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watch and guard and pack . M'Lellan asked the deceased and the prisoner where they were going to in tho afternoon , and the prisoner said he was going to showltobison some customers , that he was going with the deceased tonight , and that , after that , in a day or two , he was going to London , as trade was better there . All the men then left together , and parted at the hottorri of the passage , M'Lellan and Fagan going one way , the deceased and the prisoner the other , in the direction of the Queen ' s Tower . From two o ' clock until three , the prisoner and the deceased could not be traced ; but at throe o ' clock , George Hind , a
farmer at Newfield-grecn , was coining to Sheffield , and sat down on some stops where the footpath crosses the field , not a quarter of a mile from where the body was found , smoking his pipe . He saw two men coming up the lane , upon " which he rose up , and said , " I'll give you room , gentlemen . " The taller man had a bundle under his arm , and a bundle in his hand . After they passed , tho smaller man said to the farmer , " What are you doing here ? It ' s proper you were at some employment . " The farmer replied , " I have as much rig ht to be here as you have , " and then said to the taller man , " Let the young man carry your bundle . " The lesser man was the
prisoner . Further on , they were met by a man named Christopher Corbett . This was between three and four o ' clock , and 375 yards from the place where the body was afterwards found . About that time , a young man named Charles B , enton was in a field adjoining to that in which the body was found , and divided from it by a high hedge and brook , when he heard two shots fired quickly after each other . He was lying down in the next field , about 200 yards from the place where the body was . The deceased was never after that seen alive . About four o ' clock that afternoon , the prisoner entered the " lloyal Standard" public-house , where , by 9 , singular coincidence , the body was taken the day after . He was then alone , appeared heated , as if from If
walking very fast , and was carrying a paclc . hen last seen , he had no paclc , but the deceased had ; when the deceased ' s body toas found , there was no jiaclc . He asked for threepenny-worth of gin , and asked the landlord , who was a stranger to him , to take charge of his pack , and said that he would call for it on the following- morning . The prisoner never did call for it . This pack teas shoivn to be the pack of the deceased , and Mr . Barbour ( the prisoner ' s cousin , and former master ) identified his private marks on some of the drapery goods it contained , and tho goods in it were worth about 10 ? . At the time when the prisoner brought it to the " Royal Standard" public-house , there were spots of blood upon it . While at the " Royal Standard , " tlie prisoner wanted a cab ( an unusual extravagance for a man in his position ) .
When tho cab came the landlord went into the room where the prisoner was , and found him brushing his trousers , which were soiled with clay at the bottoms , and the mud of the fields at the back of Queen ' s Tower was of the same description . At half-past four ho left the lioyal Standard in the cab and wont to tho Reindeer public-house , where wore M'Cormack and others , whom lie treated to beer . At a quarter to six o ' clock he went to his lodgings , at 105 , Meadow-street , where lie gave M'Cormack ' 2 s . to go and fetch a pint of gin . James L'igott , William I'igott , and Miss Pigoit , wens present , who all partook of the gin . Some one asked what o ' clock it was , and the prisoner pulled out from his trousers pocket a silver waldi and guard chain . James l'iirott said , " Halloo , have you got a watch ,
Mr . Barbour r "' and ho replied , " Yes , I hud sold it . some time wince , but , not . having got paid for it , 1 look it , back . " That nig ht , the prisoner and iM'Coriuuok slept , together , and ( he ^ pi-iKoner put tho watch on the dressing-fable . M'Connaek ( ook it up , and . said , ' ¦ How have you got , it ?" and tho prisoner answered , " I've had it in pledge , but did not liko lo Icll you of it . " The watch was tho murdered man ' s watch . On I'Yiday evening M r . Pigott observed that he had not the watch-guard round his nock , and asked him what , lie ha < r done with it , and ho replied that , he had had nn jieeideiil . with it , and had sent , it . to the watchmaker ' s .
The next morning , which wan Saturday , the prisoner asked M'Connaok to meet , him at the Reindeer lit , two o ' clock , which he did , ami having called for a . oinf of purler , when they were alone , ho asked Al' (' oriiinek lo pawn tho watch for him at Best ' s , in Wesl-street , which a ! firs I , M'Corniaek refused to do , but , afterwards consented , and did pawn it , for , 'JOs . a I , the prisoner ' s request , in the name of VV . Smith , ( Jlossop-road . The ticket , ho received lor it he gave to tho prisoner . On the Monday following the prisoner was taken into custody , and the pavvnl ieket was found upon him ; upon its being shown to him ho said that , ho had bought , it of a . man in < ilossop road .
