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    736 " m THE '.liiAPEB, " . [No. 436, Jul...

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    POISON CASES. Edward Morris, a French po...

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. Two weeks a...

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    CRIMIJNAL EECOKD. E^tBEZzmaiENT A5D- Snr...

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    GATH ER INGS FROM LA W AND P O L I CE CO...

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    THE ASSIZES. James Seam lias been tried ...

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    The Secrets Of The Prison-House. A Commi...

    not swear that he had not said to her , ' You have stripped before many men before now . ' After her escape , he found her at a house in Blake-street , York , and used force to compel her to return to Aconib . She complained of her comb having be « n broken into her head . She screamed out , not in pain , but she screamed out . He had never beaten her physically . "When he found her in Blake-street , she "was in bed . He broke open thfe door . His authority for doing so was the fact that , -when he had persons under his treatment , he considered . it hid duty to take every care of them . He might have < : al ! ed his groom to bis assistance in carrying her to the cab . She told him he had torn the sleeve of her chemise off . She complained of his treading on her foot , and that she was thrust against the bedstead . " It further appeared that she was denied the use of pen , ink , and paper , and was treated-with great'harshness .

    Mr . Ed win . James , who appeared for the wife , strongly denounced the cruelty to which she had been subjected by Mr . Metcalfe , and said that that gentleman " might rest assured that he would meet with the punishment lie so richly deserved . " Mr . Turner ' s counsel , in reply , said that , whatever the result of the inquiry , the husband would not allow his wife to return to Acomb House after the cruel treatment she had experienced there . The jury gave a verdict ia favour of Mrs . Turner ' s sanity , and appended some remarks calling the attention of -the Lunacy Commissioners to the management of Acomb House . The Commissioners have already signified their intention of holding an inquiry , which was to commence yesterday .

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    Poison Cases. Edward Morris, A French Po...

    POISON CASES . Edward Morris , a French polisher , living in Wildestreet , Liverpool , has lately died in a very sadden and mysterious manner . One day in the early part of the present month , he fell from a step-ladder and sprained his foot . He was placed under medical care , and appeared to be going on favourably until about ten days ago , -wrhen he complained of a burning sensation in his stomach * Another medical gentleman was then sent for ; but ; on has arrival , the man was in a dying state , being in great agony , and scarcely able to speak . An anodyne and stimulant were administered to him , but without effect , as he died very shortly afterwards . He waa in two burial clubs , and his -wife was to receive 20 / .

    at his death . One of the doctors who attended him in his last illness found some antimony iftixed with a cough syrup which be had given him a few weeks before . A poat-morteni examination of the body was made , and a very small quantity of antimony—scarcely amounting to a grain—was discovered in the stomach and intestines . This , it was supposed , must have been administered a few tours before he died . The medical gentleman whose services were last called in believed that the accident which the man bad met with was quite sufficient to have caused his death . An inquest was held , and the jury returned a verdict that he " Died from the effects o antimony ; but how , or by whom administered , there is no evidence to prove . "

    Another case of poisoning , o a much more extensive and alarming kind , but happily without the same fatal termination , occurred about a week ago at Dublin . Between seven and eight o ' clock in the evening , a number of women were seen rushing along the streets in a distracted state , carrying several apparently half-dead children in their arms . It afterwards transpired that upwards of sixty boys and girls had eaten a quantity of poisonous berries or nuts which had been thrown into the street from the stores of Mr . Magliew , a wholesale corn-dealer on Ciampton-quay . The constables tit the nearest police-station being informed of the occurrence , most of the sufferers were conveyed in cars , by their direction , to two of the adjacent hospitals . All the children were' attacked with spasms in the stomach , and

    retched considerably . For some time it was thought that the effects of the poisoned berries would prove fatal ; but the bad symptoms gradually subsided , and , at a late hour in the night , all cause for alarm had ceased , except in the case of a girl in one of the hospitals . A corn-porter employed by Mr . Maghew has been charged at the College-street police-station by a foreign optician , nakned Castello , -with throwing the berries into the public highway . The man admitted the act , but said he did not suppose the berries would do harm to anybody . They had come to Ireland in a cargo of foreign wheat , and had been for sometime lying in his master ' s stores ; , oni he states that he threw them away to get riqofthem . Ho was detained in custody preparatory to being brought before the College-street magistrate for examination .

    Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Two Weeks A...

