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    . . . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ' A* . ¦ . No. 397, Octo...

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    OUR CIVILIZATION. —?— ¦

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    THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Thb adjourned inq...

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    CHANGE OF LIBEL. The trial of Thomas Dia...

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    CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. This court resum...

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    . . . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ' A* . ¦ . No. 397, Octo...

    . . . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ' A * . ¦ . No . 397 , October 31 , 1857 . ] THE LEAJ ) ER , 1041

    Our Civilization. —?— ¦

    OUR CIVILIZATION . —?— ¦

    The Mysterious Murder. Thb Adjourned Inq...

    THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER . Thb adjourned inquest on the remains found in the carpet-bag on "Waterloo-Abridge was resumed on Monday . A . man named Samuel Ball was the first witness , and he testified to having seen the woman pass through the turnstile on the night of Thursday , the 8 th inst ., and to hearing the remarks addressed to her by Errington . She was * a short party , ' about Jh-e feet three inches in height C this was the height mentioned by the toll-collector ) . She carried a bag and a parcel ; -was of sallow complexion and rather sunken eyes , with a mark on the left

    cheek , near the nose , like a mole . The hair - \ vas white , but did not look a natural colour . Ball distinctly noticed her features , but not her dress , or the character of the carpet-bag she carried . He * afterwards passed her on the bridge , and , near the Surre } 'shore , observed a rather tall man , walking easily towards the Strand . Of this person he took no particular note , and could not identify him . Mr . Payxiter , the Bow-street surgeon , then said he had made a further examination of the remains since the former sitting , and had discovered beyond doubt that they are those of a male .

    The most important witness was Dr . Alfred Swaine Taylor , to whom the bones and clothes had been sent Cor examination , and who read an elaborate report , to which were appended two summings-up of facts and conclusions—the one relating to the human relics , the other to the garments . The former stated : — " 1 . That the remains are those of a person of the male sex , of adult age , and in stature of at least five feet nine inches 2 . That tliey present no physiological or pathological peculiarities by which they can be identified . The only fact observable under this head is that the portions of skin remaining are thickly covered with dark hairs on the wrist and right knee , and that the deceased -was therefore probably a dark hairy man . 3 . That tie remains

    present no mark of disease or of violent injury inflicted during life , with the exception of one stab in the space between the third and fourth ribs on the left side of the chest . This stab was in a situation to penetrate the heart and to cause death . It presents the characters of a stab inflicted on a person either living or recently dead . 4 . That hese remains have not been dissected or used for the purposes of anatomy . All those parts which aro useful to the anatomist have been roughly severed and destroyed by a person or persons quite ignorant of the anatomical relations of parts . They have been cut and sawn before the rigidity of death had ceased , i . c . in from eighteen to twenty-four hours after death , and in this state have been partially boiled and subsequently

    salted . The body of the deceased las not been laid out or attended like that of a person dying from natural causes whose body might be lawfully used for anatomical purposes . 5 . That the person of whose body these remains are a part may have been dead for a period of three or four weeks prior to the date at which they were examined by me—namely , on the 21 st of October . " With respect to the clothes , the conclusions are thus set forth : — " The examination of these articles of clothing leads me to the conclusion that the body of the person who wore them must have been subjected to great violence . The stab penetrating from behind the double collar « f the overcoat must have been inflicted with great force , as it extends through the collar of the undercoat

    and waistcoat . It is chiefly on the inside and on the left aide , towards the left armpit , that tlie principal stains of blood are met with in the overcoat , undercoat , and waistcoat . The only wound found in the remains is a stab on the left side , which , by its situation , might have led to the effusion of blood . Assuming that the clothes belonged to tho deceased , these facts appear to receive an explanation . Tho clothes have , however , been exposed to wet since they were stained with blood , and this creates a difficulty in forming an opinion . The cutting and tearing of the coat trousers , and drawers at the back , and the cutting and tearing of the right sleeves of the overcoat , undercoat , and shirt , are consistent with the assumption that the body hud become rigid after death in a distorted

    position , and that the clothes were violently torn from it . This position is indicated in the remains , especially on the right side , by the flexed or bent condition of the hip and elbow joints . Some of the stains of blood present the appearance of having flowed from a living persons , and this renders it thereforo probable that tho clothe 3 were on a living body when tho wounds producing such effusion of blood were inflated . While thero is nothing to prove directly that these clothes wero worn »> y tho deceased , they have , in my opinion , hecn worn by Homo one who has nuataincd aerioiiH personal injuries , llioir condition , however , is consistent with the suimo-SvS * i , S % T ™ actu «» y warn by the deceased intT ?« r i ^ 8 ° romains ^ ey wero found . " Dr . H m ! p ( ° gC ( 1 th ? 6 reat stance ho had derived from Mr . Payntor in making this report

