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January 12, 1856.], TMM LEADER. r 3I
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AMERICA. Tins " difficulty" with Mr. Crn...
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Our Civilisation. Mr. Commibbionku Evans...
thafr * to ^ nmtlttea ' * ttor uBJtK & ffiaBle outrage on Mr . Commiasinnep Evans , under-aa idea- ( whether right or oxot ) < thafc the i & owmiaaitfOcer ought to assist him . W «* cr 0 've ry . well awawthat ' a counter' statement will often entirely ^ changeithe aspect'of a case , and th . erefbreaweuaed -the qualifying expression , " On the face ofit /* . i & cv But ; - judgiug-from the facts then known , th © 'jcase ' --was 'hard ; 'and we have not yet seen any -statements calculated to alter that impression . How-L that Mr .
ever ,: ^ at'doesjnot ^ iearly'appear Commissioner Evans wa »* he cause of the ( alleged ) illegal seizure * ibe has realty no occasion—or none that we know of- —to connect-himself with our imputation of hardship . ' His friend was at rather unnecessary painsc-to-e xpound the truism that a judge must be protected "from outrage on the bench ; but this is a point upon which there ¦ can be no ' two opinions , and which is quite'beyond the necessity of discussion .
Robbery and Attempted IMEubdk-b . —Mr . Seeker , housekeeper to Mr : Crossland , bookseller , Fenehurchstreefe , went into his master ' s cellar on the evening of the let of January , and , finding the coal-sho-vel removed and placed- against 1 the door of a cupboard in the cellar , he suspected something wrong . He took up the shovel , and then discovered three youths in the cupboard , one of whom immediately said , " Murder 1 him ! " They accordingly rushed at him , beotihim
with a stick till he was insensible , and then escaped from the house . Mr . Seeker pursued as soon as he-came to his sensesy and a passenger in the streets secured one of the lads . The other two got off , but haveisincebeen captured j and all are now under rernandat .-the Mansion house , together with an accessory beforethe fact . The lads say they were encouraged to enter the premises by some of Mr . Crossland ' s boys , and-that'they should not have assaulted Mr . Seeker had he not struck at them with the shovel .
SisaL-WAY Station Robberies . — William Jones , John Underwood , and William King , " swell-mobsmen /' are under remand at Lambeth , charged with picking pookete at the Waterloo station of the South-Western Railway . On ibeing taken into custody , the two former-made a desperate resistance , and a large mob of disreputable characters attempted a rescue . Ba . se Monet . —The New Court ( Central Criminal Court ) was occupied the principal part of Tuesday trying prisoners for passing base money—a crime which , notwithstanding the severe sentences generally passed , is most fearfully on the increase . Although
so short a time has elapsed since the last sessions , seventeen prisoners , or nearly one-third of the persons committed , were charged % vith this class of offence ; only one prisoner out of the seventeen tried was acquitted , and the others were sentenced to terms of . imprisonment varying from six to eighteen montiis . It appeared from the evidence adduced during the day that there have been in circulation a great many spurious half-crowns struck in hard metal and electroplated . They will not , however , bear a close inspection , being a , very rough imitation . They will not bend in the detector , but , being rung upon a hard substance , sound very dull .
The Wife Murder at Netvcastle-on-Tyne . — The inquest on Beardinore has terminated in a verdict of manslaughter against her husband . Insane Homicidal Mothers . — Mary M'Neill , spinster , lias been tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of her two children , under circumstances described in the Leader of December Sth . She was acquitted on the ground of insanity , which is hereditary in her family . —Sarah Allen , a married woman , has also been acquitted , on the same ground , of the ^ murder of two of her children , whom sho threw into the Thames lato nt night , close to the Cadogan pier , Chelsea . She took three of hex children
out in a fog , threw them into the water , and afterwards went to the house of a friend in groat distress , and said hud hud lost her children . It was two o ' clock iu tho morning before » ho returned to her husband , and she then appeared in an agony of grief . By the time she reached home , two of her children had been rescued , and wore with thoir father ; but ono of theso subsequently died , and tho third child was not recovered until dead . Tho woman was afflicted with a fear that fllio , her husband , and her children , were scrofulous , and this appears to Lave upset lier reason . In this case , also , madness was in tho family .
