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No. 391, September 19, 1857.] THE ; Ii E...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. —?—MURDER NEAR CLIFTON...
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The September si...
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Murder rs Shropshire.—An old woman named...
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Inquksts On...
the Government inspector -will make a more complete examination of the pit . A man has been killed a , t the Methley station of the Midland Railway . He was waiting the arrival of a train , and , as it approached , a little dog which he had with him ran on to the line . He went after it , to bring it back , and was knocked down by one of the engine buffers and thrown a distance of thirty yards . He was killed instantaneously . Some saw-mills in "VVilford-street , Nottingham , have been the scene of a horrible accident . One of the workmen was in the boiler-house , screwing up one of the pins of the sludge-box door of the boiler , when a pin broke , the whole place was filled with steam , and the hot "water poured out upon the man , who screamed fearfully . He was conveyed to the hospital , but died the same evening .
A singular accident has occurred at the Angel and Sun Tavern , Strand , to Anne Sparrow , a servant of the proprietress . The young woman was dusting some soda water bottles which were in a rack behind the counter , when one of them burst , and several large pieces of glass buried themselves in her throat , wounding her in a very serious manner . She was conveyed to a surgeon , who succeeded in extricating the larger pieces of glass ; but the larynx was found to be injured . The woman is not out of danger . A shocking catastrophe has taken place at Dunbar , Scotland . A Mr . "William Wilson , of London , was staying there with his family ; and two of the youngest daughters went into the sea to bathe , when they appeared in danger of drowning , owing to the roughness of the waves . The father and eldest brother rushed in after
them ; and all perished . Mrs . Wilson , in the wildness of her distraction , also endeavoured to rush into the water , in the hope of saving them ; hut she was forcibly dragged back , or she , too , would have been lost . A jockey , named Wakefield , has been killed by a fall from the horse he was riding at the Weston-Zoyland race meeting on Friday week .
No. 391, September 19, 1857.] The ; Ii E...
No . 391 , September 19 , 1857 . ] THE ; Ii E _ : P EB , 897
Our Civilization. —?—Murder Near Clifton...
OUR CIVILIZATION . —?—MURDER NEAR CLIFTON . This dead body of a well-dr ^? s ? 4 young woman was discovered on Friday week in Nightingale "Valley , Leigh Woods , Clifton . The corpse was in a horribly mangled condition , and covered with blood . Her remains were first seen about seven o ' clock in the evening by a gamekeeper in the employ of Mr . Miles , M . P ., who was passing along the north side of the valley in the direction of the rabbit-warren . His suspicions were aroused by first seeing on the ground a trail of blood partly covered with mould ; and he presently afterwards found a pocket-handkerchief , also stained with blood , and marked with the initials " C . P . " Other articles of the
dead woman ' s wearing apparel were similarly marked . Large footprints in the soil—evidently those of a manwere next perceived by the gamekeeper . He raised an alarm , and the police being informed of the circumstance , the body was examined , and it was then , discovered that two extensive wounds had been inflicted across the throat from ear to ear , of such a depth that the head was nearly cut off . There was likewise a wound in the right side of the skull , which had apparently been caused by a bullet , and there were several other marks of
violence about the body ; but no weapon of any kind was found near it , nor did the gamekeeper hear any report of a pistol on the evening that he found the corpse . The murdered woman has not yet been identified . The day after the discovery of the woman ' s body , the police noticed that part of the pocket of her dress had been cut , and a portion of a pocket corresponding exactly with the remnant in the dead woman ' s clothes was found in the park of Mr . Grovillo Smyth , of Ash ton . It contained nothing ' , however , hut a stone .
A clue to the discovery of the murderer is now being investigated by the police . Mrs . Caroline Green , who keeps the White Lion , Temple-street , Bristol , states that on Thursday night , the lOthi inst ., about twelve o ' clock , a man dressed as a sailor , about thirty years of age , with dark sandy whiskers , slept at her house with a woman he called his wife , who was dressed in a grey alpaca gown with a white frill round the neck and down the front , straw bonnet with coloured ribbon , black cloth mantle
, with velvet-figured trimmings . The woman wore her hair over her ears , and her Loots corresponded with . those found on the deceased , 'f tie man and woman left together on tho Friday morning , about ton o ' clock , after taking breakfast . Another mam was seen in company with them . Mrs . Gruon and her servant saw the J > ody of tho murdered woman on Monday afternoon , and both express their confident belief that she was the same person who lodged at tho White Lion on tho previous AnurBday night .
A card with the address of a man at Bristol has been tound on tho spot , nnd waa thought at first to have been part of tho hcad-droaa of tho murdered woman . The man was therefore arrested ; but it soon transpired that We card belonged to a young woman who had visited tuo 8 pot with a crowd . Of course tlio man waa at once liberated .
