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No. 405, December 26, 1857.] T H E L E A...
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- ^•^ " ¦ : ¦ w ith , a razor on her husband and the servants , flung .. herself out of the second-floor window . The jury re- .: . turned a verdict to the effect that the acts were committed in-a state of insanity . . ^ . Human Beer Pot-stand . —For some time past , the p ublicans in the neighbourhood of Worship-street ! police-court have lost a great many pewter pots . On i .. Monday night , a man and his '" wife were seen by the police walking away with one of these vessels , and were j taken into custody . At the station-house , the woman's . hips exhibited an unnatural distension , and , finding conxiealnient useless , she exhibited to the searcher a leathern belt round her waist , suspended to which by hooks all round were a great many pint and quart measures . -The man , "when brought before the magistrate , said he . had been out of work for nearly seven weeks , and that they were starving . His wife had-acted entirely oy his direction , and he wished the case to be settled by the . magistrate . The woman was discharged , and the man sentenced to six months'liard labour . . A-Kevekend PiiOGGKR . —The Rev . E . J . May , headmaster of the Brewers' Company ' s school at Tower Hill , appeared before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday , charged - ¦ with beating John Henry Grossmith , one of the scholars , . a . b © y ten and a half years old . One morning , v > hen he V ?« nt to school , lie took a message from his mother to say that she wanted him to go home soon . Mr . May - told him to go to Iris-work ; but he endeavoured to escape , and Mr . Cattermole , one of the other masters , brought him back to the room . There was a scuffle between them , and Mr . May asserts that the boy struck .. and kicked Mr . Qattermole very severely . On being irought back , the boy was caned by Mr . May for ( as ¦ r the lad states ) ten minutes . He was struck on the thighs , 'and so much hurt that his mother was obliged to call in < a' medical mam , and to confine Mm to iiis bed for some time . He was rather a delicate child , and the cane was -41 thick one . Mr . M ^ ' s defence was that the boy was ill-behaved ; that he constantly stayed away from school , 4 md was insolent . In a letter to the boy's father , read .-in court , this edifying specimen of a Christian minister - said that , had he " known , that the boy had struck Mr . -Cattermole , the punishment would have been ' far more severe . Sir . Grossmith said he was willing to accept an ¦ apology ; but the professor of the religion of love was not disposed . to make ari 3 % and the case was therefore sent to the Quarter Sessions . In the course of the investigation , the Lord Mayor made some excellent observations oh the impropriety of punishing so young a child in so severe a manner , and on the questionable nature of corporal correction in schools at all . Mukder in North Devout . — A labouring man named John Barwick , living at the village of Lynton , North Devon , has been apprehended on the charge of . murdering Maria Blackraoor , a young woman to whom -he was engaged to be married . The victim had formerly been a dressmaker in Lynton , and had likewise lived for some time as maid-servant at the Valley of Rocks Hotel in the same place ; but at the time she was murdered she was living -with . 'her mother . One evening , . about ten or eleven days ago , she sent to Barwick , ibuuu iu uim itiiu iv iii
aityiug uiai sun n ocu , « u < - « -uj .. » ij ; ij went to her mother ' s house and remained talking- to her in the passage for upwards of a quarter of an hour . At the end of that time , the girl ran into the room where her mother was sitting , with her throat cut completely through , all the arteries being severed . After once exclaiming , " Oh , God , mother ! I am bleeding ! " she fell down , and immediately expired . Barwick in the meantime returned home , and told his sister that he had ' . done' for Maria Blackmoor , adding , as he showed the stanieu Jtnite witn wnicn die
-olooa- ucuu uau uwn committed , that , if his sister did not mind what she was about , he would likewise ' do' for her . The murderer was taken into custody in less than an hour after the occurrence . The coroner ' s inquest has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder . . DiBREVUTABLia Policemun . —Henry Brady , a policeman , has been found Guilty at the Middlesex Sessions - of an assault on Diedricli liathgcn , a German . Ho lirst grossly insulted Mrs . liathgen in tho streets at night ; afterwards attacked her husband with his truncheon , on . tliat . gentloinan taking his number ; and finally took him into custody on a charge of assaulting him with a poker . He was sentenced to two years' hard labour . — A policeman named Monk lias been charged at the . aiarlborough-streot policc-oilico with perjury , in falsely Jiwoarinc that two Kirl « had been annoying gentlemen
¦ i n-Piccadilly late at night . Shortly after he had taken tho girls to tho station-house , he was found drunk on . iais beat . On-the folio-wing day , when the & irls were brought before the magistrate , ho was uuable to establish tho charge ; and otlier statements which ho made wore aliown to be false . He - > yns therefore sentenced to hard labour for a month .
