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OUR CIVILIZATION. : ? CENTRAL CRIMINAL C...
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THE ASSIZES. John Godfrey Patrick Bride,...
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MURDER IN THE HAMPSTEAD ROAD. An Italian...
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Forgery and Embezzlement.—John Hodges, a...
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The Surrey Gardens Bankruptcy. Tub Bankr...
ney received for' her tad been handed into the bank , S ^ ere it reniainedintact , atidit would be paid to die committee when they applied for it . An account had already been rendered to the committee . . The Court -then ordered the matter to stand over until the 17 th of October , it being Understood that a meeting of the shareholders should be held in the interim .
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OUR CIVILIZATION . : ? CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Antonio » i Salvi , the Italian charged with stabbing a Mn Robertson in the Queen ' s Bench prison , has been tried for that offence . There had been money transactions between the two , and Di Salvi seems to have lost a great deal of money by Mr . Robertson , whom he accused of cheating him . On the 8 th of July , he went to the prison in company with a Mr . Gower ( a stockbroker , and one of Mr . Robertson ' s detaining creditors ) , and , after some angry discussion , stabbed him in the face and other parts of the body , Mr . Gower all the while exclaiming , " Give it the villain ! " It seems , however , that Mr . Gower thought Di Salvi was only striking Mr . Robertson with his fists . On perceiving the truth , he rushed from the room With a face of horror , shuddering , and exclaiming , "Oh ! " He was detained , and was found to be in so excited a state that he could hardly speak . Di Salvi was also secured , and he at once admitted his guilt , and said that Mr . Gower had nothing to do with the affair . The latter , however , was remanded from time to time at the police-office , but was admitted to bail , and the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court threw out the bill against him . rhe utmost that could be said in defence of Di Salvi by Mr . Edwin James , his counsel , was that the act was committed in an ungovernable fit of fury caused by the illconduct of Mr . Robertson , and that the accused did not intend t < fcommit murder . Several noblemen and gentlemen , by whom he had been employed as a valet , gave him a good character . Mr . Baron Martin then summed up , and observed that , the counsel for the prisoner having admitted that the offence imputed to him could not be reduced below the crime of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm , the only points for
the consideration of the jury were , whether the evidence made out the intent to be murder , or whether there were any facts in the case that would warrant them . in convicting him of the less serious offence The jury retired to deliberate upon their verdict , and in a very few minutes they returned into court , and found the prisoner Guilty upon the second count of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm . At the same time , they strongly recommended him to mercy on account of the good character he had received , and the provocation that had been given him . Baron Martin said he did not appear to have received any provocation . The only ground for his recommendation was his good character . Mr . Robertson appeared to be still in a dangerous state , and , if he died , the prisoner would still have to take his trial for murder . He was then sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years . [ The Judge ' s anticipation has been fulfilled . Mr . Robertson died last Saturday ; and the inquest on bis body has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Di Salvi . ] George Cox , found Guilty last week of stabbing his wife and her paramour , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour .
The Assizes. John Godfrey Patrick Bride,...
THE ASSIZES . John Godfrey Patrick Bride , a surgeon , has been tried at the Liverpool Assizes for the murder of Margaret M'Greal . The woman was a stewardess on board a vessel , and , finding herself pregnant , she went ( according to a statement made by her shortly before her death ) to Mr . Bride , and induced him to perform an operation which should cause the death of the infant . This , she asserted , was done by him , but she received a wound which resulted in extensive hemorrhage . On the 10 th of July she died , and a post mortem examination showed that a serious injury had been inflicted . To contradict the cose for the prosecution , the counsel for the defence on the trial produced a woman , a midwife , who swore that M'Greal had told her during her last illness , that she had operated on herself with a metal skewer , and that the wound was thus produced . On hearing this evidence , the Judge said there was an end of the onso , and tho jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
Elizabeth Kelly haa been tried at Liverpool on n charge of murdering her child , n boy aged four yoara . She wna a widow , and , though the boy had every appearanco of boinir healthy , she constantly put forth that he was ill and Ukely to die . After administering various medicines , by tho advice of medical men , she got a Wend to purchase for her some laudanum . On 'the following day , tho child died . It then appeared that ho was enrolled in a burial club , from which the mother obtained < Ll after the death . She had denied that tho child was in a burial club ; she tried very hard to get n certificate to tho effect that tho death was from fits ; and she wished to have the body buried immediately . Her counsel at the trial argued that there waa no evidence of the mother having administered tho opium ; that , oven
if she had , it might baye beea simply .. used as a sedative ; thai ; the ' . Womaahad . alwaysshpTyn a mother ' s love ; and that she had worked like a slavey and almost starved herself , in order that the child might live . The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . ^— ^^^ m— ^^^^^™^^^^^^^ ^" . .. . . ¦ " ~~ . .
