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# THE STAB Of FEEEDOS September ig im
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. '' GtAeotte Kobbeky....
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# The Stab Of Feeedos September Ig Im
# THE STAB Of FEEEDOS September ig im
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Middlesex Sessions. '' Gtaeotte Kobbeky....
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . '' GtAeotte Kobbeky . —Charles Coughlan , 25 , a tall powerfulidookin * man , was indicted for having stolen a watch , the Tjproperty of Charles Paul , from his person . —On the evening of £ Sunday , the 22 nd August , the prosecutor , a steam-boat engiineer wasdi'inking with some friends , amongst whom was the j prisoner ' s father , at a public-house , called the Salisbury Arms , jakLvmehouse . During the time they were together the prie softer joined them , and asked his father for some money , which 1 he refused to give , and the prosecutor treated the prisoner to i some . beer . They went to another public-house , called the Cape I of Good Hope , and had more drink , but ihe prosecutor was so i intoxicated while at the Salisbury Arms , that he recollecled
no-1 thing that occurred after going into the second house until the : following morning , when he found that he had heen robbed , and that his ° limbs were stiff and sore . In addition to this , his tongue felt as if it had been bitten , and there was a considerable degree of soreness about his chin and throat . —A carpenter , named Ronaldson , proved finding prosecutor in Abbott ' s-fields , nearlv strangled wifh a handkerchief and brace , and the prisoner kneeling beside him . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty of-robbery , with violence — -A previous conviction was proved . —Mr . Witham said the utmost severity would be resorted to in all cases where this horrible system of Thuggism was practised . The sentence was that the prisoner be transported beyond the
seas for the term of fifteen years . Robberies . — Wm , Holloway , 22 , was indicted for having stolen a copper , the property of William Dawkins , at Ealing . He . pleaded guilty , and a former conviction was proved against him . The learned chairman sentenced him to be transported for seven years . Eenrij Ryder , alias Blizard , 18 , pleaded guilty to having stolen fifty finger rings , the property of George Hayies , in his dwelling house . A former conviction was proved , and he was sentenced to be transported for ten years .
. Wm . Murray , 21 , and Frederick Poole , 21 , were indicted for Having stolen a gold watch , value £ 10 , the property of John Cottrell , from his per-on . —The jury found the prisoners Guilty . —It was shown that both prisoners were known thieves , and a former conviction was proved against Murray . —Mr . Turner sentenced each of them to be transported for ten years . John Rogers , alias . Jeremiah MGrat ! i , 4 & , audita Williams , 21 , were indicted for robbing Wcolf Pleinser of two sovereigns . —The jury found them both Guilty . —The male prisoner was then tried for stealing a silver watch , value £ 2 10 s ., from the person of Samuel Smith . —The jury found him Guilty . —Mr . Turner , sentenced him to be transported for ten years , and ordered the woman to be remanded .
..- Charles Ellis , 19 , was convicted of stealing a purse containing 6 S ; M : from the person of Leah Jacobs , and sentenced to seven years' transportation .
Ilford Petty Sessions. Europa A35d Her S...
ILFORD PETTY SESSIONS . Europa A 35 D her Steed . — -It will be remembered that the descent of the balloon which , last week , carried Madame Poitevin , " as Europa , " seated upon a wretched heifer , from Cremorne Gardens , was made in the neighbourhood of Ilford . The heifer was in such a state on landing that , in kindness , it had to be killed ; and hence a prosecution , by Mr . Thomas , the secretary to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . The magistrates , it was understood , had arrived at very strong conclusions , not only as to the folly , but as to the inhumanity of balloon ascents with animals ; and there was every
probability that had the summoned parties not pleaded guuty , sentences , of imprisonment , permitted by the act , would have been tasked .. As it is , nominal fines only have been inflicted : Mr . oTmpson , the lessee of Cremorne , repeating the pledge he gave So the Westminster Court , that he would at no future time permit , so . far as he is concerned , animal-ballooning ; and M . Poitevin giving a similar undertaking . —In delivering the decision , of the court , the Chairman said that they would not pander to the lowest tastes of the people by bringing forward detailed instances of barharity in this case , and he was happy to say that the conduct of Mr . ^ Simpson had enabled them to
avoid doing so on the present occasion , and he hoped that Cremorne would no longer be celebrated for barbarous exhibitions , like many other places of amusement for the people . They had had a difficult case to consider , in deciding how far they could interfere in this matter without unreasonably curtailing the amusement of the people , hut they hoped that their decision would serve the cause of humanity , without injuring any one . The parties would each be fined £ 5 and the costs . He wished it , however , to be Understood that in any future case the Bench could exercise its discretion as to the infliction of a fine or thre months' imprisonment . The parties paid the fines and retired .