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No . 405 , December 26 , 1857 . ] T H E L E A D E H . 1231
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TGATIJElimGS FllOM THE IAW AND POLICE COURTS . A . ticictct-of-ltiave man haa appeared in the Court of . Qucou ' s Bench as tho plaintiff in an action for false imprisonment . Ilia name is Pickering , and ho is now an artificial inanuro manufacturer , carrying on business at 5 ) , " . Pjgott-strect , Eust India-road , Limohouso . He was
some years since in business in the same locality ; but in August , 1851 , he -was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of receiving stolen goods and sentenced to ten years' transportation . His conduct , however , in prison was so good , that at the end of four years he received a ticket of leave . He at once returned to his former place of residence , and resumed business on a very extensive scale , his transactions amounting to ; 15 , 000 / . or 20 , 000 / . a year . He had some dealings with the defendant , a Mr . Pooloy , who managed a similar "business for a Mr . Brown , of Botherhithe . After some time , there ' was a balance on the account of about 15 / . in Pickering ' s'favour . He could not get the money , and therefore directed his attorney to write for it . Pooley took no notice of the application ; and Pickering , being unwilling , iu his peculiar position , to' come before a court , allowed the matter to rest . On the 17 th of August , the two happened to meet at the Black-wall Railway station , in Fenchurch-street . Pickering asked Pooley in a friendly way when be was to have his account . The latter denied his liability ; some angry words ensued , and Pooley called out aloud for a policeman , " to take this ticket-of-leave man into custody , " asserting that he had no right to be at large , and that he was endeavouring to extort money . He was given into custody , and was followed to the station by a large crowd , Pooley all the while shouting , " There is Tom Pickerings the returned convict . " At the station-house , Pooley denied having had anybusiness transactions with Pickering ; but the latter was discharged . In cross-examination , Pooley admitted having made use of the . offensive expressions , but said he was not out of temper . Mr . J ustice Erie , in summing up , said that persons in the position of the t \ 1 oi » Wi 4 V > M > ri * lif- + A li / i T \ rrtf o / vf n / 1 * i a miiMi «« -it tlinivk lirid |
iMUlli bill . VUw Il ll \ , \ J UV | Jl U « . »^ V ^ U V-M . * . * . _> *** U . U 1 * U * J J . i . US * V * % *• 11 IVM been no previous stain on their character ; and the jury gave a verdict for Pickering , with damages to the extent of 40 / ., A Mr . Dorritt has appeared in the Bankruptcy Court , as if following ; out the fortunes of his namesake in the novel . He holds the situation of bailiff of the County Court , Kocliester , and assistant overseer of several adjoining parishes . Opposition was made to the granting of a certificate , on the ground that-he had fraudulently traded in tlie name of Mr . French , his father-in-law , as the proprietor of YViH ' s coffee-house , Serle-street , Lincoln ' s Inn 1 'ields , and had vexatibusly defended actions . The coffee-liouse in question 'is the place celebrated as one of the haunts of Sir Roger deCoverley , and is constantly mentioned b y the wits of Queen Anne ' s reign , who used ' to idle there and to > work there . The bankrupt's debts are 1200 ^ . ; the assets abou t 300 / . The Commissioner thought the allegations against the bankrupt had not been made out , and granted him a third-class certificate . The adjourned hearing of the petition in the matter of the Surrey Gardens Company was heard in the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday , and was again adjourned . It was stated that the committee of shareholders have to a great extent settled their . 'difficulties , and thatoffers of ; ten shillings in the pound have been made to the simple contract creditors , one half being paid by the shareholders , and the other by claims on the gardens . Tlirpp nfr ^ rm -j lw » . nrinrr rp . m : irl . r . 'Ll » lf » lininp . s wpvn nlifirfPil
at Worship-street last Saturday with distinct offences . ¦ William Sliakspeare , the lirst prisoner , had . been found : engaged in a suspicious manner at the window of a tobacconist in Union-street , Spitaliields . This man was . said to be tho associate of a well-known criminal named Tom Moore . James Graham , the second prisoner , was taxed with stealing some sheet lead ; and Daniel Laml bert , the third person accused ( a little mini ) , was found > by the police at a late hour in the streets , drunk , incavutlilii nti . l nni ^ ir Tf urio o-iiil ill />« -hti l ^ flini * fill tli / k linilina Ilk tfkSC « ... ktia
