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1208 THE LIi ^ ADEjR, _ _; ._„ [No-852, ...
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The December ses...
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Another Great Railway Kobbery.—The polic...
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to capital punishment prevails . These challenges being exhausted , a good deal of discussion ensued , and the jury was at length settled , one gentleman retiring on the plea that he objected to punishment by death . Before the case commenced , however , Mr . Baron . Brainwell made some remarks to the effect that a juryman is bound by his oath to give a verdict in accordance with the evidence , irrespective of consequences . Frances Wallace was tried at the same Assizes on a charge of murdering her child by cutting its throat . The particulars of this painful case were published in the Leader of November 1 . The accused was Acquitted , on the ground of insanity . Edward Chater , an engraver , has been found Guilty at Warwick of forging Bank of England notes , and was sentenced to be transported for life .
Dedea Redanies , the foreigner charged with the murder of the sisters , Caroline and Maria Back , was placed in the dock at the Maidstone Assizes on Tuesday and Wednesday , on both of which occasions lie pleaded Guilty to the murder of the first , and Not Guilty of killing the second . Mr . Baron Bramwell , thinking that the prisoner , as a foreigner , might be ignorant of the effect of his pleading Guilty , would not go on with the case either day , but gave the accused tiuie to consider . He has elected to be tried by a jury entirely composed , of Englishmen , instead of one-half selected from foreigners .
1208 The Lii ^ Adejr, _ _; ._„ [No-852, ...
1208 THE LIi ^ ADEjR , _ _; . _„ [ No-852 , Saturday
Central Criminal Court. The December Ses...
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The December sessions commenced on Monday . One of the persons tried on that day was John Dower , a labourer , charged with a garotte robbery committed near the Town Hall , in the Borough , with , the aid of four other men , who are not in custody . The particulars have already appeared in this paper . Dower was sentenced to fifteen years * transportation . William Snell , a gentlemanly-looking young man , pleaded Guilty to a charge of stealing an order for 500 £ , the property of the Great Northern Railway Company , his masters . There were two other charges against the prisoner for ^ embezzling and stealing money and cheques , the property of the same prosecutors , to which he pleaded Not Guilty . He subsequently retracted those pleas * and pleaded Guilty to the whole of the charges . He was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour .
Charles Clement Brooke , late a captain in theOsmanli Irregular Cavalry Turkish Contingent , surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with having published a false and malicious libel on Baron Mostyn . It appeared that he had married a natural daughter of Lord Mostyn's uncle , who , when he died , left her a sum of 20 , 000 / ., to be raised . by sale or mortgage out of certain estates demised to Lord Mostyn for life . Lord Mostyn entered into a voluntary undertaking , to carry out the provisions of the will ; but the estates were so deeply mortgaged that he found he had no funds equal to the payment of this particular sum and of various others which were chargeable on the property . The result was that the estates were thrown
into Chancery nineteen years ago . Lord Mostya was himself very largely in debt . Captain Brooke had been insolvent , and had parted with his life-interest in the property ; but from time to time he had been relieved by Lord Mostyn , through his Lordship's solicitors . Mrs . Brooke is dead , but a child of here is still living . It was under these circumstances that Captain Brooke wrote a letter to Lord Mostyn , threatening to kick him publicly , and to cause his ejection from the House of Peers . The jury found the Captain Guilty , but recommended him to mercy , on the ground that he had acted under great provocation . After some discussion , lie was ordered to onter into his own recognizances to keep the peace , and to come up for judgment if called upon .
Mary Ann Davis , a woman of the town , lias been found Guilty of killing Ann-Cox , a person in the same sphere of life , by striking her on the head with a tumbler . Davis was intoxicated at the time , and she had contrived to pick a quarrel with her friend ; but , after the act was committed , she expressed great sorrow . She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .
Another Great Railway Kobbery.—The Polic...
Another Great Railway Kobbery . —The police have received information that a vast number of gold watches , which were in a leathern box , have been stolen from the Coleraine and Londonderry Railway . The maker's name , ' Mottu , ' of Geneva , is engraved upon the watches , and the numbers of them are known . Redpaxh , Junior . —A boy , bearing the now celebrated name of Redpath , wua charged at Guildhall with committing a fraud upon a Mrs . Pulling , a fancy-bagmakerwho him
, employed as an errand boy . lie had Bold some of the bags , appropriated the money , and absconded . The lad ' a mother said he was one of seven children she had to provide for , and her husband was ? v & ° con 8 u' » Ptfon \ The person who had bought tno bags consented to give them upon receiving his ih « hL UOt ^ » MUta < P 0 again . This was agreed to ; the boy was discharged , and Alderman MuBgrove cave lit ? S ^ SSEu * " ° ° Or-bOX - ¦ " »« " °
^ SS ^ KtCL S ^ mera , appeared before Alderman Humphcry , at the
that I made , I spent all the 1507 . in London . " Alderman Humphery : " When were you convicted ? " Summers : " In the summer of 1846 Twas tried at Maidstone for horse stealing , and found guilty . I ani as industriously inclined as any man , and it is my wish , to go abroad , where I can get my living by honourable industry . I have been obliged to sell my clothes , and , as I am known , I can get ¦ no employment at all . I tore up my discharge because I did not wish that any one should know I was a prisoner . " He was then committed for trial .
