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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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so ill » De iT i ° P * - ' ° f working ; but in the same room he cohabited with the woman whose face he has now reduced to a shapeless mass by his brutal violence . He has had two children by each of these women . The ma'nstrate expressed great horror at this state of things ; btrtTSynonds and his paramour seemed to regard it as quite a matter of course . The man said he had beaten ' the woman because she got drunk and . spent his money ; . bat he admitted that he himself was the worse for liquor at the time he thus virtuously corrected his partner ' s excesses . He was sent to prison for six months , with hard labour . Extensive Robbery by Mormons . —A number of Mormons recently left Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , for Liverpool , en route for Utah . Among them was a man named Robert Wright , who was one of the executive officers of an Odd Fellows' lodge held at the Angel Inu , the funds of which were kept in a strong-box locked I with ttn -ee locks , each key being in the possession of a different member , one of whom was Wright . Among the papers and money was a cheque for 218 / ., ready drawn and signed . This had been appropriated by Wright several weeks previously . He has been arrested with a portion of the money upon him , and 13 under remand at Sheffield . The Bromlest Hurst Murder . —George Jackson , -one of the men concerned in the murder of Mr . Charlesworth , a farmer , on the high road at night , has made a confession , in which he says that , being excessively intoxicated , and not fully knowing what he was about , he got into a quarrel with Mr . Charlesworth , was struck by him , and then knocked him down witli a hedgestake ; that , immediately after , he felt very sorry for what he had done , and was sick ; and that he has no clear idea -of what followed , except that he was led away by the other two . Brown confesses to the robbery , but denies bavins- had anv hand in the death . as
Satellites of the Races . —Several persons were brought before the Southwark police-courts last Saturday , charged with theft on the Epsom course during the race days of last week . They have been variously sen-. tenced . A prize-fighter named Travers , a man Of colour , was charged on the same day with backing up , on the race-course , some men who were fighting while several pickpockets were pursuing their work , and with violently , assaulting a policeman who interfered . He was fined forty shillings . Another man was charged with throwing a stone at another officer who had been concerned in suppressing the previous disturbance . The missile , however , did not hit its mark . The man was fined ten shillings . A beer-shop keeper was brought up under a charge of running over and injuring a child in Newington-causeway , when returning intoxicated from Epsom . He was remanded ; and , on being again placed at the bar , was discharged , the parents not appearing against him . re r ~ te 1- r , le il y . d n n 1 e t
Attempt to Blow up a Manufactory . —An attempt has been made to blow up the sickle manufactory of Messrs . Booth and Son , at Conisbrough . A quantity of gunpowder was placed in the drum of a machine in the interior of the building , and a long fuse passed through the adjoining premises , and under the door . Here the train was fired ; but , beyond a slight injury to the drum and to the building , no harm was done . About a year and a half ago , an attempt was made to blow up Mr . Booth ' s house at night , and on that occasion the building was much shaken . Highway Robberies . —A sadden attack was made last Saturday evening , iu Ratcliffe-highway , opposite Ship-alley , on a Mr . Delay , a bootmaker . William Shannon , a young man well known to the police , accosted him , immediately afterwards struck him a blow , and , while he was staggering , snatched his watch from hia waistcoat pooket , and fled . Ho was subsequently caug ht by a policeman , having previously passed the watch to a girl , who gave it up , and , on Shannon being brought before the Thames magistrate , appeared against him . He was committed for trial . —An elderly woman , living in Stepney-causewny , Commercial-road , was walking near the railway station , Stepney , on Tuesday evening , when a ruffianly fellow , named Bennett , came up to her , and made a snatch at a purse she hold in her < hand , containing five or six shillings . He dragged her ' along for some way by tho purse , and then gave her a violent blow on the head , which caused her to stagger . ] In this way , ho secured his booty , and made off . A J little while afterwards , the old woman again mot hitu , and attempted to seize him , but he struck her a blow on ] tho nose and made her insensible . A servant girl then t pursued him , but he knocked her down , and she was 1 aeriously hurt . A young man then took up tho chaso , t who , with a policeman , ultimately secured him , after a 3 hard run . He is an old offender , and tho Tliamoa magis- c trate has committed him for trial . ( Burglary . —Tho dwelling-house of Miss Crow , c Crosby-row , Wai worth-road , was broken open a few 1 nlghta ago , and several shawls and other valuable t articles were Btoton from tho shop . Tho thief or thieves v "W « ppocently gained an entrance by removing a por- a « on of the skylight over the shop , and then descending t y ? r ^ po- The goods had probably boon removed tho same way . A man , named Cornelius Hagerty , was b j *» wa into custody while carrying , aarly on tho morning R ouowing tUo affair , a bundle containing aovno of tho ti / r 1 1 3 1 L 3 i » i b