There are other lads more or loss weighty , but ( or our purpose perfectly needless . 11 , will he seen how inrpossiblo it , is to escape from ( he conclusion t . o which this evidence no irresistibly leads ; and it must , ho noticed ( lull ( here is it marked distinction between what has been doiio since tho trial in this case and in Kirwan ' All ( hat . has boon said in the Intter has boon supplementary , all that , has been saiil in ( he former has been contradictory , lo what , had taken place before , or was he Reindeer
adduced in , ' ( he defence . The landlady at , ( Miys that . Barbour ( old her that he heard of ! he murder on Friday night . ; Barbour " confesses" that he had no knowledge " of the transaction before ( he Sunday following . The magistrates at . Shcllield have instituted an inquiry , the result , of which is the . assurance Mini , M'Cormaok , lo whom Harbour ullribules the murder , was within doors id tho time when it was committed . . This investigation has not only completely exonerated lVl'Corinaek , bill , has lur-• nwhcil additional proofs of Knrbour ' s g , uill . Barbour had deKcribotl where he liniil IM ' < ' ormaek concealed "( he pislol
tluil . cooked Kohison's gooie . " The pislol lias been found ( here ; but it is proved that Harbour waM . seen near the spot iiliivn ; while !\ 1 ( lorniacl . was act ually at church . Barbour fells us I hit I , he gul the blond-. ' lamed pack from M' < ' ormaek ; common tteiise Iclls uh Unit he would not be hl . efy lo run nicMHagos for Iuh usMU ' . fiml , nor | , > lake without inquiry a purcel from u mini to whom ho know it did not belong
by the very powerful speech for the defence . " , er diligent searching of local as well as London daily journals we can nowhere find a report containing as part of that defence the facts which appear now in tho confession . Either then they were given as instructions to Mr . Sergeant Wilkins , the prisoner ' s counsel , and by him rejected , because not believed ; or else they were not given , because not yet concocted . We do not see how Mr . Dickson , our correspondent , is to extricate his client from this dilemma ; possibly by importunity , he may win him a still longer reprieve , but , we very much fear , the proofs are too strong to admit the least hope that any such reasonable doubt can be raised as to avert the execution . By making a false confession , Barbour has only deepened the dye of his guiltiness .
Yetalt Barbour states that he received the watch from M'Cormack unsuspectingly ; the evidence shows that he must have known to whom it belonged , it having not long previously been in his possession , and having been taken from , him by his cousin expressly for the purpose of being given to Robison , now deceased . Where was this man between the hours of two J *» d four ? Why was he silent when M'Cormack , whom He now charges with themurder , came into tho witness box against him ? If these facts , ot which he confesses such a profusion , were suggested to his counsel , why were -they not used ? It cannot have been without moaning that the judge said , he "thought it right to admonish the jury against being led to do injustice
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« CAPTAIN" JOHNSON . Thts adventurous personage was again examined on Wednesday . Evidence was taken to prove that he choused the widow Stewart out of the shares ; and Mr . Elliott committed liim for trial . Subsequently , however , Mr . John Haward , a gentleman residing at Bidenham , near Bedford , got into the witness-box and related another exploit of our Count Fathom . In the autumn of 1845 the prisoner took a house belonging to him at Bedford , represent in" - himself to be the son of a Captain Johnson who had lived at Bedford some years before , but who was then a Minister in some of our foreign possessions . His story was believed , and his alleged father , but who Mr . Haward no more believed to be his father than that Lord Palmerston was his uncle , having been a great favourite in the place , the prisoner got into excellent society , and without having paid a single crown to a single soul , he managed to fleece the tradesmen in the town to the tune of upwards of 700 ? . On one occasion the prisoner did him ( Mr . Haward ) the honour—as no doubt he deemed it at the time—of paying him a visit , and , swaggering into his counting-house , told hinj he should make him his banker , ( laughter , in which tho prisoner joined , ) and , by his specious manner , managed to do him out of 80 ? . besides his Upon this Mr . Elliott remanded Johnson to hear further evidence .
