On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (6)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Htcitents aifo Casualties. N '
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
and that Mahon was suspected , one of the patrol recollected that at ten o ' clock on the night of the burglary they had found in a public-house " the Doctor , " Mahon , two other men , Mitchell , and Eobinson , and a woman , all , apparently in earnest consultation . The sergeant of the patrol went at once to the House of Detention , and there , in the prisoner Dyson , he recogized " the Doctor . " During the following nights it was also ascertained that none of the three suspected men appeared at heir usual haunts , It was clear , therefore , that the first point as gained , the gang was known ; the range of inquiry was at
nee limitud to three known individuals , and the police now urned their undivided attention to the discovery of their places of concealment . Our readers will recollect our explanation of the abundant sources of information that may he opened up hy judicious management ; money being wanted , it was , under the advice of the magistrate , supplied by a friend of Mr . Holford , and the whole of the Southwark division being on the alert , feelers were put forth in every direction . One man was successful . He was acquainted with a woman who had formerly
lived with Mahon , but had been deserted by him , and he o unded ler . "Whether there had been a quarrel , or whether t woman ' s jealousy at being supplanted was stirring within her or whether the reward alone was motive enough , she consented to give her assistance , and the bargain was struck . She could not , however , learn where Mahon was concealed , for his present companion -was faitliM to Mm . But it is the curse of a criminal , that friends and foes are alike dangerous , and she managed to find out that the other woman washed his clothes , and on the
next Saturday evening would take some to him , and the plan was laid accordingly . When the Saturday night came , the false friend , followed at a safe distance by a detective , found some pretext for joining the other , and the two women set out together , one carrying the little bundle of clean clothes . They crossed ^ the river , and proceeded rapidly by narroAv courts and unfrequented dimly lighted streets in the direction of Shoreditch . So thick and dark was the night that the detective sergeant would have been thrown out , had not this contingency been foreseen and guarded against . Under her dingy dirty dress the
confederate had put on a clean white petticoat , and at the sharp turns or crossings the dark dress was raised , and the white signal shown to her follower . In this way the whole of London was traversed , and at length they reached a public-house in the Tungsland-road . Here they stopped . The woman with the buudle went in , the other disappeared . The sergeant soon ound a policeman on his beat , and , making himself known , secured his services , and directed him to fetch two more . He then entered the house , and there , in a large room , where a number of thieves were smoking and drinking , he saw the
object of his pursuit , Mahon , sitting beside the woman whose faithful services had so unwittingly betrayed him . Fortune seemed disposed to shower her favours on the police officer , for a little farther off he spied Eobinson . Confident in his ascendancy over any number of criminals , he allowed one policeman to show himself at the door , and with the quiet , business-like manner that characterizes the detectives , he walked up to Mahon , and told him he was wanted . The robber felt that his hour was come ; as to resistance , notwithstanding the numbers
present , no one so much as thought of it . Each in his secret soul was relieved to find that he was not the person wanted , and was quite willing to sacrifice Mahon for the benefit of the community present ; besides , for anything he knew , the whole division might be behind the policeman at the door . At the signal from the sergeant , this man now came in , his place , however , for the sake of appearances , being immediately taken by another . Mahon , with perfect submission , went so the bar , where ho was searched and haud-cuffed ; Robinson was also arrested , and both prisoners were removed to the station-house .
Some important evidence was supplied by a cabman who had read in the newspapers the account of the robbery He had been on his stand , not very far from Holford House , when , about two in the mornmg of the 14 th October ( the hour at which the attempt had been made ) , a man ran up to him , and saving that his hand had been bitten by a dog , asked him to pump some water upon it that he might wash away the blood . Immediately afterwards another man , without a hat , and with blood pouring from his face and neck , ran up to the stand , called the cabman , and jumping hastily into the cab was driven off towards the
Strand . When the cabman was brought to the police office , he was confronted with Mahon , and recognised him as the man who had washed his hand at the pump . On the hand being examined , it was evident not only that the wounds had not been occasioned by the bite of a dog , and therefore his story to the cabman was false , but they corresponded to the cut of the bayonet and graze of the shot , and the dark blue stain of the gunpowder was still there The wounds , however , were healing , and the hand returning to its natural state ; so that these curious pieces of circumstantial evidence would have been lost , had there been much delay in Mahon ' s apprehension .
