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a house near the Vauxhail-road ; that she had been transferred to Paris , there violated , and brought back again to England and kept in confinement , from which she had just escaped . Of course the aid of the Westminster magistrate was invoked , and from the information given by the girl , a person named Adolphus Harrison , described as a " lowlooking fellow , of shabby exterior , " ^ as arrested , and on Wednesday brought before the magistrate . The charge against him was—conspiring with others to defile and seduce the young woman . She was examined . Her name , she said , was Alice Leroy . She first saw Harrison in Brussels , and he induced her and another woman to come to London , by promising millinery work at a house of business . " He said we should be allowed to walkout with the
lady of the house in the parks on Sundays . She came to London in November , she thinks . * ' Prisoner took me to Madame Denis's bouse . I think the name of tbe place is something like ' Dembish . ' ( The address is 3 , Denbigh-terrace , Vauxhall-bridge-road . ) Defendant accompanied me to th « honse . Madame was at the window when -we came up in the coach , and she came down and opened tie door to us . He went in with me , and madame said , 'Don't make a noise , or the servants will know something about it . ' The dinner was just ready . We sat down to dinner . It was about half-past four or fire o ' clock . He dined with us , and a lady who had been sick . Madame Bradley was the sick lady , who was lying on the sofa . I saw tbe defendant the next day at the same house .
He spoke to me , and asked me how I was . He dined there nearly every day ; it was very rarely that he did not . He said to me , ' You see you are with a very nice sort of person , who will give yon all sorts of good things . * He was speaking then of Madame Dems . He did not speak of any work for me in her presence ; work was never spoken of , nor the ' honse of business . * I never asked about it , for I saw before I had been there long for what purpose I had been brought . Before I bad been there long I heard Madame Denis say to defendant that he must write to this lord and the other lord , when he replied , 'You must wait till Parliament House opens . ' I heard it several times . I heard her say , ' Ton must go and see at tbe clubs . ' He said sometimes , ' I have been ; ' sometimes , * * I will ceo . ' Nothing happened to ma
until a month after I was there , when a gentleman came . Defendant never told me what I was to do in the house . " Here she was kept a clqse prisoner . She had no clothes except those she brought on her back from Brussels . " At the end of a month after I had been there , madame opened onr door and told us to dress and come down . * The other two girls went down first , I went down last . When I went down there was a French lady sitting on the sofa ; the other was sitting on the knee of a gentleman ; they chatted together . Madame introduced me to the gentleman as her sister . Madame Denis said to tbe gentleman , * This is my sister , ' and madame told me I must go up-staira . I got np . I was sitting on the music-stool . She said I was to remain : It was not me to go , but the others . She said to me . You
must remain . The others went up-stairs . The gentleman said , ' Leave me alone with your sister . ' . ( Otherwise interpreted , ' Nonsense about your sister . ' ) * She is no more yqur aister than mine . ' The gentleman said he wished to go , bnt raadame said he must stay , and she would call the Parisian lady down to him . The gentleman remained , and madame called the French girl down , and I went up-staire to undress ; I had put on a good dress to come down , and I went to take it off . Nothing more happened to me that evening . The ladies I have mentioned were the two girls living with mo in the house . I saw this gentleman again after I was taken to Paris . I saw another gentleman before I went to Paris . I saw the first gentleman altogether , three times ; he was
called a Greek prince . I saw an old marquis at the house , but I can't remember bovr long it was before I saw him . When he came , madamo came up and said , * Make haste and come down , there is a gentleman below . ' Only one went into the room to him ; it was the Parisian lady . I Was not in the room ; I only opened the door and saw him there . After I had b : en introduced to the Greek prinsa , madame was very angry with me . She saU I was like a great country girl , because of my conduct and manner when my gown vrxa opened . After I saw the Greek prinse th a defendant cime ; it was a day or two after , and mmlA . nj told him the Greek prince had been . " Here a remand was granted , a * the poor girl vxi exhausted . The rest of . her story has not yet bj 3 u told . The magistrate refused bail for Harris > n .
