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104j THE LEADEK. [No. 410, January 30, 1...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. CHARGES AGAINST POLICE...
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Embezzlement.—Frederick Perry, an assist...
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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104j The Leadek. [No. 410, January 30, 1...
104 j THE LEADEK . [ No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 .
Our Civilization. Charges Against Police...
OUR CIVILIZATION . CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMEN . Julian Lkb , a policeman , was tried at the Middlesex Sessions for assaulting -with his truncheon one Philip Burke . This man had often been in custody for illusing the police ; and , on the occasion when he received the blow complained of , there was a disturbance in Graft on Court , Mary lebone . Burke was looking on , but it does not appear that he was engaged in the riot . However , he received a blow from a truncheon , and he swears that Lee was the man who gave it him . On the other hand , it was shown that Lee was struck with a poker , and that the blow received by Burke was dealt by another constable . Lee , who had formerly been a soldier , and who had a medal for his good services in the Russian war , was able to produce a very good character as a ' constable . The jury bronght in a verdict of Not Guilty . —Joseph Maskell , another policeman , has been examined at the Greenwich police-court on a charge of disgraceful violence . He had been drinking at a public housethough he was on duty at the time , and ,
becom-, ing intoxicated , he got quarrelling with some of the customers , and more especially with a Mr . Merritt , a shopkeeper in the neighbourhood . This person was attacked by the constable while in the bar of the tavern , but a blow which the policeman aimed with his fist was averted . The landlord then saw Mr . Merritt home ; but he had not been long in his back parlour before the constable forced his way in , with the collar of his coat turned up to hide the nnmber , and struck his adversary first a blow with his fist , and next one with his truncheon . Owing to the latter , a good deal of blood flowed , and the poor man fell insensible . The policeman afterwards threatened with his staff the people who had gathered outside , and then made his way off . On being apprehended by other constables , he was very violent , and he behaved in a flippant and contemptuous manner when brought before the magistrate . The case was remanded in order that a medical certificate might be put in with respect to the condition of the injured man .
Embezzlement.—Frederick Perry, An Assist...
Embezzlement . —Frederick Perry , an assistant to an artists' colourman , Holborn , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling the sum of 76 / . from his employer . He at first absconded , but afterwards voluntarily surrendered . Assault . —rA woman , named Newman , lodging in the house of a Mrs . Walsh * a newsvender in Sherrard-street , has committed so violent an assault on her landlady that the life of the latter is endangered . There had been several quarrels between the two , and one evening Mrs . Walsh went into Mrs . Newman ' s room to complain to her husband of some abuse which had been uttered .
On seeing her enter , Mrs . Newman knocked her down , and her head came violently against the floor . Concussion of the brain was the result ; medical aid was called in ; but unfavourable symptoms supervened . The Marlborough-street magistrate accordingly went to the injured woman ' s , bedside , and took her deposition ; and Mrs . Newman is now under remand . False Pretences . —A man named Maynall , carrying on business at Nuneaton , Warwickshire , as a purchaser and seller of rags , is under remand at the Marylebone police-office on a charge of defrauding Mr . John Wilkinson , also of Nuneaton , of property amounting in value to between 40 / . and 50 / . Mr . Wilkinson had been in
the habit of selling rags to Maynall , who one day persuaded him to send some up to a firm in London , from whom he would get better prices . He therefore despatched a quantity by rail ; but Maynall received it at the station , had it removed in a van , and sold it on his own account . Mr . Wilkinson afterwards came to London , and , meeting Maynall , whoso fraud ho had by this time discovered , gave him into custody . Several other persona have been defrauded in the same way by the prisoner . A Scoundrel . Inadequately Punished . —A young man named Sayer Milward , a law student residing in Cambridge-terrace , Hyde-park , was charged on Monday at the Lambeth police-court with indecently assaulting a girl of eleven years , who looked older , at the Crystal Palace . She was in one of the galleries , listening to the music , when the young man put his hand under her
dress , and caught hold of her leg . This he repeated , and the girl then spoke to her uncle , who gave the Bcamp into custody . When brought before the magistrate , he said to the girl , in an affected , drawling tone , " You say I said nothing . Didn't I aay I did not hurt you ? " The girl denied this . Milward , who affected a _^ Jtqne eOJllinejis , then admitted he had done what he wa 8 charged with " , buTdeniFailiaTit ' vraiS'T 1 vvith' -flny-immode 8 t intention . It was " only a joke , and did not do any harm . " He was fined forty shillings ; but certainly , as a matter of justice , l » o ought to have been Bent to prison . Assaultino the Police . —A well-dressed man , named John Wilson , haa been examined before the Marlborough-streot magistrate on a charge of assaulting several police constables . One of them was on duty in tjhe Haymarkot between two and three o ' clock in the . morning , when ho aaw the accused conducting himself in a very strange manner to the pasBora-by , and
