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she discharged herself ; and nothing more was heard of her until she appeared , before Sir Peter Laurie . On "being again brought before . the Alderman , she seemed much abashed , and was sent back to the West London Union , to which , she appeared desirous of going , rather than to the Westminster Reformatory . Two letter-carriers were last Saturday examined by the Bow-street magistrate , and committed for trial on separate charges of stealing letters with money in them . A poor woman named Bridges , the wife of a wheeler , residing in Little Duke-street , Waterloo-road , applied
last Saturday to Mr . Elliot , the Lambeth magistrate , for some assistance from the poor-box to enable her to bury her daughter Caroline , a girl eleven years of age , who was one-of'the . sufferers at the explosion in the Westminster-road on tie previous Monday . The child was playing about in front of Madame Cotoa ' s house when the explosion took place , and the injuries she then received resulted in her death . The body decomposed so rapidly that it could not be kept untamed any longer ; but the family were unable , for want of means , to get the funeral performed . Another of Mrs . Bridges ' s children was much burnt at the autne time . Mr . Elliot
ordered ten shillings to be given out of the poor-box to the applicant . A charge against tha police has arisen out of a case "brought before the Worship-street magistrate last Saturday . Some constables accused Mr . Frederick Bendon and Mr . William Tapley , two tradesmen , with having violently assaulted them in the execution of their duty . According to their assertions , two women were found in the Hackney-road , late at night , or early in the morning , very intoxicated , and sitting on a door-step . At the request of the owner of the house , the constable who found theift there removed them ; on which Bendon struck him in the mouth , causing a great deal of blood to flow . A cab which was passing was hailed by the women , who got into it , followed by Bendon s but the
policeman seized and detained him . A disturbance ensued ; a mob of many hundred persons collected ; brickbats were thrown ; and , when the police were reinforced ^ a fight took place , wMch caused the locality ( [ according to the rather grandiloquent expression of one of the sergeants ) to" resemble a field of battle . " The accused told a very different story . They affirmed that they were treated with savage brutality by the police , who had no excuse for so acting . The two women concerned said that Mr- Bendon was returning with them from a party , and was seized with sudden , illness . They had not committed any offence , but were grossly maltreated by the constables . This was confirmed by other witnesses ; but tbe magistrate said he must commit the accused for trial , admitting them , however , to bail .
William Davis , collector of Queen ' s Taxes , for Peckham , has been tried at the Snrrey Sessions on a charge of assaulting Mra . Bresa , the wife of a teacher of music . "While collecting taxes , be' went to ; the house of that lady , forced his way in , used her with great violence , tore her dress , and broke one of the windows of the house . All this time , he made no demand for taxes : had he done so , lie would have been paid at once . It appeared that this was not the first time he had so misconducted himself ; and he was now condemned to pay a fine of 2 a / . This was immediately done ; and the mao will probably lose bis situation as well .
In the Divorce Court , on Monday , Sir Cresswell Cresswell decreed judicial separation , on the grounds , respectively , of desertion and of cruelty to his wife , in the cases of Mr . Cudlipp , attorney , and of Thomas Robinson Botson , a master mariner . His Lordship refused to grant separa . tion in the « ase of Bostock and Bostock , though there appeared to be no doubt that the husband had often used the wife with great violence . But it seemed that they had lired a life of mutual antagonism for thirty years ; that the wife often gave the husband great provocation ; 'and that every instance of assault by the latter on the
former had been condoned by the woman continuing to reside with her husband . The law does not recognize incompatibility of temper as a ground for divorce ; and so the suit was refused , —Sir Cresswell Cresswell , on Tuesday , gave judgment in the case of Thompson .. v . Thompson . The separation was prayed on the ground of desertion ; but it appeared that the lmsband had only left his wife to seek for employment , and that he met her from time to tim « , and constantly wrote to her , until her continued withholding of any answers caused him to cease writing . The Judge said he could not regard this aa desertion within the meaning of the act .
The details of an ill-fated newspaper speculation came before tH « Insolvent Debtors' Court last Saturday . Alexander Owen Christie , a solicitor ' s clerk , applied under the Protection Act , and was opposed by Mr . Reed for Mr . Lawrence Levy . The insolvent stated tbat last March he purchased the Atlas for 500 / . of Mr . Beale , an auctioneer , of Piccadilly . 1 I « paid 250 / . down , and bills were given for Iho balance . This paper was the first purchase of " The London Newspaper Company , " in which Mr . Angelo Bennett , a short-hand writer , and Mr . Henry Brinsley Sheridan , of Delneld House , Pancrasgrecn , were concerned . Bennett transferred to the insolvent a number of shares in the company , and ho had also shaven in the Dudley and Midland Counties Newspaper Company , which , last January , he transferred to Mr . Sheridan , to relieve him from his liability , lie considered ho had lost 800 / . by the newspaper speculation .
