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Rkkusino To Woitic.—Sixteen Able-Bodied ...
recently they lad had meat three times a -week ; but some of the parishioners complained of the expenditure , and meat was now only served twice a week , pudding being supplied in lieu of the third day's meat . They had soup on other days , and . supper after they had performed their day ' s work . Mr . BTake added that he ¦ would withdraw the charge if the accused promised to behave better . They replied that they would rather go to prison . They were therefore committed for fourteen days , with hard labour . Mr . Blake having remarked , that he believed the men had an idea that they would , be better fed in prison , the magistrate's clerk told them they were mistaken , as they would only have bread and gruel . ¦ '" - ¦ -. _ . .
The Bobbery at Loed Suffieic ' s . —The two men charged with , committing a burglary at Guuton Hall , Norfolk , the seat of Lord Suffield , on the night of the 12 th of December , have been sent for trial at the next assizes . '*¦ , ' ¦ Robson aot > Bedpath ik Newgate-The Observer denies that Eobson has been out of his mind , but says that he is subject to effusion of blood on the brain , and that on one occasion he had a fit . Redpath , on first entering the prison , objected to do the usual work , thinking it absurd that a gentleman such as he should be compelled to perform ^ menial offices ; but lie Avas soon made to- understand that Newgate recognizes no distinctions of class . He and Eobson sometimes see each other , but are never allowed to Have arry conversation .
Outrage with "Vitbiol . —Two men , named George and William Carpenter , have committed an atrocious outrage upon a servant girl , named Emma B urges , against whom they had a spit * . Their mother had called ; at the house where the girl lived , and requested her-to take into her mistress a begging message . The girl refused ; and , as the woman would not leave the house , she "was given into custody , taken before the magistrates , and sent to gaol , but -was afterwards liberated on finding the required sureties . Since then , the sons have frequently placed under the door of the house very coarse and abusive letters , threatening to knock the girl « nr the head , and to throw vitriol on her . This they did last Saturday evening , as she was returning home . The vitriol was flung in her face , and she became insensible for a time , but was afterwards helped home by a policeman . Both the ruffians were afterwards apprehended .
Convict Otttrag : e at Portsmouth . — A warder placed over the convicts at Portsmouth has been stabbed in the neck by a criminal whom he was searching . The ruffian had been sentenced to transportation for life for stabbing-a convict keeper at Bermuda while under sentence there . The warder in the present case lies In a very dangerous state . A ' Fast * Young Girl . —A girl in the service of a farmer at Stoke Holy- Cross , JTorfoIk , recently absconded with 901 . in notes belonging to her master , and , assuming the character and costume of a 'fast'young man , travelled twice by rail from London to Edinburgh , laid in a liberal supply of clothes , and purchased several looks , including two Church Services ! She incurred considerable expenses at taverns , smoked a good deal , and enjoyed herself In thorough rollicking fashion . "When she was taken into custody , it was found she had spent nearly all of the 901 .
Execution at Linlithgoav . —Peter M'Lean -was executed on Monday morning- at Linlitbgow , for the murder of Thomas Maxwell . Robberies at Pltmoutii . —A great number of burglaries and street-thefts have recently been committed at Plymouth ; and it has been found necessary to increase the police force . Two convicts on their way to the I ) artmoor prisons escaped from the station , and passed through Plymouth in their prison dresses , handcuffed together , -without being molested or pursued . Fansx Kay . —Mr . Clark , the clerk of the Central
Criminal Court , has received a communication from Mr . Baron Martin , directing him to make out an order for the Turkish Bonds tliat were found in the possession of Pierce ; one of the bullion robbers , to bo delivered up to Mr . Rees , tho solicitor to the South Eastern Railway , in trust for the benefit of Fanny Kay and her infant child . This proceeding is believed to bo quite contrary to the ¦ understanding that y / m come to when tho matter was argued in the Court of Exchequer Chamber last week , and it is said that the Corporation of London intend to resist the making of the order .
