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had promised to give her as sweetheart a Sardinian g man , who was to be lodged in her house . When Lambert did know my ' accident' with Madame amson , he came to me and acted as if I had been if and an assassin , expelling me on the instant from louse , and having no regard to the state of my h . Upon this I called Mr . Lambert 'a ruffian and ef . ' And I can prove this , as he let apartments certain Mrs . ' , first prostitute of Regent-, who , to my knowledge , kept two gentlemen her until daybreak . And I will show him to be a as he robbed a golden bracelet and a ring , which yB he left on a bed belonging to Mr . Smith , who s at 35 , Newman-street , Oxford-street . Mr . ——
lladame Williamson are witnesses of this theft . I sjain , Mr . and Madame Lambert are , in effect , two is and two thieves . It was not enough for them re had the satisfaction of expelling me from their , but they have said to everybody that I am a , a thief , and an assassin , and all the worst calumtiat could be uttered they have applied to me . Ah ! > am the offended—who was forced on to a love for I am now suffering , and to be insulted for it ! loned by my sweetheart , I lost my reason and te a madman . I resolved to destroy myself , but , doing so , I said within myself , I will see those
lave despised me ( gui me mepnserent )—those who caused me to lose entirely my senses . I resolved ak to the Lamberts , and after that to die in peace . vy brains ! I lost myself . God forgive my excess . Lost . I am a dying , desperate man . God forgive eat many faults of which I have been guilty . The arts have made me an assassin . I recommend to ty daughter , because the little one is innocent . I Roman and an honest Italian , as you will perceive y certificates . Since I am in England they call Jiief and an assassin . By doing so they cause me as such . I shall be able to say that I have been inated by , of , in Kent . Open my flesh
[ am dead , and you shall certify how I have been 3 . Yes , open my lacerated flesh and you will be shed . If I have done wrong , it is the law that punish me , and not the doctor nor the priest . Ah ! yon did assassinate me , and you have occasioned rimes . You have my life—what do you want 1 Oh ! good God ! pardon in this horrible moment die content . - " Luigi Bakanelli . " anelli is a tailor , and when residing at Pensfollowed that occupation . The latter portion statement is actually aimed at a medical genii who , Baranelli alleges ^ had wilfully treated rrongfully for cancer .
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POLICE CASES . : Civilisation" as we have called it * has been ated in various ways this week . At Worship-> i Martin , a carpenter , in Green-street , Bethnalwas brought before Mr . Hammill , upon a charge ing and wounding his wife . complainant , a delicate-looking young woman , ippeared _ wili . her , _ left ... arm . jsuspeAd . ed .. iii . a , sling l as evidently in a state of extreme suffering and y , stated that she had only been a sliort time d to the prisoner , with whom she had lived upon nhappy terms that she was compelled to separate im a few weeks since , and had since depended for
t upon her own unsustamed exertions . On the us evening , she accompanied a female friend i Standard Theatre ; on leaving they entered oining public-house , but observing the prisoner ng in front of the bar , she hastily retreated into eet , feeling apprehensive that he would subject > some personal violence . She soon heard footdvancing rapidly behind her , and was immediately vertakcn by the prisoner , who exclaimed with an Take that , you , " and made a violent blow Dme sharp instrument in the direction of her left She felt satisfied that the thrust was intended
• breast ; but it took effect in the upper part of t arm , on which the head of her infant was resting time , and inflicted a dreadful wound from which > od poured down so furiously , that the front of her was completely saturated . The prisoner hastily off as soon as ho had stabbed her ; but she raised / of " Police , " and " Murder , " and he was brought lmost immediately in the custody of an officer , being asked if ho had any observations to make in p to the charge , the prisoner said i "I know did it , but I hope that you will deal with mo as tly as you can , as I was greatly provoked at tho Hammill said it was a very serious case , and mid order tho prisoner to bo remanded for the I completion of tho depositions .
