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December 13,1856,] THE LEADER. 1183 "
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THE WINTEK ASSIZES. . A policeman and a ...
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to be that of Mr . ' -White . If was lying in the passage sep arating tlie two counters , with tbe head towards the dooi . The alarm spreading , numbers of people nocked to the place , and , proceeding into the house , found Mrs . "White also lying dead and weltering in blood in the pasflags juat opposite t ] l 0 front door . The little dog was discovered lying upon the body of its murdered master , uninjured ; hut so cowed and subdued that it had forgotten its liabit of barking . In tlie hand of Mrs . White a candlestick was firmly grasped ; and it -would appear that her husband was summoned into the shop by some apparent customer , and that Mrs . White , hearing- tlie noise of the death-struggle , came forward to render such assistance as she could give , and was at once despatched . The wounds seem to have been caused by a heavy instrument , such as a life-preserver ; and the . skull in both cases was frightfully fractured and contused . The object of the murderer seenis to have been plunder , as a cupboard upstairs was forced open , and apparently ransacked of money . The shop till was also open and empty ; but , as money was found in Mr . White ' s pockets , it is thought he may himself have emptied the till . An open Bible and some memoranda -were lying on Mr . White ' s table in the inner room . The latter seem to he meant for a sermon on Romans , viii . 19 , and contain references to several passages in the Evangelists and the Epistles . The text is— " For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God ; " on which , it was noted that the Greek word rendered " creature " meant " human creature , " and that the word rendered ' . ' earnest expectation" implied ¦ ¦ " looking out—looking with the neck stretched out and the head thrust forward . " It had been the habit of Mr . White to sing a . hymn every evening , accompanying himself on the piano . The nearest neighbour remarked on the Thursday evening that he did not hear from Mr . White ' s house the accustomed song of praise . An inquest has been opened , but it was adjourned to Friday ( yesterday ) . A hawker was arrested on Monday ; butit was afterwards found that there was no case against him , and he was discharged .
December 13,1856,] The Leader. 1183 "
December 13 , 1856 , ] THE LEADER . 1183 "
The Wintek Assizes. . A Policeman And A ...
THE WINTEK ASSIZES . . A policeman and a porter employed on the Great Western Railway have been sentenced at the Salisbury < Assizes to four years' penal servitude for robbery of - ; goods which were being transmitted by the company . The porter was also sentenced to six months' imprisonment , with hard labour , for a theft in which the other man was not concerned . Robert Brewer has been found Guilty of uttering a receipt for 29 t 10 s . 4 d . He was pay-sergeant in the Wilts Militia , and ho appears to have misappropriated the money for which he gave the false receipt . He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment , with hard labour . Four men ha-ve pleaded Guilty at Stallbrd to the chargeof assaulting a gamekeeper in tlie course of a night-poaching expedition at Wolseley , last July . They were old offenders , belonging , apparently , to a large gang ; and they were sentenced to three years' hard labour . William Allen , alias Sidney Jones , and William Kay , alias Walter Jonea , were indicted for forging and uttering a request for the delivery of goods with intent to defraud , on the 30 th of last July , at Stafford . Great interest attached to this case , as the prisoners had acquired considerable notoriety as members of a gang of swindlers who had for sonic time evaded justice , and carried on with great ingenuity the proceedings for which they were now indicted . They seemed to know that giving an order on a tradesman for goods , with a promise of payment which they did not mean to fulfil , is not a false pretence , but they were not aware that putting a iictitious name to such aa order or promise , though it was the name by which they had been for aome months known , and had carried on their business , amounted to forgery . Ihoy have carried on their frauds for the last seven or eight years , and have before now been imprisoned . In tlie course of last February , Sidney Jones took a publichouso in Stafford , under tho name of "William Allen . He was joined by his brother , and they wont on till August , when , in consequence of tho magistrates rofuaing to renew the license unless they had aome reference to character , Sidney Joiiea announced that ho meant to aot up . as an auctioneer , and would sell oft' all his stock . Ihe articles included some goods which had been recently ordered and not paid for ; but , tlie suspicions of tho police being arousod , proceedings were instituted -against Jones by tho Excise and by somoof hia creditors ; Ihe house was searched , a directory was found , with marks against the names of traders in < lifforunt part * ot tho kingdom , a number of envelopes addressed to those ao favoured ready to bo sent oil " , and a mass of memoranda respecting other tradesmen . Owing to tho letters and papers thus discovered , a few being in tlio handwriting of ' Walter Jones tho latter waa arrested at Cirenceator . They worn now found Guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . A juryman at tho Gloucester Assizes , at tho commencement of a triul for child murder , requested tho judge to excuse * him from , serving , us he had a conscientious objection to capital punishment , and would rather forfeit his oath tb . au be the- moans oL" bringing a ¦ s , i - 1 - a j I f 1 ; li f o s L- it i- i- to -i- Id a
