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Criminal Record. Wife-Murder.—A Woman Na...
has taken place before the magistrate * and brought out some strong facts . The moat important evidence is tbat given by Mrs . Emma Vich , in wnose house the murdered man lodged . Her testimony gave a very striking account of the strange affair . She stated that on the night of the murder she opened the door to a man -who asked to see Mr . Hart . She described this man as having a dark red face , with a peculiar look down the left Bide . "I did not see any whiskers . ( This agreed precisely with the prisoner ' s description . ) Mr . Hart came down in about five minutes . I was standing in the hall as he was coming down ; and I said to him * * Make haste , Dan ; he is a strange man ; he has gone now . When Mr . Hart came down , he stood at the front door , and I remained with him . Before opening the door , which I had left on the latch , the deceased asked , What does he want with me ? ' I replied , ' I don't know ; I think he is mad . ' He opened the door , when I saw" something like a ntleman ' s umbrella m a shiny case thrnst in .
ge As soon as I saw this , I turned round and went towards the parlour , and immediately heard a report . Mr . Hart was standing in front of the hall door as it opened . The man called out with the report , ' Mr . Hart ! ' It was all instantaneous . Mr . Hart called out , ' What has he done ?—what did he do it for ? ' I said , « I think he must have shot you , Dan . ' He did not fall immediately , so that at first I thought he was not much hurt . He said , ' Oh , Dick ! Oh , Dick ! ( meaningBarnes ) , send for Btaxam' ( a surgeon ) . The report was like that from a boy ' s popgun . On Bames coming down stairs , Mr . Hart again said , ' Dick , go for Bloxam . ' He then gradually sank down on his knees ; he did not rail . " The witness here fainted . The prisoner appears to have talked a good deal about the murder , and to have said frequently he knew the man who did it , the way it was done , and the motive . He had had some quarrel with his brother in connexion with money matters . The magistrates have committed him for trial .
Attempted Murder asj > Suicide . —A little girl , eleven years of age , living at Clifton Manor Farm , placed a baby , which had been left in her charge , in a horse trough , and afterwards cut her own throat . Death , however , haa not ensued in either case , and the girl is in custody . The Case of the Rev . S . Smith . — In the course of last week , a memorial , having for its object to obtain a mitigation of the severe sentence passed in this case , has received the signatures of the High Sheriff , several of the magistrates , and a great number of the clergy and respectable laity , and has has been forwarded to the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire * Earl Ducie , for presentation , together -with others from Gloucester and Chipping Sodbury . . _ . .
Attempted Highwat Robbery . —A fly was being driven from Dover to Deal a few evenings ago , for the purpose of conveying five ladies to a ball . They wore necklaces and other valuable ornaments ; and , as the vehicle reached a dark and lonely portion of the road , a scratching was heard at the back . The ladies called out to the driver , who drove on with greater rapidity . Shortly afterwards , the ladies raised a second alarm , and a gentleman who was riding on a box with the coachman got down ; but the would-be thieves had escaped . They had left marks of their handiwork , however , in certain long incisions in the leather head of the vehicle ; but the padded lining had barred all further progress . The attempt reminds one of what used to be successfully practised in London in the early part of last century , ¦ when thieves would make an opening in the backs of chariots , and pluck off the valuable perukes of the riders .
The Couvict Lani . — A statement has been marie to the effect that Lani has made a species of confession . According to this , he did not seek tho woman Thaubin with any intention of doitig her an injury ; but in the course of the night he detected her rifling his pockets , and , to prevent her succeeding in this attempt , he grasped her round the throat , after being scratched by her in the face . He states that he did not oven then intend to kill her , but that he grasped her throat too hard . The robbery of her jewels , & c , was an after-thought . The Manslaughter at Islington . —John Jones , the man charged with killing Thomas Blundell , near tho New Cuttle Market , haa been committed for trial . Eiot NEAit Newoastlk . —There h « s been a rather
alarming feud near Nowcustlc-on-Tyno , between some English and Irish labourers employed at tho ironworks In tho neighbourhood of Dluokliill and Consott . A public-house has been completely sacked and pillaged by the Irish , who have thrown the fliirrounding district into a state of great terror . Tho military have been called in , and some arrests have been made .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AJND POLICE COURTS . Tice-Chancellor Stimkv delivered judgment laafe Saturday in tho case of Brook v . Brook , and decided that the marriage of a man with IiIh deceased wife ' a aiater , tooth , being British subjects , performed In a foreign country , the laws of which recognize such marriages , is null and void according to tho law of England . " The laiy Lords pat in tho House of Poors last Saturday to hoar certain appeals . One of those- tvos '
from a judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber affirming a judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the case of Croft v . Lumley . The action was an ejectment brought by the plaintiff , Faithful Croft , against Benjamin Lumley , and a number of nominal defendants , to recover possession of the Opera-house in the Haymarket . The questions at issue were as to whether Mr . Lumley had not broken certain covenants ; whether the plaintiff had not thereby acquired a right of re-entry ( he being the proprietor of the house , which he had demised to the defendant on stated conditions ); and
whether that right ( if any ) had not been waived by the plaintiff in error . The Court of Queen ' Bench decided that there had been a forfeiture of the lease , but that it had been waived by the acceptance of rent . The Exchequer Chamber decided that there had been no forfeiture of the lease ; and , on the 15 th of February , the House of Lords , assisted by nine of the common law judges , delivered an opinion , by which it appeared that a majority of them agreed with the Exchequer Chamber . That opinion was now again affirmed by Lord Cranworth and Lord Wensleydale . Judgment was therefore directed for the defendant , with costs .
