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IRELAND. Mr. James Sadleir.—It is now sa...
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ftailder at Bow , w * B < sha * ged at Worship-street with assaulting and threatening ffceMfe of Mr . Baxtram Hooper , A « entleman living In the same neighbourhood . Smith , who was engaged in building some houses near Botr , having missed * some timber from the works , accused Mr . Hooper ' s servants of stealing it , and insisted on search-Ing them . Mr . Hooper refused to let him do this , upon which Smith went away . At five o ' clock the same afternoon , when Mr . Hooper was walking out , he was met by Smith , who rushed at him in such a threatening manner , that he thought fit to make a hasty retreat . He was followed by th * other man , against whose violence he defended himself , as well as he conld , with his walking-stick . As it wafi , he believed he should have received some serious personal injury if some of his neighbours had not come to his assistance , and enabled Aim to get into his own house . About eight o clock on
the evening of the same day . Smith , accompanied by one ¦ of his workmen , presented himself at the window of Mr . Hooper ' s house with a double-barroHed gun , and after using the coarsest language , threatened to shoot Mr . Hooper if he could catch sight of him . Being alarmed hy his behaviour , Mr . Hooper sent for a policeman , and gave Smith into custody . In his defence , the latter alleged that he had received much the largest share of provocation ; that , when he merely mentioned the loss of his timber to Mr . Hooper , that gentleman not only violently abused him and had him locked up for a night , l > ut beat him with his stick so furiously that hia iead , arms , and body were greatly injured . As regarded the gun , Smith said that it was not loaded , and that he had merely used it in a fit of excitement to frighten Mr . Hooper from committing any further « cts of violence towards him . The magistrate ordered Smith to enter into recognizances of 100 A for his future
peaceable conduct . Assault ,. —Two brothers , named James and Jeremiah Callaghan , were charged at the Westminster police court with having committed a savage assault upon George Beck , a fishmonger in Great Chapel-street , Westminster , and likewise on his wife , -who , being pregnant , is so much injured that she has been confined to her bed ever since . A dispute arose between the prisoners and Beck respecting the purchase of some pickled eels , which the former refused to let the men have unless they paid him at once , as they owed for some' already-At this , * one of the prisoners became very violent , and broke several saucers that were on the counter ; and ,
when Beck threatened to give him in custody , he and his brother seized hold of him , threw him to the ground , and commenoed kicking him . Mrs . Beck , seeing her husband thus ill-used , came to his assistance , when the ruffians assaulted her with equal violence , and then , recommenced attacking Beck . The magistrate remanded the prisoners for a week , in order to ascertain the result of the injuries inflicted on Mrs . Beck . Thb Trial of Dove . —The trial of William Dove ,
for the murder of his wife , by the administration of strychnine , is fixed for next Wednesday , the 16 th inst . Dove's conduct since his committal to Yaric Castle has been characterized by stolidity and equanimity , amounting almost to indifference . He looks forward with some impatience to his tried , as to & time whan be shall be rOr lieved from all future anticipations . Whether the plea of insanity , as generally reported , will be set up , remains to be seen . The trial is expected to laat three or four days .
HlOHWAT RoBBBRIKS IN YORKSHIRE . Two CaSOS of highway robbery , accompanied by savage violence , have come before the attention of the West Hiding magistrates at Bradford * In tho second case , the attack seems likely to terminate fatally . Thomas Gilmour , a brash hawker , is tbo injured man . He had quarrelled with some men at a pnblio-house ; but thoy subsequently drank together , and Gilmour then left , Tho men overtook him , knocked him down , and seriously maltreated him . They robbed him of four shillings ( all the money he had ) , kicked him nil over , and then one of them , ex--claiming , " I'll give him his death blow , " gavo him another kick with all his force in the side . Holies in a very precarious st & to . The ruffians concerned in both attacks have been committed for trial . A Cask kok the Lawyjbrr . —The case of Mr .
Alexander Campbell , the alleged son of Captain nnd Mrs . Campbell , oame again before tho law courts on Tuosday . It will bo ntoollocted that Mrs . Campbell , when a very old woman , married again , unknown to her son , who , on her death , found that a certain Mr . Oorley , tho husband , had a life interoat in a large part of the old lady ' s property . His . right to this wn « disputed by Mr . Camp- * bell ; but it was confirmed by an action at law , as related in the Leader a few months since . An action waa now brought la tho Court of Common Pleas by Mr .
