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• ad child to support and a house to keep , and I received SmcnimB of money at various times which were fa » ihfSw Suated fof-snch sum * as 210 / ., 190 * ., and so on iSSTSS- «» *** matterS that I ? Tf-F ? ^ selhoped to redeem . I had not the idea of absolutely SSubvSL * snms ; and , for the sake of my poor wife antTchild , I hope you will deal mercifully with me . I have lived meanly and poor ; I have been poor and mean in my attire ; I am in very bad health myself ; and anything , like a heavy sentence will be the death of me . " He was condemned to twelve months' hard labour , the Judge observing that he hoped it would be a warning to him ; to which he replied , "Ay , indeed it will too . " ^^ ^
Middlesex Sessions . — Sentence was passed on Monday , at the Middlesex Sessions , on Mr . Doggett , landlord of the Argyle Hotel , Liverpool-street , King ' scross , for an assault on Mr . H . J . Jennings , a solicitor's clerk , of -which he was found guilty last session . Mr . Jennings and another person had given offence to the landlord ; a good deal of violence seems to have ensued ; and Doggett ejected his two guests . The Assistant-Judge said it appeared that Doggett was a highly respectable man , who conducted his house in an exemplary manner ; but , in a moment of irritation , he had taken the ljcw into his own hands , instead of calling in a policeman . Under the circumstances , the sentence ¦ would be a fine of 201—John Lawson , a Danish sailor , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for an assault with a knife on Alfred Janson .
A Sxrkkt SiCDUCKK . — Some light was thrown on the raachinaticM of professional seducers in the course of a charge brought at Marlborough-street against John Richard Power , a young man described as a commission agent . From the evidence , it appeared that the accused had spoken to two young girls in the streets , who were carrying children ; that he had inquired if the infants ¦ were their own ; that he asked one of them -whether she ¦ was not big enough to have a child ; and that he tried , but in vain , to induce them to go with him to an hotel in St . Martin's-court . Power assured the magistrate that he was " strictly moral man ; " but his assertions were discredited , and he was sentenced , much to his astonishment , to six months' hard labour .
RoBBHTG A Corpse . —Another man has been convicted at Bow-street of being concerned in stealing a ring from the hand of a Mr . Stocker , who was recently killed in . High-street , St . Giles's . Raley , the culprit , now brought before the magistrate , Teas sentenced to two months' imprisonment . Vicraazunx Indians . —A Mr . Teale , of Eversholtstreet ^ Camden-town , applied on Tuesday to the Lord Mayor for information as to the course he might properly pursue for the benefit of several North-American Indians ( six males and four females ) who had come to England for the purpose of appealing to the Queen to assist them in recovering a considerable portion of land , of which they had been forcibly and illegally deprived
in Walpole Island . Mr . Teale , who was accompanied by a gentleman who stated himself to be connected with the Missionary Society , said , the Indians , of whom Pe-to-e-Kee-Lee was the great chief , had been induced by a Mr . Baby to accompany him to England for the ostensible purpose of waiting upon the Queen on the subject of the recovery of their possessions , but really with the object of being exhibited to the public theatrically far the benefit of the person by whom they were recommended to leave their home . The speculation having totally failed , and Mr . Baby not having introduced the Indians to her Majesty ,, but , on the contrary , having abandoned them , without making the least provision for
their-support , they must have starved in the streets had it not been for tbe Missionary Society , the members of -which bad done all they could for them , and were now compelled to represent their deplorable condition to the City authorities . The "Lord Mayor said he would write to the Colonial Secretary : if that application failed , he had no doubt the public would raise subscriptions for them * After some objections from Sir R . W . Garden , who thought that , as the Indians were staying at the house of Mr . Tealo at Camden-town , application ought not to have been , made to the City authorities , and who conceived that a strict inquiry should be set on foot into the authenticity of tho narrative , Mr . Toalo and the Indiana l « ft the ooart .
