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minutes after came out again with several pairs of boots , S which he hurried oS , after replacing the hasp so Is to avoid suspicion of the way in which the robbery had been effected . The policeman let him get shortly ahead , and then followed him until he entered a neighbouring street , where he was joined by the woman Kirk , with whom he walked till they got to Plough-court , Whitechapel , when , as the male prisoner was handing over tie stolen property to his female companion , the " detective" stepped in between them and secured both . On searching the woman ' s lodgings , he discovered a trunk containing an extraordinary number of duplicates relating to boots and shoes pledged at various short intervals since the month of January last ; and another constable also produced a small bag co ntaining several more duplicates relating to the same kind of property , which the female prisoner had dropped beside her while on the road to the station . At least twenty pawnbrokers and assistants of pawnbrokers were in attendance at the police-court , with a vast quantity of boots ana shoes which had been pledged at their houses ; but , although Mr . Ruddock , on identifying them , estimated their yalue at about 461 ., he stated that this was only a portion of his loss , as there were still about one hundred pairs unaccounted for . Forgery . —Wilhelm Sternfeld , a person of respectable appearance , who described himself as a merchant , at present residing at 32 , Wilson-street , Finsbury , has been charged at Guildhall with absconding from Stettin , in Prussia , after stealing 500 £ , forging bills to the amount of 2000 ? ., and embezzling bills of lading , with intent to defraud Messrs . Pollock and Co ., merchants oi Mincing-lane , who have a branch of their establishment at Konigsberg . When the prisoner was arrested , a letter was found upon him , in which are the following singulai passages : — " Your system of forging bills , sending them into the world , and relying on other people to take them np , displeases me greatly . The limited confidence which I ever paid you is thus thoroughly shaken and vanished , and I have no hesitation in prognosticating to you a disgraceful future , although I wish you prosperity from the bottom of my heart , and have cautioned you very _ often . .... You desire us to do things which ~~ are beyond our reach . You know that we have accepted bills for you already to the amount of 3300 dollars , including other claims ; it is , therefore , very inconsiderate on your part to request that we should comply with anything more . It appears yott endeavour to throw the entire burden of your liabilities upon us ; and even if we were to submit to it , it would not relieve your predicament I appeal to your conscience : do not deceive yourself in your affairs , and do not elicit things from us which our solemn duty dictates to decline ; do not forget that our existence is entirely at your mercy already . We have induced the manager of the discounting bank to retain the bill till to-morrow ; mind , therefore , you send the money , so that we may save you from the brink of destruction . " Sternfold was remanded , and , on the following day , he was discharged , the offence having been committed out of the jurisdiction of this country . Shortly after leaving the court , however , ho was arrested by a sheriff ' s officer , and taken at once to Whitecross-street prison . Fraudulent Pretences . — -Charles de Fleury , a tall , well-dressed , respectable-looking Frenchman , said to be related to a family of . distinction in the French empire , and who described himself as a civil engineer connected with a company called the French and English Canal Company , is under remand at the Southwark police-court , charged with obtaining 70 , 000 firebricks , valued at 3007 ., from Mr . John Patrick Traquair , fire-brick merchant , Bankside , under false and fraudulent prctonces . Woman Beating . —This execrable crime appears , it possible , to be increasing . Qjp Monday last , no less than six oases of violence to women came before the various police magistrates of the metropolis . —At Worship-street , Michael Newman , a bricklayer , was sentenced to six months' hard labour for knocking his wife about till she was insensible . On finding her in this condition , he remarked , " I ' ve cooked her goose for . her now . " The poor woman said she had been married twenty-eight years , and , had been constantly ill-used during that time . A witness called by the man in his defence merely helped to prove the case against him . —At the Marylcbone office , William Beer , a man not more than four feet high , was fined twenty shillings , or sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment , for an assault upon a young woman , named Annie Eaves . It was shown that he was drunk , and that h (> had no provocation given him for the outrage . — Thomas Toome , a " navvy , " was charged at Clerkenvrell with assaulting his wife . It appeared that ho seized her by the hair , knocked nor head against the floor and wall , and kicked her . Owing to her husband ' s treatment , her milk had boon affected ; she was unable to support her Infant , and it would probably die . She had boon married four years , and had often bofore boon iU-usod , Toome was . sentenced to six months' hard labour . — - Edward GHUings , a strolling player , was sentenced at Lambeth to a fine of 8 / ., or one month at Wandsworth , for beating his wife and knocking her through a window . — : At the Thames office , Johnson Dnvid Stubba , a tobaccontofe WW charged with a similar offence . The wife , nccorakig to . , her own admission , went to bed not quite , I i , , i
