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The Assizes. James Bayliss, A Man Employ...
\ John Bl & ggt a sboemaiceji has been found Guilty at ijfheaier of the innrfer of John Bebbington , A fe anlefeeeper , ou the 16 th of April . ^ . e ^ deii ^ wag ptttSIy drfeamstantial , and rested . duefljrtm - « he similarltr of certain feoiprints , leftan Jihe field whew ihe ittan was shot , to ike boofe of Blagg ; on some waddibg found about . the place corresponding with that possessed by the prisoner ; aaid .- ' <&* the fact of Blagg "having botrie great Ulrwitl id Bei > bington , and having openly threatened ; to murder Mm whenever he had an opportunity . Sentence of death was pronounced by , Mtf . Jtistsee CSrowder . , . ¦ / Mtd .-le Page , housekeeper to Mr . Foot , a gentleman residing at Bath , has brought an action at Bristolagalnst one Holman , a shopwalker at a draper ' s , for false impriBoxunent . On the 6 th of May , Mrs . Le Page went to the shop to make some purchases , but , seeing no prospect
of being soon served , she went away , and subsequently returned , bought some blond , and left , stooping for a moment at the door it © pat a dog . A Jatdy shortly afterwards « ai 8 Bed a puree , and suspicion . having -fastened on Mrs , Le Page , pautly on account of her stooping as . flhe went out , she was followed at * he instance of Holman , taken into custody , stripped to the skin at the stationhouse , and searched , but without effect . Her master ' s house was also searohed , and she herself was kept in custody . till the following morning , when . the "magistrate diftdharged iher . At the present trial , Holman offered , through his counsel , to make an apology , but . pleaded for moderate damages as it would ruin Jiim to have to pay much . A verdict was given for the ; plaintiff ^ damages 10 i Mr * Foot then brought an action against th « -same defendant far searching bis house . The verdict in this cae » ; also was for the plaintiff ; damages 2-1 .
A house-agent and furniture-dealer , . named Clark , has brought an action at the Croydon . Assizes against Sir IHrederick Pottinger to . recover the gum of 84 ? . -13 s ., for wouk done and goods supplied > by the authority of that gentleman , wJio , however , pleaded that he was not liable . Sir Frederick took a hossein Cambridge-stoet , Pimlico , for a Mifss PeTiy , a young woman who was living -under his protection . Clark -did work about the house , and supplied goods * to the amount of the sum olaimed ^ and Sir Frederick , thinking the bill was 44 Z . offered to pay 20 / . on account ; but , when he found , that nearly double the supposed sum was claimed , he refused to pay anything , and therefore this action was brought . Clark contended that Sir Frederick was liable , as the house
was taken by him , though not in his name , but in that of the lady . The lady , . however , it seems , was sometimes called tiady tPottinger , and the servants always gave ier that rank . One of the witnesses , Martha West wood , deposed that she acted as cook at the house in < 3 ambridge-8 treet . " Sir Frederick used to come there frequently , and stay all night , and breakfast ; but he never dined there . She remembered that when the bill was sen tin Sir Frederick was very angry , andahehad repeatedly heard him say to iMiss Perry , ' You must not lie extravagant , darling . ' ( A laugh . " ) At the time he saw the plaintiff ' s bill , he gave Miss Perry 20 ? ., and he then gave her and her fellow-aervants half a sovereign each , and went out of the house . Sir Frederick would
not allow any one to come to visit Miss Ferry bat . himself , and she had heard him say that if b » ever found any one in the house he would Mck him -out . . ( 4 laugh . ) Cross-examined ; " Misa Perry formerly lived in Stanley-street . She would . rather not answer the question whether other . gentlemen . besides Sir Fjrederjok Pottinger . vised to wisit her there . " Sir Frederick denied his liability , and urged that the claim was an attempt to extort imohey . " The first time I heard of such an amount as 847 , " he said in his evidence , "I was very angry , and gave Miss Perry 20 ? ., telling her ahe uu & ht pay if she . pleased , and I gave the servants a i 8 « vreroign And left ( the hpuae , intending not to return . When I heard of , the first . bill , I . offered to pay of
