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608 THE LEA PER. [No.379, Saturda y
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IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR. DOUGLAS J...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. —•? CENTRAL CRIMINAL C...
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. A singular imposture...
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A STRANGE HISTORY. An action fbr crimina...
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•CELESTIAL' PROFLIGACY. A glimpse into t...
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Vnade-bb escape through the roof , after committing the murder . She assisted to conceal the money , and she further states that the bag of silver found was Spollen s , and that the bag was placed in the trunk by him ; that the hammer found was Tier husband ' s , and she believed the razor also , as he appeared very nervous the day it was found , and said he had thrown it in with the case on and , if the case were discovered , it would no doubt be identified . The woman promised to show the police the place where the money was concealed ; and at two o ' clock on Wednesday , Superintendent Guy
accompanied the woman , and found between two walls , within the precincts of the railway terminus , some of the money , consisting of gold , notes , and silver . The notes were nearly destroyed by the damp ; On being examined before the magistrate , Spollen ' s wife was present , and appeared to be greatly affected . She said , addressing him— " Confess your guilt , you unfortunate man ; what I have done was to save your soul , and that you may repent of your crime . " On the charge being read to him , he only said , " I deny it . " He was then led back to hia cell . Mrs . Spollen , and Spollen ' s ather , are in charge of the police .
608 The Lea Per. [No.379, Saturda Y
608 THE LEA PER . [ No . 379 , Saturda y
In Remembrance Of The Late Mr. Douglas J...
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR . DOUGLAS JERROLD . Committee : John Blackwood , Esq . ; Shirley Brooks , Esq . ; John B . Buckstone , Esq . ; Peter Cunningham , Esq . ; Charles Dickens , Esq . ; John Forster , Esq . ; Charles Knight , Esq . ; John Leech , Esq . ; Mark Lemon , Esq . ; Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , Bart ., M . P . ; William C Macready , Esq . ; Sir Joseph Paxton , M . P . ; William H . Russell , Esq . ; Albert Smith , Esq . ; Clarkson Stanfield , Esq ., R . A . ; William M . Thackeray , Esq . ; Benjamin Webster , Esq . ; W . Henry Wills , Esq . Honorary Secretary : Arthur Smith , Esq . Office at the Gallery of Illustration , Regent-street , Waterloo-place , handsomely placed at the disposal of the committee by Mr . Willert Beale . The committee , in remembrance of ' their deceased friend , beg to announce the following occasions : — On Saturday ( this ]) Evening , June 27 th , a Concert will take place in , St . Martin ' s Hall , at which Madame Novello , Mr . and Mrs , T . German Reed , Miss Louisa Vinning , Herr Ernst , Mr . Albert Smith , Mr . and Mrs . Weiss , Mr . F . Robson , Signor Bottesini , Mr . Osborne , Miss Mary Keeley , Miss Dolby , and Mr . Sims Reeves will assist . Conductors : M . " Benedict , Mr . Frank Mori , and Mr . Francesco Berger . To commence at eight precisely . Prices of admission : Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall , centre gallery , and orchestra , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each toeshilling .
On Tuesday Evening , June 30 th , Mr . Charles Dickens will read his Christmas Carol in St . Martin's Hall . The reading will commence at eight precisely , and will last two hours . Prices of admission : Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall and the centre gallery , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each one shilling . On Tuesday Evening , July 7 th , Mr . W . H . Russell vrill deliver his Personal Narrative of the late Crimean War inSt . Martin ' s Hall . To commence at eight precisely , and last twohoaura . Prices of admission : Stalls , live BhiUings ; body of the hall and the centre gallery , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each one shilling .
On Saturday Evening , July 11 th , will be represented at the Gallery of Illustration , Regent-street , Mr . Wilkie Collins ' s new romantic drama in three acts , The Frozen Beep , performed by the amateur company of ladies and gentlemen who originally represented it in private . With the original scenery , by Mr . Stanfield , R . A , and Mr . Telbin , and the original music , under the direction of Mr . Francesco Berger . The whole under the management of Mr . Charles Dickens . To conclude with a farce . Prices of admission : Stalls , one guinea ; area , ten shillings ; amphitheatre , five shillings .
