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      to take all care you can of my poor dear children till I can naake some arrangement with my friends . Do not pay nay rent out of that trifle I left you . Please God , they- will be able to get up a benefit at the theatre or some place , and I expect there will be £ < 5 for the funeral . You must get it done as cheap as possible , but do not slight the remains of my poor dear murdered wife . Oh ! Betsy , if you knew the anguish of my mind . I have do rest night or day , . « ^ ^ _ 19 __ ^ - V * ^ V ¦ «« . *

      now that I have come to my senses . Ob . ! Betsy , save me a lock of my poor Louisa ' s hair now she is gone . I would give anything to undo what I have done . Be kind to my poor helpless children , and the Great God that I trust to for mercy for my crime will reward you . When you come up with my child bring my blue waLtcoat , and take the one I liave got oa away with you . You must get the most you cau upon it for the children . Please to bring me a collar or two , and also my black necktie . If you can carry baby with you , I shall be glad to see her . Oh ! Betsy , forgive me for what I have done , and -beg of your father to do so too . None of your feelings , bad as they are , can be like mine , as I am the cause of all . * " If you . cannot come to-morrow ( Saturday ) 3-013 must come on Monday . If you can bring me a little butter , I ghall be glad . " Give my love to father and my sisters , and accept the same yourself , from yo . ur heart-broken and wretched brother-in-law , "T .-ConniGAX . " P . S . — -You must try-and come at twelve o'clock /' A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned against Tkomas-Jolm Willjam Corrigau , by the coroner ' s jury .

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      ravmgly so . -The testimony of Mary Williams , a niece of the man , and serving as barmaid in the house , gives some frightful particulars of the fierce pursuit of the woman from room to room by Beardsmore , and of-the final act . This girl , who is only sixteen years of age , said : — " I went . down to the newsroom door aud asked my uncle to go to bed . He was tipsy . He had been drinking all night , and was in an excited state . When I asked . him to go to bed he said hs was going to let the men out . He went down staii-s to let some persons out , and I returned to my aunt ' s room . My uncle followed me shortly after wards , aud he asked me what I wanted with my bonnet on . I said my Bunt had told mo to" open the bar with her , and he said I should not , but was to go to bed . At that moment , neither made use of bad language . She again said I should , and 011 that he gave my aunt a slight push . He took hold of her arm and pushed her away , aud said I should not go . She then weut to the window , broke a square of glass , and called ' Police , ' aud ' Murder . ' He caught hold of her by the arm and gave her a sudden jerk , and she fell dowii

      past me down stairs . I did not follow him . Mary Ann Parker was with me all this time . A servant called Jemima Dixon was also on the stairs . She came up stairs just before lie broke the door open . She had been in bed . She remained with me until my uncle went down stairs , after we heard the crash . I remained up stairs till I heard from Mr , Lambert , butcher , that my aunt had fallen out of the . window ; that was a few minutes after I heard the crash . I followed' him do-wn stairs into the passage leading from Neville-street to Westgate-streefc , and found my aunt lying there , having apparently fifllen through the glass roof . " ^ a ^ _ .. - _

      The inquest on the bod y of Mrs . Beardsmore , wlio was thrown out of window by her husband , an innkeeper at Newcastle-on-rTyne , " still continues , and is further adjourned . It seems certain that man and wife were both intoxicated at the tims—the former

      on the aoor . Sho foil on her kuees . He did not use any threatening language to her . I don ' t recollect either of them saying anything . She was very nearly tipsy and was iu ; m excited state . As she was getting up , he struck her a violent blow on the mouth with his fiat . I don ' t recollect what he said . She fell back oa me when ho struck her . The door came open , aud she ran out . I don't remember that she cried out as she was running . The door had been opened by some one from the outside before he struck her on the mouth , and when she was ou her knees and it close b

      was pushed y my aunt and her husband wrestling together . After ho had struck my auut , the door again opened , and Mary Ann Parker , a niece of Mrs . Beardsmore , caino in . At the sumo time my aunt ran out . Beardsmoro rushed after her and Mary Ann Parker caught hold of his collar , and said , Dont , uuelo ! Stop hero . ' [ don ' t recollect that ho said why he wns ruahini ? aftor her . Ho forced himself away fro in her , and said , ' Loose me ! ' Ho then c ? ot away from her . I followed him out of the room , iuul to the top of tho stairs . Ho wont down stairs thon but roturuod m a few minutes . Mury Ann Parker remained on tho top of tho stairs with me . When ho returuetl , ho was very much excited , nml wait ! 'Where 1 < J Hho V Ho had nothing in his hand * . Ho was in a passion . Ho pushed mo mvay from him . Ha also puahod Mary Ann Purkor . 1 foil down four uttuiy iu consequence of the push ho gave 1110 . Ho then \ v « nt along tho paRHago to No . 0 l > odroom . Ho did not my why ho wan following Mrs . Hotmlnmoro about . When I spoke to him ho only said , ' Don ' t tulle to mo ! ' or Mot away ! He thon neouiod in a grout rage . 1 did not hour any doom brokon open whilo ho \ v , w down stairs . The door of No . fl bedroom w , u unlocked . JiejviHt wont in there and thon ouino out . Ho thon wont into No . 7 . Thin rooiu door was looked , < m < l ho burst it open by main foruo . Ho iuu up again / it it Wo wa * not uhouting nt that timo . Ah ho o . uno out of that room wo hoard a loud crash [ n ^ ooodin ^ lVoiu down ataira . I said , ' Oh , dear ! ' and ho thon YuhIhkI

