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    Bouse * . I * appeared t & sfc the elder of the two , together with Ms sister , was au old' offender . As fax back as July . 1860 , Jameff iKreen tad been in custody a » a' suspected : person , but , on account of Ms age , and i the apparent respectability of Ms appearance , Le was discharged . Ea the same year , te again appeared on a pjfrmiaT- charge , and was again released . In May , 1851 , he was in custody on a charge of felony , and was then sentencedto three months' imprisonment . In June , 1852 , and in September of the same year , he was delivered up to ids parents . ' In January , 1854 , James and his sister Martha , then a girl about twelve years of age , -were tried a-t the Surrey Sessions , on a charge of hxmsebreakxng , when both were convicted ' and sentenced , the boy to six , and the girl to one montb / s imprisonment . In May , 1854 , Martha wastried at the Surrey Sessions , on two distinct charges of felony , and was sentenced to four month / hard labour . In September , 1854 , Charles made his first appearance at Lambeth as a suspected person , bat was given up to his father . In October , 1854 , James was again tried at the Surrey Sessions on the charge of house-breaking , and' was sentenced to twelve months ' iiard labour . In December , 1854 , Martha and Charles were tried at the Surrey Session for stealing a quantity of tool ' s , and sentenced to imprisonment . In November lasfy James and Charles were brought up on a / fclV ' wryifa * / vF T * Vi « Ti « v ¦ fvviifivl iti < a-nr * li ^ cfo / -l nromiaoc ¦ a . Yi / T r \ Tt ¦ ¦ ¦ -- ¦ - ¦ - i

    on Eriday week . An inquest has been opened , but is not yet concluded . Execution at Leicester . —The execution of John Fowkes for the murder of his nephew at Snarestone on the 25 th of November last by filing at Mm through a window ,: took p lace in front of the Leicester County Gaol on Wednesday morning . The culprit for a long tame denied his guilt , but at length confessed . Juvenile Eeformatoby fob Wobcebtebshires . — It has at length been determined , after a great deal of discussion , to establish a Juvenile Reformatory for Worcestershire . The bival Cokn-Cuttebs . —Two " chiropodists , " of the respective names of Kendall and Bernard , reside in Regent-street , in consequence of which , mistakes frequently happen , the bunion-afflicted sometimes resorting to Mr . Kendall in mistake for Mr . Bernard , and being ( according to his own admission ) received by that practitioner , and told that "that scamp , " Mr . Bernard , had gone to Scotland . which waB not the fact . The " scamp" at length went with a horsewhip to his rival ' s house , and was received with a kick on the shins , "which he retaliated by a severe flogging . Mr . Bernard was then given into custody , and brought "before the Marlboroughsbreet magistrate , who sent the case to the sessions . The Case op Seif-Mutilation . —Lucy Constable , the servant-erirl charced with wilfullv maiming her

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ " ^¦¦¦^ ' ^• ' •• ft Braiuwell that she hoped he would , pronounce sentence wifch ~ aa libtle ceremony as possible . The Charge against a Magistrate ot Attempting to , Shoot a Man . —Dr . Pigott , a magistrate o £ Nottingham , was arraigned at the Nottingham Assizes on a charge of attempting" to shoot a baiJLLfij who was sent to take possession of his furniture . The counsel for ttfe prosecution , said he did not consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation , and the doctor was accordingly discharged . George Grealing , the bailiff , who waa indicted for an assault upon the doctor , was also discharged ; no evidence being offered against i » Trt . Amjsoed BurgIiABY by a Tbadesman . —Frederick Stapleton , a man who described himself as a map publisher , in Verulam-buildings , © ray ' s-inn-lane , is under remand at ClerkenwelL charged with a burglgijjin the house of a jeweller , in JferGnmont-stireefc , Brunswick-square , and with stealing several articles of great value . Itinerant Traders . —Several hawkers have been summoned by the police at the Westminster Office for obstructing the thoroughfares by the sale of their commodities . They were all discharged with a caution ; and Mr . Arnold , the magistrate , commented severely on . the conduct of the police in conniving at the practice in some instances , and summoning the offenders in others .

