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Our Civilization. A Thief's Rrorkt.—John...
County Cotap action lately brought by the Doctor against Mslby For money lent to him , J ^ ife Bjeating . —Charles M'Intosh , a milliner , supplying some of the wholesale warehouses in the city , was charged with a murderous assault on his wife , whose person , "besides being bruised , was severely cut in several places by some sharp instrument . The man was remanded . —James Hall was charged at Southwark with ruffianly conduct to his wife . This case presented another instance of reluctance , on the part of the wife , to give evidence against the husband , out of fear . A witness ., however , testified to the excessive ruffianism of the man , and he was sentenced to three months' hard labour . Apparently thunderstruck at this termination to the case , he was removed from the dock amid the cries of his wife , who had vainly besought that he might be set at liberty for the sake of his children .
Fo & eign Legion Deserters . — Ernest David "Woener and Richard Rotzell , lieutenants , and C 011-stantine Vorj BrodzynsM , an ensign belonging to the third battalion of the British German Legion at Shorncliffe , were brought before Mr . Ingham , at the Thames Police-office , charged with deserting from theirregiments ; and there tvas a more serious charge against Woener , of stealing 601 . of the public money , which had been intrusted to him to pay his company . It appeared that the prisoners , who are all natives of Germany ,, and tall , martial-looking men , respectably connected , deserted at the same time a fortnight ago . A short time before , 60 / . had been intrusted to Woener to pay his company , the greater portion of which , if not the whole , he had appropriated to his own use . Another of the prisoners was also stated to have embezzled some of the public money . They were arrested just as they were about to embark for America , and have been committed to the Clerkenwell House of Detention , whence they will be removed to Shorncliffe .
Forged Notes . —A respectable looking woman , named Mary Ann Cox , -was charged before Alderman Caiden , with having attempted to pass two 51 . notes at two different shops , knowing them to be forced . She went to Messrs . Baker and Co ., silk mercers , of Ludgatestreet , where she ordered some things to be sent to her house in Union-street , Borough-road . One of the assistants took the articles ordered to the above address , and on receiving them , the prisoner gave him a 51 . note in payment . Suspecting the note to be not genuine , he would not give her the change , but requested permission to take it away with him , promising to send her the change in an hour . The woman consented after a little hesitation , and both the notes and the goods were taken back , when the former
was sent to the Bank of England , and returned , marked " forged . " The prisoner called for the change in the course of the day , when the note Avas shown her , and she then said that a sailor who had since gone to the Crimea had given it to her , and she believed it to be good . The other 51 . note she tried to pass at a shawl warehouse , also in Ludgate-street , where she tendered it in payment for a mantle she bought , and though the master of the shop suspected that the note was a forgery , he gave the woman the full amount of change , and he saw no more of her until after she was in custody . Sir R . W . Carden remanded the prisoner , a detective officer in the court saying ho believed he could bring forward another case of the kind against her .
An Infernal , Machine . —A bottle , with a lighted fusee attached , and charged with explosive matter , was thrown into the bedroom of Mr . Booth , hook and sickle manufacturer , of Conisborough , a village in the north ; the window having been previously broken by some one who had reared a ladder against it . Mr . Booth was in bed with his wife at the time ; but ho got out of the room together with her before the explosion took place . 3 ? he ceiling * , walls , and woodwork of the room were greatly damaged , and the bed furniture caught fire . Assistance being speedily procured , the flames were extinguished ; and a reward of . 120 / . has been offered for the capture of the culprit . These crimes , wo regret to say , are very frequent among the urtizans in the locality indicated
Thu Ex-Pkovost of Lkixh . —Mr . Robert Philip , lately provost of the burgh of Lcith , has been found guilty by the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh of indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards young girls , and also of a criminal assault . A sentence of fifteen years transportation has been passed . Before the trial , a public meeting of working-men was held , ' at which , qn the ground that a public magistrate should b . e abovo suspicion , Mr . Philip was called on to resign Ids provostahip ; and with tb , ia request ho complied . Qvuax—a Maniac?— -A foreigner was charged at MarlOorough-streot , with stabbing one man and breaking
the arm ok another . Xrom the evidence of Mr . Edward Thorpo , It appeared that , about seven o ' clock in tho evening , ho was puasiug down Littlo " VVinclniill-atrcot , with his wife and hor sistor , whon lie recollected ho had occasion to call in Silvur-strcot , and loft them for that purpose in the tttroet . Ho had not left his wife ir . oro than a minute when ho hoard loud screams of " Murder I" lie run back to hor assistance , and found that tho prisoner had forced lier down a court , and was braudbhing what appeared to him to bo u dagger over hor . Just as ho ¦ flfas in tho act of striking , Mr . Thorpo rushed forward and warded off tho blow with hia arm , on which a serious cut or wound was iniliytcd . At that moment , n friend
came up ; and the prisoner struck him a violent blow and broke his arm . Mr . Thorpe immediately called a policeconstable , and gave the man into custody . Before the magistrate , his defence was , that the ladies were committing a nuisance down the passage ( which was denied ) , and that they abused and spat on him before he struck any one . The case was remanded . ¦ The Case -of Unlawful Dissection Robert Henry Parrott , the surgeon at Walworth , charged with unlawfully dissecting the dead body of a pauper , and indecently exposing the heart and a portion of the lungs in a public-house , has been found Guilty , at the Surrey
Sessions . The chief facts of this disgusting case have already appeared in the Leader . The prisoner , who read his own defence , admitted having made the examination , but said that it was in fulfilment of a promise he had given to the man when alive ; that he had acted for the sake of suffering humanity ; and that , in exhibiting the heart , & c ., to the friends of the deceased , his only object was to prove to them the cause of death , and to collect subscriptions for the burial . In consideration of Parrott having been some time in custody before the trial , he was only sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment without hard labour . He was removed , evidently considering himself an injured man .
