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-warehouse . The girl admitted tie t heft ; said they had no bread at borne ; and promised that her father would not do so any more . When brought before the Xord Major , the girl exhibited the greatest distress , bat the man denied his guilt . It would seem that she had been put through the window of the counting-house ,. to get the keys of the warehouse . The Lord . M ayor expressed great commiseration for her , and said he should dismiss the charge as far as she was concerned ; but the father was committed for trial . The particulars of a horrible outrage came before the
Bow-street magistrate on Monday . A man named Megan lives in a common lodging-house in Newcastlecourt , and has been for some time past on bad -terms with Charles Danby , a fellow lodger . Last Satwrday night , Danby came home helplessly drunk . Megan boiled'a-pot of water , and pouTed the contents over Danby ' s head and face ; and then began kicking him ferociously , and beating him with a poker . At length , he was assisted from the kitchen , but as he was going lip-stairs , Megan followed him , and struck at him with a shovel . The ruffian is now tinder remand , to wait the result of Danby's wounds .
W illiam Brandt , a young man known to the police as an incorrigible thief , has been cbarged at Worship-street with a murderous attack on Mr . Robert Howitt , a coffee-house keeper in the Betfcnal Green-road . Brandt was seen lurking about Howitt ' s premises , and vas warned off , when he made some threatening gestures towards Mrs . Howitt . The husband ran vp , when Brandt drove the blade of a pocket knife completely through Mr . Howitt ' s wrist . He immediately ran to a surgeon , who- pulled out the knife , though not without great difficulty ; and the patient then faint « d . Brandt has been , committed for trial .
Aonother charge has been made in connexion " with the insane habit of getting out of railway carriages before they have stopped . This time , strange to say , the offender is a lady . Mrs . Jane Dawson , who was stated to be the widow of an officer , residing in Stewart ' s-lane , Battersea , was summoned at the ¦ Wandsworth . policeoffice , on Monday , at the instance of Mr . Henry Anscornb , on bebalf of the Crystal Palace Bail way Company , for leaving a train-while in motion . She implored his worship not to be severe , as she had already been sufficiently punished by falling aiid severely bruising herself . Mr . Ingham said lie should only fine her os . and 5 s . costs , and hoped it would be a caution to her in future . The money was paid .
A strange trick resorted to-by paupers was revealed on Monday at Guildhall . Two men , described as sailors , were charged with presenting themselves at the door of the "West London Union stark naked . ' - . It appears that it has recently become a common tb ' ng . for men to go into the arches of the new ' "Victoria-street , tear up their clothes , and walk naked up to the door of the Union . They come from adjoining' parishes , and know that it is impossible for them to be turned back in the state they present themselves . For the last five or six weeks , the practice had been carried on to an alarnu ' ng extent . Sir Peter Laurie sent the two men brought befoTe him to prison , - with hard labour , for six weeks . A matter connected with one of the Cawnpore victims came before the attention of Sir Cresswell
Cresswell in the Court of Probate on Tuesday . The deceased ¦ was Miss Caroline Ann Lindsay , who was with her mother and her younger sister , Frances , at Cawripore , last July . From a pencil memorandum which had been found in the handwriting of Miss Lindsay , it appeared that her mother had perished in the massacre on the 12 th of that month , and it was believed th . it her daughters had been murdered three days later . They had , in fact , been announced as dead in the London Gazette . Under the will of Miss Lindsay ' s father , personal property amounting to about 11 , 000 / . vested in heron the death of her mother . She bad attained her majority in 1865 , and she had died intestate . Dr . Robertson moved for a grant of administration to one of her uncles , and in this all the next of kin had expressed their concurrence . The judge granted the application .
A young man named "Matthew Plane , was charged before the Worship , street magistrate , laBt Saturday , with robbing Mrs . Powell , a la < ly living at Kingsland . Sho was walking alone in the evening along the Hackneyroad , ¦ when Plnne abruptly walked up to her , and , after looking hard in her face for a minute , snatched her velvet mantle from her shoulders , and ran off with it . He was seen and stopped , howeveT , by a young woman whom he ran past , but by violently struggling with her and threatening to stab her with a clasp knife which he held in his hand , he succeeded in throwing her off and getting clear away with the stolen property . Information of tho robbery being given to the police , tho thief shortl
was y afterwards apprehended by a detective officer . The latter told the magistrate that Pl « no had repeatedly been summarily convicted for felony and was once tried with several others for being concerned in a robbery of plate . In tho last ease , however , although his companions were transported , Piano was acquitted . When brought before the magistrate- on tho present charge , he vehemently protested his innocence of the robbery , and pretended to cry . He was neverlhelesB sentenced to b \ x months' hard labour in the House of Correction . The officer who apprehended him stated that robberies like the present had become very common of late , on -which Plane , instantly clmnged his manner
and turning ; fiercely on the constable , exclaimed , - " I'll kill you when I com * out . " Two City timber brokers , named Alfred Sfceen . and Archibald Freeman , appeared on Tuesday , at Guildhall , on a summons charging them with depositing in the City Bank , for their own benefit , a bill of ladirg of the value ot 160 O ? ., with which -they had been entrusted by Messrs . Cavan Brothers , West India merchants . Mr . Skeen put in a paper denying that he had ever seen the bill of ladling until it was produced in court . Both defendants were committed for trial , but allowed to put in bail .
