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that they should be left at the White Hart Ion " till called for . " She received them , arid gave them to some milliners of the town to be made into dresses . But her success "was short lived ; the fraud-was discovered in three or four days , and she was arrested . ^ The reporter sfcys-r- " When before the naagistrate the prisoner made no statement , but remained , as at her trial to-day , oppressed with shame and grief , which burst from . her in audible sobs , as she . heard the minister of the . parish where , her parents , who are in a respectable class of Hfe > reside , give her an exceUeiut character , as did Mrs . Carter , who stated that she had known the prisoner for five years , and that the girl knew very well she was a customer of Mr . Quelch . " She has been sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment .
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THE DANGEROUS CLASSES . John Bibd treated his wife badly , beating her several times . He at length abandoned her and her child , and left them without the slightest means of support . The wife , being of an ind ustrious disposition , supported herself at needlework , and obtained from the charity of Elizabeth Dominey , a poor lodging . The husband , irritated at this kindness , called at the house frequently , and abused Mrs * Dominey with the most disgusting epithets , also spitting in her face . On Monday , he abruptly accosted her at the street door , and demanded to see the child . His wife was out at the time with the child , and Mrs . Dominey told him she had not got it , upon which Bird called her a liar , and dealt her such a blow on the left side of the head and beneath the ear that she instantly dropped on the doorstep . Upon partly recovering from the effects of this blow Bhe scrambled on to her feet and fled behind the
counter to protect herself , but Bird forced her down into a corner , and , as he could not strike her about the body , from , her stooping position , beat her about the head , throat , face , and neck in the most brutal manner "for at least a quarter of an hour , " declaring all the time that he was determined to murder her . She screamed as loudly as she could for help , there being no one in the house but herself , and , her cries having at length attracted the notice of two gentlemen who were passing , they ran in to her
assistance , forcibly pulled the fellow away from her , and turned him into the street . The poor woman stated before the magistrate that her head was in great pain from the blowB she had received upon it ; that she was so bruised and shaken all over that her medical attendant had ordered the app lication of leeches as soon as she returned from the court ; and she expressed her conviction that the only motive Bird had for so brutally treating her was her constant kindness to his deserted wife and child , as she had never given him the slightest cause of offence .
Elizabeth Casher , a nurse , stated , that while passing the house , she saw Bird deal the woman a heavy blow on the head , and afterwards beat her about the head , face , and neck in such a " frightful" manner that she thought he must have killed her . The woman was pinned down so helplessly in a corner that she could not escape from his blows , and , from his beating her in that way , " thought at first that ehe must be his own wife . " After the two gentlemen had rescued her from his clutches , Mrs . Dominey ' s daughter entered with a child in her . arms , and the instant Bird saw it he made a grasp at it , and so tore ita face down with his nails that the blood followed the laceration . . , The ruffian has been sentenced to six months imprisonment and hard labour .
