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January 22,1853.] THE LEADER. 79
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OXFORD CATASTROPHE: COMMITTAL OF KINCH T...
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CRIMINAL RECORD. lUnnotm, tho murderer o...
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At Liverpool, on Friday, an " Irish Yank...
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Pickett, landlord of the Plough Inn, Oxf...
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Achilll Versus Newman. Lord Camimijom; B...
woman at Naples , by . urging that proof , if obtainable at all , could easily have been obtained from the policy records ; yet this had not been done . He contended that the document put in from the Inquisition only proved that Dr . Achilli had been suspended on account of his religion . He disposed of the charges that Dr . Achilli lived with the wife of Coriboni , and seduced the wife of Garamoni , by saying that Dr . Achilli ' s contradiction of them on oath was more to be relied on than their affirmation on oath by the witnesses . He denied that immoral conduct had led to the dismissal of Dr . Achilli
from the college at Malta . And as to the English charges , Sir Frederick made a clean sweep of them by endeavouring to show that the witnesses were unworthy of credence . He justified the refusal of Dr . Achilli . to answer certain questions _ touching his continence in general , on the ground that he was bound only to reply to specific charges . Sir Fitzroy Kelly took up the same line of argument . The case was only part heard on Thursday , and was ordered to be continued on Friday .
January 22,1853.] The Leader. 79
January 22 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 79
Oxford Catastrophe: Committal Of Kinch T...
OXFORD CATASTROPHE : COMMITTAL OF KINCH THE GUARD . The monster inquest , at Oxford , on the late " accident" terminated on Monday . The evidence taken on that day was to the effect that trains are usually started by the whistle of the guard ; but in this case no one heard Kinch sound his whistle . Mr . Johnson , the station-master at Bletchley , said that Kinch told him he did not know how the train came to start , but he thought that Tarry had mistaken the ballast engine for the coal train . William Beston , an engine-driver , stated that it was the business of the guard to start the train by his whistle . After the coroner had summed up , the jury returned the following remarkable verdict : — " That the deceased persons came to their deaths from a collision that occurred between a passenger train and a coal train on the Bucks branch , of the London and
North-Western Railway . That the collision took place in consequence of the passenger train being started without orders from the station-master , and they find a verdict of manslaughter against Kinch , the guard of the said passenger train , on whom the responsibility of starting the train devolved , and they think the engine-driver worthy of blame for proceeding at a much faster rate than is usual at first leaving the station . It appears from , the evidence that in consequence of repairs now going on at the Wolvercot tunnel the whole of the traffic between Oxford and Islip is now carried on upon a single line ; and the jury beg to express their opinion that in all such cases a pilot-engine should be employed , in . order to lessen the probability of collision . They consider also that a policeman or
signalman should be stationed between the swing ' -bridge and Wolvercot tunnel , as that part of the line appears to be at present quite unprotected , and as it includes a level crossing . It appears also that part of the line on which the accident occurred is in such close proximity to the Oxford and Rugby line that it is very difficult to distinguish on which an approaching train is travelling until it is close at hand ; and they think that somo distinctive mark should bo adopted by their respective companies , so that their engines should bo immediately recognised both by day and night . And tho jury beg especially to call the attention of the railway directors and the legislature to the paramount importance of some means of communication being established botweon tho guard and the engine-driver . " The Coroner immediately ordered Kinch to bo taken into custody .
Criminal Record. Lunnotm, Tho Murderer O...