On Wednesday Evening , July 15 th , will be represented , at the Theatre Royal , Hay market , the late Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' a comedy , in . three acts , The Housekeeper . To conclude with the late Mr . Douglas J « rrold ' s drama , The Prisoner of War . Represented by Miss Reynolds , Mr . Buckstone , Mr . Phelps , Mr . Howe , Mr . Chippendale , Mr . and Mrs . Keeley , Mr . W . Farren , Miss Marie Wilton , Mr . Rogers , Miss M . Ternan , Mr . Compton , Miss M . Oliver , Mr . Benjamia Webster , Miss Fanny Wright , and the company of the theatre . Prices of admission : Stalls , ten shillings and sixpence . The rest of the house as . usual , except the private boxes , which may be hod at the Committee ' s office , or at Mr . Sams ' s Library , St . JarnesVetreot .
On Wednesday Evening , July 22 nd , Mr . W . M . Thackeray will deliver a lecture on » Week-day Preachers , ' in St . Martin ' s Hall . To commence at eight precisely , and laBt one hour and a half . Prices of admissions Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall , and centre gallery , each two shillings ; back scats and aide galleries , each one shilling . On Wednesday Evening , July 29 th , will bo represented at the Theatre . Royal , Adelphi , tho late Mr . Douglas Jerrold's drama , in throe acts , The Rent Day , To conclude with tho late Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s drama , ffldck-eyed / Swan . Roprosented by Mr , T . P . Cooko
( who returns to the stage for one night , for the purpose ) , Madame Celeste , Mr . Benjamin Webster , Miss : Wyndham , Mr . Wright , Miss Mary Keeley , Mr . < Buckstone , Miss M . Oliver , Mr . Paul Bedford , Mrs . Chatterley , Mr . Billington , Miss Arden , Mr . Henry Wallack , and the company of the theatre . Prices of admission : Stalls , ten shillings and sixpence * . -The rest of the house as usual , except the private boxes , which'may he had at the Committee ' s office , or at Mr . Sams's Library , St . James ' s street . Tickets for any or all of these occasions are now on sale at the Committee ' s office , at the Gallery of Illustration , Regent-street , every day between the hours of twelve and four .
Our Civilization. —•? Central Criminal C...
OUR CIVILIZATION . —•? CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The court on Friday week and last Saturday were occupied in trying John Hind May , William Taylor , and George David Myers ( the last two of whom surrendered in discharge of their bail ) , for conspiring to obtain property to the value of nearly 1000 / . from Thomas Gorman and Alexander Lawson . The prosecutors are Irish cambric handkerchief manufacturers , at Lurgan , in Ireland , and Taylor was an agent for the sale of goods of that description , and was considered a highly respectable man . Mr . Gorman took him some samples of
handkerchiefs last February , and asked him to endeavour to dispose of them . He agreed to do so , and shortly afterwards Taylor wrote to him stating that he had found a purchaser in Mr . May , of Huggin-lane . Owing to inquiries made by Mr . Gorman , he refused to let May have his property , and Taylor then wrote to him , stating that Myers and Co ., late of Ludgate-hill , would purchase the han kerchiefs upon certain terms , and he advised him to . let that firm have them . He assented , and the goods were sent to London . All the defendants looked at them , and they were then removed to May ' s warehouse in Huggin-lane , and two . days afterwards were sold to Messrs . Meeking , of Holborn , by May , for little more than half the price at which they had been invoiced to Messrs . Myers . There was some evidence that May had paid two cheques , one for 100 / ., and the other for 50 / . to the account of Mj-ers , after this transaction ; but it
was admitted that lay lor naa always Deen wo » eu upou as a most honourable man . . Several witnesses gave him a very high character ; but he was found Guilty , as also was May . Myers was Acquitted . Baron Channell ( who said he perfectly agreed in- the verdict , and who condemned the conduct of the Messrs . Meeking in buying the goods at half-price , as being a course * calculated to strike at the root of all honest and fair dealing in trade ') condemned May to a year's imprisonment , without hard labour , and Taylor , on account of his being a dupe of May , to half of that term .
