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1 could scarcely breathe . Not fewer than sixteen live 1 three live dogs were in , the place , whilst the skins letons of a great number of other cats and dogs were : ither sticking to the floor or piled up in different 1 wretched hovel . Dr . Dodd having temporarily 1 to the woman , she was removed to Lambeth Workbut she is in such a reduced condition , that but little re entertained of her recovery . —Morning Advertiser
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an named Henry Shocklady lived with his brother-Henry Mercer , a farmer , of Kirby Hill . They were on the best terms , unless when Mercer drank , when me violent and quarrelled ¦ with Shocklady . On the naestion , and just after his wife ' s confinement , Mercer xcessively , and under the influence of drunkenness out of the house , armed with a heavy fork , towards lpon which Sliocklady was sitting , the latter ' s sister ig Mercer , and begging of him to return . Martha r , the sister , seeing that Mercer was making for her , called out to him to make off , and asked Mercer if going to kill her brother . Without giving an answer sued her brother , who ran off , and , coming up with alt him such a blow on the head with the dang fork felled him to the earth , when he twice again struck fhe poor fellow- never spoke , and after a few heavy spired . Mr . Woods , surgeon , opened the body , and , clean cut two and a half incites long at the left side lead , and another wound an inch long below the left ides a severe wound on the shoulder . The skull was
id to the length of two and a half inches , winch proongestion and infusion into the brain that caused The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of ' Wilful 1 against Henry Mercer , who was accordingly cornto gaol for trial .
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tter from Nenagh f Tipperary ) says : — roung man , Denis Mullowney , from Aughavalw , who ^ laid in the middle of the noonday in Silver-street , oing home from the fair of tins town on the 1 st of , died this morning , in great agony , of the wounds he n the hands of his cowardly and brutal assailants . It I that no fewer than seven persons were engaged in rage . They were drinking , it appears , at a public l Silver-street , where they lay in-. wait for their unng victim till he rode by on his horse ,, when they out and attacked him . They knocked him off the inflicted a number of wounds on his neck , back , and Then they made oft ' , but one of the ruffians , more
than the rest , came back and with a large stone i the poor fellow's skull while lie lay prostrate on the ! Poor Mullowney , who was a fiiie dashing young and a noble specimen of his class , was only in the ear of his age . He was the son of a respectable farmer , and in good circumstances . Two men , Timothy Ryan and Michael Hogan , he fully identified Captain Plunket , R . M ., a few days ago , as the princithe attack , and four others , named Michael Alalone , , Hayes , Thomas Bunbery , and John Slattery , have rested by the police on suspicion of being concerned 'Utrage . A dispute about land , the prolific source of l this country , is supposed to have incited this fear-
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ragic romance of the kitchen has been deveit Chiseldon . appears that aj-oung man , named Richard Hughes , a in the service of W . M . Crowdey , Esq ., had for some , st been enamoured of the cook of the same house , r ations , however , did not appear to . have been rccid by the young woman , and on Sunday last he received iptory order not to think of keeping her company any This appears to have had a great weight upon his ind , stinging under the failure of his suit , lie vent into Dining town on Tuesday last , when he waa told by a i that his supposed intended hud been walking out in npany of another young man , with whom she was to bo shortly married . This aroused his jealousy to is , and he hastened luck to Cluscldon , rushed into the i , whore ho found the unfortunate cook in front of the
