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1088 THE LEADER. [No. 34tf, Saturday ^.¦...
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Stabbing At Caiumiw.—Somo Irishmen And S...
Norwegian sailors Were quarelling about a girl in Butestreet , Cardiff , when ' one of the former fired a pistol at the latter , and a general rfight ensued , in the course of which a Norwegian seamen , named Simon Hausen , was stabbed in the abdomen so seriously that the bowels protruded , and he has since died . Two of the Irishmen are in custody . A Ferocious Woman . —During the last two years , Emma Chatten , a -woman between twenty and thirty years of age , the -wife of a respectable man keeping a coffeehouse at Kmghtsbridge , has been three times tried at the Old Bailey , charged with violent assaults upon her husband . On the first occasion she was committed from the Hammersmith police-court for attacking him with a pair of tongs while he -was in bed . On the next , she was sent for trial from the Westminster Court for
stabbing him with a carving-knife , and beating him with , her fists while the "Vood was streaming from the wounds she had inflicted ; and on the last occasion she was sent before a jury for wounding him severely in the head with a poker . Through his intercession she escaped punishment altogether on the first occasion , and on the other two was only visited with short terms of imprisonment ; the last sentence being for six months , and expiring last Tuesday . A few" days ago , Mr ; Chatten ' s sister received a letter from his wife , in which she threatened her husband with death if , on her coming out
of prison , she was left to wander about the streets . Mr . Chatten , therefore , attended at the Westminster office last Saturday , to ask foT advice . The magistrate directed him to bring his sister with , him on the following Monday , when a warrant for the apprehension of his wife , on her coming out of prison , would be granted . On Tuesday , the wife was brought before the magistrate , ¦ when she was ordered to find bail to the amount of 40 / . for her good behaviour for the next six months . This was produced in the course of the afternoon , and an arrangement with a view to a separation was entered into between the husband and wife .
False Pretences *—Thomas Gilmour , an elderly man * upwards of sixty years of age , and described as a merchant residing at " Ramsay , Isle of Man , was on Tuesday brought up on remand before Mr ., Dayman , at Hammersmith , charged with obtaining a bill of exchange for 250 / . by means of false and fraudulent representations . The evidence was not then gone into , and the accused was again remanded . Several of his victims were in court , and they manifested great satisfaction at the capture of Gihnour . Omntbvs Thieves . —Two respectably-dressed women hays been examined at the Mansion House before Mr . Alderman Salomons , and committed for trial , on a charge of picking pockets in an omnibus .
The Murder ik Parliament-stueet . —Cope died on the afternoon of Sunday . After death , it was found that the skull was even more fractured than was at first supposed ; and the surgeons wonder how he could have lived so long . The inquest on the body was held on Wednesday , when a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against Marley , and the jury expressed themselves strongly in eulogy of the courageous conduct of the boy Lerigo , who first discovered the assassin at his murderous work , and who pursued him , and of the waterman at the cab-stand who seized and helped to convey him to the station-house . Marley , who still persists in giving the name of Jenkins , was examined at Bow-street on Thursday , and committed for trial . He was loudly yelled at on being taken into and out of the police-office . To these demonstrations he replied by a fierce scowl , and once by an indecent gesture .
Distressing Charge of Felony . —A few days ago , the barque Calder , Captain Henderson , arrived at Liverpool , having on board , among the saloon passengers , Thomas Cooper , a young man , son of Sir Thomas Cooper , Bart ., Hertfordshire , and grandson of the distinguished physician of that name . During the voyage , he had formed a friendship with a youth named Richard Sitncox , who was coining from Bolivia , on the west coast of America , to visit some friends in Cornwall . One morning , Mr . Cooper left a lodging-house where both had been staying , to go to the station for the purpose of
booking for Hertfordshire , and after his departure his friend missed his purse and nine dollars and a half from his bedroom . The police were informed of the robbery , and soon afterwards Cooper was apprehended at tho railway station with the missing property in his possession . He was taken before the local magistrates tlie same day . He acknowledged that he had appropriated the money , but with tho intention of returning it to his friend when he got home . The magistrates having inflicted a fine of 67 . and costs , or one month ' s imprisonment , tho money was paid by tho captain . Mr . Cooper was a mate in the Royal Navy .
