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E D ' D V r j — ^————^——————No ! 39 * OgPQBER 24 , 1857 . ] _ THE LEAD , 1015
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J ^ OUR CIVILIZATION . ASSAULTS . Patbick Quxn , a journeyman glazier , ha 3 been examined at the Mansion- House on a . charge of attempting to stab Mr . J . Tatton , a sack-manufacturer , with a knife- Quin pushed rudely against Mr . Tatton en London-bridge ; then picked a quarrel with him , pulled forth a glazier ' s knife , and attempted to stab him . He appeared to be drunk , and at the Mansion House he cross-examined the witnesses with great impudence , and sought to make it appear that they were the aggressors . He was sent to prison for three days iu default of paying a fine of live shillings . Martha Westford and Ann Green , two low -women , got quarelling a few nights ago , outside a public-house , with another woman . They then made an attack on her , when her husband went to her assistance , and was stabbed on the head , and face . He appears to have been very seriously wounded by the two women . The latter were examined at Lambeth on Thursday , and were committed for trial . George Groundwell , a labourer , has killed a man in a fight . He afterwards gave himself up to the police , and , on being examined on Thursday at the Marylebone police-office , exhibited great grief . He was remanded .
Middlesex Sessions.—John Healey Has Been...
Middlesex Sessions . —John Healey has been sentenced to ten months' hard labour , as a rogue and vagabond , for having obtained money under the pretence that his wife was dead , and he wanted means to bury her , ¦ when in fact she was alive . — -After the trial on Tuesday of a case of assault , in which the accused was found Guilty , his wife complained to the Court that she had paid a solicitor , Mr . John Pater , of 33 , Argyle-square , a sum of money for the purpose of obtaining counsel to
defend her husband , hut that he had not appeared at the trial , and the prisoner was consequently undefended . Mr . Pater , who was in court , protested ' upon the honour of a gentleman' that lie had been taken by surprise , and wished the case to be reheard . Mr . Creasy , the presiding judge , told him nut to talk to him about the * honour of a gentleman , ' or he should have to say something he might not wish to hear , for it was quite dear that he had taken the woman's money ,-and yet the man had been tried without counsel . M r . Pater then
wished to address the jury , but Mr . Creasy imperatively ordered him to quit tlie court , or he would commit him , and instructed the prisoner ' s wife to put the case into the hands of the county solicitor . —John Harris , a boy , and William Snoxhill , a young man , were tried on Wednesday for firing a loaded gun at a train on the Great Northern line . The former , it appears , was the actual offender , and the latter was accused of encouraging him . Harris had been sent into a field with the gun to scare birds ; and the defence was , that , seeing a bird on the hedge , he fired rapidly , and the charge accidentally struck the break . Both were Acquitted , aud Mr . Creasy , who concurred in the verdict , said such a boy as Harris ought not to be entrusted with a gun .
Iokgekv . —Charles Stewart Mills , a young man about twenty years of age , formerly clerk to Mr . A . T . Hewitt , solicitor , of Nicholas-lane , was brought before the Lord Mayor , on Wednesday , charged with having-feloniously forged and uttered ^ a cheque of his master ' s for 250 / ., with intent to defraud Messrs . llankey and Co ., tlie bankers . MmtDER ATMEUTiiYuTvuvir ,. —An Irishman , named Cornelius Donohue , has been killed in an affray at Merthyr Tydvil . Two of his countrymen and one- of his countrywomen have been committed for trial on the charge . Another Irishman , who was accused of participation , has been set at liberty .
Suri'osiu > Hocussinu and Roiibeut . — A welldressed elderly man was discovered by a policeman , late last Saturday night , lying iu a state of insensibility , and frothing at the mouth , on the pavement in Drinnmond-street , Euston-aquare . He was removed to University College Hospital , whore ho died on Sunday . Previous to his death , lie stated that his name was Edward Ashton , that he was a woollen factor at Leeds , where ho hnd a wife and family ; and that lie had only b « en in London a few days . His symptoms finally were those of delirium trem & w , and it is thought that ho had 'taen drugged . From the fact of there being no watch , money , or other property about his person , it would seem that ho hnd been roblutil .
