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OUR CIVILISATION. ASSIZE CASES. AiXEGED ...
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An Actress's Revenge.—Miss Theresa Greig...
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the Queen ' s per * m who are hostile to the existing order ° BrkSndage has reached a most alarming pitch in Greece ^ where an attack has been recently made on two English offices . The people round Athens are flying into the capital for protection ; but it would seem that even tlere they are not safe . Some of the bandits * have absolutely entered Athens , and robbed an exminister . At the same time , they left notice at the house of ihe premier , Mavxocordato , that they intended shortly to levy black-mail upon him . —The King still demaads the dismissal of Kalergi . Russian influence is active .
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OUR CIVILISATION . ASSIZE CASES . AiXEGED Forgery . —An action was brought at the Croy don Assizes by Mr . Rhodes , representing the London and County Bank , against Mr . Noldwrit , a London Custom House agent , to recover 500 ? . from the latter , as the endorser of a bill of exchange for that amount . The bill was drawn by a person named Bagshaw , and accepted by Messrs . George and Alfred Brook , poultry and provision merchants in Leadenhall Market . Mr . George Brook endeavoured to cret the bill discounted by the
London and County Bank , where the firm , which was at that time in difficulties , had an account . This was refused by the manager , unless another responsible person would put his name -to the document . Ultimately , Mr . Noldwrit ' s name appeared on the bill , and it was discounted by the bank . The defence was that Mr . Noldwrit ' s signature was a forgery ; and Mr . George Brook was broadly charged with being the guilty party , probably under pressure of extreme money difficulty . A verdict was found for Mr . Noldwrit .
Jealousy . —Michael Calloway was indicted at the Liverpool Crown Court for committing a murderous assault on his wife . He had been married about four years , and they had lived happily until the end of last year , when , in consequence of the husband becoming involved , he was imprisoned by his father-in-law for debt in Lancaster Castle . On being released soon afterwards , he was observed to change very much in his manner , and to be haunted by a suspicion that his wife had been seduced by a master bricklayer , one of the prisoner ' s principal creditors , who had been the means of putting him in prison . His wife , it appeared , had been repeatedly visited by this man during her husband ' s confinement in gaol . Owing to Calloway ' s suspicions , the woman was separated
from him , and went to live with her parents . An attempt , however , was made to bring about a reconciliation , and , on the prisoner meeting his wife one evening at the Bellevue-gardens , Manchester , he asked her to go home with him . She consented ; ano % on their way , he gave her several severe wounds with a knife . In his defence , the prisoner stated tha ^ his wife had behaved to him , both during and since his imprisonment , in a manner that had almost unsettled his reason . A melancholy scene here occurred . The man was several times obliged to cover his face with his hands , and his wife sobbed violently . The court seemed deeply to feel the situation of both ; but the jury returned a verdict o Guilty . The prisoner was sentenced to fifteen years transportation . <
An Actress's Revenge.—Miss Theresa Greig...
An Actress ' s Revenge . —Miss Theresa Greig , an actress and singer at the Marylebone Theatre , where she performed under the name of Miss Forester , has stabbed a man named William Edmonds , with whom she lived . A policeman who was on duty in Goldington-street , St . Pancras , about three o ' clock on Saturday morning , saw Miss Greig in her nighfr-clothes in the street . She asked him to fetch a cab for a gentleman who was ill ; and the constable , having gone back with her a certain distance , found Edmonds sitting on a door-step , with a serious wound in the abdomen . Miss Greig admitted having stabbed him , adding , " Ho is my husband . I 8 t * bbed him in the heat of passion . He called me some horrible names which I don ' t deserve . " She was taken
into custody , and examined at Clerkcnwell police court , when she was remanded until tho state of the man is more accurately ascertained . At present , ho is going on well . —On the case being again brought forward on Wednesday , Edmonds was declared to be out of danger , and a lottor from him to tho magistrate was handed in , stating that " tho accident" occurred through his passion aa the prisoner was cutting broad and butter for supper , and ho was rushing forward to strike hor ; and he added that ho should not appear against her . Under these circumstances , bail was accepted . Edmonds ' s solicitor stated in court that the accused was ordinarily a very inoffensive person , and that she had an aged mother and a child to support .