attempting to stop some cabs by forcibly laying hold of the wheels . He was therefore taken into custody , when he became extremely furious , and kicked the constable repeatedly on his legs and body . However , he was finally taken to the station-house , but not without the assistance of several other policemen , all of whom he resisted in a violent manner , and severely injured them . So great was his bodily strength , that it was necessary to strap him to a stretcher before he could be secured , and after the police had got him to the station-house , they were obliged to handcuff him and lock him up . He was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . The Slop-selling System . —Emily Druce , a miserable-looking woman , has been charged at the Worshipstreet police-office with having pawned a pair of trousers which had been given to her to make up . The materials had been supplied by a wholesale dealer in the Minories to a man named Harris who undertook to make the trousers for a shilling . After he had executed a part of the work by means of a sewing-machine , Harris handed it over to another man named Mears to finish . Mears in his turn engaged the woman Druce for the latter purpose , giving her the thread on . the understanding that he was to pay her » threepence-halfpenny for her work-Finding , however , that this remuneration was insufficient to purchase necessaries for herself and a child whom she had to support , her husband having deserted her , she pledged the trousers , when she had finished them , for seven shillings . Mr . D'Eyncourt fined her five shillings for pawning the trousers , and ordered her to pay the redeeming value , or be sent to prison , in default , for three days . Of course , to this poor creature the option was no option at all ; and so we have another human victim to the Juggernaut of slop-selling . The Knife . —Antonio Pinner , a Greek seaman , and Edward Mahoney , an Irish labourer , have been reexamined at the Thames police-office on the charge of wounding another Irishman with a knife . Mahoney was fined ten shillings , which he paid , and the Greek was committed to prison for two months , in default of paying a fine of five pounds . A Consummate Ruffian . —William Harris , alias Tony Ay res , a pugilist and thief , and one of the most desperate characters on the Surrey side of the water , was examined at Lambeth police-office on Tuesday on a charge of committing a series of ferocious assaults on a corporal of the 87 th Foot and on several policemen , while intoxicated at a public-house . He is described by the police as more like a savage beast than a human being . Charge of Murder at Sea . —John Burns , - third mate of the American ship America , was charged before Mr . Mansfield , the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , on Tuesday , with killing a seaman ( whose name has not yet transpired ) on board that vessel at sea . The America left Liverpool on the 6 th instant for New York , afid , a few days after her departure , Burns followed the deceased into the maintop and so savagely treated him that he fell on the deck , and afterwards died . The vessel was obliged to put into Cork , where Burns made his escape . The authorities were communicated with , and he was pursued and captured in Liverpool . He was remanded for the production of evidence .
Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The conviction of Christian Sattler for the murder of Charles Thain , the detective police-officer , haa been affirmed , after argument in the . Court of Exchequer before the fifteen Judges . Mr . Bullantine appeared in support of the appeal ; the Solicitor-General resisted it ; and Lord Campbell delivered the judgment of the Court . The crime was committed by the prisoner , not with a view to procure his liberation , but out of revenge for his being manacled ; and it was therefore murder . It mattered not whether Sattler was legally in custody at the time , or not ; the act of shooting was an act of revenge . The objections against jurisdiction in tlio matter of the trial , & c , were also overruled . Mr . Gye ' s rapid progress with the new Covent Garden Theatre seems likely to bo obstructed by the result of an application to Vice-Chancollor Wood by a Mr . Ford , a printer and bookbinder , in Hart-street . His house formerly received light from an opposite opening , called Princes ' s-place , which was used aa an entrance to some of the private boxes in the old theatre ; but the space has been covered in the now building , and tho consequence is , that Mr . Ford's promises are darkened . After some discussion , an order was taken by consent in the following terms : —" Tho defendant undertakes to abide by any order the Court may make as to pulling down thut portion of the north wall of the theatre ojipofllte-the-pItt ! ntlfl 7 B . proml 8 O 9-after ., tli , G _ 8 tf *^^^^^ plaintiff being at liberty to bring an action , and the " judgment in such action to bo dealt with as tho Court shall direct . Either party to bo at liberty to apply . " An order , under tho now Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act , wns made last Saturday by Mr . Tywhitt , tho Clerkenwoll magistrate , to protect tho property of a Mrs . Shepherd , who had boon deserted by her husband for tho last five yoara . Mr , Traill , at tho Woolwich police-court , made a similar order In a case of the like nature . In this Instance , tho wife had been deserted
