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belonging to a farmer near Truro in Cornwall was i-ecently taken from off a hedge where ifc had been put to dry ; and , from information given by the servant , Jane Allen , and one or two circumstances of a auspicious character , a man named William Cook waB arrested , committed for trial , found guilty , and sentenced to six months' hard labour . About a fortnight afterwards , another quantity of linen was missed from the hedge : this time , the inquiries which were instituted led to suspicion falling on the girl Allen herself . These conjectures being confirmed by the statements of a woman to whom Allen had taken some linen goods , the latter was arrested and taxed with the theft , which she acknowledged , and confessed that she had falsely thrown suspicion on Cook . She has been committed for trial . Cook ' s sentence
length he succeeded in disengaging himself from his rasp . Mr . Mackie then seized the thief by his coattail , but , in so doing , the coat was torn , and the man ran away . Although much bruised and exhausted by the previous scuffle , Mr . Mackie raised an alarm , and ran after Burn ; and a waterman at the Whitechapel cab-stand joined the pursuit . The thief was ultimately captured , though not until after a savage resistance , in which he attempted to gouge out the eyes of the waterman and to throttle a policeman . A blow on the head from another constable's staff at
" Murder ! " brought the neighbours to hLs assistance and the fcuieves were captured . They have been ex / mined , and remanded for a week . The elder brother Ilegep starvation as their excuse . Their father is at present Buffering imprisonment for a robbery . Attack on Mr . Clarkson , the Bakhister . Mr . Clarkson was walking along the Bayswater-road , about one o clock in the morning of Thursdav , when a man came behind him , put his arms round " his neck , and , grasping ; his throat , attempted to throttle him . Another man then catne in front of him , kicked him , and snatched away his watch , chain , seals , &c . Mr . Clarkson struggled , when one of the men called out
to his co mpanion , " Present your pistol at his head . " They were at length shaken off , and Mr . Clarkson attacked one of them with his fists , at which he ran away . The other followed at finding that his victim next turned upon him . They ran down the Bayswater-road j and one of them shouted , " Shoot him , and do for him . " They then took up stones , and threatened to throw them . Mr . Clarkson once more attacked them , and they fled . Turning down a place where th ere was no thoroughfare , Mr . Clarkson again got up with them . At this point , a policeman arrived ; but of
one the naen escaped . The other told the constabl e the direc tion in which he had gone , and he was pursued , Mr . Clarkson in the meanwhile guarding the prisoner till another policeman came up , by whom , he was removed . On the way to the station-house , he resisted -violently ; but , the first policeman coming back after a . n ineffectual pursuit of the other man , he was secured , and the stolen property was found on him . He pretended that he had been helping Mr . Clarkson to protect Mmself , and he repeated the same story before the Marylebone magistrate : but he was remanded for a -week .
The Murder in Bedford-kow . — The adjourned inquest on Mr . Waaigh has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Westron , who has been committed for trial by the Cler&enwell magistrate . At the police court , a rambling letter from Westron to his victim was produced and read . It was dated Oct . 1 lth , and contained a threat against Mr . Waugh , whose life was said to -hang oil a puff of smoke . On account of this letter , Westron was bound over to keep the peace ; and , two days before the murder , Mr . Waugh , seeing that he was dogged , near his residence in Bayswatei ' , by the accused , told a policeman to keep his eye on him .
Djesi ? eba . tb Lajds . — -Three eases of desperate assaults by youths came before the magistrates on Wednesday . Thomas Bennis , about fourteen years of age , having committed a robbery , was arrested by a policeman in the Victoria Theatre . The ruffian pulled out a pistol ( emulous , probably , of the feats of romantic villainy he had often seen on the stage before him ) , and snapped it in the officer ' s face ; but it missed fire . He then levelled another pistol at hia captor , and would have fired had not the weapon been wrested front his hand by a bystander . Having been examined
at Guildhall , he was committed for trial .- —In the second case , Edwin Levy , fifteen years of age , was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment by the Bowstreet magistrate for kicking savagely on the shin a policeman who endeavoured , to arrest him for refusing to move cm when seen in suspicious company . —The third oa-: e ( which was heard at the Thames office ) was against Patrick Manning , an Irish lad of seventeen , who stabbed a waterman through the hand for demanding his just fare , of which Manning had cheated him . He was committed for tidal .
