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OUR CIVILIZATION .
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CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMEN . Julian Lee , a policeman , was tried at the Middlesex Sessions for assaulting -with his truncheon one Philip Burke . This man had often been in custody for illusing the police ; and , oh the occasion when he received the blow complained of , there was a disturbance in Grafton Court , Marylebone . Burke was looking on , but it does not appear that he was engaged in the riot . However , he received a blow from a truncheon , and he swears that Lee was the man who gave it him . On the other hand , it was shown that Lee was struck with a poker , and that the blow received by Burke was dealt by another constable . Lee , who had formerly been a soldier , and who had a medal for his good services in the Russian war , was able to produce a very good character as a " constable . The jury brought in a verdict of Not Guilty . —Joseph Maskell , another policeman , has been examined at the Greenwich police-court on a charge of disgraceful violence . He had been drinking at a public house , though he was on duty at the time , and ,
becoming intoxicated , he got quarrelling with some of the customers , and more especially with a Mr . Merritt , a shopkeeper in the neighbourhood . This person was attacked by the constable while in the bar of the tavern , but a blow which the policeman aimed with his fist was averted , . . The landlord then saw Mr . Merritt home ; but — -JSftiriiacL not been long in his back parlour before the constable forced his way in , with the collar of his coat turned up to hide the number , and struck bis adversary « - « .+ a blow with his fist , and next one with liia truncheon . ' Owing to the latter , a good deal of blood f lowed , and the poor man fell insensible . The policeman afterwards threatened with his staff the people who had eathered outside , and then made his way off . On being apprehended by Cti « " constables , he was very violent , and he behaved in a flippant and contemptuous manner when brought before the magistrate . The case was remanded in order that a medical certificate might be put in with respect to the condition of the injured man . -
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Embbzzlebiekt . —Frederick Perry , an assistant to an artists' colourman , Holborn , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling the sum of 76 / . from his employer . He at first absconded , but afterwards voluntarily surrendered . Assault . —A woman , named Newman , lodging in the house of a Mrs . Walsh , a newsvender in Sherrard-street , has committed so violent an assault on her landlady that the life of the latter is endangered . There had
been several quarrels between the two , and one evening Mrs . Walsh went into Mrs . Newman ' s room to complain to her husband of some abuse which had been uttered . On seeing her enter , Mrs . Newman knocked her down , and her head came violently against the f loor . Concussion of the brain was the result ; medical aid was called in ; but unfavourable symptoms supervened . The Marlborough-street magistrate accordingly went to the injured woman ' bedside , and took her deposition ; and Mrs . Newman is now under remand .
False Pretences . —A man named Maynall , carrying on business at Nuneaton , Warwickshire , as a purchaser and seller of rags , is under remand at the Marylebone police-office oft a charge of defrauding Mr . John Wilkinson , also of Nuneaton , of property amounting in value to between 40 / . and 50 / . Mr . Wilkinson bad been in the habit of selling rags to Maynall , who one dny persuaded him to send some up to a firm in London , from whom he would get better prices . He therefore despatched a quantity by rail ; but Maynall received it at the station , had it removed in a van , and sold it on his own account . Mr . Wilkinson afterwards came to London , and , meeting Maynall , whose fraud he had by this ttme discovered , gave him into custody . Several other persons have been defrauded in the same way by the prisoner .