paring the dinner . Just as she was reaching over the o to lift , something from a sauoepai ) , ho rushed behind Ucd her head back , and then drew a raxor across her inflicting a frightful wound , from which the blood moat copiously . Previous to his committing the deed , or , girl had just time to acroam out for help , which t her master to the spot just as she was falling to the fho moment Hughes saw iihn ho started oil " , followed . Crowdcy , but . boforo ho could overtake him , the od man drew tlio razor across his own throat , and severed his head from his body . When his master got ho was found in tiio path of the garden belonging to » so , in his lust gasp . So completely had he succeeded ittempt on his own life , that doath was almost install-3 . Medical aid was procured for his unfortunate but little , if tmy , hopus can bo ontortainod of her
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week a onoo , involving groat hardship to n rospcotmng woman named llmiimli Steel , caino before tlio Rton Petty Sessions in tho shape of mi application for or ot aflilialion upon ThomnH Ookeloy , a young Iriah-\ 7 iV Hslt "PP "'"' ! Stool hud been illegally married Nov . Mr . 1 ' orguHon , Catholic priest , of St . Thomas ' s » n d ulliam . I'ho complainant had given notice of tho H h * ° l ° , S l"triu- mmio timo in September hint , giving to fr ° ? 'Ul 01 ° OlmPcl aa tllc P " ™ « f worbl , i Mvhcro to bo per formed . She wuh the , tola by tho rigistrar Smonv ^ " * ov »« " , before thnUixod SS' \ marring would ho illegal without I ffini ' ^ pwmonco . SubHoquently hIiu . ippliou at , SSiilohV ? n r Ih 7 coultl b " ' "" •' ¦ « ' > « t of tho not ? ' ' - T ' " (> 1 ! ' ° y ««» W »« l , <> ' » « otluu , Mr . torguHon mint for Kor , and told her it would
not make any difference whether the registrar was present or not , and she and Cokeley were thereupon married in Fulliam Fields Chapel , the registrar being absent , so that the marriage was thus doubly illegal- A certificate of marriage , signed by Mr . Ferguson , was put in , and ordered to be detained . The certificate ran thus .- —" These are to certify that Thomas Cokeley and Hannah Sarah Steel were married on the 18 th September , 1853 . St . Tlioims's , Fulham . Thomas Henry Ferguson , D . D . "—Mr . Ferguson was formerly one of the ( Protestant ) curates of Holy Trinity , Brompton , the stated
and , as registrar , must have known well that it was indispensable to a legal marriage that the latter should be present . The magistrates said it was a very cruel case , ana expressed much commiseration for tho poor woman , who had been besides shamefully treated by Cokeley , he having , a few nights after their marriage , absconded with his father to America , taking with him all her money , and her friends have since discarded her under the erroneous idea that she had been guilty of immoral conduct The bench ordered the defendant to pay 2 s . Gd . a week , but , as he is out of the country , it will have to remain inoperative .
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A woman , Sarah Newton , has been committed for trial by the magistrates of Chipping Barnet on a charge of poisoning her son , eight years old , with
. " The husband of the accused was a jobbing agricultural labourer . They had two children ( the deceased and a younger boy ) , and resided in a small cottage on Rowleygreen , in the parish of Shenley , two miles distant from Barnet . About two months since the husband , who was often ailing , died , and being entered in a friendly burial society , 10 / . was allowed for his interment . The deceased was fenerally considered a healthy boy , free from sickness . towever , he was suddenly seized with illness , his symptoms became worse , and on the following day he expired . Suspicious circumstances then came to light as to the . cause of his death . An appeal was made to the Secretary of State , and his lordship at once desired Dr . Taylor , Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Guy ' s Hospital , to make the necessary analysis . "
The mother ' s story , in explanation , was that the boy had picked up a paper containing a blue powder in a lane on his way to school , and that he had eaten the powder . But there is evidence that she had purchased arsenic immediately before : and the chemical evidence is complete . The titter ostrich-lilce stupidity of the murderess , in her clumsy attempts to prevent detection , is marvellous in this case .