The Rugeley Poisonings . —The inquest on Walter Palmer terminated on Wednesday evening , in the following verdict , which the foreman delivered after the jury had been absent two hour 3 : — " We find that Walter Palmer died from , the effects of prussic acid ; and that such prussic acid was wilfully administered by William Palmer . We also append to our verdict the expression of our strong disapprobation of the manner in which Thomas Walkcden gave his evidence . "
Embezzlement at Liohfielu . —William Lawton , an old and infirm man , is in custody at Lichfield on a charge of robbing his employers , bankers , of £ 7 , 350 . The money haid been given to a woman , whom Lawton thought would shortly bo receiving a Jarge amount of property from , which she could repay what had been feloniously lent to her . The offender , finding himself mietakun in this supposition , ultimately confessed the embezzlement f ; p his employers , and was given into custody .
length subdued him . At the police-office , Burn denied the charge against him ; and when a policesergeant in court said that he had but recently been imprisoned for three months , and that , if he was remanded , he believed a former conviction couid be proved against him , exclaimed , " Former conviction ! Nonsense ! There's nothing against me but that three months . I don ' t deny that—it ' s of no use ; but since then I have been working at the docks . " Mr . D'Eyncourt said that he should remand the prisoner for a week , when he would be committed for trial .
A Red Republican Count and Swindler . — At the re-examination , on Monday , of Ernest Theophile Guignet , charged with defrauding Mr . Sleyffers and others of Paris , some revelations were made with re 3 - pect to the gang of foreign swindlers with which the prisoner was connected . Their chief was a man named Barrabe * , a native of Orme , who first set up as an oil merchant in Paris under the name of " Vrai pere Duehesne" in 1848 . In 1851 , he stai-ted a Californian Company , after turning Red Republican and advocating the use of the guillotine like Robespierre ; and he succeeded in robbing a great many poor persons of their money . He afterwards established
what was termed the " Black Band , " which consisted of four different firms opened in Liverpool under the names " De L'Hunes , " " I ) 'Arcis and Co ., " "Steinhart and Co ., " and " Hallen and Co . ; " since which he had established a house in Bristol and adopted the title of " Count D'Alengon . "' In 1854 , he was agaiu found carrying on his operations in Walbrook-buildinga under the nafne of . " Cohen and Co . ; " in Broad street buildings under that of " Lipman and Co . ; " and up to the present time'iru those of "Duncaa and Co ., Dublin , " and " Maurice and Co ., " in Great " Winchesterstreet , City . Barrabe met Guignet ^ in Germany , and brought him to London to act as his clerk . The former then succeeded in obtaining goods to the amount of £ 10 , 000 and more , which he had forwarded
to himself in the name of Duncan and Co ., at Dublin , and some to Maurice ami Co ., London . Prom information obtained by Mr . Sleyffers ( a commission agent of Paris , who had had dealings with " Duncan and Co . " ) , that gentleman went over to Dublin and made Barrabe " , alias Duncan and Co ., a bankrupt . Barrabe had previously absconded . Guignet , when , taken into custody , promised Mr . Sleyffera that , if he was forgiven , he would turn Queen ' s evidence ; and he asserted that he did not participate in the profits . He was again remanded . Wpog Javal , another foreigner connected with the case , was also remanded , but admitted to bail on the prosecutor saying he believed he was not mixed up with the frauds , and signifying bis intention to abandon the charge against him .
A Man not ashamed op his Trade . —Benjamin James , who on Tuesday was found guilty at the Middlesex sessions of stealing a watch , said on leaving the dock : — " I ' ve got four years' penal ; that I don ' t mind ; but I ' ve got it wrong , that ' s all Fm innocent this time , anyhow . I ' ve been a thief all my life , that ' s right enough , and am a thief still ; that policeman knows it ; but he'took us wrong when this robbery was done . Why , that watch was stole twenty minutes before we went intotSaville-houae , as I know ; so we didn't do it . I'd steal a dozen watches—two dozen , if you like , and if I ' d half a chance ; but , take my word , I didn ' t have tliat . "
Highway Violence A grocor at Sheffield , while riding home along the Dore-nioor-road , was attacked by two men having tho appearance of " navvies , " one of whom struck hini over the head with a jagged oudgel , cutting open the skull to tho "bone ; but it does not appear that ho was robbed . The ruffians fled , and are not yt > t in custody . The Lad Hotti . r . —This boy who was sent to prison for attending to his master ' s property , and shooting a pheasant to drive it from tho crops which it was injuring , has been further punished by being diwmissod from his place , and sent homo to his father , who , with a flmftll income , has aaiok wife and family to support . The dismissal is sufficiently accounted fi > r by the fact of the landlord of tljo boy ' a muster being Mr . D'Aeth , ono of tho convicting magistrates .
RonuEitv and ATTuntrrrci ) Muiu ) ER at hivmwooi .. — The shop of Mr . Durandu , bullion-broker at Liverpool , has boon tho scano of ft very douporato outrage . Robert and Henry Eyro , two brothors , watched tho shop ono morning until they saw tho clork go to fetch tho cash-box from ft jowallor ' a hard by , leaving a l «« l by himself in tho plmjo . They then entered , utruok tho youth on tho hcuul , and dragged him hoiihoIosh into tho bnelc room . On tho return of the clerk with tho caah-box ( whiuh coutaiuod nearly £ 1 , 500 ) , tho ruffians attacked him with n poltor . Jlifl ones ol
wall of course be remitted—that is to say , he will be " pardoned . " Affray with Militiamen . — -An alarming riot between several members of the West Middlesex Militia and some Irish labourers occurred in the neighbourhood of Haverstock-hill on Saturday evening . One of the latter received a serious wound in the cheek , probably from a bayonet . The cause of the quarrel is not known . Some of the labourers sought shelter in a brewer's yard close by ; and the combatants gradually left the field .