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MR . W . J . FOX , M . P ., AND THE STRIKES . •[ The following letter certainly imposes upon our esteemed contemporary the dnty of an explanation : —] C To the Editor of the Leader . ) 44 , Cirencester-piace , Portland place , Feb . 23 , 1854 . Sir , —Trusting to your well-known sympathy towards the working classes , I am induced to hope that the following disingenuous attempt to create division in the ranks of the struggling men of the North , at tlie expense of the well-won reputation of one of our most valued representatives , will not be considered unworthy of notice in the open columns of the Jueader .
Workshop Orators , " says , " Mr . W . J . Fox , M . P ., who , if we mistake not , is looked on among the ¦ working classes as a sort of model member of Parliament , thus characterises the . agitators &c , &c , &c , and forthwith quotes a passage warning the said classes from giving their power to a certain class of political agitators . I will not transcribe the passage , but simply state that it is contained in a Prefatory Address to one of the well-known volumes of ' Fox ' s Lectures . ' The volume now lies before me , and I find the preface dated February , 1849 . " The Builder , without pause or remark , proceeds th . ua : — .
Hear what a fellow-workman at Blackburn says of the treatment he has received ; he states in the Preston Guardian , " &c &c . —thus neatly mixing the warning given five years ago by W . J . Fox with the present alleged grievance of an anonymous " Blackburn Weaver . *' The Times of this morning ( Feb . 23 rd ) favours us with the same quotation from W . J . Fox ; but in this case more prudence is shown , and it is given without note or comment , the author ' s name merely attached at the bottom .
As I doubt not the tempting morsel will be extensively copied by the journals , I trust the Leader will at least gire publicity to this exposure . J R .
Knowing personally the high and deserved esteem in which Mr . W . J . Fox , M . P ., is held by the intelligent workmen in the North of England , 1 think it due to ourselves , as much as to him , to expose such tricks as the one 1 now direct your attention to . 1 am , Sir , yours respectfully , Jabiics Robkktson . The Builder of last Saturday ( February 18 th ) , in an article headed " Strike Leaders , delegates , and
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GOLLIEBY EXPLOSION—EIGHTY-EIGHT KILLED . Eighty-eight men killed in fur fight causes a shudder at the horrors of war . Ought we to feel less horror at the massacres arising out of the ordinary pursuits of industry ? In March , last € 0 men were killed in the Arley mine , near Wigan ; on Saturday last 88 more met a similar fate . The colliers , numbering 240 , went down the mine to work in the morning , and at noon about' 14 came up . Suddenly a loud report , as of an explosion underground , was heard , and was quickly succeeded by a second report of a similar claracter . Then came the sudden rush of air , smoke , and dust from the upcast shaft which follows these dreadful occurrences . It was ' now known to those at the top that an explosion had taken place , and they began to take immediate steps to rescue the . colliers below . An alarm was
spread to the neighbouring mines , so that other colliers might be obtained , or volunteer to go down as searching parties ; and Mr . , Darling ton , the" managing partner of the works , then at Wigan , was also sent for . In the mean time a number of colliers below signalled to be drawn tip , and five cageloads ( probably 40 persons in all ) were wound np tbe shaft . These bad teen at work in the south levels , and came to the top almost nnscatched , bat they reported that tbe north levels were on fire near the bottom of tbe shaft , thns cutting off , the retreat of colliers who had escaped with life after the first burst of the explosion , or at least rendering their escape much more hazardous ; and it was now that the really , appalling nature of the accident became apparent . Nearly three hoars elapsed before this fire could be extinguished so as to enable the searchers to proceed into the levels ; and -when they could proceed ,
