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December 22 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER 1217
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for many years , said to the clergyman , "If yowwil not bury the child , / will ; " upon which Mr . Well exclaimed , in an excited tone , " If you do , I will hav * it removed ; for there it shall not remain . " Mi Oldrieve , sen ., replied that , if he attempted to removi the body , he would take away Mr . Wells ' s gown Ultimately , he commanded the undertaker to lowe ; the body , and pronounced the words—" Earth t < earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust , "—and , looking ai the clergyman , added , " And that is what you anc I must soon come to . " On the mourners retiring , th « clergyman told the sexton to cease filling in th < grave ; but the elder Mr . Oldrieve again interfered and caused the work to be finished . Mr . Wells sub sequeutly performed the burial service in the presenc * of his clerk . —If these allegations be not capable ol denial , the conduct of Mr . Wells should undoubtedly lead to the loss of his gown . The Hereford Muhder . —The eight " navvies ' charged with the murder of Priscilla Morgan , a womar of bad character , at Hereford , on the 30 th of last Sep tember , under circumstances detailed at the time it these columns , have been acquitted at the Hereford Assizes . Much satisfaction at the result was expressed in court . FORGERY BY A BIRMINGHAM TRADESMAN . ThoinaE Henry Taylor , an upholsterer and cabinet-maker ai Birmingham , was charged at the police-office with uttering a forged bill , purporting to be accepted by Mr . Simpson Hanbury , of the Iron and Copper Tube Company , Smethwick . Upon the fraud being discovered , Mr . Taylor was taxed with its commission ; and he acknowledged his guilt , offering to make an equal division of his property among his creditors , and placing all he possessed under the Court of Bank ruptey . He was committed for trial . A Victim to Judicial Haste . —Great sympathy is being excited in Doncaster , Sheffield , and Leeds for Mr . John Jackson , a pawnbroker , who was tried and convicted in a very summary manner , at the last West Riding sessions , held at Sheffield , and sentenced by the chairman , Mr . Wilson Overend , to twelve months' imprisonment , with hard labour , in the House of Correction , at Wakefield , on a charge of having feloniously received a diamond ring , knowing it to have been stolen . It appears that Mr . Jackson voluntarily attended the sessions , in company with his wife , who was summoned as a witness ; that , while there , an indictment was found against him , and he was arrested , bail being refused ; that he was put upon his trial next day , a convicted thief being the principal witness against him ; that the decision of the jury was accelerated by an intimation from the chairman that they would be locked up all night if they did not agree to a verdict within a given time ; and that the sentence was passed by the chairman without consulting hia brother magistrates , and waa received with unequivocal murmurs of disapprobation in a crowded court . Meetings reprobating this act of oppression have been held at Sheffield and Leeds , and the local journals have commented with great indignation on the conduct of the chairman . Another Female Impostor . —A rival to Alice Grey has turned up at Canterbury . She has appeared under various names—Mary Eliza Smith , Matilda Tremaine , or Mary Eliza Chippendale . She appears to be about thirty years of age . She is well versed in the arts of deception , possessing perfect command of her countenance , and rarely betraying the slightest emotion . Her plan is to obtain , by some tale of distress , a footing in a family for a time , where she secures food and lodging during her stay , and decamps on being detected , but seldom without carrying off some article of easy conveyance . In this way it is believed she has been living for the last two or three years in different parts of England . At one time she represented herself as coming from Liverpool , and being the daughter or nioco of a largo navy agent there ; that , although not quite convinced , she was leaving the Protestant religion , but was desirous of solving her remaining doubts . At another time she stated that her father wan a medical man residing in the vicinity of Dover , a member of the Baptist chapel there that he wanted her to jqin that denomination , to which she won opposed , but that she rather wished to turn Roman Catholic , and was then in search of a convent , having succeeded in getting out of her father ' s house at night , though in doing ho eho unfortunately fell into tho waterbutt . In the earlypart of last year , she obtained acccBH to a cottage at Upper Harbledowu , about three milofl from Canterbury , and remained there Home time , her fimt introduction being an appeal to tho cottagern for fihcltor and protection , as a man had rudely assaultedJjer . She also visited tho Catholic priest of tho district , from whom she obtained aid , and a note for Dr . Grant of London . Her last statement , and the one upon which she has boon apprehended , m of an entirely different character . bho is now an hourem in nearch of her grandmamma . In thin character « ne called on a flmall shopkeeper , named Eppa , residing at Ospringo , near FaverBharn , at whoso exponHO hI » o waa convoyed to Canterbury , where nho was recognised by ft police superintendent as an old customer , ¦ ¦
