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'No. 401, November 28, 1857.] T H E.IEAD...
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OUR CIVILIZATIGN. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT...
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'No. 401, November 28, 1857.] T H E.Iead...
'No . 401 , November 28 , 1857 . ] T H E . IEAD E E , 1135
Our Civilizatign. Central Criminal Court...
OUR CIVILIZATIGN . CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The November session commenced on Monday . The chief case that day -was a charge of misdemeanour , consisting in the publication of certain indecent and libellous placards , brought against James Cowan , an elderly wan . He pleaded guilty , on au understanding that he should merely be required to enter into his recognizances to come ilp and receive the judgment of the court on a future occasion , if called upon to do so , but that no such proceeding should be taken if the offence were not repeated . It appears that he is a medical man , carrying on business in Westminster ,, and 'in a moment of excitement , ' as his counsel said , he put forth , certain indecent placards outside has shop . Mr . Bodkin , who
appeared for the prosecution , said that these placards ¦ were ' calculated td create dissension among ; the Queen ' s troops , and to prevent persona enlisting , and the exhibition also caused crowds of persons to assemble , thus occasioning a public nuisance . " Some doubt was entertained by Mr . Bodkin as . to ¦ whether Cowan was acting in good faith ; indeed , it "was said that offensive placards were still being exhibited outside his shop , one of which ' contained a most indecent attack upon an illustrious personage . * Mr . Serjeant Parry { who * appeared for Cowan ) said that the placards now exhibited ¦ were simply medical . Mr . Bodkin did not make any objection to the arrangement that had been come to , and Cowan , having entered into his recognizances , was discharged .
_ A young man of respectable appearance , named Mark Nicholas Powles , was tried on a singular charge . Two journeymen tailors were last July committed for trial on achaTge of forging two orders for the payment of money ; and Powles and another became bail for their appearance at the Central Criminal Court . One of them absconded ; and it was then found that Powles had given a false Christian name , and that he had since been committed to Holloway Prison for some offence . He vras found Guilty , and sentenced to hard labour for fifteen months . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - : ¦¦ - ..- ' ¦ .- . /¦ .-. ' ¦ ' •" . - ' ¦' / ' ' '¦ . ¦¦ - ' /
John Kirby Richards , clerk , pleaded guilty on Tuesday to an indictment charging hint with obtaining a- chequebook from the London and Westminster Bank by a forged order , and to three othera -which-charged him-with forging cheques for different amounts . He said that distress had induced him to commit the offence . The brokers were in the house , and his family had nothing to eat . It appeared , h 6 wever r that he had committed previous offences , and he -was sentenced to six years ' penal servitude . John Colbraith , a prisoner at Coldbath Fields House of Correction , has been found guilty of an assault oh Charles Alldis , one of the warders , and sentenced to four years ' penal servitude . .
David liees Davis , a . schoolmaster at a ragged school , has been found guilty of obtaining 5 / . 5 s . by false pretences . His counsel urged that he had been in very great distress ; but he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment . James Sankey , police-constable ; Matilda Ross , spinster ; William Burnett , labourer ; and Ellen Mills , widow , were indicted , Burnett and Sankey with stealing property valued at 500 / ., the property of Rosabella Robertson Aikman , Ross with aiding and abetting in the
commission of the felony , and Mills -with having feloniously received part of the property . Sankey was put into the house of Mrs . Aikman , in Portland-street , while the famity were away , to take care of the property ; and the way he took care of it was to appropr iate it to himself , and abscond , lie was subsequently taken into custody , in company with the woman Ross , atMiddleton in the county of Cork , Ireland . Ross was Acquitted , but the others were found Guilty . Sankey was sentenced to six , and Burnett and Mills to four years' penal servitude .
John Mark 3 , Samuel Marks , and Abraham Simmonds , wore tried on Wednesday ( on a charge already familiar to onr readers ) of felony , in having , after John Marks had been adjudged a bankrupt , concealed and embezzled a portion of his effects , with intent to defraud the creditors . All were found Guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for eight years—a sentence with which they wore greatly astounded . The case occupied the whole day . Henry Zachariah Jervis , a well-educated man , was indicted for obtaining-by falsa pretences from a Mrs
Parker 21 , 10 s . Mrs . Parker is insane , and . subject to strange delusions , ooo of which is that she is kept out of an enormous fortune Jervia , who said ho was a lawyer , the sou of the late Sir John Jervis , the brother-in-law of the Turkish , ambassador , and a man of large means , undertook to recover this fortune , and , on the faith of doing bo , obtained money from Mrs . Parker . That lady was put into the witness-box , but she was evidently demented . Jervis waa found Guilty , and sentenced to cighteon months' hard labour . Hoexclnimod , " 1 am innocent ; but God ' s will bo done !"
