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1 .i J- ^December 6, 1856.] _ __ THE LEA...
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| OBITUARY. GipuiRAL Sin Hknby ' J. Camm...
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The Winter Assizes. The Winter Assizes O...
on-Tyneof the manslaughter of Aim Fleming , a -woman a ffith whom he lived as his wife . They were often drunk so and quarrelling , and one day the man carried lis ill- ol usage to an extent which resulted in the woman ' s death , th He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . isl John Burrows was tried at Oxford for the murder of fa : William Fisher , hut was found Guilty of manslaughter ha only- This was a case of jealousy . Burrows had paid wi certain attentions to Fisher ' s wife . Fisher Tbecame m enraged , and ill-used the woman . The other man then su interfered , and , after much wrangling ( the parties heing ha intoxicated ) , Burrows seized a poler , and inflicted such of injuries on Fisher that he died very shortly . The judge pi sentenced Burrows to four years ' penal servitude . Several other cases of less importance have been tried 01 ia the course of the week , and a good many prisoners la have pleaded Guilty . be Giuseppe Legava , Gio-vanui Barbalano , and Matteo to Pettrich , three Italians , were arraigned at Winchester g ( on six different indictments—one for the wilful murder , hi on the high seas , on the 5 th of last July , of Joseph ic Pattinson ; another for feloniously stabbing and woundr si ing , with intent to murder , John Scotland and Daniel h Cullen ; another for piratically stealing eleven sovereigns h and a half-franc piece , with other things , the property of a John Scotland and others , on board the British barque ti Globe . The particulars of this case have recently ap- o peared in the Leader . They were all found Guilty , and h were sentenced to death , though lo udly protesting their innocence . *• Michael Cawthorn has been found Guilty , at New- a castle-on-Tyne , of the manslaughter of Mark Cunning- ii ham , by stabbing him in the course of a drunken . quarrel . . ' " -: . ¦ ' . ' -.,.. .. ¦ , ¦ ¦/ ' ; . \ - ¦ ¦ . ' , ; ' ¦ _ T The Bullion Robbeby . — A further examination of s Pierce and Burgess took place at the Mansion House on a Thursday ; but the evidence was not important , except s in a confirmatory point of view . The prisoners were re- t manded till next Wednesday . From the evidence of t Mr . Rees , a gentleman connected with the company , it t appeared that the gold which , according to the evidence -a of Agar , was concealed in a hole in . the pantry of Pierco ' s s house , had been removed , though apparently but ' -re- c cently , the cavity being filled with ashes , & c , which seemedqnite fresh . —Tester is not yet in custody . t Affray with Poachers . —Four poachers have been i committed for trial at the next Stafford Assizes for a murderous assault upon some gamekeepers on the estates i of Mr . John Davenport and the Earl of Macelesfield . Three of the gamekeepers have been nearly killed . The Mubderous Assault at Ckovdon . —Staines , ¦ alias Bright , the man Tvho cut open the head of Mrs . Beltonwith a chopper , gave himself up to the police on Monday . He said that Mrs . Belton had been insulting . him . . . ]¦ ' - . ¦'¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - . / . - . ' . - '¦ ¦ ' . A Strange Case . —Ueresford Augustus Christmas , a young man highly connected , was brought before the Marlborough-street magistrate on Tuesday , charged with stealing a number of very valuable old hooks from the library of Brarnpton-hall , the seat of Lady Olivia Sparrow . His cousin , William Kortright , at a previous examination , was included in the charge , but , as a subsequent explanation proved that he had no participation in or knowledge of the offence , he was discharged , and the magistrate said he left the court without a stain on his character . Christmas pleaded Guilty , and two letters from him to Lady Olivia were read , in the latter of which , with many expressions of penitence , he admitted . the theft , prayed for forgiveness , complained of the dreadful misery to which he was reduced in being obliged to remain in a prison , and , acknowledging the innocence of his cousin , begged that he might be saved from the I korrora and ignominy of gnol . The magistrate sentenced Christmas to six months' imprisonment . A Case of Misekv . —Withreferencetoarccontca . se of destitution brought before the attention of the Thames magistrate , a letter containing a contribution , ami dated from the Samaritan Institution , Victoria-street , City , was handed in on Tuesday . It ran thus : — "For a poor woman named Louisa Davison , No . 