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224 T H JE LEADER. [No. 415, March 6,185...
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THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK TRIAL.. This long...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. — ¦ » . — THE MURDER N...
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THE ASSIZES. A case of bigamy was tried ...
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branches of the worsted trade . Within the last few days , the home merchants held a meeting at which the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — ' That the system of dating forward parcels of goods is injur ious to the trade and eventually disadvantageous to the buyer . The meeting therefore pledges itself to do its utmost to terminate the practice , and to prevent any extension of the following terms of credit , viz .: —All goods bought up to and including the 19 th of any month to be four months from the 1 st of the following month . ' The agents and others engaged in the cotton warp business at Bradford have also held a meeting , and passed a resolution ( after having taken the opinions ^ of parties in tho same trade in Lancashire ) which is
intended to bind the trade ia this district to an arrangement , whereby all goods bought and delivered up to the 25 th of any month are to be paid for in cash on the second Thursday in the following month . A committee of the trade is to settle the details of this arrangement . " A . report of the winding up of the estate of Mr . Edward Oliver , the Liverpool shipowner who failed in 1854 for more than a million , shortly after a testimonial of plate had been presented to him for his services to commerce , has just been issued , and is a document worth notice . Some of the largest losses of the Royal British Bank arose out of the operations of Mr . Oliver , and the Liverpool Borough Bank was likewise fatally mixed up with his affairs . Mr . Oliver , at the 600 /
time of his suspension , valued his ships at 588 , ., but the trustees of his estate report that even on entering upon their duties they were at once aware of the utter fallacy of this estimate . Ultimately it was resolved to sell them to the holders of Mr . Oliver ' s acceptances , receiving these acceptances in payment at the rate of 10 s . in the pound ; the purchasers undertaking , if the dividend on the estate should not equal that amount , to repay the deficiency with interest . In this way , sales were effected for an aggregate of 146 , 122 / . The bills of exchange on hand and debts to the estate were both found , when they came to be realized , to have been erroneously represented . Meanwhile some of the creditors resolved to make use of the terrors of the Bankruptcy Court , so as to get paid in full . The larger
creditors , knowing that under that administration such assets as remained would be altogether jeopardized , and having at the same time , it may be presumed , no desire for publicity , raised a fund to buy them off . The estate was benefited by the Russian war , a profit of 35 , 985 / . having been made as freight upon transports , but some American insurance offices from whom large sums are due , not only neglect to pay , but refuse to furnish even an account . The result is , that in addition to the first dividend of 2 s . 6 tl . in the pound paid in October , 1855 , and the second of 2 s . in the year following , a third , to the amount of 6 d ., has now been realized , which will make the total distrHration 5 s . A few uncollected items still remain , but they are mostly in litigation , and at the best are not expected to bring in an additional threepence in the pound .- ^ -Time * .
224 T H Je Leader. [No. 415, March 6,185...
224 T H JE LEADER . [ No . 415 , March 6 , 1858 .
The Royal British Bank Trial.. This Long...
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK TRIAL .. This long-protracted trial was concluded last Saturday . Lord Campbell having elaborately summed up , and the jury having found all the prisoners Guilty , with recommendations to mercy of Stapleton , Kennedy , Owen , and M'Leod , his Lordship passed sentence , beginning with Brown , Esdaile , and Cameron . He said : — * ' You , after a long and I hope impartial trial , have been convicted , by a jury of your own countrymen , and npon the clearest " evidence , of a great crime . You were charged with conspiring to deceive and defraud the shareholders of the bank to which you belonged by false misrepresentation , and it is clear you did so . I excuse you from originally planning and fraudulently
attempting to cheat the public by the foundation of the bank ; but it is demonstrative that for a number of years you carried on this system , and from year to year you have prepared accounts for tho purpose of deceiving the public ; and for your own benefit , directly or indirectly , you have engaged in these illicit proceedings . It would be disgraceful to the law of this country if this were not a crime to be punished . It is not a mere breach of contract with , the shareholders , or with those who deal with the bank , but it is a criminal conspiracy to do what inevitably leads to great public mischief , to the ruin of families , and reducing the widow and orphan from affluence to destitution . I am sorry to find that , in mitigation , it is said to be a common practice . Undoubtedly
