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Some years ago , their father -was in extensive business at . Shrewsbury as a woollen-draper , bu £ Jbe failed , and it . on this- bankruptcy tliat the superstructure of forgery was afterwards raised . The first case of forgery traced to the prisoners was- on Messrs . Coutts and Co . fi > r « ba ; hundred , pounds , by the prisoner Edward , who , through .. his sister , Became acquainted with the landwriting of a lady who kept cash at Coutts ' a . This took place About eighteen or twenty months ago . The police were sent in pursuit of the forger ; they traced him by railway to Kingston , and then iuto a hackney brougham , when ^ . they lost him . One of the prisoners gave out that be had just returned "with a large fortune from Australia . He had cards printed , giving his address at Peel Eiver , Australia , and he announced that he had returned to England for the sole purpose of paying all his father ' s creditors ia full , With cheques prepared beforehand , one or the other of the brothers waited on the creditors in succession , and by a plausible story succeeded in disarming suspicion and inducing the creditors to take the cheques , which were always for a larger amount than the debt , and to . give their own cheques for the differenced In most instances , these * good cheques were made the foundation for , larger' forgeries , and in this way considerable sums were obtained from various bankers in the metropolis and in the country . Two " detectives " were set on their track , and telegraphic messages to the police of country towns were continually being sent ; for the brothers would seem to hare made it part of their system to pass rapidly from one place to another , honouring each locality with some fresh transaction in the way of fraud . The London police , however , knew that they would , sooner or later return to their old haunt , a certain pnblicrhouse in the Hayraarket ; and ultimately they ? were all arrested at a tavern in Clerkenwell . Edward began talkinggibberish , underpretence of being a foreigner , and Ingrain endeavoured to escape ; but they were all secured .. As a , proof of the dexterity of the brothers , it may be- stated that a hot ^ pursuit was once set on foot by a victim who recognised one of the brothers in Tottenhamcourt-road . The mob chased a man with Jong black hair , beard ,, and moustachios , wearing abrown wide-. awake , into a public-house which has an entrance back and > £ ront . They ; suddenlyjinissed him , and , while de-, bating the matter , a tall , bald-headed , -vvhiskerless { person passed through the . midst . This was the very man of whoxn . < they : were in . pursuit , as was discovered a moment or two afterwards by finding -wig , whiskers , . monstachios , and wide-awake , under one of the seats in
missed the depredator . After the , committal cf another burglary , he was pursued by the police on horseback , and caught . He glories in his escapes , and says no prison can hold lim . Mrs . "fr . T , TZA M'Nair las been committed for trial on the charge of defrauding the East India Company detailed in our last week ' s paper . Supposed Cask ok Poisoning . —The adjourned inquest , respecting the death of Mrs . Catherine Ashmall , at Burntwood , near Lichfield , Staffordshire , has terminated in a verdict stating that the deceased died from natural causes . Some particulars of the cas « recently appeared in the Leader . It will be recollected that , in consequence of some suspicions that Mrs . Asnmall had been poisoned , the body was exhumed . The inquest in the first instance was adjourned , in order that there might be an analysis of the intestines . The report of the analysis which was made by Professor Taylor wasread on Monday ! It stated that no trace of poison had been discovered , and it appeared , from medical and other testimony , that Mrs . Ashmall had been ill for sometime previous to her death . Butter from Stones . —It was Swift , if we mistake , not , who , ridiculing the bubble undertakings which sprang up about the " South Sea" time , proposed , among other things , to obtain " butter from beechnuts ; " but it remained for the villainous ingenuity of modern trade to discover butter in flint-stones . Shakspeare speaks' of " sermons in stones : " the adulterator finds something far more profitable . "Butter , " says the Doncmter