    ww « u ^ 3 ' * - ' ¦ wviUig avuuu * ¦ A -. ! - ¦ * % ra ~ .. 'irr ^ . 'T t I - - " -y m ¦ _« . v « a that occasion the elder prisoner gave his name as Walter Scott , and both were sentenced to three months' imprisonment , so that they could nob have been many days out of prison , before they recommenced their former practices . When taken into custody , th > ere was found on each a well-esecuted photographic likeness of the owner , and some cotton wadding , saturated with rouge . Extensive Fraud on the Liverpool Iron "Wchrks . —A clerk of the Mersey Iron and Steel Works , nained John . Locke , was , on Saturday last , charged before the . Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , together With two dealers in scrap-iron , named Patrick GallioTia-n atifl TFS ! r » hfir +, "Wurra .-D-. wi-fcTi Tiavincr Vlfifraiided his

    person in order to exculpate herself from any suspicion of having abetted a burglary in her master ' s house , has been discharged . The wound in her throat was very serious , and , with a little greater pressure , might have been fatal . The Rugeley Postmaster *—Sana . Cheshire , the late postmaster at Rugeley , was tried at Stafford on Friday week on the charge of opening a letter from Dr . Taylor , containing the report of his analysis of the remains of Mi \ Cook , supposed to have been poisoned by William Palmer . Mr . Huddleston , who defended the accused , admitted that his client had taken the letter out of the cover and read it ; but he argued that there was not sufficient evidence to show that Mr . Cheshire

    The Swjnten Case . —A great deal of time has been occupied at the Stafford Assizes by an action to try whether the late Samuel Swinfen , of Swinfen . Hall , Staffordshire , was in a sound state of mind when he made lis will on . the 7 th of July , 1854 . The plaintiff was the wife of his son , who died about a month before the father ' s death . To this lady the old man left all his real estate a * Swinfen , with the moveables thereon , leaving personal property to the extent of about £ 20 , 000 undisposed of , -and divisible among his next of kin . The defendant wasahaK brother of the late Mr . Swinfen , and he alleged that the testator was not of sound mind at the time he made the will . Mr . Swinfen , junior , had rnarrled a lite servant diiub

    ^ M ^^^^» »^»^ g ™^ ^*^^ a ~^ m ¦ ^^» *^ " ^ P ~ I I . * " ~ ^^ ^ ^^—^^™ ^^»^ 4 ^^ ^ J J ( « ^ H ^ f ^^^^ m ^^^ h h h « ^—m ^ m ^^ — -m - ™ - *^ — — -r ¦ — — — — employers , Messrs . Horsfall , of a considerable amount of property . For the last two years , Locke had been engaged to > receive and weigh any quantity of scrapiron that might be offered for sale at Messrs . ; Horsfali * s works , while the clerk , who ordinarily attended to that business , was otherwise engaged . Haying for setae time sttspected the honesty of Locke ' s transactions with the cast-iron dealers , the manager of the Works set it watch over him to ascertain if his suspicious were well founded , and , on Friday week , shortly after twelve o ' clock , seven loada of scrap iron , five of Which belonged to GaUighan and two to Murray , were bro-Tight to the works for sale . The carts vvere put upon the weighing-machine in succession , and the «* rrk ^ # WVk 4 * tw \ n ~\ l ^ n-w *» i * -I nrAirari 4 i s \ 4 ? * -ir * < in nme * £± t \ 4 " airman "IT 1 * S vi ctijj ^ i rr cj ^ vjjl ivb \ ttao vuuuji'Vi j-ut

    broke the fastening of the envelope . He was found guilty , with a recommendation to mercy , on account of the good character which he had received from several witnesses . Sentence was deferred . The RtTGELEY Poisonings . —True bills , were found on Friday week at the Stafford Apsizes against William Palmer for the murder of Mr . Cooke , and of his wife , Ann Palmer ; but the bill was ignored in the case of Walter Palmer , the brother . Burglary by a Ticket * -of-Leave Man . —A young man , of one-ahd-twenty—a ticket-of-leave man—has been sentenced at the Surrey Sessions to six years ' penal servitude for burglary . He had been heard , while in prison for a previous offence , to give notice to a fellow convict that , on cdmincr out . he meant to