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A tailor , slight and " seedy , " has been a prisoner at the Mansion-House Police Court oa a charge of beating his wifej an enormous virago : — " Mrs . M'Laughlin seemed to be unwilling to stale the particulars of the assault , and said that she and her husband would go on well together if the Lord Mayor could prevail upon Mr . M'Luuglilin to keep good hours , and to contribute something towards the support of the house . Upon being told that she must give a full description of the transaction of which she had complained at the station-house , and on account of which she had raised the neighbourhood with cries of murder , she declared that between twelve and one o ' clock on Saturday night , the defendant had returned to liis home without bringing anything to support it , and upon
being reminded of his duty , which'lie frequently neglected , showed fight , which she returned . She believed he got as good as he gave , and as he had been conlined from tho time of tho row up to tho present moment , she wished him to bo handed over to hor again , in the hope that ho would be prevailed upoii to act better in future . ( A laugh . )—The Lord Mayor : How Ionj ; have you been married—The Defendant ( with a deep sigh ") : Since October last , your lordship—The Lord Mayor ; And how long were you acquainted before marriage?— The Defendant : Three months . —The Lord Mayor ; And what answer have you to make to this charge ?—The Defendant : I only tried to defend myself from her . for if she once gets hold of a man 1 defy him to get loose without tlie help of another , so that I was thankful ti > tho policeman for
coming when she cried murder , to save me from being murdered . —Tho Lord Mayor : Then you aro in tho habit of disagreeing ?—Tho Defendant : bho chastised mo twice immediately after our marriage . ( Laughter . " }*— Tlio Lord Mayor : Chastised you ! Then you mean that she is tlio bettor num of the two ?—Tho Defendant : Tlio Lord bless your lordship , I'd stand no chanoo at all with hor . Her own - daughter , who is a married woman , has cried shaino upon hor when she ' s been walloping mo . She used to throw cups amd saucers and crockery at mo , and I only stopped that oy tell ing lier to uso pewter pots , as they would not bo apt to breuk against my head . I never struck her but onco , and that waa when bIio took up a knife to open my windpipe . Tlion I did give hor a buster , that probably saved us both from a violent death . —Mrs . IWLuujjhlin : I don ' t ooinphiin of him , your lordship , about anything but his not brineinir homo
any money ; lor as to lighting , 1 beliovo ho won ' t got tho hotter of mo tliero ; but you see how ill lio has been , and 1 luivo been supporting " him all tho timo ho has been laul up . Still , ho oxpcctH thai 1 am to support tho house . — Tho Lord Mayor : llow long is it isiuco your lirut huttbaml died , Mrs . M'Lnnghlin ?— . Mrs , M'LaugliliH : Five yi-ars , my lord . I never had a word with him in my life , ami I'll toko very good oaro to maUo iniiuimm before I run the clmuco a third timo ( Lauy / Ucr ) . —The Dufuudanli It isn ' t noawiljlu for any ono to livo with her without being laid up . I have Immmi in llio Htation Ijouho without a bed hiuco Saturday night , ami I'll bo on my oath it ' n the only happy tiiuo I ' vo spent ttiuco 1 married her . — -Tlio Lord Mayor : Had you not booh munoiliiny of esioh other'H tempers before , you bouamu mmi and wife ? — Tlio Defendant : 1 did obsorvo that , aim had a spirit , but 1 thought it wiw nothing but pluck . She lints told mo often since Unit who didn ' t euro for me «» I hadn ' t pluck oium ^ li to knock hor about when t > ho deserved it . —JMrn . M'Laiinhlln laughed ut tho lust assertion of hor husband , but did not
contradict it . She requested that the Lord Mayor would allow her to take him home once more , and try how he would conduct himself after the day ' s lesson . —The Lord . Mavor : I shall discharge him , but I assure you both that if yo ' u disturb the neighbourhood any more with your quarrels I shall punish you both , and the police shall keep a particular eye upon your house . —The Defendant : She told me many a time that she would put me out of the way some way or other ; but I wasn ' t worth being hanged for . —Sirs . M'Laughlin : Yes , yes , you are . Come along yon poor devil . ( Laughter . )
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NAPOLEON-DAY . The 15 th of August was celebrated with the usual celebrities of the Empire . On that day 40 , 000 French soldiers " were to have" sailed for the Crimea . What did happen in Paris on that day is thus described in the Daily News : " With the exception of a variation , of the entertainments in the Champs de Mars , the feU of yesterday may be described in a word as a repetition . of that of last year , but not so well done . The Parisians who , taught by many successive precedents , expected to see the Place dela Concorde and the Champs Elysees transformed into something different from what they had ever seen before , were disappointed
