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    public-house at Rochdale . The next morning , th < '' "SSuuk was found with her throat cut , and the mai diad ^ isappeared . The case was singular from tiu ^ Ot of the prisoner havin g mad e arr angements whict vAould give the appearance of suicide . A razor wa dfound in the hand of the dead hody ; but only on « < H pot of blood appeared on the blade , and the woman ' * . faoe and throat were covered with a pillow . Tht medical men were of opinion that , after cutting hei 'throat with the force and completeness which werc Olearly exhibited , the woman could hardly hav « summoned sufficient sVength to change the razor and place the pillow over her . The jury pronounced 6 verdict of " Guilty , " and sentence of death was re corded . —Robert Rogers Harvey was indicted at JExeter , for shooting at the Rev . George Tucker . Nc tinotive was assignable for the act , and it was evideni . that the prisoner was insane . He kept making un rflOUth gestures , smiles , and-winks , during the trial and , among other evidences of his state of mind , ii was mentioned that he was once before the magistrates for a quarrel , when he said it was because a man ' s wife had sat cross-legged in his presence . He was acquitted on the ground of lunacy . —Heni'y Bacon and Henry Marchant have been sentenced at Chelmsford , to six years' penal servitude for a murderous assault on a policeman in a field at night , when attempting to arrest them under suspicious circum-. stances . —Thomas Franks has been found guilty at Nottingham . ' of cutting his wife with a razor , and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation . The two lived apart ; and jealousy was the cause of the act . - — Elizabeth . Kennedy has been found guilty at Oxford of the manslaughter of her husband , and sentenced . to only two years' hard labour , as it appeared that the stone which she threw at him had been flung without the design to kill . —Two Irishmen , at the York Assizes , have been convicted of the murder of a j > oliceman , and sentenced the one to transportation for . fifteen , years , and the other to one year ' s hard ! labour , ( Highway Robbery . —George Barker-, Samuel Breaze , and Robert Hopkin , were found guilty at Derby , of robbing a labouring man , named Barney Gosgrove , of four sovereigns . Cosgrove was returning in the evening after harvest work , when he ( Was met by Breaze and Hopkin , the latter of whom called upon him to stand , while Breaze rushed upon 3 iim . He kept Breaze at bay with his sickle , but was » t length overpowered by the two , knocked down , And ill-used . They then tore away his fob containing ¦ the money ; upon which , Barker , who had been looking oq , came up , said they had " given him . enough , " and induced them to leave . Hopkin and Brenze were sentenced to six years' penal servitude , and Barker to four years ' . ¦ Manslaughter . —Jarnes Ratcliffe , a labouring man , was drinking in a public-house at Horsley together with several othor men , among whom a quarrel took jplace , and , after a good deal of scuffling , the whole Ait the company was turned out of the house . It was a . dark night ; but the men kept lingering about , and Hatcliffe told , some of his friends that a man named Clarke had pulled his nose in the public-house , and that he would have " a stroke" at him . Clarke was afterwards informed that Ratcliffe was " hunting " 'him ; upon which he said that he had something in 'hie pocket to quiet him , and subsequently ho explained that this meant a knife . In about half nn 'hour , Ratoliffe and Clarke met ; the foi-mer advanced in a fighting attitude , and was stabbed by Clarke , death ensuing in the course of a few days . The asaailant was tried at the Derby Assizes , found guilty ' 6 f manslaughter , and sentenced to fifteen years * trans-< j » ort «* ion . , ' v 3 b *»« afUBT . — A trial in the Court of Queen's Benoh + tfdwardB the latter end of last Week , exhibits a very odid-blooded and heartless piece of perjury . In ( Deoember , 1851 , -Captain Robert Blair ' K « jmedy finaMtuted a prosecution against Alexander 'M'Geaohy 'AHeyne , his brother , James Holder AHeyno , and Thomas Buohanan OD'Arcy , all of whom at that timo ' held oommisBions in the army . The indictment / Charged them with 'having conspired to defraud Captain Kennedy out of £ 7 , 800 , the amount of a Wager between that gentleman and Mr . James Holder 'Alleyne , as to the capabilities of a certain maro ; and the principal witness on the trial—one Ignatius , iFrancis Ooyle—swore that in November , 1846 , ho 'had been present , at Cheltenham ,-at a conversation ! 'between James Holder Alleyno , and Alexander ! WQeaohy Alleyne , whon it waa agreed to impose 'Opon Captain Kennedy by telling him that the morel 'ffaid fallen lamo and could not run the match ; in > oonsequenoo of which , Captnin Kennedy was induced ! 'tto ^ pay the amount of tho wager ( £ 7 , 800 ) to Mr . Holder Gftlfeyne . This evidouoe induced the jury , on tho firittl in ¦ 1851 , to find a verdict of " Guilty " against ' the SMUeyneB and D'Aroy , and thoy wero tjentonoed to ? various torms of imprisonment . A writ of error was 'subsequently brought by the Alloyno . s , and wns nt ' 'fUt it'allowed , but waa afterward /) sot anido on tho , tataund of oollualon . Aloxandor M'Qenohy Alloyney TOkwevor , -laid an indictment , in the oouruo of laflt < ¦