Murder at Manchestek . —A handloom weaver at Manchester , named John White , has been stabbed in the stomach by another weaver , named William Collins . VVnite walked to the Infirmary , and died there two days w-T 7 ^ ' , coroner ' 8 3 "T has found a verdict of Wilful Murder against Collins , who ia committed for trial . Centkai . Crxminat , Court . —The February sessions commenced on Monday , ^ vhen the firat persona tried were two men , who were indicted for stealing a heiferbut tho jury , being unable to come to an agreement SS ^ LSFP- ^ " ' cWk > w * "eniene ' twelve montha imprisonment for ei » bezzlinK CO . ? from Wa master ; and a boy , thirty yean J ? o ^ , pbSSS
Guilty to stabbing in two places a man who had boxed hi 3 ears for impertluence . He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and . hard labour . —John Plumley was found Guilty of uttering , a forged 5 ?" . note , and was sentenced to penal servitude for six years . —James Barber pleaded Guilty to charges of forging a deed and stealing and embezzling money , the property of his master . He begged earnestly for a lenient sentence , on behalf of his wife and children , saying he liad been driven into the offences by great pecuniary pressure , arising- from his having been unable to meet a bill he had given . Sentence -was postponed . —Henry Edwards , clerk , pleaded Guilty to a charge of forging a power of attorney to transfer certain stock , value 350 ? ., with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , and was sentenced t & four years' penal servitude . —George Thomas Sambrook , a labourer , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for a
murderous assault on Thomas Alexander Young , by whom he was employed . The particulars of this case have already , appeared in the Leader . The Fkauds ojt the City Ban"ks . —Anderson and Saward were fuitber examined at the Mansion House on Thursday , and remanded till next Wednesday , when the depositions will be read over , and the prisoners committed for triaL A 1-a . wyeh and his Servant . —An action , has been brought in the Court of Queen's Bench against Mr . Launcelot Shadwell , the barrister , by James Parker , formerly a butler at the house of that gentleman . The claim , was for & k 10 s . wages , and ~ i . ll . money paid , and also for . indemnification , for ah assault and false
imprisonment . The defendant pleaded never indebted , except 6 / . 10 s ., -which , he paid into court . He also pleaded a justification . Some plate was missed on the day -when Parker was going away , and Sir . Shadwell said he must pay for it . Parker quitted the house , leaving his boxes behind him ; and the next day he called with his wife , when Mr . Shadwell said , if they would , compromise the matter and pay for the value of the plate , there should be an end of the matter . This , was refused by Parker , who was then given into custody ; but at -the statio-n-house his wife persuaded him . to pay the money demanded , which she borrowed and handed over to Mr . ShadwelL and her husband was then released . Mr . ShadwfilL in the course of the trial , said
he felt fully persuaded of the guilt of Parker both , when he gave him into custody and when , he took the money ; yet he afterwards gave him a character . The jury were of opinion thart Mr . Shadwell really believed that Parker was- guilty of theft when hs gave him into custody , and a verdict was then given for the defendant on the count of false imprisonment . With respect to the other questions involved , the jury found that the plaintiff paid the UL to get rid of the criminal charge , but that it was not proved to their satisfaction that he was guilty , and they accordingly said lie was not guilty of the felony . Upon this finding , Lord Campbell directed , the verdict to be entered for the defendant upon the money count , giving to the plaintiff leave to move to enter the verdict in has favour for 11 / .
Me . Matthew and the Ticket-of-Leave Man . — Mr . Henry Mayhew , on Tuesday , attended at Marlborough-street , for a warrant against , the presumed writer of a letter signed " Ned Salmon , Ticket-of-Leav « Man , " threatening him with garotting if lie persevered in calling public attention to tieket-of-leave convicts . The writer of the letter was presumed to be the speaker who violently abused Mr . May hew at the recent ticketof-leave meeting ; but , as this could not be shown , the warrant was refused . Tampering- with a Registry . —Tho charge against a Mr . Thomas Green , barrister , of creating a diaturbanco at the house of the registrar of births and deaths for the district of St . Mary , Paddington , and of wilfully damaging one of tho books , has been withdrawn .
13 ukad Disturbances at Islington . — A gang of idlera , assuming to be labouring men out of work , haa been creating groat disturbances in Islington and I ' eutorjn'ille , by going about to several bakers' shops , and demanding bread . By these moana , many of the bakers we * e intimidated into giving away loaves , and in some instances money . The men , however , bciag told at one place , where the owner of the ahop was a widow , that if they robbed the place they would inevitably ruin hex , desisted from making any attempt at plunder . As the police were soon on their track at Islington , thoj ' proceeded to Stoko Newington , whero they became extremely riotous , and greatly alarmed the inhabitants ;
and , having entered the bakers' Bhops , they obtained money and broad from all of them , excopt one , where a young woman , seeing that tho men were about to help themselves to tho loaves , took up a large knift ) , and threatened to cut down with it the first man who attompted to touch anything . The mob was thus scared away . A police-sergeant , who was informed of tUoao proceedings , w « ut in pursuit of some of the gang , and in the Green-lanea apprehended three mon , upon whom wore found eome of the loaves which had been stolen . They wcro afterwards twice brought up at tho Clcvkenwell police court , and liually sent for a month to tho House of Correction , A Qukstionaums Cask of Bankruptcy . — In the Court of Bankruptcy , lout Saturday , was held the last