    . ll . o Coroner , m summing up , a ,, oke with much confllence an to ( ho prolmbihty of tlio murderer <» r murderers Jteing discovered—an event ho thought nil but certainwftlT , ' aftcr - ] ; riuf rotiru ™^ , *» - » vSct "] WHf , 1 Murder against ao . no person or person ,, unknown . The bones will bo retained at the police-office for the present *

    The excitement with respect to this obscure tragedy , which has agitated the public mind from the first discovery of the bag to the present moment , has found its vent , as usual on these occasions , in street ballads , originating in some Seven Dials ot Whitechapel poet , and sung to a doleful air by wandering minstrels of tie Jem Baggs order . Of one of these we have possessed ourselves , and find that some stanzas of it ought to be preserved in a more permanent form . Lord Macaulay sets such value on these exponents of popular feeling , that he once journeyed all the way to the east end of London to make a collection for some literary purpose ; touching which expedition a grotesque story is told , to the effect that the boys of whom the historian made the purchase followed him all the way back to the Albany , and , being then perceived , and required to explain their motive for such suspicious conduct , replied , referring to the ballads , " We was only a-waiting , guvnor , to hear yer sing ' em . " However this may be , a street ballad is a veritable bit of ' OurCivilization ; ' and we therefore make a selection from ' The Waterloo Tragedy , or the London Mysterious Murder , ' retaining all its felicities of grammar , spelling , punctuation , and versification : — " Oh such a year for dreadful murders As this before was never seen , In England , Ireland , Britain over , Such horrid crimes has never been But this which now has been discovered Very far exceeds the whole , 7 lie very thought makes man to shudder , How horrible for to unfold . " See and read in every paper , This dreadful crime , this mystery , Worse far worse , than James Greenacre's Is the London mystery . • • . . . " His body it was cut to pieces Oh , how dreadful was his fate , Then placed in brine and hid in secret Horrible for to relate , The head and limbs had been divided Where parts was taken no one knows In a Carpet bag they packed the body Over Waterloo bridge they did it throw . " It is supposed a female monster Her victims body omvard dragged With no companion to assist her All packed within a Carpet bag . Justice determined is to take her When without doubt she'll punished be , The attrocious female Greenacre Of the Waterloo Bridge Tragedy . " There being a space at the bottom of the second column of this ditty , which the poet has lacked invention to fill up , a picture of a rose is inserted , which the reader may , if . lie please , consider as a portrait of the flower in the pattern of the memorable carpet-bajr .

    Change Of Libel. The Trial Of Thomas Dia...

    CHANGE OF LIBEL . The trial of Thomas Diamond Evans and Captain Henry Thome for misdemeanour in having published a libel on the Hon . Frederick William Cadogan , deputychairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company , and in endeavouring to extort money from him by ottering to suppress it , has taken place this week in the Central Criminal Court before the Recorder , Mr . Russell Gurney , and has occupied two days . On the 5 th of August , Evans made some statements , to Mr . Sampson , the City editor of the Times , with respect to the management of tho Submarine Telegraph Company , with which he had formerly been connected . He was requested to embody his allegations in a letter , which he did three days

    afterwards , when ho again appeared at the City office , accompanied by Captain Thorne , and delivered in tho written communication . Mr . Cadogan was here charged with visiting the instrument room , reading the despatches , and using the knowledge thus obtained in unfairly influencing tho Stock Exchange to his own advantage ; with causing the contents of public despatches to be forwarded to his private residence ; and with directing Evans , on one specific occasion , to give precedence to a message of Baron Rothschild ' s over several others . Mr . Sampson declined the responsibility of inserting this letter in the Times on his own authority ,

    and therefore referred Evans and Thorne to Mr . Mowbray Morris , tho inanagcr-in-chief of the paper . At seven o'clock tho samo evening , Captain Thorne called on Mr . Cadogan in fulfilment of an appointment mnde between two and three in the afternoon . Ho referred to the letter ; gave Mr . Cadogan a copy at a subsequent visit the same night ; said L it was a pity it should be published ; ' and made certain bints with respect to pecuniary affairs . It appeared » ll through that he was acting as tho agent of Evans . Mr . Cndogan refused to enter into any terms , and tho letter was sent to tho Times on the 10 th of August , but was not inserted .