    woman in humble - —a —ana naa given offence to his father ; but , after a temporary separation ., they came together again , and the wife was received with the greatest kindness by her father-in-law . Old Mr . Swinfen was physically infirm , and was attended by Mrs . Swinfen , junior . On tho death of her husband , according to her own account , Mr . Swinfen , senior , said to her , with the greatest kindness , " Don't cry , don't cry , my dear : I will takecaro of you ; " "but other witnesses said he was not sensiblfl of his loss . A medical examination waa made , ao . a the doctor thought the draining out of the "will should be postponed ; but it was signed a day or two afterwards ( the 7 th of July ) , and the testator died oil the 26 th . It appeared that old Mr . Swinfen was not accounts

    , nv ^ uvj . Kv * -. uv « ^ m . . < w book byLoeke , as waa bis duty ; and from the weight entered in this book , the value of the iron , £ & 15 s . per ton , was paid . After the carts had been duly weighed and entered , the foreman of the yard came up , and the contents of one of the carts were immediately shot upon the scrap-iron heap . This having aroused the foreman ' s suspicions , as it was contrary to Ms express orders , he took care to prevent any of the other carts being emptied , and afterwards examined the weighing books , when it was found , on comparing the quantity of iron entered in the books with , that in the carts , which was re-weighed for the pxupose , that the latter was deficient in weight foor tons , nineteen hundred weight , amounting in value to n « arly £ 24 . After this discovery , Locke was charged with making false entries , which he at once acknowledged , and stated that he had done it purposely , the practice having been originally suggested to him several weeks nreviouslv . bv Gallicha-n . "who ¦

    break into the shop of the prosecutor , a jeweller ; and hence he was arrested while in the act . The Admirable Crighton . — - " A row , " as Lord Campbell would say , occurred in the pit of the Standard Theatre a few nights ago , and , on an officer of the establishment going to padfy or eject the disputants , one of them , named John Crighton , a carver , became very violent , struck the officer on the lead , knocked him down , threw himself on his body , and bit bis hand . He was taken into custody , and , "being examined before the Worship-street magistrate , at first denied the biting , but afterwards begged for mercy . The admirable Crighton was sentenced to six weeks '" imprisonment . The Case of alleged Perjury by a Gentleman . —Mr . Noldwritt , the gentleman charged with perjury in connexion with an actiou against him for the amount of a bill of exchange , his signature to which , as endorser , he swore to be a forgery , has beou

    cornon very good terms with his half brothers , on of bis farther having left a good deal of his property to them . —An arrangement between the litigants was arrived at on Monday , after considerable difficulty , by which it is understood that it was agreed that the Chancery proceedings should be abandoned ; that the defendant , the heir-at-law , should have the estate ; and that the plaintiff , the devisee , should have an annuity of £ 1 , 000 a-year and the sum of £ 1 , 200 for costs . . - e A Precocious Poisoner . —Flora Everett , a gixl ot fifteen , was tried at Dorchester on a charge -of administering poison to William Martin and Prisoillfl Martin , in whose house Bhe lived as servant . Having been accused of taking some stockings , she put apiece of blue vitriol into the kettle , in consequence of which Mr . and Mrs . Martin perceived a strange taste , iu their tea , and the latter , who had taken the most , was made very ill . The girl was found guilty of the marcin ^ iuovo ^

    jt ---- — ^ p t / — — kj — w had paid him half-a-crown for a hundred weight of th « scrap-iron . These fraudulent transactions had been continually repeated at intervals , between Locke and . Gallighan , in consequence of which the former had made Beveral sovereigns . As regarded Murray , it appeared that Locke had himself suggested the practico to him in the first instance , and that it had not been continued so long with him a $ it had with Qn . lligb . an . The manager of the works said he believed that Looko , could not nave made lesa than £ 100 altogether by the fl * tw * rf 'PKn anli ^ i +. rwl' fin ** f 3 nili ryVl fvn nnrl IWintr'n ir an H .

