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nesses were called , who proved that the woman was of light character , and Bentley was accordingly Acquitted . v John Brooks , Caroline Richardson , and Harriet Peecb , have been tried on the charge of burglary at a publicliouse at Peckham , of which the particulars have already appeared in this paper . The last named was Acquitted ; the others were found Guilty , and sentenced—Brooks to six years' penal servitude , and Richardson to a year ' s hard labour . Joseph Holder , a soldier , pleaded Guilty to a charge of embezzling the sum of 1153 / . 10 s ., the property of the Queen . He was sentenced to a year's hard labour . David Roden and David Day , who had pleaded Guilty to stealing letters , the property of the Postmaster-General , were brought up , and severally sentenced to five years ' penal servitude . Charles Stewart Mills , who had been convicted of uttering a forged order for 250 / ., was brought up , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . Thomas Closs , picture-dealer , has been found Guilty of the charge of obtaining from Henry Fitzpatrick , another picture-dealer , bills to the value of 130 ? ., by selling a copy of a picture by Linnell for an original , and also of the charge of uttering the same picture with , intent to defraud . Sentence was postponed . Di Salvi was brought up for judgment on Monday . The only alteration in his original sentence of fifteen years' penal servitude is , thatitwill date from the present session instead of from that during "which he was first convicted . —Jose de Rosario , a Spanish seaman , received the same sentence for a similar crime . —Bridget Kavanagh , also convicted of manslaughter , was condemned to hard labour for six months . James Driscoll , a boy of ten , was tried for the manslaughter of another boy at Bow on the 21 st of September , by stabbing him in the breast with a knife . His counsel represented that the wound was the result of an accident ; the jury adopted this view ( which was consistent with the evidence ) ; and the boy was Acquitted . George Groundwell and Henry Rubridge were tried on a charge of manslaughter arising out of a fight for money in the Harrow fields , near Vaddington .-. They were found -Guilty , but recommended to mercy . The first of the two was sentenced to six , the latter to two months'hard labour .
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Supposed Robbery and Murder is Essex . —Mr . Isaac Butcher , a small farmer in the ' village of ¦ Coine . Engaine , Essex , has died suddenly under such circumstances as to lead to the suspicion that he has been murdered in the public high road at an early hour of the evening . Last Saturday morning , Mr . Butcher went to Colchester market to transact some farming business there , and , after dining in the neighbourhood , he rode part of the way home with a friend in his cart , and was put down within two or three miles of hi 3 own residence . After making several purchases , he proceeded homewards on foot , and was within a short distance of the spot where his body -was afterwards discovered , when , he met a man with whom he exchanged a salutation , and then passed quickly on . Presently afterwards , he met another stranger whom he likewise spoke to , but was answered by him inaudibly , and a third man , also unknown to Mr . Butcher , followed close behind the lastmentioned one . Not many minutes after this occurrence , which happened about six o ' clock in the evening , Thomas Butler , gardener to the late High Sheriff of Essex , was crossing Colne-park , within fifty yards of the road , when he heard a noise resembling that of persons ' scuffling . As he imagined that it arose from some people who were intoxicated , he walked quietly on to the lodge-gate of the park , which he passed through and shut after him , and the loud noise it . made in closing must , it is supposed , have alarmed the murderers , for Butler distinctly heard the sound of several persons' footsteps running hastily away from the spot . He hurried after them as fast as ho could , ns his suspicions were aroused , but lie had scarcely turned the corner of the road , when he saw Mr . Butcher lying prostrate on his back b } - the roadside . His dresa was very much disordered and pulled about , and his head was smeared with blood . Butler immediately went for assistance , but , before he returned , a cart , in which was the dead num ' s brother , drove , up , and the body was removed to Mr . Butcher's farm-house at Colne Engaine . Medical aid wan immediately obtained , but it was useless , as Sir . Butcher was ([ iiito dead . A largo sum in gold and silver was missing from the pockets . A verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown lias been returned by the coroner ' s jury . Assault on tiik Poi . ick . —A ferocious riot has occurred among the Irish living in Ewer -. street , Urnvellano , Soutlnvark , during which two policemen were seriously injured , and ono of them nearly murdered . He was knocked down and kicked about the body , and his head was cut open by an earthen vessel which wan thrown from a window nt him . A nmn has been arrested , and committed for trial . Muuniiu ova Poi . icicman , -A policeman has been murdered near Stovcnage , Hertfordshire , apparently while endeavouring to arrest . some thieve * JIi * ho . ul was no . irly cut oil ' . Two men are . in custody . An Imi-ohtoh . — David Uw , * Davios is under remand at Guildhall charged with obtaining various » um » of money from benevolent person * undue pretence of collecting subscriptions for charitable iustitutioiiH .