a laxity has been introduced into certain commercial dealings , not from a defect in the law , but from tho law not being put in force , and praotices have been adopted without bringing a consciousness of shame , « a 4 , I -lfeftSUyJ ^ J 0116 maolx loss of character amongst those " with whbm ~ They ' aaaoclSXST ^ tt was ~ t ! i « e-t ( crp « t a atop to such a system , and this Information was properly filed , and tho jury have found you guilty . I hope that it will now be known that aucb . practices are Illegal , and not only dornand a punishment , but that no longth of investigation , no intricacies , no dovicos will bo Sufficient to shield auch practices . On account of thia being the flrat prosecution , I pronounce a milder sentence than I otherwise should , and the mildest sentence I can pronounce io , that you be Imprisoned in tho Queon ' s
prison for one year , as misdemeanants of the first class . Richard Hartley Kennedy , —The jury have recommended you to mercy , and 1 think there are grounds upon which they are justified in such recommendation ; but still there is strong evidence against you . The last paper the jury sent for shows how they have considered the case . Filling the office of sheriff , you lent yourself to
these things , but you did not derive personal advantage . It is clear to my mind that you were fully aware , at the time you joined in this last report , that the bank was insolvent , and that that report was consequently false . The lightest punishment I can award you is nine months' imprisonment . W . P . Owen , —The jury have likewise found that you had a guilty knowledge of the insolvency of the bank before you concurred in that report and balance-sheet , and I cannot say they were wrong , for you had long been a director and had ample means of information , and several papers which were read disclosed that ; therefore , although your guilt is
mitigated , 1 think you must be imprisoned for six months . H . D . M'Leod , —The jury , who are the proper judges of the fact , have found you likewise guilty . You also were a director of this bank , and had the means of information , and the jury have found that you had that information , and had the guilty knowledge at the time , and concurred in that report ; the sentence is that you be imprisoned for three months . John Stapleton , — The jury have found you guilty ; but I cannot conscientiously sentence you to a severer punishment than that you pay a fine to the Queen of one shilling , and be discharged . "
Application was made that execution of the sentence might be postponed till Monday . Lord Campbell : " Not a single moment . " These words were followed by applause .
Our Civilization. — ¦ » . — The Murder N...
OUR CIVILIZATION . — ¦ » . — THE MURDER NEAR THE HAYMARKET . The supposed murderer of Heloise Thaubin ( not Eliza Tobin , as at first reported ) was captured last Saturday . It was suspected by the police on the previous day that the man was about to leave the country . Inquiries were accordingly made at the various packet companies' offices , to ascertain if such a person had paid for a passage ; and it was discovered that several foreigners had gone on board the Pride of the Thames , which was bound for Montevideo , and was to sail from Gravesend the following morning . An inspector went down to that place on Saturday , and found that the vessel in question was then off Greenhithe . Away went the inspector ; the ship was soon boarded ; and an
Italian , named Giovanni Lani , who answered the description of the murderer , was taken into custody . Several articles of clothing and trinkets belonging to the murdered woman were found in his boxes . Lani trembled very much , and turned pale , when the officer told him he was suspected of the murder ; and , though he at first asserted that he knew nothing whatever of the affair , he afterwards confessed that he had been with Heloise Thaubin at the house in Arundel-court on the night of the murder . On being conveyed to the Vinestreet station , London , Lani was seen by several of the women living at the house where the act was committed , and was identified by them as the man they saw with the woman Thaubin .
The inquest was opened last Saturday , and adjourned to next Monday ( March 8 th ) . Some points of interest came out during tho inquiry . Heloise Thaubin was a native of France , and was a married woman separated from her husband . Lani had spoken to her and to some other girls in Waterloo-place on Tuesday night , and had made some proposals to them which they refused to accede to . He afterwards called at tho house in Arundel-court , and , said a witness , " ho seemed principally to look after women who had plenty of jewellery about them . " Madame Thaubin hud a gold chain , besides other valuables . Ho attached himself to this woman ; but she appears to have had some apprehension of him . On . tho Tuesday night , at supper , she said to one of tho inmates of tho house , " Leave the door open , so that this man does not steal my watch . I am afraid of him . " She then told a story of one of her friends in Paris , whom a man had attempted to strangle
in the night . " I caused her door to bo broken open in tho morning , " she added , " and found her swimming in her blood . But she recovered , thougli she was ill for a year . 1 hope such a thing will not happen to mo ; but I fear—but I fear . " About half-past two o'clock in tho morning , Madame Thaubin wont up to bed . Tho next day , nothing was seen of her , eithor at breakfast or dinner ; and , at half-past sovon or eight o ' clock in tho ' ovonJng , ~ Thtfophile'Moutin-a-Fronchman-rliving't-in-the house , knocked at her door and called her three times by name . Receiving ; no answer , ho pushed tho door open . Tho room was in a very disordered atato , and tho woman was found lying dead on tho bod . The police and a medical man were at onco sent for ; and tho latter pronounced that tho woman had been , killed by strangulation . Some groans had boon hoard during tho night ; hut , as a eiok woman inhabited tho next room to Madamo Thaubin ' e . It was thought that tho sounds
