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    oo. THE LEADEE. [No. 336, Saturday , o^ ...

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    THE BEATING OF GIRLS IN MARYLEBONE WORKH...

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    A Mischievous Boy.—A lad, about twelve, ...

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    Quieting Powders. The Trial Of Betny M'M...

    ^^ r ^^^^ ^ BXi carried on an illicit intercourse with another man , but ° S ? eSro / the stop-boy who sold the powders , » nJ of ^ t Emp loyer , was remarkable . The former rJoseph HanSi ) said :- " I am an assistant to Mr . sfSn , druggist and grocer , Bolton . I have served Se Coner with groceries , and I sold her an emetic pXdor on Tuesday , the 1 st of July . That is the only Sne I remember . " Cross-examined by Mr . Serjeant Wilkins : " I don't remember that this woman bought ' quietness' at our shop ; I have repeatedly sold them to others . We have let Bolton women have them frequently , but we have cautioned them when we sold the powder to them . I know there is tartarized antimony in the ' quietness' powder , and we kept four , five , six and seven made up together . I don ' t know what they are for , only they say they want them for their husbands . I did not know that tartarized antimony was poison . I went from school to Mr . Simpson ' s shop . I am nineteen years of age now . Mr . Simpson mixed them up , and I was to sell them . We charged one penny each for them . On the 1 st of July , when she came for a ' quietness ' powder , I asked her if she meant an antimonial or emetic powder . I was told to caution purchasers to give only one-fifth part of a powder at a dose . " Mr . James R , Simpson stated : — " I have seen the prisoner once or twice in my shop . I never sold her ' quietness' powder . We never sell it under that name . We make them up of four grains of tartar emetic and fifteen grains of cream of tartar . " Cross-examined : " The last witness is my only shopman to sell drugs . I don ' t to my knowledge remember the prisoner coming for ' quietness . ' I can ' remember everybody coming into my shop . I don ' t make the nineteen grain powders into four , because it is the practice in the town to sell them in that quantity . They are used by factory operatives to clear cotton from their stomachs . I don ' t remember ever having seen a man come for these powders . We always tell purchasers to divide each powder into four doses . We sell about five a week . " The defence was , that the accused administered the powders withjio evil , but rather with a good , intention , and that at the worst she could not be convicted of anything more than manslaughter . Of this she was found Guilty , the jury adding that they had taken a merciful view of the case ; and on Monday Mr . Justice Willes sentenced the culprit to transportation for life .

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    The Beating Of Girls In Marylebone Workh...

    THE BEATING OF GIRLS IN MARYLEBONE WORKHOUSE . An inquiry was opened at the Marylebone Workhouse on Monday into the charges against Mr . Ryan , the master , and Charles Brown and Matthew Green , two of the porters , in connexion with the recent flogging , of some of the girls in the house . The accused did not deny the imputation , but pleaded as an excuse that the girls were rebellious , and had used language to them of the most abusive and indecent character . Some of this language , as mentioned by Green during the examination of the witnesses , was of so shocking a nature that its repetition was put a stop to at the request of the rector of the parish , the Hon . and Rev . J . T . Pelham , one of the gentlemen before whom the inquiry was made . Each of the girls concerned—Mary Ann Sullivan , Elizabeth Edmonds , and Sophia Howard—gave evidence , the result of which was that , for not obeying certain orders , they were beaten on several occasions with a cane and a whip . Sullivan , it appeared , had been dragged by the hair of the head out of a ' refractory cell , ' in which she had been confined , and beaten by all three , Brown holding her by the hair . This continued for a considerable time . She had all her clothes on , and she was not struck below the waist ; but Green and Brown kicked her while she was on the ground , where she waa thrown and held for about a quarter of an hour . She was a great deal bruised , and some of the places bled considerably . The statements of Edmonds were to similar effect . In answer to Brown , she said " she was not one

    of the girls who some time ago was refused admission into the chapel by Mr . Moody , the chaplain , for disgraceful behaviour . She never wont near tho chapel . (_ A laugh . ' ) She had been three tiinea in prison , twice for misconduct in tho workhouse , and once for an assault on tho matron , about eighteen months ago . " She denied having struck Brown on tho night in question , alleging that she never had tho chance , a » he had her down , and waa ' thrashing' her with tho cano . Sophia Howard , tho third girl , stated that , while she was being bcaton , Mrs . Parker , tho assistant matron , held her round tho nock . She admitted giving Mr . Ryan a kick on that occasion , but not beforo he throw her down . In cross-examination by Green , she emphatically denied using certain opprobrious and indecent language which ha imputed to her , on hia going to tho coll and asking her to como out and give him no further trouble . " '

    A female searcher at tno Mnrylobone police oflico , and two other girls , inmates of tho workhouno , having given confirmatory testimony ( tho former to the effect that oho had seen marks of stri pe * on tho persona of the three young women when they wore in cuatody on a charge of

    resisting the master ) , the inquiry was adjourned . The proceedings were resumed on the following day , when , after the reception of further evidence , another adjournment took place . The inquiry has since closed without any decision being come to .