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT . Henry Horler was executed on Monday in front of Newgate by hanging , at the hands of Calcraft . lie enterrainod hopes of a reprieve up to the last , He admitted that , ho cut the throat of bis wife while they were on the bod together ; but . be said that , it was quite a sudden thought ,. II , will ho remembered that Horler ill-used his wife " ( bather mother came to fetch her from him ; that : he partly consented to let her go ; and if was during a brief abs ' e . iie-o of the . mother-iii-law that he killed his wife . He is .-aid to have learned to read while in Newgate , ; and it , is admitted that he had previously received no kind of education . Indeed his childhood was passed amid tho worst , circumstances . His mother eloped from his father ; and his fat lier kept another woman . Altogether it , is a wretched cane of almost , criminal neglect ; and shows how that svslein works which loaves education to chance . On thoscallold llorlcr made desperate elforts to escape ; but in a few moments bis body hung lifeless . The crowd is described " as more orderly than usual . " Alfred Wiuldinglon was hung at . York on Saturday . lie was the young man who cut . the throat of his illegitimate child at SheflTeld . Tho crowd is said to have boon very
" orderly . Patrick Hrady , a marine , has been sentenced , by a courtmartial hold 011 Monday , to receive fort y-eight lashes , and be imprisoned for eig hteen months in Winchester gaol . lie had threatened to kill Serjeant Sanders , his superior ollieer . Hrady is n bad character . lie had just been p unished with the cut , ; but . if seems to have produced no oU'eot , < iarotting , English Thuggi . sm , is becoming fashionable in ( he metropolis . Kverybody who walks abroad at ni g ht , in the worst districts , ( inch as St . Giles ' s , should carry effective weapons for punishing ( ho cowardly brutes who come behind and seize on the throat , half strangle , and then rob their victims . A convict , confined 011 ( he silent system in the Milllmnk prison , cut bis throat with a razor on Sal unlay . The weapon hud been given him for the purpose of shaving . Kobberirs » ir <> sometimes works of art . Such an one occurred In fit Saturday at the shop of a watchmaker named I ' rince in the VVulw orl h-l ' oad . Tho plunderers seem purposely I o lime selected I hat night , as on I ho ni g ht , previously ( he intended viol im had been up late , " keeping ( Mirisl mas . " So they got over into a forecourt , in front of a . house live doors oil , situate 111 11 deep recess formed by the shops which have been built out on cither side . I'Yom I his convenient spot ( hey climbed up on to the Hal . roofs of the shops , and mi > from one In another until they reached that , of I he < lovo ( o < l I ' rinee . Over his shop is a . rnlge skylight , from tin' gaMc end of which ( hey look out two squares ol g lass , anil removed a . bar ; next a largo g imlet , was screwed into the frame of a sk v light , ami a rope attached , and down fins ( he clover scoundrels easily dropped . ( Mice in ( . lie ( iliop Ihev iniido short , work with the gold and silver articles . But , disturbed apparently , and leaving Home ol ' tins booty behind , I hoy niudo ( lu-iv exit , not l > y luounu of
the rope , but by the shop steps which stood accommodat ingly near . A man has since been arrested on suspicion . Newport Pagnell , in Bucks , has lately been repeatedly set on fire ; now stacks of wheat ; then a stall ot cattle ; and lastly , the whole village . Two lives have been lost . The Home OtHce has directed an investigation , and ottered a reward of 200 Z . for tho discovery of the incendianos . Four gentlemen , two of whom wore tho uniforms and swords of a captain and lieutenant in the navy , went to tho Grecian Saloon on Saturday , and created a great disturbance First thev appeared in a " box , " and loudly quizzed
the " actors and actresses ; " then they descended into tho pit , stalked up and down and insulted the audience ; calling the men thieves , and the women by a name to winch wo need only allude . Of course " tho pit" would not put up with this ; and a general cry of " Turn 'cm out' arose . Officers appeared , and a fight ensued between the rioters and the constituted authorities , ending in the victory ot tho latter . One of the four called to his companions , " draw your swords , gentlemen , and cut them down . " But it was too late ; the gentlemen were pinioned . In the policecourt next morning they expressed great contrition for what they had done ; and were all fined forty shillings , except the gentleman who advised the use of the swords ; ho was fined iive pounds . in the Irish