on fine ornamental paper a printing ia the corner : — " London , Feb . 24 . —Lovely Madelina , —By these few lines I give you some news of myself . I am in perfect health , and I hope this will find you the same , as also your companion , Anna Maria Riva . I inform you that I am in London , but to-morrow I start for America , that is for Montevideo . I say good-by to you for a short , time , but I hope that if I don ' t die we shall meet again . And if you be kind enough to write to me , I beg you to write to Montevideo , in America , poste restante . I also beg you to give my compliments and respects to Signora Adelaide Riva , and her niece , Anna
with device in proceeded thence . Lani had left the house in the morning . | The prisoner was examined at the Marlborough-street police-court on Monday , and committed for trial . The following is a translation of a letter found on him , addressed to " Alia Signora , Signora Madelina Grosso , Hotel de la Croix Blanche , a Sion , Suisse , " and -written
Maria . With reference to the people of this country I am not at all satisfied , because they are a bad set . No person can venture out at night without being followed by thieves . Therefore I like Switzerland better ; there you find a braver and finer-looking people . Here they are all negroes , as black as the devil . Moreover , you can't understand the language . Therefore I am about to quit this country for America , and then I will go back to Switzerland . Only consider me in London in a little hotel . For a small room on the third floor I am obliged to pay' 8 s . per day , which is equal to 10 f ., only for the room , without board . I therefore salute you with all my heart . Good-by , my dearly beloved Madelina . —I remain your very affectionate friend , Lani Enrico . "
It is a remarkable circumstance , that , out of six murders investigated at the Marlborough-street court within the last three years , five of them were perpetrated by foreigners .
The Assizes. A Case Of Bigamy Was Tried ...
THE ASSIZES . A case of bigamy was tried at the Newcastle Assizes a few days ago . A person named James Jenning 3 was married in August , 1856 , to a woman who , unknown to him , had been in a female penitentiary . This woman left her husband a month after marriage , has since led a dissolute life , and , it is reported , has herself committed bigamy . On the 25 th of last January—the day of the Royal wedding—Jennings married a second time , though the first wife is still alive . The second wife knew all the facts of the case , and was under the belief that the second marriage of the first wife left the husband free to enter into another union . Jennings was of course found Guilty , but was only sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment .
The trial arising out of the collision at Pyle on the South Wales Railway on the 14 th of October , when three persons were killed , and several others were seriously injured , took place at Swansea last Saturday . The accused was Charles White , the ma 3 ter of the Stormy station ; and it will be recollected that , owing to an obstruction on the down line , Mr . White authorized the despatch of a down train on the up line , and accompanied it himself . Proper precautions , however , had not been taken to apprize the next up train from Port Tnlbot that its line of rails was occupied ; and the consequence was that the two trains met each other with fearful violence . The evidence at the inquest showed great carelessness in the working of the telegraph and in tho general management of tho stations ; and Mr . White was now found Guilty , recommended to mercy , aud sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . On hearing this sentence , he declared that ho bad been convicted by means of per *
jury . Manueli Zelphanta and Hanagadei Italius , two Greek Bailors , have been tried at the same Assizes for the murder of Atanasio Mitropani , another foreign sailor . All three belonged to tho brig Penelope , and , about the middle of October , they wore on shore at Swansea . Mitropani , who had rather a largo sum of money in hifl possession , attached himself to aome disreputable woman ; and tho two prisoners , who were ulso in his company , perceived that ho had a good dcul of cash . They wore aecn with him up to a short time of the clocK
murder ; scuffling was heard about half-past eight o at night on tho banks of tho canal , from which , shortly afterwards , the dead body of Mitropani was tukon , ana found to bo fearfully gashed and battered in several parts ; tho prisoners wore seen running from tho direction of tho canal ; and , on going back to their lodging thoy washed aomo of thoir clothes . Other circumstantial evidence strengthened tho case against tho accused , who Heein to have effected tho crime with groat coolnoaa , for , shortly after its commission , one of thorn wont to a eonfeotionorJfl ^ flhop . and-bQ . wgUt - flpmflJ ^ found Guilty , and aontoncod to death . Samuel Goddard haB boon tried at Winchester for too manslaughter of John Rumnoy , and Joseph Goddaru ana John Gearing were at tho Bamo time indicted for « iaui » and abetting . Tho two Goddards wore not related , onu Joseph acted as tho second of Rumnoy in a fight De " twoon him and Samuel , which roaultod in tho orimo un * puM , Gearing was tho other accond . Joseph Goduarw forced Samuol Goddard to fight , though ho w » 8 vory
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06031858/page/8/
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