Game Law Cases . —Stephen Goodsoll , n labourer m the employ of a farmer at Ewhurst , Sussex , was convicted at tho latter o « d of lost NovomW' of setting traps for taking gamo . Within tlio last few days , ho has appealed to the Quarter Sessions against tho decision of tho county magistrates ; and tho court has ¦ quashed tho conviction , and ordered tho magistrates to pay the costs , amounting to £ 2 G . Homy Hoilo , a youth about seventeen years of nge , wna charged at tiu > Wingnam Pott y Sossions with shooting * pheasant , the > property of MY . Rice , M . l \ for Dover . Tho bird had ntroyod on to tho land of tho boy ' s master , a larmer ; and Hoilo said he shot at it to Hcaro it away , « J there wore " a terrible many" bird * about tho land and ho was told to drive them off Ho wuh ?< S m 'V ^ X 7 li' Cd > ooat ^ ' > ou « of tUo magistrate tBlriUsook Bridges ) observing , " It will bo « vary good
warning to you . " The lad asiea for a time to pay the money , but was refused , and he was actually sent to -prison for one month , with hard labour . Lord Londesborottgh , 'having sent £ 5 to the lad , received the ¦ following insolent letter front one of'the bench : — " My Lord , —Being one of the magistrates on the bench at thetime that Henry 'Hoile was fined 20 s ., and 17 s . 6 d . costs , for shooting a pheasant , I feel that my decision , in common with that of the other magistrates present , is called in question , in a manner not the most courteous , by your extraordinary freak of sending £ 5 to the boy as a reward for his misconduct , without being yourself at all cognisant of -the merits of the case . Into those merits I do not choose to
enter . Suffice it that a decision was come to , and on it the magistrates are content to stand , your lordship ' s objection notwithstanding . Whether the case was one which ought to have been prosecuted , I know not , and shall not stop to inquire . My object in writing is "to request that your lordship will be good enough , should you require any outlet for your liberality , to bestow it on some one worthier of it , and , at the same time , to-extend your mistaken criticisms to some other beneh than that of Wingham ; and , by your lordship ' s permission , I would suggest that one to which your lordship belongs . —I have the honour to remain , your lordship ' s obedient servant , Narb . Hug-lies D'Aeth . KnoTrlton-court , Dec . 20 , 1855 . "
A Poetical and Religious Ticket - of - Leave Man . —The holder of a ticket-af-leave , a young man named James Donovan , who sometimes calls himself John White , has been examined before Mi * . Yardley at the Thames police-office , on a charge of burglary . He has been convicted of robbery several times before , and other cases against him are now pending ; but it was stated that , while in confinement in Portland prison , his conduct was " exemplary , " and i »
other confinement good . Some letters to Ms parents were produced , and on one of them the following lines were written in his own hand : — " Fain do 1 wish the day was come 3 For me to see my native home , My father and my mother dear , Their hearts to comfort a . nd to cheer ; But faith is weak , affection strong , And time appears to be so long . "
On another of these letters , announcing the death of his brother , Donovan had written some verses , copied from a child ' s book o ; f poetry , and called the " The First Grief : "" Ob , call my brother back to me , I cannot play alone . ; The summer comes with flower and bee—Where is my brother gone ?' When bofore Mr . Yardley , Donovan made a long defence in a -whining tone , and cried , bellowed , and roared . He said it was bard , very hard , be should "be taken into custody for sin offence of which he was Innocent , and all his former delinquencies brought \ u >
against him by the hard-hearted police . He had behaved well in Portland prison , and his papers proved be was a good man . there . He wa 3 incliued to do good aijd walk in the ways of righteousness ; but some persons got hold of him on New Year ' s night and made him drunk , and a naem gave him the box to carry ( he had been found in the middle of the night carrying a box which contained stolen property ) . He begged for mercy , on account of his father and mother . This affair , ho said , would carry them to the gi'ave if ho was committed for trial . He was committed for trial , nevertheless , and , having been found guilty , was sentenced to six years' penal servitude .
Duownkd while Thieving . —A man sit Manchester , while endeavouring \ o steal lead from a roof , missed his footing , and , falling into tho Rochdale canal , which flows underneath , was drowned . —Another man in tho neighbourhood of Kingston , Surrey , - \ vas drowned iu a well , whilu stealing apples from au orchard early last November . Ho was intoxicated at tho timo . Tho body has only just boen discovered . Attbmit to Escape fkom Hertford Goal . —John
"Williams , aliens Goodeuougli , n burghir , has endeavoured to espajio from Hertford Goal . He wns discovered while removing tho iron bars ni tho window of his cell , ami wndo a ricsjioruto resistance . Ho threatened to destroy hiiDsc-lf , and for sixty hours refused food . Ho was then removed to Millbnnk , when he consented to rocoivonourishment . The same iuon < ohoo attempted to escape from Hooding gaol j and ono of hia comrades , suy « thcro is no building in England strong enough to koop him iu or to keep him out .
Tuunip Stealing . —Three women at Qtratford-on-Avon have been ( sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment for stealing a fow turnips , Everett Cam-ton , an old man nearly seventy years of ago , surrendered at tho Central Criminal Court , to take las trial for manslaughter . Hu had been ouinmittod upon the coroner ' s warrant , and had , it appeared , unskilfully set a ooppor , the result of which was that a firo took plnoo , canning a loaa of lifo . Mo was acquitted .