Campbell against Mr . Corley for " maintenance of suits . " BvidMtoe-WM given to show that Mr . Corley had subjected Mr . Campbell' to vexatious and expensive litigationa , by instigating oertain parties to originate auits in Chancery undtr taa plea of tho plaintiff ' s illegitimacy . Qn « of these pemoat , a Mr . H . 8 . Thew , gave ovideooe , and i » would appear that ho entered Into a kind of conapkraoy with Corley against Mr . CampbvU , but that he failed . He gave a singular account of himself in orou-oxamination : —• " I went to America in early life . I liuvo been in tha
police . I was at one time a coal-mercbant . This was in 1821 or 1 « 22 . I was a tobacconist in Beading . I wa * then a schoolmaster in Sdmere-town for about « ix months . Then I filled the situation of foreman to my father-in-law , in Tottenham-court-road . I was again a tobacconist in Marylebone for six weeks ; then in Homer-street ; then I was a police-constable for nine months ; after that I dealt in old clothes in Monmouthstreet ; then a broker in Marylebone ; then clerk to an envelope-case maker for thirteen years , until this unfortunate bill brought me to a back kitchen in Paddington . " The defence was that Mr . Corley had reason to doubt Mr . Campbell ' s legitimacy , and that Mr , Campbell forced his mother , hy his bad usage of her , to seek protection in another marriage . To prove the latter
assertion , the plaintiff was severely cross-examined , when he made these admissions : — "My mother resided with me at Plumpstead . I wrote a letter saying my mother was not to have grapes « nd milk when there . I may have pushed my mother . I pushed her out of the brewhouse once . I pulled her cap off because it had pink trimmings , and put it on to the fire in my own parlour . I may have pushed one of my servants down on the occasion of a disturbance in the brewhouse . I took a wheel off my mother ' s carriage . I put out the kitchen fire myself . After I had . refused to admit my mother to my house , I sent a carriage for fier to the Norfolk HoteL I introduced Susan Mercer , a young woman from Edinburgh , to her as my wife . I came across her , and she did not want to leave me . " The jury found a verdict for Mr . Campbell , for 5621 , the whole amount of costs proved .
Another Insurance Case . —A third action has been brought against an insurance-office in connexion with a policy on the life of the late Mr . Joddrell , who drank himself to death . The office in this case was the Medical and Invalid ; and the defence , as in the former cases ( which were reported in this journal of the 2 lst ult . ) , was that Mr . Joddrell had had delirium tremena , and that the office was not informed of the state of his health . A verdict was found for the company . Jealousy and Attempted Murder . —A nurseryman , named John Cole , has nearly murdered a young servant girl , living at Howley-place Villas , Paddington . The two had been engaged to be married , but there was a disagreement , and the girl , Emily Luker , said she
should like to break off the match . In a letter which Cole wrote to her after this , he told her to remember the case of Bates , who had been convicted of murder at Southampton . About half-past nine o'clock on Monday night , he went to the garden-gate in Howley-place Villas , rang , and brought up Emily Luker . He then pointed a horse-pistol at her . A boy who was delivering a parcel at the time seized hold of the weapon , but it was wrested from his hand , and , when the lad jumped aside , was discharged into the young woman ' s face . She fell , with a loud scream , and was carried into the house bleeding-. Cole escaped , and , going to the nearest police station , gave ' 'himself up , saying , "I have shot somebody . I have committed murder . " He added that he had tried the pistol three times the day before ; that he had put as many stones in it as would kill three persons ; and that he had told the young woman
before thai he wound '" do for her . " On being searched , there was found in his possession a canister containing gunpbwder , a number of pebbles , some percussion-caps , some letters that had passed between him and the young woman , and two books—one , the Gentleman ' s Letterwriter , and the otlier , the Ixtdy ' s Letter-ioriter . On being asked before the magistrate what he had to say , he answered , " I am very sorry , but it is all her own fault . She has ruined my mind completely . I asked her for an honourable letter . I wished to speak tc- her as a friend , but she prevented me . She has allowed people to trample me under their feet . " This statement was evidently made under very excited feelings . lie was remanded . So critical was the position of the young woman , that Mr . Broughton was called up during the night of Monday to receive her deposition at the hospital . One eye is quite destroyed , nnd the other greatly injured .
