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Leader (1850-1860), 9th May 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 439, Untitled Article

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      ' ¦ Every share has au owner ? " Witness : " Every share lias an owner . " The case was again adjourned , the defendants being allowed to go at large on their own recognisances in 1007 . each . Wholesale Depravity . — Henry Hills , a man of fiftv who has been for some years assistant-clerk of the Ponlar Union , has been committed for trial on a charge of debauching several girls , ranging from nine to thirteen years of age . His wife kept a day-school for cirls and it appears he has contaminated nearly all the scholars . He had made preparations for a flight to America- but was arrested last Saturday afternoon . On reaching the gaoler ' room , he appeared deeply distressed , and exclaimed , " I am a guilty man—I am a rained man ! I deserve to be hung !

      Wife-Beating . — John Townshend , an umbrellamaker in King Edward-street , Mile-end , has been sentenced by the Worship-street mag istrate to six months ' hard labour , with security for good behaviour for an equal term afterwards , for a murderous attack on his ¦ wife . They had been married eleven years , and during that time the wife had been constantly ill used , often to the endangering of her life . Her sister , who frequently interfered to j » rotect her , was likewise repeatedly beaten and bruised . On the last occasion , the wife was assaulted ¦ with the leg of a stool , so that she was covered with blood ; and her infant , whom she was holding in her arms at the time , was also hurt . The arrival of a policeman probably prevented murder .

      The Dark Arches of tile Adelphi . — A mob of disreputable young lads and girls has been in the habit of collecting for several Sundays past in the neighbourhood of the Adelphi , making considerable noise and disturbance , and occasionally adjourning to the dark arches . The police have endeavoured to suppress the nuisance , but apparently with no great success . Bueglaby at Eaby Castle . —A burglary has been committed at Raby Castle , Durham , the seat of the Duke of Cleveland , and from 1001 . to 150 / . in gold and silver was stolen .

      Serious Savings Bank Defalcation at Kugby . — Mr . Samuel Essex , auctioneer , and late clerk to the Rugbv Savings Bank , was committed on Thursday week , " by Mr . Leigh Trafford , on the serious charge of embezzling upwards of 1300 £ , the moneys of the bank . Only a few cases were investigated , although it is known that money amounting to 1300 Z . or thereabouts has at various times been embezzled by the accused . The Charge of Murder at Woolwich . —Benjamin Martin , a young artilleryman , appeared on remand at Woolwich police - court last Saturday , charged with throwing a woman into the river on the 24 th ult ., while he and she were intoxicated . The woman was drowned ; but the evidence was not sufficient to criminate Martin , who had boon admitted to bail after his first examination , and who now came forward voluntarily . He was discharged . The woman was married , and had three children .

      Arson . —A man named Charles Little has been found Guilty at the Glasgow Spring Circuit Court of setting fire to hia house , with a view to defraud an insurance company . He was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . Riotous Ratkpaters . — Four individuals , >? ho are described as ' ratepayers and householders , ' were charged at the Marlborough police-court on Monday , together with a servant , -with being intoxicated and assaulting the police . One of the ' ratepayers and householders" appeared with a broken head , the result

      of a blow from one of the rate-paid policemen ' s truncheons . The accused had apparently been revelling , and were returning through the streets , when they saw a constable assisting a man -who was in a Ht . Conceiving great anger from this , as men in a conviviul state will do from extremoly inadequate causes , they charged upon tho oflicer , and a struggle ensued , the police being roughly handled , one of the ratepayers getting what was described as ' a crack on tho head , ' and tho whole of tho Bacchanals being lodged in tho station-houso . Tho Marlborough-street magistrate fined them in various amounts .

      Street Pkkaoiuno and Si'micict Thieving . — Two notorious thieves have been examined at tho Southwurk police - ollico on charges of pursuing their vocation among the crowds collected at the Obelisk , Bluokfriarsroad , on Sunday , to liaten to the preaching of an openair Evangelist . One was committed for triul ; the Other remaudod for a week . This Koyai- British Bank . — It was announced by Mr . Linklator in tho Court of . Bankruptcy , on Monday , that tho examination of tho directors of the Koyal British Bunk is for tho present concluded ; but he added that sufficient , evidence hud been obtained to institute a criminal prosecution , if tho Government should chooso to take that cour .-ie .