Cheque-mated , —A gentleman was looking at a cheque for £ 26 19 s . 2 d ., in the open street near the Mansion-house , when a man snatched it out of his hand , and ran off . The owner pursued , caught the thief , and gave him into custody . When brought' up at . tlfe Mansion-house , the prisoner said " the thing was accidental ; " but he was remanded . Son against Fathee . —The son and heir of Sir WHlaam Hartopp has- brought a » . action in the Bolls Court against his father . The son , who had been in the army , found himself , about a year before " coming of age , in want of money . ^ He wrote to his father ' s confidential solicitor , asking if he could suggest any means for raising money . The solicitor said that , if he would consent to a re-settlenaent of some estates in
Warwickshire and Leicestershire , in which , he was entitled to an interest on his father ' s death , as tenant in tail , the accornmodaiioi ntightbe obtained . He consented to this , and . an arrangement was subsequently made . But the son afterwards asserted that the terms' wer e not conducive to nis interests ; that he was / unduly influenced by his father , who acted with a Tiew to his own advantage ; that he did not understand the deed at the time he signed it- and that his father ' s solicitor interfered to a greater degree th . an was justifiable . He therefore brought his action . The Master of the Rolls ruled that the case failed ; but , being informed that Sir William did not wish to insist on costs against his son , he dismissed the bill without > 8 ts .
Scientific Coiners . —Some coinera have been arrested at Hackney . Inspector Brennan thus describes the coining apparatus which lie discovered in the house : — " On the table I found a galvanic battery , charged with a solution of acid ; two files , with , white metal in their teeth , as though recently used ; in a tumbler on the table was a battery plate , with wires to it , and dipped in solution , but the wires unattached . I also found a bag , containing plaster of
Pans m ° powder , and in the cupboard a lid containing lampblack and grease , which I believe are used for polishing coin . I found four galvanic battery cylinders and a pipe , used for the purpose of ladling tlie metal , some of which ^ now adhered to it ; and I also jibund a bottle containing a solution for coating baao coin , and a piece of a broken dish , with plaster of Paria still stickimj to it . Altogether I discovered about three hundred pieces of base coin , of four different descriptions . "
A Model Mother , —A girl of fifteen was charged at worship-street with robbing her mother . Only a few weeks ago she had been similarly-. charged ; but , as it appeared that she had been driven to the theft by being left without food shp was didcbwrged . She once more , while acknowledging the theft , made tho same defence j and from a cross-examination of her laother , this appeared to be true . The girl sobbod Mtterly , and said her" mother had driven her out of the house , and had told her to take her chanco in the streets . Under these circumstances , she was again discharged , and tho warrant officer was directed to T > ring tho matter before tho attention of tho parish Authorities . The mother , who had endeavoured to evade tho questions put to her , was severely reprimanded by the magistrate .
Garotte Rqbbbhv—A young man , named Edward Burn , has boon charged , at Wornhip-Btrcot , with highway robbery and violence . Mr . Mnclcie , superintendent of Messrs . Torry and Son ' s stonm-milla , Blaokfnars-road , who lives at Mile-ond , was returning homo at half-past olovon o ' clock at night , and , when close to his residence , suddenly folfc a man ' s hand pass over hia nock , and stop up his mouth . The next minute , ho felt another hand in his waistcoat poolcot-Owing to tho proaauro on hia mouth , Mr . Mivokie won unablo to call for as ^ intauoo , but ; ho novortholoBs struggled violently with lua aHsiulnnt , whom ho Btruofc at several limog with hie walking-stick , and at
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DIPLOMACY IN THE DESERT , A soriT of supplementary act to the late Kaffir war has juat been performod betwoon the Prosidout of tho little iudopondtjnt Republic on tho Orange lliver , and MobIiohIi , ohiof of tho LSiumtaa . A conference with reference to ea , ttlo-stoaling took place on the 5 th of last Octobor ; Sir Ooor ^ o Grey , tho Govornor of the Cnpe , boing presont . Moahoah exhibited groat diplomatic Hubhloty , "Wlion tho President speaks , and thon asks for u reply , " Bays au abstract of tho interview iu tho Times , " Moahosh will Hay nothing until tho Qovernor ox
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January 26 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . - 7 ? —M—W —^* W < a ^*' * ' ^*>* " *** eM '"* e—^ —L—*^ i^—— i . — . i » i . g «—^ M ^« a —^ M^——iw^^—a —^ Baaa—^»^ m«^— ^^^^¦ ^ - ^^¦^ j ^ fr- ————T ^_^ rc- ^ - **? . __
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2125/page/5/
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