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    Richard Bowman , a shoemaker , at Keswick , was tried at Carlisle for stabbing a police sergeant in the execution of his duty . Bowman , who had been , a soldier in the Crimea , where he had been wounded , on account of which he had a pension , besides a medal and two clasps , had committed a murderous assault on a man named Cockbain ; and the sergeant went with another officer to apprehend him . He then aimed a blow with a stick , and , failing in this , made several stabs with a large knife . He was found Guilty of an attempt to stab , and ¦ was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour . The case with respect to Cockbain was not proceeded with .

    John Lilley and Joseph Solomons , two watchmakers at Coventry , have been tried for , and found Guilty of , stamping certain wares of base metal with an imitation of the die used by the London Company of Goldsmiths . They were ordered to enter into their own recognizances to appear and receive judgment at any time they might be called on to do so ; and were then discharged . Samuel Essex , aged between seventy and . eighty , was charged with embezzling certain funds , amounting to of which he had

    1300 ? ., from the Rugby Savings Bank , been a clerk from 1818 to the autumn of last year . He had been held in great estimation at Rugby , where he was a collector of taxes and poor-rates , and an auctioneer in considerable business . The management of the bank had been left almost entirely in his hands . He was found Guilty , and was then tried on a charge of stealing a cheque for 50 J . in September , 1847 . He Avas convicted of this charge also , but was admitted to bail while a point of law in connexion with it is being determined .

    A very strange case was tried at the Wells Assizes , where Mary Ann Hicks was indicted for cutting and wounding her husband , James flicks , with intent to murder him . Hicks was a workman on the railway at Burnbam , and he and his wife had lived together in great happiness . On the evening of the 1 st of May , Hicks had remained out till between nine and ten o ' clock . Upon his reaching home his wife met him , and threw her . arms round his neck as if to kiss him , but he felt something cut his neck , and it was found that she had cut part of his neck with a razor . She said to her husband that he had dug a hola for her in the garden .

    When a neighbour asked her what- she had done it for , she said she did not know . She was in a state of pregnancy at the time . She took one of the neighbours into the garden , and pointed out a hole there which she said her husband had dug for her before he went out in the morning . After she had done the act , she said she would go for a doctor , but the husband said , " No , my dear , you shall stay with me ; send some one else . " - She was then very affectionate to him . The husband said that he had observed a change in her manner . She had a little boy three years old . She was found Guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour .

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    RAMPANT RUFFIANISM . A more than usually large number of assault casessome of them of a very serious kind—came before the police magistrates on Monday and subsequent doys . At Westminster , Thomas Bush , a stonemason , was charged with inflicting on his wife two scalp wounds , a considerable bruise on the left arm , and other injuries . The -woman waa lying in a dangerous state at the hospitnl , and the case was therefore remanded . The man told the policeman who took him into custody that ho had inflicted the wounds with his boot . —William Payne , a coal-dealer at Homerton , was charged at Worshipstreet with an attack on an elderly man named Baker , a porkbutcher . There had been a fight between two men ,

    one of whom knocked the other down , and still continued to strike him . Baker endeavoured to raise him , saying that it was unfair to ill-use him when ho was prostrate j but at this moment Payne came up , and instantly struck Baker so terrible a blow on the face that he became insensible , and had not recqvered his consciousness when the charge waa made . Ilia condition excited great fears for his life ; and , to ascertain the issue , the case was adjourned , Payne in the meantime being allowed to go on bail .- —Daniel Carlisle , an Irishman with several aliases , was sentenced by fhe Thames magistrate to six months' hard labour for striking , kicking , and stamping on , Mary Anno M'Garthy , who had Interfered between him and his wife , to protect the latter , —At tho Southwark office , James Randall , a costermongor , was examined and remanded on a charge of stealing , with violence , a half-sovereign from the

    porson of a boy about twelve years old . Tho lad had boon sent by a woman to change the half-sovereign , when he mot Randall , who wrenched tho coin from him . Ho shouted for assistance , and a man came up , and detained Randall , who , on the arrival of a policeman , gave up tho money . Sovoral similar cases , involving great brutality , wero hoard on subsequent days , and among them waa a serious charge against a policeman . A constable named Wyre found some girls making a noise near Plough " court , Carey-street , Ho interfered ; one of tho girl a resisted , and ho thon drew his staff , and struck her so violently over ( ho head that ho was obliged afterwards to take her to King's College Hospital . Ho charged her tho following morning at Bow-street , when he at first assorted that ho waa obliged to uao tho staff in eolfdofonoo , and then affirmed that the girl ' s head '