Suspected Mukdkh . —Mr . Samuel Stacker , civil engineer , has been found dead near St . Giles ' s Church . It is supposed ho was way laid and murdered ! The jury have returned an opon verdict , for want of evidence . Allkukd Mum > isn ©* ' a Husband . —John Antony Brown , a labourer , has died at Biruampregato , near Bridport , under circumstances that throw suspicion on his wife . Ho was found with his skull fractured , and tho story of the wife is to the effect that this waa probably done by a vicious horse . Various circumstances render this unlikely ; and tho coroner ' s jury accordingly brought in a verdict of " Wilful murder against somo person or persons unknown . "
Quiktinq DnuHKBM Husbands . —A woman named Betsy M'Mullon hoa boon charged with killing her husband , James M'Mullen , a flour dealer at Boltoiiy by administering to hiia a modioino compoaod of tartarized antimony . A coroner ' s inquost haa boon held , when it appeared that tho man and his wifts , who wore both of very intemperate habits , w « it togetlior one night to a publio-houao in tho town , whore thoy had a quarrel , in the course of Which the woman throw ft rolling-pin and a carving-knife at hor husband , tho lattor of which
cut his wrist . Previous to this , the maid-servant of M 'Mullen had frequently seen her mistress mix a white powder with her master's food , and had also been repeatedly sent out of the kitchen while the dinner was being got ready . This white powder Mis . M'Mullen likewise put , on one occasion , into some medicine which M'Stullen afterwards took , and which made him very sick ; '' and' once she mixed it in some of his tea . On the night of their quarrel at the public-house , the servant girl , who had accompanied them , undressed her mistress and put her to bed ,, when she found some more of the same powder in the pocket of her gown . After the death of M'Mullen , several bottles and jars , the
latter containing a portion of his liver and kidney , were sent to an analytical chemist in Bc-lton , and in both of them , especially in the kidney , he found strong" trace ? , of antimony . Mr . Simpson , a grocer and druggist at Deansgate , stated that he often' sold emetic powders made up of cream of tartar and tartarr 2 ed antimony , of the latter of "which there was about four or five grains . He knew Mrs . M'Mullen from betng a customer at his shop . She purchased groceries , but he did not remember that he had ever served her himself . The emetic powders were called " quietness . " Women always came for the powders , and they usually said that their husbands had been drinking . He did not remember ever selling one of these powders to a man .
The Jury , afteT retiring for five-and-t \ renty minutes , returned the following verdict : — " We are unanimously of opinion that the deceased Daniel M * 5 Iullen ' s death has been occasioned or accelerated by antimony wilfully administered by Ins wife , Betsy M'Mullen ; and we also express our disapprobation of the indiscriminate dispensing of such medicines . " Mrs . M'Mullen was then committed , upon the coroner's warrant , for trial at the Assizes . A Bolton chemist has written to the Times , to deny that the custom of selling quieting mixtures to ¦ wom en -with drunken husbands is common . Davidson's Divorce . —The bill for this purpose ( on theg-round of adultery ) has been read a second'time in the House of Lords . Mr . Davidson had taken his wife , at her request , to Paris , to see the Exhibition . She was only to stay a -week , but at the end of that time she
refused to go back , saying she bad become a Roman Catholic , and would not be exposed to the scoffs of her relatives . Mr . Davidson , being obliged to return to England , left her in the charge of a lady ' s-maid , who soon communicated to her master the fact of Mrs . i > avidson receiving visits from a M . Emile Lalouette , with whom the lady had carried on a secret correspondence bafore and after her marriage . The lady's-maid , in giving evidence , said she told Mr . Davidson that she believed religion had nothing to do with his wife ' s staying in Paris . She admitted , in cross-examination , that she had written a letter to Mrs . Davidson , in which she ' said : " There is One above who knows j t ou are innocent ;" but this was "to comfort her , " because she was " so young . "
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Ireland. Mr. James Sadleir.—It Is Now Sa...
IRELAND . Mr . James Sadleir . —It is now said that Mr . James Sadleir , M . P ., has gone , not to America , but to Sweden or Norway , where , in the absence of an international law , he is safe from arrest . At any rate , he is not to he found in Ireland . He has not had the decency , however , to vacate his seat . The Masteii of the Rolls and the Ibish Attorney-General . —The Master of the Rolls , on Monday morning , made some observations in connexion with tne Government and the case of James Sadleir . He said .: *—" May I now inquire , on the part of the public , whether informations have been sworn with respect to the facts disclosed in this case ? If so , have any effectual or bond fide steps been taken to make any of tho parties implicated amenable ? la it intended to prefer a bill of indictment tit the next Clonmel ABsizes , where some of the overt acts were committed ? I have reason to believe that not a copy of an affidavit or any document was obtained , by the direction of the law advisers of the Government , of the Master ' s-office , or from tho official manager , until on or after the 20 th of June , the day I gave judgment in this case ; thougli long prior to that date I hud called attention to the fact that the Government hnd made no sign , notwithstanding the notoriety of the frauds of the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank . If the Irish Government were ignorant of all tho details , it was their own fault . .... I shall only add that , if no homi jide proceedings bo taken at the noxt Clonmel Assizes , the result will be that the duty of a Privy Councillor , aud tho naturo aud meaning of the oath , will probably meet with more diecuasioft than the IriBh Government may be aware of . " His Honour concluded hy expressing a strong opinion against the conduct of tho Master in Chancery ( Murphy ) , who * it seems , had examined James Sadleir fa his private chamber , no porsou being present but tho oflicud . juan * - gor and his counsel and eolioiton Tun Loud Likutichajit haa paid a visit to Limeriok . Mit . Smith O'BBaur , the political exile , reached , Dublin on Tuesday afternoon , and took up his tempo ** r & ry remdence at the Shelburno Hotel , tit * Stopbtn ' * Grcon . He is in excellent health , aud appanatifk ia good spirit * '
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071856/page/7/
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