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November 29,1856.] THE LEADER. 1135
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the course they took . At the time of the occurrence there was no policeman in sight ; and , had it not been , for the timely aid of the labouring m an , I should probably have fared badly . " Incendiarism . —Another incendiary fire has occurred « n the premises of Mi . Baker , of Colwick Farm , near Nottingham , where a conflagration , purposely kindled , broke out about a fortnight ago . On the present occa- « ion , several stacks of -wheat , barley , and beans , were destroyed ^ and property-was lost to the amoun t of 1000 / . Mr . Baker is insured . An incendiary fire also burst out on the grounds of Mr . Alvey , where property to a less Amount was consumed . The police are keeping-an active watch , these acts of spoliation having been very nume- rons of late . Cruees nr Fokeigxers . —Sir Peter Laurie , on Mon- day , at Guildhall , drew the attention of Sir Jaines Duke to the increase of crime by foreigners in this country of late . He held in his hand a return -which he had re- « eived from Mr . Jones , the clerk of the papers at New- gate , from which it appeared that during this year no leas than sixty-four foreigners had been committed for trial' The monthly committals were as follows : — January , 6 ; February , 6 ; March , 3 ; AprilS ; May , 10 ; June , 4 ; July , 6 ; August , 9 ; September , 3 ; October 3 ; and to the 20 th . of November no less than 10 Sir James Duke said , these facts would no doub attract the attention of Sir George Grey , and _ some remedy might soon be expected , to mitigate the evil . Attempted Suicide from Passion . —A young mar ried woman , residing in Kentish Town , has cut her thToat inconsequence of having some angry words with her husband while they were both , intoxicated . A police nan who was called in found the husband and wife sitting before the fire , the latter bleeding . She was conveyed to the nearest hospital , and on Monday was brought before the Marylebone magistrate , who re manded heir , that she might be placed under the spiritual care of the chaplain at the House of Detention . - The Wholesale Swinm-eiis .- —Charles Bond , alias Bone , Sarah Jane Bond , his wife , Alfred Fennell , and Jemima Fennell , were on Monday again examined at ¦ Southwark , charged with plundering tradesmen in dif ferent parts of the metropolis of property , consisting of ¦ furniture , glass , watches , wearing apparel , beer , wine and provisions , to the value of more than 1000 / . The court war crowded with victimized tradesmen , and seve ral witnesses were examined , 'Whose . evidence confirmed that which was received last week . The prisoners were committed for trial . Cbimeb in the Wksx Riding . — The agricultural townof Otley , which . is situated on a reach of the river "Wharfe , and its neighbourhood were on the night Friday -week the scenes of a murderous assault and jev « al attempted and consummated robberies . Friday was the annual ' statute '—a day which is set npart for the hiring of farm labourers aiid domestic servants . The murderous attack has been thus narrated : —Mr . Urown a shopkeeper in the village , -was seated by his fireside a back room , when a man came into the shop , and turned j off the gaa , leaving the place in nearly total darkness Mr . Brown , in some alarm , went into the shop , but , soon aB he approached , tho man seized a large knife used I for cutting butter and . cheoso , which was laid upon the 'Counter , and struck Mr . Brown across the face , inflicting a deep wound , which extended from his nose across ono < : beek to one of his ears . The lower portion of the nose was nearl y cut off . The ruffian then made a lunge y Mr . Brown ' s breast , and inflicted another wound just under the shoulder . Fortunately , ttift nature of tho in » atrument , blunt at one edge , prevented the second wound from being very dangerous . Tho man then sprang ' , Across the shop to a nest of drawers , in ono of which . shopkeeper was in the . habit of putting gold and silver He pullod one open , but fortunately that was not ; monay drawer , and , before lie could open another , a I belonging to tho house rushed upon him and seized him ; ' : with its teeth . Mr . Brown also made an alarm . The robber was intimidated by tho noise and the gripe of dog ; he therefore gave up the attempt at robbery I shook