thojpJUii ^ aff aOJ , , on Account Miss Perry , but X did tbia ^ iolol jy : teoauae J took an interest in her , However , when . I wuftd ( that the dfUfn WA & 8 *?« i I refused i » pay a £ ar . t & ing ~ Soon after fthia , I ¦ yraa -arrested while at dinner attfre . Groat Western Hotel , upon « ffldayitmade by the plaintiff ( that I was about ( to leave the country ., and I was . obliged to deposit , thq araountof the claim , '' In answer to further question ? , iSir , Frederick said lie had ftRCWtained , tbat Miss Perry was paying 20 { . per month interest , up , on a . debt of 200 / . for jewellery , and Jbie ipai , d the , debt ) F « r her , to aaye her from the annoyance and preanure itfoftt jpayiqg such an amount occasioned her , Jfo . Chambers who appeared for the plaintiff ) said :-
—41 1 believe the house ip Oambridge-atraet ia atul carried on as usual , and you continue to go there ? " iSir Frederick : ' ? Certainly , . and I was there and saw Miss Perry last night , but . I pnly ^ poke , t o her at the door , " ( A , lavghy ) Tfco jury returned a verdict for the defendant-, JHGary ( Browning , who had been -convicted > of the manslaughter <« f tho illegitimate child of her daughter , was bxonght Into court At the Gloucester AasijECB on Tuesday And Mr . Boron BramweU . sentenced Jier to be Imprisoned for one year . It w «» fftatod , to the , Court that the prlsoja ^ Qr had b « on certified to be of unaound mind , And that aha trould bo removed to a lunatic Asylum . . An Action was brought on Wednesday ,, At Cbroydon * by thq Administratrix ; and roproaontatlvo of the iirm of Wilfyune And J 9 ower ] by , silk mercers , & c ,, « f Qxford-¦ treet , to recover 621 for jailk dresses and other . goods
supplied toAKgade 1 ^ 1 bra > , a Fjcenchwoman of l | g * ± cliafacter . ^<& fen « S % Ss that the gotwfe w £ » stibjmea for anammoYal . purpOge . ^ TChe defenaafi ^ * * fW > elegantly aressed . iFrenchwomafi , was eatairiiiiea , atid stated Jhat she had 1 ) efin in theliabit of . purchasing articles of dress At the estatjiiahment of the plaintiff , and always paid ready money for . them . tJpon one tJceaeion , howeVet , she , saw Mr . Grant , ; the manager of the establishment and b . e inquired whether she was not flt gay woman , and she toid him she wasj and he then said that he thought
she might get more friends if she dressed more expensively , and that she might tave anything slie required upon credit . He showed her some expensive dresses , And skid that she would look like a queen in them , and at the same time told her that sbe should go to the Argyll-rooms and other places of a similar kind , and she would easily find a friend who would pay fhe bill . She affirmed that it was solely in consequence of this that she was induced to pttrdlase the dresses . This statement was < deriied by Ilir . SShsai . ; but fhe Jury found for the defendant .
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Execution.—^George Jackson, Who, With <G...
Execution . —^ George Jackson , who , with < Gharies Brown , since respited , was concerned in the death of Mr . Cbarlesworth , a farmer , was hung bast Saturday at . Stafford . He had for several days exhibited the utmost agony at the prospect of . death , and when , on . the previous . Thursday , he was visited for , the last time by iis parents ., three sisters and a brother-in-law , . a scene took place which surpassed in misery anything that 'had ever happened within the walls of the gaoL On . Saturday
morning , the criminal was found in a . pitiable state of prostration . He sank to the ^ ground , and , having ( been pinioned , was carried out almost insensible , and conveyed to the scaffold . Here he broke out into horrible shrieks and sobs , and began to struggle violently- iQnthe . cap being placed over his * head , Jhe succeeded-in pulling it off , and , even after the bolt was drawn , his body was agitated by convulsive throes . Death did not take place for several minutes . Several persons : wete present , though the rain was descending in torrents .