at finding the old properties brought out again and put up in precisely the old form . This disappointmeut was the greater , because the plan of last year ' s jete , invented by the late lamented M . Yisconti , although it produced the most splendid illumination ever beheld , included none of those improvised cities , . temples , grottoes , monuments , historical statues , and allegorical groups which have excited curiosity on former occasions . The decorations a la mauresque appeared tame and monotonous in the extreme to those who saw them for the second time , and remembered that a year ago they had been voted ineffective by daylight . The theatres ( open gratis ) were ' exceedingly attractive . As eirly as four in the morning many people took their stations before the doors with the deliberate
purpose or standing m a crowd for ten hours to insure a place . By eleven o ' clock the Opera was besieged by a crowd , sufficient to fill the theatre at least four times over . The queue extended from the principal door all along the Rue Lepelletier to the Boulevard , and then ( arranged by the police on one side of the broad footway ) stretched eastward nearly as- far as the Jockey . Club . There was another ' tail' of almost equal length , which took the course of the Rues Rossini and Grange Bateliere . Occasionally some of the late comers , more calculating than the rest , became alive to the fact that there would be no room for-. them , and sheered off to take their chance at the Opera Comique or the Varletes . The candidates for these two theatres formed a nearly continuous striiig along the Boulevard from the Cafe Anglais as far as tile Kue Montmartre . Among the
people thus prepared to pay so dearly for gratuitous pleasure were many very well dressed . ¦ I am told by a person who was at the Opera Comique that the places were open to all comers with perfect fairness . There were blouses in the dress circle , and smart toilettes in tlie pit . All the theatres were quite full , and the police very properly took care that they should not be more than full . The weather was fortunately cool , and those wlio got places enjoyed the performances as fully us on any ordinary occasion . In the Champs de Mars the principal entertainment consisted of the . Siege cf Silistria , the gallant defence and glorious death of Mussa Pnchu , and the ultimate retreat of tlie Russians . Silistiia was represented by a pictorial pasteboard erection , such ns we have often seen at the Surrey Zoological Gardens . The siege operations conducted in duo
form were somewli . it dull to behold . The cannon seemed to make no impression upon the walls—at least I saw no visible breaches beyond those which the artist had painted from the iirst . There was a portcullis and a drawbridge , and the principal part of the tun was to see Turkish cavalry sally out to charge the Russian cannou—a manoeuvre highly necessary for scenic ellcct , although not , I believe , quite historically accurate . Owing , liowcrer , I suppose , to tho weakness of the drawbridge , these charges , instead of being executed in the dashing way we have seen them done at Aatley's , were performed at a walk , and the olfect waa tamo . Mussa Pacha died drawing his martial ( Ottoman ) cloak around him , and surrounded by his wife and children . It is said Unit tho 200 , 000 spectators in tho Champs do Mars wore deeply moved b y this spectacle , but judging from tho little 1 saw myself—and 1 was very near the walls—I think si great many of them must have failed to catch tho
points of tho scene . Instead of tlio three balloons promised thoro was only ono . This ascended at five o ' clock , aa I am told , and bore in ft ignntic letters of gold tho molto ' Turkey , England , France . ' Austri . i , you observe , although our very good friend , is not yet far enough advanced in tlio alliance to be associated in these aerial honouiM . There wcro boat rucos on the Seine betwoen the Pont des Invnlidos and tlio Pont do Jonn . Two four-oared matches wore pulled between French and Unglish crown , and the English lost them both . Tlio illuminntion . s were not so good as last year , in this respect , that a great many of the luinpH were not lighted . Tho lireworks in front of Llio' Corps Lcgiblatif woro not xory good . 'fhu principal novelty was an illumination of tho Louvre n « it will appear when liniahod , but , owing to aomo accident , only a part of tho building was disclosed . When tho bouquet jell a queer Htutuo of JSapuloou I . waa brought to > light , which looked liko a glmtUly daguerreotype of Julius Ciwaur on horttobuck . "
At IJ'iyonno , whidi is not many leagues distance from liiarritz , wliero the Imperial couple are spending tlio hot months , Lou in Napoleon attended on tho Ifuli at a ball tclvon by tho Municipality of Unit onco Royalist but . now Imperial plaoo ; and m auawcr to mi addr-outf lio dcUverod this stroug-ininilou speech : — " . MtjiiHuhjiu'iir , —Curttom has decided that tlioro wliull bo oiiu iln _ y in tli" your when tho whole nation cwi colobrato tho
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ugust 19 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 773
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 773, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2052/page/5/
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