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escaped , fled among his own people , and stirred them up to reriktance . Seven cf the police have been killed ; and soldiers , with artillery , are on their way to the . scene . of action , which is difficult to reach on account of the absence if roads . The Sowrahs allege that their deity has appeared to them in the shape of a brass image . Another S | lmong the Santals is also feared . From Oude , ttere are particulars of a little difficulty presented by the Rajah of Toolsepore , a feudatory of the latekmg , who refused to pay his rent to his new master , as he did formerly to his old . A force is being organized to proceed against him . _ , __ V-.-X . at Bombay has
A violent burst of the monsoon removed all fears of want of water , rain having fallen to a great depth . Dr . O'Shaughnessy has published the first annual report of the working of the Indian electric telegraph . It appears that the total number of messages despatched during the year was 9971 , one-third of which , were sent by natives , whose confidence in the telegraph is great , and steadily increasing . The receipts have averaged upwards of 1000 J . a month . All public works , the completion of which costs more than a thousand pounds , have been stopped by order of Government , out of fear of a financial crisis . The Bombay money-market , however , is easier , and the Bank in that city has reduced its rate of discount one per cent , all round .
EGYPT . Ibrahim Pacha , brother of the Viceroy , has just returned from Soudan . He has brought back with him the assassin of Ismail Pacha , his brother , who was put to death at Soudan many years ago . The Nigritian regicide has been pardoned , and has come to thank the " Viceroy . This act of grace is not without its importance , as it will cause the return to Soudan of 30 , 000 or 40 , 000 men who sided with the murderer .
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Our C1yilizati0k —?—Trial Of William Dov...
OUR C 1 YILIZATI 0 K —?—TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOVE . The trial Of William Dove for the murder of his wife by strychnlneLcommenced at York on Wednesday , before Mr . BaroiiBramwell . The High Sheriff had made precautionary arrangements to guard against the expected crowd , by causing barriers to be erected at the entrance to the court , and a strong body of police to be in attendance , in addition to the ordinary javelin men . On being placed at the bar , Dove pleaded " Not Guilty" in a firm and collected tone of voice . In appearance ( says one account ) he is a young man about thirty years of age , respectably dressed and intelligent-looking without anything remarkable about him to attract observation . Another reporter states that he has a twitching of the eyelids , which gives a sinister expression to his face . Throughout the day , he appeared perfectly collected and self-possessed , and occasionally looked indifferent .
Mr . Overend , Q . C ., Mr . Hardy , and Mr . L . II . Bay ley , appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr . Bliss , Q . C ., Mr . Serjeant Wilkins , Mr . Hall , and Mr . Middletou , were for the prisoner . - - -: FiiG facts of this case were so fully narrated in the Leader at the time the case was before the magistrates and the coroner ' s jury , that it would be unnecessary to repeat them here . The chief testimony with respect to motive had reference to the prisoner ' s drunken habits , his violence to his wife , "who upbraided him for his intemperance , and his threatening to " her job for her , "
if she did not " mind lier own business . A suspicious fact came out with respect to the obtaining of poison . Two or three days before Mrs . Dove ' s death , Mr . Morley ' s groom came out of the anteroom to tie surgery , and he met Mr . Dove going into the surgery . At that time , there was no one in the surgery ; and after he had watered his horses , the groom saw the gas at full height in the surgery . He then went into the surgery , and found Mr . Dove with the gas up , putting it down , and looking very much flurried . Ho said , " I have come to light my pipe . " He was there twenty minutes alone , and he knew where the poison was .
One or two other additional facts were brought forward ; as that , during his wife ' s illness , he ostentatiously asked some of his friends if they had not noticed that ho was obliged to quit tho sick-room , overcome by grief . On the night of the death , he told a Mr . Young , a confectioner , that his wife was gone , and that he wished he could weep , ho was bo excited ; adding , "Oh , that last look of hers , how it haunts mo ! " Aftor that , he went to a public-house , got two glasses of brandy-and-water , and said his wife was dead , and the doctors had told him aho could not live , which was not true .
The object of the cross-examination was to show that Dove was under the influonco of delirium tremens , and insane , and that he fancied himself haunted by fiends , and talkod of having bartered his soul to the devil . The case for the prosecution closed on Thursday .
Manslaughter.-—Joseph Dunn, A Waiter At ...
