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Middlesex Sessions.—Herr Von Dittmar, La...
. £ —— iS == . . . way to the police-station , Beaumont said the powder was damp , and that he meant it for his brother-in-law or afeter , whoever molested him first- He was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court , where he pleaded Guilty . Sentence was postponed . How X . Pious Sw-jxii-MOBSMAN ' Improved the Occasion . '—Three ' awell-mobsmen' were brought up before Mr- Selfe at the Thames office , charged with picking pockets at Trinity Chapel , East India-road , Poplar , on the evening of Friday-week , when the popular preacher , Mr . Spurgeon , was edifying a crowded congie- gation of sinners in his peculiar style of rhapsody , Several persons were standing under the porch , being unable to And room inside ; and the three gentlemen of agile fingers , showy costume , and easy consciences , sounded the depths of several pockets , even as the Rev . Mr . Spurg « on sounded the depths of many hearts . But a detective officer was looking on ; who , taking one of the flash gentlemen into custody , asked him what he wanted there . " The same as the others , " replied the seeker after grace—and handkerchiefs ; " I come to hear Mr . Spurgeon pieach ; he ' s a regular settler for sinners . " The sceptical detective retorted , " He has not 86 ttled you . " And so he was secured , together with the two others . They were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and hard labour ; whereupon , one of them ( not he of the grace-seeking spirit , but another , more re bellious ) exclaimed , "I will appeal against the decision I Will go to the House of Lords . I willMwill ! " Mr Selfe replied that he should be very glad to have his de cision reviewed . Alleged Homicide by a Child . —A . boy named Stephen Crewe , aged nine years , was brought before the Bristol magistrates last Saturday afternoon , charged with killing another little boy , named George Josep Watkins . The latter was sent by his parents , who live in Phippen-street , on some errand to Bedrninster-dowo in a field on which Crewe and some other children were playing . Watkins looked over the gate of the field watching , them , and Crewe asked what he wanted . He made no reply , upon which some of the other boys com menced pelting him with dirt , and Crewe threw a stone which wounded Watkins in the head . This happened on the 26 th ult . The child was taken home and at tended by a private surgeon , hut , growing worse , was removed to the General hospital , where he died Saturday morning from . the injuries he had received Crewe was remanded , but has since been discharged , the coroner ' s jury having brought in a verdict that the kill ing was accidental .- —Another case of alleged homicide by a boy is under investigation at Southwark . Desertion op a Child .- —Mary Ann Graves , middle-aged woman , was charged at Lambeth with desertion of her infant , and with leaving it exposed the weather in the streets , in the course of last April The child was taken , to the workhouse , and it was onl now that the mother was traced out . The child was third illegitimate infant the-woman had had , and had been in prison before for deserting one of them The two other children were now dead . Graves ad mitted to the magistrate that this was the case , b pleaded distress as the cause of her leaving the infant in the streets . The workhouse overseer here stated that the child , when picked up , was nearly starved , and still presented a frightful appearance of emaciation . woman was remanded , and has since been sentenced three months' hard labour . ¦ A Crazy Bigot . —A crazy looking old gentleman giving the name of Thompson Dawson , of Lansdowne terrace , Walworth , appeared at Bow-street on a charge of disturbing the service at the Weslcyan chapel , Great Queen-street . While the clergyman was engaged prayer , Mr . Dawsoh fell on his knees , and commenced praying in a loud , bawling tone of voice . Mr . Woolmer the clergyman , begged him to bo quiet , but he rep "I shall pray when I like and where I like . " Continu ing the same violent demeanour , he shook his fist at clergyman , exclaiming , " I will show you , up in a that you have never been shown before . I will do you . " It appeared that for the last iive-and-twenty years he has been in the habit of disturbing Weslevan chapels iu the same way , and of writing long letters a scurrilous character , vilifying various ministers , befoxo the magistrate , ho began spouting some * sentences intended to be religious , but was silenced Mr . Hall , who inquired why his brother did not after and restrain him . Mr . Woolmer said the brother encouraged him . The brother then came forward , said that " man is free to think and act according to conscience , " and that ho and his brother wore " to bo persecuted . " Here the accused , producing a hymn-book , and speaking in a tono alternating between a whino and a furious howl , was about to inflict a oration upon the court , when Mr . Hull stopped the by desiring the fanatic to enter into his recognizances in 40 / ., and to find a surety in 20 / ., to keep the for six months . He was then forcibly removed from dock , loudly demanding to be informed whether it just to prevent his going on with his address . mately , the brother ' s surety -was accepted . AUDCOTION OF A WlFH BY HER HUSBAND . — gossip has been occasioned at Reading by the carrying off of a lady from the house of Miss No . 9 , Southampton-place , whore she had been lodg The lady was Mrs . Cherry , -wife of the rector of fleld , About four miles from Roadjng , and tho
who assis d . ffe Mr . this ult ., cone Chei her bant ofnc : but Mr . intei clerj roui stat : latti in . r the kno doo : and foil don son - sioi , can . insi - see sna Su ] an < for h poi bm , c ' ai on , . Gr - na , tal So - off ha on dei , wi an - inj cl < ini a pii the th to sti , in y fn tie w < she to . - A ut B ca R it m The ( 1 to bi w , h - b a tl in tl v , lied , 1 - t the c way « for c < i of i When rabid b 3 look and Ins content small long case pence the was Ulti-Some forcible Smart , ing . Burghperson who carried her off , aided by his legal adviser and otter plica assistants , was her husband . Owing to some domestic wall , differences , the husband and wife had separated ; but behal Mr . Cherry desired to induce * the lady to return . To Selfe this she objected . On the evening of Sunday the 31 st of th ult ., Mr . Cherry , after attending church , went , at the and 1 conclusion of the service , to the pew occupied by Mrs . guar < Cherry and her friends , took hold of her , and compelled writL her to accompany him into the ve 3 try . Here the hua- to tl band made an excited appeal to the vicar , who had been them officiating , to use his influence to promote a reunion ; pendi but the lady would not accede . On Monday morning , parti Mr . Cherry , accompanied by his solicitor , a police super- ago . intendent , two constables in . plain clothes , and "the Ai clergyman ' s gardener , went to the lady's residence , stir- Lieui rounded the house , so as to make escape impossible , and and , stationed close at hand a hrougham and a cart , / the wife latter intended for the conveyance of lugg-age . AH being brouj in readiness ( proceeds the account in the local paper ) , char ] the professional gentleman and the superintendent varic knocked at the door . They were admitted , and the ber c door was closed . Presently one of them reopened it , were and signalled to Mr . Cherry , who rushed into the house , It & followed closely by bis gardener . All this could not be only done in so populous a thoroughfare without attracting that some spectators . They heard a great bustle and coiifu- arti < sion in the house , and loud screaming . The gardener thef came to the door and beckoned to the coachman , who trat instantly drove up to the outer gate . The lady was son < seen to emerge into the passage , without bonnet or ^ shawl ; on one side of her was the gardener , on the other cha Superintendent Peck , and behind , Mr . Cherry , assisting ; day and thus they conveyed her , not without considerable firm force , owing to her resistance , down the steps . At this Leii point , the lady cried out , " Is there no one to save me ? " kno but she was hurried through the front garden into the Wij carriage . Mr . Cherry followed her in , Mr . Peck mounted hon on the box , and they proceeded to Burghfield Rectoiy . hal ( A Madman . — -An alarming scene took place in the i ° g Greenwich police-court on Tuesday . A young man , mai i- named George Tryon , was charged with threatening to said 3 , take the lives of a gentleman , his wife , and daughter , sisti d Some months since , he was charged with a similar hou t- offence , and was committed to a lunatic asylum ; but be Mr . is had recently been set at liberty . On hearing the eyi- ma < n dence against him in the present case , he threatened the be 1 . witness with legal proceedings for false imprisonment , cha le and thenj taking from his pocket a pistol , began jump- Ifai 1- ing about in a violent manner , and eventually threw it « gl le close to the reporters' box . He then thrust his liand vie into another pocket of his dress , and produced a second adi a pistol , which he was about pointing in the direction of but