      This Allisoisd Tampering wnu A Dnu » ov Skttlkmknt . —Tho case of alleged abstraction from tho deed of settlomont of tho Athuniuuin Insurance Company of a loaf containing the clause limiting tho liability of the Association , was further gonu into last Saturday , when Mr . Button , tho manager , was examined , lib ntutod that ho was the original promoter of tho company , and that it was at first intended to have a clause limiting tho liability of tho shareholders , but that it was not

      passed . Mr . J . P . Cox , who brought the charge of mutilation of the deed against the company , was the superintendent of provincial agencies , and on one occasion he went to Mr . Sutton , and exclaimed , " I say , old flick , here ' s a curious go about the deed ; there has been a clause taken out that limited the liability of the shareholders j" but Mr . Sutton treated the matter as mere nonsense . He always considered that the company was a limited one , inasmuch as they only proposed to deal in policies , and in them were inserted provisoes of limited liability . Mr . Cox was dismissed in consequence of what he' had said . He refused to render his accounts , and vowed that he would ' show up the company . ' The Rev . Mr . Bartlett appears to have

      been the real manager of tlie concern , though Mr . Sutton was the nominal . According to the evidence of a Mr . Langley , the reverend gentleman called on him at Manchester and asked him to make statements about the office , and get reports in the public papers , which , if inquiry were made , the office could repudiate . Mr . Langley would do nothing of the sort , lie lost all confidence in the office in consequence of Mr . Bartlett ' s proposals , and his connexion with it terminated soon after . Efforts have been made to find Mr . Bartlett , but without success , though a summons to the Court of Chancery is out against him . A very extraordinary statement was made by Mr . Charles Shaw , law-stationer , who said he had had great experience in deeds of settlement and their binding . " He had bound up some hundreds in the course of his time , and he could , without any

      difficulty , iusert a sheet of parchment in a deid and remove it subsequently without leaving any traces , lie had , in fact , done it ; and , without mentioning names , he might state that a sheet was placed in one , without unbinding it , last Good Friday . ( Sensation . ' ) By whose direction he did not know , but he altered it and put it in another place . The traces left would be only such as those practically acquainted with the matter could detect . The trade had a particular kind of needle called a circular needle , by which it was done . It was-like a rounded fish-hook . He could not positively say the deed in question had been so dealt with , though something—he could not exactly say what—had been done to it . His shop was not an infirmary for doctoring joint-stock companies' deeds . " The inquiry into the case is not yet completed .

      Gentlemen Scamps . —Mr . Vivian Hughes and Mr . James Wilson , gentlemen by courtesy , not of themselves but of others , have been fined 21 . Gs . and 21 . for an assault on Mr . Henry Young , the treasurer of the Victoria Theatre . They had iivtruded behind the scenes of the theatre , had refused to leave , had behaved with undue familiarity to Mr . Young ' s daughter , and had beaten the treasurer when he endeavoured to remove them . Hughe 3 struck Mr . Young with a walking-stick , while Wilson used his fists at the same time . It was therefore found necessary to give them into custody .

      A Drunken Doctor . —An inquest has been held at Blyth , North Nottinghamshire , on the body of Mr . John Hawarth Jones , a farmer and cattle-dealer , who died from an illness consequent on a cold . He was attended by a Mr . Thornley , who , on a certain night , undertook to sit up with him , and left about live o ' clock in the morning , but was shortly afterwards called back as Mr . Jones was in a dying state . It was then found that Mr . Thornley was hopelessly drunk , and that he had been drinking giu and brandy by the bedside of the dying man , and singing . Mr . Jonoa expired a little before seven o ' clock . Tho death apparently resulted from suffocation caused by the bursting of an abscess in tho throat . Mr . Thornley denied that ho had been driuik ; but tho jury , in finding a verdict of natural death , severely censured him . have

      Escape ov Prisoneio . —Two prisoners escapod from Bristol Gaol . They obtained ti large number oi worsted comforters , forming part of the wearing apparel of tho other prisoners , tied thorn together , got outside the prison , throw their ex tempora rope over the boundary wall , climbed up , and then dropped a distance of about eighteen feet . None of the locks of the pzison wore picked or ttunpurcd with ; niitl a suspicion of negligence or collusion therefore attaches itself to tho officers of . tho gaol . Both the prisoners were tried at tho late Gloucester Assizes , and wore sciitonuod , the one to iifieen years' transportation for a highway guru I to robbery , and tho other to twelve months' imprisonment for coining .. — A woman had escaped from tlio House of Correction at York , having scaled tho walls , and got over an iron puli > tudo with singular agility .