Middlesex Sessions. A Singular Imposture...
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . A singular imposture was revealed in the course of a trial last Saturday , when Con . Bayley and Thomas Doyle were indicted for stealing three loaves of bread , and also for a fraud . The men were in the habit of going into the shops of various retail tradesmen , pretending that the scales were out of order , and Baying that they were sent by the proper authorities to repair them . They would then do something to the scales , and make a charge of a few shillings . One day , they went to a baker's shop at Haggerstone , knocked a piece of lead into the goods scale with a hammer and punch , and demanded Is . 6 d . The baker said he would send the money , but they insisted on having it then , and finally , saying they would take it out in bread , walked off unmolested with three loaves . On the same afternoon , tUey were taken into custody . They were now found Guilty , and were sentenced to eight months' hard labour .
Mark Collins , John Collins , « nd Thomas Eastman , were found Guilty of stealing two 6 / . notes from TJioraaa Thomas , a sailor , whom they inveigled into » puOMohouse , and induced to make bets . On his producing : the notes , they snatched them from him and made off . Mark Collins and Eastman , being old offender , were sentenced to four years' penal servitude ; and John Collins , against whom there was no previous conviotion , was sont to prison , with hard labour , for six months .
A Strange History. An Action Fbr Crimina...
A STRANGE HISTORY . An action fbr criminal connexion was tried on Monday in the Court of Common Pleas . Mr . Armitago , the plaintiff " , is a solicitor , not now in practice { and about ten years ago he was married to a Miss MacdonaW . There was n disparity in their years—Mr . ArmUage being thirty-seven , and tho young lady only seventeen . For Bomo unexplained reason , she refused her husband tho conjugal privileges . His conduct appears to have been -very kind and forbearing , and sho returned his affection with aeoming gratitude , but persisted in her strango conduct . Ho therefore provided nor with a homo at the house of his brother , a clergyman in Horuford-Bbiro ; and her letters to her husband , written to him from that house , showed nothing but affection for him , but aleo expressed her determination not to live with Mm , In one letter sho saye eho would rather bog j in
she was acquainted with a Mrs ; Pugh , who figured ! about a year and a half ago , in an action which she brought against a Mr . Rosenthal , the facts of which appeared in the Leader of December 8 th , 1855 , under the head of ' A Gay Lady . ' This person would accompany Mrs . Armitage to Colonel Macdonald ' s chambers and used also to see her at the house of a Captain Burslem . Two or three ' cousins' also used to come and see her" not old ones , " said the landlady of the house in which Mrs . Armitage then resided . " When the Colonel going to the Crimea , " said Mrs . Pugh in her evidence , " she and I went first to St . James ' Palace to see him , and then to the platform of the South-Western Railway . Matty were there taking leave of their friends . Colonel Macdonald kissed her ; she was much affected . He had she was acauainted with a Mrm p » i , « , u- .= V
another , that she would sooner die . She afterwarrf « w \ to the house of a relation in Scotland ; " l ^ ffi ?" received from her husband- sometime ^» a 7 hi ^ S request—various presents in the way of articles ofd « Towards the close of 1850 , she wrote Jf 2 ? £ f £ was going to return to England , and that she »^ fulfil all her duties as a wife , and do all ahfl cn , S please her husband . In 1851 , Mr . ArnSage lost sfeht of her , but afterwards discovered that she wm in f ? habit of visiting the defendant , Colonel Macdonald who is aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge Notwithstanding the identity of name , it does not amiear that the Colonel and the young lady are related She visited him frequently at his chambers in the Albany and he visited her at her apartments . About this time !