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A MYSTERIOUS LADY . Mes . BuKROtrcfflS is a lady whoso origin is mysteriously obscure . She is now the wife of * a gardener , but there seems reason to beliovo that " she is of good family , and that in early life she was married to a captain in the navy , named Waller . She possessed a picture given to her by ono of her friends ; it was supposed to be worth 1001 . T hompson , a grocer , gave Mrs . Burroughs and her husband credit for goods , and retained some power over them by his frequent demands for the money . Thompson accompanied her to a picture-broker , to sell tho picture ; and during the day , Thompson attempted , she said to steal the picture . She charged him with tho larceny , but ho was acquitted . Evidently in revenge , or wrath at tho non-payment of his debt , she was arrested « m next dav , on a charere , by Thompson , that sho had taken
obtained money under false pretences , bho was through the streets by a policeman , but tho charge against her was dismissed . Sho brought an action for false imprisonment , and thus gave evidence , on tho trial of tho case on Monday : —¦ , _ " My husband used to buy tho goods . I never m my life told tho defendant that I was heiress to largo estates , and was in London on Parliamentary business . I never to d himlwas tho daughlerof Lady An no Oour ton ay . Inevertold him that I was acquainted with Lady Hamilton and other persons of distinction-but I bo so . I never said to no £ 10 whoso daughter I am . I always represented myself as Mrs . Burroughs . I boliovo I was born in London . X don ' t call mynelf Mrs . Combo . " . Tho Chief Justico hero inquired of tho witness what hor «« w , « vnnllv was . und . after some ineffectual attempts to
« tit correct , it was ascertained to bo " Elizabeth Martha golina Goorgina Augusta Combo Burroughs . ( Much iawrhtor . ) It scomcdTrom tho explanation 0 witnoim that SSbowiHBomqti . nes pronounced "Ooolmm" " Chum — WitnosH did not in general write those names m full . { A laugh . ) ( Addressing Mr . Parry . ) "I . have Parlnimontarv business , your Honour ; I decline giving ray Pa * - Hamoniy busin o ^ . " Witness was conncocd with some tlart of tho family of Bridgowator , tho Lgortons . 1 The . Chief ' Justice inquired whether sho was ono of the oJmal under tho liiAitations in tho Brid K owator caao ; if « o sho miffht bo entitled to < K ) , OU ( W . r lf WitnS 8 ™ pVoceodod .-I am not , but my aunt was an TBirorton T can't say I am a Courtonay . On my oath , 1 K told Ml ' . Thompson I was , or that 1 was related to ^ jSffU h * thought Mx . Parry wa « pa rting
too hard upon , a woman standing alone in a public court as a witness 1 [ Some short discussion ensued , in which the learned Judge was understood to explain to the juryman , from his own experience , the necessity for ' allowing counsel in cross-examination to ask leading questions ; and Mr . Parry thought a juryman , though independent , could not ride over the Court ; and the juryman , who said that he did not like to see one witness in a court made a laughing stock , withdrew the term . " browbeafe . " 1 , .. ' lie-examined . —I was married in 1625 by the Rev . Dr . Jekyl . I and my husband have received an allowance from an unknown friend—a lady . Thomas Burroughs , the husband of the mysterious lady , in the course of his cross-examination by Mr . Parry , said , —I might , and very likely did , say to Thompson that my wife was highly connected . I said she was related tb
Lady Courtenay . I said she might be a relation of L ady Hamilton ' s . I told you once before , that , as far as I was given to understand , she was a daughter of ( the witness was understood to say ) Lady Anne Courtenay . I told him , so far as I knew , we was about Parliamentary business . I never said I had had an interview with the Lord Chancellor . I told him I was intimate with Mr . Roundell Palmer . [ Witness here held up his fist and addressed the learned counsel with much violence : he was understod to say that the intimacy was in respect to election matters , and then added —] I have not done with you yet . ( Laughter . ) The Chief Justice pointed out that the circumstances formed a case of Retaliation . Mrs . Burroug hs charged Thompson with larceny , and he readily charged her with fraud . —A verdict for the plaintiff of 10 ? . and costs was then found .
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A WICKED WIFE . The savage actions of husbands towards their wives bru talises their victims as well as themselves . We notice from week to week how the women among the lower classes adapt themselves , by degradation , to the low life around them . This week we have a case , showing how British wives assert their rights . Mr . Carmichael , a sedate middle-aged man , thus told his story : — "On the 6 th of this month I returned , home from some business I had been transacting , and as soon , as" I ' got in I noticed that my wife , as was too frequently the case , was in a very angry and savage humour . I guessed there was something amiss , and thought I had better get out \ pf her way . I went into the workshop at the back , and she followed me ,
accusing me of an intimacy with the servant of a neighbour , whom I really have not even seen for I don't know how long . I said she was a foolish woman to worret herself at such nonsense , and she immediately flung a basin at me , -but missed her aim ; she then hurled three heavy _ pieces of iron at my head , but I lowered my head each time , and escaped them , and she then seized hold of me and tried to fix her claws into my face . I pushed her on one side and was running off , when she flung a heavy hammer at my head , and it is a very fortunate thing that it missed me , or I think I Bhould have been killed . I said to myself , ' This is too strong ; this wont do ; I'll wait till Bhe gets a little cooler , and take a walk in the fields , ' and I hastened out of the house as fast as I could , to go away . " The magistrate : Where were you going , then ?