OUR CIVILISATION . James Wareham has been found guilty at York of the manslaughter of his brother , between whom and himself a bad feeling had for some time subsisted . He was sentenced to transportation for life . — A penalty of transportation for twenty years has been awarded to Patrick Connolly for the manslaughter of Ambrose Dunlevy . The crime arose out of a drunken quarrel at a public-house in Liverpool . — Edward Lewis and John Hayward have been sentenced to fifteen years' transportation for a murderous assault on Mr . William Burton , a farmer , on whose preserves he found them one night engaged in setting nets . — George Drury , a young man , charged with forging and uttering a banker ' s cheque , has been found guilty , at the Hereford Assizes , and condemned to four years ' penal servitude . Business-like BuROiiAns .-William Renton and John Clarke were found guilty at York of a burglary in the house of Mr . John Haines , at Knowstrop , near Leeds . Mr . Haines was in bed when the two men entered the room , and one , threatening him with a bludgeon , advised him to " be steady . " Being asked what he wanted , he replied , " Your money—where is it ? " Mr . Haines said , " In my trousers pocket . If you reach them to me , I'll give it to you . " The trousers accordingly were handed over and the money ( about ten or twelve shillings ) was counted out . Renton then said , " Now , no noise . " To which Mr . Haines replied , " Not a word ; depart in peace . " The men then withdrew backwards iu order that they might eee whether Mr . Haines gave any alarm or not ; but , as soon as they wore gone , lie roused some of the other inmates of the house . The prisoners ( agaiust whom a previous committal was proved ) were sentenced to transportation for life . A Clerical Despot . —The Rev . T . Welle , rector of Portsmouth , has disgusted his parishioners by a most disgraceful act of spito and tyranny . Mr . Lewis Oldrieve , juu ., had a child to bo christened a few months ago , and , instead of taking it to the Ebtablishod Church , he had the ceremony performed at the Wealeyan chapel at Salcombo . Tho child died last week , and tho parents proposed to have it buried in the church-yard of Mr . Wells's church . Ihe mourners were obliged to wait upwards of half an hour for the arrival ot tho clergyman , and then his reverence was sought for , and found in tho rectory . Another half-hour passed , and Mr . Wells who had by that time arrived , having boon told , in answer to an inquiry , that the child was christened at tho Wesleyan chapel , rejoined , "I shall not bury it . " The child ' s ! grandfather , who had been churchwarden
1 and was accordingly taken before a magistrate , by a whom she was remanded for a week . 3 Fraud by a Police Superintendent . —Mr . Jamee , Buglass , the late superintendent of police at South a Shields , is at present in custody charged with de > . frauding the Watch Committee of the corporation , r He had been instructed to receive the fines and fees > due to the Town Council from persons fined under b the by-laws , and many of these sums to a veiy large I amount , he had misappropriated . » Mr . Nash and Loud Ernest Vane Tempest . — j Mr . Nash has brought an action against Lord Ernest , Vane Tempest , arising out of the celebrated fracas on - the 21 st of last September . The action was for tress pass in breaking and entering the Windsor Theatre . F Mr . James ( who was for the plaintiff ) admitted in his r opening statement that Mr . Nash had allowed Lord Ernest Vane to go behind the scenes for the purpose ' of " paying his addresses" to one of the actresses ; and i Mr . N " ash , in his cross-examination , made some awk-. ward confessions . He said : — " Mr . Webber one i night threatened to complain to the magistrates of I the way in which I conducted my theatre . I took U the usual quantity of refreshment . I was not drunk . I was three nights incapacitated by drink from going j on the stage . I don ' t remember my mother getting ; hold of the drink I sent for , and throwing it away . L She was my treasurer , and took the money at the door . My father is an attorney , and brings this i action . My mother was my check-taker , knowing that I had a parcel of thieves about me . Some of my performers were thieves . My mother may have thrown away my drink one night . I did not threaten to pull her out of the box where she was sitting , in consequence . " Miss Emily Stewart , the young lady into whose dressing-room liis Lordship intruded , gave the following additional particulars of the scene : — " Only the dresser and myself were in the room . I remonstrated with his Lordship , and begged him to leave the room . He said he would , only on one condition—that was , that I would go to supper with him at the barracks . I said , ' Not on any condition . ' I then left the room , and went to Mr . Rogerson , the stage manager . Mr . Rogerson enroe , and begged him to leave the room . He then said ho would if I would promise him on my soul to go to supper with him . I said , ' On no account . ' He then refused