their progress was necessarily slow , on account of the destruction of brattices , doors , and stoppings by the explosion , some of which had to be replaced before sufficient ventilation could be restored to support lifer The work was of a trying and revolting character , and heaps of the dead and mutilated remains of tbe colliers had to be passed , and left for a time , in order that the first , attention might be given to the living . One of the first men brought to the surface alive , from tho north levels , was James Murphy , a collier , who had been working at the very far end of tbe mine , or 1200 " yards from the shaft . He and another man , on feeling the shock of the explosion , started towards tbe shaft , but on Teaching a point in the levels where the sulphur was overpowering , liis companion turned back , while
Murphy , resolutely , putting his cap between his teeth , ran towards the shaft aud was saved . The other man was lost . About 20 minutes to 8 o ' clock at night a mun and a boy were taken out nearly suiKxsated with sulphur , and soon afterwards another man was found , who was so much exhausted that lie has been insensible ever since . Altogether eighty-eight bodies were recovered . The rest wore brought np alive ; bat many were sadly mutilated . The usual scene ot wailing multitudes of women and children collected round tho pit mouth followed . The coroner ' s inquest was opened on Monday , at the Navigation Inn , but merely for tbe identification of tbe todies , in order to their removal and burial , Mr . Drifneld , the coroner , -who had to investigate tho last explosion in tho S it , again presided . The yard of the inn was crowded uring the wholo of the afternoon b y tho relatives of the
deceased , most of them being witnesses in respect to tho bodies . Th&so were " laid out , " bound up in calico , in barns and stables—in one 27 , in another 22 , in another 22 , and in a fourth 14 ; two of them had been conveyed to their own homes . A more ghastly spectacle it was scarcely possible to realise than that presented upon looking into any one of these morgues . The corpses were arranged by the side of the buildings , with their feet toward * the centre , some staring witli glazed eyes , which the skill of those who had washed them had not been able to close ; others with faces d « nuded of bL ; : i ; and some with countenances swollen from suffocation with the " choice clamp . " There was a horrible character about tho frigidity and regularity of the arrangomiMit , and a sickening feeling came over all who looked in , except the men belonging to tho neighbourhood , who sauntered about with great cooIiicmh , with their hands in their pockets , and . betrayed few marks of any fculing whatever . Tho causa of tho " accident" will , no doubt , bo duly investigated .
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BUS 1 IRANGING IN AUSTRA LIA . Tiuc journals print the following letter from JLieut .-Colonel Joseph Anderson , late of tho 50 th Uegiment
of Foot , addressed to Ms sister at dSSSSStSSKS an animated description of the doin g « vaBaiC » m ^ P of two escaped convicts near Melbouxn ^ - ^^ g ^ M About two months ago two notorious * and deaperll ^ ' ^ convicts made their escape from Van Dieman ' s Land aSPr ^ rea-ched our coast . They at once commenced a fearful coarse of highway robberies , plundering and otherwise » cruelly maltreating men , women , and . even the children of all who resisted their outrages , and , before they had been a week at large , had committed no less than three murders . They were armed to the teeth , and from- the beginning possessed themselves of the best horses they could find in their way , and in this manner , passing rapidly from place to place , ; they carried terror , death , and destruction wherever they went . Parties of onr mounted police were sent ontinau . directions , and for a fortnight or more scoured the country
in pursuit , b y nignt and by day , without avail . At last a . party * consisting only of your son ( Charles Hope Nicblsoh ) a brother cadet of the name of Thompson , and a trooper r catne suddenly about sunset on a -hut in the distant bnsh many miles away from any other habitation and found-tho ' door fixed ; but on listening [ theyheard yoicas within , and , on bursting open , the door , found in an inner room no less than nine persons , who had been robbed and tied up by the bushrangers . While the captives were being released one of them called out , ' There they are ; arid , on oar heroes looking out , they saw the men gaUpping up with their revolvers levelled towards ^ them . Although Our . jartywas on foot they instantly dashed at them , and inquired who they were The villians . as if to eain time to . ascertain how manv thaur