1 , Clare-hall-gardens , near Stepney Church , who waited upon the sitting magistrate , and stated that her husband and her son , thirteen years of age , were both lying dead , and that she l » ad no means of burying them , having parted with everything during their illness . A gentleman , a member of the committee of this institution , having seen this statement in the newspapers , and having visited many such scenes , at onco took a cab and went to the scene of misery , and found the woman and a large family in a mostdeplorable condition , and that the statement of distress was scarcely half told before the magistrate . The ¦ wretchedness of the hovel , in -which were contained the starving children and the dead bodies of the father and boy , was indeed a sad sight , and drew compassion and assistance from the cabman ( No . 1885 ) , who wont up with the gentleman , ho being almost afraid to enter the placo alono . The sum of 10 b . -was at onco handed to tho poor woman to Teliove her wants , nnd I new enclose the sum of 2 / . 16 s . Cd ., the gentleman having : mentioned the circumatanco after dinner to some friends , who at Q R 09 Muhaorlbed for hor case . " The Oonis who Livics on Blind Nkkulhwomkn . — It will be recollected that Mr . Terguson , the chUif clork of tho Mendicity Society , brought undor tho notice oi the Lambeth magistrate , ubput ; a your ago , tho tricks o a so o the has w ma has of p of to in hi ' . ' i i . i t J i j 3 - l I i - f 1 e il e i- ie > s d , ' , > r r- ig li , ie h i- is iv of a a- lie' ho Ad nd up he ho ) sc ied at - rk of i of
\ : Mr . Roper , who pretended to be connected with a ciety for relieving distressed needlewomen , and who btainel large sums of money from the benevolent , on strength of ' melancholy cases' which had no ex- istence except in his own imagination and the deluded faith of the donors . After an interval this same person again appeared in his former character , and , not- ithstanding the disclosures which have been publicly de ' . with respect to him , has once more obtained large sums of money oh fraudulent pretences . Mr . Ferguson , therefore , brought the matter before the attention Mr . Norton and of the public , that the latter may be laced on their guard . ArPBKHENSrOJN OF A SCOTCH MERCHANT O 2 f CHARGES Fokgery . —Joseph Manning Wilson , recently a well- known corn merchant and shipbroker at Leith , has just been ajprehended on charges of forgiug bills of exchange the amount of between 20007 . and 30007 . He had gone to Australia after the commission of the offence , hut he returned early last week , and was apprehended Folkestone . His intention was to go to Germany shortly . He cheated the captain of the vessel which brought him home out of the passage money , by giving m a bill on tae Bank of Scotland , payable at Coutts and Co's , London , which was dishonoured on presen- tation . In his original frauds , he was connected with one Jacob Christiansen , also a shipbroker at Leith , who has been already convicted . Octavius King , who at the last session of the Cen- tral Criminal Court , pleaded guilty of uttering forged acceptances , has been sentenced to eighteea months ' imprisonment . A IVoiiAN Bent osSEtF-DESTRUcnox . —A woman was charged at Guildhall on Monday , with stealing a purse ; and , in the course of the evidence , the gaoler said she had been there twice before , once on account of an attempt tp poison herself . She was remanded ; and shortly afterwards screams were heard proceeding from the cells . The gaoler ran to the place , and found that the woman had torn off part of' her petticoat , and twisted it so tightly round her throat that , had not assistance speedily arrived , owing to the outcries of some of the other occupants of the cell , she vould have died . ¦' . " ' ' . ' : " . '¦" . .. ; . '¦ '¦ ¦ " ' . ¦ ' ; . ¦ - . ' . ¦ . ' /' . . ¦ A Noisy Chartist . —Mr . Daniel William EufFey formerly known as a Chartist , was charged at-Bow-street , together with Mr . John George Dron , with creating a disturbance at the entrance of St . Martin ' s Hall on the occasion of the Saturday Evening Concerts . Both were the -worse for liquor , and endeavoured to force their way in after , ' the cheque-taker had refused to acknowledge an older which they had offered . Dron , who was the worst of the two , threatened