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THE LEABEH. [No. 333, Satuhpax,. VOv) __...
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Assize Cases.—Grace Richardson, A Straw ...
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Middijesex Sessions . — was passed on Monday , at the Middlesex Sessions , on Mr . Liggett , landlord of the Argyle Hotel , Liverpool-street , King scross , for an assault on Mr . H . J . Jennings , a solicitor s « lerk , of which he was found guilty last session . Mr . Jennings and another person had given offence to the landlord ; a . good deal of violence seems to have ensued ; and Doggett ejected his two guests . The Assistant-Judge said it appeared that Doggett was a highly respectable man , who conducted his house in an exemplary manner ; bnt , in a moment of irritation , he had taken the law into his own hands , instead of calling in a policeman . Under the circumstances , the sentence would be < a fine of ZQL—John Lawson , a Danish sailor , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for an assault with a knife on Alfred Janson .
A . Stbket Seducer . — Some light was thrown on the machinations : of professional seducers in the course of a charge brought at Marlborough-street against John Richard Power , a young man described as a commission agent . JTrom the evidence , it appeared that the accused had spoken to two young girls in the streets , who were carrying children ; that he had inquired if the infants were their own ; that he asked one of them -whether she was not big enough to have a child ; and that he tried , but in vain , to induce them to go with him to an hotel in St . Martin ' srcourt . Power assured the magistrate that he was '" a strictly moral man ; " but his assertions -were discredited , and he was sentenced , much to his astonishment , to six months' hard labour .
Bobbing . a Corpse . —Another man has been convicted at Bow-street of being concerned in stealing a ring from the hand of a Sir . Stocker , who was recently killed in High-street , St . Giles ' s . Kaley , the culprit , now brought before the magistrate , was sentenced to two months' imprisonment . ¦ VicrrxMizraG Indians . —A Mr . Teale , of Eversholtstreet , Camden-town , applied on Tuesday to the Lord Mayor for information > as to the course he might properly pursue for the benefit of several North-American Indians ( six males and four females ) who had come to England for the purpose of appealing to the Queen to assist them in recovering , a considerable portion of land , of which they had been forcibly and illegally deprived
in Walpole Island . Mr . Teale , who was accompanied by a gentleman who stated himself to be connected with the Missionary ISociet } ' , said , the Indians , of whom Pe-to-e-Kee-Lee was the great chief , had been induced by a Mr . Baby to accompany him to England for the ostensible purpose of waiting upon the Queen on the subject of the recovery of their possessions , but really with the object of being exhibited to the public theatrically for the benefit of the person by whom they wore recommended to leave their homo . The speculation having totally failed , and Mr . Baby not having introduced the Indians to her Majesty , but , on the contrary , having abandoned them without making the least provision for
their support , they must have Btarved . inthe Btreots had it not been for tbe Missionary Society , the members of which had done'all they could for them , and were now compelled to represent their deplorable condition to tbe City authorities . The Lord Mayor said ho would write to the Colonial Secretary : if that application failed , ho haA noMoubt -the public wotild raise subscriptions for them . ' After « ome objections from Sir K . W . Garden , who thought that , as the Indians wore staying at the house of Mr . Teale at Camdon-town , application ought not to haveJbeen made to tho City authorities , and who conceived that a strict inquiry should bo set on foot into the authenticity of tho narrative , Mr . Toale and the InAiana left tho court .