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Clerkonwell , Joseph Chcetham , a respectablyjd young man , an . apprentice to a builder , waa od on summons before Mr . Corrie with assaultith intent , and administering a deleterious perto Emily Lowe . The prosecutrix , a quiet , ig country girl , 8 aid : — at present livo at Lowe-street , Clringford , -Essex , o 14 th of December I met tho dofondant in
Upperstreet , Islington . He was at the time paying attention to my sister . I asked him how she was ; he then asked me to take a walk with him . I told him I could notit was so late . He replied , * Oh , there is a friend come from Chingford , and if you get leave for half an hour I will take you to your sister . ' I then went and asked my mistress to go out to see a friend for half an hour ; she allowed me to go , but when I got out of doors I could not at first meet the defendant . At last he came up , and we walked along until we came to a 'dark place in Highbury ; he then pushed me up against the wall . " [ The witness here entered into some particulars of the alleged assault . ]] "He then put something to my mouth and I became insensible . When I recovered , I got up and went home . I did not tell my mistress what had happened to me . "
This is the main fact . It appeared in examination that the girl did not complain to her mistress , although asked what had happened , as " she presented the appearance of having been poisoned . " mistress wrote to her mother , and she went home , but made no examination , nor did the doctor do so . The doctor treated her for poison . All this is very vague and unsatisfactory ; some doubt having even been cast on the identity of the prisoner , who has a great character for being a reader of the Bible . The magistrate could only dismiss the charge . He said : —
" This is one of the most extraordinary tales , if true , that was ever related by a young girl ; if untrue , it only shows to what curious cunning and danger persons are exposed when such charges are preferred . The evidence of the complainant is wholly unsubstantiated as to the identity of the defendant ; for although the boy ( a witness ) has sworn that he was the party , he said , on an after occasion , he was doubtful of it . Again , if the girl had been violated , there was no trouble taken to ascertain it at the time the circumstance happened ; and from the length of time that had intervened no jury could decide that it was really the defendant who had committed the offence . I do not , therefore , think that I can commit the defendant for trial for the offence . "
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Love . —At Worship-street , Frederick Knowles was charged with having threatened the life of a young woman named Eliza Usher . The prisoner had formerly paid his addresses to the complainant , who , on finding he was a married man , refused to have anything more to say to him . The prisoner , however , had continued to molest her , and one evening , was found by complainant ' s brother pacing to and fro before the house where she was in aervice , in Buccleuch-terrace , Upper Clapton . He had a loaded pistol 4 n each hand . The ^ comp lainant's brother was in the act of remonstrating with him when the prisoner rushed to the door of the house and commenced ringing the bell , which was answered by complainant ' s master , under whose direction he was secured . During the struggle the prisoner threw down two pistols loaded with powder and ball .
Police-constable Cooke , No . 267 , stated that the prisoner was given into his custody by the complainant's master for having threatened the life of his servant , and , on hearing the chaTgef he exclaimed , " Yes ,-I meant to . put one bullet through her heart , and the other through my own . " On being called upon for his defence , the prisoner , who shed tears and exhibited extreme agitation , earnestly disclaimed all intention to injure the complainant , and said that she was well aware of the affection he entertained for her , and that he would not hurt a hair of her head . Mr . D'Eyncourt said that the desperate intentions of the prisoner were rendered sufficiently manifest by the whole of his conduct and demeanour , and he should order him to enter into his own recognisances in 200 / ., and to produce two substantial sureties in 100 / . each , to be answerable for his good behaviour for the next twelve months .
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Horribms Treatment of a Cnir . i > . r—On the evening of the 28 th of December , a policeman on duty in Greyhound-court , Strand , heard a moan , and on looking down found an infant lying quite naked in a pool of water , which was freezing round the child ' s head . It was n remarkably frosty night . The mother , Harriett Nelson , was found , and taken to Bow-street , when Mr . Jardine committed her for trial .
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^ l . ' * Kino , the Police Thief-trainer . —This case has been further inquired into . With reference to the prisoner , it should be stated that he never was one of the organised force of " detectives , " although always permitted , for some reason which requires explanation , to perform the duties of liis oftico in private clothes . It also appears that the prisoner was not actually in the force at the time of his apprehension upon the present charge . He hnd just been dismissed by tho commissioners , chiefly in consequence of the part ho had taken in the prosecution already roi ' errod to . He then immediately opened a coffee-house in King-street , Soho , which is still being carried on by his wife . The cage wag adjourned until next Thursday .