had to contend with , answered atT first that tley were neighbouring settlers , but our heroes , were not to be done , and , seeing this , the bushrangerscqntmencedthe attack by firing at them , which our people instantly returned ; but , ^ unfortunately , poor Cadet Thompson fell from ' the leadmg bush : ranger ' s second shot , and thus jour boy and the trooper hacl to continue the fight , and this they , did so effectually tbat the villains gave way and galloped off ; taking the trooper ** horse away with . them . Poor Thompson was then , earned into the but * and found to be . wounded through the lungs . The trooper was despatched for medical assistance to Kitr mere , nine . miles off , and your , son was left alone witlijjoot Thompson , excepting the June persons who had . suffered
themselves to be tied up , expecting , every moment a second visit from the fae . Your son npade the best arrangements he could , by posting the men , on whom be could jplate . little confidence ; arouoa the hut , and in this perilous situation u | e continued until 2 o ' clock in the morning , when the doctor , accompanied by two troopers , came to their jelief and assistance . After this night of sufRring from bodily ; fatigue Janet mental anxiety * at dawn of day your son , with ni 3 twp troops , accompanied by a native black from Kilmore , again went in chase , the black following the trail of the bushrangers -with the instinct of a bloodhound . One of the troopers was sent forward for the purpose of reporting , if possible , at the nearest police-station , what had occurred .
Holding on their course for two or . three nnles . they Sa > the trooper returning at full speed , Waving hts oap ^ ' Th ey pushed on and won got sight of the two bushrangers of tha previous night , in company with a third , coining np at a cool and determined pace towards them . The < conmct soon commenced , both parties rushing furiously and fearlessly afe each other , discharging their fire from one or more barrels as they met , and after passing , each in their turn wheeling their horses round , and again at it , and in this way they continued to fire and Iwcjc with their swords at each other for some minutes . Tout gallant boy-was slightly grazed on the cheek by > the leader ' s rst ' shot , and the second passed right through hia horse ' s neck ; but , nothing daunted , he continued the fight , charging his man again and again until his ammunition was ell g » ne . He then rode desperately at the fellow and threw Himself from his horse on the bushranger , sei % inz him round tho neck ; both wore brought to the ground , the bol J and
desperate villain still retaining one of his revolvers . A fearful struggle ensued , but your son got over him , disarmed him , and Kept him so tight by the throat tbat he called oat for mercy and quarter , and surrendered ,. Meantime the troopers had also succeeded in securing , the other two villains , and all were now bound hand and foot nnd brought in triumph to Melbourne . On their way down the villains complimented your boy for his gallant and honourable conduct towards them in giving them , a fair fight and a fair chance , and told him , as His reward , where he would find 116 / -in gold " planted near the hut , and to which he was welcome , as money was no object to them now . They also confessed to no less than 17 murders during their lifetime , committed in various parts of the world , nnd only regretted that they hud not ' eottled' a few more of the police . They have been tried and executed since , and your gallant son has been promoted and otherwise rewarded . Poor Thompson , strange to say , is still living . "
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MISCELLANEOUS . At a Privy Council , held on Saturday , the proclamation prohibiting the exportation of articles contraband of war was ordered to be issued . The Queen and Prince have partaken both in the cares of state , and the pleasures of relaxation . Tho Queen has held her first levee , nnd the Prince has presided at sittings of the Governors of the Wellington College , and the Exhibition Commissioners . Both have visited tho Zoological Gnrdens , nnd Mr . Foley ' a studio . Prinuo Albert went to the Crystal Palace , at Syd « nham , on Thursday . A very distinguished circle of guests have beon entertained at the table of the Queen . Among her visitors have been the political refugees , tho Duke and Duchess d'Autnale .
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Lord Liaburne has been elected for Cardiganshire ia tho room of Colonel Powell . Tho triumph of Mr . Cluchester Forteucuo at Louth boa
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 25, 1854, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2027/page/9/
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