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be incapable *> f working ; but in the same mbited with the woman whose face he has d to a shapeless mass by his brutal violence , two children by each of these women . The expressed great horror at this state of things ; Is and his paramour seemed-to regard it as ter of course . The man said he had beaten because she got drunk and spent his money ; nitted that he himself was the worse for e time he thus virtuously corrected his partes . He was sent to prison for six months ,
abour . ne Robbery by Mormoss . —A number of jcently left Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , for n route for Utah . Among them was a man ert Wright , who was one of the executive a Odd Fellows' lodge held at the Angel Inn , > f which were kept in a strong-box locked locks , each key being in the possession of a jmber , one of whom was Wright . Among and money was a cheque for 218 / ., ready signed . This had been appropriated by > ral weeks previously . He has been arrested on of the money upon him , and is under re-Hffield ,
jmley Huhst MirifDER- — George Jackson , tien concerned in the murder of Mr . Charlesmer , on the high road at night , has made a in which he says that , being excessively innd not fully knowing what he was about , he quarrel with Mr . Charlesworth , was struck I then knocked him down with a hedgestake ; iiately after , he felt very sorry for what he ad was sick ; and that he has no clear idea owed , except that he was led away by the Brown confesses to the robbery , but denies any hand in the death . es op the Racks . —Several persons were » re the South wark police-courts last Satur-1 with theft on the Epsom course during the
last week . They have been variously senrize -fighter named Travers , a man of colour , on the same day with backing up , on the some men who were fighting while several were pursuing their work , and with violently . policeman who interfered . He was fined js . Another man was charged with throwit another officer who had been concerned in the previous disturbance . The missile , howot hit its mark . The man was fined ten l beer-shop keeper was brought up under a nning over and injuring a child in Newingy , when returning intoxicated from Epsom , anded ; and , on being again placed at the charged , the parents not appearing , against
to Blow up a Manufactory . —An atien made to blow up the sickle manufactory ooth and Son , at Conisbrough . A quantity r was placed in the drum of a machine in f the building , and a long fuse passed through j premises , and under the door . Here the ed ; but , beyond a slight injury to the drum lilding , no harm was done . About a year and n attempt was made to blow up Mr . Booth ' s it , and on that occasion the building was i . Robberies . —A sudden attack was made y evening , in Rutcliffe-higluvay , opposite in a Mr . Delay , a bootmaker . William young man well known to the police ,
acmmodiately afterwards struck him a blow , 3 was staggering , snatched his watch from pocket , and flod . Ho was subsequently policeman , having previously passed the irl , who gave it up , nnd , on Shannon being ro the Tham .-s magistrate , appeared ngainst is committed for trial . —An elderly woman , topney-causoway , Cotnmorciul-road , wns p the railway station , Stepney , on Tuesday n a ruffianly fellow , named Dennett , came d made a snatch at n purse she hold in her
ling five or six shillings . Ho draggod her ¦ no way by tho purse , and then gave her o on tho head , which caused her to staggor . ho socurud his booty , and made olT' . A ftorwarda , tho old woman again mot him , d to Boizo him , but ho struck hor ft blow on made hor insonsible . A servant girl thon but ho knocked hor down , and aho was t . A young man thon took up tho ohaao , policeman , ultimately secured him , after a i ia an old offender , nnd tho Thames-mugismittod him for trial .
The dwolllng-houso of Miss Crow , Walworth-rotul , wns broken opon a few mil several shawls nnd othor valuable 3 tolon from tho shop . Tho thief or thlovoa y gained tin ontrnnoo by removing a por-; yllght over tho shop , nnd thon descending 'ho gooda had probably boon removed tho A man , namad Oornalius Hagorty , was Jtody while carrying , early on tho morning aft'ufr n hunrlin nnnf . / ilninrr aomO Of tllO
stolen property ; and ha is now under remand at Lambeth . Attempted Murder . — A youth of twenty-one , named George Parker , has been examined before the Rochester magistrates , charged with attempting to murder a young woman living at Northfleet , named Mary Ann Taylor . The girl had been courted for about nine" months by Parker , who was a : hawker , and who likewise kept a refreshment stall at the Rosherville Gardens , Gravesend , where the girl assisted . A difference having arisen between them , the girl determined to quit Parker altogether , and she therefore went one night to llosherville for the purpose of bringing away some articles of clothing which she had left there . Meeting the man at his stall , she told him of her intention of leaving him after the treatment she had experienced at his hands a day or two previously , when
he had struck her . As she was proceeding np-stairs to get the thing 3 she wanted , Parker , who had followed her all the way , suddenly drew a pistol from his pocket and snapped it , saying , " You shall have the contents of this . " Being frightened , the girl ran out into the street , but was pursued by the man , who came close behind her and stabbed her in the right side with a large claspknife . The affair having been witnessed by several people , Parker was at once captured , while the young woman was taken home in a cab . From the statement of the latter to the magistrates , it appeared that the man had been courting her for some time past , and had partly furnished a house with the view of marrying her . The young man merely stated in his defence that he had seen the girl walking with another man , and that , when he reproached her for so doing , she replied that she would walk with whom she pleased . Parker was committed for trial .