It was was of coarse surmised that the wounded man who called the cab was the remaining one of the gang , Mitchell , and his conduct rendered this highly probable . While proceeding on his way , he heard a chaise coming after him at a gallop ; he instantly called to the cabman to stop , jumped out , and , though almost fainting from loss of blood , attempted to run away . The chaise , however , passed on , and he returned , but in the extremity of his terror all his considerations of prudence gave way before the one thought of watchfulness against pursuit , and he would not enter the cab again , but got upon the box . In the Strand he was put down , —the cabman , getting another fare , drove off , and all farther trace was lost .
The police , however , thought that in these circumstances a criminal trying to escape , and finding his strength failing , would most probably , desire to be driven towards his place of concealment , but would stop short of it in order to baffle pursuit , and were satisfied that Southwark was the cover he had gained ; this coincided also with the belief that Mitchell was the man , and the M division were again sot in motion . This time recourse was had to one of those women , who , living by the vices of others , are nerhans i \ m most , flo . frrji . fir . fi nTl ^ JnAimmio the vices ot othersare perhaps tfte most degraded and infamous
, of the human race . For a stipulated reward , she engaged to endeavour to ascertain Mitchell ' s hiding-place . Her information was , however , necessarily at second-hand , and therefore imperfect , besides being tardy . Three times did the ofnecrs search houses which were indicated to them , but without , success Mitchell having got away before their arrival , and it seemed doubtful whether there was not some double treachery going on . The next place named was a house in Little Surrey-street ,
Blackmars-road ; but as it was a private house , kept by persons apparently supporting themselves by honest labour , it was necessary to proceed with much caution . A policeman was found who was a friend of the nearest baker , and who learned from him that an unusual quantity of bread had of late been supplied to the house ; another policeman was acquainted with the owner of the house , and contrived , on some pretext , to get the door opened . The Serjeant then went in and asked who the lodger was . While the parley was going on , the face of a woman ,
Untitled Article
listening anxiously , appeared over the bannisters , and he was recognised as having been with the gang in the public-house on the night of the burglary . All hesitation was now over , and on going into the bed-room they found Mitchell ( who had been wounded by the discharge of small shot ) with his head and neck enveloped in bandages and bread poultices ; he was in a miser able state , for hitherto he had been afraid to get medical assistance . The officers , having now fairly run their game down , treated him with great kindness ; he was carefully removed to the station-house , every comfort provided for him , and a surgeon procured to dress his wounds . When taken to the police-office , the hat with the shot holes was found to fit him , and he confessed his guilt .
There still remained one man undiscovered , for Robinson was set at liberty , the police having learned that though he had remained with the gang till a late hour , he had quitted them before they went to Holford House . The real offender , who had been the contriver of the whole , was afterwards arrested on " information they received , " but as he had taken no booty , was not marked , and could not be identified , he was necessarily
discharged for want of proof ; the other three were transported for life . The complete success of the police , however , shows the efficiency of the present system . No single officer could have traced out all the actors in the business ; it required a systematic supervision of the criminal population , and a special instrument for each special purpose , as well as combined action over a wide area . &
Untitled Article
Another Dreadful Balcony Accident . —On Friday afternoon a dreadful accident occurred at the residence of Mr . Kennedy , 40 , Claremont-square , Clerkenwell , to a young woman named Harriett ftoxell , a servant in the family , by the falling of a balcony on which she was standing at the time , cleaning the windows , when she received such injuries as to lead to the belief tlu . it thev will terminate fatally . In her descent she fell
on the iron railings in front of the house door , and the point of one of them entered her back , under the right shoulder , where she was suspended . Several persons , seeing her dreadful position and hearing her screams , ran to her assistance . They with some difficulty , as the rail was barbed , lifted her up ami got her off , when the blood poured profusely from the wound . ? She was removed to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital .
Miraculous Escape . —Probably one of the most miraculous escapes from death , by a railway engine , happened at South Shields on Friday week . A poor woman , the wife of a labourer named Thomas Walker , and residing at Stoke-terracc , in that town , had gone out to the harvesting , and left a Ik ' . ' . ' . ' - ' i : two years old , at a Mend's house near the High station ¦} o ; 3 and Berwick Railway , a mile off . About ten o ' cloc the forenoon the little thing Lad wandered on to the raihvaA and was making along the line towards its home , the ten o ' clock train was coming down from Sundeiiand and Newcastle with
great rapidity at the . same period of time , and , on rounding a curve , the driver of the engine saw the child some distance before him in the middle of the down line , and laughing at the engine as it approached her . It was impossible to bring the engine up in time ; the coupling-chain of the tender struck the child , threw it down , and the engine and long train of carriages passed over it . Having got about twenty yards in advancethe
, engineman was enabled to bring the train up , when he and some of the passengers ran back to where the child was laid . She was found considerably cut about the head , and scratched , as if she had been dragged a short distance . Mr . Bowlby , surgeon , was in the train , and attended to her wounds . On Saturday the child seemed quite recovered , and was running about as if she had sustained no injury .
Walking on the Ceiling . —An extract from the Wolcot Standard , Wayne county , states that on Saturday afternoon it was advertised that Mr . R , Sands , circus performer , would , among other things , walk across the ceiling with his feet upwards and his head downwards , by means of a scientific apparatus appended to his feet . The experiment was successfully made by Mr . R . Sands , and the audience went away perfectly satisfied with what they had seen , all except one person , who said Mr . Sands could not perform the feat out of the circus .
Mr . Sands offered to exhibit the same performance in any place vhere a ceiling having a smooth surface of sufficient strength to sustain his weight could be obtained . The largo room in the Town-hall was selected . Mr . Sands repaired to the hall , and commenced his antipodal performance over the ceiling at an elevation ot 18 feet from the floor . He had proceeded several steps , and was in the act of returning , when a large portion of the plaster gave way , and he was precipitated to the floor beneath . Mr . Bands was taken up senseless . His neck was broken by the fall , and death ensued instantly .
Disowning . —A melancholy accident took place last week at the Cascade , Buckhurst-MU , Chigwell , Essex . Two young gentlemen , named Sykes , who were on a visit to their parents in the above neighbourhood , went in the afternoon to the Cascade , accompanied by Mr . Salter , jun ., one of the proprietors of the Balfaced Stag , and proceeded to bathe , when Francis Sykes , aged about 19 , was observed to sink , and , after 3 hours dragging under the superintendence of Sergeant Brockwood , the body was found . His parents , who were in an adjoining field at the time , were almost frantic ; and when the body of their son was obtained , the scene was truly heartrending .
I < atal Accident . —Tynemouth , Monday . —Yesterday afternoon a very melancholy accident happened off Son tor-point , on the Durham coast , about four miles from this place . A Shields pilot coble , No . 78 , manned by Richard Harrison , John Harrison , his son , and another pilot of the name of Tholbeck , was running south in search of ships . The pilot cobles are exceedingly smart craft , but , when under a large press of sail , if not skilfully handled in a squall of wind , very dangerons . She had
her mizen , main lug , and jib sails set . The day was fine , - with light winds , but with a long swell of sea . When off Souter however , a squall like a whirlwind overtook them , and , before they could let go the shouts , the boat upset and sunk . They were more than a mile from land , but their position was descried by the crew of a Cullorcoats fishing-boat . They pulled towards thorn as quickly as they could , but when thev ' reached
the placo where the accident happened they could see ' none but Tholbeck floating on the water . The other two poor fellows wore drowned . Tholbeck was last sinking , and was unconscious when the boat came to his assistance . He was hauled on board , and taken to Marsden-rock , where every attention was paid to him by Mrs . Allan and her family . For many hours h « was not expected to recover : he is now / however , much better " riie boat was picked up in the evening , but the bodies of the men had not been found .