His uncle had paid Mr . Angelo Bennett COO / , for a share of the partnership as a short-hand writer , and . he had given up an agreement for his creditors , by ^ vhich Mr . Bennett undertook to pay him 12 / . a month on . dissolving the partnership . He now had a situation as solicitor's clerk of 3 / . a week . He attributed his insolvency to his connexion with Mr . Angelo Bennett , lie said it had been the intention of the London Newspaper Company to purchase other newspapers ; but , as the Atlas was " a loss , they could not . Some property had been sold under a bill of sale . The Chief Commissioner named the 15 th of September for the final order , ani recommended a settlement with Mr . Levy . The protection was renewed .
A murderous attack was made on a policeman at the London and Blackwall Railway terminus on Sunday night . A sailor named Hugging was there , helplessly drunk , and a young man was observed taking a silk handkerchief from his pocket . Barry , the constable in question , was called " to the spot , and attempted to apprehend the pickpocket . The latter beat and kicked the officer iu a savage manner ; but Barry said he would not relinquish his prisoner while he liad life . On this , the fellow , took a large clasp-knife from Ms pocket , opened it , and cut Barry ' s wrist , turning the knife round as he did so , and making deadly thrusts . The officer still held on , and the ruffian was about to plunge his Knife into Barry's body , when others interfered , took the knife from him , and secured him . He has been examined at the Thames police-court , and remanded .
The affairs of John Smith , a warehouseman of Bowchurchyard , were finally adjudicated on in the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday . The application for a certificate was opposed by Mr . Bagley , chiefly on the ground of a vexatious defence to an . action . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , in giving judgment , said he was of opinion that the defence was vexatious , and the judgment Of the court therefore was that the certificate should be withheld for six calendar months . Had it not been for the facts that the assignees did not oppose , and that the books had been remarkably well kept , the suspension wonld have been much longer . Protection Would be refused for the same period ; but the court would withhold the issuing of an execution certificate for twenty-one days , or , if the bankrupt appealed , until the appeal was disposed of . The certificate , when it issued , would be of the second class .
Otto Frederick Homeyer , described as of Wolgast , Prussia , i 3 under remand at the Mansion House on a charge of forging two bills of lading for corn , to the value of 3750 / . The person victimized is Mr . Rudolph Fernando Tiedmann , a merchant at Newcastle- & n-Tyue . A young woman , named Susan Myers , was found Guilty on Tuesday , at the Middlesex Sessions , of kidnapping a little boy , three years and a half old . The mother , on the 20 th . of May , had left the
get up a subscription for 20 / ., to enable the mother ( who is in humble life ) to offer a reward for the recovery of the little boy , Tlie advertisement attracted the attention of the master of Chelsea " \ Vorkhouse as the description of the child answered to one then in the house , which had been left by th '« woman Myers , who said it was her brother . The parents were communicated with , and the child was recognized as theirs . Its body was found to be marked with , bruises and sores ; and it seems probublc that those were intentionally given to excite compassion when the little fellowr " was taken out to be . j . The sentence of the Court on Myers was deferred . .
The case of Lord George Townshend was again brought on in the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Tuestluy . Several creditors appeared , and reiterated their complaints tbat their debts had been contracted without any expectation of payment . The Commissioner was of opinion that the imprisonment which the insolvent had undergone ( seven or eight months in duration ) wsis a sufficient expiation , and therefore granted a . protecting order . John Miller , tea-dealer and grocer , Cleveland-street , has been fiued 51 . by the Marlborough-strcet magistrate for ferociously kicking and assaulting a boy of fourteen , who had asked to have some tea he had bought nt the shop changed . The outfnge appears to have been quite unprovoked , and the rufliun ought not to liavo had the option of a fine , which ho at once paid , and rolioved himself from all further consequences .