Gazette , "is adulterated with flint-stones . This wicked fraud is especially practised in the low kinds of butter usually sold in large manufacturing towns to the poorer and industrious population . The flint-stones are ground and thenehemieally manipulated , until they are reduced into a soluble substance , which is known by the denomination of ' " .. soluble silica . ' ^ ifhen this Latter preparation is dissolved in water , it becomes a stiff gelatinous body , sbmewhatj resembling strong jelly . This jelly is mixed to a considerableextent with butter of low quality , to which fresh salt and cplouring ' matter are . added . The product of this villainous adulteration is a . compound which resembles a very good-looking dairymade butter . " ; /• ¦ EMPtiOTERs . £ si > Employed . —Some revelations of the relative position of workmen and masters at ETpt T tinghara came out recently in an action brought in the Court of Exchequer by a . Mr . Atkin , a lacemanufacturer , against William Hind , a Nottingham "I-iill rttZrilm ** > fsw r * 1 '** * i j 3 * m * T-n / irtrtPon-iiAn / ta /\ - £ a nio
the house of Mr . Protneroe , formerly M . P . for Bristol ,, in Eccleston-square , Pimlico . Mr . Perkins charged Mr . Protheroe with casting her off , after having kept her as his mistress for a long time ; and the other , woman heroically took her part . Mr . Protheroe , however , who is abbut eighty years of age , denied that the . fair one had any claim on . him ; and she and her devoted , adherents were bound over in various amounts to keep the . peace . ¦ ¦ -i . , Attempted . Mtodeb and Suicide . —A man named / Francis , living at Runeorn , near . Manchester , inflicted a desperate gash on his wife ' throat , under pretence of kissing her , in a boat ; then-cutihis own throat in several places , and again attacked the woman . Assistance arrived , and both were rescued . « They had been drinking together at a public-house , and had quarrelled . Asr Irish Row . ' —TVo Irish labourers named John and Dennis Harrington , were charged at the Thamas police court with having committed a murderous assault on a woman named Mary Lynch , and also with wounding her husband and son . The two prisoners had been out enjoying themselves all last Sunday night , and , about four o ' cloek on Monday morning , they invited theic / neighbour Lynch , with his wife and son , to have some drink with them . The invitation was accepted , and > the revelry went on for some time . At length , how * ever , the Irishmen wantonly attacked Lynch and his family ; they knocked the old man down and kicked him , and afterwards assaulted the son who interfered to protect his . father . The one , however , who suffered most from the violence of the ruffians , was Jtfrs . Lynch , On coming to the assistance of her husband and son , she was beaten by Dennis Harrington on the head and shoulders with a poker , the blows being inflicted with such force that in a very little time she was covered with blood . While she was endeavouring to staunch her wounds with a cloth , John Harrington flung a heavy brick at her headj wbi < Qh knocked her down insensible . She was taken io / the London Hospital , where she lies in a dangerous condition , and it ; is feared that she cannot recover * ' -Mr . Yardley remanded the prisoners until the result ofTthe . woman ' s injuries should be kjjown . B » bot » abTvtttA man named Xtundjf , vfas , charged at th & : Wx > rship-street police office with having broken into the house of Mr . Humphry Clare , Buttesland--3 treet I Hoxion . \ Mr . Clare ; went to bed on Sunday night ; , ; leaving his sister tip , who retired to rest some liourS later , and lay awake until two o'clock i f * the morning ' She then heard a noise outside the door of her rooipn , and nca ' a / mtlir oftorwordii o-im o man « nf Ar TWiril SI eATlrflfi ill ¦