Central Criminal Court. The September Si...
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The September sittings of this court commenced on Monday , when the greater part of the sitting was occupied with the trial of Edward Hastings for wilful and corrupt perjury . The case was not finished at the rising of the court . The trial "was resumed on Tuesday , and terminated in a verdict of Uot Guilty . Michael Murphy was also arraigned for the same offence ; but a verdict of Acquittal was taken . The case had reference to some evidence given on a trial for an alleged infringement of a patent , belonging to Messrs . Price and Co ., candlemakers , by Banmen ' s Candle Company . Thomas Perry , Edward Whiffen , and John Griffiths , driver , stoker , and signalman , on the North Kent Railway , were tried on Wednesday on several charges of manslaughter arising out of the accident on that line which , occurred on Sunday evening , the 28 th of last June . It will be recollected that an excursion train was brought to a stop at the Lewisham station , owing to some obstruction further on , ; that the line , nevertheless , was telegraphed as clear by Griffiths , the signalman at the Blackheath station ; that the next train , driven by Perry and Whiffen , came on ; and that , the driver and stoker disregarding the danger signals on approaching Lewisham , a collision ensued with the train already standing there , and . several persons were killed . In the course of cross-examination , Mr . John Nelson , station-master at Lewisham , said : — " Complaints had been made to him of this signal being defective . It was not ' chronically' out of order , but sometimes defective from accident , and then it was repaired . He could not say whether Hill had complained to him of the
signal , but several other drivers had done so . All distant signals required to be looked at every day , and something had been done to this signal since the accident by the gas-fitter , but he could not say what repairs had been effected . He made no inquiries as to what was the matter with the signal , although he was perfectly well aware that the lives of the passengers on the line depended upon , it being perfect . " The witness , after a good deal of hesitation , and apparently with great reluctance , admitted that since the accident the gas-pipes belonging to the signal had been cleaned out , but he said he was not aware whether they were also brightened . He knew nothing about it . Serjeant Parry : " And you are still
stationmaster /'— " Witness : " I am . " Serjeant Parry : " And have not been suspended ?"— - " No . " Serjeant Parry : •' Nor blamed in . reference to this transaction ?"— " No . " Serjeant Parry : "" " Nor praised ?' , ' — " Not that I am aware of . " ( A laugh , ") Whiffen having been acquitted , as it clearly appeared that he was engaged at the fire when the danger-signal was exhibited , and therefore could not see it , the jury laving held a short consultation together with respect to Perry ' s case , and then said , they were of opinion that the evidence was not sufficient to convict the prisoner , and they at the same time
begged to be allowed to express their greatest dissatisfaction at tho extremely defective state of the signals and the bad time kept upon the North Kent Railway . Mr . Justice Crompton said he quite concurred with the jury that there was no evidence of culpable negligence on the part of Perry . He was told at Lewisham that it was all right . He knew that the train ahead of him ought not to have stopped at Lewisham , and it was very possible that he did not see the light until he arrived at the bridge , as he stated . A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded , and the same result was come to with respect to Griffiths .
Thomas Gorman has been found Guilty of -wounding Southern Bevington , an asistant warder at the Millbank Penitentiary , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . Charles Mickleburg , a cattle-dealer , has been found Guilty of uttering a forged cheque , and sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment . Giovanni Piissa , an Italian , has been sent to prison for six months for defrauding a Jew named Simmons of 13 / ., by pretending to soil him certain gold chains which in fact were brass . James Preston was on Thursday Acquitted , on tho ground of insanity , of the murder of John Hodges in Iloraemonger-lunti Guol . The particulars appeured in our paper last week .
Cornelius Denny , on tlie same day , was found Guilty of the manslaughter of Gallo Benzanelli , the Italian confectioner , in tho Hainpstcad-road . It appeared that lie had been a good deal irritated by the various attempts of Benzunelli to get him out of the shop ; and this wad tho only defence urged . Denny was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . Ann Donovan , a young woman of eighteen , was found Guilty of stabbing George Gyrner , a policeman . She also waa sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . William Edwin James Hyllyar , a vouth of fifteen ,
surrendered to take hh trial on a charge of uttering a forged certificate of baptism with intent to defraud . He waa endeavouring to obtain a situation in the Admiralty , to which clorka arc not admitted under seventeen , and he presented a certificate of baptism stating that ho waa born in 1840 ; but it wns nt once perceived that the date originally entered was 1842 , and that the 2 hud been altered into an 0 . Mr- Serjeant linllantino argued that it was highly probablo the youth knew nothing of the fraud , if any lia < l beon committed ; and ho was Acquitted . A burst of applause followed tho verdict . The
boy a father is an officer of rank on board the Agamemnon- b William ^ Weaver , a tailor , has been sentenced to five years penal servitude for a robbery , with violence , from a youth m . Milford-lane , Strand , about nine o'clock in tne evening . Charlotte Knox Knox was charged with obtaining money from the East India Company by false pretences , having continued to receive a pension from the Company after her second marriage . On the second husband being put in the witness-box , he admitted that he had a previous wife still alive , but said he was not aware that she was alive when he married Mrs . Knox . The prosecution was then withdrawn . The trial of Thomas Diamond Evans and Captain Henry Thome for an alleged attempt to extort money from the Hon . F . W . Cadogan , by means of a libellous letter , is postponed to next session .
