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Our Civilisation. Thomas Tutton Waa Trie...
^ Alie-houae at Rochdalev The next mormng , the 4 ££ ft W found with her - throat c « t , and tha ^ Sa Xa ^ peared . The case was singular *** " * . ?? ffi ^ Se priaoner having made arrangements which Sld STe ^ e appearauce of suifiide . A raZ ? r was Sd » the hand of the d ^ ad body ; but only one incit of blood appeared on the blade , and the woman a J £ je and throat were covered with a pillows lne jrisl & M men were of opinion that , after cutting her ffijfpat with the force and completeness which were olearly exhibited , the woman could hardly have summoned sufficient strength to change the razor , and place the pillow over her . The jury pronounced a verdict of "Guilty , " and sentence of death was recorded . —Robert Rogers Harvey v * as indicted at Ufceter for shooting at the Rev . George Tucker . - No
, motive was assignable for the act , and it was evident that the prisoner was insane . He kept making unmathgestures , smiles , and winks , during the trial ; and , among other evidences of his state of mind , it T ? as mentioned that he was once before the magistrates for a quarrel , when he said it was because a man ' s wjtfe had sat croBs legged in his presence . He was acquitted on the ground of lunacy . —Henry Bacon aneLHenry Marchant have been sentenced at Chelmsford , to six years' penal servitude for a murderous assault on a policeman in a field at night , when attempting to arrest them under suspicious circumstances . —Thomas Franks has been found guilty at
Nottingham , of cutting his wife with a razor , and sentenced to fifteen , yeara' transportation . The two lived , apart ; and jealousy was the cause of the act . — ijSljzabeth . Kennedy has . been found guilty at Oxford of , the manslaughter of her husband , and sentenced to . , onjy two years' hard labour , as it appeared that the- stone which she threw at him had been flung without the design to kill . —Two Irishmen , at the ifbrk Assizes , have been , convicted of the murder of a policeman , and sentenced the one to transportation fox fifteen years , and the other to one year ' s bard
Highway Robbery . —George Barker ,. Samuel Breaze , and . Robert Hopkin , were found guilty at Derby , of robbing a labouring man , named Barney C ^ asgrove , of four sovereigns . Cosgrove was re - turning in the evening after harvest work , when he was- met by Breaze and Hopkin , the latter of whom called upon him to stand , while Breaze rushed upon Jbim . He kept Breaze at bay with his sickle , but was 4 t length overpowered by the two , knocked down , and ill-used . They then tore away his fob containing tj ) C 6 / 4 on 0 y ; , upon which , Barker , who had been looking on , came up , said they had " given him enough , " and induced them to leave . Hopkin and j 6 i * e'JW ! B were sentenced to six years' penal servitude ,
and Barker to four years * . ¦ $ E & n . si * a . uqoter . — -James Ratcliffe , a labouring man , 3 % s , drinking in a public-house at Horsley together with / . several . other men , among whom a quarrel took pifitce , and , after a good deal of scuffling ' , the whole of the . company was turned out of the house . It was adtyvknight ; but the men kept lingering about , and ltatcliffb , told some of his friend ^ that- a man named Clarke : had pulled his nose in the public-house , and tfeat he would ' have " a stroke" at pirn . Clarke was afterwards informed that Ratcliffe was " hunting " him ; upon , "which he said that he had ' something in hiai . pocketito quiet him , and subsequently he explained-ithat 1 this meant a knife ; ' In' about half an hour , Rfrtcliflfe"and Clarke met ; th ' e former advanced