    somehow came in contact with the staff' without his meaning it . He added that he had been ill-used by the young woman ; but his person exhibited no marks . The clothes of the girt , however , were saturated with blood , and her head was bandaged . It appeared , moreover , that , on a respectable tradesman interposing to protect her , Wyre struck him also , arid made his head bleed . It was the opinion of the neighbours that the constable was intoxicated ; but the station-sergeant denied this . The girl was discharged , and the policeman's conduct will be inquired into . —Charles Brown , a labourer , was

    charged at Worship-street with assault . He was quarrelling with his wife in one of the streets in Hoxton , and finally knocked her down several times , though she had an infant in her arms . The woman called for the police ; but , on a constable arriving , she sided with her husband against him , and the man then fiercely attacked the officer . Some ruffianly fellows then came up , and illused the policeman , who at length used his staff upon Brown with some effect . The wife was examined before the magistrate , and gave her husband a very good character ; but he was sent to hard labour for three months and three weeks for the two assaults .

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    " Wife-Beating . — William 1-1 ay ward , a cabinetmaker , was examined at Worship-street last Saturday on a charge of assaulting his -wife , a pretty young woman , to whom he had only been married ten months . Immediately after their marriage , he began to ill-use and neglect her , and shortly before her confinement he abandoned her altogether . It afterwards turned out that he was living with another woman , by whom he had a child . The wife , having traced him out , asked him for money ; on which he struck her several times on the chest and head , and finally kicked her in the stomach . When the case was brought before the magistrate , his paramour , with her baby in her arms , offered to corroborate his denial of the charge ; but her

    testimony was refused , and Hayward was sentenced to four months * hard labour . —A man , named Charles Norcott , has been sentenced by Alderman Rose to three months' hard labour for beating his wife . A few Sundays ago , he threw her down stairs , and broke one of her ribs ; and her child , at the time she was giving her evidence , was lying dead at home The man said his wife was given to drinking ; but it appeared that it would have been more true had he said this of himself . The Norton-street Nuisance . —A letter to the Metropolitan Vestry of Marylebohe from Mr . Roundell Palmer , Q . C ., M . P ., pointing out the scandal to the parish caused , by the disreputable houses in Nortonstreet and some of the other thoroughfares to the east of

    Portland-place , led to a discussion last Saturday in the Representative Council of Marylebone , when it was resolved to refer the letter to the solicitor of the vestry , with instructions to him to institute immediate proceedings against the occupiers / of the houses in question ; and further that the Commissioners of Police be applied to , ami be requested to qo-operate with the vestry in putting an end to the evil . During the discussion , it was suggested that the parish solicitor should select some one house for prosecution ., as it would be impossible to proceed against all the places , which amount to nearly one hundred and forty . To these dwellings , from nine hundred to one thousand abandoned women resort ; that is to say , one in every twelve of the whole population of

    the parish , and ono in six of the poor population . A wealthy gentleman living in the neighbourhood had been obliged to give up his mansion on account of the nuisance . One of the speakers ( a Mr . Hutchons ) thought nothing could be done in the matter , as the neighbourhood had possessed the same character for thirty or forty years . This was denied by some of the persons present . Mr . Hutchons continued : — " It was a most difficult question to deal with . The Colonnade of the Regent ' squadrant had been taken down some few years since , ope of tlte main objects being to prevent the congregation of unfortunate women ; but ho believed it had not resulted in effecting that object to any great extent . " Finally , resolutions were carried to the effect already stated .

    Suspected Mu « djck in South Wai . es . —A young woman living near the village of Defynog , South Wales , named Elizabeth Evans , has lately died under suspicious circumstances . A short time ago , she succeeded to her father's property , consisting of household goods and fanning implements , and soon afterwards married a carpenter living in tlto neighbourhood . The match , however , proved a very unhappy ono , and the young woman latterly suspected that her husband intended to emigrate to 'Australia in company with a girl who

    resided nenr * thoin . She had also had frequent hints from her neighbours that her lifq waa in danger , and her husband had actually pulled her wedding ring off her finger in tho night-time , and afterwards told her that ho bought it for another , One morning she was found dead in her room , her body , especially about the fac " o , presenting « n appearance which led her friends strongly to suspect that she had boon murdered . A post mortem examination wan immediately mado , and a coroner ' s inquest afterwards hold upon tho body ; but tho result has not yet boon arrived at .