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UOBniSRir AN 1 > AXTBMPXKtt MuitDKtt Oir A PoUCBMA . N . —A singular double charge was brought at tho Mansion House on Tuesday against a Bavarian named Christian Sattler , who formerly served hi the Freuo . li
army in Algeria , and afterwards as a private in the Anglo-German Legion , but who appears to be a person of good education . He was recently-at St . Ives , Huntingdonshire , and , while there , seems to have possessed himself of a carpet-bag , containing money and shares to the amount of 234 ? ., belonging to a Mr . Ballantine . This matter was put into the hands of the London police ; and Sergeant Thain , the detective officer , was despatched to Hamburg , where Sattler was supposed to have gone , and where he was discovered and captured . On the way back to England , v hile on board the ship Caledonia , Sattler said his handcuffs pained him , and asked to have them taken off 1 . This was done , and the man went to his berth .-where he seems to have torn
down a piece of metal from which a lamp was suspended , and thus broke open a corner of his box , from which he took a pistol . Thain entering shortly afterwards , he shot him in the breast ; alleging subsequently that he had done so because the officer had promised not to fetter him , and he -would shoot any man like a dog who broke his word . He said he had bought the pistol at Hamburg in order to shoot a man who owed him 25 £ , adding , with reference to the present offence , " I suggested to myself that I-would take my own life ; but tlie officer came upon me rather suddenly , and I told him the contents of the pistol would be as well in his
breast as in mine . " He asked the engineer if he thought Thain would die ; and , being answered in the negative , observed , " Then , he ought , for there were shots sufficient in the pistol . " He also observed , ¦ " I am a Deist , a robber , and a murderer . I have shot the man , and I suppose I shall be tried for it . " To the captain of the vessel he said that the shot was not meant for Thain at all ; it was intended for himself ; but tlie officer came in unexpectedly , and so received the charge . Sattler ( who asserts that the ^ witnesses have sworn false ) has been remanded . It is hoped that the wound received by Thain is not mortal ; but it is serious .
The Ashoveh Muedeis . —Ah inquest has been held at Ashover on the body of James ^ Simpson , the farmer , who was murdered on the 13 th , inst . on ? the highroad , under circumstances already detailed in this paper . The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown . Embezzlement .- —Josiah Foot , a young man of eighteen , ; who has been employed as a clerk in the long room of the Southampton Custom House , has been apprehended on a chai-ge of misappropriating funds to a considerable amount .
The Charge of Violestce aoaikst the Police . — The seaman Williams , who was recently injured by two policemen in Ratclifte Highwa 3 ' , has died , and the two constables were brought up before the Thames magistrate on Wednesday . The case was remanded to next Monday . . . Murderous Attack on a Policeman . —As Policeconstable Thomas Carson was proceeding on the turnpike road near the village of Todwici , about seven miles from Rotherham , at one o ' clock on Monday morning , he was shot at from behind a hedge , and was wounded in the right lore-arm . He drew his pistol and fired into the place whence the sound had- proceeded , and then commenced a search , but ' without , finding any one . Becoming faint from loss of blpotl , he returnod home , and was found on medical examination to have sustained very severe injury .
Alleged Mukuek on tub High Seas . —Captain J . A . Christie , commander of the barque Elizabeth , and James Millard , first officer of the same vessel , are under remand at Liverpool on a charge of causing the death of Francisco Rodriguez , a Spanish seaman , on the voynye from New Calabar to England . Kodriyucz : one day broke the binnacle lamp , aud the captain then knocked him down , kicked him for live or six minutes all over tlie body , anil . stamped with his Iieel on the lower part of the man ' s back , so that a portion of bone protruded . On subsequent days , the captain and the first ' officer bent and kicked Rodriguez with fearful violence , nearly throttled him , and forced him to do his work , though scarcely able to move . At length he died , and the body was thrown into the sea . Christie and Millard have been arrested on the evidence of some of the crew .
Distuuiuso Di : ai > Boiuk . s . —Mr . Thomas Piper , junior , builder , of 173 , Bishopsfjato-stroet , and JMr . John Youny , architect , of 35 , lving-strect , Cheapsidc , wore summoned at the Mansion House on Monday , on a churge of disiiiti-rring the dead bodies of several persons in Bloomficld-strect , Moorlields , and leaving them exposed to the open air in a state of decomposition , so thut tlio neighbourhood was annoyed and imperilled by horrible effluvia . A school i . s about to be erected adjoining the Roman Catholic chapel , Moorllulds , and a part of it will be erected over a portion of the buriul-Lrround .