llltUAk * 1411 II IIVI ^ T A . U II } O . t . ^ l 4 1 * V ^ I / IVt V . U »* - (» . a « V > . J were , genuine ; but we doubt this in some of the instances . Lambert was lined five shillings , and discharged ; the two others were remanded . Colonel Burrowes Wilcox Arthur Sleigh , a person connected for some time witli the newspaper press , was examined on Monday in the Bankruptcy Court before Mr . Commissioner Ilolroyd . He at lirst declined to tell what his occupation had been since 13 f ) 0 , and afterwards observed that it would really be dillicult to > say what he had been sauce that date , " lie believed his occupation was going ; abroad- He travelled as a gentleman . " In Prince Edward ' s Island , he was a colonel in tho militia and a justice of the peace , llo had purchased an estate there , but there was a lawsuit about the property , and here-assigned it to a Captain Gray . On again coming to England , he became connected with newspapers . The
British Army JJispatcU was lor a time his property , and ho and two others set up tho JJa ' Uy Telegraph . 1500 / . were advanced him to . start that journal with . He afterwards bought the shnros of the other partners for -150 / . ; but -ultimately he sold tho propertj-, and ho lias now no concern whatever in tho Tclui / rnp / i . He had contested Greenwich , Midhurst , and Boston , and bad in that way lost < Jd 3 / . His gold milita cost loui rcsoiu lor
ry appointments , wmen mm , no 11 . or 8 / ., as they were out of date . The bankrupt's balance sheet showed that he had been living at the rate of 1000 / . u year ; but tho assets are only 60 / ., and arc doubtful . Tho colonel , however , passed . An action was brought in the Court of ( Joinmon Pleas on Monday , to recover tho amount for which a vessel hud bcon insured by the defendant us underwriter . It
involved a point of some novelty and interest . During I the period of time when the vessel was tossing about in j the storm , one policy of insurance expired , and another ! came into operation . The defendant , who was an underwriter under the first policy , therefore said that , although he was liable for a portion of the loss , yet that the underwriters under the second policy ought to contribute . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs . The sum o 1737 / . having been paid into court ( being after the rat of sixty per cent . ) , they stated that eighty-five per cent was the proper proportion . The first meeting iu the Bankruptcy Court for th proof of debts and choice of assignees under the failure , of William Bromley 1 'iller , merchant , of Lime-street , City , took place on Monday . The liabilities amount to 43 , 458 / ., and the bankrupt attributes his stoppage to the non-arrival of remittances from abroad . Debts to the amount of nearl y d . 00 ' 01 . having been proved , Mr . Quilter , of Coleman-street , was appointed trade assignee . An allowance of 4 L per week was-granted , to be increased to 5 / . provided the accounts were filed in timefor the first examination meeting . The affairs of tho London and Eastern Banking Corporation having adjourned into Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood's court , from chambers , on a question concerning the appointment of an official assignee , the matter came on for hearing on Monday . A contest had arisen before the chief cleric as to the person to be . appointed , the committee of management and the Oriental ¦ Bank supporting the appointment of Mr . Stuart , one of , the principal ollicers of the Oriental Bank , and Mr . i Colenian , the accountant ; while other shareholders sup- . ! ported the appointment of Mr . Ball and Mr . Harding , I accountants . The chief clerk adopted the views of the
latter class , and appointed Messrs . Ball and Harding ; upon which the other party brought the case into court . The Vice-Chancellor left it to the counsel for the principal shareholders to choose either Mr . Ball or Mr . Harding ; and they chose the former , as having been first named . The . official managers , therefore , will be Mr . Stnart and Mr . Ball . The costs of all parties are to be costs under the winding-up . A conflict is going ori between the Insolvent Debtors Court arid , the : Sheriff ' s Court as to the release o > f a journeyman printer . The former court had given him a pftrfifif ^ ntp In if . ' it nr » iip . ir « t . hnf- t . liA lvuin hnri ' rnit . in n .