    ArrjcMrTJUD MKitcuimi > K Fraud . —John Coploy Hill , a young man describing himself as an accountant of the City of London , Una keen cuurgod before tho magistrates

    of Reading with having , on the 16 th of last June , tempted to defraud Mr . Edward Pole , a grocer Reading , of 501 ., under the false representation 1 Pole ' s creditors had met a few days previously , and issued notices in bankruptcy signed by two emii wholesale grocery firms in London , both creditor Pole . Hill had likewise falsely informed that gentlei that his credit in London was altogether gone , and 1 his creditors were determined to wind him up . Hill longed to an asso ciation holding its meetings at an o

    in the Old Jewry , London , called the British Mercar Agency , the professed objects of which were to col debts , enforce attorneys' warrants on all persons wl commercial affairs were failing , together with van other matters appertaining to those transactions . ¦ expenses arising out of the business of this agency v paid by an annual subscription fee of twenty guineas . 3 was committed for trial . Bail to the amount of 4 ( was accepted , but , as the required sum could not t >< j tained , the accused was locked up .

    Garotte Robbery . —Three coarse-looking won named Johanna Flannagan , Margaret Flannagan , i Mary Reddington , have been charged at the Southw police-court with committing a garotte robbery , v violence , on a respectable young woman named W garet Croty . The latter , who said that she was a serv living at Maze-pond , Bermonsey , had been one nigh the West-end , and on her return home lost her waj Gravel-lane , Borough , in consequence of which she quired the right direction of one of the prisoners , wh she met in that locality . Under pretence of show her the way , the woman took her up an adjoining co but they had not gone far when the girl Croty was s

    denly pushed down and forcibly dragged into a hoi Shortly afterwards she was again , thrust into the coi stripped of all her clothing except her gown and a under things . She informed the police of the occ rence , and the three women who had robbed her of clothes were taken into custody . They were reman to give the police time to make inquiries about them . Executions . —Brown , one of the men found Gu of the murder of Mr . Charlesworth , at Abbott ' Brom ! has been respited . Jackson , however , will be exect this morning , unless a respite should arrive for 1 also . —Charles Finch , the murderer of his sweetheart KavenhallEssex ' , was executed last week .

    , Stabbing at Shadwell . —A woman , named Sa Hamilton , has been stabbed by an American sailor Shadwell . The man afterwards escaped , and has gc it is thought , to Liverpool . The Garotte Robber * in Bear-street . —Will ' Goff , William Jones , Emma Grainger , and Mary Ai Clarke , have been finally examined and committed trial on the charge , related in our hist week ' s . paper , garotting and robbing a publican in Bear-street , Leic ter-square , late at night , in his own bar . Goff woo o committed on the charge of attempting to steal a wat from a gentleman-Military Outuage at Chatham . —Some ' soldi

    belonging to tho 27 th Enniskillens and the 70 th Ke ment , being irritated by the refusal of a beershop-kee ] to supply them with drink , set upon him savagely , h him about the head and body with the pots , dashed the-doors and windows , injured the landlady , and tb went about the town , doing a great deal of damage the houses , and severely injuring two passengers , length , several hundred soldiers were sent from 1 garrison , by whom the rioters wero arrested . The obj ' of the scoundrels in causing thi 3 outrage was to prev ( their embarking for India on the following mornin but in this they were disappointed , as the whole of t men , -with the exception of four -who had taken a co spicuous part in the outrage , were marched uandcufl from Chatham with their regiments .

    A Poisonous Mother . —A revolting tale of d pravity was brought out last Saturday in tho Bloom bury County Court in an action brought by Mr . Hunt < the upholsterer , of Tottenham-court-road , to rccov from tho dofondant , ' a lady' residing at No . 4 , Ecclestoi torraco , Pimlico , the sum of UL 10 s ., for goods sol The proof of service of the summons was disputed on former day , and now came on for decision . To sho that the summons had not been delivered to tho d fondant , Agnos Willoughbj ' , but waa Intercepted by t , butler , ' there wero called Theresa , tho sister , a beautif child of thirteen , Anne Rogers , the mother , and tl 1 butler' himself . In cross-examination , the moth said : — " I have told you I am servant to my daugut <

    She sees gentlemen . I can ' t tell you how many . S gets her living that way . Has no othor mode of su ; pprting horaelf . My youngest daughter soes tho san gentlemen that visit her sister Agnea . I have an ii come of my own quite euiBciont to keep mo , but I nlwa ; tiiko my regular wages from my daughter Agn < Agnes keeps a brougham . Sho has a butler and seer tavy . " A thrill of horror porvaclod tho court while tli woman was giving hor evidence . Tho Judge docided . favour of tho plaintiff , and spoko in sovoro terms of tl infamy of tho mother , adding that ho should see whoth a prosecution could not bo instituted ugainatsuch ad < of profligacy . Attbmitjbip WiFjB-MuttDEn . —William Saundors , seaman , ia under remand at Marlborough-strqot , charfi 1 witli stabbing his wife in tho arm when under tho inll

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    752 ^ T H E L . E X I ) E B . [ No . 385 , August B , 1857 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/8/