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unwilling to do so . Bumney > had the beat of it , and wanted to shake hands and be friendly with his adversary , but the other sullenly refused . The fight was then renewed , and at length Samuel Goddard pulled out a pocket knife , and stabbed Rumney in the lower part Df his stomach . He rapidly sank , arid died in a ^ fewhours . The seconds were Acquitted ; but Samuel Goddard was found Guilty , and sentenced to ten years penal servitude .
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Attempted Suicides through Destitution . —The severe weather has produced its usual crop of attempted Suicides on the part of wretched women in a state of destitution . At the Mansion House , on Monday , Jane Simpson , a young woman , was brought up under these circumstances . A policeman found her in Leadenhallstreet , leaning against some railings in a state of stupor . He spoke to her , and she answered faintly . She then threw away a paper , which the policeman picked up , and found that it contained oxalic acid . In answer to the constable ' s questions , the woman said that she had taken some ; and she was therefore conveyed to a chemist ' s , where an antidote was administered , and was afterwards removed to the hospital , and then to the station-house . She stated that she had been with a young man to the chemist ' s where she bought the poison ,
but that he afterwards left her . In answer to the Lord Mayor K she said she was a tailoress , but had been out of employment for six . weeks . It appeared further that she had attempted to drown herself about a year ago , but had been dismissed with an admonition . She was now sent to prisoD , being unable to find securities for good behaviour . — A woman named Ann Bellingham was charged at the Southwark police-court with throwing herself off London-bridge during the night . She was rescued by the Thames police . In answer to the magistrate , she said that she had lately lived in Shoreditch , and she had applied to the parish , but they gave her nothing . She was driven to the last extremity , and , rather than walk the streets , she had attempted suicide . She had since regretted it , and prayed to God to forgive her . She was remanded for a
week . Garotte Robbery . —A man was examined on Tuesday at the Marlborough-street police-court on a charge of being concerned with some others ( now undergoing sentence } in a garotte robbery of the landlord of a public-house in Bear-street , Leicester-square , about three o ' clock on the morning of the 28 th of July . The facts have already appeared in this journal . The man now charged was remanded . Murderous Assault . —Three privates of the Coldstream Guards have committed a saVage assault on James Seymour , a policeman- The constable found hem , at half-past twelve at night , outside the closed door of a public-house in North-street , Chelsea , trying to push it open . He begged them to desist ; on which
all three attacked him with ferocious violence , one striking him so violently with his cross belt that the top of one finger was nearly cut off , and indeed it was afterwards found necessary to amputate it . He struggled with his assailants with great courage and determination ; but they knocked him down several times , and at length one of them held him by the hair of the head while the others beat him till he became insensible . Assistance at length arrived , and the soldiers were secured , the most violent of them exclaiming that he would serve every policeman the same way ; that he wanted to be discharged from the regiment ; that he had already received fifty lashes , and that he could stand fifty more at any time . The accused were brought up before the Westminster magistrate , and remanded for a week .
Murder near Liverpool ,. — James Morecroft , a Bhoemaker residing at Sefton , near Liverpool , has been found dead in the canal at Litherland . The body was much bruised and disfigured ; and it is believed that the man ( who had been missing since the 19 th of January , when he left home to collect some money ) has been murdered by some boon companions . The inquest has terminated in an open verdict . A Suspected Murderer . —Alexander Clayton , a private in the 97 th Regiment of Foot , stationed in Colchester camp , was arrested on Tuesday by an officer of the Irish constabulary under a coroner ' warrant , charged witli the wilful murder of John Reynolds , at Portadown , county ) Armagh , Ireland . Reynolds was killed about the close of last year , and Clayton enlisted immediately afterwards .