CRIMINAL RECORD . lUnnotm , tho murderer of Robinson , tho hawkor , was executed at York , on Saturday . On Thursday ho was visited at his own request hy Mr . Harcus , an Indopondont minister , whoso chapel ho had boon in tho habit of attending . Mr . Harcus , in a letter to tho papers , relates the result of his interview . ICo told Harbour that there was no doubt of his guilt , everybody believed it , and urged him to mako M'Cormaek tho reparation of a public confession ol' his guilt . This he indignantly resented , as indeed he
did whenever the question of a confession was pressed upon him . Ho said , " My religion is to confess to Godnot to man ; to confess to man is the Roman Catholic religion . " I told him that in his case both were required . Jlo said , "I have eonfosaud all my sins , both great and mnall , to ' God , and I will do no moro , and I am quite prepared to die . " 1 said , you must , know that you would not only bo acting wickedly but foolishly , in g ^ oing to God with a lie in your right luuul . This he admitted . I tlion referred to his parents , und told him how they must feel his
unhappy fate . Ho said ho hoped his mother would soon follow him . I asked him if he would liko me to send any message to his parents ? Ho suid , " Tell them I am prepared to moot my fate , and that I am an innocent man . " At ten o ' clock on tho morning of the execution tho chaplain could not make any impression on tho murderer . At tho last hour , however , ho sent for tho chaplain . Tho reverend gentleman immediately obeyed tho summons ; nnd on entering the room where tho culprit was , he ( Harbour ) said , " Do you think , thoro in any liopo for me in this world ? " Mr . Kutton replied , "I . believe none . " Harbour ilicn Hai « l " 1 believe that you are my friend ; " and Mr . HuUou answered , " 1 believe there is nobody now in this world who car . bo of any «« rvi «« to you but inyw . ll . . liarl > our thon told Iho reverend gentleman that ho loll very much difltrcwod on account of his parents . Ho mud ,
" They will feel my death very much . " The chaplain replied , " Yes , no doubt they "will ; but it would be a great satisfaction to them provided they knew that you died truly penitent , and had confessed your sins . " Barbour said , " Will you write to my parents ? " The Chap lain answered in the affirmative , ana Barbour then said , " Well , then , sir , I am guilty ; and . nobody had anything to do with tho murder but myself ! " The condemned prisoner then intimated that he felt very much , relieved in his mind , and expressed a wish to receive the sacrament , which was administered to him by the chaplain , and from that time forward , up to the moment before he was launched into eternity , he continued to pray constantly , and apparently with great fervour and sincerity . Margaret Bell , convicted at Glasgow of murdering her infant , has been reprieved in consideration of the circumstances attending her conviction .
At Liverpool, On Friday, An " Irish Yank...
At Liverpool , on Friday , an " Irish Yankee" sailor was robbed in an improper house . He swore a great oath that he would murder all the girls in the town ; and as one chanced to pass he immediately stabbed her about the head and face in six places . Milligan , the sailor , was instantly arrested . Mr . Nicholay , junior , of Oxford-street , rescued a poor beggar boy from the brutal treatment of mendicity constable Fryer ; arrested Fryer and kept him in his shop until a policeman came . Fryer then gave Mr . Nicholay into custody . Fryer had . been nearly strangling the boy , and bumping his head against the pavement . Scores of people saw it ; yet Fryer made Mr . Nicholay the defendant ; it was proved before Mr . Bingharn that Mr . Nicholay did right in restraining the constable ; yet the
charge was dismissed simply , and Fryer came oft scot free ! Colonel Tovey , sitting at his dinner , was told by his servant that there was a man in the passage who would not leave . The colonel went down , in no amiable mood as was natural . He found a fellow , dressed like a labourer , a sturdy beggar , who insisted upon , being relieved . The colonel told him to be off ; whereupon he was told to go himself to Hades ! Seizing a club Colonel Tovey went to look for the police ; who , of course , were not to be found . Returning , the beggar struck the colonel , who returned the compliment with his club , and was repaid by a black eye , and several other blows . Shortly after the police came and arrested the colonel on the charge of assaulting John Welsh , labourer . But as John Welsh was
not unknown to the police , and as the evidence went against him , he was committed to prison for two months . William Watts , a kind of theatrical brigand of private life , was discovered , in Godfrey-street , Chelsea , on Sunday evening , ostentatiously armed with four pistols , two stuck in a " belt , " and one in each of his jacket pockets , and a knife . People looked at him curiously , and went their way ; but he soon found means of attracting attention . First he fired at John Soper , a gardener , who fetched policeman Carter . " Well , " said Carter , " how are you ?" " Oh , pretty well ; how are you ? " was the reply . After this courteous and diplomatic salutation , the two powers parleyed further . " What have you got there ? " Baid the policeman . " Mind how you use them things . " " All