her in his arms , and might have kissed her twenty times , for what I know . There were officers of rank in the saloon carriage . Colonel Macdonald got in . She ran up and said , * Here Jemmy , is my marriage handkerchief , ' and threw it to him wetted with her tears . " This account of what passed at the station was corroborated by a written statement from ' a distinguished personage , ' as the reporters phrase it , who was at that time in the saloon carriage , and which was read by consent . In 1855 , after his return from the Crimea , Colonel
Macdonald again frequently visited the lady at her lodgings , till one Sunday evening , when he stayed ten minutes , went away , slammed the door , and never came again . " Several gentlemen , " said the landlady , " called on Mrs . Armitage , but none walked out with her but Colonel Macdonald , and that was to church . " In May , 1856 , Mrs . Armitage—then calling herself Mrs . Macdonald—gave birth to a male chiH at Little Stanhopestreet , May Fair . Here Colonel Macdonald again visited her , and she seemed glad to see him . She afterwards lived at Albert Terrace , and was found one day crying over a religious book . - her husband
The way in which she was traced by was thus narrated by Mr . Shaw , the plaintiff ' s attorney , and his cousin : — " We went all over London after her , and employed detectives , and advertised in the Times . Mr . Armitage had seen her at the theatre with a young man , fair and with sandy hair . He went to the box and called him out , and said , ' Are you aware that the lady with whom you are is my wife ?* The fair man said , ? No ; our meeting was purely accidental . ' Mr . Armitage demanded his card , and he gave him one with Mr . Lloyd * on it . Mr . Armitage asked for the address , and he wrote ? Palace-chambers , St . James ' s , on it . VWiue the theatre in
this was going on , Mrs . Arraitage left a cab with an elderly gentleman . He gave money to the waterman on the stand , and found that the cab had taken her up to Lord Aberdeen's , but she went in at one gate and out at the other . We found this out from the ? orter , for , having traced her to Lord Aberdeen * « inquired there . We saw Colonel « o rj \ ? 8 £ ? * f not the man . The 10 th or 11 th of March , 1851 , was the date of the theatre business . " ., „ , „ * rolonel Mr . Serjeant Shee , for the defence , said that Colonel Macdonald wad entirely ignorant of the fact of JKw . Arroitage beings married , and that , at any rate , heougM only toVobiiged to pay very small damages . The jury found a verdict for tho plaintiff : damages , 10 W .
•Celestial' Profligacy. A Glimpse Into T...
• CELESTIAL' PROFLIGACY . A glimpse into the horrible profligacy of the Cbmeao colony established at Bluegatc-fields , ; . S ^ woll , was afforded on Tuesday at tho Thames po » ce- < jourt , jjw Lenin Apoo , a » Celestial / was charged wit !» ^"" g a countryman , named Sangtoo , by Striking himon ^ head with a hammer . Apoo keeps certain houaos * £ fame for the accommodation of his ™* ntZII % S toSL to which they give a very etraightforward desJgjUon . Sangtoo formerly lived in one of them ; ^ t Wttjy has set up business on his own account , fhileuw blood j and at length Apoo set upon Sangtoo ^ bit h » h and finally knocked him down witu a » ain ™ u ap _ assault *•» fully proved . Tho Chinese beggars H » P pears , often collect from two to four * h ™ a &* J ] Sangioo keeps two disreputable houses , Ji thttwj S iu eachfor tho special sooicty- of tho Cm » u »» " »>
, spend their evenings with them . Rtraxnt » f ° « turc Mr . Yardley said , this case disclosed n , stra > g ¦ in our social system , but It tni . not tbe tot ttaw of heard of and commented upon it ™ % \ u ^ . HoU nest , of from fifty to ninety Chinamen ^ " 2 il ) g to who ' leave that vile and filthy place every ^ »« JJ « solicit alms , distribute themselves «» d «^ ° ; u blick Iu west-end of London in tho daytime , and tomo w
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Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27061857/page/8/
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