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      A WIFE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY . The crime of wife-beating shows no prospect of diminution , with the New Year . In the course of the last week , a wretelied looking woman , dressed in rags , and with her head and arans * bound up with white plaisteiy appeared at the Clerkenwell police" office to give evidence against her husband , John Sargent , residing in Lamb-court , Clerkenwell-green . The woman thus told her own history : — "I have been married altout two years , during which period my husband ' s conduct towards me has been one of continued ill usage . Shortly after our marriage , he commenced knocking me about ; and

      when li « was drunk he waald often come home , pull me down on the floor , and then drag- me about the room b y the hair of my head . On one occasion he pulled tne from the top of the stairs to the bottom by the hair of my head . He went out on Friday last , leaving me witho-ut any food to eat , and no mouey in the house to get anything with . I saw nothing further of him until yesterday afternoon , about half-pas . t two , when I saw him in tli-e Lamb aud 'Flag publichouse ., kept b y' Mr . Collins . I then said to him , 'I thought you were going to stop here for dinner ; ' -when he ordered me k > leave the Louse . I did so , aad on getting- outside , rny husband said , ' I .. will give you a ticket for this , and will learn you to come to a publichouse after , me , ' He then went home , and kicked me

      in the ribs , and afterwards eftinmenced "breaking up the furniture . He afterwards said , taking up a knife , 'I will settle you shortly , and then you wont want to eat either dinner or tea . ' I went outside , aad he threw the knife at me , and finding that did not hurt me , he took up a briuk and hurled it at my head . I then went into the house of Mrs . Dobson , a near neighbour , when niy husband followed , knocked me down , dragged ate across tlie room by the hair of my head , and kicked me both ou the head and arm . I was t-wenty-fpur years of age last Tuesday , and wfcen I married I had a good box of clothes ; but , owing to my husband's drunk-en and dissolute character , I am not fit to be seen . I have always endeavoured to keep myself respectable , and have tried to get my living bv washing and chasing . "

      The man was sentenced to four ' months * ' hard labour , and the woman received & sovereign from the poorbox . Another case of brutaliby to awifo has come before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom William Kellard , a tailor , and an old offender , has beou senteuccd to four mouths'liard labour for striking his wife violently over the jaw with a j > ai 1- of scissors . He had been threatening one of the children with similiar chastisement , and the wife ' s offence consisted in interfering to protect them . Tho poor woman will be assisted during her husband ' s imprisonment with 2 s , Gd . a-week from , the poor-box .

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      FRIGHTENED TO DEATH . A lamentable instance of death , resulting entirely from nervous terror , occurred about a week ago at Fulford , near York . Mr . Sutton , a proctor hi that town , engaged as office boy a lad of -thirteen . Up to Thursday week , the boy had been in perfect health ; bufc , at half-past four o ' clock in the afternoon of that day , as Mr . Sutton was about to leave for his private residence , he observed that hia assistant looked very pale . On asking him if he felt ill , the youth replied that he had wounded himself with his penknife . He shortly afterwards fainted , when medical aid was called in ; and the proper restoratives being applied , he pai--titilly revived . A surgeon was next sent for , who

      found that the boy had scratched his chest , and fetched a few drops of blood . He did not , however , think that there was anything dangerous in the "wound itself . The lad was taken home by his master ha a cab , and , a very few hours afterwards , Mr . Sutton , to his great surprise , learnt from the boy ' s father that the poor fellow was dead . An elder brother of this same boy , also employed by Mr . Sutton , had bled to death from the drawing of a tooth about two months previously . This had . alarmed the younger brother to such an extent as to make him fancy that he ahould himself one day meet with a similar" death . When he saw tin * blood issue from the wound which he had

      infiiuted on himself , it is conjectured that his nervous system must have received so severe a shock that recovery was impossible . An inquest was held on Friday week , when the jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died froia fright . "

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      OUR CIVILISATION . CnuKivrv to AmJiAiB , — Several cab and omnibus proprietors Iiavo boon summoned before the Lord Mayor , at the instance of tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , for ill-tieating and torturing horses ; and fmca wore- inflicted varying from 8 s . to 20 a-. Wuoi-esaj . e Watch-Pawning . — Jamos Coatos , lately a watch-maker iu Ecclestoii-atrcet South ,

      Pimlico , haa boon ooiwicted at tho Westminster policoofilco of pawning n great mnny watch oa which had been loft with him for repair . As many as fifty-one were recovered from different pawnbrokers . It seemed thot in hoiuc cases tho man obtained payment for tho work ho had do no to the watched upon making n pretence of returning thoni , and thon , ashing for them back upon HoinuinyoniouH pro text , pawned them . Ho \ vun committed to prison for twolvo months . Forty watcher ) still remain unredeemed .