Highway Robbery at Mid-day . —A garotte robbery of a most daring character has lately taken place in one of the most populous suburbs of London , at a time and under circumstances which throw a doubt on the efficiency of the police . . Between two and three o ' clock one afternoon , about a week ago , as an elderly widow lady named Weston was walking through one of the main " thoroughfares at Hoxion , she was stopped close to the police station by two very genteelly dressed persons , a man and a woman , the latter of whom inquired the way to Islington . Mrs . Weston gave her the necessarv information , which she afterwards repeated at the request of the woman , who did not seem to . understand the direction . While she was explaining the way to her the . second timej Mrs . Weston felt a pressure
against her side , and afterwards discovered that her watch had been detached from the guard and stolen from beneath her shawl . She instantly seized tho man , but , after a brief struggle , he succeeded in disengaging himself from her and escaped down one of the neighbouring streets . The woman also ran away , but was pursued by the bystanders , who , after a smart chase , tracked her to a respectable house , into which she had fled for refuge , and where the landlady admitted her on the plea that she had come to seek shelter from the violence of her husband outside , who had threatened to take her life . A detective police officer afterwards went to the house and took the woman into custody , when she indignantly denied all knowledge of the robbery . She was brought before the worship-street magistrate the following day , and remanded .
Execution of Georgk Bave . —This criminal , who , while serving as a sailor in the Slanoy gunboat , murdered a marine on board that vessel , out of n feeling of revenge , was hung at Maidstone on Thursday- On Wednesday evening ho wns seen for tho last timo by two sisters , who were painfully affected . Tho culprit viewed his approaching end with groat composure , and died very calmly . Ho attributed his crime to a fit of intoxication aggravating a aonso of injury . Ho had ahvuys borne tho charaetor of a first-rate seaman .
Assault is a Railway Cardiacs e . — Mr . James Algernon Stuart Austen , a middle-aged man , of Hoadlay , Siirroy , stated to bo a merchant in tho City , son of a baronet , and brother to a county magistrate , was examined bororo a bonch of justices at Roigato on Tuesday , on n chnrgo of committing an indecent assault upon Misd Emily Burloy , lndy ' s-mnid to tho wifoof tho Rov . Lord Charlos Hervoy , in a railway onrriago during its pnssnga through a tunnol , in tho course- of last month . Ho was sontoncod to throo wouks' imprisonment .
Conviction op a Tuadksman von Fklont . —At a Potty Sessions hold at Lawford ' s Gntohoiiso of Correction , Bristol , on Thursday , Mr . John Browning , n rospoctablo tradosinan , who has carried on biislnosc in that city as a painter and plaatoror for tho limt thirty yoars , was chargod with stoaling nino pounds and a half of load from tho roof of n house occupied by a Mm . Clarke at Shirohampton . Ho was repairing tho roofs of somo neighbouring houses , and , wanting some load , ho helped himself in tho way indicated . Ho urged that ho was under tho impression that tho house , from whioh ho took tho lend bolongod to tho snvno landlord as thoso ho wns repairing . Ho was sont to prison for tliroe months .
