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November 24 , 1855 , 1 THE LE ADEB . : IjMjj
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OUR CiyiLISATION . Attempt to Haitg a Bailiff . —Simon Hatch , bailifl to the Rev . George Grogan , Leinster , went to the lands of Rathgilbert , for the purpose of making some arrangements with a man named William Brennan . He / saw this man's wife , who invited him to sit down in the kitchen while she fetched her husband . Three other women were in the room at the time he entered it j but these afterwards disappeared , so noiselessly that he did not hear them depart , and he was left fox twenty minutes alone . He sat with his back to the door , and at length heard some persons enter . Immediately afterwards , a noose was thrown round his ' neck , and efforts were made from , behind to tighten it . Hatch started up , and fortunately seized the noose so as to prevent its further constriction . He
then saw standing about him Mrs . Brennan , Mary Hogan , Elizabeth Dowling , and a little girl , the daughter of Hogan . Dowling subsequently pulled his . legs from under him , and Hogan , calling for a stick that she might " knock the old vagabond's brains out , '' as fye would be " too long dying the other way , " began to beat him with the loaded butt-end of a whip . While this was going on , Mrs . Brennan , stood by upbraiding him with getting herself and her husband out of their farm ; but at length the little girl became frightened , Bor-eamed out "Murder ! " and unlocked the door , through 'which Hatch escaped , followed for some way by Mary Hogan , who continued to beat him with the whip . AIT the parties concerned were brought before the magistrates at Ballylinan , when the little girl was liberated , and informations were taken against the women , who , however , were admitted to bail .
«•• The Supposhd Mubdeb at Aldebshott . — An inquest has been held on the body of John Gordon , a private in the West Kent Militia , stationed at Aldershott , who , it will be remembered , met with his death in a very mysterious manner . He was found , on the morning of Sunday the 4 th instant , lying dead in a railway cutting between the camp and the village of Aldershott , with a seyere wound about two inches long , over his left eye , and extending to his ear . No other wound was found on any part of his body . One of the surgeons of the regiment said that he did not believe such a wound would have been produced by a mere fall . William Chambers , a private in the same regiment wi ^ h Gordon , said , in the course of a
the letter , and stated that . she was the "Elizabeth Pigot" referred to , adding that she had come to draw the money . One of the clerks in the bank , Mr . R . Twiss , informed her that Mrs . Pigot had no power to draw the money without an order signed by the trustees named in the letter . Subsequently , the prisoner called again and produced what purported to be an order for the payment of £ 50 of the money to the bearer , Mrs . Pigot , the balance to remain in the hands of the bankers . To this ord 3 r , the names of the trustees , copied , no doubt , from Messrs . Coutts ' s letter , were appended ; but Mr . Englebach , another clerk in the bank , immediately pronounced the whole document to be a forgery , and caused the woman to be given into custody . The envelope of the letter appeared to have been re-directed , but it did not transpire in what way the prisoner had got possession of it . The prisoner said , the letter came to her' by post at Sir E . Baker ' s , Ranston-house , Blandford , where she was stopping with her mistress , who was visiting there . As she had a friend named Grant , who formerly courted her and obtained £ 58 from her to invest in the Eastern Counties Railway—subsequently leaving her to go abroad—she concluded that the money had been sent for her by him . A Blind Swindles . — -Charles Alfred Rickaby , a blind man , and James Rickaby , his son , -were placed at the bar of the Lambeth police office , together with William Cos , charged with conspiring to defraud Mrs . Emily Clarke , a widow , of household furniture to the value of two hundred guineas . Mrs . Clarke had put an advertisement in the papers for the sale of her furniture ; the three prisoners answered it , and agreed to give two hundred guineas for the property . They tlxen asked if they might take away an instalment , the money to be paid on a subsequent day . Mrs . Clarke , thinking she was dealing with respectable people , agreed ; but the money was not paid , and Mrs . Clarke , on applying io the po , lice , found she was in the hands of swindlers . All three were remanded . Russian Bank—Note Forgeby . —Abraham Rosenberg and Simon Barnet , subjects of Russia , are under remand at the Mansion-house , charged with having plates in their possession for the purpose of printing and forging Russian bank-notes . The prisoners had engaged a Mr . Smith , an engraver and printer , to execute the plates ; and this gentleman , suspecting that all was not right , gave information to the police , who kept a watch on Rosenberg and Barnet from the 20 th of October , and finally arrested them in the Btreets , as nnfi of thftm war ATramimnincr the r > latea under the
rather long examination , that , on the evening of Saturday , the 3 rd inst ., after the picket was discharged ^ he and Gordon , together with several of their comrades , had a shilling ' s-worth of rum at a hut in the camp . Chambers was already partially drunk . After an ™ a t . im" * " » ~ ¦¦* " ilV * "X ^ WJrin + r » -t-t , ' , «~ «««« mu . « w . the village pf Aldershott for the purpose of getting more drink . Gordon was then intoxicated . At the tavern , Chambers had a quarrel , and was struck and seriously hurt on his head by a poker , in consequence of which his evidence was somewhat confused and imperfect . No angry words had passed on that night between him and Gordon , nor was he aware that Gordon had ever been on bad terms with any other man in the regiment . The landlord of the tavern corroborated that part of
the evidence relating to the quarrel which Chambers had had ftt- ± hat house . A private in the West Kent , and another uv the Worcestershire Militia , now at Aldershott , stated that on the afternoon of the day on which Gordon was found dead , they heard a private in the Grenadier Guards say to some other soldiers , that he knew a militiaman who saw " the blows struck with a carving knife on the baok part of Gordon's head . " The man who was stated to have said this was called , but he utterly denied the whole allegation , deolaring positively that he was not at the place at the time mentioned by tho last two witnesses . The jury , after a short interval of deliberation , found that the deceased had come by his death from wounds on his head > but how those wounds had been inflicted there was no evidence to show .