      JJisrn . NO llousictt . —Mr . Thomas Busaoll , proprietor of a bourshop in Bird-atroct , Oxford-strot't , has been fined 25 / . ( which was a niitigatod . penalty ) for using his house as a place for butting , tioverul persons who were arrested at tho house were disclaimed . This Ai , u ; oicd Kojubkky at a Ukkw-shop . —Thomas Gonge , tho proprietor of the Grout Britain beer-shop , in the Wutorloo-roud , wurrundorud to his bail , on Wednesday , at tho Southwark policu-oflice , charged with being concerned with thrco othors not yot in custody in violently assaulting Simon Nolatui , a Prussian Jew , and robbing him of forty soveroigno iu his boor-shop . Ho was committed for trial , but bail " \ vns accepted . JVlunmsu anj > Suicide at KorinsiuuxuK . —A woman living at Jiothcrhuho , named Knight , hus committed

      suicide by drowning herself in a water-butt , after hay ing destroyed her infant son in a similar manner . A few days before this event , her husband went out oi his mind , and , to prevent his laying violent hands on himself or his family , he was placed in the asylum , while his wife and child went to live a t the house of the uncle . The woman seemed greatly distressed at , her condition , and frequently uttered bitter complaints . Her friends , however , did their best to rally her , and one evening , after they thought that they had succeeded in soothing her mind , they advised her to go to bed with the child . Between five and six o ' clock the

      next morning , the uncle got up to go to his work , and as he was drawing some water from the butt to wash himself , he was shocked at seeing the body of Mrs . Knight suddenly rise to the surface . He raised an alarm , and soon afterwards a police constable and some of the neighbours arrived on the spot , when they succeeded in getting the body out of the butt . Life , however , had been extinct for some time . The child was afterwards discovered quite dead in another water-butt . An inquest was held , when , as it transpired that the woman had for a long time past bean predisposed to insanitv , and as there appeared to be no doubt that she had drowned herself and her child , the jury returned a verdict in accordance .

      Suicide of a Murderer . —William Marshall , aged fifty-four , who has been imprisoned in York Castle since 1837 for the murder of two of his children ( for which he was not hung owing to its being shown that he was insane ) , has hung himself to the bars outside his window by his neckerchief and garters . Occasionally , he had long lucid intervals . Attempted Murder . —The wife of a labouring man in Somersetshire has attempted to kill her husband by cutting his throat . In the garden a hole was discovered , having every appearance or a grave , and beside it was a quuntity of quicklime . The woman has been committed for trial . The Late Murder in Wai-worth . —Bacon and his wife will be tried for the murder of their children , at the Central Criminal Court , next Wednesday .

      The Case of tub Murderer , Mansell . —The writ of error with respect to the alleged informalities in the formation of the jury on the trial of the convict Mansell was fully argued in the Court of Queen ' s Bench last Saturday , and judgment was given on Wednesday . The Judges were Lord Campbell and Justices Wightman , Coleridge , and Erie . The points to be determined were these : —Whether the trial became null and void on account of the Crown having twice ordered William Ironmonger , one of the jurymen , to ' stand by' when twice calling over the panel , the first call being interrupted by some other business ; whether the technical ' phrase ' stand by ' had been rightly used by

      the counsel for the prosecution ; whether the jurors were called over in proper sequence ; and whether the Judge who tried the case was justified in ordering Jabez Philpot , another of the jurymen , who had said lie entertained a conscientious objection to capital punishment , to withdraw , without calling upon the counselfor the Crown to show cause . Lord Campbell overruled all the objections ; the other Judges concurred ; and ifc was ordered that Mansell be taken back to prison , and hanged on Monday , the 18 th inst . The convict did not appear to be " much moved by this decision , but walked out of court with a sprightly step . Had the law been iu his favour , he would have been set at liberty , and could not have been tried again on tho same charge .

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Even harmony cannot keep out of the law courts . Mr . llolloway , a music-seller and publisher in Jlanwaystrcct , Oxford-street , brought on action in the Court of Common Pleas last Saturday , against a Mr . Kelly , who seeps a small shop for the Bale of cheap literature in Gray ' s Inu-lnno . The object was to recover damages for the alleged piracy of a certain melody contained in a song with the rather sentimental title of ' Shells of . the Ocean ; or , I wandered on the Sea-boat Shore . ' A Mr . Cherry was tho composer of this tune , for which he obtained one guinea and a half from Mr . llolloway , who now valued tho copyright at 1000 / ., at thu least . An

      arrange incut of tho song had been issued for that rather sheepish instrument , the concertina ; and Mr . llolloway seonis to have inndo a very good thing out of ' Shells of tho Ocean , ' though Mr . Cherry can hardly have become roseate over his guinea and a half . Mr . Kelly had Bold tho melody at a penny a copy , and in about two years hud realised nineponco from tho transaction . Ho had bought tho copies at his door of a man named Fortune , who ought ruthor to have boon culled Misfortune . Ho did not know that the melody was copyright ; and , when he discovered tho fact , ho scut all tho remaining copies to Mr . llolloway . In short , ho appears to have acted with perfect honesty . This trumpery notion occupied the whole day , and , at the closo , ^ ho jury found for .

      doienuuiit . In the Court for the Consideration of Crown Caaos Reserved , last Saturday ( present , tho Lord Chief Juatico Cockburn , Justices Coleridge , Cxvwdor , und Willea , and

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      May 9 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 439

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/7/