The Remgious Question Again . —A wbite- 'haired old map , named Cripps , a salesman dn Go vent Garden Market , was charged at Bow-street , on Monday , with committing . an indecent assault on a girl about twelve years of age . On the child being placed in the witness-box , Mr . Hall asked her if she knew what would happen to her if she gave false . evidence after taking an oath to speak the truth—^ a question which she did not appear to understand , until it was several times repeated . At length she answered , "I shall be paralyzed , or something . ' 'Mr-Hallr " Did you ever hear of heaven ? " The child : "No , sir . " Mr . Hall : " Nor of hell ? " The child : " JNo , never . " Mr . Hall : " Do you go to church ? " The child : " I . go to
chapel and Sunday-school . " Mr . Hall : " Why , what can they teach you there ;? " Mr . Lewis ( who appeared for the accused ) observed that these children went once in two or three months , and then forgot all they had been taught . Mr . Hall said he could not admit the Child ' s evidence . A woman was then examined , but her testimony was not considered reliable . The man was therefore discharged , after some . severe comments from the magistrate , in which his own counsel joined . At these , he began to whimper and to affect an air of penitence . As he left the court ( say the daily papera 3 . be was received by a mob of nearly two thousand persons , who had assembled in Bow-street early ia the morning , and had patiently waited all day ( completely . blocking
qp the street / for the purpose of seeing l * un . -kven in -walking from the door to a cab which had prudently been provided , < he was hustled , scratched , and pelted , and ,, as the vehicle was driwen through the yelliqg and hooting crowd , it was followed by a shower of rotten vegetables from the neighbouring market . The scene was such as had not been witnessed in Bew-atreet for many yeara . WHOiJBSAidn RouBEBSf of Booxs . —Mr . Thomaa Parry , boot and * hoe maker , Tavistoofc-stree ^ , Coventgardeq , and JEdwin A . Parry , his son , were on Monday charged at Westminster with being concerned with others not in custody in stealing about nine hundred pairs of bopteand shpea , the property of Mv . W . Phipps , Cadogan-house , Sloano-stieet , boot and ; ahoe
manufacturer . On the morning of Friday- week , About eight ofclock , it was discovered that Mr . Phipps ' s « hop had been entered ,, and that About nine hundred pairs of ladies ' and gentlemen ' s boots and . buoob had been , stolen . After a cqmm . unicatlon with the police , Summers , foreman to Mr . Bhipps , -went to the house of Ahe elder prisoner with Inspector Cummings . They saw him , when he admitted that he' was at Mr . Phipps ^ s shop on the . previous day , and that he offered . fid . a jprtir for the soiled stock in the shop , which wae refused . They subsequently saw the son , with . whom they had some conversation about tho robbery ,, 1 t ) ut neither of them was then taken into
custody . On Saturday , In consequence of some information , Oummlngs wont to Bow-etreot police-court , having heard that the younger prisoner was in custody on a charge of assault . * Whon ho reached there , he found that tho younger man had been fined 40 a . and discharged . Ho was then % i a public-house in the neighbourhood , andliad with him a boy named Ridgwaj ' , who stated , Chat ho aawthjreo men come out of the house of Mr , OPIuppa , and that lie thouglit he could identify ono of tho men . The boy went into tho parlour . Ho returned , and told the inspector that tho prisoner was one of the rn . cn whom he
saw come out of die house . He was then taken into custody atvd < Jon \ te 3 » ed 4 <» the stattotf-house . Mr . Cuiamings , the inspector , said that the young man , on being taken to tbe flttftlomhoiwe obBttwe * ifihat about two months ago he arrived in . England feom Australia . lie added , " . Since this-happened , we have All been drinking perpetually ^ l _ £ ? b into -a . bother last night and mas looked up . " 'Wldle he was -at the station-house , , the elder prisoner called and was detained . Mr . Arnold remarked that there was no evidence against the elder prisoner . ( who was therefore discharged ) And that he must remand the other upon the evidence of the boy .