Cruelty to a Hobse . —Charlos Whitehom , a young men in the employ of a brick and rubbish carter , of Claygato , near Kingston-on-Thames , has been sentenced to three months' hard labour , for shocking oruelty to a horse . The animal was old and infirm , « nd showed some obstinaoy in starting with a load ; in consequence of which , Whitehom first beat it savagely , and then lighted some straw under its belly . Tho pops creature was dreadfully burnt ; but it is fluid that , even after this ill-treatment , it performed two journiee to and fro . Forgery by a Woman . —Elizabeth Pigot has boon
oomnuttod for trial on a ohargo of forgery and fill ho pretqnce . A short time since , Messrs . CouttH , tho bankera of the Strand , had occasion to send a letter to Mrs , Elisabeth Pigot , a lady residing in tho QWtWi informing her that a sum of £ 500 had been Wpowted , 'in , thoir hands , being the produce of cortain railway debenturea , which would bo paid to her order , if endorsed by the signatures of four gentlemen who aoted m her trustees—namely , Messrs . J . Grant , K . WTO , J . a . Wild © , and H . B . Pigot . Tho letter waH ffiyMsed to Mr »< Pigot at her supposed residence , * J ** f Whnboriw , in Dorsetshire , and despatched wourfi the Posttoffloo . A day or two afterwards , the prisoner presented herself at the bank , producod
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A Fiery Gentleman and his " DeabBoy . " An action was brought , during last week , by a Miss Melville , a governess , who had oeen « Hiplcyed in the family of a Mr . Fitchinarah , a veterinary surgeon residing at Bishop ' s Stortford , but who was dismissed , as she alleged , without proper cause . There was also a count for slander , Mr . Fitchmnrsh , against the wish of his counsel , insisted on telling his own story in the witness box . He said : —" Miss Melville conducted herself well until April , and then I had cause to
complain of her , for when I found fault she put her * self about sadly . Once Bhe was taking up coffee to my dear son , who was ill , it was spoiled , and not fit to enter the stomach of my dear boy . I asked her to make some tea , and she was sulky for several hours . Another time I was going to dine at the Freemasons ' Tavern with his Grace the Duke of Cambridge , and a scarf which I wanted to wear in a bow was not hemmed . She said I had worn it before and might wear it again . On another occasion , the door of the sideboard was open , and the plate-basket visible . I
spoke to her about this , and she was out oi temper about it . One day , I was going to tnko my dear boy out on his pony , but I found he had a hole in hw trowsere , and I spoke to Mise Melviille . She said she could not sit up all nig ht to mend his clothes . One day she helped herHolf to buttor and threw the knife across the table bo violently that if it had not been stopped by tho vinegar cruot , it would have dropped on the ground . I told her she afforded a bod example to my darling ohildren , » nd I called her a wolf in sheep ' s clothing , and a she devil . The jury returned a vordiot for tho plaintiff , with damages for the wrongful diHmissal 4518 , and for the slander £ 75 . A "Jaiindyce and Jaundyoe" Case . — -Wo rend in the law reportB of tho daily papers that tho cobo ot Irbv v Irbv , which has been in Chancery upwards ot lormw
twenty years , camo on ouo day last weefc lor a . settlement of tho minutes of a decree in court . Objeotions , however , being taken by some of the parties , tho case was adjourned for the junior counsel to mwt and settle tho minutoe in cogitation . Tho effect of such consultation , though doomed to havelboon , sattefaotory , was certainly not conciliate , for on thei case s / sr ^ ar ^ oT / = x = «
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light of a gas lamp . The Knife . —A tall and powerful Irishman , who gave the name of Charles Seaman , and who ia a person of respectable exterior and good address , is under remand at the Thames police office , charged with a murderous assault upon a watchman named Kerr , in thejemployment of the St . Katherine ' s-dock Company . Seaman , who was drunk , was threatening to be revenged upon a wharfinger named Keene , who , he said , had prevented him from getting a job on board ship , when he was ordered to be put out of the dock . He procured a knife at an adjoining tavern , and ran at tho gatekeeper with intent to Btab him , but was prevented by Kerr . Seaman then snatched the truncheon from Kerr * s hand , and struck him such a dreadful blow on the head that his life is in danger , and afterwards endeavoured to