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT . The Last of the Plaxtaganets . —In be Gsorob Hexry de Shabolsie Neville Plaxtagaxet Harrison . —This insolvent , whose description was very voluminous , comprising residences in almost every chief city in South America , as well as North America and Europe , he had been general of the armies of Yucatan and Peru , lieutenant-general of the Danish army , and the army of the German confederation . —Mr . Sargood opposed on behalf of Mr . Bishop , the gun-maker , of Bond-street , and Mr . Nichols supported . —The insolvent , upon being examined , said he was baptised as George Henry Harrison , but had adopted
the names of de Shabolgie Neville Plantaganet , as being the direct representative of those families . He had been called Prince Plantaganet Harrison in Germany , and had received the rank of marshal in Peru . He had received , from 1847 , about £ 1 , 200 from friends , and had won at play about £ 1 , 300 in the same period . He received , in the years 1 * 844-5-6 , about £ 2 , 000 as military pay . —Mr . Commissioner Law remarked that the insolvency was attributed to the peaceful state of Europe . ( Laughter . )—The complaint of Mr . Bishop was , that in August
1847 , the insolvent bought of him two guns for £ 77 15 s ., for which he gave a bill at one month , which w as , of course , dishonoured . The insolvent pawned the guns about two days after he obtained them , and redeemed them soon after hy pawning two other guns obtained from Mr . Casswell and never paid for ; Mr . Bishop ' s guns were pawned again soon after and had never beep redeemed . —Mr . Commissioner Lav / thought there could be np . doubt that Mr . . Bishop ' s debt had not been fairly contracted , and therefore ordered the insolvent to be discharged after , eight calender months from the date of the vesting order .
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GUILDHALL . Throwing ( Gold ) Dust in the Eyes of a _ Publican . — Samuel Embo mdJash Toufferman , two Lascar sailors , were charged with obtaining money by' false pretences from John James Rowland , beer-shop-keeper , Fetter-lane . — The prosecutor stated that on Thursday evening last the two prisoners came to his shop , and , showing an address card , on which was written 34 , Essex-street , Strand , asked to be directed there , but remained at his house for some time . They stated that they had no money , having come up from Liverpool , where they had left their ship , in which they had come from Australia . They had not been able to find a gentleman who had their papers . The prosecutor gave them a shilling each to get a lodging . In
consequence of representations made by Samuel Embo , that he had a quantity of gold-dust in the Bank of England , showing at the same time a paper with the words " Bullion Office , Bank of England . " written on it , besides stating that they had letters to and had brought money for several gentlemen in the City from their correspondents in Australia , the prosecutor Avas'induced to supply them with refreshments and money to the amount of 16 s . On inquiry , however , he discovered that they had no gold-dust in the Bank , and that they had not come from Liverpool , Embo being a cook on board a ship which arrived in the London Docks on the 21 st of August , and Toufferman , who stated that he had come in the same ship with Embo , had ,
in fact , only met him in Rateliif-highway on the morning of Thursday . The prosecutor gave a very humorous account of the plausible manner of the prisoners , who shed tears and turned up the whites of their eyes , evidently with considerable effect on him . —As there was no direct evidence that the prisoners had not any gold dust in the Bank , Embo was ' remanded , and Toufferman discharged . " Standing to his Guns . "—Cornelius Harrington and George Jjarris were charged with being disorderly in Guildhall-yard ,
during the sitting of the court . —Mr . Sewelt stated that a number of persons had assembled in the Guildhall-yard , besides some militia men going up to be attested , and he saw . several young men bonneting others , and the two prisoners began to tight . —Harris said that he was an old sailor , and had been in three general actions : and as he never feared anybody , when he found himself bonneted by some one who had taken a fancy to his hat , he had returned the blow , for he always " stood to his cmns . " He had been to see his son attested as a militia
man . — -Harrington said he was only larking He had just enlisted as a militia man . —Alderman Sidney thought he was making a bad beginning , and if ho went on in that way he'd never be a sergeant . If he would promise to show more subordination in future he would discharge him . As to Harris , as he was an old veteran , he could not blame him for standing to his guns , and he should discharge him also .. A French Criminal .- —Jacques Anne Marie Solaman de Gaston , of 103 , Mount-street , Grosvenor-square , was brought ur > by habeas corpus from Whitecross-street Debtor ' s Prison ,
where he was in custody on civil process , to appear to a charge of feloniously removing a number of shares and other property , belonging to "Le Mineur" Anglo Franco California !! Gold Mining Company . It appeared from the evidence given on a former occasion , that a company was established in France under the above title by one Vachoii , who appointed the prisoner agent of that company in England , for the purpose of establishing a branch company ; and he was entrusted with a sum of money , about £ 700 , and a large number of shares of the estimated value of £ 50 , 000 . Offices were taken in King ' s
Arms-yard , Moorgate-street , and the company was in process of formation by De Gaeton ; but Vachon having come over to this country and demanded an account , differences arose which ended in De Gaeton ' s taking away a number of shares from the offices to his private house , where he concealed them under the flooring of one of the rooms , the carpet of another , and in the stuffing oi a sofa . He was then given into custody by Vachon , on a charge of stealing the shares . The prisoner contended that he was the only responsible party in London connected with the company , and that , therefore , he could , at most , but
be prosecuted by the company in France for neglect of duty or breach of trust . The court being of this opinion , the charge against the prisoner was dismissed . He , however , remained in the custody of the sheriff ' s officer by whom he had been arrested . It was then stated that a French police officer was waiting to take him into custody under the treaty of extradition on a forgery . The French officer was called , and stated that he was not about to take him into custody then , but that all the necessary documents were before the Secretary of State , whose authority he was awaiting .
