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_ n , THE LEADER. No. 383, July 25, 185?...
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The Murder of a Tradesman.—Alice William...
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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The Loves Ojl' Henry And Ti1cebe. Henry ...
asked for ; bat in April , 1856 , there was a quarrel . This , however , was soon made up . In the following Janel old Mr . Darby died ; and , the « stern pareant' being thus removed from the scene , it might have been anticipated that the stream of the tender passion would have flown mellifluously . So , indeed , it did f or a short time , but not for long . Another pic-nic took place , at which Phoebe , as before , graced the scene ; but where was Henry ? Henry was not there ; and in his place was one Samuel Hampton , unto whom , in due course , the fair Phoebe was married . Hereat Henry Hazeldine greatly raged and fretted ; and , flying for comfort to the lawyers , ultimately brought an action against Samuel Hampton and Phoebe , his wife , for a breach of promise of marriage on the part of the lady . This was tried at the Worcester Assizes last Saturday , on which occasion a Miss Mary Elizabeth Parkes gave evidence on the part of the prosecution , and in cross-examination said : — " I used to visit at the Hazeldines . Not Henry , but
the other Hazeldine , is my young man . I have been luring him on' more than three years . ( Laughter . ) It was a gold chain Miss Darby said the plaintiff had bought for her . The plaintiff said he had her watch and chain . He did not say he had taken it from her to have security for the money he had lent her . I know that the plaintiff in November sued the defendant and got some money back . I don't know whether it was 33 / . I should not think it a mark of affection if my Hazeldine was to bring an action against me . ( Laughter . " ) I know the plaintiff got his money , but I don't know the amount . That was shortly before the marriage with Mr . Hampton . I believe the marriage with plaintiff was broken off at that time . I never heard plaintiff say she might ' go to h—— . ' I don't know that he saw her after he took the watch from her . He told me he had the watch . He did not say he had struck her in the mouth , and broken the chain . "
The examination in chief being resumed , Miss Parkes said- — "I never treated my Hazeldine as Miss Darby treated hers . The plaintiff told me that , if she married anybody else , he should enter an action against her , as he would never consent to her marrying anybody else . " Another witness was William Hazeldine , the father of Henry , who said : — "I knew of the attachment in 1855 . Miss Darby came to stay at my house on several occasions . I heard her father objected . / had no objection . I thought mine was quite as good as his'n . She
did not care about her father , nor no one . ( Laughter . ) She used to come , and I thought they were quite loving . { Laughter . ) They did as they ought to do—lovers like them . ( Laughter . ) In August , 1856 , I was about to give up my butcher ' s business to my son , in contemplation of his marriage . My son had ordered furniture at Packwood ' s . I don ' t know anything about presents , nonsense like that . ( Laughter . ) When he heard about Hampton , my son seemed much hurt about it . Hampton ie something in the coal line or lime trade . "
The defence was that Henry Hazeldine was not ready and willing to marry Miss Darby , and that the contract had been mutually rescinded . The truth appears to be that , when young Henry found that the 100 / . a year left to his daughter by old Mr . Darby was so settled that he could not touch it himself , he cooled in his affections , and it was asserted that his father said , " they had thought it a damned pretty thing at first , and he rather urged it on ; but , when he came to know how the money was left , he thought her of no value whatever : as a wife , Bhe was a worthless thing . " Old Hazeldine , however , denied that ho had used those words .
The chief facts for the defence were thus stated by the leading counsel : — " Soon after Mr . Darby ' s death , the plaintiff called on Miss Darby , and , having torn her own watch and chain from her neck he said to her , ' There , damp you , you may go to h , I liave got what I want ;* and went away . When she came out of the room , she was seen with a piece of the broken chain in her hand , and her mouth bleeding from his violence . It was said the defendant had made an appointment to meet the plaintiff in heaven ; but it was clear the plaintiff did not mean to keep that appointment , for lio told the young lady to ' go to hell . ' Surely that looked very much like breaking off the marriage . But , moro than that , on the 23 rd of September he instructed his
attorney to apply to Musa Darby to return the sum of 38 / ., and threatened her with an action . In the correspondence which ensued , the plaintiff ' s attorney admitted that he had taken away the lady ' s watch and chain , in the first instance , without her consent ; and it would appear that the young lady ' s boxes had been broken open at a Air , Vernon ' e ( where Bhe was then living ) , and the presents taken out . The next ' lovo letter' which the plaintiff sent to Miss Darby was in the shape of a writ of summons , beginning ' Victoria , by tho grace of God of tho United Kingdom , ' & c , and It summoned her , not into the ' Court of Love , ' but into tho ' Exchequer of Pious . '" Ultimately , Alias Darby paid tho plaintiff hia 88 / ., and 61 . for costs .
