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gestion , however , arises out of no theory an the subject . It is but a servile imitation of a course pursued by Thomas Wright , oi Manchester , who for forty years has applied his leisure and no small proportion of his snbstance in placing out disoharged prisoners . Air . " Wright has frequently availed himself of the guarantee as a means of accomplishing his object , and his report is that his liabilities have rarely ended in loss . When it is known , that during this period Thomas "Wright was the foreman of an ironfoundry , labouring twelve hours a day , it maybe thought that bis leisure was not very abundant ; and when , it is further known that the in-_ - . _ ^ m . ' - - ' - J % J * t _ ^ - ^ ^^ ^ ta . B ^ ^ L l » * V «^^ 4 * ^ ^^ ~ J .
come which he derived from his occupation was burdened with the maintenance of eighteen children , it may be concluded that the surplus -was not of the magnitude to produce extensive results ; yet the fact remains that , single-handed , he has rescued a multitude of poor creatures from desperation , and gained them the opportunity by "which they eagerly profited of abandoning for ever the paths of crime . " BurcHiAjries . —Henry Jones has been charged at Marylebone with having broken into the house of Mr . Adolphus Mark Mador , Upper Baker-street , awl stolen properiy to the amount of upwards of € 01 . The son of Mr . Madot detected the man while coming down stairs -with a bag in his hand , containing the plunder of which he had possessed , himself , and , after a severe struggle on the staircase , he escaped , but was soon afterwards captured ,
leaving the bag and the property in it behind . He was sent for trial . — -Joseph Sewell has been brought up at Clerkenwell , on a charge of burglary at a house in Maiden-lane , Kentish-town . The case excited great interest in a crowded court , in consequence of the numerous burglaries which have taken place in the north part of London , and the insertion of several letters on the subject in the newspapers .. For some time past , extra police have been posted in Keutish-town , hut to no avail , owing to the houses standing on their own grounds , and to the exposed nature of their backs , there being nothing but fields for a considerable distance . Sew ell-was met by a . policeman in the night , carrying a large bandle-Being questioned as to its contents , he gave an evasive answer , and ultimately made off , but was followed and secured . He was remanded .
Gabottong . —Another ease of violent assault and robbery in tbe streets was brought before the Southwark magistrate on Monday * Peter Oourton , the injured man , Who is a gardener employed at Penge Common , " stated that on Saturday night lie came up to London to see some friends near the Bricklayers' Arms station , in the Kent-road . After leaving them , he went down the Borough . The public-houses were then closed , and in passing by the Towu-hall , he met Dower ( the prisoner ) and three other men who asked him -whether he wanted anything to drink . He said " Yes ; " and they took him to a house in Re & cross-court . He gave them a shilling to pay for the liquor , and they entered the house . Feeling some suspicion as to their conduct he got away from the house , and as soon as he did so he was suddenly attacked by four men . Dover seized hold of him bv the
throat , while the others caught hold of him by tli-e arms , and his pockets -were rifled . They so cruelly treated him that lie thought they meant murder 5 but his cries brought a constable to his assistance , when he was released from the ruffians' grasp , and they escaped . However , he followed Dower , and gave him into custody . He was remanded .- —At the Lambeth Police-Office , Frederick Travers , a convicted thief , was charged with being concerned with three others not in custody in attempting to strangle , and otherwise violently assaulting , a Mr . John Moore , at midnight , near his house in Pleasantplace , Lambeth . A watch and chain Avere talcen from him , but they were afterwards recovered , and- Travers and the others , being alarmed by Mr . Moore ' s cries , ran away , and Travers was stopped by a policeman . He ¦ was committed for trial .
lN"CENi > iARY Fires . —Between twelve and one o ' cloek on Sunday morning , a five was discovered among some corn-stacks in tbe farm premises of Dr . Mathews , a magistrate for the "West Riding , in the village of Hatfield , near TJoncaster . The flames spread with great rapidity , and in a short time extended to fourteen stacks , the ¦ whole of -which were completely destroyed , entailing a loss of 1400 ? . The subsequent discovery of a powder flask on the , spot points to the fact of the fire being Hie work of an-incendiary . —An incendiary fire has burst out among some wheat-stacks on the premises of Mr . Sylvester , of Nottingham , and a third has consumed a haystack belonging to Mr . Hart , in the same-neighbourhood .