Iu .-iiaAcirc of . Womrv . —Josoph Williams , a soldier belonging to tho 11 th Light Drngoonn , utiitlonod at Maldatono , lias boon sontoncod by tho Thames ) magistrate to bIx months' lmiirlaoninont , with hard labour ,
for an aggravated assault on a young woman . —Henry Wafd Bishop , a bricklayer , has been committed for trial from the Clerkenwell police-court on a charge of wounding his wife . Manslaughter . —The inquest on the body of Thomas Hudson , who died from wounds received in a scuffle with Mr . Kendall ; in Agar-streot , in the Strand , was resumed on Thursday . Several witnesses said they saw Hud $ on and Kendall fighting , and that they fell together , the latter being uppermost . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was killed by Richard Kendall , who was then taken into custody . He had appeared at the inquest on his own recognizance to attend .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A case was stated last Saturday for the opinion of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , which raised the question whether ' pregnancy' is ' sickness' within the meaning of the 9 th and 10 th of Victoria , cap . 66 , which enacts that no warrant shall be granted for the removal of any person becoming chargeable in respect of relief made necessary by sickness or accident , unless the justices granting the warrant shall state in such warrant that they are satisfied that the sickness or accident will produce permanent disability . The pauper , a young woman aged eighteen , was in service , and was discharged on its being discovered that she was pregnant Being unable to take a situation , she was admitted into the Huddersfield Union workhouse on the 21 st of April , and was relieved as an able-bodied pauper . On the 10 th of May , an order was made for her removal , but , on appeal to the sessions , the sessions held that pregnancy is sickness , and quashed the order , subject to the opinion of the Court of Queen ' s Bench on the question whether the pauper , being pregnant , though an able-bodied woman , was liable to be removed . She wa 3 not delivered till the 27 th of July . Lord Campbell and the other Judges decided that pregnancy is not sickness ; that the woman , was able-bodied and capable of working ; and that she might have been removed .
In the Court for the . Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved , last Saturday , Lord Campbell delivered judgment in the case of one Lister and another ; who were the owners of a warehouse in the City containing a large quantity of wood naphtha . The question was , whether this was to be considered so . dangerous a nuisance as to warrant its suppression . The defendants had been found guilty , by one of the lower courts , of a misdemeanour in keeping the naphtha where it was ; but an appeal-was made to theprosent court , where the case
was argued before the five Judges . Those Judges not being able to agree , they ordered it to be argued before the fifteen Judges , and last term the matter was brought before twelve of the fifteen Judges , when time was taken for consideration . The judgment delivered last Saturday was to the effect that the conviction must be affirmed , naphtha being so inflammable that it is almost impossible to put it out . From this ruling , however , Baron Bramwell dissented . He thought there ought not to be any judgment , but that another indictment should be preferred .
Baron Bramwcll also expressed soni 3 dissent in another case argued befure the same court . The prisoner had been indicted for having profes-jed to act as an oilicor of the County Court , and for endeavouring to obtain I 3 . 8 d . for court feed . He hud -= eii t a letter to one Kyberts , his debtor , purporting to bo a summons , nnd to be signed by tho clerk of the County Court ; and , when receiving tile amount of the debt , ho endeavoured to obtain Is . UlI . for tho County Court foes . Lord Campbell
and Justices Erie * Williams , and Crowdor , agreed in continuing tho conviction . Buron Bram we'll said ho had no doubt ho was wrong , but he could not read tho words of tho statute as the other moinbors of tho court did . Me thought it unndvisublo to create offences . Ho had bi'lievod , but now he did not boliovo , that tho act was intended to affect those who forged documents as of tho County Court . Tho offoncowas tho fulno colour or pretence . If the mnioy hud boon obtainod , it would , have been a fulso pretence .
A differonco of opinion among the judges of tho Court of Excheqiiur in a case argued before thorn on Tuesday , uhowod strongly tho lamontablo vaguonoja of tho law . Tho prisoner ooncernod in tho case , one Baker , was brought up in custody of the gaoler of Stafford , to whom tho writ of hubuau corpus was directed . Baker , who was a mnn in humblo life , had contracted to sorvo a certain gentleman for a year . Ho absontocl himself without loavo , after soma quarrel about wages ' , whereupon ho was summoned boforo a juatiuu of the poiico , convictod , and sont to prison for a month . At tlio expiration of tho
torm of imprisonment so inflicted , Bnkor hired himself to another master , and on boing applied to , rofusod to roturn to hia former sorvioe . llis first master thon took out another summons against him for ubsoutlug hluwulf , and tho prisoner was again convicted and sontaiiood to a second month's imprisonment . On U 1030 groaiula , It was Insisted that tho justice had no Jurisdiction to oonviot tho prisoner on tho second suiniiioiiH , m tlu > statute of tho 4 th Qoorgo IV ., cap . JM , hoc . fl , uiulor which tho conviction must have prooaodod , though it did not so allogo , did not coutom |; lat , o inoro llwiu onu offouoo and
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b 6 , 1857 . ] _____ T HE LEAD ER . 535
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2196/page/7/
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