Embezzlement . —A person named Charles Lister is under remand at Guildhall , charged with ombezzling money to the amount of 104 / ., the property of his employers , Messrs . Potter and Galpin , printers , of Playhouse-yard , Blaokfriars . He had tho business management of a oonntry paper belonging to his employers ; and it is in connexion with thie conoern that he is changed-with misappropriation of funds . OS » Fbulowb' Mbkrimrnt . — -The Society of Odd ¦
Fett < mB , "with . their wives and children , were allowed by the 'Crystal'Palace Company on Monday to celebrate their anniversary in the Bydenham building and grounds . They got ? intexlcrtied-after dinner , and were vory riotous aridmolBy . Having stopped the < bund which plays at five o ' clock" in the 'everting , one iof : them mode a long and tedious speech ; after wnidh-the band began to play again , ' but was hrterrupt « dbyth » Oad Follows , who a * - tackod the performers with great violence . No policeman waato be found'fbr a long > wbilo ; « nd when one did at
length appear , ie was evidently afraid to seize any of the rioters , being single-handed against a large number . " Later in the evening , " says an eye-witness , " several small dancing parties Avere made up on the grass we are so rigidly forbidden to cross , and one large circle , familiarly known to the frequenters of Greenwich Fair by the name of ' Kiss-in-the-Green , ' continued to scandalize decent ladies till nearly nine o ' clock . " The Garotte Robbery at Reading . —The man Shepherd , who was last'week secured , after a desperate struggle with two of the county of Berks police , was finally examined on Monday , before the Mayor , charged with having , in company w ith another , violently assaulted William John Hayne on the night of Tuesday ,
the 29 th ult ., in Chain-street , Reading , with intent to rob him . He presented the appearance of having suffered considerably from the severe blow given him by the policeman with his truncheon during the scuffle , and just at the time when the officer found 'himself nearly overpowered . The other ruffian concerned in the attack —a man named Millington—has also been apprehended . Hibernian Effervescence . —A charge against several Irishmen and women has been investigated at Bow-street . It arose out of a previous charge of assault on a woman named Mary Callaghan , who was
ill-used by two of her countrywomen for having given evidenee against them in a third case that had come before the magistrate . The women having been convicted , the husband of Mary Callaghan gave vent to his exultation in a dance of triumph , executed in his place of residence , Orange-court . Thereupon the opposite faction flew to arms , and a fight ensued , ending in considerable damage to the various heads concerned , and in the dispersal of the mob by the police . The prisoners were discharged , having already suffered enough from the casualties of battle .
A Husiane Prize-fighter . —Three little children were observed a few days ago in Duke-street , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , by Mr . Harry Broome , the - " ex-champion of England , " and landlord of the Norfolk Tavern in the Strand , under circumstances which arrested his attention . They were lying on a mattress spread on the pavement , and all were suffering from small-pox . The eldest was a girl of twelve ; the youngest was an infant in arms . Mr . Broome was informed that they were Tefused admission into the workhouse ; and he therefore
applied to the Bow-street magistrate for advice . Mr . Henry sent the summoning officer with the children to the workhouse . They were at once admitted , and it was explained that there had been no actual refusal . Some outdoor relief had been given , but the relieving officer had ultimately stopped the supply , and offered to receive the whole family into the house . The fattier , and mother had rejected this proposal , and the officer declined to take the children without the parents . This , however , was done on receipt of the magistrate ' s message .
Execution . —Murdock , the manwho killed the Hastings gaoler while attempting to escape , was hung on Tuesdaj- morning . He professed great repentance for tho act he had committed , while asserting that he had no intention to kill the man ; behaved with much decorum and feeling up to the last moment ; and died instantly without a struggle . The recommendation to mercy on the part of the jury , on the ground that murder was not intended , was strongly backed up by numerous influential persons , who made repeated applications for a reprieve to Sir George Grey ; but , as the event indicates , these efforts were useless . —The ensuing particulars of the execution at Leicester of William Brown , the
murderer of a tollgate-keeper and his grandson , were accidentally omitted in our last impression : —The culprit protested his innocence to the last , saying he should die a martyr , anil should soon be in heaven . In order to bring him to a sense of his position , lie was shown his grave on the day before his execution , and tho only remark he made was , " Ah ! it ' s a nice place , ain't it ? I shall like to lie under the trees . " ( The grave was dug near to some trees . ) His father and several of his friends visited him on the same day , and he requested the former to come and see him turned off . " Tho old man secured
a seat nt a public-houae window exactly opposite the drop , occupied it some hours before the execution , regaled himself with beer , and engaged in earnest conversation with his associates . Brown had expressed a wish to be allowed to address the crowd , saying ho should speak for an hour . The officials told him he might say what he pleased , and for that purpose he was led out a few minutes before eight o ' clock . His father recognized him by waving a handkerchief . The prisoner made a low bow , bnt did not attempt to utter a word . After a momentary pause , to allow him to speak if he wore dispoBed , Calcraft stepped up , and quickly adjusted tho cap and ropo . The bolt was instantly drawn , and tho prisoner , after struggling for Bevorul minutes , ceased to exist .