fellow-creature to that kind of death . Mr . Baron Bram- well replied that he could not see how a juryman ' s con- science could have anything to do with the judgment of death . All that a juryman had to do was to say whether the accused was or was not guilty . However , if this particular juryman would take " so irrational a view of tbe case , " he ought not to sit on the jury , and the counsel for the Crown would probably challenge him . This having been done , the case proceeded , and Mary Yarnell ( a married woman ) was tried for the murder of her infant child , four months old . Directly she was placed at the bar , shebegan talking incoherently , and this she continued throughout the -whole of the trial , and likewise abused the witnesses by applying to them opprobrious names . It appeared that , though she had plenty of milk , she neglected to suckle or otherwise feed the child . The doctor who attended her , and several of her neighbours , remonstrated , but in vain . The child became emaciated , and was allowed to be filthily dirty , Opthalmia set in , and the child died of marasmus , or starvation , after being taken to the workhouse . On one occasion , a woman , one of the witnesses , saw Mrs . Yar- nell washing the child ; but " she rubbed it , " said the woman , " as she would a floor , " and the witness took the child oufof her hands and . finished washing it her- self . It was evident , from this and from some other facts , tliat the accused was insane , and on this ground she Was Acquitted of the charge , as well as of another indictment , ' to the effect thut she had killed her stepson , a child seven years of age , by a kick on the loins . The woman was ordered to be detained in custody during her Majesty's pleasure . > In openiug the Liverpool Assizes , ' Mr . . Baron Alder son made some remarks ou the ticket-of-leave system which he strongly condemned . Several ticket-of-leave men are among the persons tried at those Assizes , the very first criminal being one . He was charged with burglary , of winch oflbuce he had been convicted in 1853 , and , being set at large in June of the present year ( bis sentence was seven years' transportation ) , he again committed the san > c crime . Baron Alderson now sentenced him to transportation for twenty years , ad ding , "If they lot you out again , the fault is not mine . " The j ury on * Thursday inade a presentment to the Judge , in Avhich they expressed their hearty con currence in his views with reference to the ticket-of-leave system . —Mr . Baron Bram well , at Chelmsford , has ex . Ijressed his opinion that the tkket-of-leave being at large cannot be regarded as the cause of the late increase crime . llicbard Morris , a labourer , was tried at Shrewsbury on a charge of abducting a girl of fifteen from the house of her father , a farmer , by whom the man was employed The girl was taken by Morris to the house of his bro ther , where he remained with her till half-past three o'clock in the morning , when he left . The following day the police found her out , and took her back to herfather The man said , when taken into custody , that they were going to be married next May , and that till then the girld would ' be in service . He was found Guilty , aud sentenced to nine months' hard labour . John Brown lias been found Guilty at Durham , of rape upon a married woman . Her husband was in the hospital-at the time , and she lived in a lonely roadside cottage . One night , when she was in bed with lier children , the man broke into the house , and committed the offence , lie was sentenced to transportation life . Ann Harrison was tried at Durham for the murder her illegitimate child . She had been delivered in Union workhouse at Stockton-on-Tees , and the body the child was discovered , after her leaving that place buried in a heap of manure , but , as there was great doubt vhethor the death was not from natural causes instead of from strangulation , as alleged by the proso cutioii , tho woman was Acquitted . Harriett Woollcy was tried at Liverpool for a similar offence . As in tlie previous case , the woman was servant , and she was delivered of an infant in the privy down which tlio dead body was afterwards discovered It was considered possible that the child dropped down accidentally , and in this case also there was a verdict Not Uuilty . . . ix A woman , named Martha Worrell , was tried Oxford , also on a charge of murdering her illegitimate infant . The body was found in a ditch ; but here again a wilful murder could not be proved , and the jury simp found tho woman Guilty of concealment of birth . fc was sentenced to three months' hard labour . —Brid Kelly has been found Guilty at Birmingham of niur dering her infant by throwing it into the canal with tape tied round its neck . Tho jury recommended her mercy , and sentence of death was only recorded . ^ John Ingrain , a postnun , was indicted at Liverpool for stealing two letters containing bank post-bills bank-notes to the value of 500 f . Boing found Guilty ho wits sentenced to fifteen years' transportation , John llollis , alias Williams , was charged at Shrews bury with the murder of Benjamin Bromley . HoUis had been behaving with brutal violence to a several persons interfered , a good deal of lighting ensued and Bromley , who took the girl ' s pnrt and struck lLollia at luugth received from him a mortal blow from instrument . Tho jury found Hollis Guilty ot