    A Mischievous Boy.—A Lad, About Twelve, ...

    A Mischievous Boy . —A lad , about twelve , named William Young , was charged before Mr . D'Eyncourt , at Clerkenwell , with throwing a fragment of a horse-shoe at one of the trains on the Great Northern Railway . The accused was playing with some other boys on Ball ' spond Bridge , which crosses the line , and , seeing a train coming along , one of his comrades picked up the piece of horse-shoe and inquired which of the others would be bold enough to drop it down tho funnel of the engine . Young immediately proffered his services , and , when the train passed by , he flung the missile on to one of the carriages , from which it bounded on to the line . One of

    the ticket collectors said that the throwing of stones at the carriages is now quite a common thing ; and that , although men had been stationed at various parts of the line , they could not detect the culprits . Mr . D'Ej r ncourt stated that , according to act of Parliament , anybody convicted of the offence was liable to be transported for life ; but , as it appeared that the prisoner only committed the act for the sake of a mere frolic , and not with any felonious intention , he should sentence him , under the Police Act , to a fine of 21 , or , in default , a rrfonth ' s hard labour . In passing sentence , the magistrate advised the railway company to have a notice of the conviction posted up along the line as a caution .

    Assaults . —Jerome Cokeley , a mason , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for a series of savage attacks upon his wife , an emaciated woman . Having quarrelled with the poor creature , he first threw a knife at her , then beat her with a hammer , and afterwards with a poker . She had been ill-used for a long while , and had once left her husband , and gone to service ; but the brute so annoyed her employer by demanding that she should be given up to him , that she was discharged . A ] oolice inspector said that Cokeley was well known to the police as a man of savage and 3 e ? perate character . He and his brother had actually killed a constable . The prisoner being taken at the time was sentenced before tlie man ' s death , and got off

    with a short imprisonment on a summary ; but the brother , who was apprehended after the man's death , was transported for seven years . —William Fielding , a hawker , was brought up at Guildhall , charged with violence to the police , lie was found drunk and disorderly in the streets , and the police , on interfering , were unmercifully beaten and kicked . The man appeared to be almost mad with drink . He wad fined , with the option of imprisonment . —Two Irishwomen were charged at Bow-street with an attack of a very ferocious character on a policeman . The officer found a woman named Sweeney rolling drunk in the kennel in

    Barleycourt . He asked her if she had been robbed , to which she answered " No , " but began fumbling about with her money , and let some fall on the pavement . The constable picked it up , and put it in his pocket , which induced a woman standing by to accuse him of stealing it . She and another attacked him , and threw him on the pavement . They then retreated into a house , but he followed them , and attempted to take them into custody . Renewing tfio attack , they heat him severelj-, and one bit his nose with great savngenesa . He then sprang his rattle , and assistance arrived . The women were remanded . —Several other cases of assaults have been heard during the week .

    Tiik Lath Collision ijistwisen this Excelsior and this Mail ,. —William Browcr , a pilot , and William Shaw , mate of the Excelsior steamship , have been Acquitted at the Liverpool Assizes of a charge of manslaughter arising out of the fatal collision between the Excelsior nnd Mail steamships at tho mouth of the Mersey on the lGth of lust July . The case having gone on for some time broke down on the fact as to gross and wilful negligence necessary to be proved to constitute tho crime of manslaughter . Several other charges against the prisoners , of tlie same natures , and arising out of the same collision , were not proceeded with .

    Seduction . —An action has been brought at the Liverpool Assizes against a tax-collector , named Shimming , for seduction . Tho evidence of tho poor girl , Ellen Ilardwick , who had been ji barmaid , exhibited a more than usual amount of huTd-hcartcdness on the purt of tho man . Having offuclod her ruin , under promise of marriage , ho cant her oil ' . " She met him , and told him she did not know what to do . He laughed and put it off , and anid he would see her when ho caine buck from 1 ' ari . s , but lie never came near her . In October , after