to leave the dressing-room . " The Attornoy-General , in defence , said that the damages inflicted were confined to the breaking open of the door ; pointed to tho fact that the gas was not , as originally stated , put out ; and contended that there had been groat exaggeration . The jury gave a verdict in favour of Mr . Na sh damages , £ 25 . Marryinu both Brothers . —A private in the 9 otn has been tried at Winchester for making a false statement with respect to the name of a woman whom he had married . The wedding had taken place at Oarisbrook , and it was then stated that the woman was a spinster named Lucy Bowmer ; but it turned out that she was tho wife of the prisoner ' s brother . Franc *? Hudson , the man now charged with the offence , had been staying with his brother in Derbyshire , and had concluded his visit by running away with the brother ' s wife . Tho wife , who admitted the fact of bigamy , was examined , and said her first husband uaed her so ill that she was obliged to leave him . Upon the , olergyman being asked to produce the certificate , ho said " In point of fact , wo don ' t like those certificates , and ' therefore we always burn them . " The Judge , in aummiDg up , observed that ho thought no mischief Jiad been done to anyone , but that there must be an example to prevent other people doing , likewisethat is to say , doing no mischief . Tho man was , therefore , sentenced to six months imprisonment ; and tho woman to a * similar punishment , for the ' ^" false Character . —A middle aged man , named John Truncheon , has boon fined . £ 20 ( with three months' imprisonment in default ) for obtaining a situation as groom by moans of a false character . He threw himself on tho mercy of the magistrate and it did not appear that ho had behaved dishonestly after obtaining tho situation . . A Faisk Turnkey . —Jamon Mobs , a convicted felon , has boon ' committed for trial , charged with obtaining a quantity of wearing apparel from Caroline Scoouh by representing lihnaolf a « a turnkey of the prison m which Mm . Scoonu ' s husband wi « thon lying , «« " » £ SS £ -3 rtfH 5 = ? Sa Spencer kyttolton . _ gontlemiu » won recently JuvENJLK D ff T A J ' Htrcot Islington , when a girl , walking near the Hig » J" ^ , . « « , do about twelve ye ^ ut ' r The B-ntlo » nan pushedW you want a sffflotliaut' JJJ » , * , , Lido , and Ho . no wonta nged "jo g / ri ( jhman > WiUl f ° Snahan then appeared , and struck and S 3 ^^ = « ; rho
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ifc ir t , i , r . >; 0 » t tf d t- ¦ - a r Y e e 3 1 3 r 3 3 - - , i - j - - i s i note to Mr . Palmer , requesting his attendance ; bufc an answer was returned that he . was ill in bed . The jury brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Mr . - ^ Palmer , and a warrant was made out , committing him to the- county gaol . Mr ,. Bamford , in the course of his examination , said : — " I have attended other patients for Mr . Palmer . I attended Mra . Palmer some days before her decease ; also two children and a gentleman from London , who was on a visit at Mr . Palmer ' s house , and who did not live many hours after I was called in . The whole of those patients died . " The annexed is from the Globe : — " We understand that circumstances have transpired tending to establish other charges against "William Palmer , the surgeon , who has been committed to Stafford Gaol on a charge of poisoning Mr . Cook . It is said that Palmer insured his wife ' s life for £ 13 , 000 . She died shortly afterwards , and , upon the usual probate being produced , the money was duly paid by the office . He then induced his brother , Walter Palmer , to insure his life for a similar sum , and afterwards obtained the transfer of it on an alleged debt of £ 400 , which William Palmer stated was due to him by his brother . Palmer made every endeavour to further insure this life ; but , in consequence of an anonymous , letter from Stafford , it was declined . The brother has since died , and the usual demand was made for the money . The large amount , and the previous death of Palmer ' s wife , having excited the suspicion of the numerous insurance offices concerned , they deemed it prudent to place the matter in Inspector Field ' s ( late of the detective police ) Private Inquiry-office . Mr . Field , with his assistant , Mr . Simpson , proceeded at once to Stafford and the Isle of Man , and , after the most searching investigation , extending over a period of upwards of six weeks , reported to the various insurance offices certain startling revelations , which induced the offices to form a ' defence fund , ' for the purpose of mutual resistance to these attempts . Mr . Field , having gathered certain information that Palmer had endeavoured to effect an insurance for £ 25 , 000 upon the life of ' a gentleman , ' whom Palmer reported to live ' on his estate' near a village in Staffordshire , proceeded there , and 3 found that other persons in high position had con- 1 spired with Palmer falsely to represent the standing 1 in life of the individual , who was , in fact , no other ^ person than Palmer's occasional groom , renting a bed- i room at two shillings a-week . " s
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/5/
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