A Scoundrel Inadequately Punished . —A young man named Sayer Milward , a law student residing in Cambridge-terrace , Hyde-park , was charged or » Monday at the Lambeth police-court with indecently assaulting a girl of eleven years , who looked older , at the Crystal Palace . She was in one of the galleries , listening to the music , when the young man put his hand under her dress , and caught liold of her leg . This ho repeated , and the girl then spoke to her uncle , who gave the scamp into custody . When brought before the magistrate , ho said to the girl , in an affected , drawling tone , 41 You say I said nothing . Didn't I say I did not hurt
you ? " The girl denied this . Milward , who affeoted a - ~ - ~ ton « M > f ., slWneiwlJ , U ^ charged with , but denied that it was with any immodest intention . It was " only a joke , and did not do any harm . " He was fined forty shillings ; but certainly , na a matter of justice , ho ought to have been sent to prison . Assaulting thid Police . —A well-dressed man , named John Wilson , has been examined before the Marlborough-street magistrate on a charge of assaulting aeveral police constables . One of them was on duty In th $ Haynaarket between two and three o ' clock In the TOorntog , when ho saw the accused conducting himself In a' very utrange manner to the paasora-by , and
attempting to stop some cabs by forcibly laying hold of the wheels . He was therefore taken into custody , when he became extremely furious , and kicked the constable repeatedly on bis legs and body . However , he was finally taken to the station-house , but not without the
assistance of several other policemen , all of whom he resisted in a violent manner , and severely injured them . So great was his bodily strength , that it was necessary to strap him to a stretcher before he could be secured , and after the police had got him to the station-house , they were obliged , to handcuff him and lock him up . Hewas sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . The Slop-selling System . —Emily Druce , a miserable-looking woman , has been charged at the Worshipstreet police-office with having pawned a pair of trousers which had been given to her to make up . The materials had been supplied by a wholesale dealer in the Minories to a man named Harris who undertook to make the trousers for a shilling . After he had executed a part of
the work by means of a sewing-machine , Harris handed it over to another man named Mears to finish . Mears in his turn engaged the woman Druce for the latter purpose , giving her the thread on the understanding that he was to pay her threepence-halfpenny for her work . Finding , however , that this remuneration was insufficient to purchase necessaries for herself and a child whom she had to support , her husband having deserted her , she pledged the trousers , when she had finished them , for seven shillings . Mr . D'Eyneourt fined her five shillings for pawning the trousers , and ordered her to pay the redeeming value , or be sent to prison , in default , for three days . Of course , to this poor creature the option was no option at all ; and so we have another human victim to the Juggernaut of slop-selling .
The Knife . —Antonio Pinner , a Greek seaman , and Edward M&honey , an Irish labourer , have been reexamined at th . e Thames police-office on the charge of wounding anotber Irishman with a knife . JIahoney was nnecl ten shillings , which he paid , and the Greek was committed to prison for two months , in default of paying a fine of five pounds . A Consummate Ruffian . —William Harris , alias Tony Ayres , a pugilist and thief , and one of the most desperate characters on the Surrey side of the water , was examined at Lambeth police-office on Tuesday on a _ charge of committing a series of ferocious assaults on a corporal of the 87 th Foot and on several policemen , while intoxicated at a public-house . He is described by the police as more like a savage beast than a human being . _ _ . .
Charge of Murder at Sea . —John Burns , third mare of the American ship America , was charged before Mr . Mansfield , tb , e Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , on Tuesday , with killing a seaman ( whose name has not yet transpired ) on board that vessel at sea . The America left Liverpool on the 6 th instant for New York , and , a few days after her departure , Burns followed the deceased into the maintop and so savagely treated him that he fell on the deck , and afterwards died . The vessel was obliged to put into Cork , where Burns made his escape . The authorities were communicated with , and he was pursued and captured in Liverpool . He was remanded for the production of evidence .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW ANI > POLICE COURTS . The conviction 'of Christian Sattler for the murder of Charles Thain , the detective police-officer , has been affirmed , after argument in the Court of Exchequer before the fifteen Judges . Mr . BuIInntine appeared in support of the appeal ; the Solicitor-General resisted it ; and Lord Campbell delivered the judgment of the Court . The crime was committed by the prisoner , not with a view to procure his liberation , but out of revenge for his being manacled ; and it was therefore murder . It mattered not whether Sattler was legally in custody at the time , or not ; the act of shooting was an act of revenge . The objections against jurisdiction in the matter of tho trial , &c , were also overruled . Mr . Gye ' s rapid progress with tho new Covent Garden Theatre seema likely to bo obstructed by the result of an application to Vico-Chancellor Wood by a Mr . Ford , a printer and bookbinder , in Hart-street . His house formerly received light from an opposite opening , called PrincosVplaco , which was used as an entrance to some of the private boxes in the old theatre ; but the space has beoa covered in the now building , and tho consequence is , tliat Mr . Ford ' s premises are darkened . After ' some discussion , an order was taken by consent in the following terms : —" The defendant undertakes to abide by any qrdor the Court may muko as to pulling down that portion of tho north wall of tho theatre oppoirfe"tIreTpraln"tlfrs * l 1 » emlBe 8-after'tho' -8 th"'oWanuary > fcl ) er plaintiff being at liberty to bring an action , and tho judgment in such action to bo dealt with as the Court shall direct . Either party to bo at liberty to apply , "
An order , under the now Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act , wna made last Saturday by Mr . Tyrwhitt , tho Glcrkenwell magistrate , to protect tho property of a Mrs . Shepherd , who had boon deserted by her husband for tho last ilvo 3 'eara . Mr . Traill , at tho Woolwich police-court , made a similar order in a case of tho like nature . In this instance , tho wife had been deserted
band is now in gaol on a charge of bigamy , and it » feared that the wife will be made answerable for his debts . Protection of her property was therefore sought for ; but , as the husband had been admitted to her house by the wife for a few days last June , when he was destitute and begged for shelter , the bench found it impossible to grant the required order , though admitting the hardship of the case .- —There have been aeveral other applications during the week . An action was brought in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday against Mr . Wyld , the mapseller of Charing-cross , a person named Parratt , his clerk , and
for the last fifteen years , after she and her husband had lived comfortably together for some thirty years . —An application has been made at the Exeter Guildhall on behalf of a Sirs . Catharine Bond , who was married ia 1826 , and deserted by her husband in 1653 . The hue
three policemen , to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution . The plaintiff and another had been taken into custody on suspicion of stealing , and unlawfully disposing of , several maps from Mr . Wyld ' g shop in February , 1856 . They were tried at the Central Criminal Court , the one for stealing the maps , the other for guiltily receiving them , and the plaintiff in the present action was acquitted , while the other man was found guilty . In his cross-examination , the plaintiff admitted haying been in prison for receiving stolen goods ; and Mr . Justice Erie directed a verdict for the defendants .