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CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION . A pastoral from Cardinal Wiseman , of which the following is an abstract , relative to the recent definition of this doctrine as an article of faith , ar . d dated from Home , was read on Sunday in all the Catholic chapels of London and the surrounding district : — " Nicholas , by the Divine mercy , of the Holy Roman Church , of the title of St . Pudentiana , Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Westminster , to our dearly beloved brethren and children in Christ , the clergy secular and regular , and the faithful of the said diocese . "''"' ""' Healtn"Xnd"ben " eaiclibiriia"ihe ' X <) ra ' .
" Although in the course of a few days we hope to begin our journey homeward , we cannot resist the earnest desire which we feel of making you partakers in the consolation and joy which we have experienced in the few last days . Neither can we consider it becoming , dearly beloved in Christ , that you should have to receive through the ordinary channels of . public information tidings of events most interesting to every Catholic heart , or that you should learn the important decision pronounced by the Sovereign Pontiff from any one but your own pastor , who had announced to you his intention of assisting at it , and who had the happiness and honour of hearing it from the very lips of the Holy Father .
" You are aware , then , dearly beloved , that upon his paternal invitation he hastened hither to join our most eminent and illustrious brethren in the great causo of tho Immaculate Conception of tho Blessed Mother of God , which , having been already examined and diacussed with great maturity , was about to receive its final examination and decision . " - After detailing the preliminary measures adopted by tho Holy Pontiff to ascertain the sense of the living Church , no less " tho pillar and tho ground of truth" than that of the first centuries upon the doctrine plainly held on tho subject of tho Iniumculato Conception , the pastoral states : —
" Having at length determined that tho time waa como for dogmatically pronouncing on tho subject , ana desirous of giving all duo publicity ami solemnity to this greatest exorcise of -the sublime power conferred by our Lord on tho prince of tho Apostles , « nd *«*« £ . ceasora , the Sovereign Pontiff invite , to ^ in « attain number of prelates from each country to r ? P « 8 en « . its hierarchy . At tho same time ho expressed his mduuM to sco £ many others as could eonvenwntiy-como to attend tho noble function appointed for tho 8 th of December . " , After stating that beyond all anticipation woro tho results of this general intimation of the Holy
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Serious Charge against the Police . —A man . was charged at the Middlesex Sessions with assaulting a policeman , but he defended himself on the ground that the policeman had kissed his wife . The evidence was conflicting , the policeman denying the charge , and the man with other witnesses affirming it . The jury were puzzled , but ended by acquitting the prisoner , but '" without imputing perjury to the policeman . " ' . '
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FAKgABir 13 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER , 33
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THE REV . MR . DAVIES AND THE LONDON MISSION . With the termination of the proceedings brought against the Rev . Mr . Ainslie , for his ill-starred " Defence of the Innocent , " we thought we had heard the last of the case of Mr . Davies , the unlucky letter-writer , who has had the misfortune to scandalise the whole IiOndon Mission by his epistolary effusions . It seems , however , that though Mr . Ainslie very prudently backed out , with a si gnificant declaration that he had lost confidence in the veracity of Mr . Davies , the latter has retained sufficient confidence in himself to proceed . Thus , during the past week , those who take an interest in missionary matters , and the alleged frailties of holy men , have been regaled with another edition of the evidence , consequent ' upon Mr . Davies bringing an action against the Banner , for the very decisive opinion it has expressed touching the charges against him . All the particulars respecting the letter from Wellingborough have been once more raked up and sifted , as if lor the purpose of piquing the prurient curiosity of the public , and making us wonder what it can be that a missionary could possibly write to his wife , which could only be alluded to ,- , and not so much as named , much less published . Much more creditable would it have been for the London Mission , and those who manage its affairs , if the matter had been hushed up , or quiety suffered to die a natural death , instead of being submitted to double arbitration , lasting thrice as long as an investigation in a court of law , and entailing an amount of expense out of all proportion to the object to he gained by the inquiry ,- The character of Mr . Davies had need be very precious to justify the outlay incurred for-clearing it in the eyes of the religious world .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2073/page/9/
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