In the course of Tuesday , Lord Ingestre waited on Mr . Jardine , the Bow-street magistrate , and handed in a donation of 50 J . as part of the proceeds of the fete , at Cremorne on the previous Friday . An equal sum , his Lordship said , would be given to three otlier policecourts . Michael Murphy , an itinerant musician , is under remand at Worship-street on a charge of killing Eliza Simpson , in a disreputable house , by kicking licr .
Cornelius Niamey , a costermonger , has been fined . 2 s . 6 d . by the Lord Mayor for causing an obstruction . In the investigation of the case , it came out that the man had so ' -tampered , with his weights and measures that his quarter-of-a-pound weight was found to weigh , but two ounces , his pound -weight seven ounces , and his half-pound weight only one ounce and three-quarters . The man professed to sell cherries at an incredibly low rate per pound ; and this was the way he did it . The fine was paid .
A man and two women are under remand at Wandsworth on a charge of robbing and ' savagely * -maltreating a beer-stop keeper , on Tuesday afternoon , in BaUersoa New Park , while he -was slightly intoxicated . Two other men were also concerned in the outrage ; but they escaped across the river in a boat . The -victim is so seriously injured that he cannot for the present appear against the prisoners ; and so the case is adjourned . An extraordinary charge is being investigated at the Marylebone police-office . William Vorley , a young man described as a merchant , was charged at the Marylebone police-office on " Wednesday with indecent conduct . He took a lodging in Camden Town , and Tvas shortly alterwards seen by his lamlladv , and by two of
her lodgers ( one of them a , married woman ) , sitting at the ¦ w ijQdow dressed in women ' s clothes , and conducting himself in a highly improper manner . At one time , he went out dressed as a woman , with a wreath round his head . The improper conduct was in his own room ; but it was witnessed by the landlady through a crevice ( made by the female lodger ) , and from" the street through a light crochet curtain drawn across the lower part of the widow . The blind was down to within , a short distance of this curtain . The indecent conduct had been , witnessed some ten or twelve times . The , defence was that the young man was assisting in the getting up of a private theatiical performance , and that he believed himself to be in privacy . He was remanded for a week on bail .
The certificate of Joseph Heldmann , lace-man % ifacturer , of Gutter-lane , was wholly refused in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday , on account of reckless trading and dishonest conduct ; and further , protection was disallowed . Mr . Phillips , the master of the West London Union , attended before Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall on Thursday , accompanied by a Scotch girl , to ask his advice and assistance . 'Hie girl had worked at a fishingnet factory at Musselburgh in Scotland . At this place there were two English girls , who talked of going to Australia , and Margaret Kobinson , the Scotch- girl , thought she should like to go too . ller mother , however , disapproved , and fora time she gave up the design . But the JLnglish girls at length induced her to come
( unknown to her mother ) to London , and she was then taken to the house of one Da Sil-wa , whom she had previously seen at Musselburgh visiting the English girls . It was a large house , splendidly furnished ; but Robinson could not say where it was . It is needless to say that this dwelling was a place « f the worst description . Tho " housekeeper" endeavoured to drug the poor Scotch girl ; but 6 ho refused to tuke anytliing to drink , and so saved herself . At length , thinking that sho would be about to return , they allowed her to go , and she wandered about the streets until sho arrived at London-bridge , where she spoke to a policeman , and ultimately was taken to- the workhouse . It was decided that the case should be left in tho hands of the police and tho workhouse authorities .
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THE ASSIZES . The Summer Assizes commenced yenterdaj' w « uk , on which dny , Georgo Cimninghuni , George llrowu , and Edwa . nl . Summers , mates of the American ship Gleaner , woro tried at Cardiff on a charge of wounding John Riley , a bluck man . Another bluek man was being illused by Summers and Cunningham , on which Kiluy cxclnimcd " Fair play ! " Ho was then beaten on tlio head witli iron belaying pins until he became insensible . John Harris , a Cardiff pilot , who remonstrated with tho ruffians , wns- threatened with bciti ^ thrown overboard . Cunningham and Summers wore found ( Ki'Jty of wounding with intent to do bodily harm , nutl were sentenced
to six years ! penal servitude . Brown -was convicted of simple wounding , and was sentenced to hard labour for eight months . Henry Arnold , a lunatic , was charged at Hertford on the same day with the wilful murder of Sarah . Jane Butler . The facts were recently related in this journal and it will probably be recollected that Arnold met Mrs Butler one evening on the highroad in company with her sister , and , without provocation , beat her so severely on the head that she died the next morning . The man had escaped from an asylum . He was of course Acquitted at the trial on the ground of insanity ; and he will he kept in safe custody .