Manslaughter .- —Joseph Dunn , a waiter at a publichouse In the City , is now under remand at tho Mansion House , charged with killing Richard Branscombo , an itinerant vendor of oyutera , known as " One-armed Pick , " by a blow of tlio flat . The deceased appeared to
be drunk and quarrelsome , and the waiter struck him . The inquest , which terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death , appears to have been held with great haste , and ¦ with a desire to hush up matters . A Mother ' s Tragkdy . —A lamentable story was disclosed on a trial a few days ago at the Aylesbury Assizes , when Mary Ann Jones was charged with the murder of her infant child . She had been dismissed with the newly-born child from Lambeth workhouse on the 2 nd of the present month . She walked all the way to Uxbridge on that day , and put up at a public-house , but was turned out by the landlady , who feared the child would die there . " She then appears to have got another lodging , but on the following day the infant was ***^^^^^^^^^^^^ _ . _ _ - « <•
found dead , apparently from the effects of laudanum . Before the coroner , the woman made the following statement : — "I have had a deal of trouble these last few months , and the anxiety of my other child ; this is the first time that ever I committed any offence before the magistrates . I hope they will have mercy on me for the sake of my other child . 1 gave him a few drops , thinking to compose the child because he was so fretful . He sucked at the breast about two o ' clock the next morning , but there did not seem to be anything for him . I did not think when I gave him the cordial that it would cause his death . I uncovered him at the
nighthouse to warm him , but he seemed very cold . I did not leave the night-house till past three , and I think he died about four . I won ' t be positive sure . My arms were quite stiff with carrying him , and , when I found he was gone , it gave me such a shudder I could not bear the thought of it . " When called on for her defence at the trial , she said nothing . Lord Campbell , who undertook to watch the case in the prisoner ' s behalf , on account of her not being defended , and who was affected to tears , summed up for manslaughter , of which she was found Guilty . She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment .
Assize Cases . —William Brown , aged thirty-three , a returned convict , has been found Guilty , at Leicester , of the murder of Edward Woodcock , a tollgate-keeper , near Melton Mowbray , on the 19 th ult . It will be remembered that the deceased was an old man , and that his grandson , a boy eight years old , was murdered at the same time . The evidence against Brown was entirely circumstantial . A pistol and a tobacco-stopper , which ¦ were left behind , were proved to be his ; some of his clothes , imperfectly washed , and with spots of blood on them , were found a day or two after the murder in some ¦ weeds ; he was proved to have made inquiries into old Woodcock ' s habits a few days previously ; footprints were traced to a spot near the toll-gate where he had
been seen pulling off his shoes on the evening of the crime ; and the next day he was met dressed in different clothes to those he had previously worn . On being apprehended , he gave contradictory accounts of himself ; and he now protested his innocence . He was sentenced to death . —Samuel and Susannah Barratt , man and wife , and Elizabeth Barratt , their daughter , have been found Guilty at Bedford of the manslaughter of Helen Barratt , also the daughter of the two elder prisoners . The case was one of starvation and perpetual ill-usage , and was described in the Leader in the early part of last April . Tho man , as being the least culpable , was sentenced to one year ' s imprisonment , and the women to four years ' penal servitude . —Edward Stafford has been Acquitted of
a charge of administering certain noxious drugs to Ellen llooinson , a young woman whom he had seduced , his object being to procure abortion . The acquittal was received with shouts of approbation , both within and without the court . —Mark Antony Johnson , and Edward " Watson , have been tried at York for a burglary at the house of a Mr . Birtlea , accompanied with great violence , on the 14 th of last March . The facts appeared in this journal at the time . They were found Guilty , but sentence was deferred . —John Spencer and Mary Ann Davidson were found Guilty at York of setting fire to a haystack belonging to a Mr . Denison , who had refused to employ them . —John Murdock and John Wright , tho latter a boy , were tried at Lewes for the murder of
James Wellard , the keeper of the gaol at Hastings , on the 10 th of last March , under circumstances which have already appeared in this journal . The grand jury having ignored tho bill against the younger prisoner , the jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty . The defence on tho part of the other was that ho did not mean to kill Wellard , but only sought to make his escape , and that the keeper , under feelings of excitement and alarm , may have had an apoplectic fit , and not have been strungled , aa ulloged . The jury found him Guilty , luit recommended him to mercy , on tho ground that they believed his intention was not to kill the keeper . Ho
-wus sentenced to death ; on which , with much emotion , ho turned round to tho people in the court , and exclaimed , " There's a lesson for you !"—Honry Vullior , an old man , was acquitted at tho same Assizes of a charge of cutting nnd wounding hia son . It appeared that tho son lived in a vory immoral wuy in the father's house , nnd that ho was told to leave . Refusing to do ho , tho father struck tho Hor » on tho head with n HWord ; but tho wound was of a very trifling description . — Hannah Boccroft , a young woman , was tried at York , on a charge of murdering her newly-born illegitimate infunt by throwing it
down a privy . She was found Guilty of manslaughter , and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour . —Elizabeth Empsall , at the same As * sizes , has been found Guilty of a charge of ill-using Ler illegitimate daughter , aged nine years . The poor child was nearly starved , kept half naked , deprived of rest at night , beaten with a poker and other heavy instruments , and confined in a coal-cellar . On one occasion , her head was cut with a carving-knife ; and she appears to have m ^* l V - *• 3 f * t 51 . J —^ . _ . ¦
suffered most prolonged ill-treatment , and to have been nearly killed . The woman was sentenced to thTeo years' imprisonment "with hard labour . —John Phipson , a nailer , has been found Guilty , at Worcester , of the manslaughter of Elizabeth Milwood , another nailer . The act appears to have been done in a fit of passion , and partly by accident . The sentence was a fortnight ' s solitary imprisonment , —David Davis pleaded Guilty to a charge of causing the death of Mary Pardoe . He was condemned to two years' imprisonment .