Mr . Baron Brumwell , in summing up , said it was no part of hla duty aa a judge to find any fault with tho law 'which allowed an action of this kind to bo brought Just the same as if It had bcon a contmet for the sale of corn . His Lordship , however , observed that such actions were often foolishly brought , and , of all tho
actions he had ever known , the present seemed to be the most objectless . ' The jury gave a verdict for the defendants .
_ N , The Leader. No. 383, July 25, 185?...
_ , THE LEADER . No . 383 , July 25 , 185 ? .
The Murder Of A Tradesman.—Alice William...
The Murder of a Tradesman . —Alice Williams , the woman charged with killing a Mr . Kix , a tradesman , at Camberwell , under circumstances related in this paper last week , has been re-examined and committed for trial . Charge of Child Murder . — A young woman , named Ann Payne , has been accused at the Town Hall , Croydon , murdering her infant daughter , and concealing the birth . She had been out nursing ( according to the statement of the mother to a police inspector ) , but had come home poorly one night about five weeks ago , and had never been well since . She was twice missed from bed oil the flight specified , and the body of a child was afterwards discovered in a box , which was covered over with a piece of print , and corded round with a
clothes-line . Another bit of clothes-line and fragment of print were glso found , which corresponded with those round the box containing the body of the child . After this discovery the policetook Ann Payne into custody . A surgeon of Carshalton stated that she had lately given birth to a child ; but this she denied . Another medical gentleman from Mitcham made a post mortem examination of the infant ' s body , but could not discover any external marks of vidence . In his opinion , the child had breathed , but whether at the time of its birth or afterwards , he could not undertake to say . The bench said that the medical evidence was not sufficient to convict the young woman on a charge of wilful murder , but she must be committed for trial on an indictment for concealment of birth .
Witchckaft . — Kitty Littlewood , the dupe of Isaac Rushworth , the Leeds wizard , who was tried at York a few days ago and sentenced to eig hteen months' imprisonment on the charge of fraudulently obtaining money from the poor girl , whom he had also seduced , was on Monday taken to the Wakefield Asylum , in a state of insanity . It appears that Rushworth after his committal for trial contrived to convey to the ^ unfortunate girl certain threats that she would suffer if any harm came to him ; that he would cause her to be haunted by devils ; and that , he should die in prison , his ghost should never leave her by day or night . The morbid impression thus excited in the girl ' s mind was confirmed by her seeing one of the jurymen on Rusworth ' s trial
twice faint in the box during the investigation . Last Saturday , she became extremely violent , and was restrained by main force . On arriving at Wakefield , she presented a sad spectacle , large pieces of flesh having been dug out of her face and neck with her finger-nails . Attempted Murder . —George Cox , a respectablydressed , middle-aged man , doing business as a commission agent , is under remand at Guildhall on a charge of stabbing his wife and a man named William Forty , with whom the woman is supposed to have formed an illicit connexion . Tlie acts were committed on Monday afternoon in St . Martin ' s-le-Grand ; and Cox , who appeared to bo raving like a madman , wounded both his victims so severely that they are now in St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital . n
_ The Edinburgh Robbery of Jewels , & c—Thomas Kerr and Thomas Gilbertson , artisans , have been found Guilty , at the High Court of Justiciary , of three out of the five robberies in the shops of goldsmiths and jewellers which recently took place in Edinburgh . They were sentenced to twenty-one years * penal servitude . Manslaughter . —William Collinge , a plasterer , who had been in custody for the previous fortnight on a charge of Manslaughter , and against whom a coroner ' s warrant on that charge has been lodged , was finally
examined on Tuesday at Lambeth . On the night of Saturday week , William Measham , while in a state of intoxication , liad some quarrel with Collinge in front of the Globe Tavern , near tho Surrey Canal , when the latter gave him a violent blow under the ear , which caused him to fall heavily on the back of the head . lie was picked up in a state of insensibility , and on the following morning was taken to Guy ' s Hospital , where , after about two hours , he breathed his last . Tho injuries on tho head were sworn to be tho real cause of death : and Collinge was fully committed for trial .
