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No. 403 » December 12, 1857.] THE LEADER...
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A Somcitor chakgicd with Pjcujury.—A lit...
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW ANT) POLICE COU1...
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The Assizes. The Most Important Trial Th...
to Mm , " Why , Jem , you look like a murderer . " After he liad been drinking for some time , he returned home , went to bed at six o'clock in the evening , and at about one o'clock in the morning disturbed Mrs . Lakeman , her mother , and the two children ( a toy and girl ) , who all slept in another room , by moving about a great deal , apparently in an excited state . He afterwards entered Mrs . Lakeman ' s room with wild looks , told his boy to go into his bed in tlie other room , and asked for a light . The old woman got up , partly dressed herself , and -went , down stairs for a caudle . Tarraday then pulled up the blind , to get , as he said , ' all the light he could , ' and cat the woman ' s throat with a razor in the presence of the little girl . Both he and Mrs . Labman had been drinking a great deal together on that and the two previous days . Farraday was found Guilty , and sentence of death was recorded , as in the previous case .
Phomas Barlow has been founi Guilty at Liverpool of wounding his wife- ( frqnx whom . he was separated ) by discharging a pistol at her throat . Sentence was deferred . Edward Hart , a labourer , -was tried at Worcester on a charge of wilfully murdering his wife . The medical evidence showed that the poor woman had been ' suffering from choleraic diarrhoea , and that she had been suffocated ; but whether the death "was occasioned by the wilful act of the prisoner , or was the result of his drunkenness , was so far doubtful that the jury gave him the benefit of the doubt , and found him Guilty of . manslaughter only . Mr . Baron Martin sentenced him to be
imprisoned , with hard labour , for ^ fifteen ca lendar months . Charles Butcher , a post-office clerk , pleaded Guilty at Northampton to a charge of stealing a letter containing money . Mr . Merewether , who appeared for the prisoner , stated that he had been employed in the Northampton post-office for a period of thirty years , and called the postmaster of Northampton , and several other witnesses , to speak to the man ' s character The counsel for the prosecution , however , drew the attention of the Judge to the fact that , for twelve-months ' . prior to the commission of the offence charged , the complaints of missing letters in the Northampton office had been very numerous . Butcher .. was sentenced to six years' penal servitude .
James "Wright , a farmer , was tried at Nottingham on Tuesday for the murder of William Holland , another fanner , at Girton , on the 5 th of September . There -was a dispute between , the two as to the possession of a certain clover field ; and Wright , after some -wrangling on the day in , question , snot Holland in this field , in the presence of the son of the latter . Wright was found Guilty of manslaughter , and the Judge ' condemned him to penal servitude for life . Aaron DIellor has been tried , at Liverpool for the murder of his wife . They had been separated for a time ; but at length the woman consented to return home with her husband . On the way home , a quarrel took place , and Mellor , after striking his wife several times , cut her throat with a knife . He then cut his own throat , but afterwards recovered , while l \ is wife died . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to death . George Tolson , a railway engine-driver , has been found Guilty , at York , of causing the death of a Mr . "i " ates , who was killed in a collision on the Hull and Bridlington Railway on the 25 th . of July , resulting from the culpable carelessness of Tolson . The jury recommended him to mercy , and he - was sentenced to six months' hard labour . Emily Elizabeth Jone 3 was tried at "Winchester on a charge of setting fire to a house while several persons were in it . The inmates escaped , though with great difficulty ; and the woman after-wards told a man at a public-house that she had set the house on fire purposely , in order to burn ' the old woman . ' She appeared very wild , and seems to have been out of her senses . Sho was found Guilty , and judgment of death was recorded ; but inquiries will be made as to the state of her mind . —A similar charge against a man has beqn tried at Gloucester , and resulted in a conviction . Sentence of death was recorded . An attempt to show that there was madness in the family entirely failed . A young man named James Ainsworth has pleaded Guilty « t the York Assizes to a chnrgc of being unlawfully in the Unitel Kingdom , after having been transported for life . Ho gave himself into custody , and made a statement ( which , ho repeated ou being brought up for trial ) to the effect that he escaped from Spring Creek , near Ilobart Town , where ho was seat after having several timea murderously assaulted his overseers , & c , ; that ho went to the diggings , and ultimately to Now York , Boston , and Halifax ; and that at the last-named place he again got into custody for a robbery , but escaped and came to England . Ho lias now bciiii sentenced to imprisonment for a week , and than to return to pftnal servitude for life . A surgeon , named Frederick Deane , residing nt Cosham , near Portsmouth , has been tried at Winchester on a charge of causing the death of a Mrs . George by culpablo negligence in attending nor during her lying-in . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months ' imprisonment .
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A Somcitor Chakgicd With Pjcujury.—A Lit...