the public-house . . - ¦ . ¦ ¦* . ; .. Hotel TapEyBS . ~ -Three Americanshave been apprehended—tw-o-at Manchester , and one at Liverpool ;—on charges of having . committed various hotelVobberies at both those towns , aa well as at London . 3 ? he names of the men taken at Manchester are Oscar Kingston and Daniel E . Branch . They , have been committed for trial . The other , man , Allen , Howard , who was seized onboard a iiverpopl steamer , shortly before starting for America , lias been remanded and sent up to London , as the greater number of his depredations were perpetrated there ,, In the Manchester hotel where Kingston and , Branch were , taken into custody , the police , discovered some ingenious .-instruments for facilitating the pursuits of .. the accused . One of these is . an instrument , entirely of steel , in taeform of a mortising chisel , well , adapted to cut out a panel , iiinscrevr the hinges of a box , or prise open a door . The . other is in the . form of a pair of pliers , the . two ends of which , > vhen pressed together , form a barrel , employed to lay hold of the end of a key , and turn it in tho lock ; so that , supposing a door to be locked inside , and the , key left in the lock , tho person having theao pliora jn r bis possession would be able to turn the key from , the ouiside , and on . leaving tke room could relock the door without tho necessity . of removing the key . Among- tho luggage of Branch was found a formidable instrument used by , thieves in Now York ,
and termed ; a " knuckle-duster . ?' , It is a thick , flat piece of metal , about , throc-qunrters of a pound in weight , with , holes at one of the edges through , which the . four fingers of the hand can be passed * ' When put on for use , and tho fingers clinched over it , the larger portion of the metol fills tho fist , while the outer edge presents fowr rings of solid motal over the knuckles of the second joints of tho fingers , calculated to give powerful effect to a blow struck by tho wearer . All tho men arc supposed to belong to a gang of very accomplished thieves wh » have recen tly boen travelling through Europe , and who have effected ( several robberies in Franco . ¦•< ¦• •! ¦ ¦ : ,, .., ,. . ¦ . The Escaped Convict , Thomas Hihonb . — This man , whoso escape from Portsmouth'prison was noticed in last week'o Leader , has been recaptured . On tho niglit of his eacapo , hg committed a burglary in the neighbourhood of the gaol ; then took tli » rail to Oxfordshire , rummaged the ahops of two carpenters , and etolo a Baw , with which foot cut out . the > window-fraino of a grpcer ' 0 shop , and carried off clothes and money . Ho then committed several other burglaries in rapid succession 1 and , in the course of ono of these , at > an Inn at Ilatton , waa nearly caught . He had ransacked tho bedroom , and was descending by the outer wall , -when his foot etmolt a pane of glass in ono of tlio lower rooma . Some men wore here aanomblod drinking , anil , » urpri « c ( l by tho breaking glass , they ran out and gnvo chase , but
VUl ~ l 3 VlVu ^ t ) IV * dJ-UlllfV / JL " ¦ - **¦ J ^ l / AJUSW ^**^****^ v * . ' *• X *** J agreement about wages , Mr . Atkin , in the course of last May * dismissed two of his workmen . A certain society existed , called " The " Committee of the tfnion , " the members of . which sent to Mr . Atkin , and told him , that he must take back the two men , or they would not allow any one to work for him . He refused ; on which ( according to the statement for the prosecution ) they beat Ms men , insulted himself and his wife in the streets , and employed so much intimidation that he could hardly obtain any workpeople . They ^ hen issued defamatory , placards ; and one of these , imputing to Mr . Atkin base and nefarious conduct , malignity , lying , and meanness , was posted ( as the prosecution alleged ) by Hind . A false name and address of tb , e printer . was appended t < this document .. Mr .. Atkin , suspecting Hind ,, endeavoured to draw him into a confession . * ' ! gave hin several glasses of ale , " said , the , plaintiff la his evidence . " When , he had taken the third , I thought hin ready for examination . " Hind , however , denied tha he had posted the bill in question ; and this was his de fence in the action . On that occasion , he brought for ward another bill-sticker , who swore that he had himsel posted the obnoxious placard ; but Hind admitted tha he ( Hind ) had posted up some previous bills libcllin Mr . Atkin , and that he was paid to do so , though he di not know by whom . The jury found a verdict for tb plaintiff ; damages , 150 / . Hind was defended at tho ex 01 tne association ¦