stab a police-constable with tlxe knife . The Muivdeb at Matfen . —The adjourned inquest on the body of Dorothy Bewiuke , an old woman who met with a violent death at a lonely little village in Northumberland , called Waterloo , has terminated in the following verdict : — " We find that James Conroy , Michael Allan , otherwise known as Anderson , and John Sinam , are guilty of the murder of Dorothy Bewioke ; and that Isabella Allan , alias Anderson , Ellen and Jane Allan , and Elizabeth Conroy had a knowledge of the murder , that they wore aiding and abetting in tlie said murder , and are therefore guilty of murder . " One of the women—Isabella Allan , generally known by the name of "Tibby Anderson "—was taken , on tho day of the old woman ' s funeral , to hog tho body . She knelt down beside tho coffin , and , offering up a prayer , said murder would not hide , and that she hoped she might boo the murderers burning in hell-fire . The eamo woman stated to one of tho witnesses at tlie inquest that she saw tho deoeasod on her bed ; that sho went forward , ombraood hor , called her by no , mo , nnd observed , " I only wish you could spoak , and say who murdered you . " This woman's eon is now in custody . The Ex-Provost ov Ltemi . —A memorial to Sir Georgo Grey , for tho commutation of tho sontonuo passed on this man , who , it will be rocollootod , was recently found guilty of licentious conduct towards girln , is now in oourso of signature at Loith . The sentence was transportation for fifteen years ; but , oonnidering that tho offence was not carried to the worst extent , it is thought that imprisonment might bo substituted . The Dean of Faculty says he is not aware of tho s « me offenoo ever having been punished by transportation .
Escape of a Convict fbom the York Movsj of Cobrection . —On Tuesday week ( says the YfiVfy shire Gazette ) , two convicts , named John Poland : aj t ^ o James Williams , confined in the York House of Cor rection , endeavoured to effect their escape from prison , the former being successful . At five o ' clock , Mr , Raper , the governor , saw Poland and Williams in , the day-yard , but , within half an hour afterwards , Poland was missed , and Williams was found in the stoneyard . On being questioned , Williams said that he and Poland assisted each . other in scaling the palisading which is surmounted by a chevaux de frise , enclosing the day-yard . Having reached the garden , Poland and Williams had next to encounter the outer or boundary wall , the scaling of which was essential to their escape . By extraordinary exertions , Poland , with the aid of Williams , succeeded in gaining the summit of the wall , a position , however , which entirely incapacitated him from rendering any assistance to Williams , who was , therefore , foiled in his attempt to regain his liberty . Poland dropped from the wall into the moat adjoining the bar walls , and , meeting with no further obstruction , he made good his escape , and has not since been heard of . A Street Hobbor . —We find the following in the Times : — " I have just witnessed in the Strand ( with some hundreds of other persons ) one of the most revolting spectacles it is impossible to imagine—a poor woman , of about twenty-five years of age , being literally devoured by vermin , and this in one of the principal thoroughfares of this enlightened metropolis —and there appeared none to assist her ' . For me to exaggerate the Btate of this wretched object would be impossible , as her hands and arms were entirely covered ; and as for her head , you could scarcely guess at the colour of her hair , it being actually covered and matted with these noxious animals . A policeman was spoken to , but he said he was afraid to get near her , and walked away as speedily as he could . This wretched creature was followed by a horrified crowd some hundred yards down the Strand ., until she reached Salisbury street , when she turned down , and dived into the dark arches under the Adelphi— -perhaps to resign herself to her awful fate , and where I am satisfied she will remain until death relieves her , unless , through your kind notice of the caBe , some person is sent to bring her forth and lighten her of this horrifying burden . May I implore of you to call attention to this shocking fact in any way you think most likely to assist this most wretched of fellow * creatures , and you will indeed be a friend to the castawav . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1855, page 1123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2116/page/7/
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