EMBBZJthKKBXT . —A person named Charles Lister is under remand at Guildhall , charged with embezzling raoney to the amount of 104 & , the property of his employers , Messrs . Potter and Galpin , printers , of Playhomw * yatd , Blaokfriars . He had the business managomtat'of a country paper belonging to his employers ; antt ' tfe 4 * io > connexion with this concern that he ia chafge&t wftKt misappropriation of funds . OM > Kaubow » ' Muuuauacr . —Tho Society of Odd
Fellaws , -whit their - w 4 v « a and children , wore allowed by th » Crystal Pataow Company on Monday to celebrato their amlVMMHry intfaSyd « uham building and grounds . They got latoaOcated after « ttimer , and wero vory riotous and noisy . Having 0 topj » A th * band -which play a at five o ofttMlt ttt the evening ; one of them made a long and , tedfou * speech ; after which the band began to play agMft , but waft latwruptod by the Odd Fellows , who atf nUMff / ttwperformaw wlttt groat violence . No policeman was to *• found fcr a long while ; and-when one did at
length appear , ho was evidently afraid to seize any of the rioters , being single-handed against a large number . " Later in the evening , " says an eye-witness , " several small dancing parties were made up on the grass we are so rigidly forbidden to cross , and one large circle , familiarly known to the frequenters of Greenwich Fair by the name of ' Kiss-in-the-Greenr' continued to scandalize decent ladies till nearly nine o ' clock . " The Garotte Bobbeby at Reading . —The man Shepherd , who was last week secured , after a desperate straggle with two of the county of Berks police , was finally examined on Monday , before the Mayor , charged with having , in company with another , violently assaulted William John Hayne on the night of Tuesday , ^ k 4 ^ ^_ ^_^_ * . ^ J A ' 1 __^ ^ % * ^ M _ . __ _ _ _ ^ - ^ ¦ —__ . — ^? A ^ Lm - _
the 29 th ult ., in Chain-street , Reading , with intent to rob him . He presented the appearance of having suffered considerably from the severe blow given him by the policeman with his truncheon during the scuffle , and just at the time when the officer found himself nearly overpowered . The other ruffian concerned in the attack —a man named Millington—has also been apprehended . Hibernian Effervescence . —A charge against several Irishmen and women has been investigated at Bow-street . It arose out of a previous charge of assault on a woman named Mary Callaghan , who was
ill-used by two of her countrywomen for having given evidence against them in a third case that had come before the magistrate . The women having been convicted , the husband of MaTy Callaghan gave vent to his exultation in a dance of triumph , executed in his place of residence , Orange-court . Thereupon the opposite faction f lew to arms , and a fight ensued , ending in considerable damage to the various heads concerned , and in the dispersal of the mob by the police . The prisoners were discharged , having already suffered enough from the casualties of battle .
A Humane Prize-fighter . —Three little children were observed a few days ago in Duke-street , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , by Mr . Harry Broome , the " ex-champion of England , " and landlord of the Norfolk Tavern in the Strand , under circumstances which arrested his attention . The 3 were lying on a mattress spread on the pavement , and all were suffering from small-pox . The eldest was a girl of twelve ; the youngest was an infant in arms . Mr . Broome was informed that they were
refelt some one push against the door . Here I gained an entrance as in the first instance , and saw the prisoner , whom I dragged out . I asked him ' What have you been doing with my child ? ' He replied , ' Nothing . ' I said , ' What did you want with her ? ' and lie again replied , * Nothing . ' I said , ' Where is the rope you did it with ? ' and , on the question being repeated , he told me it was in the cupboard . Some neighbours , who by this time had arrived , found it there . " A tradesman of the neighbourhood , who was in the police office , said he believed the prisoner to be silly ; but a police sergeant , on hearing this remark , observed that the accused had been brought to that court about three years back , charged with grossly misconducting and exposing himself . He was remanded on the present charge .
Movvisg- Off a BIas ' s Leg . —Some men who had been engaged in mowing near a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire got to quarrelling , -when one of them said to another that , if he repeated a certain obnoxious expression , he would cut off his legs with the scythe he held in his hand . The other did repeat the expression , and Bowes , the man who had made use of the threat , at once made a blow at his adversary ' s legs , one of which was very nearly severed . The loss of blood was so great that the poor fellow died within an hour . Suspected Murder at Sheeuness . —A young man about twenty-three years old , whose body has since been identified , has died at Sheemess in so very sudden and mysterious a manner as to lead to a suspicion that he must have been murdered . He arrived at that town
fused admission into the workhouse ; and he therefore applied to the Bow-street magistrate for advice . Mr . Henry sent the summoning officer with the children to tho workhouse . They were at once admitted , and it was explained that there had been no actual refusal . Some outdoor relief had been given , but the relieving officer had ultimately stopped the supply , and offered to receive the whole family into the house . The father and mother had rejected this proposal , and the officer declined to take the children without the parents . This , however , wa 3 done on receipt of the magistrate ' s message .
released her , however , and sent her home , desiring that she should not tell who had hurt her . On reaching home , she -was observed to be very ill and excited , and was heard by her father to exclaim , " Oh , that man , that man ! " The marks of a cord were perceived round her neck , as if it had been twisted three or four times ; and these indentations were so red that they seemed to be bleeding . " Upon hearing her statement , " said the child ' s father to the Worship-street magistrate , before whom Wood was brought , " I instantly went to prisoner ' s residence , which I found fastened up , but I broke through the panelling of the back-yard door and entered . On ascending the upper stairs , I found a room fastened on the inside , and , when I demanded admission , - _ w _ _ _~ i K— a . * B— ~« ^^—— dk ^^ ^^ . ^^ ^ h %% ^ 4 ^^ ^^ v ^ ^ m ^ ^^ v * S % ^ % . »^^ ^^ - ™ ^ _ . ^_ * . _
by a London steam-packet , and afterwards hired a waterman to row him on the river for an hour in the morning , and about the same time in the evening . He conversed with the boatman on several indifferent topics , and was in excellent spirits and perfectly sober at the time . After quitting the boat in the evening , he engaged the same man to row him on the river the next day , and then went for a walk along the Queenboroughwall . About ten o ' clock the same evening , tlxe dead body of the young man was found lying iu the river under two lurge rough stones . His hat had been discovered a short time previously under Queenborough wall , on the opposite bank- An inquest was hold , but the proceedings were adjourned for ton days , iii order to give the police time to make inquiries .