right , " rejoined Watts ; and he familiarly offered to stand treat . But policeman Carter , wise in his generation , and desirous , as heavers , of getting nearer to the station-house , declined to take beer at that spot , and proposed another . Watts complied—^ by suddenly firing a pistol at Carter , who dodged tho ball , but was stunned by tho report , and had one of his handsome whiskers singed . Up got tho valorous Carter , kad retreated , in a menacing attitude , drawing hia truncheon—sp lendid tableau vivant . ' " But , " said Carter , naively , in the police-court , on Monday , "finding , after going a few yards , that Watts had turned another way , I wont after him . " And in the interval , while Carter was
retracing tho " few" stopa ho had made in his advance backwards , Watts had got among a crowd , had fired off another pistol , leaped over some area railings , and there stood at bay . Here , spito of his knife , and one still loaded pistol , Isnall , a warehouseman , and two young men , leaped after and gallantly captured him—beforo Mr . Policeman Carter had retraced his stops . At the station-house , ono of tho pistols was found to bo loaded . Brought beforo Mr . Arnold , on Monday , nfc Westminster , Watts said ho bought tho pistols to go to tho " diggings , " and did not intend any harm . Ho was committed for trial on Wednesday . ftom been with
Enquiries have , for o days , going on ro-Bpect to the conduct of Mr . Robert Ferdinand Trios , well known on tho Corn Exchange , who wtands eliiirged with forgery to an immense amount , causing tho firm of Collmium and Stoltorfoht to suspend payment . Tho seven documents on which this firm had advanced Mr . Pries O ( KMM . in cash , and 41 , ( KX )^ . in acceptances , relate to 2 H , ( X ) O quarters of wheat . Mr . Tries was apprehended last Week on the formal charge of having forged an accountable receipt for goods ; and , on his second examination , Mr . Frcahfield , tho solicitor of Messrs . Collmann and Stoltorfoht , produced forged documents of the same character to more than tho amount of 50 , 000 / . The proceedings , owing to tho inability of tho injured firm to take a prominent part , were instituted by Messrs . Montcaux and
Co . Their counsel , Mr . Jiallantino , described the practice of shippers , who have perfect confidence in the integrity of their consignees , sending two bills of lading . 1 'hin practice enables a fraudulent person , after having disposed of tho one , representing tho ontiro cargo , to mako u « e of the other also ; and it appears that Mr . Tries lias either forged bills of lading , or lias parted with second bills to 1 ) crsons unacquainted with tho first transaction . Bills of ading , unliko bills of exchange , < lo not run first , second , and third , but are all similar documents ; and in dishonestly employing the second , third , or fourth bill ( as many being sometimes sent ) , a forgod ( indorsement only is necessary . Several witnesses proved thai tho names of firms to which they belonged , written across bills of lading , on which Mr . Trios had raised monoy , wore not written by them or by their partner *) . A lottor from tho prisoner to hia wifo
came out in evidence . He calls himself an impostor , swindler , and forger , and entreats her to bring up their child in ignorance of his disgrace . Tho end of these extraordinary revelations has not yet come . Prie 3 is again remanded for a week . " Captain" Johnson was again examined on Tuesday . Mr . R . W . Grey , Lord Palmerston ' s private secretary , proved that Johnson was no relation to Lord Palmcrston . He had " heard" that Johnson was theson of Mr . Johnson , consul at Antwerp , a friend of Lord Palmerston . The evidence of Johnson ' s Bedford frauds was more complete . It appears his father had lived there for some time . Believing his son to be a gentleman , the tradesmen were very pressing in their solicitations to Johnson that ho
should deal with them . He not only had clothes of Dawson , his tailor there , but rode and drove the tailor ' s horses ; until at last Johnson " borrowed" a valuable mare , "to go to Northampton ; " and never returned it . Johnson asked whether it was not Mr . Douglas who " borrowed" the jpare—Mr . Douglas being one of the Johnson class ; but Dawson swore to Johnson . Beside this case of horsestealing , Johnson and Douglas between them obtained choice wine from a London house to the tune of 1091 . ; it was sent to Newport Pagnel , and re-directed to London ! A cabinet maker said Johnson had " borrowed" 10 Z . of him , besides obtaining furniture for his house . As a specimen of the mode of conducting business at Bedford , the following letter was put in by Mr . Parry , Johnson ' s counsel : —
" Sir , —I hope you will excuse nje in saying that I hope you will allow me to supply you with fenders and fireirons , because I think you will consider that it is not proper in Mr . Wells , knowing as he does that I am an equal proprietor of Victoriaterrace with Miss Green , and that we built it partly to promote our respective businesses . It ia , therefore , painful thus to be supplanted , as it were , upon one ' s own ground . If , therefore , you will allow them to be retained , I will supply them either upon hire or otherwise , and upon the best terms . Will you allow me or my son to wait upon you to receive your orders for any articles you may require , and you will much oblige , sir , your obedient humble servant , " John Howard . "
Fancy the smile of the all-accomplished Johnson when he found how readily the simple folks of Bedford fell into the snare he had set for them ! Johnson was committed for trial on the charge of defrauding Mrs . Stewart ; and remanded on the charge of horse-stealing .