Mansioa-house , on a charge of breaking a pane of glass in a jeweller ' s window , and stealing a large amount of property . lie was caught in the act , and at once taken into custody . When at the police-office , he said : —¦ " I have been ten years a convict , and I couli get no work on account of being known . " Alderman Ilumpliery : " Are you a ticket-of-leave man ? " Summers : " No . After aiine years I was pardoned . I was at Norfolk Island , and from that place I went to Hobart Town , and thence to the gold diggings in Australia , where I laboured hard and made 150 ? . as my share . I paid 60 / . for my passage from Adelaide to London , from other money
The Ticket-of- Lkave System . —A lecture by Mr . F . Hill was' delivered by that gentleman at a meeting on Monday evening of the Law Amendment Society , Mr . M . D * Hill in the chair . The subject of the discourse was the present ticket-of-leave system , and its purpose was to show that . 'that ' -system has not yet been fairly tried . Mr . P . Hill thought that the terms of imprisonment should be made longer instead of shorter , but lie was not inclined to abandon the incentive to good conduct held out 03 * the prospect of a remittal of punishment . He showed the fallacy of the popular supposition that there arc no means at home for employing all our criminals . The number of criminals is far less tliau is generally supposed ; and , even if it were
much greater , there would be plenty of opportunity in a country like this of finding employment for prisoners , without deranging the labour market . Mr . F . Hill proceeded : — "A perusal of the evidence lately taken on the subject by tlie Committee of the House of Commons- — particularly of that given by Mr . Waddington and Mr . Matthew Hill— -would quickly convince any person of calm judgment that in this matterthere can have been neither failure nor success , since in fact there has been no -real experiment . It is true ? , as we have pcen , that that part of the general arrangement which consists in holding out a strong motive to industry and good conduct while in prison , has been brought into partial operation ; and , I think , that a candid , examination of
the Tesults , so far as means have been provided for their ascertainment , will show that to the extent to which this principle has been employed , they have been satisfactory ; the recommittals having been fewer among : the prisoners thus liberated in part by their own exertions , than among an equal number released by the mere lapse of time . But of the ticket of leave in the real sense of the term , namely , a permission , to be at large during good behaviour only , there has evideutly been , no trial ; for , although each ticket bears on its face a warning that the leave will be recalled if the bearer consort with bad company , or have no visible means of getting an honest livelihood , these conditions seem to have been almost a dead letter . It thus appears that an essential principle
of tlie ticket-of-leavc system has remained in abeyance ; and , therefore , whatever causes may liavc been at work to produce the late burglaries and garotte robberies , these outrages cannot in justice be attributed to that sj-stcm . " The lecturer afterwards made some suggestions : — " Let five hundred prisoners at the end of their confinement be released with tickets « f leave , and five hundred others , as nearly as possible under the same circumstances , be released unconditionally . Then let the recommittals which may take place in the two classes be carefully compared ; and the result will be more trustworthy and conclusive than any amount of a priori
speculation . . . . One way in which crime might he powerfully checked would be to render pecuniarily answerable , to some extent , for the crimes they assist in producing ; , the landlords and proprietors of the various dens of iniquity in which criminals meet to concert robberies , to turn booty into money , aiul to squander away their ill-gotten wealth—the flash-houses , the dwellings of receivers of stolen goods , the gambling houses , and the brothels . " Considerable discussion followed the reading of thjs paper , and it was finally resolved that it should be received and referred to the Criminal Law Committee , to consider and report upon .
Fatai ., Poaching Affray . —A conflict between a gang of poachers and some keepers in the employ of Mr . T . B . Vernon , qf Hanbury , Worcestershire , about midnight on Wednesday week , hna ended in the death of one of the poachers . A man named Harrison , employed at the Droitwich salt-works , went out with two of his companions to shoot in Mr . Vernon'a preserves . Tliey were encountered by two keepers ; a struggle ensued , and a largo dog was set upon Harrison , who seized a gun , and knocked the keeper down by the buttend . There was then some further Kcuflling , and the gun accidentally exploded , lodging- its contents in Ilarrisoii ' a abdomen . He died in about fouv-and-twent } 1 hours . The fatal occasion was the first time ho hnd oVor been out poaching .