ponso worKtng Juan s - . A Strange Gbntlkman A 2 to a Strange , JButlek , — A Mr . John Brown , lately a . butler in . t }» o . service of Sir Walter Stirling , Bart ., at Bruawood , near Groonibridge , has brought an action against ( hat gentleman for an assault . The butler was out till half-past two , A . M ., on the night of tho 26 th of last December , disporting hinisolf in Christmas fashion at tho Crown Inn . lj bod not obtained loave to be out , and ho therefore tapped at the hall window to rouse . John , the footman . While thus employed * a window on tho first floor was thrown open , and Sir Walter looked out with a gun in his hand . Showering ( as it is said ) very abusive and filthy languago at tho butler , ho disohargod tho gun , which waa fortunately only loaded with powder and paper . Ho then throw the weapon at the fostal Brown , and inflicted a severe wound . Aa a consequence , the butler quitted lus placo ; but Sir Walter refused to give him a character . Tho present action was therefore brought . Tho assault wan not denied ; but it was urged that Sir Walter mount nothing more than to intimidate hia servant , as a punishment for stopping out ao late . It was alao shown that Brown ' a character was not without some previous drawbacks of a similar character ; but he obtained a verdict—damages , 60 / . They had boon laid at 1000 / . Disoiu > nitL . r Wombn . —Three- women—Mrs . Porklno , Mrs . Malcolm , and Mrs . Preston—hnvo boon charged at | Woatmiiiutor with making a disgraceful disturbance at |
' hiahandw At first , ^^ ^ she mistookhim for her brother ,-an d therefore called to him by name , upon which ' the man i put out his lig ht , and rapidly made , his exi ^ ' Sus-; pecting then that the intruder was a thiefi Miss Clare " ¦ alarmed her brpther and the other inmates , who piii > - sued the burglar , but he had contrived meanwhile to ; escape at the back of the house . A policeman w . as ' L called , who traced the man by the marks of hi 3 naked ' feet through the back gardens of several houses , until at ' length he discovered thus fugitive secreted in an outhouse 3 not far distant , with Ms shoes and stockings off . An-, other charge of burglary was brought forward against k , t h e prisoner by a lady in coxirt , who identified an over-> coat which he wore as belonging to her husband . He was remanded for a week on the two charges . '' i Great Robbery of Pictures . —A robbery was ef-- fected on Sunday night , about ten o ' clock , at the premises i of Messrs . Naybour and Co ., Oxford-street . Pictures t by old and modern masters , to the value of 15007 ., were - carried off . "An Officer ant > a Gentleman . "—Lieutenant If Thomas Anderson , of the 6 th ( InniskiUing ) Dragoons , it has been charged at the Canterbury police ofiicO with g assaulting a young man named Steer , foreman to Mir . d Martin , butcher , who contracts for the regiment . There io had been some complaint about the meat ; a board of :- officers condemned it ; and Steer demanded that it should i
do scaiea . < joionei j ^ - ^ ueon promiseu uianii """"""" bo done ; but , in the mean while , Lieutenant Anderson ordered Steor to take it away , and , in the liearing of his men , observed , " If I were the men I would tie you up to yonder beam , anil giyo you twenty lashes every time you brought such d—d stuff for them <; o pat . " Ho aftorwar , d 8 struck Steor on tho . neck with his whip ; and . tho man was subsequently assaulted and ducked by Jho soldiqrs . The particular offenders , howevfJt " , ho cpuld not , identify . Tl » o defence wos that Steer was inaolept . Lieutenant Anderson was fined 80 s ., and coats , - A Qbntlkman SwiN » i . ER .-rr-Henry Harrisa , generally known as Lieutenant ok Captain Harrisa , and lately an officer in tho German Legion , has been committed for trial on several . charges of obtaining money by falso cheques . An attempt was mado to show that ho was insane . Attkmptkd Chimd Mi / RDEn . — - A young woman , about twenty years of ago , who was recently . confined with a inalo ahild at tho Manchester Union , has attempted to kill the infant by placing it in , a ditch full of water . The child was rescued only just in time to save its life Tho mother , though of good family , has had anothor illegitimate child before the present . Djca . i > Dnvntc—A . Mr . Jones , a gentleman , about fifty years of ago , residing in Storo-fltTeot , Bedfordsquare , waa found , a few uvenings ago , in Tottenham Court-road , in so hoi picas a state of intoxication that ho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26041856/page/9/
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