the policeman who . took them iu charge ; but his courage speedily failed him . He was fined forty shillings , and Iluffey twenty shillings . A Pretty Specimen of our . Game Luvs . —Two labouring men have been indicted at Holt , Norfolk , for a trespass in catching rabbits on a common called the Lows , the right of shooting over which had been let by the rector , churchwarden , and overseers ( though their right . to do so is very questionable ) , to a neighbouring gentleman . The offenders were brought before the bench of magistrates , one of whom ( W . H . Cozens Hardy Esq . ) refused to concur in a conviction , as he doubted the right of the trustees to let the shooting over tho com mon ; but the others imposed on the men a fine of three shillings each , and expenses , making in all 2 Ss . ; in de fault , a month ' s hard labour . Of course , the men could not pay the mo . iey , and they have been locked up . The wife and chihlie . 1 of the one , and the motherless childre of tho other , havo ' . been obliged to go to the workhouse but subscriptions have been opened on belwlf of thes victims of feudalism . Notwithstanding the magistrates decision , a considerable number of the occupiers of houses entitled to tho Lows have since gone in n body , bu peacefully , to their estate , and captured rabbits in presonce " of u police officer , who looked on but did interfere . — The Xovfolk News having niudo somo severe observations . on Lord Hastings , the chief of convicting magistrates , his Lordship has threatened inflict personal violence on the editor . It is needless say that this ruffianly menace has not tied our coritem porary ' s tongue . A-rtiGirr and Pursuit . —Two men , named Thomns Sweeney anil George Williams , were charged at Worship-street police-office ; with stealing a large quan tity of lead from the roof of an uninhabited house Lansdownc-placc , Hackney . Tho inmates ortheadjoin ing dwelling heard one evening a subdued hammering in the next house , and , knowing that it was untenantcd and that several robberies hud recently been committed in tho localitv , their suspicions wero aroused , and one tho family > vent out into tho yard uohind tho house seo whether the back part of tho adjoining premises Avaa secured . He found that one of the windows was open , on which ho raised nn alarm , and tho burglars , finding themselves detected , run out at the front of tho house , and fled across tho opposite fields . They were pursued , however , by the gentleman who diacovered them , and subsequently by a policeman and a fishmonger j but , having got considerably the start of their punuora , tho thioves would probably have escaped , had they not boon seen by a . Burgeon , nameil lliced , who had just got into his gig , after visiting one cf his patients , ami who hiring the cries of « Stop thief !» immediately jolucd the chaso . Tho fugitives horo separated , oacli
tal aft for sta des hin tw < the for *] Rii at ma gre effe tic ] son wit fift W < six nu : ye ; . liv sis po th TI pe — de es be w ; bi as el at w e \ ¦• . hi , h « si st cc tt fc s < n o I g r v -s ' a f < , 1 l \ - h r - g p 1 n b ; \ e ' i t t < the ; not the to to - the - in - , of to . — -. ^«^^ m" ^»^^^ m « MM taking a different course ; but Mr . Theed succeeded , after a hot pursuit , in capturing Sweeney , whom he forcibly lugged by the neck into his gig . He then started off after TVilliams , whom he found engaged in a desperate struggle -with the fishmonger ; and he secured him likewise . It was subsequently discovered that the two men had completely stripped off all the lead from the roof of the empty house- They were both committed for trial . The Ticket-ok-leave System in the West-Riding . —At the West Riding Quarter Sessions opened at Sheffield on Tuesday , Mr . Wilson O . verend , the chairman , in his address to the grand jury , referred to the great increase of crime in the district , and to tie ill effects attendant upon the release of convicts upon tickets of leave . He remarked that the number of prisoners for trial at these sessions was thirty-two , making , with , twenty-five summary convictions , no less than fifty-seven convictions for felony in this district of the West Riding since the last sessions—a period of about six weeks , or an increase of twenty over the average number of cases at these sessions for the previous five years . ¦ ¦ ; . • ' ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ - .. '¦ . A . Youthful Criminai * . —A girl , fifteen years old , living at Springfield , in Essex , drugged her father and sister ' s tea with opium a few days ago , rifled her father ' s pockets , while he was in a somnolent state , ransacked the house , and made ^ off , starting by train for London . This is not the first time she has absconded with property . " . ¦ ,.