Murder Rs Shropshire.—An Old Woman Named...
Murder rs Shropshire . —An old woman named Morgan , alias Evans , who has been known for several years as a fortune-teller , has been murdered by William Davies , a man of thirty-five , who lived with her . They had a quarrel last Saturday , on account of Davies being long gone on an errand , and a boy suddenly saw the man issue , covered with blood , from the cottage on Westwoodcommon , where they lived . An alarm was given ; the neighbours entered the cottage , and found the old woman lying dead , with her throat cut , and six or seven stabs in her body . The police then started in pursuit of the murderer , who was captured at two o ' clock on the following morning at Leebotwood .
Murderous Assaults . — Three fellows , named Livermore , Powell , and Weston , were discovered by a policeman on Sunday afternoon in the garden of a house , apparently for a dishonest purpose . The officer seized one of them ; but they all attacked him with sticks with such ferocity that he was covered wirh blood , and lay for some time as if dead . The men then escaped ; but the two first have since been apprehended , and examined before the Marylebone magistrate , by whom they ^ iave been sent to prison for four months . —Anne Page , a dirty-looking woman , has been charged at Clerkenwell with stabbing in the back of the neck one Henry Johnson , a general dealer , in Baldwin ' s-gardens . She had had some quarrel with him ; but he requested tho magistrate that the sentence on her might be as lenient as possible . She was therefore fined 51 ., but , being unable to pay that sum , was sent to gaol with hard labour for two montlis .
Ill-usaob : ©*¦ Lascaks . —A few days ago , twentyfour Lascars , belonging to the ship Dommian , from India , came before the Thames police-court , to complain of ill-usage by the captain and mates . Summonses were granted against the first and second mates . Tlio case against John Greer , first mate , was first heard on Monday . One of the Lascars stated that the first mate h : id knocked him down , and kicked out two of his teeth . The ' serang , * or chief of the Lascars , said that every Lascar in the ship was marked , and fi \ e of them had been sent to the Dreadnought Hospital , in consequence of ill-usage . Rlr . Selfc said he must send the case to the sessions . The second mate was then examined and also committed . They were both held to bail .
AtTEMPTKI > MUKDKK IN THIS KlNGSLAND-KOAD . Mary Ann VilUers , tho-wife of a retired publican , has attempted to take the life of her husband by inflicting two severe wounds on his head and face . The man , who was formerly in affluent circumstances , but had in a great measure ruined himself by his extravagunt habits , lodged at the house of a builder in Mansfield-street , Kingsland-road , He lived on very unhappy terms with his wife , and they were constantly quarrelling . Ono evening , Mrs . Jones , the landlady of the house where they lodged , was startled by hearing an unusually violent noise in their apartment , to wliich she proceeded , and , on entering the room , saw the man bleeding profusely from two extensive cuts in the face . One of them was of a very dangerous nature , having cut tho check completely through , to the extent of four inches . Tho wife , wlio waa standing over her husband , coolly confessed that sho had inflicted th « wounda while
atmpting to cut his throat , and pointed at the samotimo to a large carving knife ou the table , the blade of which was wet with blood . The landlady secured the weapon , and fetched a policeman , to whom she gave tho woman in custody . The latter repeated to the constable thnt it was she who had wounded her hutiband in the face , and added that she was determined to murder him , alleging that he onco told her with a boastful air thnt lie hud for mod an improper intimacy with his wife ' s aiHtcr . Mrd . Yilliors way afterwards brought before the Worship-street mngistrnte , to whom her husband stated that hu believed the injuries ho hud received were purely accidental , nnd begged that be might be permitted to abandon tho |* ro . sc-cutio > i ) . This request , however , tho magistrate of course refused , tho cuhc being of too serious a nature to bo overlooked . The wife was therefore remanded .
CiiiU ) Muitmcu . —Maria Clarke , a wretched-looking woman charged with killing her child , a girl eight years old , and with attempting to drown herself in the Regent ' s Canal , under cireinn . stanceH related in our last week ' s paper , has been rc-examincd « t WorHhip-Htroot . Two letters addrosacd to her uncle were read . They
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/9/
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