    : ! s February , against Coyle , oharging him with perjury l and he was found guilty , and sentenced to two years ) imprisonment ; but a new trial was moved for , anc i took place on Friday week , on the ground that fresl » evidence in favour of Coyle had been obtained . Thi 5 second trial resulted in a confirmation of the formei j sentence against Coyle . Mr . M' Geachy Alleyne swon j positively that he was not at the place mentioned bj ! Coyle on the day in question ; and he was supportec i by other testimony . One of the witnesses in favou ] s of Coyle—a Captain Price—gave the following ehoic < , account of himself in the course of his cross-exami L nation : — " I am not now in the army . I left in 1840 - I have been on the turf . Until I went to Australia ; I lived upon nay own private fortune . I went tc > Australia as the manager of a bubble gold-mining ; company . I was there two years . I was in a mes at Cheltenham in 1847 . I then tried to take away i ; young lady—a ward in Chancei-y—from a boarding ; school . That did not occur in 1848 or 1849 . J i recollect sending a letter to a friend of mine , stating i that I did not know anything about the affair of th < \ Alleynes and Coyle . That letter is a deliberate false i hood , to which I have put my name . ' Mr . Roper and his " Blind Woman . "— Oui i readers will recollect Mr . Roper , the enterprising anc large-hearted individual who combined in his owr person the whole of two associations—the Needle i women ' s Society and the Blind Sempstresses' Fundand who had always on hand an indefinite number o : blind women , for whom he collected subscriptions It will be borne in mind that Mr . Ferguson , chie clerk to the Mendicity Society , suspected one of thes < . afflicted females to have no other entity than in Mr . Roper ' s imagination ; and that the ease was broughi before the Lambeth magistrate . Since then , Mr i Ferguson has followed up his inquiries with mucl pertinacity ; has hunted Roper from place to place invaded the premises of the Benevolent Society , cross questioned the housekeeper , harried the matron elicited the most contradictory and self-criminatorj disclosures , and finally discovered that Mr . Roper if at this present time an inmate of Whitecross-streel prison for a debt of £ 300 . Thus the whole fraud is revealed ; and Mr . Norton , the magistrate , says that , should any person complain before him of having been induced to give money to Roper on account oi the ~ blind women , he will treat it as a case of obtaining money under false pretences . Abson . —John Pager was indicted at Liverpool for setting fire to his house in Chapel-street , Salford . The neighbours were aroused between twelve and one o'clock on the morning of the 20 th of August by a cry of " Fire ! " at the prisoner ' s shop , and , upon gaining admittance to the house , they found a large volume of smoke issuing from the shop . Going into the cellar , the gas there was found blazing , and the floor between that place and the shop was considerably burnt . On continuing their search through the shop , they found underneath the counter a shawl , a pillow filled with flock , and pieces of paper partially burnt . On the same day Pager bad sent his wife and children away to Stockport , the servant girl remaining in the house with him . He had effected an insurance in the Anchor-office for £ 300 , and a recent fire had taken place on his premises , through which he had obtained a olairn from the London and County insurance-office . Pager , moreover , had said , in a conversation with Mr . Lamb , a grocer in Manchester , who supplied him with goods , that he should soon be able to make his payments more regularly , because ho Bhould have afire shortly , and should then be in a condition to go into tho market with ready money . He was found guilty , and sentence of death was recorded . The Homeless in Whiteohapel . —A gentleman , residing in the Whiteohapel-road , near the Workhouse , called the attention of Mr . Yardley , the Thames magistrate , to the appalling scenes which which were almost nightly presented at the gates of the workhouse , whore men , womon , and children , insufficiently clothed , and suffering from hunger , disease , and privations , asked for shelter and food in vain , and lay huddled together as closely as possible on tho pavement to keep each othor warm . On Saturday night , « person in the applicant ' s employ called his attention to seven destitute persons lying on tho stones « t the gates of the workhouse . Ho looked at and aroused them . Some of them were quite benumbed with oold and could not stand . They all Baid thoy were without food and shelter , or tho means of procuring any , and that application for admission had been made in vain . He provided them with food and a lodging for the night . On Sunday night there was a similar scene at the gates of Whiteohapel workhouse . The sufferings of tho half-famished creatures woro appalling , but thoy were denied that relief of whioh they wero in neod . The night was intensoly cold , nnd one poor man , who could not stand whon ho was put on his foot , would have porinhod if he had not been provided with stimulants and food . Ho provided the unfortunate pernonu with food and shelter for another night , but 'ho thought it was shameful that tliono who wore paid to look after the . poor did