false account of one of his debts , and the Sheriff ' s Court accordingly objects to his release , and asserts that the - Insolvency Court has no legal right to discharge a debtor . Two gentlemen were charged at the Southwark policecourt , on Monday , with being concerned with a disreputable woman in stealing a watch from a painter and glazier . The man was returning home along the Blackfriars-road , somewhat the worse for liquor , when he was accosted by the ¦ woman , whom he repulsed , but she kept by him fi > r a . time , then endeavoured to force him up a dark side street , and finally gave his arm a twist , and ran off , joining , as the man states , the two gentlemen , lie immediately afterwards missed his watch , and followed the gentlemen as far as Fleet-street , when he . £ >' : iv <> . t . bfim into nnsfodv- niiil t . h « v wom 'lon . korl nn / lurinrr
the night , though positively denying their guilt . After a . patient investigation before the magistrate , it became evident that the glazier had make a lamentable mistake , and the two gentlemen wore discharged , witli an expression of opinion by tne magistrate that there was not a stain on their character . Some complaints have been made before the Marylebone magistrate that n person calling himself the Hon . George Chichester , clerk of the peace for Belfast , or . T . flVfl ( A ~\ it ' } irmtm * 1 i n il A'rt n * l ni /^ n t \ % r r ^ Kf < ii nail * v * - \ r ** l ij f * i » r \ r » i / xiuuvuitwi
¦* - •«¦ . « . « v | iiavL a i muvi utv-iuij wi / MiiiV'Vi iiuv / t-ia « . jl ksiam , several trade 3 inen . It is certain that various thing 3 have been ordered , by some one so calling himself , to be sent to 0 , Upper Hyde Park-street , Hyde Park-. squarc-The complainants , however , cannot prove any false pretence , and ho tho matter rests . Love-stories will sometimes get into tho law courts ; and a strange one was unfolded on Monday in tho Court of Exchequer . Tho Hon . Miss Mary Jones , si sister of Lord ltancl . igh , became acquainted some time ago with a so-called Count Wossckowski , ii fellow-lodger in Kburystreet , Pimlieo . He was a Polish patriot , an exile who had passod through many strange adventures , and was poor . Moreover , lie was young , being only eigbt-andtwenty ; and the lady had . somewhat passed tho ago of blossoming . So , though the gentleman was a good deal involved witli ' his pawnbroker' and with various .
tradesmen , Miss Jones soon yielded up her Heart , jinu somewhat of hor cash . She handed over to him 100 / ., which the count , in the chivalry of his soul , would only consent to receive as « loan , llo therefore drew up a receipt , alHxiug thereto a penny stamp—but a . stamp of . a wrong kind , as he afterwards informed a friend in oonlidence , taking groat credit to liimsolf for his discretion . This friend , however , was so moim ns to ' betray' him at il ¦¦*¦ 4 *¦ / I . . ___ a ~ . ~ b > J- nl A A 4 % m It Ikl I /^ A Ik ^ V i h h iuu
tne trim , anu so tno met cwura u » .. » u ««« uu , lawyers met , to agreo about tho marriage settlements , when the ( Jouut rol ' usod to continue tho . inatcli unload half tho ludy ' a fortune ! wore settled on liiin . Tho match was accordingly brokon oH , und tho notion for tho recovery of tho 100 / . commenced . This was mot by a uetoll " , in tho , sliupo of certain expenses whioh tlio ucump « aid he hud iiut himsMJlf to at . tho ludy'a rotnicst . TUo
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26121857/page/7/
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