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used her violently , and who , having taken away her clothes and the small stun of money Bhe possessed , le ? ther Sedon the beach . Her story edited great interest , and much sympathy was manifested . The SSable , however , was determined to ascertam the truth of her statement , and he vimted Exeter , but could find no such persons as those whom she had represented as her relatives . Efforts were made to secure the men whom she bad accused , and policemen were sent into various towns after them j but they were not found . The woman then took her departure , and nothing more was heard of her till the examination of Alice Gray at Wolverhampton , when the police officer of the Kenton district , near Exetei-, obtained a daguerreotype likeness of that notorious character . It was then ascertained beyond all doubt that she was the woman who was found naked on the beach . Juvenile Delinquency . — Mary Ann bcales , a child of about seven years old , and a young man who gave the name of Williaxo . Johuson , but who proved to be the girl ' s brother and a ticket-of-leave man , were charged at Bow-street with uttering counterfeit coin . Two or three cases were proved against the child , exhibiting an extraordinary degree of depravity , cunning , and impudence . Ifc was stated that she had been already charged repeatedly at other policecourts , and when accused , by the searcher of having been also at Bow-street , she replied that it was her sister for whom she was often mistaken , and laughed outright at " the joke . " It appeared that the child had two brothers , one of them being the young man Johnson , who supplied her with cotinterfeit halfcrowns , shillings , &c , and sent her with them to different shops for such trifling articles as " apenny sheet of paper , " " a twopenny cake of blacking , " &c . When the experiment failed ,, owing to the detection of the bad money , she represented that a gentleman sent her with it ; and , in one instance , the prisoner Johnson having been referred to as the gentleman , he was called upon to explain , the occurrence , having been found waiting outside . He assured the shopkeeper that he received the money from his employer , a pianoforte maker iu the Tottenhamcourt-i-oad , and volunteered to accompany the girl to the police-station to explain the Tnatter satisfactorily to the inspector on duty there . His challenge was accepted , and all the parties were on their way to Bow-street , when Johuson contrived to escape , leaving his sister to her fate . The depositions iu each case having been taken , Insj ^ ector Mackenzie informed the magistrate that Johnson was out on ticket-of-leave , which the prisoner did not deny . Mr . Jai'dine committed him for trial . An Ungrateful Cashier . —Mr . Bulmer , the cashier of Mrs . J . C . Ewart , Myers , and Co ., brokers , of Liverpool , after being respected for thirty years as a highly honourable man , has been recently discovered , to be a systematic plunderer of the firm to the extent of about i £ 300 a-year , amounting altogether to no less a sum than £ 9 , 000 . His conduct is rendered still worse by the fact of his having enjoyed an annuity of £ 200 a-year left him by the will of one of his late masters . For so-rne unexplained reason , the case has not appeared before the public in a judicial form . Cruelt y to a Horse . —Joseph Burgess , a carman , was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment , with hard labour , for dealing on the head of his employer ' s horse so tremendous ft blow with a heavy piece of wood that he fell down and died immediately . The provocation to this execrable cruelty was that the horse would not standstill . Dr . Vacghian . —Three true bills for felony have been found by the grand jury sit the Central Criminal Court against the Rev . Dr . Vaughan . It was agreed that the trial shoxild be postponed until the next session ; but the doctor will remain out on bail , and it is said that the Attornoy-Qcneral has been retained for the defence . A Thief iron the Sa . ke op his Mother . —A youth of seventeen , named Morris Nneh , was indicted at tUo Central Criminal Court for forgery and uttering an order for the payment of 421 . 17 b . fld ., with intent to defraud his employers , the Electric Telegraph Company . It waB the oouvse of business with the company , in nil the cases wliero the telegraphic messages were overcharged , to repay the overcharge by au Order Bignod by tho secretary , which was payable at any of tho stations of the company . Nosh had taken advantago of his knowledge of tho manner in which these transactions wore- conducted to write fictitious applications for the restoration of money that had been overcharged , and ho then drew up orders for the amount that was olnhned , to which ho forged tho signature of tho aeorolary , and by thi . i moana obtained tho monoy . On his trial , ho put in a written statement , in which ho nlloged that ho gave tho whole of his salary ( £ 1 a wook ) to his mother ; and tho mother , who was iu court , and who appeared in deep distress , admitted that this was tho case , and that she merely allowed him n small Hum for pockct-monoy . The Recorder deferred passing son ( once . ¦• Attempt xo Murder , —A shot was fired through a window in the houao of an old man , a farmer at