A Gentleman Blackguard . —Gustavus Troughton , a well-dressed young man , has been committed to tho Wondsworth Houbq of Correction for three months , for improperly exposing himself to some j'oung girla on Clapham Common . It appeared , from tho evidence of rt police Buporintoudont ,- that tho offence had- boon of frequent occurrence on the common . A French Gentleman , accompanied by an Italian priest , applied on Saturday at tho Thames polico-oflice
for advice under the following circumstances : —The Italian had been induced by a German to come to England , under a promise of the latter obtaining for him the situation of Roman Catholic chaplain to the Italian Legion now being formed in England . On arriving in this , country , however , he found that the post was filled up ; and one day subsequently , the German , in his absence , broke open his boxes , and stole everything he possessed . Mr . Ingham , the magistrate , placed the case in the hands of an experienced police officer . Opium-eating . —A tall , handsome man , of gentlemanly appearance , who gave his name as " Count Napoleon de Zuechi , " was charged at the Southwark police-court with an attempt to commit suicide by means of opium eating . He had been given into custody by
his wife in Red Lion-street , Borough , as the only means of saving his life . The stomach-pump was used , and he was removed to the hospital , where he was confined for some days . His wife and other witnesses stated that he had been a captain of the French mounted gendarmerie , whose uniform he still wore , but that , having taken part in the Paris insurrection of 1851 , he and his wife fled to this country as refugees . He had likewise been in Africa , and , while there , acquired the habit of taking large quantities of opium . Having positively declared that he merely took this narcotic " to cause a pleasant sleep , " and not with any intention of destroying himself , as he had applied for an enlistment in the Italian Legion , he was discharged on his promising to be more careful in future .
Child Starving . —A frightful case of death from starvation has' just come to light in Liverpool . The victim is an infant , the youngest child of a man named Aspinall . On Friday week , one of the public officers went to this man ' s house , and there , in a room almost bare of furniture , he saw three children , all of whom were naked , and in a fearfully emaciated condition . One was dying , and another was so reduced in strength as to be unable to walk or stand , while his hip-bones were visible through the skin . It appeared also , from the statement of the eldest daughter , that another child had
died , and that its death was caused by taking cold through improper exposure , and by subsequent want of food . Both the parents had , for some time past , been addicted to drinking , which had consumed all their means ; and the children , in consequence , were obliged to go without necessaries . An inquest was held on the body of the deceased child , when the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the man and his wife . — -A precisely similar case , with the exception of the fatal termination , has come' before the Lord Mayor afc- the Mansion House . The wretched child was
rescued , in a shocking state of exhaustion and disease , by the benevolent interposition of an Irishman and a widow living in the same court . The parents have been committed for trial . Threatening Letter . —William Corfield , an attorney , surrendered at the Central Criminal Court to answer a charge of sending a threatening letter , with intent to extort money . The facts appeared in the Leader of July 14 th . Mr . Corfield , through his counsel , stated that he conceived at the time he was justified in what he had done , but that , being now persuaded to the contrary , he pleaded Guilty . Mr . Justice Erie , therefore , directed the prisoner to enter into a recognizance to appear and receive judgment if he should be called upon to do so .
A False Charge . —James Webb , a chemist , was tried at the same court for a criminal assault on Emma Matthews , a girl about twenty years of age . The girl said that she went to Mr . Webb ' s shop , and , irr consequence of some statements which she made about her health , Mr . Webb offered to examine her chest . On the following day , according to her assertion , he went to her mistress ' s * house , insisted that she should take her jjjothes ofF , and afterwards flung her on tho sofa and committed the offence imputed . Cross-examination , however , disclosed the fact that she had once before made a similar charge against another person , and that money was received . Mr . Webb was therefore acquitted .
The Robbery at Messrs . Deank ' s , & c . —Thomas William Beal , an omnibus conductor ; David Barnett , a watchmaker ; and David Polack , described as a dealer , have been found Guilty of being concerned in tho burglaries at the Messrs . Dcane ' s and tho Messrs . Barber ' s . They were sentenced each to fourteen years' transportation . A Fraudulent Husband . —A singular case has been heard in tho Bristol Episcopal Consistory Court , where it occupied portions of three days . Mrs . Jackson , a widow residing at Clifton , instituted a suit , the object
of which was to sot nsido a marriage contracted by hor son , William Joseph Jackson , with Jane Long , on the ground of hor son ' a minority at tho time , and of tho suppression of his second Christian name , with , ns it ivn . alleged , tho knowledge of Jane Long . Tho young gentleman was about seventeen years of ago last August , when ho made tho lady ' s acquaintance at Riclnnondliill , nonr Clifton , where his mother was residing . From telling her thu names of-tho steamers as they passed up and down tho river , and seeing hor homo , tho affair paused through tho usual stages of evening mooting *) , & c , till , in ubout a month , a marriage was arranged .