The Old Story at Jullien ' s . —Two young men have been fined 31 . each for creating a disturbance in Covent-garden Theatre on the first night of Jullien ' s Promenade Concerts . The plan consists in forming a ring , into which hats , halfpence , & c , are thrown , and any one -who attempts to pick them up is crowded upon and hustled ; the result being that the swell-mobsmen are the gainers in the confusion that ensues . Assault . —William Collins was charged at Lambeth with violently assaulting his wife , and inflicting on her arms and chest several severe wounds with the edges of a broken wine-bottle . A constable was called into the house , and took the man into custody , the wife making a charge against him at the stationhouse ; but , before the magistrate , she did not at ftrst appear , and , when at length she came forward , she made every effort to get her husband off , being evidently in great fear of him . Collins , however , was held to bail to appear on a future day .
A Thievish Eoyal Footman . —Stanley Booth , a young * man of twenty-five , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour , for stealing clothes and other articles . He had been in former years a servant of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Wellington , and at the time of the offence was a footman of the Queen . The prosecutors were his fellow-servants in the Royal household ; and it appeared that Booth had been engaged in betting transactions , and had become involved . He pleaded Guilty , and his counsel promised he -would emigrate as soon as his term of imprisonment should have expired . He has yet to be tried on another charge of theft . Dramatic Conclusion to the '" Lord Colvill "
Case . —¦ William Radley having been brought up on remand , charged with forging the name of Lord Colvill , that " nobleman" admitted his handwriting to the power of attorney , but said it was got from him by fraud . At this announcement there was a burst of indignation in the court , and many of the persons exhibited different securities , upon which they had advanced money , but which were of no value . Several of them stepped forward in succession , and taxed "his lordship" and Radley with cheating them , adding brief particulars of their wrongs ; and tho scene was like the conclusion of a farce . There was no evidence , however , to convict Radley of the forgery , and he was , therefore , discharged .
Woiuciiousk Amenities . —Between ten and ploven o ' clock on tho night of Friday week , the forlorn condition of a hoy attracted the notice of a gentleman , wlio found him wandering , homeless , friendless , aid destitute , in the neighbourhood of Long-acre . Ho was inquiring the way to Durham ; and , on being asked how he canio to bo in London , ho stated that ho hud been brought from North Shields by tho captain of a collier , who , requiring his services no longer , had put him on shore at one of the bridges , and left him penniless , to shift for himself . Consequently he wanted to find his way back to Durham , intendjng to walk homo . The gentleman , aftergiving tho lad some refreshment at u coffce-houso in Wilson-street , sent him under tho charge of a constublo to the Bovvstreofc station . Inspector Mackonzio kept him there- a short time , tho weather being such that ho would not ,
as ho said , have sent out a dog to encounter it ; and evcntaUy hu despatched a constublo with tho boy to St . Martina Workhouso , requesting tho portor to give him shelter for tho night . The porter refused to udiuit him , alleging that ?* WHson-Btroot . " was not in his district ; but Inspector Mackon / . io , on hearing this , sent tho boy u second time , with an intimation that both Wilson-street und Long-aoro ( whore ho had boon found destitute ) wore in tho parish of St . Martin , and tho case was one which ought to havo their attention . On this occasion , however , tho portor declined to opon tho door ' ovon , and , speaking to tho constable through the iron grating in one of tho panels , desired him to bo pff and talco tho boy back Again to whore ho found him . Under those circumstances , tho Inspect ™ gave tho lad euch eholtor and food aa the station afforded for tho night , and submitted tho case to tho magistrate tho noxt morning . Mr . Kingston ,
the relieving officer , was sent for , and excused the conduct of the porters on the ground that the house was over full , and not the least atom of room remained . Mr . Jardine said , as he understood the law , the workhouse authorities are bound to provide accommodation for the casual poor , even if they hire it , in which case they are empowered to charge the expense on the ratepayers ; but the relieving officer replied that in that case there would be no end to the applications . Ultimately , it was decided that the boy should be takea care of until arrangements could be made to forward him to his destination .