sober , and was awakened by her husband beating her with such violence that she threw herself out of the window , and her little girl also flung herself out . Neither was seriously hurt by the fall . . The prisoner , who alleged his wife ' s drunkenness as his excuse , was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour —Robert Tomlinson is under remand at the same office , charged with kicking a pregnant woman in the abdomen , without any provocation . Some doubt , however , appeared as to whether the kick was not accidental . —A wife has been beaten to death at Wigan . Both the victim and her husband had been drinking until a late hour of the night , after attending a funeral ; and the fatal blows were given in the street . Alleged Mdbdeb at Nottingham . — Johanna Dutton , the wife of a farmer , is in custody at Notting ham , under suspicion of drowning her daughter , a child about three years old , who had been previously subjected to great ill-usage . Muedebs and Suicides . —A woman named Russell , residing near Bilston , Staffordshire , has murdered her son , a boy four years old , by cutting his throat . She immediately cut her own throat , inflicting such a severe i wound that the surgeon states her recovery to be impossible . It is imagined , that she also intended to kill her two other children . The only assignable cause for the act is a depression of spirits from which the poor \ woman has been recently suffering . — At Wednesbury , in the sam e county , woman named Budd , the mother i of three children , killed the youngest child , two years old , and herself , by jumping into the canal . Her body ' was found in the canal with the child locked in her arms . In this case , the cause alleged is that she had spent some money with which her husband had intrusted her , and that she was afraid to meet his reproaches . —On Friday , week , a woman named Mary Davis , aged twenty-three , i drowned herself at Lea-brook , near Bilst on , from disapi pointed affection . Murder of a Woman at Hereford . —The number of murders committed in different parts of the country , within the last two months has been almost unparalleled ; and to those already known we have now to add anl other . Some workmen employed on the Hereford city ; improvements went into a disreputable part of the town called Bowsey-lane . This locality is mostly inhabited by abandoned women ; and the men , who were intoxicated , burst suddenly into one of the houses and into a room where there was a girl in bed . She was dragged out , and kicked by the ruffians , apparently without the least provocation . She screamed loudly for help ; but , before she could get any assistance , the men succeeded in dragging her into an adjoining house , which they forcibly entered . Here a quarrel ensued with the young woman who kept the house , and whom they beat in a most savage manner with a rolling-pin . The screams of the two women , together with the outcries of the crowd which had by this time assembled , alarmed the police , who , hastening to the spot , succeeded , after a desperate contest with the " navvies , " in apprehending four of them . The others escaped in the general confusion . The girl who was dragged out of bed has since died in great agony . Another man , supposed to be connected with the affair , was apprehended on Sunday . A Lunatic . —At the Lambeth police-court , a man named John Day , who described himself as a patentee for the prevention of burglaries , charged his son , William Day with stealing an American clock and a French dial . ' It appeared that the clock had been sent by a relative to the father , who was of unsound mind and had been confined in a lunatic asylum , in order to be repaired by the son . The dial had been left by the elder Day himself at a chandler ' s shop as a security for some money ho owed there . These facts having been proved , the ¦ prisoner was discharged . On his representing tp the magistrate that his father had already apprehended him several times on charges as false as the present , and seemed determined to ruin him , Mr . Elliott advised the young man to send his parent , whose reason was clearly deranged , back to a lunatic asylum , Daniel Loudan has been committed for trial on the charge of murdering his wife . The Belleisle Nuisances . —With respect to the horrible condition of Bolleisle , a gentleman on Tuesday made an application for advice to the Clerkenwell magistrate . Ho said the case had been put into the hands of the police , who , under the sanction of Sir Richard Mayne , were making inquiries . The Home Secretary of State , having been applied to , ordered that proceedings should be instituted under the Smoke Nuisance Act . Mr . Corrie , the magistrate , advised a similar course . Criminal Assault . —Henry Francis , a photographic artiat , has boon committed for trial on a charge of committing a criminal assault on Tabitha Bowie , a girl i thirteen years of age . The girl was employed aa his servant : on the evening of Sunday , the 28 rd ult ., aho was asked by her master to drink tea with . him , and after tea ho induced her to take a glass ; of wine . It was then dark , and ehe asked if she should light the gaa ; but her master answered , ? ' No , never mind , " and , immediately afterwards , threw her on the sofa , and commtytqd the offence . The girl was cross-, examined before the magistrate , but her testimony was i not shaken . ' The prisoner reserved his defence . —A few i * ¦