Ingratitude . —A German publican ia Commercialstreet , Whitechapel , recently took a young countrywoman , into his service out of charity . She soon rewarded him -with robbery . On being apprehended , and brought on Thursday before the Worship-street magistrate , she pleaded Guilty , and was condemned to six months' hard labour . Singular Case ' of Manslau g hter . —A child , named Sarah M'Cloud , has been killed at Wolverhampton in a very singular manner . A married woman , of a very violent temper , who had caused the death , a day or two before , of another person , drove her husband into the street , and threw after him a poker , which missed him rebounded from some object , and struck the child . The sharp end pierced its nostrils , and caused hemorrhage to such an extent that death ensued . The woman has been committed to prison on a charge of manslaughter . Attempted Murder on Board Ship . — Another case of savage ill-usage on board an American vessel has been brought forward in this country . The barqu e John U . Brookman , of and for New York , left Sunderland yesterday week , and was still in the roads when the captain , became exasperated at one of the men complaining that they were short-handed . Seizing an axe , he cut him down , and the first mate thea struck him with a belaying pin . Another man was then struck by the second mate , and , as the captain rushed at a third sailor , named Mitchell , the latter , though unable to swim , jumped overboard , and was picked up by the pilot boat , -which had just parted company . The pilot , who " was still on board the American ' . vessel , became alarmed , and , hailing his own boat , which thereupon returned , dropped into it , and made for shore . Mitchell has made a statement of these facts before a magistrate . The American vessel continued on its way , and it Is not known whether the man who was cut down is alive or dead . Sacrilege at Manchester . — -Some men broke into two or three churches and chapels in Manchester last Saturday night , but only obtained part of a bottle of wine and some biscuits for their pains . A Skuiov ' s Chai ' . ge against the ' Tor . jCE . ——William Williams , a seaman in the American navy , though an Englishman by birth , was attacked , ' without any api > arent provocation , last week , by two policemen in Ratcliff Highway , and was so severely injured by blows in the abdomen and head that he was afterwards taken to the Dreadnought hospital-ship oft * Greenwich , and there told his tale to a police-inspector . Two constables were brought befora him , and he identified them ; but they protested their innocence . Williams was found last Saturday to be in so dangerous , a state that Mr . Selfe , the Thames magistrate , went on board the Dreadnought , and took down the man ' s deposition , which he gave in the avowed belief that he was about to die . Neither of the policemen is in ' custody , and one has got out of the way , though the inspector , covering his own remissness by a subtle distinction , said he had not absconded . —In the coUr . se of the day , Mr . Selfe , in investigating a charge of assault brought by a police-constable against a sailor boy , who in turn alleged that he was ill-used by a police-constable , which was partly confirmed , said he was very sorry to express an opinion that the police occasionally use too much violence , lie added that he was speaking generally from whut he heard and saw daily , and that it would be as well if constables were not quite so officious , and refrained from ill-using people , lie discharged'the boy . Am Intoxicatkd Advocate . —A strange scene took place on Tuesday at How-street police-court . John Kurby Richards , an attorney ' s clerk , was charged with forging several cheques on the London and Westminster Bank . The ease was very strong against him , and he hud the further misfortune of being defended by an at- , torney ' s clerk who had every appearance of being intoxicated , lie frequently interrupted the witnesses ; ; insulted them by strange observations ; made preposterous ¦ mistakes ; and e n ducted hi in . sol f in so wild a manner ¦ that the magistrate interfered , and reproved him , cxprcssing at the same tiino a doubt whether ho had a right to be there . The advocate here banded in his authority as cleric to a solicitor iu practice , and said he had been thirty-live years attending the courts . It was apparent , however , that he was intoxicated . At one time lie began to cross-examine the solicitor for the prosecution instead of the witness , and at anothor solicited consideration for tlie wife and family of Mr . Collins , the principal witness for the prosecution . At a later period of the case , the . prisoner took the cross-examination of a witness <» ut of his advocate ' s hands , much to the indignation of the latter . Mr . Jardine hero observed that he was desirous of giving every reasonable indulgence to the prisoner , who was so unfortunately defended . It was his belief that tho prisoner's advocate was intoxicated . The Attorney ' s Clerk : "Then I must pledge any word that I havo drunk nothing to-day . You have hithcrto treated me with respect . " liicliards the accused , said that , his advocate ' s name was in tin ; list of Holieitors at the prison , as recommended by tho visiting just iocs . The attorney's clerk afterward : ! liesought Mr . . Jardiue to willi-«! raw tl » o imputation of drunkenness , adding , " I havn fourteen children . '" Mr . Jardino , howuvor , refused to do mo . Richard * was committed for trial on live cases . Ruuoi . ahy . —Kdwnrd Jackson , an oil and colourman in Leonard-street , Shorcditeh , his wife , niul Charier ) ytodinun . a tieket-of-leave . man , havu been charged at