Soveral bodies havu therefore bcon disinterred , but sufliciunt care has not been taken to avoid oil'misivc smells , and it is oven asserted that a vast quantity of human bonus have been taken away , and sold to dealers in marine stores . The City Solicitor said he acquitted the defendants of any cognizance of these transactions ; but they hud been done by those in their employ . The counsel for tho defendants bore denied their knowlodgo of the facts alleged ; asked for an adjournment ; and promised to ussist in the inquiry . The adjournment was agreed to . Tho subject haa been brought before
the attention of the City Commissioners of Sewers by Dr . Letheby , and steps were ordered to be taken for the abatement of the nuisance . . Destitutiosc ix the Streets . — -The approach of winter is . bringing the usual number of cases of lamentable . destitution haunting the streets , applying in vain to the workhouses for relief , and driven into committing petty offences in order , to get shelter and food at the police station . An Irishman , named Timothy Bagley , has been twice examined at the Westminster police-office on a charge of breaking windows at Chelsea workhouse . He is a cripple , and {' presents' a miserable aspect of poverty . One evening , he went to the workhouse doors , and demanded a night's lodging ; but he was informed
that ' tramps * were not admitted there . The door was then shut , and the poor wretch , being reduced to desperation , broke tlie windows on purpose that he might be given into custody . On the second examination of the mail , Mr . Eagles , the relieving officer of the parish , attended , and , in a very flippant and almost impudent manner , justified his conduct . Mr . Arnold , the magistrate , said that , if the man were not admitted , he ought at any rate to liave been relieved . Mr . Eagles thought not . The man had gone about from parish to parish , living upon the public , and had left Shoreditch workhouse on the very day when he applied at Chelsea . The magistrate , however , still insisted that , as the man was destitute , lie ought to have been relieved somewhere .
" If the parish of St . Luke , Chelsea , was right in refusing tramps relief , every other parishwould be justified in doing the same , and what would become of the class of paupers termed tramps who , according to the showing , ¦ would not be entitled to relief anywhere ? " Mr . Eagles said that the police had orders not to bring ordinary tramps to either his house or the workhouse . Mr . Arnold apprehended that the parish authorities had no power to give any orders to the police . Mr . Eagles complained that his house was nightly beset with tramps . Mr . Arnold said he did not wonder at it if they were refused relief at the workhouse . ' Finally , he discharged the man , who had already undergone sufficient imprisonment for his slight offence .- —Foiir children- ^—two boys and two girls—of ages ranging from three to ten , vyere
charged at the Mansion House with begging in Old Broad-street . Their father is at present in prison for stealing a cash-box , and the mother does riot attempt to work , but sends the children out to beg . When taken into custody , they were without shoes or stockings , and seemed perishing from hunger and cold . The Lord ! Mayor said : — Two of these children I saw myself yesterday , and told a policeman to go after them , but they escaped . Their legs were perfectly red from the cold , and looked more like pieces of raw beef than portions of the human frame . The smallest of these children , has a cough , which must necessarily destroy it in . a month or two . I am determined that there shall be no little boys or girls begging about the . public streets . The officer must take these four children to the Union , and serve the mother with a summons . "
Suicide and A-rrEMjeTED'MuKixiii :.- — On the afternoon of last Saturday , a young unmarried woman named Maria Lewis , living in Union-street , Commercial-roadeast , Avcnt into her bedroom , accompanied by a little girl of three ye . ir .-s old , apparently with the intention of retiring : to rest . A few hours afterwards she was found dead , and the child was suffering greatly from pain aud sickness ; but , an antidote being administered to her , she - was in some degree recovered . Two teacups , one of which was Still partly filled -with oxalic acid , while the
other had evidently contained the same liquid , -were found on the table in the room . A letter , without signature or date , was likewise found , in which it was stated that the writer had taken tlie child ' s life as well as . her own , in order that she might not !> o a burden to anyone . According to the account which the child gave on tho following morning , the woman drank a cup of the poison , and gave some to herself , but jis she was ill at the time she did not swallow it . Tho woman had beea in a very depressed state of mind for some tinio past .
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GATHERINGS TRQaI THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A CA 9 K was hoard at tho Aylesbury County Court oil Friday week , involving the point whether the owners of bulls are permitted to turn them out without taking rn-opcr care to prevent their breaking through tho fences and herding with other graziers' stock . The plaintiff was a Mr . Senior , of Broughton Hall , near Aylosbury , a magistrate for tho county , and a well-known grazier ; tho defendant was Mr . Self , the manager of tho London and County Dank at Aylesbury ; and the action was
brought to recover 1 . 9 / . 10 rf . damaged . Mr . . Senior asserted that he possessed a breed of puro Dovons , and that a bull from Mr . Self ' s neighbouring grounds broke his way through tho fence , and led tw lliu degeneracy of tho breed . Witnesses were called on ( lie part of Mr . Self to show that them was nothing extraordinary in the breed of Mr . Senior ' s . stock ; ami the jury , in giving a verdict for the plnintiir , only awarded onu shilling damages . This nwull . was rouolved by tho public in court with noi-ny npplau . se . Sir Frederick TJicaigor ( on behalf of tho Solicitor-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28111857/page/7/
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