Mr . Carmichael : Going to ? I was going to the world a end , or anywhere else , so that I could get out of fcbo reach of her ; but I was no sooner out of the house than she was after me , exclaiming , " You scoundrel , where are you going P" I said nothing , but ran , and so did she , and the instant she got up to me she levelled several furious kicks at the most dangerous ports of my person . I caught hold of her to save myself , and she immediately thrust one of my hands into her mouth , and bit it so terribly as to cause me the greatest agony , and I was obliged to let go of her again , upon which she caught mo by the stock , twisted it till I was nearly strangled , and tore off both tho lappels of it , as I now show it to you . I tried to bolt as fast as I could afresh , but she sprang after me , again came up to me ,
and , seizing mo by tho back of my coat , ripped away both tho tails of it like a spencer , in this way ( said the complainant , turning round and exhibiting his back to the bench ) . This seemed to stop her a bit , and I lost no time in availing myself of it to escape from her , or I am sure she would have torn mo to pieces , as she had my clothing already . " Mr . Carmichael concluded by declaring that he could not live with his wife any more , as he was losing all his business through her ungovernable temper , and , as an instance of it , mentioned that it was only a short time since that she had flung a live kitten at his face in such a vindictive mannor that , though fortunately for him , ho succeeded in escaping it , yet it came against the brick wall with such forco that it . was instantly killed and its brainB dashed out . Tho magistrate , after ineffectually attempting to procure an adjustment between them , sentenced tho wif « to pay a penalty of U ., or in default to bo committed for ono tion
month to tho House of Correc . Upon hearing tho sentence , tho wife earnestly appealed to Homo of her neighbours who were prosont to lend hor 6 / . and sho would erivo thorn 0 / . for it as Boon as oho got home , but all declined to do so , and she thon appealed to her husband ; tho latter , however , assured tho magistrate ho durst not pay it for her , as before ho could got to the end of tho street aho would illuso him oven worao than before . Tho-wife on this became so fearfully excited as to raiso an apprehension sho wan losing hor intellocto , and , as tho husband offered her a separate maintenance , tho magistrate determined to hold hor to bail that sho might bo medically examined . Sho refused to accept any maintenance , with groat indignation , and was therefore romovo'd 10 tlio colls , but on reaching tho door of one of them she boenmo porfoctly frantic , and it being manifestly dangerous to lock hor up , sho wan again brought into tho oourfc , whom bIio at length consented , on bocoming more tranquil , to accept a weekly pecuniary offer of hor hueband in lieu of going to prison , togothor with any clothing that
she might desire , but still expressed her wish to go home again . \ . The magistrate , however , warned her seriously or thd consequences , if she returned to her husband ' s house , and both ultimately quitted the court at opposite doors , the wife with obvious reluctance , and anxiously watching her husband out .
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HOW THE CAB ACT WORKS . The cabmen-have commenced open hostilities against the public . Irritated at the'Tow fares and . vexatious rules of the new act , they show their spite in many ways . On . Tuesday eveningVwhen our wearied senators turned out of the House , the cabmen on the stand refused to take them , and jeeringly drove off . On Wednesday evening , it poured rani , and the British fair , emerging from Opera and theatre , found no cabs—the savage drivers tauntingly driving up and down in the centre of the Strand , and defying alike threats and entreaties . On Thursday evening , a belated traveller , near the Shoreditch Station , hailed a cab ; but the driver laughed at him . The traveller seized the horse ' s head : and the driver cut at the persevering " party" until the blood flowed down his face . This cabthe of the
man has been fined 51 . In course same day six or seven gentlemen drove up to the Marl borough-street court in cabs which they had hired , and with the drivers of which they had disputes about the fare , for the purpose of getting an immediate decision from the sitting magistrate . All the cases turned upon , the point whether the cabmen was entitled to charge for time __ as well as distance . Mr . Bingham pointed out the provision in the new act which enabled the driver to charge not only for distance , but for waiting , provided the waiting amounted to fifteen minutes . For every fifteen minutes waiting a cabman is entitled to charge 6 d . in addition to his fare . This explanation of the law came upon more than one gentleman in the shape of a disagreeable surprise—in one case the party having to pay for five quarters of an hour waiting ' , in addition to the fare .
