Commissioner Phillips told him that , bad as that system is , his practice of charging such ruinous discount was worse . Any person who chose to take sixty per cent , must be regarded as his own insurer , and had no right to expect any assistance from that court . The case was adjourned .
Two men named James and Charles Mellor , father and son , who have lately occupied a respectable position at Ashtou-under-Lyne , as solicitors , have each been charged with committing a forgery . The fraud alleged against the father wua that of having designedly altered a figure from one to four in a receipt which had been given him for the sum of 150 / ., paid by him to a gentleman at Manchester , whoso wife was a legatee under the will of tho late Mr , Hart of tho same town , tho administration of tho letter ' s affairs having been placed in tho hands of the older Mollor . The receipt had been thus passed off for 450 / ., when in truth not more than 150 / . had been paid by tho lawyer . Tho charge of fraud against the son consisted in hia creating and passing for value a deed which purported to convey certain property at Sadtho of
dle worth to a person named Prestwich , name ono of tho olorka in tho office of tho Mellora having been used as tliat of conveyor of tho property , while Charloa Mellor had signed hia own name to tho deed « a witness . Thoao frauda being in courao of time detected , the father and"son ^ rled 'to- 'ATnorlca ;^ and-an-omcer-of-the-Mancheater detective force having lionrd of tho occurronco , ho started in purauit of tho fugitives . Ho left Liverpool on tho 15 th of laat January in a Canada vessel bound for Boston , on his arrival at which place ho proceoded to Portland , and from thonoo Journeyed through a considerable portion of tho United States and Canada , until ho camo to Sandwich , whoro ho hired * a waggon and entered tho prairioa of Illinois , within thirty miles of St . Louia . Horo ho found the two men ho waa in search pf . and returned with thorn to England , after having
travelled altogether nearly ten thousand miles . The prisoners were afterwards brought before the magistrates at Ash ton , by whom they were committed . The way in which the French authorities shovel disreputable characters off on us was exhibited on Wednesday in a case which waa brought forward at Guildhall . Victor Durand and Fara Martini , Italians , were charged with stealing boots . After evidence in support of the charge had been given , a City detective officer said that Martini had been in custody with two other foreigners , and was convicted of a similar boot robbery at Gravesend on the day that the Prince and Princess of Prussia were there . A dagger in a sheath was found upon
Martini then , and on the present occasion a large claspknife , with a dagger-shaped blade , was found upon him . A passport was found upon Durand ; but Martini said he came through France , and on applying at Boulogne for a passport he received only a letter to the authorities with permission to come to England . Alderman Humphrey said the French were very particular in requiring recommendations as to character before granting passports to persons going to France , and he certainly thought they ought to be more particular with persons leaving that country . The French authorities send these Italians over here in shoals , and then accuse us of harbouring assassins . The accused were committed to prison for three months with hard labour .
The certificate meeting in the bankruptcy of Charles Henry Purday , 'music publisher of Maddox-street , took placeon Tuesday . The ground of opposition was that the bankrupt , while himself in difficulties , had accepted accommodation bills to the amount of 440 / . for a Mr . Knight , a clergyman and the composer of several popular songs ; and that he had also made a misrepresentation with respect to the payment of the bills . Mr . Knight is not at present forthcoming . Mr . Bagley , who appeared for the bankrupt , did not attempt to justify the acceptance of the accommodation bills , but said that Mr . Knight was in straitened circumstances , and that Mr . Purday conceived he was benefiting himself in doing what he had done . Mr . Commissioner Holroyd , who thought the conduct of the latter unjustifiable , said that the certificate ( second class ) would be suspended for twelve months , with protection .
A gentleman , styling himself Colonel Richard Gore Ousele . v , applied at the Marlborough-street police-court on Thursday for two assault warrants , and told a rambling story abont his having been forcibly conveyed to a lunatic asylum by men acting under the orders of Dr . Mitchellson and Dr . Forbes Winslow ; of his being violently ill- used there on attempting to escape ; of there being several sane persons shut up in the house , while some of the keepers were made ; and of his having at length been allowed to depart when they found they could not get any money from him . The magistrate advised him to make an application to the Lunacy Commissioners ; which he promised to do .
Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Queen And ...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Royal family left Buckingham Palace on Monday for the Isle of Wight . The Irish Appointments . —Mr . Napier has accepted , the Irish Lord Chancellorship , and Mr . Whiteside has been nominated to the Attorney-Generalship . Mr . Frank Fitzgerald is spoken of as the probable Solicitor-General . Sir Frederick Tuesiger has chosen the title of Baron Chelmsford on hia elevation to the Lord Chancellorship . He first took his position in a great cause at the town of Chelmsford , when a leader on circuit . Lord Stratford de Redcijffjs . —Tho Times has authority to state that Lord Stratford do Redcliffc , our Ambassador at Constantinople , has resigned his office , but that Lord Cowley will remain at Paris . Lord Stratford will pay a last visit to Constantinople to take' leave of tho Sultan . Eaki- Stanhope was on Monday elected Lord Rector of the Aberdeen University . Fire . —Tho recently built church , St . Paul , Herno Hill , Dulwich , took fire last Sunday morning , owing to the overheating of a portion of tho fano . In tho courao of tho night names wore soon issuing from various parts of tho edifice , and , though engines were soon on tho spot , only tho stcoplo and vostry wore saved . Tho church was insured . The Orphan Woititmo * School . —Tho centenary festival of the Orphan Working School , Maitland-park ,
Havorstock-hill , waa held last Saturday evening , at tho London Tavorn , Blshopsgaee-atroet , when about ono hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner , under tho presidency of the Right Hon . Lord John Russell , M . P . Tho institution has boon very successful , and tho governors are anxious to enlarge tho building , ao aa to onablo thorn to-rocoivo-in- 'all- 'four-hundred-cluldron . —^ -Who-sum-of 2700 / . waa collected by subscription during tho evening . In roplylng to tho toaat of his health , Lord John Russoll mado a brief and very vnguo allusion to hia political opinions .
_ _ . . .. « .... _ - Mb , Gordon Cu , mmiwo . —Tho atock and effects of . Mr . Gordon Cumining ' s exhibition at tho Rotundo , Dublin , have boon aoizod by tho police , for tho recovery of 100 / ., in which Mr . Cummlng was bound in his own recognUnnco to appear at tlia pollce-ofllco to answer a charge of indecorum which had boon mado against him
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06031858/page/9/
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