A Somcitor chakgicd with Pjcujury . —A little more than a year ago , a man mimed Stowell , who hud acted as an . informer , waa sentenced to twelve months '
imprisonment for obtaining money from a Mrs . Penny , a public-bouse keeper , on the false pretence that he was clerk to a Mr . Bingham , a solicitor , and could get her off from some charge which was impending over her . On the trial , Mr . Bingham . swore that Stowell was not his clerk ; und the man , being now again at liberty , has charged Mr . Binghatn at the Southwark police-court with perjury . He has produced several witnesses who proved that he was regarded by Mr . Bingham as his clerk ; and the magistrate baa . there fore committed that gentleman for trial , but admitted him to bail . Stowell has also brought another charge of-perjury against 3 tr . William " Watson , a publican iu " Walworth . " Thi 3 case has been adjourned .
Ckuelty os the High Skas . —Captain Christie , of the barque Elizabeth , and James MillanJ , chief mate of the same vessel , have been further examined at Liverpool , and committed for trial—the former on the charge of manslaughter , the latter simply for an assault . The mate was admitted to bail . The evidence discloses a series of cruelties of the most heartrending kind , almost surpassing anything which even the criminal records , of the 'high seas' have yet produced . —Another case of cruelty at sea on board an American vessel is being
havestigated at Glasgow . . The Charge of Poisoxiso axd Fokgeky . —Sir . Monk , the surgaon a . t Preston , now in custody under suspicion of forging the will of a Mr . Turner , and of causing his death , was examined on Friday week on the former charge . Evidence was given to the effect that the will was produced by Mr . 3 Ionk some days after Sir . Turner ' s death , and after unsuccessfully endeavouring to obtain the deceased ' s money from the bunk as tha . principal creditor and the agent for paying Mr . Turner's workmen . At first he said that no will had been found , and lie therefore took steps to procure letters of administration . ; * but he afterwards produced a will , written--in legal phraseology on the blank outside of a draft . It purported to be signed bv Edward Turner . James
Holden , and Thomas Wilkinson ; but one ltobert Farnmoutb , who said he knew Turner well , swore that the signature was not in bis handwriting , and added that lie did not know any man of the name of Holden ,. and that lie had never heard Turner say anything about a will . Joseph Wilkinson said the signature of his name iu the will was not his handwriting , and that ho knew nothing whatever about it . ! The will bequeathed three shillings a week to Turner ' s housekeeper , and the remainder of the effects-to Mr . 3 Ionk ; On producing this document at the bank , Turner ' s balance , amounting to oGl . odd , was paid to Mr . Monk . The accused ( who is senior alderman of the borough and a deputy-lieutenant of the county , and who has been Mayor of Preston ) was remanded . He was further examined on
Tuesday , when the principal witness was a Mrs . Pipe , - \ vho had been induced by the accused to make the copy of the will . Mrs . Pipe , on being put into the witness-box , wept-bitterly , and fainted . She was carried into an adjoiningroom , and ultimately gave her evidence . Mr . Monk was committed for trial . Ksibezzlioiknt . —William W . Thompson , traveller to the linn of Messrs . Jones and Co ., of Gracechurehstreet , oil-merchants , is under remand before the Lord Mayor , charged with having embezzled several sums of monej-, amounting to upwards of 2000 / . —Mr . George Nathaniel-Hosking , ' ji surgeon , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling various sums of money , amounting to 170 / . .
Fraud and Forgery . —Joseph Clarkson is under remand at How-street , on the charge of obtaining a quantity of damask from Messrs . Shoolbred , of Tottenham-court-roatl , by means of u forged order purporting to be written by Major Martin , of Ham Court , Uptonon-Severn . Immoral I ' cnwcArioNs . —John Thornhill and Mary Elliott , booksellers of Holy well-street , have been eonvmitted for trial on charges of selling immoral books , pictures , & c . Tiik MuRuicit ok Thajn . —An inquest has been held on the body of Thain , the detective otiicur , and lias terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder ajminBt Battler .
Jiswhl RoRJiititiK . s . —lionry Morris , William Clurk , Charles Stcvtius , and John Hughes , are under remand at Bow-streat , charged ¦ with an attempt to takeout a pane of glass from the window of u jeweller ' s shop in Henrietta-street , Covent-jjurden ; and also on suspicion of being concerned in several robberies from jewellers ' shops , effected in the same manner . Ai / rKiuNo a TKi .. rcuR . u » iHo Signal .. —Charles Hartley , described an a grocer ' s assistant , was brought u |> on remand before the Greenwich magistrate , on Monday , charged with wilfully altering u telegraphic : signal at tho Doptford . station of the London and Greenwich branch of the South-Eastern Railway , thereby endangering tho lives of tlio passengers . He was committed for trial .