An Incident in thus ' Marshalsba ' . —George Weston and David Knowlos , two labouring men , have been examined at the Southwark polico-court on a charge of nearly murdering John Shaw , the deputy-keeper of a largo model lodging-house in Angel-court , High-street , Borough , which was formerly the chapel of the old Mar-, flfrftlg ^ prJlftpB ^ till he was insensible , and was carried to bod in that fltato . While lying there , tho two prisoners , who woro lodgers at tho house , fell upon tho drunkard ( for what cause it is not clearly apparent ) , and , while one kicked him on tho head repeatedly with tho iron heels of his boots , tho other struck him across tho noso and oyes with a heavy piece of wood . Ho was frightfully mangled j but his drunkenness was such that ho did not seem to bo / conscious of his wounds . A lodger , however , hearing tho blows , went up , and tried to interfere , but was
threatened with the same treatment if he meddled . He then went away and told the landlady , and a policeman was ultimately brought to the place . Shaw knew nothing of what had happened till two days afterwards , when he recovered his consciousness in St . Thomas's Hospital . He stated that on a previous day he had heard Weston and Knowles say " they would do for him , because he would not join them . " That is the only light which has been thrown on the motive for the act . The prisoners were committed for trial .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Some proceedings took place in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , before Mr . Justice Erie and a common jury , in connexion with a writ of error to reverse a proceeding in outlawry . It was incumbent on the outlaw to appear in person ; but he did not do so , and Mr . Justice Erie said he felt so certain as to the necessity of his doing so that he refused to hear Mr . Collier on the point of law . The case , however , went before the jury on the facts . Mr . Collier , in addressing the jury , said Mr . Rawlings , the plaintiff , a country gentleman in Hampshire of some property and great respectability , was placed under peculiar Circumstances . By representations which were utterly false , he was induced to join a bank _ in Winchester . It was represented that the bank was in a most flourishing condition when it was hopelessly insolvent , and there had been falsifications in the books and accounts . When the exposure came , Mr . Rawlings was saddled with liabilities to such an amount as almost to overpower him . The defendant ( a Mr . Hunt ) was the representative of the Hampshire Banking Company , who were creditors of the bank , and had obtained judgment against Mr . Rawlings for a large amount . Mr . Rawlings believed that in a little time he should be able to discharge all the liabilities that had been thrust upon bim . He had already obtained judgment against one partner for having induced him to join the bank , and had taken proceedings in Chancery against the estates of the other parties . Upon the 11 , 000 / . judgment he had only received 300 / . ; but , from the result of the suit and his
own private property , he had every reason to believe he should ultimately have means to meet every liability . When the defendant ' s judgment was obtained , the plaintiff was unable to meet it , and at once left the country . Mr . Rawlings was very desirous to liquidate all his liabilities ; and he believed this proceeding to set aside the outlawry would assist rather than retard the final payment of Mr . Hunt ' s debt . The jury having found that Mr . Rawlings was abroad when the outlawry was declared , and Mr . Justice Erie having remarked that the plaintiff might be keeping away from motives which ¦ were justifiable , a verdict was found for the plaintiff . who had been
The case of G . H . Guest , a young man a clerk in the Military Store Oflice at the Tower , with a salary of 126 / . per annum , came before the Insolvent Debtors' Court last Saturday . He had joined a fellowclerk named Spain ( discharged by the same court a short time since ) in raising money upon bills of exchange , the result of which had been the dismissal of both from the public service , and the necessity of appealing to the court for liberation from custody . The insolvent ' s liabilities exceeded 400 / . The opposing creditor was a person named Martin , who had charged , at the rate of sixty per cent , for discount , but who now had the confidence to complain of the system by which young men in public ofiices are enabled to raise money on accommodation bills . Mr . Commissioner Phillips told him that , bad as that system is , his practice of charging such ruinous discount was worse . Any person who choso to take sixty per cent , must be regarded as his own insurer , and had no right to expect any assistance from that court . The case was adjourned .
Two men named James and Charles Mellor , father and son , who have lately occupied a respectable position at Ashtou-under-Lyne , as solicitors , have each been charged with committing a forgery . The fraud alleged against the father was that of having designedly altered a figure from one to four in a receipt which had been given him for the sum of 160 / ., paid by him to a gontlemun at Manchester , whose wife was a legatee under tho will of the late Mr . Hart of the same town , tho administration of tho latter ' s affuirs having been placed in the hands of the elder Mollor . The receipt had been thus passed off for 450 / ., when in truth not more than 1 & 0 / . had been paid by the lawyer . The charge of fraud against the son consisted in his creating and passing for value a deed which purported to convey certain property at Sudh of
dleworth to a person named Prostwich , to name one of tho clerks in tho office of tho Mellors having been used as that of conveyor of tho property , while Charles Mellor had signed hia own name to tho deed ns witness . Those frauds being in course of time detected , the father jyyl fl iL . Jl _ * - _ in 0 r '' LJH'ljiD 2 J !? t ° , f , Manohest « jr " ~ detoctlve forco " having heard oftlle occurrence" ^ started in pursuit of tho fugitives . Ho left Liverpool on tho 15 th of last January in a Canada vessel bound for Boston , on IiIh arrival at which place ho proceeded to Portland , and from thence journeyed through a considerable portion of the United States and Canada , until ho came to Sandwich , whore ho hired a waggon and entered the pruirlca of Illinois , within thirty miles of St . Louis . Hero he found the two men he was In search of , and returned with them to England , after having
travelled altogether nearly ten thousand miles . The prisoners were afterwards brought before the magistrates at Ash ton , by whom they were committed . The way in which the French authorities shovel disreputable characters off on us was exhibited on Wednesday in a case which was brought forward at Guildhall . Victor Durand and Fara Martini , Italians , were charged with stealing boots . After evidence in support of the charge had been given , a City detective officer said that Martini had been in custody with two other foreigners , and was convicted of a similar boot robbery at Gravesend on the day that the Prince and Princess of Prussia were there . A dagger in a sheath was found upon
Martini then , and On the present occasion a large claspknife , with a dagger-shaped blade , was found upon him . A passport was found upon Durand ; but Martini said he came through France , and on applying at Boulogne for a passport he received only a letter to the authorities with permission to come to England . Alderman Humphrey said the French were very particular in requiring recommendations as to character ' before granting passports to persons going to France , and he certainly thought they ought to be more particular with persons leaving that country . The French authorities send these Italians over here in shoals , and then accuse us of harbouring assassins . The accused were committed to prison for three months with hard labour .