    Nome diiliculty , she got to flee him , und told him she wanted hull-a-sovereign , and ho gave her one next day . She wanted it for baliy ' s clothes . Ho nnid he would call and see her in a wock , but ho never called again . On tho IGth of January , tho child wiw born . She sent for him , and ho camo . ' Ho asked her why nho had not sent to him a month beforo , and ho would have wont her out . to the country . 8 ho told him she had nothing to take to , and not a bite to [ iiit in her mouth , and had nothing but a gliiBH of cold water on the table at her side . She said eho could not lio there and die . Ho said he did not

    care whether she did or not . He said she ought to have come to him a month before , and he would have sent her to the Isle of Man , that he did not like her having the child so near his place of business . He went out and gave her nothing . She afterwards sent to him for half-a-crown and said she was ashamed for tlie doctor to see her—she had nothing . He refused to give her anything . She then told him she would go before a magistrate and father the child , and he said she waa too poor —they would not hear her . She said she would see

    whether they would or not . She went , and they ordered him to pay 2 s . 6 d . per week . He told her to make up her mind as to what she wanted , as he was going to be married and did not want to see her again . He gave her nothing . " An attempt waa made by the counsel for the defence to damage the girl ' s previous character ; but it failed . A consultation then ensued between the legal gentlemen on both sides , and the result was that the defendant , with much reluctance , consented to a verdict against him , with 50 ? . damages ; upon which Mr . Justice Willes observed : — " People are never satisfied .

    If the case had gone to the jury , there would have been 200 / . or 300 ? . damages . " The defendant attempted to say something in answer to his Lordship , who interrupted him by exclaiming— " Hold your tongue , sir , or I will send you to prison . " The Charge against a Timber Merchant . —A further examination into the charge against Mr . George Fossey , a timber merchant , and William Neary , a clerk in the employ of Mr . John Walker , a corrugated iron merchant , of obtaining money by fraudulent pretences from Mr . Walker , was gone into at the Mansion House last Saturday . At the previous examination , a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Neary ; but it was not executed , and he now voluntarily surrendered himself . A great deal of additional evidence was taken , and it appeared that Mr . Walker first received information of the alleged frauds from a Mr . Steel , a clerk in

    the employ of Fossey . To show that the evidence of this person could not be depended on , he was subjected to a very severe cross-examination , with a view to proving that he had embezzled money from Fossey ; but this he denied , lie stated , however , that he was in the habit of drawing 5 / . for his private use whenever he wanted that sum ; that he had given a necktie and breast-pin to a certain Hancock , formerly a clerk at Fossey ' s , but that this was out of pure charity , and not to avert a charge of embezzlement ; that Fossey , in the course of last November , broke open his ( Steel ' s ) desk , took out the clieque-book and other books , and locked them up , but did not order him to quit the premises ; that sometimes , after paying a man 17 s ., he would only

    enter tlie figure 7 , hut that he would subsequently pretax the figure 1 ; that he did not make fraudulent entries in the cash-book ; and that he frequently altered the crossing of cheques from Williams and Co ., the bankers of the firm , to the London and Westminster Bank , the banking-house of his father , who waa in partnership with Fossey . The Lord Mayor , in committing the prisoners for trial , said : — " ! give no opinion as to whether Steel acted rightly or wrongly in paying cheques of the firm to his father ' s private account ; but I can readily fancy that he , being the servant both of Fossey authorized to do he did

    and of the elder Steel , was as . He might or might not have been justified in the course he adopted ; but I do not think , as far as that transaction goes , that the character of the witness is in any way whatever affected . " Fossey and Neary reserved their defence . Bail was accepted for both , but Neary was unable to provide tho required sureties , and was therefore taken to prison . Mr . Bodkin said that , in addition to the present charge , it was the intention of the prosecutor to prefer a bill of indictment against FosSey and Neary for obtaining money under false pretences , which

    is a transportable offence . An Hotkl Thikk . — The Clerkenwell police-court was crowded last Saturday with hotel-keepers and housekeepers in various parts of London , to prefer charges of robbery against a person of fashionable appearance , who gave tho name of John Murray , and who , it appeared , was in the habit of visiting hotels , taverns , and lodginghousc-kccpcrs , having in his possession a carpet-bag , and exhibiting an address and demeanour calculated to lull suspicion . Being accommodated with lodging , ho wouia seize the opportunity in the course of the night of opening tho doors with false koyn , would plunder the place of valuable property , and leave tho houao . Information , with a description of tho man , was given to tho police , who traced and apprehended him . He was identified by numerous persona who had been robbed , a . s well as by pawnbrokers where ho had pledged tho property , iic aaid nothing in his defence , and was fully committed loi

    trial on several charges . , Mimuiut at Livicni'ooL . —William Kay , a man who was formerly in tho police force , of Liverpool , haw licen murdered by a prostitute with whom ho had been hvnig for Komo time , supporting himself on her eanniigtj . They quarrolled last Saturday night , wore rcconciie . i , niid " ugain quarrelled over a jug of ale they wore drinking Ray then struck tho woman ; on which who snatched up a knife , and threatened to ' stick' him if ho struck Iicr again . Ho did so , and she plunged tho blade into i >» s breast , near tho henrt . Going up to a room ubovo stnirn , Ray told a man named Duffy that ho whb Hone .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30081856/page/8/