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able character , Mr . Sounders determined to shut her , out . Thfe was done ; upon which , the woman , with several of hermale ^ ompanions , burst open the door withasledgehan ^ andWwatds kicked Mr . Saunders so violently in the lower part of his person that he was nearly doubled up , and was rendered insensible . Lidden was committed to prison for two months . ¦ _ Bank-kotb Bobberies . — Mary Ann Conton and Mary Ann Pollett were on Friday week committed for trial on a charge of robbing Mrs . Parsons of several bank-notes and other moneys ; and Edward Foley ( a publican ]) and Samuel Woodhouse were at the same time also committed for trial for feloniously receiving a 20 / . note , part of . the stolen property . The robbery would seem to have been effected in a manner which has recently been frequently and successfully employed . While near the London Bridge railway station , Mrs . Parsons was accosted by the two women and a little girl , who asked several questions about the Crystal Palace railway . While these were being answered , the little girl busied herself about the pockets of Mrs . Parsons ; and , when it was too late , that lady discovered that her notes and cash were gone . —William Arthur Buehannan , a well-dressed young man , was charged at Marlborough-street with stealing five 10 ? . Bank of England notes , and a Post-office order for the payment of 11 . 13 s . 4 d-, the property of Mr . Joseph Bebb , solicitor . He confessed his guilt , and was committed for triaL Ooteage on A Policeman . — A disturbance recently occurred at the Whittington and Cat public-house , Highgate , when , the landlord and his wife having been assaulted , a policeman was called in . He was speedily knocked down , however , and dreadfully maltreated . A bystander interfered on the side of the constable , and was himself assaulted with great violence , the house being filled with about forty navigators , who were all abettors of the fray . Further assistance was ultimately obtained , and two of the worst offenders were taken to the station-house . The policeman at present lies under medical care ; one of the prisoners has been sent to the sessions for trial , and the other sentenced to a month's imprisonment . —A similar case has been heard at Marlborotigh-street , where the offender was sentenced to a fortnight ' s hard labour . The Alleged Matricide at Rnightsbridge . —• Isabella Mary Jolley was on Friday week committed for trial on the charge of murdering her mother . Bail was refused . Forged Cheque . —A lad of seventeen , named Robert Russell , was charged at the Mansion House with forging and uttering a cheque for 37 . on the London Joint-Stock Bank . He had been formerly in the employ of Mr . Dudfleld , of Lower Thames-street , Customhouse agent , from whose service he was dismissed about two months ago . Shortly afterwards , he committed the forgery in the name of his late employer , who kept an account at the Joint-Stock Bank , and the cheque , which was" passed through Messrs . Glyn's , was paid at the clearinghouse on the 20 th of last July . The fraud was subsequently discovered by Mr . Dudfield seeing the cheque entered in his pass-book as having been paid by the bank . At the Mansion House , Russell made a full confession , and expressed great sorrow . He was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court . Wife Beating . —The criminal records of the week present their usual number of instances of this offence . At Clerkenwell , Luigi Massetti , an Italian , and at Lambeth , Joseph Martin , an Englishman and an engineer , have been punished with imprisonment and hard labour for violent outrages committed on their wives . Another Poisonin g Case . —Mr . Fulton , a Bath tradesman and member of the municipal corporation , died recently , after an illness caused by the administration of arsenic . Several circumstances fixed suspicion on his son , a young man of dissipated-habits . Immediately after the father ' s death the son fled from the house , and has not yet been arrested . The Opinion of Mh . John Jacobs , Burglar , on Mb . Serjeant Adams . —At the Thames Police Court , on Saturday , John Jacobs , a notorious Jew burglar , was sent to trial for a robbery in Whitechapel . It was stated that , during the lost twenty years , he has been convicted several times before Mr . Serjeant Adams . On hearing that he waa committed , he exclaimed to Mr . Inghain , "Oh , air , send mo to the Central Criminal Court , where I shall have a fair trial . " Mr . lngham ; No , I shall ecnd you for trial at the Clorkenwoll Sessions . " Prisoner : " I would rather not go before Serjeant Adams . " Mr . lngham : " I had rather you should , as ho knows you ao well . " Prisoner : " Before old Adams ! Why old Serjeant Adams convicts evorybody . The officers get behind hie chair and whisper to him , and earwig him . ( Laughter . ') Why , old Adams would convict his own mother . " ( Renewed laughter . ) Mr- lngham ; *' . Notwithstanding your objection to Mr . Serjeant Adams , I shall send you before him onco more . " Prisoner : " The devil you will ! Then I shall plead guilty at once . " A Family of Felons . —John . Hackett , a " tickot-ofleave" man , and Robert Hackott—both of thorn brothers of the notorious George Huckett—have been * committed for trial on a charge of being concerned with a third man not In custody in sUuling a package of gooda from the b » ok part of a waggon in Kennington-lane , and aleo