Murder In The Hampstead Road. An Italian...
MURDER IN THE HAMPSTEAD ROAD . An Italian shopman has been killed in the Hampsteadroad by a drunken smith . The name of the Italian was Gallo Benzanelli , and he was employed in the shop of Joseph Barelti , a confectioner , No . 17 , Adam ' s-row . About two o ' clock on Sunday morning , a smith , named Cornelius Denny , went into the shop , the worse for drink , and had some ice and gingerbeer , together with a woman in whose company he was . He then sat down and went to sleep . The time for closing the shop having arrived , Denny was roused , when he fell on the floor , I but was raised up , and reseated in the chair . He then became abusive , and the woman took him by the coat ,
urging him not to ' make himself silly . ' At the same time , Benzanelli put his hand to > his back , and pushed him out . Shortly afterwards , while Benzanelli was putting up the shutters , there was a scuffle between him and Denny , and Baretti separated them . Benzanelli then went back into the house , and brought out a little stick , with which to strike Denny ; but Baretti took it from him , and it was then found that Benzanelli was seriously wounded in the abdomen . A policeman at that time came up , and Denny was taken into custody . Benzanelli ( who was only nineteen ) has since died . Denny is under remand at the Marylebone police-office . He is an Irishman , and this is not the first time he has used the knife .
Forgery And Embezzlement.—John Hodges, A...
Forgery and Embezzlement . —John Hodges , a clerk in the Birkbeck Life Assurance Company , has been charged at the Lambeth police-office with embezzling various sums of money from his employers , and with forging the receipts of the persons to whom the amounts ought to hare been paid . A part of the business of the Company consists in providing payments for seamen during sickness ; and it appears to have been some of these payments which Hodges misappropriated . He was remanded , and has since been committed for trial . Wife-beating . —A tobacconist , named Drurey , living in Tooley-street , Borough , has been sentenced by the Southwark magistrate to three . months' hard labour for ill-using his wife . He appears to be in the habit of getting excessively drunk , and of making savage attacks on his wife , who , hvwever , appeared against him with great reluctance . On hearing the sentence , he appeared greatly startled and shocked , and exclaimed , " Oh , good Godl "
Conviction for Embezzlement . —J . C . Cox , late Grand Master of the Order of Odd Fellows ( Manchester Unity ) , was placed at the bar of the Southampton Borough Court , on Friday week , charged on remand -with not giving up the funds committed to his keeping as corresponding secretary of the order . —The bench declared the charge to be proved , and ordered Cox to pay the amount ( 12 ij . 14 s . 10 d . ) to the society , or in default to be imprisoned for two calendar months , with hard labour . The money was not forthcoming , and Cox was committed to gaol . As soon as he is set at liberty , he will again bo arrested on a charge of embezzling the funds . Should he be convicted of this he will be transported .
Es « ai * e fkom Bkdlam . — Joseph King , an insane felon confined in Bethlehem Hospital , has escaped under circumstances very similar to those characterising Jack Sheppard's flight from Newgate . On Friday week , upon going to the men ' s dormitory , tho keeper was astonished at finding that King had gone , and that a largo hole had been made in the wall , through which it was clear he had got out . A sheet and a blanket had been tied together , and by those means he succeeded in sliding down into the street , distance considerably more than twenty feet , and had then got clear off . The authorities are of opinion that it must have taken the man nearly a week to have bored the hole in the wall ; and how ho succeeded in accomplishing his object without observation is very singular .
Seizure ov Tobacco . —A man has been taken into custody in the neighbourhood of Southampton , on a charge of having been engaged in smuggling 1644 pounds of tobacco . Ho waa found , in company with another man , driving a cart , which excited the suspicions of an officer of the Customs ; and , the cart being searched , the tobacco ' was discovered . Both tho men were then taken into custody ; but one escaped . Nbglisot ov QuihVRKN . —Richard Pavott , a farrier ' s smith , has been charged at tho Clorkenwell police-court with neglecting and starving his three children . The
story was similar to > many others which come out from time to time before tho magistrates . The children were rescued from their misery by tho parish officers , who found them emaciated and dirty , almost naked , and covered with vermin . Tho father said ho had loft ' hit ) dear children' in the care of their eldest sister , and that it was no fault of his that they were noglectod ; but it appeared that ho Bpont a good deal of money in drink . It was finally arranged that tho children uhould bo retained at tho workhouse , and that tho father should pay for thorn , which ho expressed !>»» willingness to do . Mvitcnn and Suioxdk . —A desperate Irish faction
fight broke out in Dudley on Friday week , between two men named Michael Hickey and J . Higgins , which ended in the former rushing into a butcher ' s shop , taking up a knife from the block , and plunging it into his fellow-countryman ' s bowels , from which death ensued . Hickey was thereupon taken into custody . On Monday , as the constables having the charge of him were going their rounds , they found Hickey leaning against the wall of his cell , apparently in a helpless state , with his head hanging down . On approaching him , it was discovered that he was deadand that he had suspended ^ i _ , _ -. « . * . •— . f \ . >^ 11 n . * ***• 17-M / To ^ r urotalr . hAf . Wflftn . fcTVA
, himself by his handkerchief from one of the bars of the window of his cell . He had chalked the following ( sup posed to be addressed to his wife ) on his cell-door : — "If you do what I told you , I would not lose my life . May the Lord hkve mercy on the soul I have taken through drunkenness ; and the Lord have mercy on mine ! Go to your child , and go to my sister . Do tho best you can for your children . I forgive , and God forgive you . " The ' inquest on the body of Higgins has been held before the coroner for Worcestershire , and ha * ended in a verdict of Manslaughter against Hickey .