    ; : not do their duty . Mr . Yardley said he was very sorry to hear this statement . The greater part of the parish of Whitechapel was in the district assigned to the Thames police-court ; but the Whitechapel workhouse , on the north side of the road , was in the Worship-street district . He referred the applicant to the Worship-street police-court . A subsequent application there resulted in the magistaate ordering a warrant-officer to lay the facts before the workhouse board . Some other similar instances of neglect on the part of the same workhouse have been brought forward . Alice Gbe y was brought before the Birmingham magistrates on Saturday ; but in consequence of a message from the Home Office , stating that it was the desire of the Government that she should be removed to Wolverhampton , the case against her was not gone into , and she was taken away in custody . Some evidences of sympathy for her are beginning to be manifested . Justices' Justice . —A poor man named John Buggins , living at Stratford on-Avon , was returning from work on the evening of the 26 th of November . On his way home , he had to pass through a turnip-field , and , seeing an inviting looking swede , he pulled it up , and was just in the act of eating a slice when a rural policeman suddenly pounced upon him , charged him with stealing the turnip , and demanded his name . That beingcomplied with , he was led to Miss Knight ' s house ( the owner of the field ) , who considered the matter so paltry that she declined to notice it in any way . So kindly a conclusion , however , was not at all to the satis faction of the policeman , who subsequently served a summons irpon poor Buggins , and he was brought up before two of the county magistrates , at Stratford-on-A . von , on the charge of " stealing one uncultivated root , commonly called a turnip , of the value of Id . " The poor fellow in his alarm pleaded " Guilty , " and he was mercifully fined Id . with costs , amounting to 15 s ., or in default to be com . mittedto prison for one month . He urged the hard ship of going to gaol , hi . s perfect ignorance of having committed any crime , and the absence of the proprietor of the " one cultivated root ; " and he was allowed three weeks to obtain the money . —Corresjtondent of the Times . Forgery by a Clergyman . —William D . Beresford aged fifty-six , a fine-lookiug man , apparently in broken health , and meanly dressed , was indicted at the York Assizes for uttering , at Bradford , on the 4 th of November , 1848 , a forged endorsement of a bill of exchange for the payment of £ 100 , with intent to defraud Samuel Laycock and others . The case excited considerable interest from its being kuown that the prisoner was a clergyman , highly connected , and next heir to a peerage . At the latter end of October , 18 i 48 , the prisoner called at Bradford Banking Company ' s Bank , at Bradford , aud produced a bill of exchange for £ 100 drawn on Samuel Hibbert and Co ., of Billiter-squaro , London , by Marcus Beresford , which he asked the manager of the bank to discount . He gave his own name as the Rev . Mr . Beresford . The manager said he would discount the bill if endorsed by any one whom he know . Mr . Beresford said he had been on a visit at Manningham-hall , near Bradford , to Mr . Kay , and asked if that gentleman ' s endorsement or that of his Bon would suffice , and the manager replied that he should be perfectly satisfied with either . A day or two afterwards , he called at the bank and asked if there was any letter there addressed to him . Ono had arrived addressed to him . ' Out of this letter he took the bill he had before produced , which purported to be endorsed by Mr . John Cunliffb Kay , and handed it to the manager . The manager looked at the endorsement doubtfully , and said it did not look like his handwriting ; but Mr . Berosford Paid Mr . Kay was ill in bed , and had endorsed tho bill in bed , which would account for its nppoaranco . Tho manager then cashed tho bill , deducting 14 b . for commission and interest . This signature was a forgery , Mr Kay not having endorsed it , but , whon asked to do so by tho prisoner , havmg positively declined . Having obtained tho money , tho prisonor had not afterwards been heard of until last summer , whon Mr . Kay acoidontly mot him in Itogont street , London , and gave him into custody . Ho was found guilty , and sentenced to transportation for hie . —At tho Gloucester Affixes , John Sampson , a surgeon was found guilty of forging a £ 10 Bunk of Kiiff limd note . Tho eontonco was transportation for flftoou yearn . , ADur . TEHATioN ov Vi . ovxi . —Mr . East , a miller at Lincoln , pleaded guilty before tho magistrates to a ohargo of adulterating his flour with plaster of Paris , &c . no was fined and tho flour waH condemned . Subsequently analysis was made by Dr . Lothoby , who said ho could not detect the prosonoo of plaster of Pan * ; hut considering othor evidence that had boon roooiveel , tho magistrates abided by their decision . FonaiNa Prussian Notks . —Edmund and Louih Soholo , GonnanH , woro brought boforo tho Marlboro ughstreet magistrate , charged with having made n fradulont imitation of aomo Prussian thaler notes . Thoy had gone to tho house of Mr . Rudolp h Apod ,

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    il 94 THE . LEADE B . [ No 299 , Saturpay _

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 1194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2119/page/6/