Another Cash of Cuuki / t y at Ska . — George Wright , captain of tho brig Stanley , of Whitbv , has bflen . sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour by the magistrates sitting in Quarter Sessions at Huston , Lincolnshire , for prolonged cruelty to a fillip boy while on a homeward voyage from Riga . - 2 * BHanr llY A Militiaman . —As Misa Smith , daughter of Mr . Laurence Smith , of the Wellington Inn , JJoncaator , was retiring to her bedroom on tliu night of f ™» ay week , ahe discovered a militiuman doliberatdy owning himaelf to all the valuable articles in thu room , such ns rings , watchguards , broochos , bracelets , & c , all or wJudi were of gold , and had bemi collected into a tt uulkcrchiof by the thief ready for taking away . Miss omitu Housed him by tho urm and asked what ho was wag thoro , whou the thief struck her a violent blow on
the head , and ran down stairs . An alarm was promptly raised , bat he effected his escape . He succeeded in taking away with him five sovereigns , a five-shilling piece , 17 s . Gd . in silver , two gold rings , and some penny , twopenny , and fourpenny pieces . One of the latter coins was remarkable from having a figure of four on the reverse side , instead of the figure of Britannia . There was also a shilling of the reign of Elizabeth , with a cross on the back and a hole through it , and a spade ace guinea . Escape from Gaoi ,.- ^ A youth of eighteen , named Grieves , escaped from Stamford gaol , on the night of yesterday week , by climbing up the walls . The feat has astonished , everybody who knows the prison . Grieves was captured the following morning about three miles from Stamford . Five weeks ago , he made his escape from the same gaol . The jM YSTEitious Death ix the Regent ' s Canal ,.
— -An in quest has been held on the body of the man who was pulled out of the Regent ' s Canal , near Bethnalgreen . The upshot of the evidence was against the supposition of the man having been murdered , and in favour of that of his having been accidentally drowned . The ¦ wou nds on the head were of a superficial character , * u »< I did not appear toll avecauseci death ! " They might have resulted from a barge passing over the body , or from the corpse being bruised in getting it out of the water . It was picked up in a part of the canal easily accessible to the public . No money was found in the pockets . A verdict , tvsis rpfnriiKfJ of ' "Pound dead . '
Supposed Mukdkk near Aberdare .--The body of a man has been found on the mountains near Aberdare , Wales . The name of the man was Evan Thomas ; he worked as a miner at one of the collieries in the neighbourhood , and had been missed from his home for about ten days . Nothing was heard of him until liis body was found in a . somewhat advanced stage of decomposition on the top of one of the mountains . A . 2 > ost mortem examination has been made , -which , besides showing that Thomas had leccived a / heavy blow on the head , disclosed the fact that death had been caused by strangulation .
The Waterloo Bridge Murder . —Mi . Patterson , the gentleman supposed to be missing , has turned up in Ireland ; the young man from Savvbridgevvorth , Hertfordshire , also believed to be the murdered person , lias likewise been found to be alive ; and the story with respect to the tidewaiter appears to be wholly false . Thk BIukde . r near Nottingham . —The jury appointed to investigate the circumstances under which the boy recently found murdered in a forest near Nottingham , came by his death , have returned a verdict of ' . Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . ' The police are still prosecuting their researches , and a reward of 100 / . has been offered by the Government for the apprehension aud conviction of the murderer .
The JIuhdeii at Leigh "Woods . —A shawl and carpet-bag , containing a hairbrush , pomatum , and other articles , discovered in Beale's room at Bad by House , by Paine , the Daventry policeman , have been identified , through the instrumentality of the Bristol police , as having been observed in the possession of Charlotte Pugsley when she was last seen in compa ' ny with tlie prisoner . A portion of * the wire frame of a bonnet and a blood-stained piece of the fabric with which it was covered have also been found in the gr . ite of Beale ' s room , and are in the possession of Inspector Sansome . It is asserted that these relics also are capable of identification as having been worn by the murdered woman .
Cuuiii : rY to A Cat . —Two youths have been fined forty shillings each at Guildhall for setting a dog on a cat , and linally beating the poor animal to death with a brick . A policeman said it is a constant practice on the part of boys to bring dogs out on Sundays for the purpose of worrying stray cats , and that sometimes they will even bring a cat -with them for this execrable purpose . A KicviutEND SwiNDLiat . —George Berrington , D . D ., a tickct-of-leavo man , was brought up at Bow-street on Tuesday to bo recommitted for the remainder of the term of liis original sentence , lie had been a clergyman of tlie Church of England , and iu 1852 -was condemned to seven years' transportation for obtaining- tho sum ot 20 / . from a young ladv , who had answered an
advertisement ot Beiringtou s in which he described himself as a clergyman about to proceed with his family to Australia in his own vessel . ' To this young lady his promised a liberal salary , and obtained the 20 / . on pretenco of laying it out to her advantage . He had also victimized several tradesmen . He obtained his ticketof-lenve in April , 185 G ; but it was recently discovered that ho had returned to hi . s old practices . Tlie police succeeded by a trick in gaining admission to tho D . D . ' s house , where they found him in company of : i pipe , a bottle of gin , and a lady in her night-dress , who expressed lutrsolf much shocked at the intrusion of the constables . Mr . Hall , tho magistrate , committed him for tho remainder of his term .