Kodbehy in St . James ' s Park . —John Holliday , a man about thirty years of ago , has been tried at tho «? - ? « Se 8 sio « « r an assault and robbery commuted in St . James's Park on tho 26 th of October . A betac ver ^" ' ? Te 4 Simkins » was going home , when , thl M ^ 7 T > h ? down on one of th 0 benches in mmnhim f ™ fl * } "Awards , Holliday rushed 3 h oZif ^ ° i a tree ' 8 eizotl hia watch-chain with one hand , and with the other struck him vorv He fell , and tho tbuef ran . off ; but Simians speedil y v ^
servitude for six years / Giuseppe Saseli ^ a , a soldier of the British Italian Legion , who had been remanded on the charge of attempting to stab a prostitute with a knife , was on Saturday discharged , as the intent to inflict any personal injury appeared very doubtful , the man asserting that he had been robbed and was fearful of further depredation being committed upon him . A Disreputable ; Captaik . — Great annoyance lias
rose , and ran after the . scoundrel , crying "Stop thief !" The latter was sooir in the hands of a policeman ; but he had previously thrown the watch into a tree near St . James's Palace , where it was found by a corporal of the Guards , who was going by with the relief , and who got it down . It had been probably thrown there by the thief for the double purpose of temporary concealment and of a subsequent redemption , should the opportunity offer . A purse , containing ten shillings , was also taken from Simkins . No previous conviction was proved against the prisoner ; but he was sentenced to penal
recently been caused to a Miss Hill , residing in the Lansdowne-road , Bath , by her letter box being constantly filled with water , and the knocker and bell-pull being daubed over with offensive matter . A policeman was placed in the hall to watch ; and on the evening of Friday weelt he arrested Captain Briscoe , who is between sixty and seventy years of age , just as he was moving off after committing the outrage . On the following day , he was required by the magistrates to find bail , himself in 200 / ., and two sureties of 100 / . each , to be of good belaviour for a year . The only provocation he appears to have received was that , having several times , when Miss Hill ' s house was under repair , walked about the grounds , the lady objected to his doing so .
More Ticket-of-Leave Ruffianism .- —Mr . William Turpie , a printer and an elderly man , wa 3 returning home on Sunday night , betweeu eleven and twelve o ' clock , to his house in Cobourg-strcet , llampstead-road , when , on turning up a dark entry , at the end of which his dwelling is situated , a man , whom he had previously observed leaning against the wall of the reservoir in the Hampstead-road , and whose footsteps he had afterwards heard dogging him , struck him a fearful blow on the head , which , felled him . The man then pressed heavily on him , and unbuttoned his coat , to feel whether there was any vyatch in the waistcoat pocket . Mr . Turpie called out " Murder !'' and " Police I ' on which the man exclaimed , " Don't halloo ! " A constable , however , speedily arrived , and the ruffian was secured . He proved to be a ticket-of-leave man , named George White , and he has been committed for trial .
SamcelLowky , the roan charged with firing a gun at a labourer named Poulson , with whom he had had a quarrel respecting the occupancy of a piece of land , has been discharged , the evidence not being sufficiently strong against him . The facts of this case were related in our last issue . Mork IrAMAx ' Knifing . '—Carlo Coletti , lately a private in the Anglo-German Legion , but himself an Italian , has been charged at Worship-street with making attempts to stab several persons in the streets of Hoxton at ten o ' clock at night . He had been drinking , and , having been angered by a woman who had taken his purse away from him , began foaming at the mouth like a madman , and ' running a muck' at any one he met .
He was at length captured and pinioned by some of the passers-by , who handed him over to a policeman ; but the weapon had apparently been passed to another foreigner , who had been seen in his company . He was committed for trial . —Francois Bossei , an Italian , was charged at the Mansion-house , on Monday , with having stabbed John Flynn with a dagger . There had been a fight in the hall passage of a tavern in Aldgate , and in the course of it Bossei stabbed Flynn in the back near the shoulders . The latter was conveyed to the hospital , where it was found that the wound was not dangerous , and Bossei was captured . He is now under remand . — Minette Luigi has been examined at Worship-street , and committed for trial , on a similar charge . He went into a public-house for some beer , and dropped a sixpence from his mouth . A man standing by picked it up and returned it to him , when Luigi pulled out a knife and
made a stab at him . The'man ran out , frightened ; and the Italian then turned upon another of the customers , and tried to stab him . This man grappled with his enemy , threw him down after a violent struggle , and knelt on his right arm , so that ho could not use the knife , though he made several attempts . At this moment , a policeman , who had been alarmed by the cries of the first man , entered ; on which the Italian dropped the weapon and was taken into custody . The knife appears to have been an American bowie-knifo . Luigi belonged to the Anglo-Italian Legion . —Josepho Manosi has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to stab a policeman in St « pnoy , on the officer interfering between him and a prostitute with whom ho waa quarrelling . This man also belongs to tho lute Jtaliun Legion ; and it ia said there arc several of them , idling about Stepney , ready to pull out their knivea on the smallest provocation .
