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1230 TI!E LEADER, [No. 405, December 26,...
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OUR CITILIZATIOK THE ASSIZES. The Judge ...
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MIDDLESEX SESSION'S. George Nathaniel Ho...
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AssAti/r on the Pouce.—Two policemen obs...
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paid -Attentions to Mademoiselle Laurence , made shooting parties ^ vith the young men , whenever they were at their mother ' s house ( which was not often ) , and sometimes lent them money . Guillot appears to have been a very similar person to his equally ill-fated countryman , 1 / Angelier , the hero of the Glasgow poisoning case . Lake him , he was excessively vain , of lax morality , and fond of boasting of his triumphs over the hearts of women , "with-whom he believed he was irresistible . He was a married man , but had been avowedly mixed up with many intrigues , which his wife seems to have tolerated out of an extreme affection for him . His flirtations with Mademoiselle Laurence soon became the talk of the neighbourhood ; but Madame de Jeufosse
refused to take any notice of the matter . In process of time , however , Guillot began to pay his attentions rather to Mademoiselle Blanc-he than to her governess ; and it would seem that the former young lady did not emphatically discourage his advances . At any rate , Gnillot , with infamous audacity , boasted everywhere that he had triumphed over the virtue of Mademoiselle Blanche . On hearing of this , Madame de Jeafosse determined to break off all connexion with the scoundrel . Madame Guillot thereupon called at the chateau , and , with much simplicity , told Madame de Jeafosse that she was sure there could be nothing wrong between her husband and Blanche , because Emile had himself informed her that his intrigue with Mademoiselle Laurence was still going
on . Guillot , however , was forbidden the house , and he revenged himself in a very dastardly manner . Whenever the Jeufosse family left the chateau , he haunted them . Wherever they -went he went . If they rode out in their carriage , he followed them in his ; and even when they went to mass they were not secure from his intrusion . He violated the sanctity of his victims ' dwelling ; would scale the park walls at night , sound his horn in the woods , enter the chateau , disorder the sleeping rooms , cpset the chairs , and turn the pictures -with their fronts to the walls . He dropped about the park passionate love-letters to Blanche : boasted of
midnight assignations with the young lady ; took his disreputable hangers-on with , him into the woods , and so contrived as to make them believe that , while they ¦ were -watching , he-was enjoying the company of his supposed mistress . There does not appear , however , to be the smallest amount of evidence to show that Mademoieelle de Jeufosse at all compromised herself -with this-v > ulgar braggart ; but the assumption at the trial , on the part of the prosecution , was that Mademoiselle Blanche had fallen before the persevering attacks of Guillot , and that Madame de Jeufosse compassed the seducers death out of revenge .
The mother , at any rate , seems to have determined on taking acme steps to put a stop to the nuisance . The eldest son wrote a letter to Guillot , warning him that orders had been given to fire on him if be again intruded , and that a reward would be paid to any one who should succeed in hitting him . This letter was intercepted by Madame Guillot ; but on the 17 th of March the old friends of M . de Jeufosse met and expostulated with Guillot , who , while denying a good deal , said he would not offend again . He did do so , however , immediately . Madame de Jeufbsee then asked a neighbouring magistrate if the law would justify her in shooting Guillot when forcing himself on her grounds at midnight . He replied that it would . She therefore directed Crepel , her gamekeeper , to fire on Guillot on the first opportunity ; but she asserts that she merely designed slightly to "wound -and permanently to frighten him . Crenel
watched for a long time without effect . At length his mistress watched with him , and for several nights she sat at an open window , while the gamekeeper stood on the lawn below , armed with his double-barrelled gun . On tfee night of the 12 th of June , a rustling was heard 4 n tbe shrubberies near the park wall , and footsteps were detected retreating as Crepel advanced . The -watcher made a brief exclamation of warning , fired , and < 5 uillot fell with eight slugs in his body . The whole household was alarmed and roused by the report ; but , on Guillot ' s servant hastening to the chateau to beg assistance , he -was for some time disregarded . At length , ft domestic followed him to the spot -with a lantern , " found Guillot in the last agonies of death , and but just able to accuse Crepel of having fired the shot . The body waa left where it lay , and was only removed next day by the naagistxatea who came to make investigations
. ^ Tbetiatfenoe art ' tfre . trial ' was that -Madame deJeufoaae 'Sww justified in shooting a midnight intruder on her grounds , who oame there avowedly ta ruin her daughter s , " rirtue . -She was 'fo « Bieged fen her own house , ' ¦ Observed M . Berryer , the « dv-ocute for the defence . TJie jury took ' this'view , and acquitted ttie prisoners ( 'who -ownwsted of Madame de Je-uffosue , her two sotib , and Crepti ); bat some disapprobation : has been expressed at the'fcatfdaess of heart which could leave Guillot without ' assistance'after 1 be was shot . Madame de Jeufosse will Jhave to pay the coats of the trial . On hearing the v « r-•« M « t >« f ttie jmry , her firmness was for the first time over-? wome , attd « he * ur * t into tears . Her two sons smiled . at tfarir friends tn > court . Hafdame He Jeufbsac will cell th « chateau , -wad go to It * ly ; imd her daughter has already retired into a oon-< wntt .