At the same Assizes , last Saturday , a girl , thirteen years old , named Emma Read , was tried on a charge of maliciously and feloniously setting fire to some haulm and wood stacks . That she really set fire to them appeared quite clear , for she herself had admitted the fact ¦ but she said she did not know what she-was doing at the time , and , as she received a very good character for inofFensiveness , the jury favoured a charitable conclusion , and Acquitted her . Mr . Earon Bramwell said he was glad of this , as , had she been found guilty , heshuil . l not Lave known what to do with her . Sir . Justice Wightman , on arriving at Oakhnin , Rutlandshire , found that there was neither civil nor criminal business to attend to ; and the grand and peti > jurors were consequently dismissed .
Mrs . Lewis , a widow lady residing at Laleston , neat Bridgend , lias brought an action at the Cardiff Assize ? against the South Wales ¦ Railway Company for injuries received by the collision at the Stormy station , near Pyle , on the 14 th of last October . The result of tliosiinjuries has been to make her a cripple for life . Tinjury assessed the damages at 600 Z . In three special jury cases at the same Assizes , tht Marquis of Bute recovered verdicts in ejectment against parties who had built cottages upon waste lands- ¦ within his manor in the neighbourhood of Dowlais . —The sarnt court has tried a black seaman named Alfred Collier on
a charge of stabbing a Greek sailor at Cardiff , and three other Greek sailors for beating and wounding the black . The case arose out of a riot near the Bute Pond on tht afternoon of the 2 £ Hh ult ., in which the- Greeks were the aggressors . The trial was very tedious , as it was necessary to translate tbe evidence into French for the negro ( who is a native of a French colony ) and into their own language for the Greeks . The jury convicted . Collier of wounding , without intent to do grievous bodily harm , and lie was « entenced to hard labour for twelve month ? . They convicted the three Greeks of assault , and eac ^ was sentenced to bard labour for four months . -
The case of Bailey and . Lobb , trustees of the Southampton , Bristol , and South Wales Railway Company , v . the Hon . Sir Edward Butler , was tried at Winchester on Tuesday . The action , was brought to recover tht sum of loOOf ., the amount of deposit on 1 OQ 0 shares vi the company , for which the defendant had subscribed . The pleas for the defence averred that the defendant ws indemnified , and that he had paid the deposit whci . certain nionevs borrowed from the Hampshire Banking
Company were repaid . In summing up , Mr . Justitv Watson pointed out to the jury that the plea or indemnification could not be made to avail , and that the pica of having paid the deposit by means of the entry o < 2250 ? ., in the books of the banking company , under the arrangement for borrowing the 21 , 0002 ., when in trutl . the defendant had never paid one farthing , was too grosr an assumption to be sustained . He therefore directed the jury to find for the plaintiffs , which they did for tlu full sum claimed .
At Oxford , on the same day , Mr . Shepherd , a civil engineer , brought an action against the London anc iNortli Western Railway Company , to recover compensation for injuries sustained on their line in the accident at Watford on the 22 nd of last March , occasioned ( as alleged ) by tho negligence of their servants and tho imperfect construction of a new portion of the line . Tlu jury ( after the case had gone on for soven hours ) gave : > verdict for the plaintiff ; tlnm / iges , 700 / . John Dominey and James Fugan , two men in partnership us grocers at Southampton , nnd also employed by the Ordnance-office , were tried at Winchester on
Wednesday on a charge of extorting money from one Williani Scott by threatening to accuse his son of a theft . Tlu hid was employed as an errand \> oy by tho defendants , and , suspecting thnt he had stolon 9 / . 18 s- 7 d ., they accused him of it , and , by various threats , induced him to admit thnt ho lind taken the money . They then , by Kimilnr threats , induced tho father to pay tlio sum alleged to have been stolen . The boy now swore ho had not stolon tho money , nnd had only said he had done so under fear . Dominey and Fagau were Acquitted , but tho jury at tho samo time expressed their belief thnt neither Scott nor his son had had tho money .
William Blackburn Dawson hna been trial at York on the charge of murdering Jatnoa Edward Jacobs , k compositor on tho JfallJ'ax Guardian . The rmrticular .-will ba within the recollection of our readers « n tlutragedy occurred loss than three months ngo . Thr young man was manifestly insane , and tho jury Acquitted him on that ground . Tho Grand Jury ut Winchester have- thrown out tin bill against Hart fur the allcgod murder of his brother at Porli-iiiotit . il . Charles Womack , Matthew Poppltiton , and W- Ncod-
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688 THE LEADE ^ B , ____ [^ 0 ^ 34 , Jtoy 17 y 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2251/page/10/
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