The case of Marsden and Marsden , shawl warehousemen , of High-street , Islington , came again before the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn said that , as William Marsden appeared to have acted as clerk to his brother , he might take a third-class certificate after a suspension of six months , with protection in the meantime . The decision in the case of the brother was postponed till Monday . The affairs of John Ellison , a warehouseman , of 56 , Bread-street , Cheapside , trading as -John Endersohn , came before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn in the Bankruptcy" -Court on Wednesday . His accounts commence
October 22 , 1855 , with a deficiency of 1593 / ., and dose , in rather more than a period of eighteen months , with debts and liabilities 8398 / ., and assets 2108 / ., including 592 / . of doubtful debts . The bankrupt had had furnished lodgings in Harleystreet , Cavendish-square , and had got into debt with whomsoever would give him credit . " The Commissioner asked whether it was common sense or justice to say that this was recklessness only . He thought it amounted to fraud . The certificate , which is of the third class , will be suspended for one year , during half of which time the bankrupt will be without protection . *
Vice-Chancellor Wood gave judgment in the case of Reade v . Bentley on Tuesday . Mr . Reade , who ia author of ' Peg Woffington' and ' Christie Johnston , ' had applied for the dissolution of a partnership with Mr . Bentley , in relation to the issue of those works . The works were published at 10 s . 6 d . each ; and the plaintiff contended that cheap issues would be a substantial violation of the agreement , whereas it was argued , on behalf of the defendant , that he had , under the agreement , an irrevocable right to print and publish . The Vice-Chancellor observed that it is a matter of indifference whether the works are stereotyped or remaining in movable type ; in either case the right to publish a second , third , or fourth edition of the work could be equally well protected by an injunction from that court or a court of law . The decision now given was mainly in favour of Mr . Reade ; but the Vice-Chancellor would not allow costs , as both parties were in fault with regard to the equivocal wording of tho agreement .
In the case of Michael Banes , a sowed muslin warehouseman , of Wood-street , Cheapside , who applied during the week in the Bankruptcy Court for his , certificate , it came out that ho had accepted accommodation bills , and had induced others to do so , for Messrs . Wallace and Co ., and Messrs . D . and J . Macdonald , of Glasgow , and bad received , in tho form of commission , about GOO / , for his services in this respect . Ho had > tt this way incurred liabilities to tho amount of 12 , 000 / . Mr . Reed , in appearing for the bankrupt , alluded to the universal practice , even by first-rate houses , of creating fictitious capital by means of accommodation bills , and expressed a hope thnt the bankrupt would not bo maao a scapegoat . Mr . Commissioner Holroyd strongly condemned tho whole system , and said that the certificate of the bankrupt would bo suspended for one y ear , with protection .
, ,. The case of tho Rev . Henry Curtis Cherry and lus wife again came before tho Court of Qucon ' s flench on Thursday . In tho course of last Novombor , Mrs . Cherry had obtainocl leuvo to exhibit articlea of tfie Gr 8 $$ tt&Z 8 b& £ & % ^ of her marriage ; thnt she loft him in September , looo , in consequence of violence and ill-usage ; that in August , 1850 , her husband forcibly dragged lior away from 8 t . GUos'b Church , Heading ; that ho afterwards , with tho assistance of his gardener mid a polico-inspector , thrust her into a , carriage , M-lth eo . much violence tnftl aho was a good deal hurt , and convoyed hor to UW own house at Durghflcld ; that she again escapou , and concealed herself for two yoara ; nnd that l » or uW' "
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104 j T H E LEADEK . [ "No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2228/page/8/
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