in a fighting attitude , and was stabbed by Clarke , death ensuing jn the course of a few days . The assailant was tried at the Derby Assizes , found guilty of mamitlaugiher ) 'and sentenced to'fifteen * years'trans-IKbmtot . —A trial in the Court bf ^ tieenV 43 enob . ' Mrtards the letter end of ladt wctek , exhibifes a velty coldblooded and heartless p iette of'fotfrjuryv Itf D & wzuber , 1861 , Captain Robert" BMlr KeWttd ^ instituted' a proBeeutlon against'Alexander M'Qoabhy AHfyne , his brother , James Holder Allomo , aW * Thdmaa ' Bubhanan D'Aroy ; all of"wh 6 ni ' t * t Wattintt held' commissions in the army .- The indictmetlt charge * thtto with haying conspired to defrattitl Ctiptfcux Ktonfedy out o ) P , je 7 ; 800 i' tl | o ' amouiie >' of "a w ^ Ror between tteat gentleman and MK JoinoirHbWW * AHtfynev aa to- the" capabilities of a Certain imttre ; and
thfc ' - ' principal witness on' the trWl—one Igtofttitw FWWioia Cojrle—swore th « t in November * 18 £ 6 i'hd h * d t > den present , at Cheltenham , ' nt a cotavereatWjtt beWwen' Jamos Holder Alleyno , and' Alefcfttfder - IFQefcehy Alloyne , when it wna agreed- to impofce 1 tfttbn Captain Kennedy by telling hikh'thtlt the mttto HHxl fallen lame and oould not run the match , ' in ooAnequenoo of which , Captaiu Kennrtry was indue ©* tortAay thtt amount of th « -wager ( £ T SOO ) to'Mr . 'Holdek " AMfeyne : " This evidence induced tnb-jury ,. on tn «' trtaMnlBBlv *<* » nd a verdict of " Giulty" against thtf < ASRtyntam" aud D'A ' roy , and'they wore , Bentoucetl-to ' vhriottB ierras of imprisonment . A ¦ '¦ wit ft 'of error -was-Kt ** o < iuTOtly bought by the AHoynes , and was nt ffiaW » lltt \ v « d , 'but wait afterward ^ set nsidb on tbtd & WhHdt'bf > oolh \ aiotx . Alexander M ^ enohy Alleyn ©;' ttWeiRWyVJidd an-jlnaiotnrrtiOW ^ - ' Jn' iho ^ courto' of IroMr
February , against Coyle , charging him with perjury , and he was found guilty , and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment ; but a flew trial was moved for , and took place on Friday week , on the ground that fresh evidence in favour of Coyle had been obtained . This second trial resulted in a confirmation of the former sentence against Coyle . Mr . M'Geachy Alleyne swore positively that he Jsvas not at the place mentioned by Coyle on the day in question ; and he was supported by other testimony . One of the witnesses in favour of Coyle—a Captain Price—gave the following choice account of himself in the course of his
cross-examination : — "I am not now in the army . I left in 1840 . I have been on the turf . Until I went to Australia , I lived upon my own private fortune . I went to Australia as the manager of a bubble gold-mining company . I was there two years . I was in a mesa at Cheltenham in 1847 . I then tried to take away a young lady—a ward in Chancery—from a boardingsehooL That did not occur in 1848 or 1849 . I recollect sending a letter to a friend of mine , stating that I did not know anything about the affair of the Alleynes and Coyle . That letter is a deliberate falsehood , to which I have put my name . '
Mr . Roper and his " Blind Womait . "—Our readers will recollect Mr . Roper , the enterprising and large-hearted individual who combined in his own person the whole of two associations—the Needlewomen ' s Society and the Blind Sempstresses' Fundand who had always on hand an indefinite number of blind women , for whom he collected subscriptions . It will be borne in mind that Mr . Ferguson , chief clerk to the Mendicity Society , suspected one of these afflicted females to have no other entity than in Mr . Roper ' s imagination ; and that the case was brought before the Lambeth magistrate . Since then , Mr .
Ferguson has followed up his inquiries with much pertinacity ; has hunted Roper from place to place , invaded the premises of the Benevolent Society , crossquestioned the housekeeper , harried the matron , elicited the most contradictory and self-criminatory disclosures , and finally discovered that Mr . Roper is at this present time an inmate of Whitecross-street prison for a debt of £ 300 . Thus the whole fraud is revealed ; and Mr . Norton , the' magistrate , says that , should any person complain before him of having been induced to give money to Jloper on aecwmt of tfee blind women , he will treat It tos a case of obtaining money under false pretences .