Our St & eets . —tJtnder this heading , a correspondent of the Times , signing himself " Legion , " says : — "A number of children , varying in age from eight to fourteen years , are every evening sent into the streets ( they go in pairs ) for the purpose of enticing boys of their town age to accompany them to their homes , where the parents of the . girls ifi-treat and plunder them . Topar-. tioularize . There . are two -children , aged fourteen and twelve respectively , who every evening leave a house in Hart-atreet , Covent-garden , with instructions to join ia play with others more innocent than . themselves , and finally to entice them home to ; a house of ill-fame . They
may be easily recognized ; the 'elder is an attractive little girl about fourteen , dressed dn light attire , and her companion , who appears about two years younger , wears a dark brown dress- Two evenings ago , a little boy of respectable parents , -was unfortunately induced to accompany them home , and from * he account he gave I caa only say that ( the loss of . nearly : everything of value that he had about him was the least partof the evils he had to detail . Any one may see these children in the neigh * bourhood of Coventrgarden ; . there is no need to depend upon single testimony ; but surely this practice might be watched by the police , and people's children protected where they stand in need . "
Assaults . —John Wheelan , a solicitor ' s clerk , is under remand at Westminster , charged with assaulting a labouring man , with whom he picked a quarrel in the Queen ' s-road , Chelsea , and whose skull lie laid bare by a violent blow . The man now lies in some danger . — James Tapping , a well-known bad character about Whitechapel and Spitalfields , was discovered by a policeman , on the 14 th ult . ill-using a woman . The constable interfered , And , being very unpopular among the thieves of the neighbourhood , on account of Ms great activity in
arresting them , was attacked with the rutmost vindictiyeness by Tapping , who struck Mm savagely in the face , filling one of his eyes with blood , and afterwards kicked him on one knee , seriously injuring-the joint . It was not until the arrival of other officers that the ru / Ean Was secured . The injured policeman remained in the hospital from that day till last Tuesday , when he gave evidence against Tapping at Worship-street . He was still suffering severely . The accused was sent for trial , on which he exclaimed , "And so I ' ve got to wait another six weeks for nothing . ! ' *
Embezzubsment .- —Tihomas Charles Henry Langley , clerk to Messrs . Chaplin and Home , the carriers , is under remand at the Mansion House , on a charge of having embezzled 80 OJ . belonging to his employers . The origin of the misappropriation , as of many others , was a love of betting . — ' Mr . Jamea Charles Cox , a Southampton tradesman , a member of the Town Council , and frequently a . guardian of the poor , is in custody on a charge of embezzling the widows' and orphans' funds belonging to the Southampton district of tho Independent Order of Odd Fellows . Attempted Muiuxer of a Mother . —> James Tulip , a
lad of seventeen , was charged at the Durham Potty Sessions with firing a gun , loaded with small shot , at his mother . ' He had previously quarrelled with a female neighbour in his mother ' s house , and had threatened to shoot . her ; for which purpose ho caught up a gun that stood in a corner of the room , and , after capping it , . snapped it at her . His mother remonatratod with him , on which he said he would shoot her too , and immediately put a < cap on ; to another gun , and fired it . The contents lodged themselves in his mother's back , and , on surgical aid . being called in , no fewer than eighteen shots . were extracted . Tulip was remanded for the attendance of his mother ,, who was too ill from Uer wounds to be able to appoar in court . B « U . was accepted .
Attempted Suicide . — , A young woman , naniod Margaret Grove , has attempted . to commit suicide under very jjainful circumstances . , She bad boen seduced from the house of a harness maker in Whitechapol , where » he lived as maid servant , by a man whom aho accidentally met in the , etreot , and who represented himself to her as a thriving mechanic . Under a promise * of marriage , Uio girl loft her place and went with him to a house in lientstreet , but had » ot been tthere long when she found tnac her lover waa a notorious thief , and a leading . member o * one of the worst ganm in the neighbourhood , by wnom he was called by ( the slang auime " Fair boy . ** ° young woman having reproached Mm for his oouuuct , ho retorted by a . torrent of Abuse accompanied by aovorui Mows on the head , which caused her to bleed profusely .
and finally , renderoa her inaensible . W / hon she rocoyorau her conaoiouBneaB , her anguish iwo « ' bo groat at uie thought of her ahftrao and . degradation , that ehe bougut a quantity of oxalic Acid At the nearest chemist ' s » uop , with which aho attempted to poison herself . Medical aia , however was sent for by the people of the house w
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15081857/page/10/
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