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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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^ very share has an owner Witness : " Every share hat an owner . " The case was again adjourned , the defendants being allowed to go at large on their own recognisances in 100 / . each . Wholesale DEPRAVITY . — Henry Hills a man of fiftv who has been for some years assistant-clerk of the Ponlar Union , has been committed for trial on a charge of debauching several girls , ranging from nine to thirteen years of age . His wife kept a day-school for girls ; and it appears he has contaminated aearly a ] 1 the scholars . He had made preparations for a fl . ght to America ; but was arrested last Saturday afternoon . On reaching the gaoler ' room , he appeared deeply distressed , and exclaimed , " I am a guilty man—I am a ruined man ! I deserve to be hung !
Wife-Beating . — John Townshend , an umbrellamaker in King Edward-street , Mile-end , has been sentenced by the Worship-street magistrate to six months ' bard labour , with security for good behaviour for an equal term afterwards , for a murderous attack on his wife . They had been married eleven years , and during that " time the wife had been constantly ill used , often to the endangering of her life . Her sister , who frequently interfered to protect her , was likewise repeatedly beaten and bruised . On the last occasion , the wife was assaulted with the leg of a stool , so that she was covered with blood ; and her infant , whom she was holding in her arms at the time , was also hurt . The arrival of a policeman probably prevented murder .
The Dakk Arches of the Aoelphi . — A mob of disreputable young lads and girls has been in the habit of collecting for several Sundays past in the neighbourhood of the Adelphi , making considerable noise and disturbance , and occasionally adjourning to the dark arches . The police have endeavoured to suppress the nuisance , but apparently with no great" success . Burglary at Eaby Castle . —A burglary has been committed at Eaby Castle , Durham , the seat of the Puke of Cleveland , and from 100 Z . to 150 / . in gold and silver was stolen .
Seisious Savings Bank Defalcation at Kikjbi-. — Jttr . Samuel Essex , auctioneer , and . late clerk to the Eugb y Savings Bank , was committed on Thursday week , " by Mr . Leigh Trafford , on the serious charge of embezzling upwards of 13 GQJ ., the moneys of the bank . Only a few cases were investigated , although it is Jknown that money amounting to 1300 i or thereabouts has at various times been embezzled by the accused . The Charge of Mukdkk at Woolwich . —Beujarnin Martin , a young artilleryman , appeared on remand at Woolwich police - court last Saturday , charged with throwing a woman into the river on the 24 th ult ., while he and she were intoxicated . The woman was
drowned ; but the evidence was not suihcient to criminate Martin , who had been admitted to bail after hid first examination , and who now came forward voluntarily . He was discharged . The woman was married , and had three children . Akso . n . —A man named Charles Little has been found < Juilty at the Glasgow Spring Circuit Court of setting fire to his house , with a view to defraud an insurance company . He was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . Hiotous Ratepayers . — Four individuals , who are described as ' ratepayers and householders , ' were charged at the Marlborough police-court on Monday , together with a servant , with being intoxicated and
assaulting the police . One of the ' ratepayers and householders" appeared with a broken head , the result of a blow from one of the rate-paid policemen's truncheons . The accused had apparently been revelling , and were returning through die streets , when they saw a constable assisting a man who was in a lit . Conceiving great anger from this , as men in a convivial Btato will do from extremely inadequate causes , they Charged upon the officer , and a struggle ensued , the police being roughly handled , one of the ratepayers getting what was described as ' u crack on the head , ' and the whole of the Bacchanals being lodged in the stution-house . The Marlborough-street magistrate lined them in various amounts .
Street Prkaohing ano Stuekt Thieving . — Two notorious thieves have been eicamuied at the Southward police-office on charges of pursuing their vocation among the crowds collected at the Obelisk , Blackiriarsroad , on Sunday , to listen to the preaching of an opounir Evangelist . One was committed lor trial ; the other remanded £ pr a week . This IIoval JJjemau LIaotc . — It was announced by Mr . Linldater in the Court of Bankruptcy , cm Monday , that tho examination of the directors of the Koyul British Bunk is for tho present concluded ; but he ndded that sufficient . evidence had been obtained to institute a criminal prosecution , if the Government should choose to toko that course .
