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390 Tjg j I^AjD^B. [No. 370, Saturday
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OUR CIVILIZATION. A PROFESSED GAMBLER. A...
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Cock-fighting at Liverpool.—A Liverpool ...
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GATUKRINGS F110M THIS- LAW AND POLICE CO...
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Wurtemberg, Has Opened A Negotiation Tri...
a despatch from Paris ) appears in a fair way of settlemeat . Prince Danilo has released a . prisoner , and . Austria , as a recognition of this friendly proceeding , has ordered that the Montenegrin refugees shall be removed to the interior .
390 Tjg J I^Ajd^B. [No. 370, Saturday
390 Tjg j I ^ AjD ^ B . [ No . 370 , Saturday
Our Civilization. A Professed Gambler. A...
OUR CIVILIZATION . A PROFESSED GAMBLER . An action , of an interesting nature was brought in the Court of Exchequer last Saturday by a person named Hansom , against one Bosville , for the recovery of the sum of 50 / ., lent by the former to the latter . The defendant pleaded never indebted , and that the money was lent for the purposes of gaming . Both Ransom and Bosville were on the turf , and they used to meet at the Prince of Wales Club in St . James ' s-street , which was a gambling-house . One day , Bosville , being " cleaned out , " borrowed 50 / . of Ransom , giving him in exchange an I O U of a Mr . Pilcher , which proved to be worthless . On being cross-examined , Ransom said , that the Prince of "Wales Club was a gaming-house . " He had been there
frequently . He did not know -who kept it . There were a great many persona who appeared to be working there , but he did not know them . He was not there every night . He might go once or twice a month . He did not lsnow whether they played there on a Sunday . He had never been there on a Sunday . He had played hazard therewith Ms own money . He did not play with the money of the house . He had been told what a 'bonnet' -was . "—Mr . Ballantine ( for the defendant ) : "I don't mean a lady ' s bonnet . "—TSIr . Edwin James ( for the plaintiff ) : "I should think not . ^ Tobody knows what a lady ' s bonnet is now . It is impossible to describe it / ' —Cross-examination continued : "A / bonnet' is a fictitious player . He did not know that it meant a cheat . He might think it meant that , but lecould not say so positively . He should not like to play with one . He had between 200 L and 300 £ . "in his pocket when he
lent the money . He had won the greater part of it that evening . He had been very lucky at . play . He was playing for some time at the same table as the defendant . The defendant was not playing , because he had nothing to lose . He heard the defendant ask some persons to lend him 30 ? ., which they refused doing . The defendant did notVask for the 3 . 0 / . at the gaming-table , but down stairs in the refreshment-room . When he began gaming , he might have had 120 / . to 130 ? . in his pocket . At that period he was living at Ghnrch-street , Chelsea , where he was living still . He betted on horse races . He had no other means of living . He had been a gambler for twenty years , lie was forty-three years old . He had formerly been an engraver , but he had left that off . He had always contrived to live upon his present profession . ' ' A verdict was given for the full amount claimed .
Cock-Fighting At Liverpool.—A Liverpool ...
Cock-fighting at Liverpool . —A Liverpool publican has been fined 5 / . and costs for permitting cock-fighting in his house . Stabbing . —A German baker named Weber has been fined 51 ., or condemned to three months' imprisonment in default , for stabbing another foreign baker in the course of a quarrel . —William Woodie , a youth of nineteen , son of a coachmaker , has committed a murderous assault with knives . He was ill-using liis father at an eating-houso , and , a policeman being seat for , ho furiously attacked the ofiicer . It was then found that he had
two table-knives in his hands , and with these he had wounded the constable in several places . Ho was then struck over the arms with the staif , and forced to drop the weapons . On being brought before the Worship - street magistrate , the youth ' s father , who was painfully affected , said his son was a person of very violent and uncontrollable temper . Ho was remanded , that the result of the policeman's wounds might be ascertained . The Kii > DEitMin 3 Ti £ n Rioters . —The persons concerned in these disturbances were brought up again on Friday -week . Mr . Henry Chillingworth , gentleman , was discharged . After hearing some further evidence , the magistrates said the charge against Mr . Alfred Tnlbot and Mr . Pitt must be dismissed . Benjamin Wellinga , Robert "Wostwood , Henry Westwoort , William Wood , George PaTker , Albert Perrins , John Cook , Samuel Paynw , and Benjamin Potter , were committed to the Assizes
-IhtATK prom ' Starvation . —An inqneafc was held on Monday afternoon on the body cf Mrs . Plank , tlio wife of Daniel Plank , shoemaker , of the Maivsh , Marlborough , who died on Friday week under peculiarl y distressing circumstances . Plank is now in Devizoa ' prison on n committal from thoCounty Court for debt . Ho was tukm there the day prior to tlvo death of hia wife . On the following day , a female friend of the poor creature paid her a visit , and found her m ft sinking nnd deplorable state . She sent for a Burgeon , who promptly attended ami afforded relief , but it waa too lute ; the woman expired the same day . The jury returned 4 votdiot of " Diad from the w « rt of common necessaries , owing to the dissipated habits of he * husband . " - —tfa / iaWiy Journal Tim Caiiij SiiAiU'EitANUHMWiim . —Michael Grant tho card-sharper , taken into custody for following his trade in a carriage on the SouLh-Weatem Ittrilway -was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth police-court Iw *
Saturday . The case was fully proved , and the man declared he would never play again , and prayed to be dealt with leniently . The magistrate hoped that the lightness of the sentence he "was about to inflict would have the desired effect ... He then sentenced him to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . —Grant ' s wife was then charged with attempting : self-destruction , which she attributed to her being in actual want on account of the imprisonment © f her husband , f After a severe admonition , and a promise on her partaiot to repeat the crime , she waa discharged , and the moneys wliich had been sent to the magistrate for her temporary assistance were lianded to her .