Attempted Murder nbau IIm-ivax . —An attempt was made lato on the evening of Friday week upon the life of Jonathan Houldsworth , aged seventy-one , a shoemaker residing at Trafalgar , in the neighbourhood of Halifax , by a man named John Akroyd , also a shoemaker , living at Skircoat Moor Side , about half a mile ' s distance from Houldsworth'a house . About nine o ' clock , Akroyd left lioine , taking with him two sharp shoemaker's knives , and saying that he was going to Jonathan IIouldaworth's to kill him . He found the old man
by the fire , getting his supper , and , rushing up to him , lie drew out ono of his knives , and made a dash at Houldsworth'a throat , inflicting a fearful wound . He then stabbed his victim upon tho check , and grasped ids throat with his loft hand . A woman who lodged with the old man seized Akroyd , and tried to pull him aWay ; but ho still clutched Ilouldswortli , and tried to drag him off tho chair on which ho was sitting . Tho woman , however struggled with Akroyd until several neighbours arrived , and convoyed him to tho police-station . He
alleges as his motive that Houldsworth has circulated scandals about his ( Akroyd ' s ) wife ; but this is denied by the old man , who now lies in a very precarious state . A Policeman- Shot near Manchester . —At an early hour . on Thursday morning , a policeman employed by the Corporation of Salford , was on duty in Great Cheetham-street , Higher Broughton , w . hen he met twomen ' , who were there under suspicious circumstances . He put some questions to them , which they did not satisfactorily answer , and one of them fired a pistol at him , lodging ten shots in the right temple . The men ran away , and have hitherto escaped capture . The constable's life is not considered in danger though the wounds are serious .
Execution of Ckawley . —Michael Crawley was executed on Thursday at Springfield Gaol , Chelmsford , foF the murder of his wife . He behaved with great composure , and did not seem to require any assistance in mounting the steps , though he was sixty-two years old . Death appeared to ensue the moment the drop fell . The execution excited very little interest in the neighbourhood , and the attendance was but slight . Robbery by Chloroform . —A man named Abel Smalley is under remand before the mayor and magistrates of Rochester charged with robbing a sailor of 5 / ., while the latter was in a state of insensibility from the effects of chloroform . The sailor who had just been paid off from his ship , met Smalley , who was an utter stranger to him , at the Sun-pier , Chatham , and was persuaded' by him , to get into a cab . The other man
immediately followed the sailor into the vehicle [[ under he pretence of assisting him with the luggage he had brought ashore , but they had not proceeded very far together , when Smalley suddenly threw his arms round his companion ' s neck , and the latter became unconscious almost immediately afterwards . After a time the driver stopped to ask where he was to drive his fare to , and he then perceived that the sailor was in a state of utter insensibility , and , to all appearance , dead , while Smalley was holding one of his hands close to his face , keeping his left arm round his neck . Smalley told the cabman that he did not know where the sailor was going , or anything at all about him , on which he was taken out of the cab and removed into a house where he did not l-ecover his consciousness for several hours . It was afterwards discovered that he had been robbed of five sovereigns , which had been taken from a small tin
box in his dress . An Illustrious Company of Thieves . —Notice has been given at Lloyd ' s that the Government requires a ship immediately to carry four hundred male convicts from England to Freemantle , Western Australia . Among the four hundred will be found Sir John Dean Paul , Strahan , and Bates , the fraudulent bankers ; Robson , the Crystal Palace forger ; RedpatU , who com - mitted the forgeries on the Great Northern Railway Company ; and Agar , the railway guard , who committed" the great gold robbery on the South-Eastern Railway . The notorious bank forger , Barrister Saward , alias Jem the Penman , the putter-up of all the great robberies in the metropolis for the last twen ty years , also goes out in this ship , which will leave England oir the 25 th proximo .
Miss Smith The report that this lady has left the country is now contradicted ; and so also is the assertion that her father has refused to see her . She is residing 1 with her family in strict seclusion . The state of her mother's health gives rise to considerable anxiety . A Foe to Lexmjks . — George Frederick Carpenter was on Wednesday charged at Bow-street with destroying upwards of eighty post-oKice letters . Many of these letters , destroyed in mere wantonness , to save himself the trouble of delivering them , wore of the utmost
importance . Two or three of them were addressed to the relatives of some of the sufferers by the late accident on the North-Kent Railway , conjuring them to come instantly to the hospital to take leave of their friends . Another letter contained a summons from the Thames police-office against a person residing at Woolwich , who had been since apprehended on a warrant and brought up in custody , in consequence of his supposed neglect to appear . A third contained a post-office order for thirty shillings . Carpenter was committed for triul .
Fashionable Betting-Houses . —Abraham Levy Goodman has been fined 50 / . by tho Marlborough-street magistrate for keeping a betting-house in , Coventrystreet ; and Charles W . Stewart , his doorkeeper , waa fined 10 / . Notice of appeal was given , and , bail was accepted . The persons found in tho houso were discharged . Another conviction has taken place at tho same office .
Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tub proceedings of Mr . E . T . Smith , leased of Drury Lano Theatre , in contesting tho boroughs of Bedford and Bodinin at tho lato general election , have led to uiv action against him in tl \ e Nisi Prius Court at the Bedford Assizes . This -was brought by a Mr . Edwurdcs , an election agent , who sought to recover 72 ? . 6 a . 4 d ., the balance of his claim , after giving credit for 40 / ., against Mr . Smith , for work and labour done , journeys per-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/8/
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