for the last fifteen years , after she and her husband had lived comfortably together for some thirty years . —An application has been made at the Exeter Guildhall on behalf of a Mrs . Catharine Bond , who was married in 1826 , and deserted by her husband in 1853 . The husband is now in gaol on a charge of bigamy , and it ia feared that the wife will be made answerable for his debts . Protection of her property was therefore sought for ; but , as the husband had been admitted to her house by the wife for a few days last June , when he was destitute and begged for shelter , the bench found it impossible to grant the required order , though admitting the hardship of the case . ^ -There have been several other applications during the week . An action was brought in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday against Mr . Wyld , the mapseller of Charing-cross , a person named Parratt , his clerk , and three policemen , to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution . The plaintiff and another had been taken into custody on suspicion of stealing , and unlawfully disposing of , several maps from Mr . Wyld ' s shop in February , 1856 . They were tried at the Central Criminal Court , the one for stealing the maps , the other for guiltily receiving them , and the plaintiff in the present action was acquitted , while the other man was found guilty . In his cross-examination , the plaintiff , admitted having been in prison for receiving stolen goods ; and Mr . Justice Erie directed a verdict for the defendants . The case of Marsden and Marsden , shawl warehousemen , of High-street , Islington , came again before the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn said that , as William Marsden appeared to have acted as clerk to his brother , he might take a third-class certificate after a suspension of six months , with protection in the meantime . The decision in the case of the brother was postponed till Monday . The affairs of John Ellison , a warehouseman , of 56 , Bread-street , Cheapside , trading as John Endersohn , came before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn in the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday . His accounts commence October 22 , 1855 , with a deficiency of 1593 / ., and close , in rather more than a period of eighteen months , with debts and liabilities 8398 / ., and assets 2108 / ., including 592 / . of doubtful debts . The bankrupt had had furnished lodgings in Harley-street , Cavendish-square , and had got into debt with whomsoever would give him credit . The Commissioner asked whether it was common sense or justice to say that this was recklessness only . He thought it amounted to fraud . The certificate , whiph is of the third class , will be suspended for one year , during half of which time the bankrupt will be without protection . Vice-Chancellor Wood gave judgment in the case of Reade f . Bentley on Tuesday . Mr . Reade , who is author of ' Peg Woffirigton' and ' Christie Johnston , ' had applied for the dissolution of a partnership with Mr . Bentley , in relation to the issue of those works * The works were published at 10 s . 6 d . each ; and the plaintiff contended that cheap issues would be a substantial violation of the agreement , whereas it was argued , on behalf of the defendant , that he had , under the agreement , an irrevocable right to print and publish . The Vice-Chancellor observed that it is a matter of indifference whether the works are stereotyped or remaining in movable type ; in either case the right to publish a second , third , or fourth edition of the work could be equally well protected by an injunction from that court or a court of law . The decision now given was mainly in favour of Mr . Reade ; but the Vice-Chancellor would not allow costs , as both parties were in fault with regard to tho equivocal wording of the agreement . In the case of Michael Banes , a sowed muslin warehouseman , of Wood-street , Cheapside , who applied during the week in the Bankruptcy Court for his certificate , it came out that he had accepted accommodation bills , and had induced others to do bo , for 'Messrs . Wallace and Co ., and Messrs . D . and J . Macdonnld , of Glasgow , and bad received , in tho form of commission , about GOQl . for his services in this respect . Ho » ad * a this way incurred liabilities to tho amount of 12 , 000 * , Mr . Reed , in appearing for tho bankrupt , alluded to the universal practice , even by first-rate houses , of creating fictitious capital by means of accommodation bills , nnd oxpressed a hope that the bankrupt would not bo modo a scapegoat . Mr . Commissioner ilolroyd strongly condemned tho whole system , and said that the certificate of the bankrupt would bo suspended for ono your , witn protection . The case of tho Rev . Henry Curtis Charry and ina wife again cam « before tho Court of Queen ' s Dench on Thursday . In tho course of last November , Mrs . Cherry had obtained leave to exhibit nrticlos or tlio peace against her husband . She alleged that ahe haa "b " oT ^ IH * tmiM ~ byiMrr < 3 herry ^ of her marriage ; that she loft him in Soptcmber , low , in consequence of violence nnd ill-usage ; that m August , 1850 , her husband forcibly dragged her away from St . Giles ' s Church , Reading ; that ho afterwards , with tho assistance of his gardener and a poHco-lnaneowr , thrust her into a carriage , with so much violence t » j » she was a good deal hurt , and convoyed her to ' »» own house at Btirghflcld f that sho again osoapoa , and concealed herself for two years ; and that hor » ua"
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/8/
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