Statk oi < ' Ciumk in Bkuksiukk . —An elaborate report on this subject , by tho Ktv . J . Field , M . A ., who lias for many years held the ollico of chaplain to the inodirl gnol at Heading , - \ vas rein I nu Tuesday at the opening of tho Berkshire Sessions . The rev . gentleman
said : — " In my reports of the last two years I had the pleasure of showing that a considerably less number had been committed to your prisons . I am sorry that my statement with reference to the year just completed canno ^ be equally , satisfactory . The statistical statements which I have prepared show an increase of about sixty on the former year , although the number does not exceed the average of several preceding years . Various circumstances may account for the increase ;—first , the facilities of transit , which have caused a greater influx of London thieves ; next , the return and disbanding of many regiments ; but still more , the vigilance and general efficiency of our new police force , ¦ which have been evinced particularly in the apprehension of those guilty
of petty offences . Hence the Fact , which maybe in some respects satisfactory , that the increase is found entirely among those whose crimes were punished by imprisonment not exceeding one month . Indeed , the last year has been marked by an extraordinary- proportion of such offences—only eighty-six—not ten per cent , of the entire number of your criminals- —having been sentenced , to a longer term of punishment than three months . " Referring to the reformatory question , Mr . Field observed : — " Ttie Importance TO 'tlie community of providing for the effective correction of our younger criminals is evinced by the number committed of those now forming thatclass ; but it is yet more forcibly shown by a reference to the time of life when confirmed and often
convicted offenders enter upon their criminal career . Of this class in your prison during ; the last 3 * ear I discovered not less than sixty-six—that is , more than forty per cent , were under seventeen years of age when first committed . During two years preceding , the number had been one hundred and two , and of these 168 had been imprisoned nine hundred and twenty-four times , being an average of ' five and half to each . Your schoolmasters have performed their duties with diligence , and the usual amount of instruction has been imparted . As respects other officers of the prison , I have further pleasure in referring to their conduct ; is showing a high tone of moral and , I trust in the case of several , of truly religious principle . In concluding ; a report upon your prison discipline and its effects , which will probably be the last I shall have the privilege of presenting ,
my thoughts recur to the condition and treatment of your criminals when nearly eighteen years since you entrusted them to my spiritual care . Truly the contrast is such as to excite my heartfelt gratitude for the improvement which has taken place . When first I entered upon my labours as your prison chaplain , I felt disheartened , but sustained by hope that the justices of this county would not suffer the continuance of a system so shocking in its operation and consequences that it Tvas too truly described by one sent to prison , who was less debased than his companions , c like coming to hell itself . ' I determined , rather than desert my post , to represent its condition and strenuously to plead for an entire change of plan . I thank God the'effort was successful . Your investigation aud discovery of such malignant evils were the sure earnest of remedial measures . " ClIAltGES OF FOKGEUT AOAINSO . A Hl'LL CoiOT
MERCHANT . —A meeting for the choice of assignees and proof of debts , ' in re Henry Smith Bright , ' was held at the Hull Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday , when debts to the amount of 101 , 4 . 37 / . 18 s . 2 d . were proved . Inconsequence of disclosures made at this examination , the bankrupt was placed in the prisoners' dock at the policecourt at three o ' clock in the afternoon , on a charge of forgery in the endorsement of six bills of exchange , and also with uttering those bills with a guilty knowledge of their being forgeries . He was remanded for a iveek . Ruffianly Waiters at tiik 3 Uamt ! hr » tkii
E-xiitBrtion . —The Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester was the scene , ou the day but one before its close , of a disgraceful riot , which took place in one of the refreshment rooms of the building , and was caused by an overcharge made by tho waiters in direct violation of the terms fixed by the tariff . Numerous complaints of this system of extortion have for a long timo past been made to Mr . Denne , general commissioner , and a gentleman stated to him that he had been charged 3 d . for a glass of ale , the price of which , according to the authorized tariff , ought only to have been 'id . By the advice of Mr . Deano and tho executive committee , this gentleman resisted the demand made by the waiters , upon which the latter roughly seized and attempted to detain him until he paid the amount asked . The gentleman nevertheless succeeded ultimately in nrriving at tho oilice of
Mr . Deune , to whom ho told tho outrngcons conduct which ho had just experienced from the waiter . Mr . Deaue , in consequence , immediately went to the refreshment room , requested the public not to pay more than was sanctioned by tho executive committee , ami at tho same time ordered a printed notice to that effect to bo posted up iu all tho refreshment rooms . Notwithstanding these cautions , tlie waiters still persisted iu making overcharges , mid behaved in an insolent and insulting ; manner . About four o ' clock ou the afternoon of Thursday week , « s two men engaged by tho committee were employed in putting up the placards of prices in tho fiwt cfuss refreshment room , a large body of waiters , evidently acting on a preconcerted plun * suddenly rushed into , the place , and began attacking tlie men . While some of the fellows tore
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24101857/page/7/
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