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368 THE LEADEE, [^0.369, 8^11^0^
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Transit has been...
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The Supposed Mukdier. Near Rothebham.-—T...
from the JLJorough . Gaol on Sunday morning-. They climbed up the -wall of the yard , where they were taking exercise , got on the roof of , a house , sli < l part of the way down the wall , and dropped a distance of twelve feet into a churchyard . The police -were at once set on their track , and one of the men was found disabled and stunned in the churchyard , and was taken back to gaol . The other had got clear off , and it is supposed lias come to London , where , as he is well known to the police , he will probably soon be captured . S urrosKD Fatax . Effkcts oj Practical Joking . — Two respectable-looking men , named Thomas Willis and Thomas James , were charged at Guildhall with having caused the death of Thomas Hinkston , a lad of sixteen ,
under rather singular circumstances . Hinkston was tlie son of a-man living in Oxford Market , and was employed with Willis and James at Mr . Lavington ' s . One evening when he came home from work , he complained of acute pains in the stomach . He went to work as usual on the following morning , but came home in the evening very ill , and went to bed , where he remained for some ' . days . ' Finding the boy ' s handkerchief saturated with blood , his father asked him if he had received any injury , and the son answered that he had not . He became ' at last so much worse that it was found necessary to send for medical advice , and he then got a little better , but was still much troubled with pains in the bowels . One day , young Hinkston called his father to his bedside , and said that he felt he -was going to die ,
but that lie could not die in peace until lie had told him something . He then stated that , when he was at work at Mr . Lavingston ' s about a fortnight since , the two men , Willis and James , laid him on the platform used for the delivery of goods , and rolled a firkin of butter on him , from the stomach to the chest , at which he cried put with pain , and they then desisted . This statement the boy repeated to one of the neighbours who was called in , and likewise to two police constables , sent for by his father . He did not believe , however , that the men intended anything more than a joke . Qn the following morning , he died . Ah inquest was held , and the verdict returned was , that the lad had died from acute inflammation of the bowels and lungs , / which might , however , have proceeded from natural causes ; Willis and James ¦\ vere remanded , and have since been discharged .
Profugate Policemen . — -A charge was preferred at the Mansion House on Wednesday by a City policeman against a Mr . William Bray , whom he accused of abusing and striking him on Gornhill . He-went up to the officer accompanied by two or three women , and all began denouncing him as a scoundrel and vagabond . One of the women accused him of detaining her daughter . He said he knew nothing of her daughter , and finally the nian assaulted him , and was taken into custody . Bray stated to the magistrate that the policeman liad three times taken away his ( Bray ' s ) wife , and kept her in a disreputable house , and that his own wife helped to support him by a . life of abandoned jvice . The constable denied this , and said that the woman whom Bray
called his wife was a professed courtesan . ! B ray ' s account , however , was confirmed by the mother of his wife . The Lord Mayor adjourned the case , and directed that the facts as regarded the policeman should be reported to the Commissioner of Police .- —Gerald Longley , a constable in the Metropolitan force , was charged at Bowstreet with absconding with his uniform , and a suit of livery which he wore in his office of assistant groom of the stables at Scotland - yard . He was engaged to be married , but , having obtained from the girl to whom he was to be united a Biblo and . Church Service , a lawn handkerchief , a watch and gold chain , a : id a sovereign , he deserted her , and finally left his post . It -was understood that he had paid attentions to another girl . He was sent to prison for a month .