Stories about Kirwan still appear papers ; but as the investigation before the authorities has not yet taken place , we are unable to place any authentic account of the disappearance of Boyer before the public . It is , however , understood that the new charge will be proceeded with ; as there is a strongly unfavourable suspicion against Kirwan . The bones of a child have been found in tne garden of a house he formerly occupied . He has been removed to Spike Island . Four men have been arrested on suspicion of being tho murderers of Mr . Bateson , near Castleblaney , Ireland , in December , 1851 . An Irishman was subpoenaed at tho last Galway Quarter Sessions as a witness in a dispute about property . He was reciuired to surrender a lease ; he refused " without the
consent of Ins partners ; ml tho ugh he was threatened wim imprisonment . He was ordered to be searched ; and five policemen set upon him . He fought them all ; and it was not until tables , chairs , barristers , and all had cleared away in the scuffle , that he was thrown on his back and secured . A 3 soon as the deed was taken from him , and he had recovered his legs , he laughed heartily , saying he "did not care about ' it , as they took it from him by force ; bufc ^ he would not give it up without the consent of his partners . " Whilo this scene , which lasted several minutes , was being enacted , the greatest confusion pervaded tho whole court . Drunimondtho
Letters from Malta state that Miss , eldest daughter of the London banker , was thrown while riding , and her jaw was broken by the fall . Nevertheless she kept her hold on tho reins . Taken home , her jaw wa 3 re-set , and she seemed going on well ; but in the interval of an hour after she had shown tho highest spirits , she waa found dead . Some internal injury is supposed to have been the cause of death . There were two small fires on Monday , and throe on Tuesday , in London . One of the latter was at tho " Royal Tent" tavern , Silver-street , Golden-square , and was nob extinguished until the premises , with the exception of tho basement and front bar , were all but destroyed , and two adjoining buildings greatly damaged . The inmates , to tho
number of fifteen persons , had a most providential escape . They wore roused from their slumbers with great ( litliculfy by the police constable who first discovered ( he Jinnies , and the ( ire had then attained such a height , that they wero unable to descend the staircase , and had to make their escape through a trap-door in ( . he roof . ITpon gaining that point , Air . Wileox , the proprietor of the tavern , remembered that , he had loft his cashbox behind ; ho therefore returned through the smoke to procure it , and in . passing through one of ( he rooms , discovered I . hat a young woman , who served at the bar , was still unrouscd . Mr . " W ileox seized hold of her , and carried h < r 111 safety I hrough the trap-door , ( he ( ire ; following ( hem as they proceeded towards the roof .
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JVI rS ( JK I . LA NKO ITS . The Queen remains ; it Windsor . One by 01 m 1110 now Ministers havo been invifed ( o dim ; wifli her Majesty ; iind flu ; ' / icr . s-oi / nr / , of the court , is fjjnuliiully undergoing a . change . The Puke of Wellington has , il , is understood , been appointed Master of 1 , 1 m Horse . The DaUif News reports , I hai , Lord John Russell assured a . body of diplomatist- , whom he roeeived Mm other day in Downiiig-. slreef , fhaf , Im only holds ( Jut seals of the Foreign OHiee . ad hi / rr / ni , and thai , in all probabilit y Lord Clarendon would shortly Im his miecessor .
We are , in common wil . h all old Mfonians , <^ !; ul to hoar thai , Dr . llaulrey has heen freely elecled to ( ho I'rovosiship of IOI 011 College . His eloelion was confirmed , according- to I ho usual ceremonies , by the fellows in College Chapel assembled , on Wednesday Isist ,. Dr . Haw troy has been Head Master of K |( , n ful- upwards of eighteen years , having . succeeded Dr . Keiilo in 1 , 1 ml capacity . And we are bul , echoing fhe re . sncel , and
regard of all old IOI 011 men for one who has m long and so brilliantly presided over I ho studies of I ho royal fchool , when wo oiler him our sincere cougral ulitliou on his having received Ibis recognition of bin hitfh character , distinguished ability , and meritorious Hervices . II is believed Hud . Dr . Haw trey has , more than once , relusod vei y 11 i «•; 11 promotion in I he ( Miureh from his generous devoi . iou ( o ( lie onerous mid rosponsiblo tlutiuH of lliiiul Ma . ten , hi' ) . Jn Iho nioro ! i-nu < jtul iunc-
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56 THE LEADER . ' [ Saturday ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1853, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1969/page/8/
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