Gisuman ' Knxi-ino . —Frederick Voight , a discharged private of tho Anglo-Gcrmun Legion , has been charged at Guildhall with attempting to stab a Mrs . Garrott , Ho stopped her and her sister on Holborn-hill on
Tuesday evening , and behaved rudely to them . Mrs Garr ^ T slapped his face , and moved on ; but he pursued \ ht with an open knife . She took refuge in the shoe . af another German , who , though he saw his countrvm . follow Mrs .- Garrett into his shop with th- dra ™ weapon in liis hand , did not interfere . The police how ever , opportunely arrived , and secured Voight . He hi been discharged on paying a fine of forty shillines Middlesex Sessions . — Stawdsley Draper a mer chant ' s clerk , who had been found guiltv of embezzle " ment from his employer , was on Monday condemned to
penal servitude for four years . —George Cook Robert-Penrbse , and William Stachall , privates in the Cold stream Guards , were indicted , with Joseph Harris who surrendered , for having assaulted a police-constable in the execution of his duty . There were no less than eight other charges against them for assaults upon respectable !; women and their husbands . Harris was found guilty o a common assault only , and the soldiers were found guilty generally . Sentence was deferred .
Highway JKobbers asu > IIevolveks . — So many highway robberies , ' accompanied by murderous violence have been recently committed in the township of Ovenden , near Halifax , that a number of gentlemen living in the neighbourhood have armed themselves ' with , revolvers , and are resolved to shoot any oiie on the highway who shall molest them . This fact was publicly announced in court by Colonel Pollard , the chairm an of the bench of magistrates , and " he hoped the caution would be sufficient . " An Iliajstuious Tkison-Bueaker , — A mau bearing the singular name of Omar Shamgar . alias Georye Woodcock , has been apprehended at "York on a charge of being an escaped convict . He broke out of Dartmoor
prison on the 25 th of August , 1853 , and got clear off through a drain nearly a mile long ; then , stealings suit of clothes , he freed . himself from his gaol costume . He has spent his whole life in crime ; and , besides the feat just alluded to , lie has twice escaped out of Preston , has nearly succeeded in getting away from the York House of Correction , and has brokeu out of more than . one prison in ; France , for .-he has travelled over nearly all the continent , lie told the governor of Dartmoor Prison that , if he had not been taken into custody , he had arranged with somo more men to commit a burglary on the banks of the Ouae , near York , which , would have brought them in at least 2 OO 0 L He is a native of Sheilield . ¦ . ' . It is said that he professes a great knowledge of Scripture , and of three or four different languages . 1
Outranks on Women . —William Sabine , a hawker , has been sentenced by the Westminster magistrate to three months' hard labour for an assault on his wife , whom he ill- used till she was insensible , and then thrust out of doors , finally jumping on her body , and returning into the house , from which he was taken by a policeman , who forced his way in , in spite of the man ' s threats . A Gejjtlemaj * Fouju > -with jus Throat Cur . —A Mr . Bisley , a builder , was found early on Monday morning by a policeman iu Garratt-lane , Wandaworth , with his throat cut . Tuc constable ' s attention was attracted by the gurgling noise of the blood issuing through the gash . The wounded man was still alive , but insensible .
( jtarottino in the City . — Shortly before seven o ' clock on Monday night , while a respectable woman , residing in the Walworth-road , was returning home down Queen-street , near Southwark-bridge , she was violently attacked by a man , who grasped her throat , rendered her insensible , kicked her in the stomach , and robbed her of her gold watch and chain , besides some gold and silver . He afterwards escaped . CArxuuifi of a Burglar . —Early last Saturday morning , at a villago near Bradford , in Yorkshire , a burglar "was in the act of breaking into the shop of a provision dculer . While he was thus occupied , hoffever , a man of the name of Deuby , residing in an adjacent hamlet , happened to pass through the village on
his way to a neighbouring surgeon , his wife Laving been taken ill in tho night . The housebreaker beiug disturbed at his work , immediately ran away anil secreted himself in the corner of a building that stood in the shade of the moonlight . Remembering that the shop which ho had seen the man attempting to break into hud been recently plundered of a great deal of its stock , Denby followed tho thief into his place of concealment , ami collared him . The latter then struck Dcnby a violent blow on the head with a heavy crowbar , and felled him to tho ground . Notwithstanding this rough
usage , however , he rose to his feet again , and rocapturcil the burglar . A fierce struggle then ensued , and , although Denby was at a great disadvantage , being repeutedly struck and lucked by his opponent , besides bleeding profusely from tho first blow , lie nevertheless managed to keep a firm hold of his prisoner , and tlw fellow was at last compelled to yield . Dcnby then took him to hia house , where a constable was scut * ur nna tho thief wus given into custody . Several skeleton keys were found on his person , and another was afterwurda discovered in the door of the house which ho had
been attempting to plunder . A bag containing various houscbmiking implements and a box of luciiera wcro likewise found close to the spot -where tho burglar was captured . Tho prisoner , who was well known us an o u poacher in the neighbourhood , and who had more recently
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/8/
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