Mbsots . —John Pager was indicted at Liverpool for setting fire to his house in Chapel-street , Salfbrd . The neighbours were aroused betweeA' twelve ancf ofte o'clock- on the morning of the 2 © th of August by a cry of "Fire ! " at the prisoner ' s' shop , atrd , upon gaining admittance to the house ; - they found a large -volume of smoke issuing from the shop . Going into the cellar , the gas there was found & la » ing , and the floor between that place and the shopwas considerably burnt .- On continuing their search-through ihe shop , they found underneath the counter ' a'shawl , a pillow filled ? wi « h flock , and pieces of paper partially burnt . On ttesame day Pager had sent his wife and
children away td'Stockport , the servant girl remaining in the house witlrhimi . H © had effected an insurtince in the Anchor-offi ' tfe for . £ 300 , and a recent fire-had taken' place on Ms - premises ^ through which he had ' obtained a olftiro from' the London and County tcf- ' surance-offlce . PagBtt *; moreover , had said , in a conversation with'Mr . Eatnb ,- a gjroeer in Manchester ; who supplied him with goods , that he should sooif ' be able to make his payments 4 more regularly , because he should have a fire shortly ,-and shoxild then be in a condition to go into the market with ready . money . He was found guilty , an'd' seilteuwe of death was recorded .
' Thus HoKraxESS in WWCTEejHAfBt ^—A gentleman , residing itf tHe Whftbohanbl'Jroad * near the Worki tduse , callod the attention ^ of Sir , Tairdley , the r Thames' - ' magistrate , to th «? appalling acemo ® which 1 ^ Moh" ' were almost nightly presented a * th & gates of ! % K 6 workhouse , where men , women ; and ? children , ini 4 ttffiijiently clothed , and suffering frbmih'ntt & er ,. d »« ase , And privations , asked for shelter ' and 1 food 1 in Tain , ant ! lay huddled together as closely as possible on t the pavement to keep each other-wtfl'nic Oxu Satxirulay night ; a person in the applican * V * omp 1 oy caM ' ecl his i attention to Beven destitute pan ^ ons lyftig on the . atofrea at the gates of the wprknou & o , Helboltotl at ¦ rind aroused theml Some of thorn were qjuifce'
hen-umbed with , cold and oould not' stand . They all flaid they tf ^ re without food and sHwltor , or tRo- mjeoo ® pf rtrotntttng any ; and that app ^ lipation'for ftdniisslow folia been made in vain . He provM ' od'ihom'wMjhfoofl iuaa a lodging for the night . On 'Suwday nig h * tlierci was a similar sceneat the gates of WKitteohnpel work-Muse .- TWe suflteHngs of the half-famished creature » iwwre appalling , but thby were denied tHfct relief of jwhlch the ; jr-were in neod :. The night was ihtensoly oold ^ hnd one poor' man , who could not'stttnd ! when ad wa «< i > ut on his feet , would have poriBhod if heifttwl adf been privided with' stimulants and "food .. Heprovided the -wnfortxtnate ' persons with fttott i \ nd * iBheTterfox- ( inbthor night , but -he thought' fb w » b tshamoful tlilRt'thdtte who wore paid t 0 'lodk' < iffc 9 r'tWe * w *» w < 35 iiB
not do their duty . Mr . Yardley said he was very sorry to hear this statement . The greater part of the parish of Whitechapel was in the district assigned to the Thames police-court ; but the Whitechapel workhouse , on the north side of the road , was in the Worship-street district . He referred the applicant to the Worship-street police-court . A subsequent application there resulted in the rnagistaate ordering a warrant-officer to lay the facts before the workhouse board . Some other similar instances of neglect on the part of the same workhouse have been brought forward .
Alice Grey was brought before the Birmingham magistrates on Saturday ; but in consequence of a message from the Home Office , stating that it was the desire of the Government that she should be removed to "Wolverhampton , the case against her was not gone into , and she waa taken away in custody . Some evidences of sympathy for her are beginning to be manifested . Justices' Justice . —A poor man named John Buggins , living at Stratford-on-Avon , was returning from work on the evening of the 26 th of November . On his way home , he had to pass through a turnip-field , and , seeing an inviting looking swede , he pulled it up , and was just in the act of eating a slice when a rural policeman suddenly pounced upon him , charged him with stealing the turnip , and demanded his name .