oil * the dog , which Avas too small to hold him , and f made hia escape . It is feared , however , that , owing U tho darkness , it will not bo possible to identify him I Tho injured man is expocted to recover . p Tub Gipsy King . — Tho inquest on old Stanley I commonly called " Tlio Gipsy King of the / West , " who I was found dead in the River Dart , near Totnes , ¦ ¦ concluded on Friday week . It has been shown that ' old man was talking to u little boy on Totnes-bridge ; evening , when a tall , rough-looking fellow , dressed in ' velveteen jackot , came up and . abused him , and took I Away . A few houra afterwards , at two o'clock in I morning , a woman who Hvos near tho river , heard I tioUe of quarrelling and struggling , and then a splash I water . She looked out , and saw a man , resombling I one who had aocoatod Stanley on the bridgo , crouching I by tho water ' s odge and looting intently on tho water I H « ran away as fast as ho could . It was " provod by I medical men , however , that death waa caused by atrangu I l & tion , and npt by drowning ; and tho jury returned I vwdiot of " Wilful Murder against aomo person or I flont unknown . " I A . Lax Hebrew and a . Zealous Christian . — omnibus conductor xr * n charged on Monday at Guildhall ¦
v fl I t v \ s d t t < v » f f < o t t t r t . 1 1 s c . t , £ . i t < s - < ' t i - 1 . i ; - ! ! 1 i ' . - ¦ < , - of , in . as at - the . the dog tho , to . , was the ono a him tho a of tho . tho - a por-An with , insulting three Jews . One of the Israelites , named d Mark Levy , thus stated the case : —'' On Saturday -week , b I was walking up Ludgate-street towards the Bank with d two friends , when the defendant passed , and , perceiving li we were Hebrews , he hailed us in a derisive manner , c saying ' Whitechapel , AVhitechapel ! ' We told him we h did not ride on Saturday ; and then he mounted to the -fl top of the omnibus , took up a piece of pork , and held it v towards us , at the same time saying , 'You Jew —— , c will you have a bit of this ? ' It ¦ made no difference to S me , as I would have eaten it if I had ieen hungry , and t fancied it was mutton" The omnibus conductor ' s de- b fence was very singular . Ho admitted that he had a offered the pork , but said it did not belong to him , but ri to a gentleman on the top of the omnibus . He was fined i twenty shillings and costs , and the money was paid in c ; the course of the day . —It is edifying to note the dege- v : neracy of modem bigotry and persecution . Formerly , g the worthy Christian conductor would have bome a d . hand in stoning the three Israelites ; now , he contents v himself with ' chaffing' them , and has to pay for his J sport too , with an alternative of imprisonment . But a 1 change has come over Judaism likewise . There was a I ; time when Mark Levy would have been burnt at the 3 , stake rather than commit that evasion about the pork— - 1 . much less acknowledge it . < t False Characters . —Mrs . Flora Smithson , the wife < 1 of a gentleman living in Gower-place , Euston-square , < appeared at Bow-street on Tuesday to answer a summons ' - charging her with having given a false character of a t servant to a Mrs . Shute . The girl whose character was r thus vouched for , afterwards fell under suspicion of - having committed a robbery at Mrs . Shute ' s , and she 2 absconded . For the defence , it was contended that the s girl had at one time lived in the service of Mrs . Smithson , 9 and that at the time the character . was given she was - still living in the same house . This , however , was not 1 held to justify the character that was given ; and Mrs . Srnithsomvas sentenced to a fine of 10 ^ ., or , in default , s to three mon tils' imprisonment . On hearing this sen-I tence she burst into tears . The money was not paid . — fc Edward M'Donald has been charged at Marylebone with - obtaining ,: by means of a false character , a situation as f butler to Captain Fitzgerald , Hayes-park , nearUxbridge . i , Having obtained the situation , lie very soon lost it , on e account of drunkenness . He now threw himself on the - inercy of the court , alleging that he had a wife and d family in great distress . He was convicted in the penalty e of 20 / ., with , ten shillings costs ; in default of payment , three months'imprisonment . II The Attempted Muuider is Behmondsey . —Richard < r Burchell , Abraham Burehell , and Patrick Ryan , have ) f been comnritted for