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Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . On Monday last five men , named -Robert Collings , George Boyce , George Pickering , Francis John Maybery , and Dennis M'Carthy , were examined at tlie Mansion House on a charge of stealing seventeen cases of boots and shoes , the property of Mr . Louis Isenburg , of 21 , Loadenhall-strcet . Mr . Isenburg , who is a wholesale boot and shoe manufacturer , consigned , or rather intended to consign , to Melbourne very large quantities of boots and shoes in the course of last year ; and Maybery was the man to whom were entrusted the boxes containing them , to take to the docks . Instead of taking thorn there for shipment , they were- conveyed elsewhere , the contents wore abstracted , and cinders and dust substituted in their place . The fraud was not discovered till the arrival of the boxes in Melbourne , when they wore opened by the . person to whom they had been consigned , lho other men appear to have been accomplices of Blaybery . lho chief witness against them was one Timothy Desmond , a man now out of work , who seoms to have been a friend of the accuflcd , and who is suspected of Laving been concerned i , i the robbery . Crosa-examinatiou of tlua man elicited the fact that ho had been dismissed from Messrs . Moses ' s flcrvice for participation in a robbery also of boots . All the prisoners were remanded . —On Wednesday , two women wore accused of Doing concerned in the same robbery . Dosmond and
other witnesses having been examined , the women were remanded . Another case , connected with the preceding , was brought forward at the Mansion House on Tuesday . Thomas Walcot , formerly a journeyman in the service of Messrs . Moses and Son , at their shoemaking warehouse on Tower-hill , was accused of robbing the firm of six pairs of water-tight boots . Timothy Desmond , who gave evidence in the previous case , was the chief witness in this ; and his statement criminated himself as well as Walcot , as he confessed that he and the other were in intliehaoit for some time of stealing their employers '
property . Walcot cross-examined Desmond , and asked , " ATe you not ashamed to look at me ? You confess yourself to be a thief . " Desmond answered , " I don ' t kno-w why I should be ashamed of myself , I ' m sure . " To -which Walcot retorted , "You are the biggest villain upon earth , and you ought to have a rope round your ncclc . " \ Yalcot was committed for trial .- —Richard Steer , a shoemaker , was charged on Wednesday with being the receiver of the stolen goods ; but , the only witness against him being Desmond , lie was discharged , on giving recognisances to appear when the case was again brought forward . ¦
Lieutenant Ernest Lloyd was finally examined at Marl borough-street on . Monday , charged with obtaining goods from several tradesmen under false pretences . He had been in the habit of giving cheques on Messrs . Cox and Co ., the bankers , which cheques were always dishonoured on presentation ; the Lieutenant no longer having any effects there . There were at least thirty charges against him , but only a few were gone into , and he was committed for trial . A little bit of election history came out on Monday at the Southwark police-ofriee . A person named Edward John Syer was summoned by a cabdriver for the sum of sixteen shillings , cab-hire on the day of the Southwark election , when the vehicle was employed in taking voters
to the polling place . Syer admitted that he had hired the cab , and said he had engaged thirty cabs on the 28 th ult ., at . from ,, sixteen to eighteen shillings a day . He had received his orders through Mr . James , Sir Charles ' s committee agent , and he -was appointed ' . " superintendent of cabs for the election . " He thought it was very hard that he should pay , as he was a poor man . Mr . Combe , the magistrate , said that , as Syer had engaged the cabs , he was responsible for th » fares ; but he added that he had no doubt Sir Charles would ultimately pay . At this , a cjib proprietor in the body of the court called out , " The committee hired twenty-five of my cabs , which were used in . conveying voters to the poll , and I can ' t get my money . It's rascally conduct of Sir Charles Napier and his committee ; but I'll make them pay . " Ultimately , Syer was ordered to pay sixteen shillings , and five shillings costs , but was allowed a week for
collecting the money . The magistrate advised him to summon Sir Charles Napier in the County Court , but recommended him , first of all , to apply to the Admiral . This the unfortunate " superintendent of cabs" said he would do . —Mr . James attended on Tuesday , and said that Syers had sublet his contract to another man , named Baldwin , who had also made a claim On the committee . There had been thirty-seven different claims by cabmen , amounting to 2001 . Those claims it would be necessary to investigate ; and Baldwin having taken from Syers the contract to provide the cabs , the former would be paid . The magistrate said that , as the committee had made the contract with Syers , he ( Syers ) ought to receive the money ; but Mr . James evinced no willingness to adopt that opinion , observing that , in such a case , there would be two or three hundred more claims from cabmen . And so the matter rest 3 for the
present . The attention of the Westminster magistrate was occupied on Monday and Tuesday by two charges of making a disturbance at the house of Viscountess Porisonby , brought against an old woman named Anne Robinson and her unmarried daughter . They conceived , whether rightly or wrongly is uncertain , that the house occupied by her ladyship in Lower Belgrave-street belonged to them , a suit in Chancery , as they alleged , having terminated in their favour . They therefore went
to the house to demand the rent , and , on being referred to her ladyship's lawyer , made a great noise , refused to leave , and were given into custody . The magistrate discharged them on their entering into their own recognizances to keep the peace ; but they went again on the same night , and were still more violent , and the younger woman assaulted the servants who put her out . Accordingly , they were ngain brought before Mr . Arnold , who discharged the old woman unconditionally , and ordered the daughter to find bail .