months ago , he was charged with ' . Jan . assault on his wife ; and terms for a separation were arranged with the sanction of the magistrate . " . . , - . ., The End of " a Gay Life . *—A few weeks since , the body of a woman named Heatey , the daughter of a Cornish baronet , and who had led a somewhat gay life , was discovered in a house in Queen ' s-place , Commercialroad East , Ratcliff . It was much decomposed , and the woman must have been dead fifteen or sixteen days . An open verdict was returned at the coroner ' inquest , that the woman was found dead , but that there was no evidence before the jurors as to how or by what means she came by her death . No post-mortem examination of the body took place , and considerable dissatisfaction has beea expressed by the people in the neighbourhood that no efforts were made to ascertain the cause of death . The house in which the body was found was hired a month previous by a man who described himself as a medical practitioner , but who was not forthcoming at the inquest . This man has since been discovered ; but he has given no information relative to the death , and the affair / therefore , still remains unexplained . " Vane , Young in Years , but " in Wrong Doing " Old . "—Lord Ernest Vane isa" fast" young gentleman of twenty years of age , and it delighteth him to go behind the scenes of the Windsor Theatre , and flirt with the actresses . He has been permitted to do so for some time past ; but , a few evenings ago , finding his accustomed amusement nearly " used up , " and getting stale by repetition , he thought to vary it by entering the ladies' dressing-rooms while they were changing their attire . Accordingly , he put out the gas , and forced his way in . The prompter , having certain oldfashioned notions as to the impropriety of such conduct , remonstrated ; but Vane , " young in years , " replied , " You are a funny villain , and may go to whenever you like . " Instead of going there , however , the prompter went to the manager , Mr . Nash , and ultimately a policeman was sent for , on whose arrival the heroic Vane walked out . Meeting the manager shortly afterwards , he said to him , " You sent for the police—you sent for the police , " in " a good-humoured manner , " as it was afterwards contended ; but , as an evidence of this good-humour , he commenced scufihng with Mr . Nash , and finally threw him down a pair of stairs , and pummelled ' him when at the bottom . For these exploits , the chivalric Vane was summoned before the Windsor magistrates , and the foregoing facts were stated as evidence . His Lordship ' s counsel endeavoured to show that the charge was exaggerated . The youthful hero had had a slight scuffle with some one who had behaved rudely to him behind the scenes ; and , being annoyed at hearing that the police had been sent for , he had a little bit of " good-humoured " wrestling with Mr . Nash , and the two " accidentally" fell down the stairs together , the manager being " accidentally underneath his Lordship . A friend was called to prove this ; bnt , on cross-examination , he admitted that Mr . Nash was thrown . This witness favoured the court with s statement of what he should have done under the circumstances—he should have " thrashed the manager for his impertinence" in sending for the police . The Windsor magistrates lent to the exaggeration view © i the case ; and his Lordship was allowed to compound for his amusement by the payment of a five-pound note . Assaulting a Man in Possession . —John and Michael Murphy , tenants of a house in Rose-street , Coventgarden , were charged at Bow-street with assaulting John Dove , a broker ' s man , who was put in possession under a distress warrant for rent . About three o clock ; in the morning , the two Murphies entered Dove s bedroom , dragged him out of bed , thrust him into a corner , and swore they would knock his brains out if he spoke or moved . John Murphy stood guard over him with a club ; and the poor man , being afraid to raise an alarm by " roaring like any sucking Dove , " was obliged to see the property removed into a van which had been brought to the door . A policeman , however , happened to pass by at the time , and , being surprised at finding goods removed at such an hour , entered the house , and found Dove pinned into the corner with a wound in his head . I lie Murphies were taken into custody , and were fined of . each , or sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . A Sham Fight . —A Mr . John Ripley was passing the Bishopsgatc terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway at seven o ' clock in the evening , when he saw a crowd . On trying to pass through it , two men jostled him ; and , to an inquiry what was the matter , one of them replied , " Oh , it ' s only a fight . " A t the sam moment , ho found his coat-sleeve hold , and directly afterwards found that his gold watch had gone . He was about to dart at the men who had jostled him , when a man on his right made " a peculiar noise like a sheep bloating , and one of the men who puehed against him turnea round and dashed off into the crowd . Mr . Kipioy chased him ; his hat foil off , and shortly aftorwarda to was found in custody with a cap on . Ho had oeo » seized by a railway guard , but contrived to pass ww » watch to another man , who escaped . Steadmiin , *«» man who was taken into custody , has been committeu ° V uttDitR at eAMtfEiuiURT . —A private in theifiret regiment of the British Swiss Legion has ^ en MH « a "tf one of his comrades . A quarrel arose about the poew
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101855/page/8/
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