- The Suspected mokdek op *\ n Artilleuyman . — Catherine Coulsou and John Walsh have been committed for trial on a charge ( thes details of which have already appeared in this paper ) of causing the death of James Lawler , ¦ a private , in the Royal . Artillery , - by striking and frightening him , In consequence of which he jumped into the river at Woolwich , ami vas drowned . Cruel -Treatment op a Child at jMakciiesteu . — Robert Matthew , a railway labourer , has been , brought before the magistrates at Manchester , charged with throwing his child , a girl about three years old , on the fire . Its back was shockiuyly "burnt , and it is doubtful if it will survive . The man was drunk at the tiine . The magistrates committed liim for trial .
Alleged bIutilatio : * ofa . Dbed of SETiXEitKST . — The important inquiry now being instituted on the part of the .-shareholders of the Athenajuni Life ¦ Assurance Society into tlie alleged mutilation ' the' deed of settlement of that association , by the abstraction of a clause in it purporting to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their shaves , was proceeded with last Saturday before Mr . RichardUloxliam , Chief ClerkVto Vice-Chancellor Wood . After , the examination of several witnesses ,. Mi . Burton ., solicitor to Mr . Harding , the official manager , ' suggested that the portion of the deed ¦ which , had been tampered with should be submitted to a minute microscopic examination , in order to complete the evidence . This was understood to be assented to by the chief cleric , and the meeting adjourned . Execution of Thosias Nation . —Thomas Nation , the man who- was convicted at the late Assizes of tho
murder of John Aplin , was hung m front of the Somerset county gaol , Taunton , on Tuesday morning . Efforts had been made , on various legal and other grounds , to obtain a commutation of the sentence ; but Sir George Grey , after consultation with lord Chief Justice Cockburu , who tried the ; case , refused to interfere . Nation to the last denied his guilt . He acknowledged that he had committed crimes " numerous as the hairs of his head ; " but he would not a < lmifc that he had killed Aplhi . A clay or two before his death , he addressed letters to his' brother and other members of the family ,
pointing out the evil effects of bad company , and expressing a hope that bis dear sister would meet him in heaven . He also made gifts of some of the publications of the Religious Tract Society to his brother . On tlis morning of the execution , while being pinioned , he said to Calcraft , " Don ' t hurt me ; I can hardly breathe . " At this time he seemed to be suffering great mental emotion ; but he afterwards recovered , and appeared to meet his fate with composure . Tlie execution was witnessed by several thousand persons , chiefly rustics and gipsies , including nearly an equal proportion of men and
women . A Public-house Quahiusl . — Tho landlady of a public-house- at Hackney has been nearly murdered by a bargeman named William Wicks . Mrs . Badcock , the woman in question , saw the man , when in front of her bar , last Saturday evening , misconducting himself with some womon . She reproved Iiim , when he called her by several A-ery abusive names , on which , according to her own admission ^ she threw some pint pots and cans at him . Exasperated at this , he seized a quart pot , and flung it at the woman ' s head with great force . The missile cut open her temple , dividing an artery , and deluging her person with blood . Her husband was present all the while , but . ho did not interfere for her
protection , iu \ he is a great friend of Wicks . It iu said also that he habitually ill-uses hia wife ; and , after the assault , ho observed that he' wished she had been killed . On a policeman going to Wicks ' s . house to arrest the man , ho found tho door fastened , and hoard a noise within as of a ' musket being loaded , followed'b 3 a woman ' s voice , saying , " l'ur God ' s sake , don ' t . " Ho therefore thought it prudent to wait outbido . Wicka promised to Kiirrender in tlie morning . A police sergeant , however , wasuftisnvards admitted by somu one in thehouso , and ha then took the man , who waa examined at Worship-street , on Tuesday . Mrs - liudcoek waa very fuint while giving her evidence , and it ia doubtful whether erysipelas will not sot in . Tlie . mun waa rciuuniloil for a week .