This Alleged TAMmitma with a Diuej > ojr Siannusmknt . —The cufie of ullcgcd abstraction from tho deed of settlement of tho Athonunun Insurance Company of a louf containing the clauae limiting the liability of tho Association , wna further gono into last Saturday , when Mr . Button , the manager , was exainined . He stated that ho wua the original promoter of tho company , and that it was at iirat intended to have a clauao limiting tho liability of the shareholders , but that it wua not
passed . Mr . J . P . Cox , who brought the charge of mutilation of the deed against the company , was the superintendent of provincial agencies , and on one occasion he went to Mr . Sutton , and exclaimed , " I say , old flick , here ' s a curious go about the deed ; there has been a clause taken out that limited the liability of the shareholders ; " but Mr . Sutton treated the matter as mere nonsense . He always considered that the company was a limited one , inasmuch as they only proposed to deal in policies , and in them were inserted provisoes of limited liability . Mr . Cox was dismissed in consequence of what he had said . He refused to render his accounts , and vowed that he would ' show up the company . ' The Rev . Mr . Bartlett appears to have
been the real manager of the concern , though Mr . Sutton was Ihe nominal . According to the evidence of a Mr . Langley , the reverend gentleman called on him at Manchester and asked him to make statements about the office , and get reports in the public papers , which , if inquiry were made , the office could repudiate . Mr . Langley would do nothing of the sort . He lost all confidence in the office in consequence of Mr . Bartlett ' s proposals , and his connexion with it terminated soon after . Efforts have been made to find Mr . Bartlett , but without success , though a summons to the Court of Chancery is out against him . A very extraordinary statement was made by Mr . Charles Shaw , law-statiuiier , who said he had had great experience in deeds of settlement and their binding . " He had bound up some hundreds in the course of his time , and he could , without any
difficulty , insert a sheet of parchment in a deed and remove it subsequently without leaving any traces . He had , in fact , done it ; and , without mentioning names , he might state that a sheet was placed in one , -without unbinding it , last Good Friday . ( Sensation . ) By whose direction he did not know , but he altered it and put it in another place . The traces left would be only such as those practically acquainted with the matter could detect . The trade had a particular kind of needle called a circular needle , by which it was do ; ie . It was like a rounded fish-hook , lie could not positively say the deed in question had been so dealt with , though something—he could not exactly say what—hud been done to it . His shop was not au infirmary for doctoring joint-stock companies' deeds . " The inquiry into the case is not . yet completed .
Gentlemen Scamps . —Mr . Vivian Hughes and Mr . James Wilson , gentlemen by courtesy , not -of themselves but of others , have been fined 21 . 6 s . and 21 . for an assault on Mr . Henry Young , the treasurer of the Victoria Theatre . They had intruded behind the scenes of the theatre , had refused to leave , had behaved with undue familiarity to Mr . Young ' s daughter , ami had beaten the treasurer when he endeavoured to remove them . Hughes struck Mr . Young with a walking-stick , while Wilson used his fists at the same time . It v .-as therefore found necessary to give them into custody .
A Drunken Doctor . —An inquest has been held at Blyth , North Nottinghamshire , on the body of Mr . John Huwarth Jones , a farmer and cattle-dealer , who died from an illness consequent on a cold . He wad attended by a Mr . Thornley , who , on a certain night , undertook to sit up with him , and left about five o ' cloqk in the morning , but was shortly afterwards called back as Mr . Jones was in a dying state . It was then found that Mr . Thornley was hopelessly drunk , and that he had been drinking gin and brandy by the bedside of the dying man , and singing . Mr . Jones expired a little before seven o ' clock . The death apparently resulted from suffocation caused by the bursting of an abscess iii the throat . Mr . Thoi = nley denied that he had been drunk ; but tho jury , in findiug a verdict of natural death , severely censured him .
Escape of Pkisoneus . —Two prisoners have escaped from Bristol < jaol . They obtained a large number oi worsted comforters , forming part of the wearing apparel of tho other prisoners , tied them together , got outside the prison , threw their extempore rope over the boundary wall , climbed up , and then dropped a distance of about eighteen feet . None of the looks of the prison wore picked or tampered with ; and a suspicion of negligence or collusion therefore uttaches itself to tho officers of the gaol . Both tho prUoucrd were tried ut the lute Gloucester Assizes , and were sentenced , the one to fifteen years' transportation for a highway garotte robbery , and the other to twelve months' imprisonment lor coining . — A woman has escaped from tho Houso of Correction at York , having scaled tho walls , and got over an iron pulixudo with singular agility .