Snareston , Leicestershire , at his grandson , to whom he has left a large proportion of his property . The young man was struck in the head , and is not expected to live . Suspicion has fallen on his uncle , who had felt aggrieved at the property being- left to his nephew . This individual is now in custody . Monomania .. —A case was heard at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , which singularly illustrated the power of monomania . Joseph Berridge , an elderly man , surrendered to take his trial , charged with threatening the life of the Rev . William Brown , rector of Leatheringset in Norfolk . Mr . Brown had known Berridge many years previously ; but all intimacy had ceased for a considerable lapse of time . Berridge was married ; and , although Mr . Brown had hardly ever seen the prisoner ' s wife , an idea entered into the head of Berridge that his children were the offspring of his former friend . This opinion he afterwards modified ; but he then charged Mr . Brown with knowing who the father really was , and he threatened to shoot him in the pulpit if He did not divulge the the person ' s name . One Sunday , as Mr . Brown was about to officiate , Berridge was seen to enter the church . He was stopped and searched , and some bullets together with percussion caps were found on him . He had a bag in his hand ; but this was evidently brought in mistake for another , which was found at his inn , and which contained a loaded Minie * istol On the trial , the prisoner pleaded guilty ; but , having entered into recognizances , he was discharged . Commercial Morality : — " Salting" Invoices . — During an action in the Court of Exchequer , ifc came out that the wholesale traders with Australia were recently in the habit of inserting in their invoices a fictitious price , much lower than that really charged , the customer being fully given to understand that the sum mentioned was tlie real sum . This piece of ti-ade " cuteness" was poetically designated " salting the invoices ; " but the chief Baron called it by the more homely name of " obtaining money under false pretences . " The witness who revealed this rnystez-y excused his own participation in it by saying " it was the general custom . " Alas ! how much trade immorality is perpetuated by that soothing reflection"It is the custom !" Extensive Fraud . —Mr . Maude , of the firm of Covington and Co , lightermen , of Nicholas-lane , was summoned before the Lord Mayor on a charge of having defrauded Messrs . Kemp and Clay , bill-brokers and bankers in the city , of nearly £ 800 . In the coui'se of a lengthened evidence , it appeared that the prisoner had , together with his clerk , Mr . Wbitby , induced the partners of the above-mentioned firm to discount for them certain accommodation bills , under the false assertion that they were bona fide trade bills . Maude had moreover stated to Messrs . Kemp and Clay that he had four partners in his business , whose names he mentioned ; but in fact he was the only surviving partner in the firm . LaBt April , Maude brought several bills to Messrs . Kemp and Clay to be discounted . In answer to a question from Mr . Kemp , as to whether they were genuine trade bills and not bills of accommodation , Maude said , with an appearance of surprise , that they never drew accommodation bills . Believing Maude ' s whole statement , and knowing Covington and Co ., for whom they had . been in the habit of discounting bills for several years , as respectable tradesmen , carrying on an extensive business in the city , Messrs . Kemp and Clay made advances from time to time , to the amount of nearly £ 2 , 000 , upon certain bills . They continued to discount bills for the firm until the 22 nd of October , when they discovered that the bills were accommodation bills , and that the whole transaction was a fraud ; in consequence of whioh , they did not discount any more bills . On the 2 nd of November , Maude ' s clerk , Mr . Whitby , in whose name several of the bills had been accepted and paid , called at Kemp and Clay ' s office , when ono of the partners asked him if he was the acceptor of those bills which ho had , at different times , brought to them from Covington and Co . in tho above name . He at first denied that he had anything to do with thorn , but , on being further interrogated , confessed all , and asked whether Mr . Maude had not already told thena that he had bqen accepting bills aa clerk to Covington and Co . "Whitby had been repeatedly to Kemp and Clay ' s counting-house , but they had no notion that ho was the aocoptor of several of tho bills whioh they had discounted for Messrs . Covington and Co . Mr . Qane , whose name had appeared as the acceptor of some of tho other bills , identified Whitby as clerk to the firm , of Covington and Co . Gano had been in the customs , and had also built some houses , but had been out of business for some months . There had been a money account between himself « md Maude , and he had accepted a bill for £ ' 148 14 s ., which he believed was to meet a previous bill . Ho had had tnuiMiiotioiiH with one of the partuors at Messrs . Coviugton and Co ' a . evor sinoo the yoara 1851-52 , when ho purchased some ground belonging to the Freehold Land Building Society , for which ho gavo Hovoral bills of exchange ' . Those bills , he believed , bad been repeatedly renewed at different times , in consequence of which there had been a running account between tho firm niul himself
DanielJLordan , -weaver , has been found Guilty of tho murder of his wife , and sentenced to death ; but the jury have recommended him to mercy on account of provocation . The facts appeared in The Leader of Sept . 22 nd .