stolen property ; and he is now under remand at Lambeth . Attempted Murj » er . — A youth of twenty-oncj , named George Parker , has been examined before the Rochester magistrates , charged with attempting to murder a young woman living at Northfieet , named Mary Ann Taylor . The girl had been courted for about nine mfonfhs by Parker , who was a hawker , and who likewise kept a refreshment stall at the Rosherville Gardens , Gravesend , where the girl assisted . A
difference having arisen between them , the girl determined to quit Parker altogether , and she therefore went one night to Rosherville for the purpose of bringing away some articles of clothing which she had left there . Meeting the man at his stall , she told him of her intention of leaving him after the treatment she had experienced at his hands a day or two previously , when he had struck her . As she was proceeding up-stairs to get the things she wanted , Parker , who had followed her all the way , suddenly drew a pistol from his pocket and snapped it , saying , " You shall have the contents of this . " Being frightened , the girl ran out into the street , but was pursued by the man , who came close behind her and stabbed her in the right side with a large claspknife . The affair having been witnessed by several people , Parker was at once captured , while the young woman was taken home in a cab . From the statement of the latter to the magistrates , it appeared that the man had been courting her for some time past , and had partly furnished a house with the view of marrying her . The young man merely stated in his defence that he had seen the girl walking with another man , and that , when he reproached her for so doing , she replied that she would walk with whom she pleased . Parker was committed for trial . at JSiiD rob
. : Highway Kobbeey -DAY .- —A garotte - bery of a most daring character has lately taken place in one of the most populous suburbs of London , at a time and under circumstances which throw a doubt on the efficiency of the police . Between two and three o ' clock one afternoon , about a week ago , as an elderly widow lady named Weston was walking through one of the main thoroughfares at lloxton , she was stopped close to the police station by two very genteelly dressed persons , a man and a woman , the latter of whom quired the way to Islington . Mrs . West on gave her necessary information , which she afterwards repeated the request of the -woman , who did not seem to under stand the direction . While she was explaining the way to her tho second time , Mrs . Weston felt a pressure against her side , and afterwards disco % -ercd that her watch had been detached from the * guard and stolen from beneath her shawl . She instantly seized the man but , after a brief struggle , he succeeded in disengaging himself from her and escaped down one of the neigh bouring streets . The woman also ran . away , but was pursued by the bystanders , who , after a smart chase tracked her to a respectable house , into which she had fled for refuge , and whex-e the landlady admitted her on the plea that she had come to seek shelter from tho violence of her husband outside , who had threatened take her life . A detective police officer afterwards went to the house and took the woman into custody , when she indignantly denied all knowledge of the robbery She was brought before the worship-street magistrate the following day , and remanded . Execution of George Bave . —This criminal , who while serving as a sailor in the Slaney gunboat , mur dcred a marine on board that vessel , out of a feeling iGYQiige , was hung at Muklstone on Thursday . On Wed nesday evening ho was seen for tho last time by two sisters , who were painfully affected . The culprit viowed hia approaching end with groat composure , and died very calmly . Ho attributed his crime to a fit of intoxication aggravating a Honse of injury . Ho had always borne the character of a first-rate seaman . Assault in a Railway Carriage . —Mr . James Algernon Stuart Auateu , a middlo-agod man , of Headlay Surrey , stated to bo n merchant in the City , son of a baronet , and brother to a county magistrate , was exa- mined before n bench of justices at Roigato on Tuesday , on a chnrgo of committing an indecent assault upon Miss Kinily Burloy , lady ' s-maid to tho wifo of tho Iiev . Lord Charles Hervoy , in a railway carriage during its passage through a tunnel , in tho courso of last month , Mo was sontencod to three wouka' imprisonment . Conviction of a Tradesman for Fklony . —At a Potty Sessions held nt Lawford ' s Gatehouse of Correc- tion , Bristol , on Thursday , Mr . John Browning , a respectable tradosman , who has curried on business in that city as a painter and plasterer for the lust thirty years , was charged with stealing nine pounds and a half of load from the roof of a house occupied by a Mrs . Clarko at Shirohumpton . Hu was repairing tho roofs of somo neighbouring houses , and , wanting some load , ho helped himself in the way indioatocl . Ho urged that ho wua undor tho impression that tho house from whioh ho took tho lead bolongad to tho aaino landlord as those ho was repairing . Ho was sont to prison for ttiroo months . Ill-usachh ov Women—Joseph Williams , a soldier elonging to tho 14 th Light Dragoons , stationed at Maidstono , has been sentonood by tho Thames magia- trato to alx months' imprisonment , with hard labour , eel