Bettin g 11 ousts . — Mr . Thomas Russell , proprietor of a beordhop in Bird-street , Oxford-street , hua be 6 n fined 251 . ( which was a mitigated penalty ) for using his house us a place for betting . Several persona who wero arrested at the houso wero discharged . Tiufi Ai < L . icaiu > KowiKUY at a Uiiiat-ttUop . —Thomas Genge , tho proprietor of Iho Great Britain beer-shop , in tho Waterloo-road , surrendered to bin bail , on Wednesday , at the Southwark polioo-oilloo , charged with being ooncernod with throo others not yet in custody in violently uaaaulting Simon Mol & on , n Prussian Jew , and robbing him of forty Bovoroigiia in hia boor-ahop . JUo wad committed for trial , but bail was accepted . JMujlcduu ANU Smoiuia at RoTJtucuiiiTJUE . —A woman living ut JUotherhilho , lmmod Knight , has committed
suicide by drowning herself in a water-butt , after having destroyed her infant son in a similar manner . A few days before this event , her husband went oub of his mind , and , to prevent his laying violent hands on himself or his family , he was placed in the asylum , while his wife and child went to live at the house of tixe uncle . The woman seemed greatly distressed at her coudition , . and frequently- uttered bitter complaints . Her friends , however , did their best to rally her , and one evening , after they thought that they had succeeded in soothing her mind , they advised her to go to bed with the child . Between five and six o'clock the next morning , the uncle got up to go to his work , and
as he was drawing some water from the butt to wash himself , he was shocked at seeing the body of Mrs . Knight suddenly rise to the surface . He raised an alarm , and soon afterwards a police constable and some of the neighbours arrived on the spot , when they succeeded in getting the body out of the butt . Life , however , had been extinct for some time . The child was afterwards discovered quite dead in another water-butt . An inquest was held , when , as it transpired that the woman had for a long time fiast been predisposed to insanity , and as there appeared to be no doubt that she had drowned herself and her child , the jury returned a verdict in accordance .
Suiciije of a Muiiderek . —William Marshall , aged fifty-four , who has been imprisoned in York Castle since 1837 for the murder of two of his children ( for which he was not hung owing to its being shown that he was insane ) , has hung himself to the bars outside his window by his neckerchief and garters- Occasionally , he liad long lucid intervals . Attempted Mukdisii . —The wife of a labouring man in Somersetshire has attempted to- kill her husband by cutting his throat . In the . garden a hole was discovered , having every appearance or a grave , aud beside it was a quantity of quicklime . The woman has been committed for trial . The Late Mcedeeis Walwortii . —Bacon and his wife will be tried for the murder of their children , at the Central Criminal Court , next Wednesday .
The'Case of the j Muiu > erer , Mansell . —The writ of error with respect to the alleged informalities in the formation of the jury on the trial of the convict Mansell was fully argued in the Court of Queen ' s Bench last Saturday , and judgment was given on Wednesday . The Judges were Lord Campbell and Justices Wightman , Coleridge , and Erie . The points to be determined were these : —Whether the trial became null and void on account of the Crown having twice ordered William Ironmonger , one of the jurymen , to ' stand by' when twice calling over the panel , the first call being interrupted by some other business ; whether the technical 'phrase ' stand by' had been rightly used by
the counsel for the prosecution ; whether the jurors were called over in proper sequence ; and whether the Judge who tried the case was justified in ordering Jabez Philpot , another of the jurymen , who had said he entertained a conscientious objection to capital punishment , to withdraw , without calling upon the counsel for the Crown to show cause . Lord Campbell overruled all the objections ; the other Judges concurred ; and it was ordered that Mansell bis taken back to prison , and hanged on Monday , the 18 th inst . The convict did not appear to be niucli moved by this decision , but walked out of court witli a sprightly step . Had the law been in his favour , he would have been set at liberty , and could not have been tried again on the flame charge .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Evkn hnnnonj' cannot keep out of the law courts . Mr . Ilollowny , a uuisie-tiollor and publisher in Hauwnytitreet , Oxford-street , brought tin action in the Court of Common Picas last Saturday , against a Mr . Kelly , who keeps a small shop for the sale of cheap literature in Gray ' s Inn-lane . Tho object was to recover damages for . tho alleged piracy of n certain melody contained in a song with the rather sentimental title of ' Sheila of tho Ocean ; or , I wandurwl on tho Sca-beut Shore . ' A Mr . Cherry was tho composer of this tune , for which ho obtained one guinea antl a half from Mr . Hollow ay , who now valued tho copyright nt 1000 J ., at tho least . An arrangement of tho song hud been iasuod for that ralhor sheepish instrument , tho concertina ; and Mr . Holloway aecnia to have made a very good thing out of ' Shells of tho Oueau , ' though Mr . Cherry can hardly have become roseate ovor his guinea and u liuir . Mr . Kelly had sold tho melody at a penny a copy , and in about two years had realized uinuponce from tho transaction . Ho had bought tho copies ut his door of a man named Fortune , who ought rather to have been called Misfortune . Ho did not know that tho melody whs copyright ; and , when ho discovered the fact , lio wont all the remaining copios to Mr . Ilolloway . In short , ho appears to have acted with perfect honesty . This trumpery action occupied tho whole day , and , at the close , the jury found for tho defendant . In the Court for tho Consideration of Crown Cases Rosorvod , lust Saturday ( present , tho Lord Chief Justico Cockhurn , Justicco Colomigo , Crovvdur , aud \> illos , auu .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/7/
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