^ Scoundrel Officers , —Three military officers stationed at Canterbury have been -misconducting themselves in the streets after Yane Tempest fashion . They were in the company of John Stace , a fruiterer of Devonpwt- ; « nft all four , between eight and nine o ' clock last rartwday evening , determined to have ' aBprec . ' They ?* £ !*** ?}& % vmx tlrrough the streets , striking right and f . w * uT ^ # E " " * vh » ps , and injuring several persona , intrifc « r 3 * dW-men and -women . They were at length *«™ T , J £ . * 8 ta « on-h < rase by the police . Charges SS . ^ * * inBt two of tno ° fflcer 9 > *» ° were oETdf ^ ^ Jl ' ^ « n <* wine morning , ortly SEaS , ^?^?? PP ea *><** o tho magistrate , the SSSL ^ SSfV" !^ T ^ . bribed tlie witness or \ vlt-2 S ° , T A . fine of 'hirty eUminga and costs
was imposed on < came ( gn Robert Gibson , 49 th Begiinent ) , and also os Stace , The money was paid . Cbujsi / ty to a Cat . —A charge of ill-treating a cat has bean brought at Marlborough-street against Count Arthur Padovani de G-uise , formerly a colonel . The cat in question was seated among some shrubs within the railings of Soho-square , and the Count , who had a large Newfoundland dog with him , threw several stones at the cat . He then poked it with a stick , whicL the cat laid hold of ; and . the Count palled the poor creature out by the tail , and set the dog upon it . A crowd collected , and several persons expressed their indignation . A policeman was then sent for , and the scoundrel was given into custody . The cat was so much injured that it was found necessary to kill it . In his defence , the Count stated that , seeing the cat was in danger from the dog , h « poked it with his slick , in order to drive it away . The evidence , however , rendered it clear that the dog was purposely set on the cat by its master ; and the man was therefore fined twenty shillings and costs . The money-was paid . A Woman CuAKOEKViTiiATTEMprrsrGxoPoiaoxHEn IIusbaxd . —A woman named Rebecca Pcurose , the wife of a millwright , working at the Dockyard , Devonport , is in custody on a charge of poisoning her husband . He was ill witJi . diarrhcea in the course of last September , and the wife gave him some liquid , which made liim very sick and much worse . On the following moraing she expressed some surprise at liis being still alive , and exclaimed , " What shall I do ? If he has a long illness , I shall be found out . " Nothing wrong , however , was suspected , till a woman communicated something a week or two ago to the man ( who bad recovered ); and on this information tbe wife -was arrested . It appears" that Penrose has about 125 ? . in the savings bank , and it is stated that the wife connived with another woman to get 110 ssessiOn of 25 £ . of thLs money . The wife is remanded . The Murder of a 'iGii » SYl'vxNG . ' —^ Aa inquest has been lieldon the body of the old man , mimed Stanley , whose death , under suspicious circumstances , we have already noted . His wife , llhoda Stauley , -was examined , and stated that he left her to go to the Iiorse fair , and she never saw him- alive again . Almost his last act was to buy a pony for his " poor old woman to ride , "" as he thought she "was getting up in years , and needed help in her wanderings about the country . The / witness seemed frantic with grief , as she said her husband " was such . 1 good old man to her . " The ostler at the inn where Stanley last stopped , sa-w him stauding in the passage in company -with a " strange man , " who was respectably dressed . Mr . Haine ? , surgeon , said that death had been caused by stnuigulation . " ¦¦¦ There was a dark red band round the neck , which had . evidently being produced by the neckcloth being tightly pressed against it . His hands were clinched , and raised as if in self-defence , and there was a heavy frown on the countenance . The inquest was adjourned , as tlie police are still making inquiries . Kidnapping of a Youth . —Mr . Frederick Stephenson , a gentleman residing in Birmingham , who was accompanied by a ship ' s broker , waited on Monday at the Thames police-office , $ p complain of the forcible kirlriapping of a youth named John Robert Stephenson , the son of the first named applicant , on board an American ship , the Nathaniel Thompson , now lying in the Victoria Dock . It appeared that Mr . Stcphenson ' s son , having a predilection for the sea service , was bound apprentice to Messrs . Hardy and Co ., of Liverpool , on the 21 st of August , 1854 , and made one voyage , in a ship called the Mary Hardy to Calcutta and back to Liverpool , where he arrived on the 12 th of September , 1855 . On the same evening , lie went on shore to see bis landlady , a respectable woman , residing in Galton-stroot , Liverpool , to whom he communicated Iris intention of visiting his friends and relations before his ship sailed again . No more was heard of him until May last , when he called upon a Mr . Short in Calcutta , and stated that ho had been kidnapped and dragged on board the Nathaniel Thompson , an American slrip , by main foroo . Ho subsequently died in the Calcutta Hospital , owing , as it was feared , to ill usage received on board the Nathaniel Thompson . Mr . Selfe , the magistrate , promised that ho would institute an inquiry . Murderous Assault ni : ak Bradford . —Considerable dissatisfaction , as our readers already know , has lately been caused among a certain class of loom weavers in Yorkshire , in consequence of the introduction among them of the new system of two-loom weaving . The local authorities at Baildon , near Bradford , the chief neat of the disturbances , therefore swore in above a hundred special constables . This prevented any disturbances in the immediate neighbourhood ; but the one-loom weavers , without the to-wnfihip still threatened to do harm to those weaving on the new plan . The precaution had been adopted at Mr . Taylor ' s mill ( where a serious riot occurred a week or two ngo ) of dismissing the two-loom weavers from work earlier than tho others ; and one evening , irbout lialf past five o ' clock , ten or twelve of them left their looms to go homo to their dwellings at Bradford , three miles distant . They proceeded along tho higii road until they arrived at a spot whore a footpath ncroan the Holds from Shipley joins the principal thoroughfare . Here they ^ *^ ^ ^ ^ _^ ^ . ^ ^
were stopped and assaulted by a laige baud of nJT thirty men armed with hedge-stakes aud . other weSf I he double-loom weavers , however , ni-anaged after a ^* to escape , with the exception of one of their partv 1 having missed his companions during a scufQe wL W behind , when ho . was immediately pointed out " another two-loomer , " on which all the rioters nLw at . . him , and after beating him severel y with- ita cudgels , knocked him down , aaid continued to as * . ^ him until he was insensible . They then left and h was discovered some time afterwards by his couinanlo ^ f who returned to the spot where they Jiad been attaeW They removed-him to the Bradford luUmiary bleodir , ' excessively from several wounds of a very . severe kin ^ He is progressing , however , tolerably favourably . The police of the district are making every eiuieav ' our il search out the ruffians . . ¦ ^ ^
buin > osi : i > Murders . —The dead bod y of a woman lias been taken out of the canal in the vicinity of Great Cuinb ridge-street , Hackney-road . From inquiries set on foot by the police ,- it appeal's that a girl named Mary Ann Brown , while passing near the towing-path , between nine and teu o ' clock , observed a man standing near tie water ' s edge , and at the same time heard a gurgling sound proceeding froui the middle of the stream . On her observing to him that he had thrown somethin g iato the water ,-he hastily ran away without answering & n $ he followed and him
s saw .- enter a house in Great Cambridge-street . The '¦ woman ' s body was subsequentl y dragged out of the canal . About an hour previous to the discovery of the body , the man , who was a carver and gilder , aud Imsbaudof the woman , was found lyin « with his throat cut in one of the rooms of his residence . He was quite dead , and a razor , the blade uf which was stained ' . with' blood , lay by his side . The inaa and woman had no family . The lodgers slate that they lived unhappily , and that the man kept his wife without necessaries . On the evening oiv which their bodies
¦ were found ., Mrs . lenii was heard to say to her husband , " Good-by , Henry , " and was seen to leave the house , followed by him . Hie returned home , however , soon afterwards , and put au end to his existence . It would appear that the woman threw , hcrsolf iuto the canal , and that tbe man in vain endeavoured to rescue her . *—A yo niiij woman , named Lucy Tredwell , iu service at the Union Hole ] , Worcester , lias been found drowned in the Woicester and 13 irmirtgluun canal . II er throat was cut and there wore marks of violence abca . it her face and the back of her- ' head . Tliarc \ yere . no sigus of violence of another description . Slic had beaii missed fur about afortnight , the List that was known of lier being that she bad executed some errands on . . which she bad been sent , and was apparently returning to the ¦ hotel The police are investigating the facts of the ca ^ o .