Another writ of error argued before thefr Lordships on the same day , was also an appeal from the Court of Exchequer Chamber , reversing a judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The action was for penalties under the " Corrupt Practices at Elections Prevention Act , 1854 , " and was brought by the plaintiff against Frederick "William Slade , Q . C ., for having paid the travelling expenses of a voter of the borough of Cambridge in order to induce him to vote for the defendant at the said election . Lord Cranworth was decidedly of opinion that , as the law stands , the giving money to a voter , to indemnify him for certain expenses incidental be observed
to his going to vote , is bribery . It might , , be a question whether the law ought not to be altered ; but , deciding judicially , the act is bribery . He had also no doubt that the act in question had been committed by the defendant . As the plaintiff had stated that he would enter a nolle prosequi as to one of the counts , he thought that judgm ent might be entered for the plaintiff on one count only . Lord Wensleydale concurred , and the judgment of the court below was reversed . Arthur Glead , otherwise Prescott , and Richard Haigh —the two persons found Guilty last week of obtaining goods by false pretences—werebrought up for judgment at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesdaj ' , and sentenced
each to eight months' hard labour . In a case brought before the Lord Mayor during the week , the attention of the civic magistrate was called to the disorderly state of Petticoat-lane on Sunday morning . Immense multitudes assemble to sell various articles ; plunder and violence are resorted to ; and the police are not stron g enough to keep the peace . A de tective officer said that on the preceding Sunday at least two thousand thieves were present , and that the inhabitants often assist the escape of malefactors . The Lords Justices decided on Monday in favour of the appeal for a compulsory winding-up of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank .
Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , on Monday , gave judgment in the case of Baker and Green and Baker and Baker . The bankrupt , William . Baker , was in partnership with Green as staymakers , of Newgate-stroet . He was also in partnership with his sister as milliners at Camberwell . The firm of Baker and Baker drew upon that of Baker and Green , and altogether there were accommodation-bill transactions to the amount of severul thousand pounds . His Honour was of opinion that Baker had acted fraudulently in procuring the discount of waste paper . There would be a suspension of his certificate ( third class ) for twelve months , and protection would bo withheld ( unless the assignees consented ) until the bankrupt had been three months in prison . The o . ther two bankrupts ( who were considered loss blameworthy ) would receive third class certificates , after six months' suspension , with protection .
Alfred Grainolt , a well-dressed young man , has been examined at Bow-street , on a charge of forging and uttering cheques to the amount of 1701 . upon the bank of Messrs . Coiitts and Co . He bad been a clork in the employ of Mr . Montague Bernard , barrister-at-law , of Old Square , Lincoln ' s Inn ; and , after been dismissed from his situation , he procured a blank cheque-book . from tho bank by means of a forged order in his late omployer ' u name . He then filled up and uttered several cheques . He has now bean committed for trial .
Samuel Benjamin , nged 52 , described ns a general dealer , but who afterwards called himself u dealer in bullion , was charged at Marlborough-atreet , limt Saturday , with having in hie possession a portion of silver pinto , part of a bulk of 2000 / . worth , stolen from No . 2 G , Groavcnoraquaru ,-tlie-property-of-the 4 tight-Hon .-Lord-l ' oley , ~ and disposing of tlio same with a guilty knowledge . The evidence against him is strong , and he has bean remanded . Mr . Patrick O'Brien , a well-known Inspector of polico , in under remand at tho Hnmmornmith police-office , charged with having ntolon two piecoe of bacon from tho ahopboard of a oheoaomongor in "Weatbourno-grovo , Pncldington . Tho evidence agiiliiwt him Is rather strong j but ho alleges tliut it is the roan It of a conspiracy , antl it appears that he haa recently made himself dtalllted by tho tradesmen of tho neighbourhood on account of frequently aummon Ing thorn for obstructions . Ho haa
received an excellent character , and bail fc accented * «* his future appearance . f ™ In the Court of Bankruptcy , on Monday , tile choice irf assignees was perfected in the case of Messrs Oak snrt Snow , of the Blandford Bank . The debts are staiwi *!! be 48 , 792 * . ; the assets , T & . 267 J . ro A motion has been made in the Court of Queen ' Bench for a new trial in the case of the late Roval British Bank Directors , on the grounds of misdirection of the verdict being against the evidence , and of surprise ' The Judges have intimated that they will consider the case before giving- their decision .