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Two weeks ago , we related the case o a lady -who woe burnt to death in the gardens of the Crystal Pulnco , owing to her dress having caught fire , from a fusee , the lighted end o which was lying on the ground . We culled attention to the dangerous habit which some gentlemen have of scattering these perilous things about iu public places j and this week wo have to mention two other cases of accident to ladies from the same cause . In th « flrtt , cas « —which was at Vauxhnll—some oito threw down a piece of lighted paper , with whiclv ho had

    probably been lighting a cigar ; and immediately afterwards a lady stepped backwards onto it . Her muslin dress was at once in flames ; but they wei ft speedily subdued , and she was taken to Westminster Hospital . —In the second case , the lady in question -was walking in the street ? , when she set her foot on a fusee , and ivas soon enveloped in fire . As soon as , tlie flames were stifled , slie was conveyed to Guy ' s Hospital , where she lies in a dangerous state . By the . neglect of the pointsman at the Willesden junction , the train leaving l £ uston-square at four o'clock p . m ., on Monday , was turned off the main line on to the North , and South-Western branch line , and came into collision with some coal trucks . The engine-driver was killed , and several of the carriages were thrown off the rails ; but the passengers , with one exception , escaped without injury .

    Some few days ago , a number of platelayers were at work on the North-Eastern Railway between Newcastle and York , when a special train came up . On the driver seeing the men in advance , he sounded -his whistle ; but the wiud blew the sound in the opposite direction , and the noise made by the men in their operations contributed to prevent their hearing the shrill summons to clear the line . Accordingly , they were not aware of the advance of the train until it was < lose upon them . They then became confused , and one of them was hurled against the train with such violence as to cause instant death .

    A lamentable accident occurred on Saturday , the 17 th inst ., by the falling in of a portion of the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s coal stores at the PLeta , Malta . At a quarter to eleven in the morning , when the coalmen were employed in loading a lighter with coals from No . 8 store , the wall dividing it from the adjoining store , N " o . 7 , being unequal to the pressure of the large quantity of coals contained in it , suddenly gave w-ay , and a number of the workmen who had not time to escape were crushed to death by the falling mass of stones , coals , and . rubbish .

    Crimijnal Eecokd. E^Tbezzmaient A5d- Snr...

    CRIMIJNAL EECOKD . E ^ tBEZzmaiENT A 5 D- SnrposEri MuRDEK . —A seaman named William . Thistle , belonging to the Tyne , is in the costody of the U " ewcastle-on-Tyne police on a charge of embezzling nearly 100 OJ . belonging to Messrs . Stevenson and Scott , shipowners , of that town . The circumstances of the charge made against him are peculiar . Messrs . Stevenson and Scott were the owners of a vessel which , during 1857 ,. sailed from Bombar . A mutiny occurred

    among the crew at a place called Mangalore , and several of the men were given in charge and found guilty . A day or two afterwards , the vessel took fire , and the master was burnt , or came to his death by some violent means . Thistle , who -was the chief mate , then took the command , sold the ship and stores , and appears to have put the nioney in his own pocket . He also drew bills in the names of the owners of the ship . On Saturday evening , he was arrested in London ., and has been remanded .

    Alleged Murder at G « krnsei \— -Nicholas Brouard , a man cf sixty-five , has been found guilty at Guernsey , of murder , and sentenced to transportation for life ; but there appears to be a probability of his innocence .

    Gath Er Ings From La W And P O L I Ce Co...

    GATH ER INGS FROM LA W AND P O L I CE COUKTS . Tub certificate meeting of James Beagle , upholsterer , of Bridge-road , ' Lambeth , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday . The banlcrupt ( who was represented by Sir . Lawrance ) had been in business twentyuvg years , and had been in the habit of fitting up houses with furniture , keeping them seemingly occupied , and in some instances placing wine in the cellars , and then selling the furniture by auction , 83 if some gentleman

    had been residing at the houses . The Commissioner : u What course of business must this be caljpd ? " Mr . Lawrance : " The bankrupt for some time derived considerable profit from it . " The Commissioner : " But latterly it has resulted in a lost ) . ' Mr . Gammon admitted that the assignees , for whom he appeared , and who were creditors for a considerable amount , wcro quite aware of the course of business pursued by the bankrupt . Mr , Commissioner Goulburn . said that the bankrupt might tnko a second class certificate , nftcr three months from the 14 th of Ma }\

    A nice point of law , iu connexion with tho revocation of a will , was decided by Sir Cress well Cresswell , in the Court of Probate , on Monday . Tho testator , Lieutenant Jacob , made a will , which was duly executed ; but , ono day , designing to annul it , ho tore the several sheets < f paper ( which were then folded together ) very nearly through . He would probably have completed tho severance , but Unit he waB reminded thnt , if tho will wero destroyed , and he died intestate , a lady in whom ho waa interested would receive nothing . IIo therefore checked himself ; and tho question now xms , -whether tho will was annulled by being partially torn . Tho Judge decided in tho negative , and pronounced for the validity of the document .