. examination , meeting in the matter of Anton Lea n ~ ( mission agent and merchant , of Jeffrey-square T ^~ accounts showed a total of debts anil liarniu-29 , 000 / ., and assets only sufficient to % £ ^ Z ° of the flat . The bankrupt , v * e * -n * l £ & Z ££ S tion , gave answers so vague and unsatisfactory thaffh " Commissioner said he could not pass him Mr Law * ( who appeared for Leo ) said that the - bankrupt knew nothing of his owax books , and that the clerks Uo tST kept them were the proper witnesses . The bankri f was quite a young man , and evidentl y a tool inth hands of experienced knaves . His Honour said h «> w ? no doubt the bankrupt was a tool ; but the quSfi was whether he was an ignorant or a williL nn Ultimately , the court adjourned the " sitting' iSU j £ * with protection for . three months ; the protection not to be renewed unless the bankrupt cleared up hj 3 cmesMnn able transactions . ^ ou -
-A Hopeful Youth—A lad in a sailor ' s dress , about thirteen years of age , named Walter Smith , was charged at the Worship-street police-office with' stealing three 51 . bank-notes and a quantity of coin in gold and . silver from the residence of his father-in-law , at Lavender Tillas , Dalston . The youth , who , tlougli so younir appeared to be well versed in the art of crime and quite incorrigible , was some time since imprisoned for two months by Sir . Yardley at the Thames police court for robbing his mother and a distant relative of monev and a revolver . He had likewise been three times in-a reformatory , which he had as often robbed , and then ran away . His father-in-law afterwards sent him out to the Cape of Good Hope , and on his return from that
pJace about a month ago , his relatives believed that a thorough reformation in his character had taken place and they therefore consented to receive him again at home ; but it afterwards transpired that he had plundered the ship in which he went abroad , of a considerable quantity of its stores . On the ISth of last month , Smith entered his father-in-law ' s bedroom during the night , and , having stolen from his trousers' pockets all the money he could find , there , afterwards broke open a writing-desk and a bureau , in neither of which he found anything valuable . The young burglar then left the house by the back door , but returned to it in the dead of night , without , however , being able to obtain any farther plunder . Mr . Hannnill committed the
accused for trial on the twofold charge of robbery and burglary . Shootixg osr Board an American- Ship . —Peter Campbell , second mate of the ship James L . Bogart , was brought np before the Birkenhead magistrates on Wednesday morning , charged with shooting James Christie , a coloured seaman , who at present remains at the Birkenhead Hospital . The facts , as ]> revin «« V * stated , were proved , and Campbell . - ¦»• • ¦ , « " *" llril !( f for trial . O'Fuvbei-, the first mate , who was knocked doyrn by one of the crew after lie had fired a revolver at him , is out of danger , and will be brought up in a few days under a similar charge . Foegeriks by A STOCKBROKER . —The Court of
Bankruptcy had a sitting , on Tuesday , for the appointment of trade-assignees , under the bankruptcy of Edward White , of Cushion-court , Old Broad-street , stock and share broker . The bankrupt ' s debts and liabilities are nearly 20 , 000 / ., and , after committing several forgeries , he absconded . After the admission , of a number of proofs , trade-assiguecs were appointed . ] S » ibezzleme 3 JT—William Hoi taw ay , a very respectable-looking man , is under remand on a charge of embezzling various sums , amounting in all to about 1000 / ., from his employer , Mr . George Hyde , a stationer in Fleet-street .
Some of the Secrets ov Madame Denis ' s ' Establishment . ' —A large amount of systematic profligacy was revealed , on Wednesday , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in an action brought by one Adolphus Harrison , alias Adolphus Harrison D ' cistell , against the Marquis of Bath , for wines supplied and services rendered to him in the years 1853 and 1854 . The sum claimed was 78 / . The Marquis ( as he himself stated in his evidence ) was in tha habit , during the years 1852 and 185 ;) , in tlie first of "which he came of ago , of visiting an ' establishment ko ]) t by a Madame Denis , in . Denbigh-terrace , I'iinlicoa den which -was brought into grout notoriety , and broken up , in 1854 , by the celebrated cane of Alice
Leroy . Harrison ( who was employed about the house , but who assumed to be a wine-merchant ) alleges that his lordship at various times ordered wino of him for tho use of the establishment , " which he supplied . When tho l establishment' was broken up , Harrison wftS imprisoned for two years for complicity in tlic system of bringing over youn ^ Belgian girls . On leaving prison , he called on tho Marquis , ami received from him iivc pounds , at the same time handing over to him two lcttora which he had written to Madame Denis . Afterwards ho made tho demand for 78 / . j but this was resisted , the Marquis asserting that } rc had given no onlera for wine . To this bo sworn at tho trial ; anil
other facts strengthened his repudiation . Ilurri . son gave adsito to liia alleged . supply of win « , which was actually during tho time ho was in prison ; ami , on hi . s finding out his mistake , ho endeavoured to aliift ll" > date . 11 ^ Htated that tho Duko of Cambridg-e , Lord Uatumnn , and Lojd Somertoii were among tho liequcntcra of Muduino
12& . .-T.Iljl Leajhbr, [No. 359, Saturd...
12 & . .-T . iLJL LEAjHBR , [ No . 359 , Saturdat
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021857/page/6/
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