Expert Robbery . —Two neatly-dressed young men named Lewis and Williams , were brought up by Daniel May , a detective police officer , under the following circumstances , illustrative of a system of robbery which , it is said , is very extensively practised by some of the higher classes of thieves in London . The officer charged the prisoners with being in a shop with intent to commit a felony . He watched the prisoners for some time looking into several shop windows in Fleet-street , and at last saw Lewis go into Mr . Crutchley ' s shop at the corner of
Salisbury-street ; he was soon afterwards followed by Williams , Lewis being in conversation with Mr . Crutchley ; but as another person whom they could not see from the outside of the window was in the shop , they came out without purchasing anything . They were then taken into custody . The plan pursued is for one of the parties to go into a shop where there is only one person , and attract the attention of that parson to a distant part of the shop , when the other enters and carries off anything he can lay his hand on . Mrs . Hemus , of Aldcrsgate-street , butcher , identified Williams as a per & on who came to her shop on 6 th of August last , while she was absent from it , and , on her return , asked for a small quantity of meat , after which she saw him
join Lewis on the opposite side of the street . She immediately missed a valuable gold watch from the mantle piece in a back room which she had seen safe a quarter of an hour before . The prisoners were each sentenced to short terms of imprisonment in the House of Correction .
BOW STREET . A Rejected Suitor . —Robert Lawrance Walker , a gentlemanly looking man , described as a farmer , of Teversham , near Cambridge , was placed at the bar before Mr . Jardinc , charged upon a warrant with having addressed a hostile letter to Mr . David Mathews , a magistrate of Canterbury , inciting him to fight a duel . —It transpired , when application was made for the warrant , that both the gentlemen had been paying their addresses to Miss Elizabeth Anne 'Elliston , a young lady residing at the village of Arlington . The preference being eventually given to Mr . Mathews , the present complainant , the necessary arrangements were made for their marriage forthwith in Lon-
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don ; pending which the lady was entertained in the )>/> , friend , residing in Holborn . r l fce wedding was fixed f 0 , ? of * day morning last , and was jusv - about to take place J ^ bridegroom , who had been stayh . > g at Ridlers Hotel , . tllfi the letter in question . It was d ' at , ' ' from Cambridge" h n Ve the post-mark : of Canterbury , andwa s couched in mimist-il i * language—the writer ' s " friend" being ' formall y name ( j „^ » lo " instruments ' specified . The handwriting was at 0 ™ . ^ titled by the lady as that of her rejected suitor , ^ eonf-.. was held , the clergyman was consulted , a ud the wedding 01106 wa » ueia , me clergyman was consulted , a " « cue wedding
postponed until measures had been taken to p Aice the bellife ^ writer under such restraint as would prevent ' ' his inteifefl 0 n with their future happiness . Accordingly the . bride and b ? T groom sought an interview with Mr . Henry , the maestri ? * who granted a warrant for his immediate apprehension . ° pj ' kin , an officer attached ' to the court , was dispatched with ti warrant to Cambridge , from which lie returned with the 1 fondant on S ' u nday evening , when the latter was safely IocUi in custody in . " Bow-street . —The defendant nleaded guilty to ' fi charge , and his worship ordered him to enter his own rccoov zances in £ 150 , and find two sureties of £ 75 each , to keen K peace for six months towards Mr . Mathews and all others of ]^ Majesty's subjects . * Ci
MARLBOROUGH STREET . Cruelty to a KoBSE . —John Carl , a labourer , rcsicUng- < u No . 10 , Oxford-market , was charged with cruelly beatinV horse on the head with an iron bar . —Richard Price stated that he was a brass-worker , and resided at 15 , George-street ( Jlerfcenwell . Yesterday morning , as he was passing " throuffi ! iVj . arlborough-mcws , he saw the defendant cleaning a horse Ho looked On for a short time , and saw the prisoner strike the harm with the curiy-comh . He then seized hold of an iron bar about three feet long and an inch thick ( which witness pro ' duced ) , and poked it in the horse's side . This brutal treatment the prisoner followed up by laying hold of the iron bar with both
iris hands and dealing the- poor animal a fearful blow 0 n i-ta ms nanus and dealing the- poor animal a fearful blow on the side of its head , and knocked one of its eyes out . The horse in its agony , staggered and fell down ; and the prisoner , 4 u manifested the utmost unconcern at the animal ' s sufferings , was given in charge . —Mr . Bingham said he was satisfied that the charge had been fully proved , and as it was an extremel y bad case he would not put it in the prisoner's power to liberate himself by payment of a fine , but should commit him at once to the House of Correction for one calender month .