Tnu Or . ! ) Stouv . —A piunful ficene took pluco at the Worship-street police-court on Wednesday . Muitlm King , a young woman , who was described na the daughter of a tradesman at llomertoii , was charged on suspicion of wilfully causing tho death of her infant . Miua Emily Mitchell said that Mids King was an intimate friend of hera , and , on tho evening of tho 27 th ult . she alept at her ( Miaa Mitchell ' s ) ) lather ' d liouae . Sho shared alias MitcUcll ' a bed , and -wns very ill in the niylu ,. lu
the middle of the following day the door of thebedr * was found locked on the inside , and shortly afterW Miss King waa seen going down stairs with . somettthT ia her hand . She went out into , the garden , and ««> , ? quen tly returned , shivering with cold , and so ill tV it was necessary to restore her with brandy Cerf indications , of a nature to cause suspicion ' were ^ covered in the bedroom , and the police , who had * l some information with reference to the affair w ^ w ? the house , and found the dead body of a male infant' the watercloset . A surgeon was examined before fl magistrate , and , while declining to assert positivelvtb t the child had been born alive , he said he believed * t
would have been if proper assistance had been rendered The young woman , who had been seated during the exi mination of the witnesses , and who exhibited so muri nervous prostration and debility that she was partial ] supported in the aims of her mother and another feudal attendant , here became so hysterically affected that Jr D'Eyncourt ordered her to be conveyed home in a cab and adjourned the case for a fortnight , in the meantime accepting the bail of a gentleman attached to the Cfrv Mission , who bad much interested hi mself in m ^ prisoner ' s behalf , and who voluntaril y tendered himself for the puroose .
Atteboted Murder . —Edward Atkins , a plumber has been committed for trial on a charge of cutting the throat of a woman with whom he had lived till recently when : . they ' parted-. The woman was serious v inim-Pd but not killed . ¦ "jurea , A ITovEt Escape from Custody . —Joseph Lewis who , together , with another young man , ' both from London , were in custody at Bath on a charge of stealing has escaped from the charge of a policeman in . ' a-Jugular manner . He and his companion had been brought the from the to th
m van gaol o police-station , and , on getting out , the policeman who had charge of Lewis simply , walked' by his side , instead of taki ng hold of his arm . The thief watched his opportunity , suddenly sprang back , darted through a little crowd of persons , and was gone . He was followed for some distance , but ho soon distanced his pursuers , and , turning into an inn , watched the crowd pass the coifee-room window He has not been heard of since . The quick-witted London thief was too much for the slow-idead Bath policeman . -
Ill-Usage of a Step-da , ughtek . —Ellen Connor , the wife of a gas-fitter at Shoreditch , is under remand at ' the Worship-street police-court , on a charge of illusing her stepdaughter , a child about twelve years old . She was in the habit of beating and starving the girl , and a few days ago . she struck her repeatedly with a hot poker , because , in the extremity of her hunger , she helped herself to some bread . The child ' s unhappy appearance in court excited great commiseration .
'' Robbeuy by A SuRXjEOX .- —JosephLangton , a surgeon , has been examined at the Mansion House , and committed for trial , on a ' charge ' of stealing three waistcoats and a piece of blue silk from a tailor by whom he was being measured for some clothes . The stolen things were seen to drop from under his coat , and lie was given , into custody . When boiug examined before the Loul Mayor he protested before God that he was innocent . MuBDEiroi' a Gamiskihspkk .- —The adjourned inquest respecting the death of John Bcbbington , head gamekeeper to Mr . Corbett , of Tihrtone , near Chester , was held on Thursday , at the Tollcmnc'ho Arms , Beeston , and terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Juhu Blagg , a poacher , who had tired at llebbington . He has been , committed for trial ..
Abduction . —Richard George Clarke , a married man , but separated from his wife , and Rosa Bush , were on Thursday committed by the Westminster police magistrate for trial , charged with the abduction of Elizabeth Harris , daughter of a Hebrew tradesman , to whom Busk was a servant . CiiAntiK of Poisoning . —George Heatherley , a gunner and driver in the Royal Artillery , was again examined on Thursday at the Woolwich police-court on tho charge of poisoning a . gixl named Smith . It was then stated by u medical gentleman that tho girl did not die by poison , and Hcutherloy was therefore discharged .
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GATUKRINGS F 110 M THIS- LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Mb . Gkougb Alfuki > Wbustisk , thu temporary lessee of Sadler ' s Wella Theatre , obtained last Saturday an injunction iu Chancery to restrain Mr . Charles Dillon , ( ho uctor , of tho Lyceum Thoatre , from performing ut Drurylimc or any other theatre during twelve consecutive niyhttf , commencing last Monday . Mr . Dillon had . engaged to play at Sadler ' s Wells during thut period , but had broken his engagement because ho wad not permitted to perform in . Viry ' uuus , which Mr . Webster was precluded by his contract from producing . An announcement had been put forth that Mr . Dillon would perform Macbeth at Drury-laue on Monday , tho 2 Oth ; and tho present injunction -was therefore sought , and at onco granted by tho Lord Chancellor .
An ingcniouH tticlc was performed on a French gentleman a few days ago in Cliiawell-strect . M . Lueien Hunaud lma some connexion with the corn trade , nnd , fts ho waa on hid way to Mark-luno fxom his rcsidon . ee iu
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/6/
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