Thatbeingcomplied with , he was led to Miss Knight ' s house ( the owner of the field ) , who considered the matter so paltry that she declined to notice it in any Way . So kindly a conclusion , however , was not at all to the satisfaction of the policeman , who subsequently served a summons upon poor Buggins , and he was brought up before two of the county magistrates , at Stratford-on-Avon , on the charge of " stealing one uncultivated root , commonly called a ttnrnip , of the value of Id . " The poor fellow in his algJrm pleaded "Guilty , " and he was mercifully fined M , with costay amounting to 15 s ., or in default to be committed to prison for one month . He urged the hard ship of goinrg to gaol , his perfect ignorance of having committed any crime , and the absence of the propr ietor of the " one cultivated root ; " and he was allowed three weeks to obtain the money . —Correspondent of
the Times . Forgery by a Oleroymajst . — -William D . Beresford aged fifty-six , a iiiie-looking man , apparently in broken health , and meanly dressed , was krcSeted at the York Assizes for uttering , at Bradford , on ! the 4 th of November , 1848 , a forged endorsement of a bill of exchange for the paynasnt ' of , £ -100 , wMi intent to defratid Samuel Laycock and ' others . The case eieited considerable interest fro ^ r its being known' that the prisoner was a clergyman ,, highly connected ; and n sSt lieir to a peerage . At the tetter end of Oefcdber , 184 « , the priaoner called at Bradford Banking Company ^ Bank , at Bradford , and produced a . bill of exchange for' £ 100 drawn on Samael ; Hibbert and Co .,
of BUliter- ^ uare , London , by Marcus Beresferd , which he - asked the manager of the bftok to discotmt .- He gave-his own name as the Rev . Mf . Beresford , The manager saitf he would discount thfe bill if endorsed by any one wbi & m he knew . Mr . Beresford said he hadbeen'on'avisit at M & uninghF * sr-hal ] , near Bradford , to Mr . Kay , and asked if thwfc gentlemanfs en ' dorsemewt or that of his son would suffice , and'the manager replied that ho should be perfectly satisfied with either : A dW or two afterwards , he called at the bank aad asfce « if there was any'letter there adclres ' sed to him . O »« had arrived addressed to him . Out of this letter he 8 » ok the bill he hrid before
proceed , which purported to be ' endorsed" by Mr . John OuTkliffe' Kay , and * handed it to the manager . The lYAfcMteer looked p , * the * e » dorsement doubtfully , a » d said It did not look- las * his handwriting ; but Mr . Bottj & fOTd Pirid Mr . Kny -mta ill in bed , -srtdhad endorsetH the bill itt bted , wfeach would account for its app « R'imiii 6 o . The mftnagJMJ 1 tthon cashed th *' bi ] l , aeducting 14 s . for comftiissfora and interest . This signatuW was a forgex * y , Mi- 'Kay not having enaoirsed it , but wJieri asked to do s © ' by the prisoner "; lmvmg positively declined :. Having- obtained the meta ^ y ; the prisoner had not afl & er \ va . i" < jH » been heard of ubMjII lost summer ; - when Mr . Kay'a . ccxKUontly met him in * Regent street . Loodon . and ? eavo him » into > custody . He v ^ as lilo
found auilty , and sentenrced to-traaaaportation tor . —At ma- ( Hloucoster A « s-i 5 » b , Jblin' Sampson , a nurgoon was foimd guilty of forging a . £ 10 Bank of Baglanfl note . 1 'h ' o' » cntenco vms ^ trinniporUtion for fifteen vfinrfl ADUX . TKliiAi'raO'N oFFborn . —3 &\ J 2 h ** t , a millerat'Linooln , pleadod guilty bofbro « themag * B < tiates to a chargo of adulterating-his flom ? wife » i i > fetstor- < rf Paris , & o . no was finod ! and-the flour waH con « T « mnoti . Subaoquontly npalysi » wan- -made by DW Ia « tfeeby , who said no could not deeect the presoncw- of . pllastor of Pans ; but conaitlerihg-other evidHaoo that Had boon received , tho magistrnrt «» « bidod by their deoisiow . Fonaiwa P & frBSiAN Uotbbv—Bamumd and Louis Sohele , aeximiwwvwero brought before tJi « Marlborougli-» troot magiatrato , ' ohurgod * with- liamng mado a fradulent icoitaWon-of- aomw- 'IVuiBisuu * thalor noteB . TJfkoyhadJ g « nv to » h ' 6 » 'lio «« o-oifl MK . ffimdolph Appoi ,
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T H E IiE AD EB . [ No ^ 9 , Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15121855/page/6/
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