Untitled Article
Collision at Headcorn , and Committal op thp p « Dmvbb . —At the County Police Court , Maidstone , before w ?? Filmer , Bart , M . P ., andD . Scratton , Esq ., Thomas A rcher , ' engine-driver , in the service of the South Eastern RaiL Company , was charged with having on the 26 th July , wilful maliciously , and negligently driven an engine attached to ' tram of which he had the charge , past a certain stop siffml t or near the Headcorn station en the South Eastern RailwV against another engine on the said railway , thereby * cndan »/ ing the lives of the pasengers . After the evidence , the room t cleared , when the magistrates , after some consultation ( W fli ! i
, on sending the case for trial to theJ . Quarter Sessions , the defend bemgreserved . The defendant was admitted to bail , on the an plication of his solicitor , himself in £ 40 , and one suret y in jgX Serious Accident on the Shrewsbury and Hertpori Railway . —On Tuesday last an accident occurred at the Craven Arms station , on the Shrewsbury and Hertford Railway \ o i postman , named John Mayo . It appears that the unfortunate man is a . waggon shunter at the station just named , and when the accident occurred he was in the act of shunting a sino-le w * ,,
gon with a horse , from off the main line on to a siding . After lie had unhooked the horse , he ran to the points to turn the waggon on to the siding , when his foot jammed between the points , and no one being near to stop the waggon , he was thrown down and the waggon passed over both his legs . On the arrival of the 10 . 57 a . m . train from Ludlow , he was placed in the guard ' s van , and conveyed to Shrewsbury ; and when the train reached the latter ' town he was placed on a stretcher , and borne off to the Salop Infirmary . On examination , it was found that his right leg was broken and fractured in several places , and his left W very severely bruised . It is believed that amputation of the right leg at least will be necessrry . A Town Destroyed by Fire . —The town of Wasa , in Finland , was destroyed by fire on the lltli . Nothing was left standing except the court of justice and four houses near it . The town was founded in ' l 606 , by Charles IX . oi Sweden , and contained aboiit 3 , 200 inhabitants .
Untitled Article
* GUIDE TO THE LECTUKE KOO 3 I . a ssrs ^ g r& ^ sr - EvUlay cmlin ^ nudMatoLSK' Cii ^ ad .-S ? e Pt 5 th [ 7 * J , liobortCooper , 'Sp iritual ^ LcS ! vc Hal 1 ' 242 S Holbom . —Sept . Ctli , [ 7 i ] , 1 * . \ Y . l ' oriitt , will 'cSS ^! liS ^ Stet *«*« " - K- ' -S ^ ^ K o ^ S , ? . 18 ^ 8 ' ^ Society , three doors from the Hugh 3 ly ddclfa « . —sept , ^ nci [ bsj , Discussion . mS'W ?? Institution , Bethnal Groen .-Sept mM aiatbon , British Poets re-considered . ' vivlT ' ? J 1 ! llul KcarUii }; Room , 50 , Church Lane , WlritsdhapeLEvery Smnday , Monday , and Wednesday ( S ) , a Lecture or Discussion . if " , M u * ^ ruction Society , 4 , Gloucester Terrace .-Sept . 6 , [ SiJ Mi . W . r . Matson , ' Slmksnere . '
m ^ Tnf , Ha 11 1 > hill ) ot Street , Commercial Road , East-Sep t . 5 th , Ui a . m . j , Uvarles feontliwell will lecture .-Theolo-ieuI Discussions evfl ) bunday evening [ 7 ] , Tuesday [ S ] , Thursday [ 8 ] , and Saturday [ S ] . Progressionist Hall , Cheapside , Leods .-Sopt . 5 t ! i [ 6 £ ] , a Lecture . Social Institution , Charles Street , Old Garrajt , Manchoster . -Sept W 111 a . m . l a Lecture .