le the magisterial bench , when he was seized by the con- Ion to stable in court , while another officer succeeded in wrest- to < il . ing the weapon : from his grasp , and restraining him ma ly from further violence . On being searched , two lancets tar lie were discovered about his person . He was committed le to Maidstone Gaol . ™ n . Charge of Manslaughter against a Farmer . — nai d- A Mr . Wakefield , a farmer in the neighbourhood of inf ut Bristol , has been committed for trial on a charge of tin nt causing the death of Daniel Rowland , a coal-miner , at at Rowland owed the accused some money . Wakcfield hei it met him one day out of doors , and , being told that he wli he ( Rowland ) had no money to pay the debt with , began cot to beating Mm with the handle of his horsewhip , the end of "n which -was loaded with lead . Afterwards , he knocked wa in , him down several times with his fist , asking if it sliould of le- bo life for life . Rowland , who was fifty-five years of en ge age , subsequently died from extravasation of blood on w 2 at the brain . Wakefield appears to have been drunk at in ] in the time , and some of the -witnesses say he was pro- fai : ed voked by Rowland throwing stones at him . __ s ° ler , Embezzlement by a Rate-collector . —John Smith , ° » ed , lately a builder and surveyor , and for some years one of so mi- the rate-collectors of the parish of St . Leonard , Shore- u < the ditch , is under remand at Worship-street , charged with w ray embezzlement to the amount of 334 ? . Upon its being ui for discovered that his books -were , in a very unsatisfactory tc nty condition , he was formally called upon in writing to t < Can account for the sum just named ; in answer to winch he o 9 of admitted that his collections in arrear reached that total , hen Subsequently , two warrant officers proceeded to arrest n ibid him ; and , after much difliculty , they succeeded in dis- si by covering that he lived in a small cottage in a very se- U ook eluded spot at the rear of Chief Baron Pollock ' s mansion , fi tber in the neighbourhood of Bedfont , near Staines . The u and officew concealed themselves behind a screen of trees i Ins and shrubbery , and , on seeing Mr . Smith , rushed out I tent and secured him . To one of these constables he admitted r nail the truth of the charge , nnd said that the embezzlement n 'een was the result of bill transactions to a considerable f long amount . case Neglect of Lascars . —A case of great oppression f nccs was brought before Mr . Selfo at tlvo Thames Police- « eace ofllce , on Monday , by one of the summoning officers of j i the the court . Twenty-five Lascars , after having assistod I was in navigating the ship Konilworth on its voyage from Jlti- tho East Indies to London , had boon turned adrift , nnd wore then in a state of absolute starvation , not having tome tasted food for five days . Sinco the arrival of tho cible Kunilworth in London , she had changed owners , and the nart , now proprietors had refused to have anything to , do ging . with tlifl Lascars , saying that they wore not bound irgh- eithoF to receive tbom on hoard , nor to provide- them PF ? 9 WJtU foocj , nep to got them another ahip . Renewed apr p wall , behalf Selfe of the and writing to them pended ago . and wife Droug charge various ber were It only that articles theft trate soners A day firm Wi home half ing man said sisted house Mr . made be leave rightl vious ¦ burg . long to i man j L the . has f f tine at [ > - i coat f ling 1 1 of f into ,. i , of > f j _ " h ig ¦ y to to to lie of il . ist is- io- rn io ' sea ut , ed srit bio ion ce- i of tod om md ing tho the do and lem ap-
\ ¦ lications had been made to Miessrs . Bennett and Aspuiagents « f the late owner of the Kenilworth , on of the Lascars ; but they had been fruitless . 3 * r . said that the men must be taken to the workhouse parish in which the ship Kenilworth was lying , be immediately relieved ; and , in the next-place , the guardians or overseers of the parish must give notice in , in the form prescribed by the Act of Parliaiaent , the East India Company , of their having relieved , and they -would be repaid all moneys duly ex-. This case greatly resembles one of which the particulars appeared in the Leader about ten months Adventurous Germans .