. Neglkct at a Boarding School— A singular c * T has been investigated at the Wandsworth police-of £ . A schoolmistress , named Sophia Myers , was eh «™ * with wilfully neglecting Maria Baile / , . fiff gbuj ? mitted to her care . She kept a boarding school ^ Battersea and the child ' s mother sent h ? r daul e there for education . About a fortni ght ago Mrs S received information that her child \ £ ? \ SSl ? " £ * going to Myers ' s house , she found such to be the ™ ' The child was in a fdthy condition , lvinff on an 6 M ™ £ dirtycouch . Another dying chUd wfs aLTthe ti which was m a revolting state of dirt , and almost eX tirely denuded of furniture . Two of Myers ' s daughters four little children , and a young woman , were lilS discovered m different rooms by a policeman whom Mrs Bailey called in ; and they also were extremely dirt * "" i ^^^ l "' h i ^ P ~»? e - * appearedf ho ^
_ .. ever , that some necessaries , which the parish doctor had ordered a few days before Mrs . Myers was given into custody , were supplied to the sick children ; and seve ral persons came forward to give a good character to the schoolmistress , who said it was oaly through the illness of the t , vO children suffering from typhus fever that the others had been , neglected . The magistrate discharged Mrs . Myers on her entering into recognizances to appear again on Monday . When the case came on again on that day , the accused was not forthcoming , and no further steps could be taken . It was mentioned in court that Mrs . Bailey ' s little girl had died since the previous examination .
Burglauy at Caepiff . —The shop of Mr . Spiridon a jeweller in Cardiff , has been broken into and plundered of a considerable quantity of its contents . The shopkeeper and his assistants left the place between nine and ten o ' clock on the evening preceding the robbery , having first secured the premises ; but , on returning the following morning , they found that the shop had beenentered and ransacked of almost everything that was portable , including an immense amount of jewellery , watches , rings , pins , pencil-cases , & e . It is estimated tliat the total value of the stolen property cmnotbe much less than 300 ? . It was afterwards discovered that the thieves had entered
the premises through the adjoining shop , where they had battered down a' portion of the wall dividing the two houses , and so worked their Way into Mr . Spiridon ' s shop , the floor of which was thickly sprinkled with bricks and plaster . It is conjectured that the burglars afterwards started for London by an early train . The metropolitan : police were speedily informed of the robbery by electric telegraph , and the local police are likewise prosecuting an active search ; but no clue has as \ -et been obtained of the thieves .
Robiie ; ry . —Three men recently went to a publichouse in Jamaica-street , Bristol , at seven o ' clock in the evening , and ordered some drink . The landlady , having supplied them , retired to the parlour behind " bar , upon which , one of the men placed a chair against the parlour door , while another went into the side passage , and heckoncd one of his comrades in from the street , when they both endeavoured to remove a desk which was placed near the bar . As , however , the desk was fastened by screws to a kind of counter , they found
themselves obliged to wrench it off , and they immediately set to work . While they were so occupied , the landlady came out from the parlour into the passage , when slie was knocked down by one of the ruffians , who struck her a blow on the head . She rose , and was again felled to the ground and kicked . The men , in the meanwhile , having succeeded in wrenching the desk from its hold , stole from it nearly 121 . in gold and silver , and then escaped with their booty . A description of the thieves has been forwarded by the landlady to the police , and steps are being taken for their apprehension .
A Stabbing Cask . — The borough magistrates of Brighton , were occupied on Wednesday in investigating a charge of stabbing brought against a youth , nineteen years of age , named Charles llenrich , who , it appears , is a son of Lady Girdlcstone . The youth had been to the Casino on Tuesday night , and , on coming out late at night , he addressed a policeman , and , exhibiting a long-handled knife , which opened with a spring at the back , said , if he had the person who kept the Casino there , he would stab him to the heart . The policeman , who said ho must bo joking , took the knife from him , shut it up , and returned it . Henrich immediately opened it again , and said , I will carry this home in my hand open , and will stab the first person who
interrupts me . " At the same time , he made use of very obscene language . Just at that moment , a woman of the town , named Julia ttlundel Paine , came up , and Ilcnrich exclaimed , ' * Halloa , old gal , how do you do ? again using several disgusting expressions . The woman answered , " I don't Jknow you , sir ; " on which , llenrkn immediately stabbed her , saying , " How do you like this ? " The woniun stood for a moment , and then exclaimed , " Oh , you have murdered mo ! " The policeman then took the young man into custody , and the latter kept repeatedly oxcluiming , " I am damned drunk , and I am a blackguard . " The woman wns taken to the hospital , where it was found that the wound was not Kcrious . Henrich was' remanded to this duy ( Saturday ) , when it ia expected that Julia Paine will bo able to attend and give evidence . MuRDisit ov a , Cuiij > i » y his Motiiku . — Elizabeth
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/8/
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