    rnitted for trial . A Pious Fraud . —Mary Ann Bennett , a single woman , has been tried at Oxford on a charge of causing a false entry of baptism to be made in the register of the parish of Churchoaton . It appeared that the woman had a child whom she desired to be baptised , and that sho also wished herself to bo churched , and therefore represented herself as the ¦ wife of a farmer named Bellas . It was proved that this -was falee ; but Mr . Baron Bramwell direoted that , if her obiect was not to falsify tho register , but to

    procharge as regards Mrs . , uuu u «« respects Mr . Martin . She was sentenced to penal servitude for six years . . Murder at Sheffield . —Jamos Hill lias been tried at York for tho murder of Alfred Doakin , a child between three and four years of ago , whose throat he cut while out for a walk which he induced the boy to take with him . No motive for tho act could be discovered ' , aud various ciroumstancoa lud ^ ted tU « unsounclueaa of Hill ' s miud . On this ground ho was acquitted . _ . c « i for

    matted that there was no case against them , and that th « y ought to be discharged . They wore remanded , however , until Monday , together with Locke , j bail being rof aised . Another Case off amokged Poisoning . —Mary Brown , a young girl seventeen years of ago , has died . ' suddenly after a very short illnoas at Hnrtlepool . Sho lived aB servant to Mr . Goorge Wilkinson , a surgeon , t ) y whom report saye she was pregnant . Sho had boon m tho habit recently of eating sivndston , o , and a course of modioia * was given to nor , by hcr ramatei- ' s ordorn , and was generally administered by Mr * . Willdnson ' s housokeopor . She complained of pains in tho head , and alleged that the medicine was v « ry noafcy . Sho vomited a good deal for eomo few days beforo her death , and her right hiuxd became paralysed , One day , on bolng lifted out of Ixor bed , alio exoladmed , " It ' s death— -death—death ! " Sho died

    euro tho offices of religion for hereolf and her child , she could not bo found guilty . Sho was therefore acquitted . The Leeds Poisoning . —Tho inquest on Mrti . Dovo has concluded with a verdict of Wilful Murder ftgaiuat her husband . On the last day of tho examination , Mr . ^ Nunuely , the analytical chemiRt , stated that , to plaoo the result of the examination beyond any doubt , he and Miv Morley gave some of tho spirifcuoufj extract obtained from the contents of tho Btomaoli to a guiuoa pig , two rabbita , and two mioe , whioh , with the oxooption of one of tho rabbits , died from ofleota exactly similar to those following tho application of strychnine . Some HtrycUniuo was also given to various imimals , with precisely the aaine results . Alioij ) Giiay has boon found guilty at tho Oxford AsaizcB of perjury , and has boen sontoncod to penal norvitudo for four years . Sho observed to Mr . Baron

    A Light Punishment ^ WS ^ uouwu .- P' ^ T * Coinptou and William Abram have boon found guilty at Bedford of tho manslaughter of John Wrtgataii . They were all labouring men , aud WagstafL having made an accumtiou of dishonesty against Conipton , wa » ohaUongod to fight with the latter . In tho coutw of tho ooiftoBb ( Abram being Compton ' e second ) , WugHtaffwas killed ; but , cousidowng the provocatwa aud tho facta that no unfairness waa rosortod to-,, ar ol that tho accused had boon iu prwow iwxoe tho 24 th off September , thoy wovo sontenood to ft month n n «<* labour each . 11 CAuaiw on tum Roof . — Frederick Trevors , » woUknown thiof and housebreaker , wuoao brother tow * just boon committed at tho Surrey SuBBiona fop highway robbory , wan caught o >» the roof of an empty housfl iu Nowington , over the parapet of which ho was in the aot of oliiabiug in ordor to outer tho adjoining

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22031856/page/7/