- —Johan Torkolow , alias Lieutenant Edward Mohrreeks , of the German Le ^ o-n , Anna Sabina Bolow , who stated herself to be the of a colonel in the same Legion , were on Tuesday ht up for further examination at Southwark , on a of attempting to obtain valuable silks , & c , from linendrapers , by false pretences . A great nurn- . of tradesmen from several parts of the metropolis in attendance for the purpose of preferring charges . appeared , however , that in every case the accused had ordered the goods to be sent to false addresses ; so the tradesmen merely lost their time in sending out which ultimately they had to bring back . No seems to ha-ve been committed ; and the magiswas therefore obliged to discharge both the pri-. Fraudulent Charge of Fraud . —Among the charges brought before Mr . Norton , ± t Lambeth , on Tues-, was one against Mr . George Broad , jiin ., of the of Messrs . George Broad and Sons , woolstaplors , of Leicester , Rochdale , and Berrnondsey-street , Londoi , of knowingly uttering a counterfeit shilling to Francis gmore , a cab-driver . Mr . Broad was being driven to his house in Peckham . He got change for a sovereign at the Green Man-gate ^ and , on reachhome he gave the cabman 2 s . 2 d ., bis fare . The tested one of the shillings with his teeth , and then it was bad . This was denied ; but the cabman ^ inon Mr . Broad going with him to the station-, and waited outside till a policeman came up . Broad went with this officer , and the charge was before the inspector ,-who , knowing Mr . Broad to a very respectable gentleman , and suspecting the charge to be malicious and false , allowed the accused to on his own bail . The magistrate said he did quite y , and asked if anything was known of the precharacter of the cabman . The prosecutor Wiaself admitted that he liad been charged at tliat court with a lary ; and it further appeared that he has been for a time suspected to be a person employed by burglars carry away plunder . Mr . Norton directed thn-t the should at once deliver up his badge , and b > e detained until his license was sent for and delivered up . Tjie Dover Murder . —Redanies , - the murderer ~ of two girls , Caroline and Maria Back , near Folkestone , nearly recovered from the effects of the wounds he inflicted upon himself , and is still confined in St . A-Ugus' s gaol , where he will remain until the next Assizes Maidstone . It will be remembered that when approbended he was coatless , and that he wore the two cloaks which he had taken from tho bodies of his victims . The was found oa Friday week , in a wood near Swerd-, in the parish of Petham . On trie breast loy the waist-belt and the wristbands of tho prisoner's shirt , one the latter having marks of blood upou it . ' A . small cross had been carefully made out of two pieces of dog-. wood tied together with black thread , and was fixed the ground . Around tliis emblem of the prisoner ' s faith hung the red piping , which he had token from , his soldier ' s trousers . There were two riblions on tho breast the coat ( obtained , it is supposed , wh ile in the Austrian sorvice ) , but a close examination of the cloth failed to detect any marks of blood . The position of the coat with the cross favours the belief that tho prisoner had undergone great mental suffering , and had endoa . voured console himself by some religious observances , prior his fruitless attempt upon his own life , at tho moment his apprehension . —South-liastern Gazette . Alleged Forgery . —A Jewish bill-discounter , ' of the name of John Lowin , carrying on business in . Crownstreet , Finsbury-square , was charged nt tho JEunsionhouse , before Alderman Sydney , with attempting to dafraud Messrs . Bauin and Co ., money-changers of Lombard-street , by uttering a forged 20 f . noto on the Geolong branch of the Union Bank of Australia . A City detective officer having been informed of the occurrence , wont to the shop of Messrs . IJaum , and shortly afterwards Lewin entered . Tho officer allowed him tho forged note , and asked if he wanted it cashed . Lewin replied that ho did , and stated , in answer to a aucst'on from tho office , that he had got another . The constable then told him who ho was-, that tho note was n . forgery , and that he wanted to know where lie got it from . Lewin asked tho officer to accompany him to tho Slap public-house , in Wormwood-street , where two men wore waiting for the money . Thoy both proceeded to the , house in qucntion , but neither of the men whom Lowin mentioned to tho officer ( wero there . After waiting at the Ship for a considerable time , without aeeing anything of the men , the officer left the houao with his prisoner , but shortly afterwards returned , in consequenco of certain information which ho had receivod , and Lewin pointed qu * to Jijin fl ma ftt fte bar , ¦ whom
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September 20 , 18 IS 6 J T H E X , E A I ) E B . 897 ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/9/
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