Execution . —Murdock , the man who killed the Hastings gaoler while attempting to escape , was hung on Tuesday morning . He professed great repentance for the act he had committed , while asserting that he bad no intention to kill the man ; behaved with much decorum and feeling up to the last moment ; and died instantly without a struggle . The recommendation to mercy on the part of the jury , on the ground that murder -was not intended , was strongly backed up by numerous influential persons , who made repeated applications for a reprieve to Sir George Grey ; but , as tho event indicates , these efforts were useless . —The ensuing particulars of
A Fatal . Blow . —Death has ensued to a Mr . Joan William Adams , a traveller in the employ of Mr . Fleet , soda-water manufacturer at Wahvorth , in consequence of a blow given to him by a person in the same establishment , with whom there had been some practical joke , ending in a quarrel . The inquest resultod in a verdict of manslaughter against Fisher , the man who struck the blow ; and lie has since been arrested under . rather singular circumstances . On tho day of the funeral of Adams , the coroner ' s officer , from information which tin
the execution at Leicester of William Brown , the murderer of a tollgate-keeper and his grandson , wero accidentally omitted in our laat impression : —The culprit protested his innocence to the lost , saying he should die a martyr , and should soon be in heaven . In order to bring him to a sense of his position , ho was shown hia grave on th « day before his execution , and the only remark he made was , " Ah ! it's a nice place , ain ' t it ? I shall like to lie under the trees . " ( The grave was dug near to some trees . ) His father and several of his friends visited him on the same day , and he requested the former to come and see him turned oft " . " The old man secured
he had received , proceeded to the house from : hearse and mourning coaches were to start , and , opening the door of ono of tho carriages , he saw Fisher . He was about to arrest him at once , but ho bogged so earnestly to be allowed to attend the ceremony that tho officer permitted him to do so , and accompanied him to the ground . At the conclusion of the funeral , he was conveyed to Horsemonger-lano Gaol . Ou the day preceding the interment , Fisher culled at the residence of the oflicer to give himself up ; but he wus not at home . The assizca at Guildford are uow pending , and tho i >
ria seat at a public-house -window exactly opposite the drop , occupied it some hours before the execution , regaled himself with boer , and engaged in earnest conversation with his associates . Brown had expressed a wish to be allowed to address the crowd , saying he should speak for an hour . The officials told him ho might say what ho pleased , and for that purpose he was led out a few minntea before eight o ' clock . His father recognized him by -waving a handkerchief . The prisoner made a low bow 7 , but did not attempt to utter a word . After a momentary pause , to allow him to Bpeak if ho were disposed , Colcraft stepped up , and quickly adjusted the cap and rope . The bolt was instantly drawn , and tho prisoner , after struggling for several minutoa , ceased to exist .
aoner will be tried there . Abduction . —A charge of abducting a young girl , a little under fifteen years of age , has been made out at tho Southwark police-oilico against a Mr . Nicholas Jiowe , an army and navy contractor . Tho same person was also charged with committing a criminal assault ou tho girl ; but tuia was withdrawn . The facts , as alleged , ato briefly these : — Eliza Bradahaw , tho girl in qucatiou , was induced to leave the houso of her father , who koopa a bear-shop in tho Borough , and was tukon by Howe to a house of ill-famo in . Exeter-street , Strand , where hu lust
alept with her until noon of tho following day ( Sunday ) , having previously given her aomu npiritH < uul Homo whio . A cloao cross-examination elicited the iactH that the girl waa on bad t « rm » with her mother ; that tho fathor knew of an iutimacy going on between Kowo and hia daughter , and that he had not taken stops against it , though he waa awaro of the prisoner bonig u married man ; that he hod borrowed money of hiin ; aim that the girl had had an improper intimacy with tho ttocuaod a fow weeks ago at her fathor ' u houae , though , aa she alleged , her fatlier waa not cognisant of the aucumstance . Howe watt commit tod for trial ; but tho mugistratu accepted bail .
A Stmangm Abbauivt . —A singular and apparently purposeless attempt to hang a little girl , six years of age , waB made on Monday by a young man of twenty , named John Wood . Alice Oowley , the child in question , was decoyed into Wood ' s house in Haggeraton , next door to her own homo , under a promise of money , taken up-otaireby tho young man , and stripped of all her clothes . Wood then tied a ropo round her neck , fastened the other end to tho bod-post , and drew her up , observing that ho would hang her . H « immediately
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760 THE LEADER . [ No . 333 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2153/page/6/
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