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1230 TI ! E LEADER , [ No . 405 , December 26 , 18 S £
Our Citilizatiok The Assizes. The Judge ...
OUR CITILIZATIOK THE ASSIZES . The Judge and jury at the Durham Assizes yesterday week were occupied nearly the whole of the day in trying a case of criminal assault on a woman . Two ' men were accused—Thomas Osbom , a bricklayer , the principal person concerned , and John Jameson , also a workman , who appears to have held the poor girl down , and stifled her cries . The offence took plaoe in a field , and at the same time Osborn gave her . a severe blow on the mouth for crying out " Murder ! " and robbed her of half a crown , which he said he would return to her at some future period . He did meet her again more than three months afterwards , and , showing her a half-crown , said , " Do you . remember that ? " She said , " Yes , and
I'il make you remember it too . " He was accordingly given in charge , and , as he vtaa passing along to the etation-house , he said to Jameson , who was working at -a window , "Do you remember that Wednesday ? I ' m taken up on account of that job . " Jameson was accordingly apprehended . The defence was the same as that usually set up in these cases—viz ., that the girl liad not taken sufficient pains to raise an alarm , and ihat therefore there was reason to suppose that she was ¦ a consenting-party . With respect to Jameson , it was further contended that there was not sufficient evidence to establish his identity . Both the prisoners , however , were found Guilty , and sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude .
On the following day at the same Assizes , James Magee , a pitman , was charged with the murder of his ¦ w ife . They had both been drinking together at a publichouse , and the wife got so drunk as to be insensible . Magee then knocked and kicked her -about a good deal , ^ nd finally got her out into the road , where he was seen to continue his violence . He afterwards returned Jhome by himself , being then , as one of the witnesses said , Tather ' dranky , ' and told 1 his children to go and look for their mother , who was lying asleep on . the road , and lie didn ' t care if he never saw her again . They went , and found her in a dreadfully mangled condition , the scalp being torn from the back of her head , and her face covered with cuts and bruises . It-was suggested by the prosecution that Magee had dragged his wife along the road by the hair of the head until the scalp was torn . The jury found Magee guilty « f manslaughter , and he was sentenced to penal servitude for twent > years .
The Leigh Woods murder has been tried this week at Ttranton . Charlotte Pugsley , it will be recollected , was a cook in the service of Mr . By thesea ^ at Freshford , near Bath . John Beale , the prisoner , had also been a servant , andj though a married man , he made love to Chnrlotte Pngsley . The woman and he left Mr . Bythesea's together on the 9 th of September . Shortly before then , Beale had been seen , with a pistol in his possession . On the following day , he and Charlotte Pugsley were observed by a man near the scene of the murder , a secluded valley in Leigh Woods , called Nightingale Valley , and known as one of the most beautiful spots in England ; and here in the evening the dead body of the woman was found in a pool of blood , shot through the temple , and with the throat cut . Beale appropriated her boxes , and gave some of her dresses away , saying they belonged to a sister of his who was just dead . This and some other statements which he made were false :
Two pistols were found in his room , one unloaded , the other loaded ; and the bullet found in the murdered woman ' s head corresponded with the size of these weapons . No motive for the act appears to be assignable . The counsel for the prisoner submitted that the case had not been fully made out , and that the death might have been accidental ; but the jury found Beale Guilty , and sentence of death was passed . Thomas Williams has been tried at Warwick for having feloniously sold some En field rifles , the property of the Queen . The Government has an establishment at Birmingham , where they receive from numerous
contractors , in laTgc quantities , the various parts of which a musket is composed ; and these , after being examined and approved , are marked with a Government mark , and put in store . Williams ia a lockfreer at this establishment , and it appears on the statement of a Mr . Charles Clarke , a gunmaker in London , that he ( Williams ) sold him the rifles in question . The prisoner was found Guilty . Misappropriation of these stores to a very groat « xte » t has been going on for some time past . Two other men have also been found Guilty of a like offence ; And sentence in all of the cases has been deferred . A couple more cases have been postponed to the next Assizes , the accused being out on bail .
Thomas Miller lias been tried at Tounton for the murder of Sarah Bower at Bath ford on the 10 th of October . It may be recollected that Miller killed both the woman and her husband in a fit of obvious insanity . On this ground he was Acquitted . James Oliver has been found Guilty at Newcastle of uttering a Baak of England note for 1 QL , well knowing it to have berni forged . iTIto person cheated was a farm or of whom Oliver had purchased a bull , and it appears that he had . only once Jjefore , in tho whole course of his life , seen-a bank-ruote I The prisoner was sentenced to six years' penal servitude .