trial on the charge of murderously d assaulting Patrick Griffin on Saturday night , the 25 th y October . The wounded man was at length on Tuesday > t able to attend at the Southwark police-oiiice , and give le his evidence ; but it merely confirmed that of the other i , witnesses . n A Good Deed dose by Goxvkts . —Some of the sd convicts confined in the Richmond Bridewell , Dublin , s . have distinguished themselves by soliciting to be alis lowed to help in extinguishing a tire which had burst id out in the building . The request was granted ; and le they worked with a right good will , and saved the cdiig fice . That this conduct was not merely selfish is appa-10 rent from the fact that the flames did not approach any se portion or the prison where they wero lodged . Their it sentences ought to bo commuted . st J us-m ^ ABLii ; Homicidis . — -A trial for murder , of a very l- painful character , has taken place in Canada . _ Mr . id Thomas Henderson , an attorney , seduced the wife of ig Mr . George Brogdin , of Tort Hope . Tho two men , who le were botli very young , had been Mends from their ir . schoolboy days ; and Henderson was nominally paying le his addresses to Mrs . Brogdiu's sister at the time ho ig seduced tho lady herself . Not content with inflicting m this wrong on his friend , ho wrote a letter to him , imle pudently boasting of the act . Ho also told several perio sons that he always carried arms about with him , und y , taunted Urogdin with cowardice in not meeting him . id Ono day , tho two met accidentally at tho steamboat to wharf . Henderson nodded insolently to Brogdin , saying , n . ' * How d'ye do , Georgo V" Brogdin immediately drew a pistol from his pocket , and shot Henderson dead . The y , jury at tlie trial declared that Bvogdin was not guilty of cio the murder , and ho was acquitted . as Matheu v . Lord Maiustone . —An action was recently lie brought upon a 1000 / . bill of exchange which hud no boon given in renewal of a bill which turned out to have a boon forged , and at tho trial the jury gave a verdict for m Lord Maidstone . A rule , however , was obtained for a ho new trial upon the ground of misdirection , and that the a verdict was against the evidence ; nnd tho matter , on of Monday , camo before tho Court of Common Pleas upon ho cause being shown against the rule being mado absolute , ng Lord Chief Justice Cockburn , at the conclusion of the or . argument , expressed his opinion that there had "been no ho misdirection , and that tlio jury wore justified in arriving ; u- at tho verdict which they had given . Rule discharged . . a Confusion "Worsis Confoundicd . —A groat deal of or- interest has been excited by some proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas , in connexion with tho cbbo A . n Swynfon v . Swynfon . Tho plaintiff , Mrs . Swynfon , is iall tho daughter-in-law of tho lato Mr . Svyufen , and the c 1 i ' > ¦' ¦ s . ; . : - , F > r 3 j - - & 1 . t ; , a e f ir el e r a e u n 2 . io io g i . of le se is le
defendant , Captain Swynfen , is his son . The deceased , by his will devised his estates to the plaintiff , bat the defendant subsequently claimed the estates as heir at law , and an issue was directed by the Court of Chancery to try whether the deceased at the time of making hia will , lvas of proper capacity to do so . The issue went down for trial at Stafford before Mr . Justice Cresswell , and in tho course of the trial an arrangement -waa come to , the principal terms of which were that Captain Swynfen was to have the estate , subject to his allowing the plaintiff an annuity of 10007 . That arrangement , however , Mrs . Swynfen positively refused to carry out * alleging that her counsel , Sir Frederick Thesiger , had not only no authority to make it , but that he had made against her wish . This , Sir Frederick denies . The ourt , on tho former occasion , decided that Mrs . Svrynfen was bound to carry out the arrangement , and they granted a rule nisi for an attachment to compel her to do so . On Monday , the question was raised as to whether that rule should be made absolute . The Chief Justice , having been counsel in the case , when he was Attorney-General , retired from the bench , and took no part in it . " The further hearing was adjourned till the st of December . In the course of his statement , Mr . Kennedy , who now appeared for . Mrs . Swynfen , exclaimed , alluding to Sir Frederick Thesiger and the other counsel