Htcitents Aifo Casualties. N '
Htcitents aifo Casualties . N '
Untitled Article
A Policeman in the Dock . —The Court of Assizes of Marseilles tried on Thursday week , an ex-central commissary of police in that city , named Galernc , for having accepted bribes in the discharge of his duties . Evidence having been given of different acts , the jury declared the accused guilty , and the court condemned him to ten years' imprisonment with bard labour .
^ Seizure of Contraband Tobacco . —At Ramsgate on Tuesday two Englishmen , named J . Garder and H . Chawncr , and four Frenchmen , giving the names of J . C . Caibe , B . Longrein , X . Mermain , and A . Grevet , were charged with being in possession of the Marie , of Dunkirk , on board of which vessel was discovered six thousand pounds weight of tobacco , the duty on which amounted to £ -945 . The bench convicted the Englishmen in the penalty of £ 100 , or to be committed to Sandwich gaol , but the foreigners were discharged .
The Iobkign Coinexhs at Hull . —The three prisoners , Johan Nutzelfeldt , Carl Werner , and Maria Nutzalieldt , who have teen several times remandeu at ihe Hull Police-court on a charge of manufacturing spurious foreign coin , were brought again on Wednesday . The Prussian Government has now taken the prosecution in hand , and the magistrates decided on committing Johan Nutzelfcldt , and Werner for trial , and not deeming the evidence against Maria Nutzelfeldt conclusive conclusive enough , they discharged her .
Highway Robbehy with Violence . —A daring Highway robbery was committed on Sunday morning last at Leigh , in Lanceshire , accompanied by violence . A man named Knight was going up the New-road towards home , when he was suddenU attacked by three men , who knocked him down , and commenced a brutal attack upon him . After kicking Knight they left him for a short time , and then again overtook him , and commenced a furious assault upon him . He besought them to spare his life , when one of the men pulled ont a knife and threatened
to stab him wiih it . A scuffle took place for the possession of the knife , which ended in Knight ' s fingers being cut . He was then thrown head-formost into tnto the hedge , and his pocket rifled of £ 1 13 s . Id . Information having been given to the police , two brothers named John Shannon and Kobcrt Shannon , and a man named Thomas Hunter were apprehended . They were taken to the Town-hall , Leeds , where they were identified by Knight and a labourer who came tip to their assistance on hearing his cries of murder . The prisoners were committed to take their trial at the next Liverpool assizes
Untitled Article
« e * . The Dutch Indies . —Tiie Hague . —According to the official report of tho commerce between Java and Madeira in the year 1851 . it appears that tins imports amounted in value to 43 , 631 , 090 dollars , of which above 3 &OOO . 00 O dollars were in goods , and above 5 , 000 , 000 dollars in readv money ; of which there was from the Netherlands 20 , 288 , 805 dollars in goods , and 3 , 260 , 851 ihS ^ tt iT 7 ' ThC CXports ai ™« nted to 73 , 789 , 056 dollars , of ! _' ' ° ? ¥ 9 ° dollars were in goods , and the rest in ready money . Of this
™ £ , S Sf wftnftff' ! " ? , ts ° f the Inclian Archipelago , for private hands , to the vllf ' i ? ? ' and t 0 the Netherlands , onaccount of the Go-™ ii ^ S 11 * 11 ? Commercial Company , to the value of almost S ? Tl < ^ ' Thlt T > C exi ) orted for private accounts . 8 , 779 , 494 dol-Ini r L ? r ^ Netherlands , and to other countries 8 , 801464 dollars , SvShIt Indum A / chipelago 4 , 508 , 952 dollars . In the year 1851 there 492 mi , fir *^ ^ A 300 slli » more ttum in the preceding year , and creaSl 1 % OR 97 SV - U &revious > rears' The state revenue has als 0 m ' fSSSS ^ : 1 ttie yeav 1851 * «*<««** > > dollars -
Untitled Article
60 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . September 4 , 1852 .
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1694/page/12/
-