Mrs . Cleric , the wife of a tradesman in Bormondsey , has been committed for trial from the Southwark policecourt , on a charge of stealing tho purse of a customer in a baker ' s shop . She quietly took it up from tho counter , and walked oft" with it , but was soon afterwards taken into custody . Mr . John Danger , a leather-merchant in Bristol , has been found Guilty at thn Bristol Quarter Sessions of having obtained a bill of exchange for 181 / . 10 s . under false pretences from a fellow tradesman . Sentence was postponed to next session . A man named Thomas Glass , f ormerly in tho employ
of Messrs . Northcott and Co ., ^ wholesale lace-manufc . 7 turersin Watling-street , was charged before Alderm l Laurence , at the Mansion-house , with defrauding V late employers of various sums of money , and likewi with forging the signature of the firm to a cheque , a ! well as the endorsement of a bill . Messrs . Northcott were in the habit of receiving advices , from their cur tomers in the country , of certain sums of money -which had been paid by the latterinto the hands of their banker ! in London , and Glass was the person usually sent t collect these . On the 3 rd of last January , the head clerk to the firm sent Glass to Messrs . Glyn ' s for three separate sums of money , amounting altogether to 1037 . 13 s . 64 and to Messrs . llobarts for a balance of 257 . 5 s . 6 d ' due to them from a customer living at Cheltenham The
man returned to the office of his employers after a time and brought three cheques for the money he had been sent to collect at Messrs . G-lyn ' s , but the sum of 257 . 5 s . 6 d ., which he had been expected to receive at Messrs . Robarts ' s , was not forthcoming . Being asked by the head clerk why he had not got the latter Glass replied that they had told him at Robarts ' s , that the money was " not up . " He was then directed to write down this fact in his collecting-book ,-which he immediately did . On the same day , he absconded from his employers , and never returned to them afterwards . Nearly two months previous to this , oh the 20 th of last
November , the firm were expecting the receipt of a draft on Messrs . Jones , Lloyd , and Co ., for 407 . 3 s . 6 d ., from a customer living at Southport , a Mrs . Ball . The letter enclosing the bill for this amount never reached Messrs . Northcott , and they afterwards discovered that it had been intercepted by Glass , who , unauthorized by any of the partners , had endorsed the bill hi their name , presented it for payment , and received the money fox it at Messrs . Jones Lloyd ' s . The same thing had been done with the cheque on Messrs . Robarts for 257 . 5 s . 6 d . Glass was therefore given into custody . Alderman Laurence remanded him , for the attendance of Mrs . Ball , who was believed to be in France .
Mr . Keating , on - / Thursday , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , applied for , and obtained , a rule nisi for setting aside the verdict in the late trial at the Gloucester Assizes , " Eotixa Wiseman , and for obtaining a new trial . The verdict , it will be recollected , went against the Cardinal . The facts appeared in our paper last week . : ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦¦ " ¦ ¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . . ¦ . . ¦
Naval And Military. The Transit Has Been...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Transit has been repaired after her accident . The opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty on the evidence furnished by the Court of Inquiry , held on . Good Friday , was promulgated on board on Monday . It acquits the commander and master from all blame in the accident which has caused tlie ship's detention . Court-Maetiau—A court-martial has been held at Sheerness , to try Edward Jones , ordinary supernumerary seaman , on charges of stealing a piece of cloth , and then deserting . He pleaded Guilty to both accusations , and threw himself on the mercy of the court . He was sentenced to receive three dozen lashes , to be imprisoned in Maidstone gaol for six months with hard labour , and then to be dismissed the service with disgrace .
Damage to the Martin Luther . —The Martin Luther , 1241 tons register , left Liverpool on the 9 th inst . with 498 passengers and 1200 tons general cargo for Quebec . On Sunday , the 12 th , in lat . 50 N ., long . 8 AV ., she experienced very heavy weather from the north-west . At eight r . M ., when under double-reefed topsails and reefed foresail , the main top-gallant mast was carried away . At five A . M . on Monday , when under close-reefod maintopaail only , the fore and maintopmasts were carried away close to the caps taking with them the boatswain , John Westwood , of Dunfermline , Peter Branagan , and three other seamen , who were on the weather yard-arm
endeavouring to secure the foresail , which had broken adrift . They were all drowned . In order to clear the wreck , the officers and crew cut away the maiinnast , which dragged the mizenmast with it , and she thus became completely unmanageable . On Tuesday morning , she was fast drifting to leeward before a heavy sea and north-west wind , and was only eighteen miles from Ushatit , when she was sighted by the lngu ? , which , after considerable danger to herself and damage to tho lifeboat , succeeded about noon in rescuing her . The hull of the Martin Luther is in good condition , bat in consequence of the heavy weather most of the berths wero broken and knocked down , and the passengers have
suffered severely . . , The Flkkt in tub East ov Europe — 1 lie Bntis n fleet has passed tho Dardanelles and arrived in Smyrna . As soon as tho Turkish Government received this intelligence , it issued a circular to announce that the Dardanelles are henceforth closed to ships of war of all nations that are not provided with a special firman fur tfoiatf through , thus re-establishing tho rule in existence beloie the war . ... Acoioknt at WooMvrcir . —During some military evolutions which were being made on Woolwich Common on Thursday , in presence of Lord ttloouiuelil , oiir Envoy at the court of Prussia , a gunner was seriously injured in the hand and face by the premature explosion of his piece .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/8/
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