I Wife-beating . —Jeremiah Clark , a cabinet-maker , was charged at Worship-street on Monday with an assault upon his wife . The woman , who had a young infant in her arms apparently dying , and who was m the family way , said : — " Yesterday afternoon , my husband came home drunk , and I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself to return in such a state when ho knew my baby was dying . He instantly struck me two violent blows in the face , the first of which made my mouth bleed , and , on my threatening to stab him with a table-fork if heillused me again , he struck me repeatedly upon the chest , arms , and face , till my landlady camu in and saved me from further violence . He has
frequently beaten me in this way before , and in consequence of his cruel usage I was confined with this infant two months before my time , and was therefore an hospital patient for three months . " The landlady confirmed thi . i testimony , and said that , on her remonstrating with the husband , he said that he had a right to do what lie liked with his wife . Before the magistrate , he asserted that his wife had endeavoured to stab him after using irritating remarks ; and he called his father , who asserted that the accused was the best natured of his seven children , and that the wife was a drunkard . On bein ^; questioned , he admitted that this latter assertion was on the fuith Of what others had told him , and not from his own knowledge . The mag istrate , therefore , indignantly told him to stand down , and sentenced the husband to
six months' hard labour . The Robbeuy in the Commercial-boad , Lamheth . —Charles Heather , the man charged with , breaking into the counting-house of Messrs . Cory and Sons , coalmerchants , Commercial-road , Lambeth , with stealing a large sum of money , and with assaulting tho watchman , has been discharged by the Southwark magistrate , tho evidence not being sufficient to convict him . Attempted MuitoEK in Milbank PuisoN . — James Gorman , a convict at Millbank , hus made an attempt on the life of one of the sub-warders of that prison . One morning , about a week ago , four of the Qonvictu were conducted to chapel by Warder Wilkio and hid subordinate officer Bevington , to attend divino service , which is held there daily . Owing to tho ferocious
character of the prisoners , it is considered necessary to permit only a very small number of them to attend the chapel at the same time , and , as tho present band were leaving the building at the conclusion of tho service , Gorman suddenly rushed on Bevington and felled him to tho ground . Ho afterwards inflicted a severe wound in the wardor ' s face with a sharp-pointed weapon , which pierced quite through the iloshy part of the face , coming out at the mouth under tho upper lij ) . Wilkio immediately seized tho assassin , who was disarmed and locked up in one of the strong cells of the prison . Little hope in entertained of Bevington ' s recovery , and it is more than probable that , if he should survive tho injuries he has received , he will be disabled for life . It is conjectured that tho blows aimed by Gorman were meant for Wilkio and not for Bovington , as It appears that tho former was groatly disliked by tho convicts in oonsequonco of his
determination to carry out the discipline of the prison . From an investigation which was afterwards made into the affair by one of tho prison inspectors , at tho instigation of tho Homo Secretary , it transpired that Gorman , who is one of tho worst of the Millbank convicts , haw twice beforo attempted tho life of the officers in whose charge ho has beou placed . Tho first of these murderous assaults was committed in one of tho midlund county gaols , whoro ho waa undergoing a abort torm of imprisonment ; and for this assault he was tried and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . Tho other murderous attempt took place in Pontonville Model Priuon , in oonsoquoncpof which , Gorman was transferred to tho ponal cjusfl of convicts , and uont to tho Millbank Penitentiary but four months ago . Not many days boforo tlila last afl'uir , he declared to tho chaplain that ho would do for some of tho prison authorities boforo long .
Atjtemit to UrHKT a Kaii . wav T « ain .--U « o thirdclasa passongor train from Lancaster to Proton , last Saturday ovening , had just reached IJroughton , when tho ongine-drlver » uddonly oxpoxloncod a groat tthook . At first , ho thought that tho train was thrown off tho lino ; but It proceeded to it * destination without any further obstruction , and It waa then discovered that tbo
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29081857/page/9/
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