Pickett, Landlord Of The Plough Inn, Oxf...
Pickett , landlord of the Plough Inn , Oxford , the man who drove the pony and cart from Oxford to London and back in twenty hours the other day , has been fined forty shillings and costs ! The cruelty to the pony was proved beyond dispute . Evidence was tendered showing that on the return iourney Pickett unmercifully flogged the beast ; that it refused food ; and that a leader was obliged to be attached in order to drag it along . The feat was undertaken for a w & ger ; and Pickett , who won his wager , very readily paid the insignificant fine .
Elizabeth Baker lived at Milverton , in Somersetshire . Her mother took in children to nurse . Lately Elizabeth . Baker so cruelly ill-used ono of these little unfortunates that it died . Although only two years and a half old , the cruel wretch beat the baby with a stick ; and on one occasion placed its little wet feet to dry against the bars of the fire-grate ! The body of the child was in a horrible state . A jury found no difficulty in bringing a verdict of manslaughter . Three children entrusted to the charge of Elizabeth Baker have died .
At Arno ' s-court , near Bristol , there is a convent of the Good Shepherd . Last week , Emma Forty , aged twentyone , a penitent , was poisoned by an unfortunate mistake of Sophialiyder , ono of tho sisters , who gave her a poisonous embrocation instead of a draught . It appeared that Miss Ryder was the sister who undertook the duty of dispensing drugs in the convent , and that she had placed a bottle of poison on tho wives of the dispensary without a label . Tho jury recommended that a medical man should be employed in future in the dispensary . The Superior concurred m tho recommendation . Two men arc in custody for tho Walworth-road robbery . They had boon Keen loitering in front of tin ? shop about tho day before the exploit . A clasp knife , which had been loft in Air . Trinco ' a uhop , proved to belong to ono of tho prisoners . and is
It appears that tho city soup-kitchon hospice no benefit to tho adjacent tradesmen . Thioves abound in tho locality ; the police have to work hard to repress their depredations ; all sorts of vagabonds swarm for relief . No doubt many really distressed persons apply for a meal and a low hours shelter ; but the proportion of bud characters is very great . Kour of these loiterers have been punished by Sir Tutor Laurie . Their names were William Jones , John M'Doyle , William Head , and John Crocket , all of them of the ages of from 14 to H > , and they wcro charged with being found on the premises of Mr . Morgan , a cheese-fact or , of Snow-hill , for an unlawful purpose . — Mr . Morgan complained of tho intolerable nuisance of tho hosts of these ch a rue tern that infested the neighbourhood generally , and his promises in dieorge-yard in particular— - Sir . Toter Laurie took this opportunity oi' inquiring if thiw nuisance arose in anyway from the institution of tho soupthat tho
kitchen ? Mr . Morgan . said he bolioved soupkitchen was the chief causo of it , as it attracted u vast number of disreputable persons who loitered about tho place both < Iay and night , and he had been frequently robbed since ; the establishment of the soup-kitchen . —Sir 1 ' eter Laurie said lip was of tho name opinion , but ho hatf refrained from moving in the matter , because he thought , / wiy complaint would come bettor from somo one in tho neighbourhood , lie inquired of the acting inspector on duty if tho above establishment entailed any extra duty upon the police of the City .--The Acting-Inspector Haid , Hinco the opening of the noup-kitcben , about nine months ago , tho police hud had a greater number ol" troublosomo characters to contend with in that locality than beforo ; and , upon the whole , he did not think tho institution a beneficial one , as far as the inhabitants wero concerned . Bir Totor Laurio uaid ho ohould commit tho prisoners , to
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1853, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011853/page/7/
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