Tine Cask ok tiik Two Coloured Giui . s . —The girls Iloso and Minnie Avon , who represented themselves as slaves escaped from America , were again interrogated at tho Soutliwark polico-court on Tuesday , when Mr . I ' orguson , chief clerk of tho Mendicity { Society , attended , and produced evidence which showed that tlie girls were impostors , They appear to bo the daughters of an old black man ] iow in Chelsea workhouse nnd an Irishwoman : and they have recently conveyed pence to the
father at the workhouse . They vehemently asserted their innocence , bat were told to leave the court , and to take care they were not caught begging . _ The London a \ d Eastern Banking Compajtt . — Mr . John Edward Stephens , one of the managers and shareholders of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation , is now undergoing examination in the Edinburgh Court of Bankruptcy . The notorious Colonel Waugh was connected with tlie same com pan v , which was conducted on fraudulent principles , in order that the directors might appropriate the funds confided to their care On the collapse taking place , Stephens fled to Scotland : and hence his examination at Edinburgh . Wau ^ h is in Spain— 'for the benefit of his health . ' °
Horrible Tragedy near Croydon . —A Mr . William Helton Sini triers , a young man employed at the Bank of England , and living at Thornton Heath , near Croydon , has -poisoned his mother , his brother , and himself with prii 3 sic acid , early in the morning . The only cause at present assigned ( for the inquest has not yet been held , the tragedy having only occurred on Thursday ) is that the murderer had recently been very unfortunate in souie speculations , and had taken to drinking Iargelv .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW ANT ) POLICE COU 11 TS . The certificate meeting in the case of Bevan and Bevan father and son , carrying on business as bookbinders in Chapel-street , G-rosvenor-square , was held in the Court of bankruptcy at the close of last week . The elder bankrupt said he had discounted , largely with Messrs . Se . ale and Low , of Leicester-square , and " had sometimes paid nearly fifty per cent , for accommodation . ' He was deficient to the extent ; of G 29 / . in 1853 , when lie induced bis son to join'him-in . partnership . There seems to . Lave been great extravagance . The accounts showed an expenditure of 39-10 Z . against 1412 ? . profits ; and the result is that there are debts ' . to the amount of 4000 ? ., the assets being only about as many hundreds . The soil has been living in a disreputable manner for some time past , though only twenty-seven years of age . In his
examination , he said , " he had shortly before the bankruptcy borrowed money from various female servants at the West-end . Some of the money he got from , the A nrm he gave to a Mrs . Marriott . He thought it was in Trevor-square , Kirightsbridge , that he last saw-Mrs . Marriott . She was the widow of Captain Marriott , and he had given her several sums of money . He was now married to a lady from the country . A cabman , named Kingston liad not been in the habit of driving himself and Mrs . Marriott about . He knew the Pitt ' s Head public-house , and had driven a lady there . " Mr . Commissioner Holroyd here stopped the examination , and , in giving judgment , severely reproved the son for his mode of life . He granted him a third class certificate after three years ' suspension , the first six months to be without protection . The certificate of the father was withheld altogether , as he appeared to have dealt with'certain life policies in a fraudulent manner .
Six men , whose ordinary work is that of silk-weaving , were charged at Worship-street with deserting their wives and families in Detlinal-green workhouse . They stated in extenuation that they had so many stones given them to break ( namely , seven bushels a day ) that they found it impossible to accomplish the task . If they failed they were punished by having only very small pieces of bread given to them . One of the men produced some of these pieces before t ! ie magistrate : they were about the size of a man ' s thumb . Mr . Hammill , the magistrate , said it was very wrong to give men whose work is of so delicate a character as silk-weaving the same amount of stone-breaking as that allotted to labourers . He then told the accused to go before the board , and behave themselves ua temperately as they had done there .
A person named Charles Pitcher , who had been part proprietor of the Berkeley Club , Albemarlo-street , St . James's , anil also * of the Doncuster Betting-Rooms , applied iu the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Monday for a tinnl order . In the course of his examination , he said that his partner in ' the Berkeley * ( which was a gaminghouse ) wad Mr . Adkins , the individual who waa sued about a year ago by a Mr . Sidebotham to recover largo sums lost at play . He ( tho insolvent ) had been in tho lm !> it of betting on the turf , and some of the debts on the schedule wero balances on betting traiinnotions . M ore Mr . Coininissionor Phillips stopped the examination , and dismissed tUo petition .
A strange case wan inquired into at the Mansionhouse on Monday . Mr . E . . Smith , a lino manufacturer in Goasctt-street , llethiml-green , filed his schedule as an insolvent debtor on Friday week , and on thu following day his son received a cheque- for 8 / . 2 . s . ( id . from Messrs . Barker and Co ., on bulmlf of tho father . Immediately afterwards , a Mr . William Nairn , a morcluiut of CxQorgo-Htreot , Trinity-square , accused him of getting tho elieinio under fiil . se produces , called him a vagabond and thief , and said tho money belonged to His father ' s creditors , of whom ho ( Mr . Nairn ) wan one . He then , in oompunv wiLh two other persons , took Mr . Smith , junior , to ' tho wirohousi ) of a Mr . Dodd , in Arthur-Mtrcot , ' > Vust , kojrt him there for some time , aud throat-
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12121857/page/7/
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