A Tka & iby at Brighton . — A Prussian doctor of philosophy , named Hermann Francks , , / ho had amassed a large fortune , and who possessed considerable literary talent , having once been editor of the cele - brated German newspaper , the Allgemeine Zeitung , arrived at Brighton on Friday week from Portsmouth , where he had been for some time past studying for the naval profession . He was accompanied by his son , a youth of fifteen . They were visited , on the evening of their arrival , by a refugee countryman , who saw nothing unusual in the appearance or manners of either Dr . Francks or his son . The former , however , was subject to frequent attacks of dyspepsia , and since his death it has been discovered that he also suffered from an immense goitre in his neclc , a fact not previously
known . But on Friday night he seemed much better than usual , and he and his son went to bed soon after their visitor left , at a little past eleven o ' clock . On the following morning , at six , the housekeeper was aroused by the noise of some heavy body falling against the area railings , and on looking out found Dr . Francks lying prostrate in the area . An alarm being raised , two medical men were immediately sent for , but when they arrived the doctor was quite dead . They went up stairs to inform the son of the occurrence ; but , after knocking several times at the door , and receiving no answer , they burst it open and entered the room , when they found the window thrown up and the son ly ing dead in one of the beds with a scarf tied round his neck , with which he had probably been strangled . As the body was yet warm , he could not have been dead long , and from the general appearance of thingsit has been supposed that the father must
, have killed his son , and committed suicide immediately afterwards by leaping out of the window . Dr . Francks was connected with the Prussian blood royal , having married at Rome the daughter , since deceased , of Prince Henry of Prussia , by whom he had the son now deceased . An inquest has been held on the bodies , and the jury returned the following verdict : —" That the son was found strangled in bed , but whether by his own hand , or by the hand of another , there was no evidence to show ; and that the father destroyed himself by throwing himself out of window while in an unsound state of mind . " A letter appeared in the Daily News , suggesting that the son died from natural causes , and that the father , who was known to have doted on his child , committed suicide out of despair . The writer imputes great haste to the coroner , in assuming that Dr . Francks had killed his son , and regrets that a more strict medical investigation was not made .
Guy Fawkes' Night at Pbckham R * e—A rather awkward disturbance took place on Monday night at Peckham Rye , resulting in a charge at the Lambeth police-office against two pawnbrokers' assistants , named Samuel Hawgood and William Smith . Mr . Superintendent Lurtd said that the inhabitants of Peckham had subscribed a sum of 250 ? ., as he was informed , for the purchase of fireworks and to defray the necessary expenses of a grand demonstration on the , anniversary of Guy Fawkes and of the battle of Inkermann ; and from the fact of intended grand doings having been made known by printed handbills , extensively circulatod , there were assembled on Peckham Ryo , oa Monday evening , no
fewer than from 25 , 000 to 30 , 000 persons , the greater number being " roughs , " costermongcrs , and thieves , collected from all parts of the metropolis . At about seven o ' clock in the evening a procession was formed , consisting of three or four carriages , drawn by four grey horses m each , with a band of music , and at least two hundred persons carrying lighted torches . This cavalcade was headed by men on horseback , in military uniforms , to represent Lord Raglan , Marshal Poliasier , und tho Turkish and Sardinian generals , and in tho centre a fullsized efllgy of tho Emperor of Russia . At tho top of tho Rye was a large bonfire , and a display of fireworks took place , during which , as Mr . Lund understood , iho effigy of the Emooror was burnt amid loud cheering . The proshouJa
cession being again formed , it was intended that it pass through tho vilhigo of Peckham ; but Mr . Lund objected to their doing eo , at least in procuwsion . Ho therefore despatched a mounted Bergeant to the turning leading to the town to stop tho procession , and after A short parley he succeeded in doing so . Tho procession ana crowd then moved towarda tho King ' s Aims Tavern , which faces the Ryo , und , on halting in front of it , some persons upstairs were indiscreet enough to throw squiba among the crowd . Tho consequence wus , that those below mt » u ° an immediate attack on the house , throw into it a quantity of fireworks of different descriptions , and forced tho door off the hinges ; and at one time he thought that nothing less than tho destruction of tho promises would have been tho consequence . By groat oxortion on the part of tUa
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10 ^ 4 : „______ THE LEADER . [ No . 294 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111855/page/6/
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