with stealing on the same evening a chest of tea from the shop-door of Mr . Fowler , a grocer in Rochester-row , Westminster . An attempt was made to set up an alibi ; but it failed . A Tyrannical Father . —Mr . May , the Dutch consul , made an application at the Mansion House on behalf of a gentleman of Amsterdam who sought to recover his daughter . The daughter , it appeared , had left her father and had come to London to reside with a sister who is married to a tradesman here ; and before Sir R . W . Carden this Bister stated that the fugitive , who is twenty-one years of age , and consequently her own mistress , had left her father ' s roof because she was no longer able to bear his tyrannical authority and harsh usage . The two sisters clung together with an evident wish not to be parted . The father , who was present , said he feared his runaway daughter was weak in her intellect ; but this was indignantly denied by the married daughter . Finally the Alderman declined to interfere ; and the sisters left the court in high delight . We have here a specimen of '' the skeleton in the family" brought forward for public exhibition . A father throws doubt upon his child's sanity—one daughter openly accusing her father of ill-usage , and angrily contradicting his statements—another daughter running away from her father ' s house and her native countryhere are some strange unfoldings of domestic " civilisation . " Monomania . —Jane Moseley , a young lady , eighteen years of age , residing at Mornington-place , Hampsteadroad , was charged at Bow-street on Tuesday with stealing a papier mache" portfolio from a house in Hartstreet , Bloomsbury-square . It appeared that she called at this house , and asked to see the first-floor apartments , which were to let furnished . The servant showed her up into the rooms , and Miss Moseley then asked her to fetch a glass of water . On returning with the water , the girl saw Miss Moseley leaving the house . _ Her suspicions being roused , she went up into the drawingroom , missed the portfolio , and pursued the young lady . The latter first denied the charge of theft ; but afterwards produced the portfolio from under her shawl , and offered five shillings to be allowed to go . A policeman , however , was called , and she was given into custody . Before the magistrate , she cried bitterly . The young lady ' s mother , a Widow , who said she was in great distress , owing to another daughter being then in the last stage of consumption , asserted that the one now in custody was subject , owing to causes peculiar to her time of life , to fits of mental aberration . Later in the day , a medical gentleman attended , who gave testimony to the same effect ; and , under these circumstances , Mr . Jardine discharged the accused . Private Gaming Houses . — Hannah Locker , a tobacconist , of Great Windmill-street , St . James's , has been fined 50 ? . for keeping a betting room in her house . — John William Cooper , a beer-shop keeper in Fleet-street , and Mr . Beech , of the Rainbow Tavern , Newgate-street , were respectively fined 51 . and costs at Guildhall for the same offence . In the case of Cooper , it was sought to be shown that , his house being a licensed house and open to the public , the act had not been violated , and that , if the contrary should be declared , great injury would be done to several raceclubs , including one which is attended by aldermen ; but this defence was not allowed . Notice of appeal was given in both the latter cases ; and three similar informations were withdrawn until the opinion of the superior court has been obtained . A Sharp Lesson . —An engine-fitter , named Jeremiah Hogan , went , in a state of intoxication , into a public , house on Tower Hill , and called for a pint of porter . Having drunk this , he called for another , with which the landlord , observing his intoxicated condition , refused to supply him . Ho then snatched up a glass , and hurled it at the landlord ' s head . Fortunately , he missed his mark ; but the missile broke a large looking-glass to pieces . He was given into custody ; and Mr . Yardloy , the magistrate , proposed that he should pay for the glass by instalments of ten shillings a week , his wages being thirty shillings a week . He begged hard that the sum might be lesseneJ , as he had , a wife and children to support ; and , while admitting that ho was drunk on the previous night , denied that ho was an habitual drunkard . Ultimately the sum of five shillings a week waa agreed to ; and recognisances were demanded , that he should appear oh a future day , the prospect of a committal for assault being held in terrorem over hia head , if the instalments wero not duly paid . —7 A 0 a comment on the leniency of the magistrate , Hogan was the very next day brought up again , charged with assaulting two police constables . Directly ho waa liberated on Tuesday , he got raving drunk , and engaged in a serious riot . Two policemen were \ ory severely injured ; and the prisoner conducted himself with such fierce excitement and savageneas that six constablea wero required to take him to the station . He was sentenced to one mi . nth'a imprisonment . Attempt to Ujpsbt a Mail Train . —William Cooper , a platelayer in the service of the Midland Railway Company , has been committed for trial , charged with attempting to displace a rail on that line . The only reason he could give for this attejmpt was that the gnugcr had been casting reflections upon him , and that , if an