Henry Gibbs , a collector of poor rates in the DaruT , of Birmingham , and Edward Griffin , the senior ^* in the levy department , have been tried at Warwick / iT one on a charge of embezzling tnree sums of mono ? + T property of the guardians , the other with aidine ' *^ abetting him . Gibbs would seem to have been ih original offender ; but Griffin , whose duty it wasT check the other ' s accounts , and who speedilv dis oowJid his fellow officer ' s dishonesty , afterwards abetted himZ the misappropriation of the parish money , and took lii , share of the plunder . This went on fox some mom * . , but-at length Gibbs finding a discovery imminent cm fessed all , and caused Griffin , as well as himself ' "bo arrested . On the trial , lie was put into the witness-box against Griffin , as well as into the dock on his Own account . Both were found Guilty , but Griffin only- as an accessory after the fact . They were sentenced to hard labour for two years .
_ Mr . Andrew Halliday Carmicliacl , surgeon , has teen tried at York on a charge of procuring abortion and Acquitted . He was received at Mexborough , where . k « resides , with great rejoicing . Two men , named Hinde and Wise , were tried at Newcastle on Wednesday , for a garotte robbery committed on this day twelvemonth . The prosecutor is a farmer and he appears to have been drinking at -a public-ho ^ ge in-. ' - Boxing Night' fashion , and afterwards to have been waylaid , nearly strangled , and eased of his money . Both the accused were found Guilty , and were sentenced Hinde to fifteen and Wise to six years' penal servitude ! John O'Harrow and William Daley have been fouai
Guilty at the same Assizes of attempting to drown John Blackpool . This was a similar case to the last , though occurring at a much later period . The prosecutor was intoxicated , and the object was robbery . A sentence of penal servitude for twenty > 'ears was passed .
Middlesex Session's. George Nathaniel Ho...
MIDDLESEX SESSION'S . George Nathaniel Hoskings , a surgeon's assistant , lias pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling various sums of money from his master , Mr . William Henry Gardner . It appeared that he had appropriated money to nearly the arfiount of 300 ^ ., and that the frauds had extended over a period of two years . He had been in the liabit of sending letters requesting payment of accounts , and of intercepting the answers . A . betting book was said to have been iVund on him when he was taken into custody . His counsel , however , challenged the production of such
a book , and contended that Hoskings had been harshly treated by Mr . Gardner . He had sat up twenty nights in succession for one of Mr . Gardner ' s patients , for which his employer charged two guineas a niffht , but . did not give the prisoner a penny . ( Iliis was denied by j & Ir . Gardner ) . He had entered into business speculations ; had got involved , and , being pushed by liis creditors , had appropriated some of his employer ' s money , hoping to replace it from a surri of 500 / . which lie expected to receive , but of which he was disappointed . Sentence was deferred ^
Assati/R On The Pouce.—Two Policemen Obs...
AssAti / r on the Pouce . —Two policemen observed two suspicious-looking fellows , early on Sunday morning , trying the lock of a door in Lambeth with a key . They failed to get in , and accordingly moved off ; but the policemen followed , and asked one of them why he was loitering . He denied that he was doing so , and one of the constables , seeing something bulky under his coat , inquired vhat it was . He answered , " I'll show you ;" and , drawing a life-preserver , struck the officer a severe blow on the neck , which stunned him for a time . The ruffian , however , was stopped by & gentleman , who waa also struck by him , though not seriously . lie has l ) cen examined at tho Lambeth police-court , and remanded for a week .
Thk Mukdbu and Suicidk in St . Pancuas . —Tho inquest on the bodies of the mam and woman found - \ vith their throats cut in Drummorul-street , Euston-square , has concluded with the following verdict : — " That the deceased persons were found dead from exhaustion by loss of blood occasioned by incised wounds iu their throats , but under what circumstances the said wounds wore inflicted there was . not sufficient evidence to show . " The man has not been clearly identified , but it is thought he was a clerk in a firm at ltotterdam . Aij . koei > CuuEr / rv a . t Ska . —Captain Robert M'Eachcrn , of the brig Heather Bull , lias voluntarily appoarod at the Thames police-court , to answer a charge of having caused one of his sailor boys to commit suicide on account of ill-usage . The magistrate , though clearly of opinion that tho boy accidentally fell overboard , committed the oaptnin for trial on tho ground of alleged juaaults . Bail was accepted .
Riot in St . Giles ' s . —For several Sunday evenings , a species of faction fight between two parties of lads residing in Dudley-street , St . Giks ' s , and the Rookery , has been going on . Two of tho youths got quarrelling last Sunday evening , -when one of them drew a largu clasp-knife , cut his adversary through the cheek , so that tho tongue was nearly severed , and immediately mada his escape Anotukr TriAGKDY in St . Pancuas . —An inquest has been held in Hardwicke-place , llarrington-s < iuarc , Ilampatoad-rood , on tho body of Mrs . Charlotte Augusta Macdonald , who , after lwvi « £ inflicted serious injuries
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26121857/page/6/
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