    Jumcs Finch , a youth seventeen yenrs of « g

    Lambeth police-office , last [ Saturday , with wilf ,, m , setting fire to a cmr-shed belonging tohblate eiSSS " and causing the death of seven milch cows of the v / i of 150 / . His motive was revenge , because Mr . To 2 had sent lam away with only a week ' s notice . Ife » fj remanded . s _ Mr . F . W . Stevens , a sharebroker , residing at the Boyal Exchange , was charged at the Mansion-house on Monday , with appropriating to his own uses money vS which he had been entrusted . A gentleman of nronertv named Rooke , gave Mr . Stevens the sum of C 000 / -with instructions to puchase London and Brighton IlaWav shares ; and it would seem that " Mr . Stevens only srienf a small proportion of this amount , and that he lias itT propriated the rest In the course of the examination ?^! eV l rS ° feC l t 0 ha P ° tbe balance to the l

    :: ^ , m secutor ; but the latter refused to accede to the pronosaT After a remand , and further exairiinaton , the accused was committed for trial . Some other char-res of fraud were mentioned , but have not been gone into at present A ruffian , named Edward Brown , has made a most savage attack on Elizabeth Somers , a middle-aged widow- ; at a public-house in Shoreditch . He was intoxicated , and began by taking indecent liberties with the woman . "When reproved for this , he beat her until she fell senselegs on the floor . He also kicked and severely injured tlie policeman who apprehended him ; and for these two assaults he has been sentenced by the Worship-street magistrate to seven months'hard labour . On being led away , he thanked the magistrate— probably in bravado .

    Thomas Smith , the schoolmaster charged -with stealing books from tlio Rev . Henry Stewart Byrth , superintendent of an acaxlemy at Bow , has been sentenced by the Thames magistrate to four months * hard labour . The penalty would have been heavier had he not been recommended to xiiercy by the prosecutor . In palliation of his offence , tlia accused said that he had only the small salary of 30 ? . a year , out of which he had to buy clothes , support his wife and two children , and maintain an aged father and a niece .

    Mr . Combo , the Southwark magistrate , was imposed upon on Wednesday by a tale of distress told by one John Lawton , a discharged soldier , who -was brought up accused of having broken , a street lamp . He was dismissed and told to attend again the following day ; but he afterwards obtained from the chief clerk means to take him down to -Hull . On Thursday , an officer from the Mansion House attended , and said that the hian was an impostor , and that he had victimised nearly all the police-courts in the metropolis .

    A tall , powerful fellow ' , named Isaac Russell , has beea examined at the- Westminster police-office on a charge of violently assaulting , and attempting to rob , a labouring man near Cremornc Gardens , between two and three o ' clock in the morning . When taken in charge by a policeman , he violeutly resisted . He was committed for trial . Judgment was delivered on Thursday , in the Divorce Court , by Sir Cresswell Cresswell , on the suit for a judicial separation instituted by the wife of Dr . Cargill , late of Newcastle-on-Tyne , on the ground of wilful desertion without cause , for upwards of two years . The separation was granted .

    The Assizes. James Seam Lias Been Tried ...

    THE ASSIZES . James Seam lias been tried at tho Dorchester Assizes for the wilful murder of Sarah Ami Cjuppy , at Stoke Abbott , on the 30 th of April . The girl was a cripple , and lived with her mother in a lonely cottage on the border of the fields . While she was sitting alone there on the day in question , Seale ( who hn < l been previously forbidden tho bouse ) went there , and , during his stay , ascream was heard coming from the house . Scale shortly afterwards left , and was seen by an old woman with hia hands and clothea bloody . The woman questioned him , and he replied evasively ; and ultimately the body oi the girl waa found in tho garden with her tlirout cut . The cottage at that time was on lire . Scale ' motive does not appear ; but he hns been found Guilty , and sentenced to « leath . He is only twenty years of flge , but is a widower .

    The new trial of the Swirtfen cn 9 C , to which we referred in our last issue , commenced on Friday week at tlio Stafford Assizes , and , after extending over that day , Saturday , Monday , and Tuesday , resulted in a verdict for tho plaintiff , Mrs . Swinfen . Tho announcement was received with loud applause , which tho lady heard witli great self-possession , though with marked signs ot plcnsuTG , and immediately left tho hall , nmidst tie warm congratulations of her friends both insitlo and outsido the building . The case turned on tho validity of * will and tho state of mind of the testator ; but , as tlio story is told in our leading columns , we need not hero repeat it .

    Tlio celebrated caso of Leopold Rodpnth cam « before tho notice of Judge and jury at the Clielmsford Assiz «» i a few days ago , in connexion with tlio cane of Mowstt v . tho Grent Northern linilwny Company . The plaintiff , who waa formerly secretary to tlio Groat Northern Kail way Company , sought to recover damaged for having been wrongfully diflmisBert from hia oflioe . Tho ubfondanta nut « groat variety of nlcns upon llio record , tlio

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31071858/page/10/