engaged for the lady on the trial , " Shame on them ! they don't deserve to liave any briefs again . " Mr . Justice Cresswell interposed , and said Mr . Kennedy was going rather beyond what th . e facts warranted . The Case of Hangixu a 13 cnr at Leeds . —The boy ¦ who was seriously injured near Leeds , about two months ago , by being tied by some of his plaj'fellows to a , crane attached to a mill , has died from the injuries to the spine consequent on the trick that was played on him . The three boys concerned in the outrage have been apprehended and committed for trial . A Hard Case . —A coiivict , named Edward Hewart , forty-two years of age , lias died of disease of the heart on board the Unite" hospital-ship , moored off Woolwich dockyard . He had been sentenced to the disproportionately severe sentence of six years' penal servitude for stealing a few dozen oysters . He was riot in good health when convicted , and the medical officer determined to recommend hini as a person who ought to receive a free pardon , though he had only received about two years of his sentence . In order in some measure to explain the harshness of his sentence , it should be mentioned that he was already a ticket-of-leave man , and had been an old offender . A G . uiEusG-HonsE Bra Trassactiox . —An action , has been brought in the Coiu-t of Queen ' s Bench , by Richard Culverwell , a retired tailor , against John . Sider bottom , a young man of respectable family and position , and a partner in a cotton maniifacturing firm at Man-Chester , for the recovery of the sum of 2000 ? ., "which the , plain tiif alleged was due to him upon a bill of exchange , accepted by the defendant on the loth of June , 1852 , at fouryeara . The bill was drawn by a person , named James Atkins , the keeper of a gambling-house called " the Berkeley , " in . Alhemnrle-street , and by him endorsed to Culverwell . The defence was that the bilJ was given to Atkins for money lost at the game of hazard , at Atkins ' s gambling-house , " the Berkeley , " and that it was by him endorsed to Culvervell without consideration , and with notice of the illegality . The defendant , who was at the time a very young man , came up to London on a visit in the year 18-17 , and , unfortunately for him , was induced to visit Atkins ' s house from time to time , and to play at hazard . He thus lost as much as 2 o , 000 Z ., of which the sum of 80007 . - > vas lost in one night . It was , proved by the evidence of a man named Davis , who had been partner with Atkins , that the latter was in the habit of playing with loaded dice and wbat wero termed " despatches , " and that it was impossible that Sidebottom could win . The bill now in question , together witl * many others , had been given to Atkins in respect _ of these losses ; but Sidebottom , after having paid Atkins many thousands of pounds , was induced to resist any further demands upon him ; aud tho consequence waa that tho present action was brought . Culverwell contended that he was not aware that tho money was given . for gambling purposes ; but in hia cross-oxanunation , lie admitted having gone to tho house in pursuit of his business as a tailor , nnd it appeared that ho must have seen some evidences of / . he real nature of the place . The jury gave u verdict fi / i * the defendant . A SoLicrroxt in TuouuLB . —Henry Zachariah , Jervis , a solicitor , was brought before Mr . Beadon , at Marlborough-street , charged with obtaining money from a great number of persons , principally small tradesmen , under pretence of rondoring them professional services , Tho court was crowded with persons from whom ho bad . obtained money . After several witnesses bad bpea heard , tho case was adjourned . Attkmtted Mummsm at Cuoydon . —Tho suburbs of Croydou have been the sceno of a horrible occurrence , A man named Bright , who had beon concerned in a County-court case , weut home , between ten and eleven o'clock , to his lodgings in tho house of a Mrs . Belton . When ho reached tho place , tho woman avos in bed . He knocked at tho door , and she came down to lot bun in . What transpired on tho occasion is at present uiikuow-n , but it appears that the neighbours heard torriilc surieKa
November 29,1856.] The Leader. 1135
November 29 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1135
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29111856/page/7/
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