The certificate meeting in the bankruptcy of Charles Henry Purday , music publisher of Maddox-street , took place ' on Tuesday . The ground of opposition was that the bankrupt , while himself in difficulties , had accepted accommodation bills to the amount of 440 / . for a Mr . Knight , a clergyman and the composer of several popular songs ; and that he had also made a misrepresentation with respect to the payment of the bills . Mr . Knight is not at present forthcoming . Mr . Bagley , who appeared for the bankrupt , did not attempt to justify the acceptance of the accommodation bills , but said that Mr . Knight was in straitened circumstances , and that Mr . Purday conceived he -was benefiting himself in doing what he had done . Mr . Commissioner Holroyd , who thought the conduct of the latter unjustifiable , said that the certificate ( second class ) would be suspended for twelve months , with protection .
A gentleman , styling himself Colonel Richard Gore Ouseley , applied at the Marlborough-street police-court on Thursday for two assault warrants , and told a rambling story about his having been forcibly conveyed to a lunatic asylum by men acting under the orders of Dr . Mitchellson and Dr . Forbes Winslow ; of his being violently ill-used there on attempting to escape ; of there being several sane persons shut up in the house , while some of the keepers were made ; and of hia having at length been allowed to depart when they found they could not get any money from . him . The magistrate advised him to make an application to the Lunacy Commissioners ; which he promised to do .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Royal family left Buckingham Palace on Monday for tho Isle of Wight . The-Irish Appointments . —Mr . Napier has accepted the Irish Lord Chancellorship , and Mr . Whiteside has been nominated to tho Attorney-Generalship . Mr . Frank Fitzgerald is spoken of as the probable Solicitor-General . . Sir Frederick Thusicur has chosen the title of Baron Chelmsford on his elevation to the Lord Chancellorship . Ho first took his position in a great cause at the town of Chelmsford , -when a leader on circuit . Lord Stratford de Remcliffe . —The Times has authority to state that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe , our Ambassador at Constantinople , has resigned his office , but that Lord Cowley will remain at Paris . Lord Stratford will pay a last visit to Constantinople to take leave of the Sultan .
Earl Stanhope was on llonday elected Lord Rector of tho Aberdeen University . Fire . —Tho recently built church , St . Paul , Ilerno Hill , Dulwich , took fire last Sunday morning , owing to the overheating of a portion of the fane . In the course of the night flames wore seen issuing from various parts of the edifice , and , though engines were soon on tho spot , only the steeple and vestry woro saved . The church was insured . The Orphan Workino School . —The centenary
festival of the Orphan Working School , Maitland-park , Haverstock-hill , was held l « st Saturday evening , at the London Tavern , Bishopagato-stroot , when about one hundred gontlomen sut down to dinner , under tho presidency of tho Right Hon . Lord John Russell , M . P . The institution has boon very successful , and tho governors are anxious to enlarge the building , so as to enable them to receive In all four hundred ohildron . Tho sum of 27007 . " ^ i ^ s ~^ lIcc't ¥ d"lyy-Hut )^ crIptlon- rdurlngtho--evenlnff .-In replying to the toust of his health , Lord John Russell mode a brief and very vague allusion to his political
opinions . Mr . Gohpon Cummino . —The stock and effects , of Mr . Gordon Cuinming ' s exhibition at tho Rotundo , Dublin , have boon seized by tli <) police , for tho recovery of 100 / ., In which Mr . Cunnnlng was bound , in his own recognizuncu to apponr ut tl » o police-office to answor a ohunre of indecorum which bad been made against him
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No . 416 , March 6 , 1858 . ] THE lEABEB , 225
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1858, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2233/page/9/
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