si tr ps re sp Si 01 si 2 ; tli T . re A G ai ai w w vr n S h < 3 ^ f 1 i - J , ' £ . s < < 1 J - ' 1 . : - -: of , . - , . a slaughter only , and he was sentenced to fourteen years ' transportation . ..-- ¦ "' A sentence of eight years' penal servitude has been passed at Lincoln , on James Campbell for a highway robbery at Inghara . This was an instance of very speedy justice . The robbery was only committed last Saturday night , and the offender was tried and convicted on Tuesday . George Spivey was indicted at Liverpool for the manslaughter of John Couplantl , at Church Fenton , on the 25 th of July last , "b y his negligence in not attending to the danger signal of the railway , according to his duty . The facts of this case must be in the recollection of our readers : it will therefore suffice to say that Spivey was Acquitted . ¦ A case of early depravity came before Mr . ; Russell Gurney at York . Ann In icholsonwas indicted for per } ury ; and in proof of this charge it was shown that , last February , she being then under seventeen years of age , she was delivered of an illegitimate child , the paternity of which she swore upon her late master , Mr . Hudson , a miller and a preacher in the Primitive Methodist connexion , though she well knew that he was not the father . She was found Guilty , and was sentenced to nine months ' hard labour . John Autey , a master mariner , waa found Guilty of discharging a pistol in the face of his wife , and badly wounding her . The man always exhibited great affection , for his wife , arid the motive for the act did not appear , but it seems , to have resulted from a kind of temporary r insanity caused by drink . Sentence was deferred . William Jackson was indicted at the Chester Assizes - for the murder of his son and daughter in . that city last September . His wife had left him ; and one day Jack-» son took the children put with Iiini , cut their throats in 3 an orchard , and buried them . The j ury having returned i- a verdict of Guilty , the man was sentenced to death . i On hearing the sentence , lie at fir 3 t turned very pale , t but , almost immediately afterwards , picked up his hat ; from the floor , and walked composedly away . r The " Leeds wizard , " Henry Harrison , hag been tried . at York , and found Guilty of marrying two women while t his first wife was alive . He was sentenced to four years ' 3 penal servitude . _ ¦ ¦ '¦ A case of •' manslaughter , ofa . very savage kind , was e also tried at York . During the last harvest , a quarrel took _ ¦ place near Great Smeaton between two labourers—one e named Thomas Bowes , and the other Robert Coekfield . , f After some wranglhg and fighting , Bowes took up his scythe ,. and swept it round in the direction of Coekfield , r , who stepped back ^ but -immediately '' afterwards again . ; e came forward , and told Bowes he was not half a man . 1 , Bowes then cut Cockfield ' s leg with the scythe He ) 1 staggered and fell , bleeding so profusely that , in about ; e two hours , notwithstanding all the endeavours that were ' y made to staunch the wound , he died . For this crime r [ Bowes was tried , and found Guilty of causing the death " il by carelessness . " Sentence was deferred . , lC Mariana , Ophn , a Manilla seaman , has been found a Guilty at Liverpool of an attack on Thomas Smith , whom he stabbed in the breast so seriously that for some a time his life was considered in danger . Ho was sentenced ie to twelve months' imprisonment . —At the same Assizes , [ e a man has been found Guilty of a garotte robbery , and 3 r sentenced to fiftci-n years' transportation .
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for of the of , , - a , . of at ly 3 ho get - a to aud , - girl i , some manid ¦ ¦ . ______—— . > r MIDDLESEX SESSION'S , af The December general sessions of the . peace for the ic county of Middlesex commenced on Monday morning at of Clerkonwell , beforo Mr . Pashley , Q . C ., Assistant Judge , e , and a bench of magistrates . Richard Oshorne , a labourer , at was tho first person tried . Ho was charged with stealing ss , signal lamps from posts on the Great Northern Itailway . o- lie was found Guilty ; and , considering that the offence was one which might lmvo led to most serious consear quences on the railway , he waa sentenced to a year ' s a hard labour . The same punishment was awarded to ¦ y , Joseph Tetgree , who pleaded Guilty to stealing a box ; d . from a van belonging to tho same railway . —Josoph . , vn lidghill was sentenced to four yoars' penal servitudo for of horse-stealing . — William Compton , a clerk , pleadoi Guilty to having embezzled throe sums of money , at amounting to 80 / ., received by him in . his capacity Uc of collector to Messrs . Palmer , candle manufacturers , lin He was condemned to hard labour for eighteen months . > ly Minette Luigi , one of tho disbanded Italian Legioniho iirios , was indicted for an attack with a knife on a . . jot man in a public-house , whom , however , ho did not sucnr- ceed in injuring . The facts of this caso have already i a appeared in tho Leader . The Italian wib scntcncod _ to to six months' imprisonment . —Carlo Coleto , also an Italian formerly belonging to the Legion , has boon found Guilty ool of an assault with a knife on several persona at Iloxtoa . md Ho was sentenced to twelve mouths' hard labour . ty , John Williams pleaded Guilty to a murderous assault on David Embloton , one of tlio warders of the Coldbath .-ivs- fields House of Correction , where tho accused was undorllis going a sentence of twelvo months' hard labour . Ho irl ; was now condemned to eighteen months' hard labour . Lod , Louisa Allen Harrison , Fanny ltodon , and Thomas Ilia , Finnerty wero tried for a burglary committed in tlio ) ine house of a gontlomnn with whom Harrison was living as a an- servant . Th y wero all found Guilty , whoa Harrison told
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/7/
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