John Bennott , a young man of nineteen or twenty , the son of a tradesman at Mile-end , w * : s on Tuesday charged at the Worahip-atrcct office with an assault on his parents and siatora . The history is a inelunehoiy one . Though very young , the accused id a confirmed drunkard , and was recently turned out of a situation on the Eastern Counties Railway on that account , lie has constantly assaulted both his father and mother , and has threatened the former with poison . The parents were in great distress whilo giving tlieso particulars , and said thoy did not want the youth punished . Mr . D'Eyncourt , however , ordered him to find sureties to Iceep the pence for the next , six months . Of courao ha could not do this , and was therefore locked up . William Brandt wns tried oil Wednesday at the Middlesex Sessions on the elmrge of woundiiiu' a Mr . Robert
Howitt , which we related 5 a our last issue w """ found Guilty , and sentenced to eight months' V" 5 labour . Something , vild in his appearanXse ^ a"S denote disturbance of miud . seemea to A costermon < rer and hawker has been fined ten * i -i lings by th * Thames magistrate for an a sault ^ policeman arising out of a riot outside a Mormon chapel in North-street , Jubilee-street , Whitec-Sel An attack was made on the chapel , and the » Sa £ » were hooted , pelted with stones , and subjected to tt grossest insults , from which the women were * exempt . During the examination at the police offi ™ the friends of the prisoner Looted the LatiSS ^ afa S 4 ll
ninetnMul in ^_ . -, «? * W- _ . _ . * - " * J Wa ] IS mustered m front of the court , and called tl em rnur derers and adulterers , and said that every Latter-Dav Saint ought to be extirpated or burnt y The young maa charged last week with , indecent conduct was again examined on Wednesday , on which occasion the womea did not appear . Mr . Broughton , the magistrate , attributing this to what he called the gross insults heaped on them by the defendant ' s counsel at the previous examination , and hinting tbat they murhfc have been bribed to keep out of the way , again adjourned the case ou bail .
Thomas Smith , a tall , gentlemanly-looking man , late assistant schoolmaster at the classical and commercial academy , 13 ow , which is under the superintendence of the clergy of the parish , was charged at the Thames police-office , on Thursday , with stealing a large quantity of valuable books , the property of the ltev . S . JByrtb , curate of Bow . He was remanded . The madness of drunkards was painfully illustrated on Thursday at the Lambeth police-office . Mrs . Sarah Collins , wife of the landlord of a beevshop in the Lower Marsh , Lambeth , is in the habit of indulging in intoxication , and , her husband being at present out of town , she took the opportunity , a few nights ago , of drinking till she was raving mad . She then went into a . front
room on . the second floor , and began throwing the furniture out of windoiv . A gentleman was passing at the time , and a lage dressing-table struck him so violently on the head , that concussion of the brain ensued , aud he lies in some danger . The woman is under remand .
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Ceiminali Record. Manslaughter.—An Inque...
CEIMINAli RECORD . Manslaughter . —An inquest has been held before Mr . Wakley oh the body of 3 Ir . Hassell , artificial florist , of Islington-terrace , Barnsbury-park . He was in the Newroad one night , -when a horse and cab , left unattended , ran away . He stopped the animal , but , on the driver coming up , refused to deliver the cab to him , and demanded his numher . He was then surrounded by a molj of ruffians , who knocked him down , kicked Mm , and subjected him to such ill usage that he was taken to the University College Hospital in a state of insensibility . It was found necessary to amputate one of his legs ; after which , mortification ensued , and he died , though not before he had related the incidents of his encounter . The cabman and bis companions effected their escape ; and the jury were compelled to return an open verdict , as there was no evidence to show who struck the fatal blows .
T . HB Chargis of Djiowsino a Seaman . —George Menham , or Maynard , the captain of tlio Reliance , and Edwin Fox , captain of the Schiedam , have been examined before tbe Sunderland magistrates on the charge of drowning a seaman , named Barron , which we related last week . The evidence did little more than confirm what has already been set forth . John Ramsey , the principal witness , after relating the facts connected with the drowning , said that , on seeing Barron sink , he turned round to the two captains , and , clenching his fist , exclaimed , " You have murdered that man ! What do you cull that but murder ? " Neither replied to this question , " " but Mcuhain cried out , ' Oh , my God ! my ' God ! I am a murderer , ' several times for about live or six minutes . Fox ( lid not look over tho ship ' s sitlo before
the man had sunk ; but , after I said they had murdered Barron , lie walked to the side and looked over . Tho man had gone down . Mcnham was in an awfully distressed state , and was crying . He went to his own ship , and thence into tho boat at tho ship ' s stern , and sat about ton minute * , and cried . Pox was sober ; Menhani was drunk—just aa much aa Ue could cleverly walk about wi . h . It was done in the height of passion . At tea time , Fox said to mo , ' Mind , I have nothing to do with it . ' I replied , ' Tliat does not belong to mo ; it I > elongs to the magistrates . I afterwards told Fox to go on shore , and ropoat the matter to tho consul . I afterwards saw Men hum go on shore , and ulao Fox . " Doth the accused wero committed for trial on the charge of Wilful Murder .
Murder in- St . Pancras . —A man named Smith , a painter , residing at Ito . 8 , Hastings-street , Uurtoncreacout , St , Pnncras-road , has killed his wifoby n ferocious attack ^ vliich he madet on her last Saturday morning . Ho is a man of very intempcruto hubitfl , who neglected his family and had frequently before ill-used his wife . After makiug tho fatal assault on her , ho left her blooding and insensible , and she was removed to tho workhouse , whore aho soon died . In tho mean whilo , the murderer got off ; but the police are looking after him . Muituiuc ik Livisui'ooL . —Two seamen , nuined James
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071858/page/10/
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