- . ' . ¦ . ' ¦ ' . ¦ "• ¦ -. ; ¦ . ' ¦ '• . ' ' ¦ .. ; ' - ' ;; . ¦ The Robbery os the Gkeat Northern Raixway . —William Snell , late the chief clerk in the accountants ' department of the Great Northern Railway , was again examined on Thursday on the charges of theft and embezzlement which have been made against him , and he was committed for trial . Criminal Assault . —Jacob : Israel , a Jew , has been brought xip at Worship-street , charged with criminally assaulting Julia Cohen ,-who is between seventeen and eighteen years of age . The young woman was seated at the first examination in a chair by the side of the ; witness-box , but ajipeared to be quite unconscious of ¦ ¦ . everything passing around her . She how and then exhibited indications of pain and suffering , and rocked , herself backwards and forwards on the seat , uttering , short , sharp cries , and , there being reason to believe that i she would be seized with fits , she was gently led out of i court . The evidence was then gone into , and it appeared v that the poor girl was idiotic . Israel was committed f for trial . ' . ' . . : : Burglary axo Incekdiarism . —A burglary , prei seating some nejv aid revolting features , was com-IV mittedat Stifford Parsonage , near Grays , Essex , early s on Wednesday morning . The house is occupied by the Kev . "NV . Paliu , r « ctor of . the parish , and a county maa gistrate . He retired to rest at one o ' clock on the mornr ing in question , leaving a sharj ) dog in one of the lower e rooms . At six o ' clock , the servants found the library r window open , the glass having been smashed , and tho r ¦ shut ters broken away by main force , sufficiently to ; admit a man ' s body . The secretary and drawers were i found open , and a few small articles had been stolen . ¦ , The worst remains to be told . On the carpet , within a 1 foot of the window-curtains , a heap of ignited papers , - books , & c , was found half consumed . 11 is considered e remarkable that the house -was not set on fire . —A bur-- glary has been committed at the house of two old ( 1 people , man and wife , the former a house-agent , at e Plcaseley . Having ransacked the house of money , the a barglars ' left , and the old people next day were very ill ; I with the fright . 0 ESCA 1 U 3 ' O ' S A FllISONKR FROM THE HOUSE OP DETEN-3 ' tion . —A prisoner , named Davis , who was confined in js the House of Detention , awaiting trial at tho Jnext Midit dlescx Sessions at Westminster on a charge of stealing ie a watch , succeeded an Thursday morning in escaping by ot getting over tho wall during the prevalence of the fog . no It appeared that he had strung a number of hammock lie straps together , and at the end he tied the ' goose ' beto longing to the tailors' shop . This he throw over the to wall , where it is presumed , by a prcconcorted plan , some i- ono was ready to hold it , so that tho prisoner might pull himself to tho top of tho wall . The escape was disns covered at once , but the man had got clear off , and no he tidings have as jet been heard of him . n- Highway Kobueut int London . —Between two and in three o ' clock on Thursday morning , a young man , enn- gaged in the machine department of a daily journal , was ng proceeding through tho Xondon-road , Soutbwark , on hia sd , way to tho City , when he was suddenly attacked by two ed rullians , who inflicted a sovore blow upon his head , which of rendered him perfectly insensible for a time . "When ho to recovered himself , ho found ho had been robbed of Us . Jos and tho thieves had ofTcctcd their escape . ma ¦
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| Obituary. Gipuiral Sin Hknby ' J. Camm...
| OBITUARY . GipuiRAL Sin Hknby ' J . Camming , K . C . H ., until the last few days one or tho few remaining Peninsular officers , lias died at tho advanced age of cighty-fivo . Ho entered the 11 th Light Dragoons in 1790 . Rkau-Admibm , Ukkohey , President of the Geographical Society , and ono of tho heads of tho Marine Department of tho Board of Trade , died on Saturday , in I his sixty-second year . Ho was ouo of tho explorers of I tho Arctic rogions ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121856/page/9/
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