An unmanly . Ruffian . —Edward Cullen , a stout , young felow , was brought before Mr . Bingham , charged with violently assaulting Margaret Rearclon , of No . 4 , Clarke ' s-huildings , St . Giles . The complainant , who appeared to he in a dreadiu ? state of suffering from the treatment she had received at the hands of the prisoner , deposed that about 20 minutes to 12 on Tuesday night she was sitting in a public house in Dudley-street . Tile prisoner and three other young men were there skylarking and
one of them tore his ( prisoner ' s ) trousers . She laughed at the accident , when the prisoner came over to where she was standing and beat her ; he then tore her bonnet and caught hold of her leg and tripped her up ; she fell to the ground with great violence , and while lying on the floor the prisoner kicked heron the side , and jumped upon her , and broke three of her ribs . She was taken to King ' s College Hospital , where she was examined by a surgeon , who certified that her ribs were broken . She was
now an in-patient of the hospital . Mr . Bingham remanded the prisoner for a week , and directed the injured woman to Ls conveyed to the hospital on a stretcher , ' that being the easiest mode of conveyance for a person in her state . WORSHIP STEEET . Ruffianly Outrage . —Two powerful young fellows named Darnel and Miclwl Cochrane were charged with the following outrage : —Marsh , a constable of the G division , was on duty in Fmsbury at two o ' clock in the morningwhen he heard such a
, disturbance in one of the adjoining streets as was calculated to arouse the inhabitants ; and , on proceeding there to put a stop to it , found the two prisoners engaged in a loud altercation with two other men . The latter appeared to be inoffensive , and trying to get away from them , but before they could do so the first prisoner caught up a heavy stone and hurled it at the head ot one of the men with such force that , if it had struck him , it would very probably have killed linn . Witness told him lie ought to be ashamed of himself to hazard a man ' s life in that
manner , upon which the prisoner made use of some threatening expression , and , grasping hold of another large paving-stone , at least 181 b . in weight , whirled it at him with all his strength . Witness leaped aside , and so escaped the full force of the blo » r , but the stone , notwithstanding , struck one of his legs as it flew past him , atid inflicted such an injury as to almost paralyze the limb for some time after . Upon partially recovering from the effects of it , he attempted to secure the prisoner , but the instant ne laid hold of him the prisoner seized him bv the collar
, ripped his coat completely down , flung him heavily upon ins bacic upon the pavement , ' and as soon -as he had tallcn , jumped with his whole weight upon his body . He again , Jioirever contrived to get firm hold of the prisoner , and maintained it , but as soon as he had got upon his feet the second prisoner rushed out of one of the adjoining houses , and dealt him such a vindictive kick upon the lower part of his person that he was obliged to relinquish his grasp of him , and both took to their neeis and ran into the house the second had-just emerged from- , YYitness then sprang his rattle , which brought a number ot other constables entered
to his assistance , and the house was and the prisoners secured and pulled out of it , but thev i-esistcd with such determination that it was only after one of them w received a severe blow upon the head from one of the office * . m retaliation for a similar violence inflicted upon Iiimselt , that they were at length overpowered and lodged in this stationihe magistrate , after animadverting upon the iwprovol ^ nature ot both assaults , sentenced the second prisoner , as W least culpable , to pay a penalty of 20 s ., or in default to stana committed for a fortnight to tiie House of Correction , and sum ; manly committed the first prisoner , Daniel Cochrane , for ^ month , without the imposition of anv penalty .
Cuarles Warren , a respectably dressed , middle-aged ^ described as a tavern or coffeehouse keeper at Dalston . Jpl aced at like bar before Mr . Hammill . charged with violator his female servant , Lydia Smith , an intelligent and hw <* e ' looking girl of 12 years of age . The defendant having - pressed his intention to reserve his defence , the deposit ^ were taken by Mr . Vine , the chief clerk , and he wtf ' «• committed to Newgate for trial , the magistrate positivcij fusing to accept bail to any amount .
MARYLEBONE . Charge of Manslaughter . —William Wallis , a Wfj "; jv as charged with causing the death of John Parsons , ag " by reckless driving . Mr ; Dormaii , of 19 , Hawley-creseen t , ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18091852/page/6/
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