A rule for a criminal information for libel \ ras refused in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Thursday , Mr John Gough , the celebrated teetotal advocate , who complained that a certain Dr . Lees , also a teetotal apostle " had charged him with being habitually in toxicated with opium and other narcotics , which he denied on affidavit . Lord Campbell conceived tbat Dr . Lee 3 was not actuated by malice , and that the eas a was not one for the court . —An application was aha
made for a rule calling upon the publisher of the Times to show cauae why a criminal information should not be filed against him for publishing a libel upon Mr . Edmund Denison , the Chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company . The alleged libel reflected upon Mr . Denison ' s conduct in regard to the competition going on between the Great Northern and the London and North-Western Railway Companies . This application ( together with another having reference to a libel in the Chester Observer ) was also refused .
Some secrets of the sbop have come out in an action for libel tried in the Court of Exchequer . The plaintiff , a Mr . Goodsoii , and the defendant , a Mr . Lloyd , are riral mantle-sellers in Slioreditch . Fierce wnrhas Jong rage * between the two ; and at last Mr . Lloyd sent a young lady to Mr . Goodson ' s to buy a mantle displayed in the window , marked , " Only one guinea ' . " This was afterwards displayed in the rival's -window , crushed and creased , with the inscription— " As bought at Goodson ' s for 21 s . Compare with ouis at 19 s . 9 < l . " Hence the action . In cross-examination , Mr . Goodson ' s shopman , and Mr . Gopdson himself , coolly admitted that the young ladv had not been served with the article in the
window ; that those articles are never sold even when asked for ; that the thin ^ thus displayed as baits are dropped as the bamboozled purchaser goes out , that the trick may not be seen ; and that the trade is all show , and could not exist without it . " The thing is so general , " said Mr . Goodson , " that it is not worth taking notice of it . The defendant knows all about it r for he does just the same thing . " This was denied by Mr . Lloyd . Mr . Baron Watson described this mode of procedure as cheating , for which punishment might bcawarded at the Old Bailey . The jury found a verdic for the defendant .
Naval And Military. Camp At Chatham.—The...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Camp at Chatham . —The authorities at the Horse-Guards have decided on forming a camp on Chatham lines for a portion of the troop belonging to the East India corps now at that garrison . The i-amu will be formed early in the approaching summer , and it is proposed tbat about 1000 troops shall be encamped as soon . as tho necessary arrangements shall be completed . The Atlantic Caulk . —The process of restowing tho Atlantic cable is proceeding simultaneously on board the United States screw steam frigate Niagara and her Majesty ' s screw steamship Agamemnon , both in the tidal basin at Kevhum .
Collision ax Ska . —Tho barque Annie , Captain Ballen , from Sierra Leone , came in collision , on . Sunday night , the 11 th insUnt , with the schooner Forest ljuecn , outward bound from Curdiff , with iron . Tho Hchoonor wont down immediately ; but the crow were saveo , though with the loss of nil they possessed . Ilic f , Buttered loss of bowsprit flnd jib-boom , and lnui ner quarter bulwarks stovo in . „ . A FniCNCir CnuiSKR in tiik Wklsii Coast . — * flhipmaatcr , " writing to tho Daily Tikyrap / t , sfl J ; " The French Admiralty yacht Pelican ( the m iihii that accompanied the Emperor Napoleon to Eii « l » nd in \ soo arrived in Cardifl roads last night ( tho Oth m » t . ) ,, « "J entered tho Bute East Dock this morning «» «"""»"'* cnicrcu wic jmuo iiiuhl i . « k .- » mm " r .. , » MlniBter or
of Captain Hamelin , sou of tho French Marine , and a staff of hydrographers , for _ tliO purposo o replenishing fuel . This vessel haa been in the Channel for some days , and waa first Been , I am informal , on Mo Cornish coast , somewhere jionr l ' enzancoj the an stretched awny to tho Welsh coast , mul « PP «« \ ° ° * Swunaea , carefully noticing tho count , and from t u stretched away to Briclgwator bay , and oorosH to . Canun roads . —^ Iier-reappearftno 0 rhoro-lm 4-g ^« i ^^» <™ m i speculation a * to nor errand . Many ihuhUi « « *« and Channel pilots that pa « Hod her took hur to w , the manner In which sho hugged tho count , < "' ' ' ' atoam-tonder , or one of II . M . ' a atonm aurvoj W ; ^ putting down buoya , and it was not nutil « < < " ¦ ,. in Ponnrth rondn , and unfurled hor Hag , Unit »«¦
charactor w iih known . " ..... t ,, joft Admiral 8 m I-Iiumv Ciiadh , K . C . B ., »"' I i J > ' « for England to take command of tho mm I « " , to LI « boV for tho King ' s mai-rlngo . 1 ¦ o vrlH I . o It flnff In tho B . ora « r ship Renown , 01 , Captain Jjoiuoh , lyln £ of . Portsmouth .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041858/page/10/
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