A Stkancuc Assault . —A singular and apparently ; purposeleas attempt to hang a little girl , six years of age , was made on Monday by a young -man of twenty , named John Wood . Alice Crowley , the child in ques-, tion , was decoyed into Wood ' s house in Haggorston , inoxt door to 'her own homo , under a promise of'money , itakon up-Btairs by tho young man , and stripped of all her clothes . Wood then tied a ropo round her neck , laatened tho other end to the bod-post , and drew her up , . observing that he would hang her . Ho immediately
released her , however , and sent her home , desiring that she should not tell who had hurt her . On reaching home , she was observed to be very ill and excited , and was heard by her father to exclaim , "Oh , that man , that man ! " The marks of a cord were perceived round her neck , as if it had been twisted three or four times 5 and these indentations Avere so red that they seemed to be bleeding . " Upon hearing her statement , " said the child ' s father to the Worship-street magistrate , before whom Wood was brought , " I instantly went to prisoner ' s residence , which I found fastened up , but I broke through the panelling of the back-yard door and entered . On ascending the upper stairs , I found a room fastened on the inside , and , when I demanded admission ,
felt some one push against the door . Here I gained an entrance as in tbe first instance , and saw the prisoner , whom I dragged out . I asked him ' What have you been doing with my child ? ' He replied , ' Nothing . ' I said , ' What did you want with her ? ' and he again replied , ' Nothing . ' I said , ' Where is the rope you did it with ? ' and , on the question being repeated , he told me it was in the cupboard . Some neighbours , who by this time had arrived , found it there . " A tradesman of the neighbourhood , who was in the police office , said he believed the prisoner to be silly ; but a police sergeant , on hearing this remark , observed that the accused had been brought to that court about three years back , charged with grossly misconducting and exposing himself . He was remanded on the present charge .
Mowing Off a Man's Leg . — Some men who had been engaged in mowing near a village in the North Kiding of Yorkshire got to quarrelling , when one of them said to another that , if he repeated a certain obnoxious expression , he would cut off his legs with the scythe he held in his hand . The other did repeat the expression , and Bowes , the man wbo had made use of the threat , at once made a blow at his adversary ' s legs , one of which was very nearly severed . The loss of blood was so great that the poor fellow died within an hour . Suspected Murder at Sheeuness . —A young man about twenty-three years old , whose body has since been identified , has died at Sheerness in so very sudden and mysterious a manner as to lead to a suspicion that he must have been murdered . He arrived at that town
by a London steam-packet , and afterwards hired a waterman to row him on the river for an hour in the morning , and about the same time in the evening . He conversed with the boatman on several indifferent topics , and was iu excellent spirits and perfectly sober at the time . After quitting the boat in the evening , he engaged the same man to row him on the river the next day , and then went for a walk along the Queenboroughwall . About teu o ' clock the same evening , the dead body of the young man was found tying in the river under two large rough stones . His hat had been discovered a short time previously under Queenborough wall , on the opposite bank . An inquest was held , but the proceedings were adjourned for ten days , in order to give the police time to make inquiries .
A Fatal Blow . —Death has ensued to a Mr . John William Adams , a traveller in the employ of Mr . Fleet , soda-water manufacturer at Walworth , in consequence of a blow given to him by a person in the same establishment , with whom there had been some practical joke , ending in a quarrel . Tho inquest resulted in a verdict of manslaughter against Fisher , the man who struck tho blow ^ and he has since been arrested under rather singular circumstances . On the day of the funeral of Adams , the coroner ' s officer , from information which the
he had received , proceeded to the house from hearse and mourning coaches wore to start , and , opening the door of one of the carriages , he saAv Fisher . He was about to arrest him at once , but he hegged so earnestly to be allowed to attend the ceremony that the officer permitted him to do so , and accompanied him to the ground . At the conclusion of the funeral , he was conveyed to Horaonionger-laue Gaol . On the day preceding the interment , Fisher called at tho residence ol tho officer to give himself up ; but he was not at home . Tho asaizes at Guildford are now ponding , ami the
prisoner will be tried there . Abduction . —A charge of abducting a young girl , a little under fifteen years of ngo , lias boon mndo out at the Southwark police-ofllco against a Mr . Nicholas Kowo , an army and navy contractor . The aaino porflon was also charged with committing a criminal assault on the girl ; bnt this was withdrawn . Tho facts , us alleged , ¦ arc briefly these : — -Eliza Bradahaw , tho girl in question , was induced to leavo the houso of her fathor , who Jcoops a beor-Bhop in tho Borough , and was taken by Kowo to n house of ill-famo in Kxetor-Btreet , Strund , where 110 lat
slept with her until noon of tho . following day (» Sunday ) , having previously given her some spirits anu some wino . A close erosH-oxamhmtion elicited tho iuetfi that the girl was on had terms with her mother ; tuat tho father knew of an iutimucy going on between Kowo and his daughter , and that ho hud not taken ntnps against it , though ho was awnro of tho prisoner being « married man ; that too . had borrowed money of him i » n < that the girl had had an improper intimacy with tno accused a few weoka ago at nor father ' s houflo , thaugu , as flho 'Alloged , her father was not cognisant of tlio circuniHtwnco . Rowo was committod for trial ; but tho mugiutrato ucceptod bail .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/6/
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