Thk liirms Paiiic Hioth . —Chiu'loa Miulgott , "WUliiun Gearing , and William Uowlay , the three uoutttaiblos who wore reported by lh « Hydo I ' urk 1 ' olioo
Commission to have misconducted themselves on the 1 st of July , surrendered on Thursday to take their trial at the Central Criminal Court . Madgett was found guilty , and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment * but the Others were acquitted . ' Mobe CHrxD-sTARVma . —John Satehwell , an excavator , and Maria Satcbwell , his wife , were charged at Southwark with neglecting to provide proper nourishment for their children , aged five , seven , ten , and eleven years . These , it appeared , were only the children in law of the
man . Two children whom the woman had had by her present husband were well provided for . The details were very similar to those in previous cases , and exhibited deliberate brutality on the part of the parents , who generally fared sumptuously while their offspring starved . A woman who lodged in their house on one occasion pledged a pair of boots for Mrs . Satchwell for sixpence , with which she purchased bread and bacon , and sent it to her ; but no portion of this reached her children . The man and his wife were committed for trial . —Edward
Harvey and Harriett Ray have been tried on the charges detailed in our last week ' s paper . The latter was acquitted , and the former found guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for a year . —Charles Butler and his wife , indicted for the murder by starvation of their child , have been acquitted , since it appeared that they were in so abject a condition of poverty that they were \ inable even to support themselves . Cruelty to Animals . —A . farmer named William Pevowne was summoned before the Guildford Bench
of Magistrates , at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , for working two horses which had sustained serious injuries in the legs , and which he had bought of a man to whom they had been entrusted to be killed ., The bench said they were unable to decide upon a question which was simply one of opinion as to whether the animals were or were not fit to work ; and therefore the summons was dismissed ,, to the surprise of the court .
A Monomaniac—Joseph Berridge , a man who recently pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening to shoot the Rev . Mr . Brown , under the impression that he had seduced his wife , and who was liberated on finding bail for good behaviour , has been again brought before the Central Criminal Court . Since the former proceedings , hehas sent threatening letters to the committing magistrate , and also to Mr . Brown . He has therefore been again orderediinto custody , and sentenced to eighteen months' inSprisonnient .
Juvenile Beggars . —Some revelations with respect to the child beggars who crowd , about bakers ' and eating-house windows , came out on Monday all the Mansion-house , where a " little ooy , auGut niHi years of age , was charged with begging . A baker ' s shopman aaidhe had often tested the alleged hunger of the children by giving them bread ; but he had discovered they did not eat it . When bread had been given to them by passers-by , they had often asked him to buy it at a reduced price ; and had he given , this , it would have gone to the parents for the pur-r
chase of drmk . Sir 11 . W . Carden , who stated his opinion that begging would never be put down until the givers as well a 3 the recipients of alma are punished , said that some beggars to whom , a lady of his acquaintance had given three or lour pounds of beef steaks went into the shop of the butcher where the meat was bought , and , laying down the steaks , said , " You know we don ' t want this . Take it back , and give us the money you got for it ; or buy it from us at any pi * ice you can afford . " In the present case , the boy was detained , and the police were ordered to look after his parents .
Knock-Turnal Amusements . —Mr . K . H . Cornish , ji medical student of St . ( Jeorge ' s Hospital , has been lined £ 2 > for wrenching , oil' a door in Eburyetreet , Pimlieo , a knocker and a bell-pull . It appeared that he had been at boiuo Christmas entertainment , and wiis returning late at night , intoxicated , when he was seized with a vehement desire to wage war upon the knockers and boll-pulls , liven after he was in tho custody of the police , ho rushed towards a door and said ho would have the knocker .
January 12, 1856.], Tmm Leader. R 3i
January 12 , 1856 . ] , TMM LEADER . r 3 I
America. Tins " Difficulty" With Mr. Crn...
AMERICA . Tins " difficulty" with Mr . Crnmjiton ecoins to bo growing less and less ovei-y day . It is thought that that gentleman will not be compelled to retire , but that " ( ho United States Government will recognise tho fact that he only acted under tho inspiration of tho homo ministry , and will receive tho explanations of that ministry ua satisfactory . Tho Speaker in not yet elected at Washington ; and in tho meanwhile tho President has caused hi » speech to be put into typo in his own mansion . Abuso of confidence on former occasions is alleged aa tho cause of this extraordinary proceeding . Uruat interest and agitation have been m-miaod by the Koii & uro at Now York of the Btoaia-shij * Northern Light , ou a charge of being engaged in a " nllibuatoring" expedition to Mcariigua . Sho was brought to by a shot from tho United States rovonue gutter
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12011856/page/7/
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