Tiio . MA-s S 5 To > vJSL . ii , Tim Inioi ' . m . i : k . —This man -was tried at the ; Surrey -Sessions ., on Tuesday on a chaige of obtaining , by means of false preteiicw , tlic sum of 5 / . from Mrs . Pony , a landlady in Wahvorth ; Ho has been known for along time as one of the ' touters ' - infesting the Lambeth police-court , in the neighbourhood of-which he had an oilice , and acted iu the capacity o £ at ' torucy . Mrs . Perry wanted to obtain a music and dancing license at the Quarter Sessions , ami Sio-well
introduced himself to ' her as an -. attorney , capable of getting the license . Uelieviug he could tlo . so , she employed him , aud at < liiVurcut times gavo him as lnuclias 5 / . to pay the necessary expenses . It Was eventually ascertained that he had nut performed liis work , lie then pretended that he was clerk U > Mr . Dingham , the attorney , and that that gcnileiuan had performed the work and taken the jnouej ; but this was I ' albo . There being former convictions against Stowell , he was senteucedto
twelve months' hard labour . ¦\ Yiioi , i ; . s _ ywo SwiXDLUiss — A nost of swindlers , doing busiuoBS on a large scale , has just been brolun up ; and the evil-doens—Caaulua JJond , a tall man with bushy Avhiskeri ) and moustache ; Sarah Ann Bond , wife , a raLhiu- good-looUiufe' woman ; Alfx-edi'ennel , \ vho called hiniKclf a barman out of pluue ; and Jemima 1 ' uJiniil , hu wife , who actod as Bervant to Mrs . liond—havo heen brought before Lho Southwark magisU-uLo . Tlieir plan was to order goodw , to get thorn scut to houses in fashionable parts of the town , and then to leave the neighbourhood without payment . Inspector Mackenzie , who had
charge of . the case , said he understood that they ^ ¦ worked together , aud hud for some time removed goods they had obtained as soon cb they gut posbcssiun of them . In one instance , they liad removed tlnuu times in tuo same day , so dome -were the poliuc on their track , ihey furnished their houae-a epleudidly ; mtd Mra . Bond 1 ) W" 8 fashionably attirod and uf luilyliko , ai )|> i !! U-aucc , tuo tmtlcamen were put oil" their . guaiid . The evidenco againiit her was voiy etrong , but duiident iu tho case 01 all tho others , who were therefore J'emaaclud , aud alloww to produce bail . Mrs . liond ww « t ^ ent to prison , iieuUmg further jnquirics , without tho option of bail ; aud , ww * in tbe day , a Bhnilar fnto beiol her huiband , against ^ v 1 lom a clear cuhc of obtaining bottled stout on law
pretences waa brought Iprward . . Loud EuNiasx Vanjo Tjomi'jcst . —SIi- I ' rodorick is *® gor , on Tliuraday , applied iu the Oourt oi' Qiiuon ' s liencu for n criminal information agauiat Liird lirnosit Vai Tempest for an outrage nud aesault ciumnitted upon Mr . Ames , a . coinot iu tuo FouxLh Light Dwt'ooiui .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/6/
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