    On cross-examination at the trial , Mr . Cudogan mndo some . singular admissions . For several years past , he has speculated a good denl in funds and . shares , and ho stated , in answer to questions : " I am the director of four other companies in th « samo omoo and premises . One is tho Railway Signal * Company , and another a Steam Ferry Company . Thuso companies are both in embryo . At times I was constantly in tho room where

    Evans was engaged during the years 1852 and 1854 and , of course , I should have an opportunity of seeing the top message on each file , if I did not look further ! { Alaugh ) I might , if I pleased , have looked at every one of the messages on the file . I should not imagine that any one but the officials of tie Government conld read the cypher made use of by them . Private individuals are not allowed to send : messages in cypher . I do not believe that during the war I ever had more than six messages sent from the office to my private house . During the war I frequently had occasion to examine the messages that were received , because there were diflicult questions relating to the tariff for messages delivered over foreign lines that arose , and which it was necessary I should settle . This duty was not cast upon

    me , but , as I was one of the promoters of the company , and took a great interest in it , I felt it lny duty to interfere in these matters . No complaints were ever made to me of my being too frequently in the instrument room . I do not recollect a Mr . Brett saying so . To the best of my belief , nothing of the sort was ever staied to me . You are taking me quite by surprise by such a suggestion . From 1852 to 1854 , I was constantly making these examinations of the messages in the execution of my duty . I may have gone out of the office immediately after I examined the messages ; but I should say that I have not done this frequently . I may have done so three or four times a week . I may have carefully read some particular message that I was seeking , and then have left tho office . I did once authorize a

    message of Baron Rothschild ' s to have precedence . I cannot recollect what it was about This only happened once , but a second application was made to me to do so . I did not consider that I gave an unfair advantage to Baron Rothschild , though it was certainly giving an advantage . On the second occasion , the message contained the price of the funds , and I therefore refused to give it priority . I swear that the message to which I gave precedence was one of a purely private nature , which required an answer from some distant place , and , as the wires were out of order , that answer could not have been received unless it left England by a certain time ; tut the message was one of a purely private character , and had nothing to do with any Stock Exchange operations . I am very intimate with Baron Rothschild . I once sent

    a message jto his residence at Gunnersbury-park on a Sunday , after I had been to the office . It was not my regular practice to be at the office on a Sunday . I may have gone to the office of my stock-broker two or three times a day ; but I swear it was not in consequence of what I saw in any of the messages . The Daily News made a complaint with reference to the transmission of telegraphic messages ; but I know nothing of a rumour that that paper instructed its correspondents not to send Stock Exchange information through the Submarine Telegraph Company . " This line of evidence was overruled . On the cross-examination being resumed , Mr . Cadogan further admitted that he had once apologized to Mr . Mowbray Morris on account a despatch belonging to the Times being made public .

    Evans and Thorne were found Guilty of both charges , the jury adding that the libel was not justified , as the whole of the statements had not been proved . The Recorder then condemned each of the accused to a year's hard labour—a sentence which appeared greatly to startle them .

    Central Criminal Court. This Court Resum...

    CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . This court resumed its sittings on Monday , when two cases of cruelty at sea were tried . The first of these was a charge against Mr . Johnson William Doyle , the master of the ship John Sugars , of having committed a series of aggravated assaults upon Robert Eastwick , an apprentice on board the same vessel . The case was fully proved , and Doyle waa sentenced to imprisonment for three months . The other trial was that of John Green , who was indicted for an assault on Moheooddeen , a Lascar seaman , on the high seas . A groat deal of counter testimony was brought forward in this case , and the jury , after a consultation , returned a verdict of Not Guilty . Bridget Knvanagh has been found guilty of tho manslaughter of her infant by administering laudanum to it . Tho defence wa 9 that sho merely administered the laudanum with the design of setting tho child to sleep . Judgment was deferred . John Ryan , a private in the Middlesex Militia , lias been condemned to penal servitude for four years , for a ferocious assault on a policeman near Brentford . Charles Stewart Mills , a genteel-looking lad of seventeen , has been convicted of uttering , with a guilty knowledge , a forged cheque for 2507 ., with intent to defraud Messrs . Hankcy and Co . Sentence was deferred .

    Tho Grand Jury has ignored the bill preferred against Thomas IMitnt Roao for misdemeanour . It will bo remembered that the charge was that of having endeavoured to extort money from Sir R . W . Garden , tho Lord Mayor elect , by threatening to publish a libellous placard , wif , h a view to oppose his election to that oflico-Scveral person * have bc « u tried for uttering forged notes , the prosecution in some citaea being successful and in others not . Iloury Welsh has boon Acquitted on tho charge of causing tho cloiith of liia wife , the particulars of which have already appeared in tliia journal . Tho Judgo leant towards the supposition that tho woman had coino

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/9/