for some years . There was a balance between Mr Gane and Maude , but the former did not know in whose favour ifc was . He did not , however think that he owed the firm any money or at least , not so much as £ 148 . On Friday week Maude ' s solicitor , Mr . Sleigh , contended that the charge of conspiracy and fraud against his client was unfounded , and that he had " become acquainted with Messrs . Kemp and Clay , and got them to discount bills for him , in the regular wav of business . He therefore hoped that Maude would be discharged . Mr . Poland , for Whitb y ( who was summoned together with Maude ) , represented that his client had been merely acting as clerk to Maude , and had accepted the bills for his employer . Alderman Wire , in the absence of the Lord Mayor , dismissed the summons against Whitby , but committed Maude for trial . Bail was accepted .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Railway Accidents . —Three men have been run down and killed or » the London and North-Western Railway while at work on the line ; one man on the North-Eastern ; and a woman on the Hull and Selby line . In the first and last cases , trains were passing in opposite directions on different lines , and the deceased persons were confused and unable to escape . — A breaksman has been killed on the Great Western Railway by the collision of a coal train with a goods ti-ain at the j unction , of the West London branch of the London and North Western Railway with the Great Western at Kensington . Besides the death of the breaksman , several carriages were destz * oyed , and the rails wex * e torn up . Mormonite Manners at Worcester . — Elder
Wheel ock , a Worcester Mormonite , was holding forth a few Sundays ago , when a woman in the congregation thought fit to dispute with him on the subject of polygamy , and put him to considerable embarrassment on the ground of his Scriptural authorities . Subsequently , some one turned off the gas , and a horrible uproar and fight ensued . The women , amid shrieks and . outcries , struggled for the door ; and the police who were present did not interfere . The matter was brought before the Town Council on the Tuesday following ; but the Mayor said that he could do nothing iu a matter of opinion . —A parish overseer at Hougham , near Dover , "has been committed for trial for disturbing a Mormonite congregation , and using disgusting language .
Gunpowder Accident . —Lord Gleutworth , son of the Earl of Limerick , was inspecting a powder-flask by candlelight , when a spark from the candle ignited the powder , the flask exploding violently , and so shattering his right hand , that the thumb only remained attached to it by a shred of the skin . His lordship ' s other hand , and his face and chest , -were also injured by the explosion . Lady Emmelinb Stuart Wortley . —Lady Emincline Wortley died at Beyrout on the night of the 29 th of October . On the 1 st of May , while riding in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem , her ladyship had the
misfortune to have her leg fractured by the kick of a horae Notwithstanding , however , the weakened state of her constitution , Bhe undertook a journey from Beyrout to Aleppo , returning by an unfrequented road across the Lebanon to the former place . She reached Beyrout on the 26 th of October , but , in spite of the tinremitting attentions of Dr . Saquet , the French Government physician , and two other medical gentlemen , her frame was so weakened and exhausted by the excessive fatigue of the journey that she gra < dually sank . We are glad to hear that her ladyship « daughter , Miss Stuart Wortley , who was alao very unwell , having been attacked by intermittent fever ,
is considered out of all danger . Stirling Castms . —A fire has taken p lnoo at Stirling CaBtle , which , we regret to say , has terminated in the destruction of some of the most ancient and historically interesting parts of that famous structure . Tho portion reduced to jmins was that known an "Tho Governor ' s House , " ' and comprisod the celebrated Douglas Room . Tradition says that tho ciunco was erected by tho Plots in tho ninth century . Cabinet Ch Several ch have taKen
anges . — anges place in the composition of tho Cabinet . Tho mine of Argyll , as , has been already utatod , has Huoeeedca Lord Canning as Postmaster-General ; and Lorcl «*»«• rowby , vacating the Vieo-ChnncolJorflhip of tho Ducny of Lancaster , will take tho Dnko of Argyll ^ HU » opuro placo aa Lord Privy Seal . Mr . Bainos , who ro « roci from the Presidency of the Poor Lnw Board nt tn « end of the last session , becomes Ohnncollor ol w »« Duchy of Lancaster , with a seat in tho Cabinet ; mu « Lord Stnnloy of Alderley , the Preuidont of tho Jioau of Trade , hat * also boon appointed a member ol *"
Cabinet . rrmrn Archdeacon Hale and his QbavkyaUD iffw RIics . — -Our roadoi-H no doubt recollect the «»
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1148 THE LEADER [ No . 297 , Saturday .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 1, 1855, page 1148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2117/page/8/
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