Poisoning at South Shields . —A woman has killed herself with arsenic at South Shields . She administered some of the same poison to her two children , who were fortunately recovered . A quarrel with her husband is said to have been the cause of the crime . Another Lady Thief . —Jane Hampton , an elderly woman , of lady-like appearance , and said to be a persoa of property , was charged at tlje Southwark police-office , on Monday , with stealing two books , one of which was a Life of William Palmer , from a book-stall at the London Bridge terminus of the Brighton Railway . The offence having been proved , Mr . A'Beckett asked her if
she preferred being sent for trial , or having the case summarily disposed of . She elected the latter , and pleaded Not Guilt }' . A female friend was called for ler defence ; but the witness could merely speak to the fact of the prisoner being a person of some property and respectably connected . Mr . A'Beckett again asked ler whether she would not rather be tried at the sessions : if he was to deal with the case , she must plead Guilty . On this she exclaimed , in an imploring tone , —** I don ' t want to be tried at the sessions . I am guilty , and I will take my punishment now . " She was committed for two months with hard labour .
Embezzlement . —Cornelius Urell , clerk to Messrs . Barnes and Co ., of Fenchurch-street , ha 3 been charged before Sir James Duke , at Guildhall , with robbing his employers of six bills of exchange , amounting altogether to nearly 2000 / . An officer of the City detective police called on the prisoner , and asked him if he could give any information concerning a letter which had been stolen from Messrs . Barnes ' s office , and also whether ha had been out with two young men who were suspected of having taken it . To both these questions Urell replied in the negative , and accounted for his absence from the office of his employers that day , by stating that he had
been engaged clearing some goods from the West Inulia Docks . A day or two afterwards , the detective olficer called again at the prisoner ' s lodgings and took him into custody , upon which he delivered up three 100 L banknotes , and said that he had buried the gold on the bank of the river Lea between Hackney and Bow . They accordingly proceeded to the spot , accompanied by one of the principals of the firm of Messrs . Barnes , and the prisoner then took from underneath two stones a bag of gold containing 209 / . On their way to the station-house , Urell made a full confession of the whole transaction , and stated that he had afterwards destroyed all the exchangebills but one . He has been committed for trial .
Eaiily Depravity . —Three young men , known to the police as suspected characters , and two girls , who , though only sixteen years of age , have pursued a life of prolligacy for the last three yeara , were charged at Bow-strtot with being concerned in a garotte robbery , committed on tho person of Frederick Abe " , a German . Missing his way at night , he asked for information of the girls , who said they lived in his street , and would take him theiv . They took him , however , to Charles-street , Drury-Iuno , when the three men sprang out on him , nearly strangled him , and beat him severely , finally running off witli his watch and money . They were all committed for tri ; il ; on which the girls burst into loud fits of crying-, and protestations of innocence .
A Boy ' s Money-Uox . —Two boys were charged nt Bow-street with creating a disturbance in Drury-luno , and assaulting the police . In the course of examination it enmo out that ono of them had just been diMcluir ^ nl from Reading Gaol . Ho was asked how he obtained th <; money then in hia possession . Ifeunswered , " I hadiivo sovereigns before I went into the gaol , and I hwuIIowi'I thorn just before I readied the prison gates . " Mr . Hour ) ' : " Then , where did you retain them afterwards ? " H <>) - •" " In my stomach . " QA lauf / h . ) Mr . Henry : " What ! for fifteen months ? " Hoy : "No ; I recovered them a day or two after , nnd kept thorn concculcd till i » y timo was up , and then I swallowed them again . " Uoth buyu were committed for a month .
Middlesex Sessions . —Charles M'Andrew 1 » "h been sentenced to twenty months' hard labour for a robbery and assault , of n very violent nature , on tho police ; aiul Michael Ryan , for a similar offence , has boon condemned to hard lubour for eighteen months . —John Palmer , a ticket-of-leavo inun , Henry Drywood , and John l ' ri < : c , were indicted for an assault with brutul violence on William Burry . They liad all been drinking at public-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19071856/page/8/
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