      Dur . vi . OATioN oil' tihc Postmaster of Nrwcabtlkon-Tyni :. --Mr . Chariot ) Hoadlam , tho postmaster of Wowoftrttlo-ou-Tyno . hits absconded with pnblio money to tho amount of a fow hundred pounds . This Hum will hn made good by tho Hurotioa , tho withdrawal of one of whom , and tho appointment of another in Inn { . ilium , led to tho discovery of tho robberies by ncoossitatiuK a squaring of tho neoountP . Tuo absconding

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      January 5 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 5 ¦ k MBiHhBBBBBBBBHMBi

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      AN ACTIVE CLERK . A young man named ltolwrt Kdwiii Robineon , oonfideutiul olork to Mr . William Marshall , n sharobrokor at Leeds , was tried at the Leeds Borough Sessions on throe separate eliargoa of embezzlement . The firwt of thus * indictments was for tho sum of £ ( 50 , of which ho had dofraudoil hia employer , who , in October last , gave him n Bank of England note for £ 100 to remit to Mr . Cawthora , his London agent . This payment was duly entered by tho clork on both sides of tho canh-book , as having boon rcceivod by him from Mr . Marshall , and subsequently remitted to Mr . Cawthorn . A few days after Mr . Marshall received a letter from that gontlonuin in which tlio receipt of tho £ 100 was not m-knowltidgoil . Ho mentioned this ftu't to his

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ Robinson's payments on the 11 th on account of his master exceeded his receipts , and it was suggested that , acting as he thought best for his employer he had paid £ 85 to a local client , and remitted £ 40 to London . The second charge against Robinson was tliat of having swindled Mr . Marshall of a £ 165 coupon , together with some dividend warrants and other documents , and £ 94 10 s . iu money . He had in August last commissioned Messrs . Beard shaw to purchase for hia master £ 5000 Midland Stock , whichafter the

      , purchase , fell , and was continued from account to account . He afterwards requested the same firm to purchase 100 Dovera on account of Mr . Marshall . As the Midland £ jtock -was continued from account to account , Robinson was obliged to pay the " differences , " which he did , unknown to his employer , by first paying Messrs . Beardshaws' Leeds agent £ S 4 . 10 s . in money , and afterwards remitting to Messrs . Beardshaw the £ 165 coupon , dividend warrants , &c . These were held b y Mr . Marshall as security for money advanced . His clerk told him that the letter

      containing the Dover contracts was a mistake , and he would return them , but they were found hi his desk after he had absconded . He acknowledged having bought the Midland Stock , and paid the " differences " unauthorised , but stated that he made the purchase to benefit his employer . As in the former case , it was submitted that Robinson had derived no profit from the purchases , and had paid the money and securities h& -was charged with embezzling , on account of the stock , which had since been taken by Mr . Marshall He had acted to the be 3 t of his judgment for his master ' s interest , and the speculation had proved a failure , or the jury would never have heard anything of the case . In the third instance , Robinson was charged with stealing from his employer the documents and mo ney mentioned in the last case , but upon this indictment no evidence wits offered .

      The young man was acquitted on the first and third charges , but convicted on the second , and sentenced to eight " months' imprisonment in Leeds gaol .

      clorlc , -who promised to write to Mr . Cawthorn about , it Ou tho Kith of tho same month Mr . Marsh all , jun ., took from tho poat two letters from Modern . BoardhIiuw , ritookhrokora of London , ono onolowing two contriu ' U for 100 Dovora , and tho other n certain number of contracts for £ 5000 Midhuul tttook . Of both those transactions Mr . Marshall - \ vi \ s ignorant . On tlui 18 th , UobhiBon almeo « ii < led in oouKoquonco of what had previously occurred between himself and hia employer , and after his departure a letter from Mr . Caiwthorn wan rliHCovui'od in his doak , acknowledging tha receipt of £ 10 , which Hum wan likewise , ou examination , found entered in tho cash-book , immediately over the entry of the £ 100 romittnuoo . Tho clerk was there , foro ohargod with having einbo / . iclu . l the rort of thn money . For the defence , howovor , it wan hIumvu that

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 5, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2122/page/5/