Other cases illustrate the state of war in which the public have been plunged . Mr . John Bigg , fruiterer , took 130 pine apples in a cab , and was compelled by the cabman to pay one shilling more for the luggage . The magistrate decided that the cabman could not charge for carrying the fruit , but could have refused to take it , as the new class of cabs should be kept clean and neat , and not used as market carts . Mr . Bigg thought " ¦ nothing could be more agreeable than the smell of pine apples . " " ~ At Bow-street , Mr . J . E . Wilder , of the Union Club , drove up in a hansom cab , the driver of which demanded & fare refused as unreasonable by-Mr . Wilder . It was 1 * . Qd . for driving from the Horns , Kennington , to Gloucester-street , Piccadilly , and from thence to the Union Club , Trafalgar-square . But the magistrate decided that the cabman was right : and Mr . Wilder had to pay the demand and the aaditibnat-sum for attendance at
Bowstreet . , Mr . Otway , M . P ., paid eighteen pence for a drive from Sloane-street to Argyll-street , Oxford-street . On which the driver said he was " no gentleman . " For this unconstitutional language the driver was fined 40 s .
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CHEAP BEER . The Company formed to conduct a brewery for London and tho country , on the co-operative principle , has issued a Report of its progress . Ifc was read at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday . It stated that the present condition of the company was such , that a dividen of five per cent , on all shares paid up was available . The Report further stated , that had means existed in the shape of capital to have worked tho company to the extent of business which might bo done , a much larger dividend could have been declared . The Report congratulated tho shareholders upon what had been achieved in sp ite of tho want of capital and the continual rise of the price of molt and hops . Yet tho directors had kept the price and quality of tho articles sold tho same as before . The Report
also urged the propriety of the shareholders extending the means of the company ' by taking more shares , or by lending money to the directors , which , under the present circumstances of the company , may safely bo recommended as an investment . It was stated that highly influential members of the medical profession had recommended the ales and porter brewed by the company to their patients as tho only genuine in London . The Report goes on to state at length the good effects which must arise , both morally and physically , from the ramifications of tho company being extended , and concludes by stating that tho company is very much indebted for its present prosperous condition to tho energy and untiring zeal of tho manager and secretary , Mr . William Stevens .
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MISCELLANEOUS . TjtB Queon has enjoyed her usual amusements thin wcok—tho Opera and tho German Plays . Princo Albert is pronounced convalescent .
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Lord Mnyor Challis entertained u largo number of persons at tho Mansion House on Thursday . This evening party wan ono of tho series which have been givon in connexion with tho extension ot education ; it was professedly devoted to men of letters ,, . journalists , mid urtists . But conspicuous among the . gUGflts wero » orno of the aristocracy , notably tho Duchess of Sutherland , nnd tho Duko of Argyll ; of tho Church tho Biwhop of Salisbury ; of Members of Parliament , Mr . lluin ' o nnd Mr . Pox ; of artists , Mr . Mulready and Mr . Baily ; and among journalista and men of letters wero Mr . Cornewivll Lewis , Mr . Knieht Hunt , Mr . Mowhvay Morris , Mr . Qco . H . Lowes , jbr . Kinliel , Mr . Robert Bell , Mr . Wcstlknd Maftton , Mr , David Maftson
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July 16 , 1 S 53 . ] THE LEADER . 683
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1853, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1995/page/11/
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