for an aggravated assault on a young woman . —Henry Ward Bishop , a bricklayer , has been committed for trial from the Clerkenwell police-court on a charge of wounding his wife . Manslaughter . —The inquest on the body of Thomas Hudson , who died from wounds received in a scuffle with Mr . Kendall , "in Agar-street , in the Strand , was resumed on Thursday . Several witnesses said they saw Hudson and Kendall fighting , and that they fell together , the latter being uppermost . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was killed by Richard Kendall , who was then taken into custody . He had appeared at the inquest on his own recognizance to attend .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A case was stated last Saturday for the opinion of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , which raised the question whether ' pregnancy' is ' sickness' within the meaning of the 9 th and 10 th of Victoria , cap . 66 , which enacts that no warrant shall be granted for the removal of any person becoming chargeable in respect of relief made necessary by sickness or accident , unless the justices granting the warrant shall state in such warrant that they are satisfied that the sickness or accident will produce permanent disability . The pauper , a young woman aged eighteen , was in service , and was discharged on its being discovered that she was pregnant Being unable to take a situation , she was admitted into the Huddersfield Union workhouse on the 21 st of April , and was relieved as an able-bodied pauper . On the 10 th of May , an order was made for her removal , but , on appeal to the sessions , the sessions held that pregnancy is sickness , and quashed the order , subject to the opinion of the Court of Queen ' s Bench on the question whether the pauper , being pregnant , though an able-bodied woman , was liable to be removed . She was not delivered till the 27 th of Jul y . Lord Campbell and the other Judges decided that pregnancy is not sickness . ; that the woman was able-bodied and capable of working ; and that she might have been removed . the Court for the
inthe at ^ , - , to . , - of - i 1 I 1 < 1 t c , 1 a a o h o si ' 1 b : tl a gi le at so to to re ov ar . so W 1 vj of 00 all In Consideration of Crown Cases od Reserved , last Saturdaj 1-, Lord Campbell delivered judg-11- ment in the case of one Lister and another , who were lie the owners of a warehouse in the City containing a at large quantity of wood naphtha . The question was , r = whether this was to be considered so dangerous a iy nuisance as to warrant its suppression . The d « fendant 3 re had been found guilty , by one of the lower courts , of a sr misdemeanour in keeping the naphtha where it was ; but : a an appeal was made to the present court , where the case i , was argued before the five Judges . Those Judges not g being able to agree , they ordered it to be argued before l- the fifteen Judges , and last term the matter was brought is before twelve of the fifteen Judges , when time was taken ? , for consideration . The judgment delivered last Saturday d was to the effect that the conviction must be affirmed , n naphtha being so inflammable that it is almost impossible 0 to put it out . From this ruling , however , Baron Bram-0 well dissented . He thought there ought not to be any it judgment , but that another indictment should be pren ferred . Baron Bramwell also expressed some dissent in ane other case argued before the same court . Tho prisoner had been indicted for having professed to act as an > , officer of the County Court , and for endeavouring to ob-- tain Is . 3 d . for court fees . He had sent a letter to one if Roberts , his debtor , purporting to be a summons , and to - be signed by the clerk of the County Court ; and , when 0 receiving the amount of tho dobt , he endeavoured to ob-. 1 tain Is . 3 d . for the County Court fees . Lord Campbell r and Justices Erie , Williams , and Crowder , agreed in 1 confirming the conviction . Baron Bramwell said he 3 had no doubt he was wrong , but ho could not read the words of tho stututo as the other members of the i court did . Ho thought it unndvisablo to create offences . , Ho had believed , but now ho did not believe , that the \ act was intended to affect those who forged documents as of tho County Court . The offence was tho false colour or pretence . If tho money had beon obtained , it would have been a false pretence . A difference of opinion among tho judges of tho Court of Exchequer in a case argued before them on Tuesday , showed strongly tho lamentable vaguonosa of the law . Tho prisoner concerned iu tho case , one Baker , waa brought up in custody of tlio gaoler of Stafford , to whom tho writ of habeas corpus was directed . Baker , who Mas a man in humblo life , had contracted to serve a certain , gentleman for a year . Ho absented himsolf without leave , after somo quarrel about wages ; whereupon ho waa summoned before a justice of tho peace , convicted , and sont ta prison for a month . At tho expiration of tlio term of -imprisonment so inflicted , Baker hired himself : to another master , and on being applied to , refused to return to his former service . His first master tlion took out anothor summons against him for absenting himsolf , and tho prisoner was again convicted and sentonood to a sooond month ' s imprisonment . On those grounds , it waa insisted that tho justice had no jurisdiction to convjet the prisoner on tho second summons , as tlio statuCo of the 4 th Goorgo IV ., cap . 3-t , soo . 0 , undor which tho oonviotion must have proceeded , though it ( IM not bo allege , did not contemplate more than ouo offonoo and
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/7/
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