acci-Highway Robbery near Drury- . —' Charles Gibbs , a boy fourteen years of age , has . been committed for trial . charged with robbingiMis- Caroline Jones of 11 . 17 s . 6 d . He attacked her in-the middle of the day in Charles-street , Drury-lane , threw her clothes over ' her head , twisted her arm till it became numbed , and wrenched away the money . : ~ dent occurred , and the rails were afterwards , found in ait improper state , the blame would rest on the gauger . A Drunken Woman at Bedminster has cut her husband's throat for refusing to sleep with her . There seems to be a chance for the man ' s recovery . The woman is committed for trial . Alleged Conspiracy and Fraud . —A case which excited considerable interest , and the investigation of which spread over a long time , was heard at the Westminster police-office on Thursday , when Mr . Edward Frederick Wilks , proprietor of the Anchor Brewery ,. Chelsea , Thomas Wilks , his son , and John Waller , his clerk , were charged with conspiracy , fraud , and forgery .. It appeared , from evidence given by himself , that Edwin Taylor , a beershop-keeper in St . George's-in-the-East , had dealt for some time with Mr . Wilks . At length , however , Mr . Wilks found his business decreasing , and desired to sell it . He therefore , according to Taylor ' s statement , asked that person to induce a Mr . Co well to take the brewery upon the faith of Taylor dealing there to the amount of 30 / . or 40 ? . a month , though in fact he was only paying 121 . a month , and for about ten weeks paid nothing at all . Taylor was to be rewarded for this roguery by certain sums in which he was indebted to Wilks being written off , and by a promise of putting him into another and better house . In the course of a conversation between the conspirators ,. Waller said to Taylor , alluding to Mr . Cowell being a long time making up his mind whether he would take the lease , " Give him a stray order for 801 . or 40 ? . ;" upon which Taylor asked , " How am I to pay Mr . Cowell ? " Waller replied , " Go through the court , and we will pull you through . " Thomas Wilks added ,. " That ' s right , Taylor ; go through , and we will put you in the way of getting another 50 ? . out of him . " The plot succeeded by means of false books of account ; and Mr . Cowell paid a sum of money for the brewery which , had he been aware of the real value of the business , he would not have given . One of the witnesses exhibited great unwillingness to relate what he knew . He was shown a paper which he had signed , purporting to be an account of what he had witnessed of the transaction . ; but he said that he had . signed without reading it ,. thoughhe was " really acting conscientiously in the matter . " Mr . Parry , counsel for the prosecution , asked him if he had not told Taylor that he could have 200 ? ., and himself 50 ? ., fox not appearing in the matter . He replied , no j but Mr . Parry said he was certain he had been tampered with . —The case was adjourned for a week ; and the defendants entered into their own recognisances to appear again . Letter-stealing . —John Grace , a letterTcarrier in the service of the General Post-office , was on Thursday committed for trial on a charge of stealing two letters containing cheques . It would seem that he had detained them so long that he did not like to deliver them , and therefore tore them to pieces . While tearing them , he saw cheques , and became frightened at what he had done . This was his own account of the matter ; and it waa supported by the fact of portions of the chequesbeing found at his lodgings . The Cudham Murder . —Arrhst of Two Men . — Paling and Clarke , the two men suspected of the murder of Mrs . Bagley , have been arrested—f-the one at tba village of Fairfield , on the road to Bristol ,, the other at Havant , in Hampshire . The former was traced out through having been concerned with a ticket-of-leave convict , named Wheeler , in a burglary at a gentleman ' s house . He was arrested some time after midnight in bed at Wheeler ' s residence . Some of the clothea stolen from . Bagley ' s premises were discovered in his room . On hia person was found a psalm which he said was his own composition . It was in four or five stanzas , each stanza . ending with the words , " Lord , thy will be done I" He is about twenty-five years of age , and four years ago waa convicted of burglary . He was examined on Thursday ; the chief witnesses against him being two farm-labourera who , in the morning of the murder , saw a man running from the direction of Bagley ' b house , whom they beliovo to be Paling . Clarke , who was arrested later , has not yet been examined .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . The late Sir George Cathoart . — The colonist * of Queen ' s Town , in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope , have resolved to establish a permanent memorial . of Sir Georee Cathcart , who loll gloriously at InkermaH , shortly after laying down the government of the Cape . The memorial will be a public building of hexagonul form , filled with books , and forming a public library . The external tablet will record , the , vlctori « s of the general , and the admiration of the founders . AKIUVAL OF WOUNOKW FROM THE ClUMEA . On ptt " turday afternoon , the largest number of invalid soldier * from the Crimea who have been received at Chatham for some time arrived at Strood station by special tram
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 860, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2105/page/8/
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