The banns were put up at Redcliffe Church , Jackson , by his own account , omitting his second Christian name , Joseph , for the purpose of concealment , as he knew his mother would not approve of the match . He added , in his evidence , that this was done with the full knowledge and consent of the young lady . He also confessed to having stated himself two years older than he really was . Mrs . Jackson , having obtained information of the approaching marriage , put a stop to it ; but it took place shortly afterwards at another church , the second Christian name being again suppressed , and the marriage being without the knowledge of Mrs . Jackson . The couple only once cohabited , and this was at the house of
an acquaintance of the young man , a few days after marriage ; and in the course of another few days he left her , and has never seen her since , except once in the -treets , when , as he alleged before the court , " she assaulted him , and called him disgusting names , and he was obliged to run away from her . "—Mr . Nash , who appeared for Jane Long , contended that , as Jackson , by his own showing , was a convicted liar , his statemen t with respect to the young lady ' s knowledge of the suppression of the second Christian name could not be depended on . An affidavit was put in on her part , denying this knowledge ; and the Chancellor , conceiving that her complicity had not been proved , refused to declare the marriage null and void .
A Gentleman of the Press . —A wild-looking man went on Saturday afternoon to the house of Mr . Thomas Cooper , artist , King William-street , City , and stated to that gentleman ' s wife that he was a reporter for all the papers ; that he was aware that Mr . Cooper had become bail for a fighting man , and that for the sum of 13 s . 6 d . he would suppress the fact . Mrs . Cooper referred him to a solicitor , when he went away , but returned the following morning , and offered to accept a smaller sum , and to take " a likeness of himself" as part payment .
On this occasion he had the impudence to say that he acted from " motives of pity . " He was given into custody by Mr . Cooper , and before the Lord Mayor , made a piteous complaint that , although he addressed Mr . Cooper in " the most gentlemanly manner , " the latter acted " very improperly , " called him a villain , a vagabond , and an impostor . Mr . Cooper stated to the Lord Mayor that there was no truth whatever in the assertion that he had bailed a fighting man ; and the prisoner , who refused to give his name , was remanded . investi
A Subtle Trick . —A case gated at Bow Street on Monday disclosed a most singular and novel contrivance for increasing the value of an article by selling it , and afterwards recovering its possession with an appearance of legality . Ann Kelly took a shirt for sale to a shop in Clare-market , buV ' not being able to get her price for it , she gave it to an acquaintance , Mary Ryan , who sold it for eighteenpence . The two women divided the money , after which , by a previous agreement , Kelly gave Ryan into custody for unlawfully selling her property . Before the magistrate , Ryan admitted her guilt , adding that Kelly had promised to forgive her if she confessed to the fact . The prisoner was , therefore , discharged ; upon which , her confederate applied for the restoration of the shirt , on the ground that it had been unlawfully pawned . The collusion of the parties , however , was proved ; and the magistrate therefore refused the application .
Private Public Houses . —One of those " private public-houses" to which allusion was made in a recent police case , h as been unmasked at the Southwark Police Court , where Ann Dudley , wife of a labourer living in Flint-street , Borough , has been fined 25 ? ., or , in default , committed for three months , selling gin without a
license . Woman Beating . — A respectably-dressed young man , named John Steele , was charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court with assaulting Sarah Russell . Tho woman had been living with the prisoner for the last three years , during which time he had behaved to her after the usual fashion adopted by ruffians towards tho poor creatures who for tho time reside with them as their wives . On ono occasion , ho struck her with a fork , and beat her so severely as to cause tho death of a child , born not Ipng Last
afterwards , from paralysis . Saturday morning , after ill-using her in various ways , and endeavouring to throw her out of window , ho jumped on her , and broke two of her ribs , in consequence of which she was sent to Bartholomew Hospital . This narration was confirmed in cvory respect by tho young woman ' s sister , who had likewise been violently assaulted by Steele ; and the policeman who apprehended him said that ho was a notorious thief . Ho was sentenced to hard labour in tho Houso of Correction for live months for tho assault on Sarah Russell , nnd ono month with hard labour for
that on her sister . . ,, Conjurino Sixpkncks . — A man whoso genius wouw seem to point him out n « a rival to tho Wizard of tho North , or any other conjuror from "V \ f } ' w , ^ 1 but whoso nominal occupation iv « h br l * a' ? comwhoso real employment was tl . iovwff , has bj ° " ™ mittcd for trial for robbing » ovor « l tradesmen by ¦* very elovor contrivance . He w . » «• I « J ' f ^ , ' ~™ u * ^^^ J ^ ^^^ iS ^^ l ^ r J ^ a ^ . ^ - ^ ountcd out -
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091855/page/5/
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