Worship-street with being in possession of certain property , supposed to be part of the proceeds of a , robbery at the Countess of Ellesmere * s , wheu articlea -were abstracted to the value of from 10 , 0007 . to 15 , 000 / ,, for the recovery of which a reward of 500 ? . has been offered . Stedman was discharged , and Jackson and Ms wife remanded on bail . Garotte Koebertneae Nottingham . —Mr , Thomas Hind , an elderly gentleman , secretary to the Nottingham Savings Bank , was robbed on Friday week , near that toTvn , of a sum of money and a portable writing-desk . He was seized by two men , and nearly strangled . Anotherrobbery of a similar kind has been attempted in the same city ; but the ruffians were beaten off . Supposed Murder at Brighton .- —A box containing the body of a boy'has been found on the beach near Brighton . An inquest has been opened , but is adjourned . It appears that the boy must have been nearly starved to death , and then struck on the left temple with a heavy blunt instrument . Stabbing Case at Brighton . —TJiree French sailors are in custody at Brighton on a charge of stabbing two English labourers at a disreputable house in William - street . The labourers had ill-used the landlord , and the Frenchmen seem to have acted in his defence . Five Dead Bodiks were found on Sunday in various places in and around the metropolis . They are appare ntly the bodies of suicides . Murder from Delirium Tremens , —Andrew O'Brien , a publican at Liverpool , has murdered his mother-in-law while in a tit of madness brought on by drink . He was subject to attacks of delirium tremens , and one of these appears to have come upon him while staying at the house of Mrs . Molyneux , his wife ' s mother , at Much Woolton , a village about six miles from Liverpool . He seems , in a sudden and uncontrollable outburst of fury , to have seized the Toman by the windpipe , and to have beaten her head against the wall or floor . The bleeding body was afterwards seen partly hanging out of the window . A medical man stated at the examination before the magistrates that tliere were three causes of death- —concussion of the brain , laceration of the windpipe , and strangulation . O ' Brien , on . being asked if he had-, anything to say , replied , in . a very incoherent manner , " 1 shall make no statement more than that I did it under the influence that I was ' bound . to do it . I was going about the room in a state I was never in before after drink , and I saw the pictures all round mcving-. I would lose my life before I would take that woman ' s life , thatsaine woman . She was the same to me as my own mother , and the only woman I had in this country ; my own mother-in-law in the public day . " He was committed for trial . Mrs . IMolyneux was the mother of O'Brien's second wife . On the death of his iirst wife , a n inquest was held in Liverpool about two years ago . It was .-shown on that occasion that , after violent words had passed uji-stairs , she was found in a state of insensibility , and marks of violence were discovered upon her person . O'J 3 rien stated before the jury that his wife was addicted to drink ; that on the day in question she was intoxicated ; that , while exasperated at her conduct , he pushed her away , and that she fill heavily against the -wall . The jury on that occasion returned a venlkt of Accidental Death . O'Brien -was formerly a soldier . Fat . sk PttETENCKS . — . 1 oseph Martin , a miserably dressed , . person , describing himself as a railway contractor , residing at 45 , Little Drimimond-. strcet , Eustonsquare , was brought up at the Clerkenwell police-office , charged with obtaining several articles of ironmongery from Mr . William Fowler , Skinner-street , Somers-town , under false pretences , and also with having attempted to defraud numerous tradesmen of goods to the amount of several thousands of pounds . The ea . se was but partly investigated , and Martin was remanded on bn . il . Evktiox iiy Finn in Sioti . and . —Doiuild Murray , a colter in the Highlands , was , during last June , tunieu out of his hut , together with his sister and two motherless girls . They lived for some time in the open air , and afterwards in a cart , shed ; but , on it .-t being- made manifest that the Duke of Sutherland , the evicting party , had no right to the hut , ;\ case was entered in tho Court of Session , and Murray and his family again took possession of tho dwelling . Thereupon , the Duke caused the hut to bo set on tiro , and burned to the ground .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LA . W AND POLICE COURTS . Tim aftaira of Mr . C . . ) . Tilare , tho shipbuilder of Blackwall , wore again brought before tho Bankruptcy Court la ^ t Saturday . The object w . is to consider u proposal on behalf of the bankrupt , under the 2 ftOth section oi thu Bankruptcy Consolidation Act . Tho proposal wna -Is . in tho pound , or : 2 s . ( id . in addition ti > tho Is . Gd , ahvndy paid , payable iu . i fortnight , by Mr- Peter Kolt , the bankrupt " * fiither-in-lnw . The act requires that tho consent of nino-tenths of thu creditors present hi number and value ha given before an order of the Court can bo obtained so as Li » bo binding on tlw whole body , and tho bankruptcy be thereupon annulled . His Honour appointed ii ' meetiug to carry out the proposal , and annul the bankruptcy . A mooting " for proof of debt * and choice of aasigneca in tho bankruptcy of IMo ^ ley and Moaluy , newsagents in Cntheriiie-atroot , Strand , took place last Saturduy . Tho
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No . 398 , November 7 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER , 1065
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 1065, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2216/page/9/
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